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Posted: Apr 16, 2013 | 11:52 PM
1524: Italian Giovanni Da Verrazano, exploring for France, became the first European to sail into New York harbor and was the first European to set foot on Manahatta, aka Manhattan. He was looking for a shortcut to the Pacific, and he thought that the Muheekantuk (aka Hudson aka North River) looked promising, which inspired the Dutch to explore here decades later.
Verazzano returned to North America two more times. The second to settle permanently. He was eaten by Caribbeans. He introduced Italian food to the Americas as well.
The great bridge separating the Atlantic from New York Harbor bears his name.
We experience the Verazzano Bridge on Staten Island Ferry tours, New York Harbor tours, and Statue of Liberty tours.
1837: J.P. Morgan, financier, banker, philanthropist, and U.S. Steel founder, as well as orchestrating the formation of General Electric, born in CT. He died in 1913.
We visit JP Morgan's headquarters on Wall Street tours, and Downtown tours, and the Indomitable Spirit Tour.
1872: Bloomingdale's Department store began as a small dry-goods store on Third Avenue near 56th Street owned by the Bloomingdale brothers, Lyman and Joseph.
We see Bloomingdales on Upper East Side tours.
1929: Babe Ruth married his second wife at 5:45 in the morning. Seize the day!
We see The Ansonia, where Babe Ruth lived and where Saul Bellow's novella Seize the Day took place, on Upper West Side tours.
1951: New York Yankees' Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle debuts, scoring a run and an RBI in a 5-0 victory over Boston.
1964: The New York Mets debuted in their new home, Shea Stadium, losing 4-3 to the Pittsburgh Pirates. They were lovable losers then, but they would become the Amazin' Mets in five years. The Mets played their first two years at the Polo Grounds.
We see CitiField, where the Mets now play, on Queens tours. We see where the Polo Grounds were on Washington Heights tours and Upper Manhattan tours.
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European Parliament rejects ending audiovisual territory licensing
The European Parliament has rejected proposed legislation intended to prevent territory-by-territory licensing of programming across the European Union (EU), reports Informitv. Only news and current affairs will be prevented from unjustified geo-blocking. “It is a set-back for the digital single market strategy of the European Commission, intended to provide free movement of services within the EU. The Commission has argued that viewers should be able to access online services from anywhere within the EU. The Sat Cab regulation proposed to facilitate cross-border access to programming by extending the country of origin principle from satellite and cable to online distribution. Effectively, this would mean that broadcasters could clear rights for programming in the member state in which they are established and make it available online throughout the EU. The suggestion horrified Hollywood and many sports rights holders. This would potentially devalue rights that have historically been assigned on a territory-by-territory basis.” The European Parliament voted against most of the proposed Sat Cab regulation, upholding the opinion of its Committee for Legal Affairs to reject the country of origin proposal for all but news and current affairs programmes.
“Many rights holders will welcome this, although it may continue to frustrate consumers. Some broadcasters might have benefited from being able to distribute programming online throughout the EU; the European Broadcasting Union expressed disappointment at the vote.” Its head of European Affairs, Nicola Frank, said: “The Sat Cab regulation was originally devised to enhance the circulation of content in Europe and enable both consumers and Europe’s audiovisual sector to reap the benefits of the digital single market. Today’s vote goes against these intentions, maintaining a fragmented European audiovisual market and turning down enhanced access to European culture for citizens. The procedure is not over and we hope that upcoming milestones in the adoption of this regulation will lead to a better outcome.” Read more
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IndiaIndustrystat.com is now providing facility to create various charts and India's map with state boundaries and created charts can be saved in .jpg, .pdf and .png file formats and maps in .png file format.
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Annual Survey of Industries (2004-2005)
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 332, 333, 341 to 343, 351 to 353) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC-2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 1729, 1730, 1810, 1820, 1911, 1912, 1920, 2010 to 2022) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC-2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 2023, 2029, 2101, 2102, 2109, 2211, 2212, 2219, 2221 and 2222) (2004-2005)}
Absenteeism, Labour Turnover, Employment and Labour Cost (2004-2005)
Estimates of Some Important Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries (By Three-Digit of NIC 2004) in India {(NIC : 014, 142, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 160 and 171) (2004-2005)}
Estimates of Some Important Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries (By Three-Digit of NIC 2004) in India {(NIC : 172, 173, 181, 182, 191, 192, 201, 202, 210 and 221) (2004-2005)}
Estimates of Some Important Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries (By Three-Digit of NIC 2004) in India {(NIC : 269, 271 to 273, 281, 289, 291 to 293 and 300) (2004-2005)}
Estimates of Some Important Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries (By Three-Digit of NIC 2004) in India {(NIC : 311 to 315, 319, 321 to 323 and 331) (2004-2005)}
Estimates of Some Important Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries (By Three-Digit of NIC 2004) in India {(NIC : 332, 333, 341 to 342, 351 to 353, 359 and 361) (2004-2005)}
Estimates of Some Important Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries (By Three-Digit of NIC 2004) in India {(NIC : 369, 371 and 372) (2004-2005)}
Fuels Consumed by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004 - 2 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005)
Fuels Consumed by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004 - 3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in Karnataka (2004-2005)
Fuels Consumed by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004 - 4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005) - Part I
Fuels Consumed by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004 - 4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005) - Part II
Fuels Consumed by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004 - 4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005) - Part III
Principal Characteristics by Rural/Urban Sector Based on Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005)
Principal Characteristics by Type of Organisation of Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005) - Part I
Principal Characteristics by Type of Organisation of Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005) - Part II
Principal Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries by Major Industry Group in India (2004-2005) - Part I
Principal Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries by Major Industry Group in India (2004-2005) - Part II
Selected Characteristics for Capital Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 172, 173, 181, 182, 191, 192, 201, 202, 210 and 221) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-2 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 01, 14 to 21) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-2 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 22 to 31) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-2 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in Meghalaya {(NIC : 15, 22, 24, 26, 27 and 29) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-2 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in Nagaland {(NIC : 15, 20, 22 and 26) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-2 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in Orissa {(NIC : 24 to 29, 31, 32, 34 and 36) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 014, 142, 151 to 155, 160 and 171) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 172, 173, 181, 182, 191, 192, 201, 202, 210 and 221) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 269, 271 to 273, 289, 291 to 293 and 300) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 311 to 315, 319, 321 to 323 and 331) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 359, 361, 369, 371 and 372) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 0140, 1422, 1511 to 1514, 1520, 1531 and 1532) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 1533, 1541 to 1544, 1549, 1551 to 1554) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 1600, 1711 to 1714 and 1721 to 1725) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC-2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC-2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 2330, 2310, 2320, 2411, 2413, 2421 to 2424) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC-2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 2429, 2430, 2511, 2519, 2520, 2610, 2691 to 2694) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC-2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 2695, 2696, 2699, 2711 to 2717) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC-2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 2718 to 2720, 2731, 2732, 2811 to 2813, 2891 and 2892) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC-2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 2893, 2899, 2911 to 2915 and 2919 to 2922) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC-2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 2923 to 2927, 2929, 3000, 3110 and 3120) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Capitals Employed, Input, Output and Gross Value Added (GVA) by Major Industry Group (NIC-2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC :3592, 3599, 3610, 3691, 3692, 3693, 3694, 3699, 3710 and 3720 ) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Employment and Emoluments by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-2 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 01 and 14 to 21) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Employment and Emoluments by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-2 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 22 to 31) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Employment and Emoluments by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in Assam {(NIC : 261, 269, 271, 272, 273, 281, 289, 291, 292 and 311) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Employment and Emoluments by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 014, 142, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 160 and 171) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Employment and Emoluments by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 172, 173, 181, 182, 191, 192, 201, 202, 210 and 221) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Employment and Emoluments by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 269, 271 to 273, 281, 289, 291 to 293 and 300) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Employment and Emoluments by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 311 to 315, 319, 321 to 323 and 331) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Employment and Emoluments by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 332, 333, 341 to 343, 351 to 353, 359 and 361) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Employment and Emoluments by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 369, 371 and 372) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Employment and Emoluments by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 0140, 1422, 1511, 1512, 1513, 1514, 1520, 1531 and 1532) (2004-2005)}
Selected Characteristics for Employment and Emoluments by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-4 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in India {(NIC : 1533, 1541, 1542, 1543, 1544, 1549, 1551, 1552, 1553 and 1554) (2004-2005)}
State-wise Estimate of Some Important Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005) - Part I
State-wise Estimate of Some Important Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005) - Part II
State-wise Estimate of Some Important Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005) - Part III
State-wise Estimate of Some Important Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005) - Part IV
State-wise Principal Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005) - Part I
State-wise Principal Characteristics of Annual Survey of Industries in India (2004-2005) - Part II
Selected Characteristics for Employment and Emoluments by Major Industry Group (NIC 2004-3 Digit) under Annual Survey of Industries in Assam {(NIC : 312, 313, 319, 321, 342, 361 and 369) (2004-2005)}
6 Interesting Facts About Milk (Hindi)
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August 11, 2016 by Katy Niner in Dress, See
A jewel box of a museum, tucked in downtown Denver, devoted entirely to the work of Clyfford Still—a man made enigmatic by his own agency. Having removed his art from the public eye at the height of his career (by severing all ties with commercial galleries and most with museums), he spent his final years living and painting in rural Maryland. And when he died, he left his entire oeuvre to an as-yet-determined American city under rigid stipulations that said city would agree to build or assign permanent quarters for his art to be exhibited and studied in perpetuity, and to never sell, give or exchange anything from his collection. For two decades, his widow Patricia Still searched for such a site. Meanwhile, the collection remained off-limits to all. Finally, in 2004, Denver stepped forward as the chosen home of the Clyfford Still Estate—some 825 paintings on canvas and 1575 works on paper. To house the collection, the city enlisted Brad Cloepfil and his Allied Works Architecture. Cloepfil rose to the challenge of sheltering the work of a singular artist by imagining a single form—a solid mass of concrete, crushed granite and quartz made luminous by natural light.
What could architecture offer to Still’s work? A challenging and charged context. A building that opens visitors to the emotion and power of the work. A building that offers time to stand with the work, a sense of intimacy and immediacy.
The eloquent space, opened in 2011, speaks to the profundity of Still’s paintings—their jagged contours of color, seemingly torn from existing layers like wrenching natural phenomena. Presaging the Abstract Expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Still began shifting from the representational paintings of his early days to abstract Color Fields in 1938, to wide/wild acclaim (“a bolt out of the blue,” said Robert Motherwell of a 1946 show). As critic Clement Greenberg wrote in the Partisan Review in 1955.
When I first saw a 1948 painting of Still’s . . . I was impressed as never before by how estranging and upsetting genuine originality in art can be.
Me too, some 60 years later. Impressed, upset, astounded by the soaring experience set a mile above Still’s sea level.
Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Colorado, Denver
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Last revision: 11/13/2000 - js
Back to Directory Bedrock Data Sources and Data-processing Methods
J. A. Schloss
Boldface links are to other atlas sections; italic items are linked to glossary definitions.
This section describes the data sources used to derive estimates of the elevation of the bedrock underlying the High Plains aquifer in Kansas, and gives an overview of the data-processing methods used to combine these data into a three-dimensional surface that was used to generate the estimates.
This figure shows a sample of the contours of the base of the High Plains aquifer used as input to the bedrock surface. These contours were produced by the U.S. Geological Survey and are the primary source of input data to the estimates of bedrock elevation. The light blue areas in the figure are within the saturated portion of the aquifer and the grey areas are defined as thinly or non-saturated. These distinctions come from another data layer produced by the USGS that delineates the extent of the High Plains aquifer . This layer defining the extent of the aquifer is used throughout the entire set of atlas pages.
To include as much information as possible, data were added from the KGS oracle database for all wells that had a value for depth to bedrock. Becuase the contours describe the base of the aquifer in terms of altitude instead of depth, the altitude of the bedrock surface at each well was calculated by subtracting the depth to bedrock from the altitude of the land surface. These points serve as a secondary source of input to the estimates of bedrock elevation.
To honor the locations of the contours and points as much as possible, the bedrock data at the points were evaluated with respect to the contours, and some points were found to be in disagreement with the contours. All points were then flagged to be included or excluded from the surface model. In this figure, those colored green were used and those in red were ignored.
Once the input features were prepared, they were combined to create a model of the bedrock surface that would best honor the data from both sources. This image illustrates the density of the surface model (shown in yellow) that was created and how it "connects" to every contour line and every included point.
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Funded (in part) by the Kansas Water Plan Fund
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N. Korea to Free US Missionary Robert Park
By Lee Tae-hoon
North Korea said Friday it would release a U.S. citizen arrested and detained since last Christmas Day for illegally entering the communist state.
Religious activist Robert Park crossed into the North from China by walking across a frozen river to highlight alleged human rights abuses in the reclusive country.
"The authorities concerned have decided to leniently forgive and release him by taking his sincere repentance and acknowledgement of his wrongdoings into consideration," the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
Observers said the decision could help improve North Korea's relations with the United States amid the nuclear standoff.
The North Korean move came as Wang Jiarui, chief of the Chinese Communist Party's international department, was reportedly preparing to visit Pyongyang early next week to prod the North to rejoin the six-party denuclearization talks.
The KCNA claimed Park expressed deep regret for his actions. But it did not mention where or when he would be freed.
"I sincerely repent the sins that I committed by being fooled by the West's false propaganda about the North," the KCNA quoted Park as saying.
However, analysts here expressed strong suspicion over the credibility of the KCNA interview.
They said Park was being used as the North's propaganda tool, claiming that religious freedom has yet to take root in the communist regime despite constitutional guarantees.
According to the KCNA, Park said he was "shocked and felt ashamed" when his Bible was returned to him and he was allowed to attend a service at Pyongyang's Pongsu church.
He allegedly said all North Koreans, including military officers, treated him compassionately and respected his religious and human rights.
"I would not have committed such a crime had I known that North Korea respects the rights of all the people and guarantees their freedom and they enjoy a happy and stable life," Park was quoted as saying.
Last week, the North also claimed to have detained another American for trespassing on its border.
"An American was detained for trespassing on the border of North Korea with China on Jan. 25," the KCNA said. "He is now being questioned by local authorities."
The DongA Ilbo newspaper in Seoul, citing an unnamed North Korean source, said the American, whose identity is unknown, said he "wants to serve in the North Korean military because he did not want to become cannon fodder in the capitalist military."
In 2009, the reclusive North detained two American journalists for illegal entry.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor but pardoned last August after four months in captivity when former U.S. President Bill Clinton visited the country.
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Title XXIII
MOTOR VEHICLES Chapter 316
STATE UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL View Entire Chapter
316.515 Maximum width, height, length.—
(1) WIDTH LIMITATION.—The total outside width of any vehicle or the load thereon may not exceed 102 inches, exclusive of safety devices determined by the department to be necessary for the safe and efficient operation of motor vehicles. The use of public roads that do not have at least one through lane of 12 feet or more in width in each direction, and the use of public roads deemed unsafe for wider vehicles on the basis of safety and engineering analyses, by vehicles exceeding 96 inches in width may be restricted by the Department of Transportation or by local officials for streets and roads under their respective jurisdictions. The total outside width of a noncommercial travel trailer, camping trailer, truck camper, motor home, or private motor coach as defined in s. 320.01 may be more than 102 inches if:
(a) The excess width is attributable to appurtenances that do not extend beyond the exterior rearview mirrors installed on the motor home by the manufacturer or the exterior rearview mirrors of the tow vehicle; and
(b) The exterior rearview mirrors only extend the distance necessary to provide the appropriate field of view for the vehicle before the appurtenances are attached.
(2) HEIGHT LIMITATION.—No vehicle may exceed a height of 13 feet 6 inches, inclusive of load carried thereon. However, an automobile transporter may measure a height not to exceed 14 feet, inclusive of the load carried thereon.
(3) LENGTH LIMITATION.—Except as otherwise provided in this section, length limitations apply solely to a semitrailer or trailer, and not to a truck tractor or to the overall length of a combination of vehicles. No combination of commercial motor vehicles coupled together and operating on the public roads may consist of more than one truck tractor and two trailing units. Unless otherwise specifically provided for in this section, a combination of vehicles not qualifying as commercial motor vehicles may consist of no more than two units coupled together; such nonqualifying combination of vehicles may not exceed a total length of 65 feet, inclusive of the load carried thereon, but exclusive of safety and energy conservation devices approved by the department for use on vehicles using public roads. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a truck tractor-semitrailer combination engaged in the transportation of automobiles or boats may transport motor vehicles or boats on part of the power unit; and, except as may otherwise be mandated under federal law, an automobile or boat transporter semitrailer may not exceed 50 feet in length, exclusive of the load; however, the load may extend up to an additional 6 feet beyond the rear of the trailer. The 50-feet length limitation does not apply to non-stinger-steered automobile or boat transporters that are 65 feet or less in overall length, exclusive of the load carried thereon, or to stinger-steered automobile or boat transporters that are 75 feet or less in overall length, exclusive of the load carried thereon. For purposes of this subsection, a “stinger-steered automobile or boat transporter” is an automobile or boat transporter configured as a semitrailer combination wherein the fifth wheel is located on a drop frame located behind and below the rearmost axle of the power unit. Notwithstanding paragraphs (a) and (b), any straight truck or truck tractor-semitrailer combination engaged in the transportation of horticultural trees may allow the load to extend up to an additional 10 feet beyond the rear of the vehicle, provided said trees are resting against a retaining bar mounted above the truck bed so that the root balls of the trees rest on the floor and to the front of the truck bed and the tops of the trees extend up over and to the rear of the truck bed, and provided the overhanging portion of the load is covered with protective fabric.
(a) Straight trucks.—A straight truck may not exceed a length of 40 feet in extreme overall dimension, exclusive of safety and energy conservation devices approved by the department for use on vehicles using public roads. A straight truck may attach a forklift to the rear of the cargo bed, provided the overall combined length of the vehicle and the forklift does not exceed 50 feet. A straight truck may tow no more than one trailer, and the overall length of the truck-trailer combination may not exceed 68 feet, including the load thereon. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, a truck-trailer combination engaged in the transportation of boats, or boat trailers whose design dictates a front-to-rear stacking method may not exceed the length limitations of this paragraph exclusive of the load; however, the load may extend up to an additional 6 feet beyond the rear of the trailer.
(b) Semitrailers.—
1. A semitrailer operating in a truck tractor-semitrailer combination may not exceed 48 feet in extreme overall outside dimension, measured from the front of the unit to the rear of the unit and the load carried thereon, exclusive of safety and energy conservation devices approved by the department for use on vehicles using public roads, unless it complies with subparagraph 2. A semitrailer which exceeds 48 feet in length and is used to transport divisible loads may operate in this state only if issued a permit under s. 316.550 and if such trailer meets the requirements of this chapter relating to vehicle equipment and safety. Except for highways on the tandem trailer truck highway network, public roads deemed unsafe for longer semitrailer vehicles or those roads on which such longer vehicles are determined not to be in the interest of public convenience shall, in conformance with s. 316.006, be restricted by the Department of Transportation or by the local authority to use by semitrailers not exceeding a length of 48 feet, inclusive of the load carried thereon but exclusive of safety and energy conservation devices approved by the department for use on vehicles using public roads. Truck tractor-semitrailer combinations shall be afforded reasonable access to terminals; facilities for food, fuel, repairs, and rest; and points of loading and unloading.
2. A semitrailer which is more than 48 feet but not more than 57 feet in extreme overall outside dimension, as measured pursuant to subparagraph 1., may operate on public roads, except roads on the State Highway System which are restricted by the Department of Transportation or other roads restricted by local authorities, if:
a. The distance between the kingpin or other peg that locks into the fifth wheel of a truck tractor and the center of the rear axle or rear group of axles does not exceed 41 feet, or, in the case of a semitrailer used exclusively or primarily to transport vehicles in connection with motorsports competition events, the distance does not exceed 46 feet from the kingpin to the center of the rear axles; and
b. It is equipped with a substantial rear-end underride protection device meeting the requirements of 49 C.F.R. s. 393.86, “Rear End Protection.”
(c) Tandem trailer trucks.—
1. Except for semitrailers and trailers of up to 281/2 feet in length which existed on December 1, 1982, and which were actually and lawfully operating on that date, no semitrailer or trailer operating in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination may exceed a length of 28 feet in extreme overall outside dimension, measured from the front of the unit to the rear of the unit and the load carried thereon, exclusive of safety and energy conservation devices approved by the Department of Transportation for use on vehicles using public roads.
2. Tandem trailer trucks conforming to the weight and size limitations of this chapter and in immediate transit to or from a terminal facility as defined in this chapter may operate on the public roads of this state except for residential neighborhood streets restricted by the Department of Transportation or local jurisdictions. In addition, the Department of Transportation or local jurisdictions may restrict these vehicles from using streets and roads under their maintenance responsibility on the basis of safety and engineering analyses, provided that the restrictions are consistent with the provisions of this chapter. The Department of Transportation shall develop safety and engineering standards to be used by all jurisdictions when identifying public roads and streets to be restricted from tandem trailer truck operations.
3. Except as otherwise provided in this section, within 5 miles of the Federal National Network for large trucks, tandem trailer trucks shall be afforded access to terminals; facilities for food, fuel, repairs, and rest; and points of loading and unloading.
4. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, all local system tandem trailer truck route review procedures must be consistent with those adopted by the Department of Transportation.
5. Tandem trailer trucks employed as household goods carriers and conforming to the weight and size limitations of this chapter shall be afforded access to points of loading and unloading on the public streets and roads of this state, except for streets and roads that have been restricted from use by such vehicles on the basis of safety and engineering analyses by the jurisdiction responsible for maintenance of the streets and roads.
(d) Maxi-cube vehicles.—Maxi-cube vehicles shall be allowed to operate on routes open to tandem trailer trucks under the same conditions applicable to tandem trailer trucks as specified by this section.
(4) LOAD EXTENSION LIMITATION.—The load upon any vehicle operated alone, or the load upon the front vehicle of a combination of vehicles, may not extend more than 3 feet beyond the front wheels of the vehicle or the front bumper of the vehicle if it is equipped with a bumper.
(a) The limitations of this subsection do not apply to bicycle racks carrying bicycles on public sector transit vehicles.
(b) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to a front-end loading collection vehicle, when:
1. The front-end loading mechanism and container or containers are in the lowered position;
2. The vehicle is engaged in collecting solid waste or recyclable or recovered materials;
3. The vehicle is being operated at speeds less than 20 miles per hour with the vehicular hazard-warning lights activated; and
4. The extension does not exceed 8 feet 6 inches.
(5) IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY AND FARM EQUIPMENT; AGRICULTURAL TRAILERS; FORESTRY EQUIPMENT; SAFETY REQUIREMENTS.—
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, straight trucks, agricultural tractors, citrus harvesting equipment, citrus fruit loaders, and cotton module movers, not exceeding 50 feet in length, or any combination of up to and including three implements of husbandry, including the towing power unit, and any single agricultural trailer with a load thereon or any agricultural implements attached to a towing power unit, or a self-propelled agricultural implement or an agricultural tractor, is authorized for the purpose of transporting peanuts, grains, soybeans, citrus, cotton, hay, straw, or other perishable farm products from their point of production to the first point of change of custody or of long-term storage, and for the purpose of returning to such point of production, or for the purpose of moving such tractors, movers, and implements from one point of agricultural production to another, by a person engaged in the production of any such product or custom hauler, if such vehicle or combination of vehicles otherwise complies with this section. The Department of Transportation may issue overlength permits for cotton module movers greater than 50 feet but not more than 55 feet in overall length. Such vehicles shall be operated in accordance with all safety requirements prescribed by law and rules of the Department of Transportation.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, equipment not exceeding 136 inches in width and not capable of speeds exceeding 20 miles per hour which is used exclusively for harvesting forestry products is authorized for the purpose of transporting equipment from one point of harvest to another point of harvest, not to exceed 10 miles, by a person engaged in the harvesting of forestry products. Such vehicles must be operated during daylight hours only, in accordance with all safety requirements prescribed by s. 316.2295(5) and (6).
(c) The width and height limitations of this section do not apply to farming or agricultural equipment, whether self-propelled, pulled, or hauled, when temporarily operated during daylight hours upon a public road that is not a limited access facility as defined in s. 334.03(12), and the width and height limitations may be exceeded by such equipment without a permit. To be eligible for this exemption, the equipment shall be operated within a radius of 50 miles of the real property owned, rented, managed, harvested, or leased by the equipment owner. However, equipment being delivered by a dealer to a purchaser is not subject to the 50-mile limitation. Farming or agricultural equipment greater than 174 inches in width must have one warning lamp mounted on each side of the equipment to denote the width and must have a slow-moving vehicle sign. Warning lamps required by this paragraph must be visible from the front and rear of the vehicle and must be visible from a distance of at least 1,000 feet.
(d) The operator of equipment operated under this subsection is responsible for verifying that the route used has adequate clearance for the equipment.
(6) TOUR TRAINS.—Any tour train or similar operation which has been continuously conducted for 120 days prior to the date this chapter becomes law is also authorized hereunder, subject to the length restriction and other restrictions imposed by law, not in conflict with the provisions of this chapter.
(7) FIRE OR EMERGENCY VEHICLES, UTILITY VEHICLES, AND OTHER VEHICLES TRANSPORTING NONDIVISIBLE LOADS.—The length limitations imposed by this section do not apply to:
(a) Vehicles of a fire department or emergency vehicles owned or operated by governmental entities.
(b) Utility vehicles owned or operated by governmental entities or public utility corporations, or operated under contract with such entities or corporations:
1. When transporting poles during daytime, except on weekends and holidays, as defined in the rules of the Department of Transportation, and when the vehicle and load do not exceed 120 feet in overall length, provided proper flags are located at the rearmost end of the load. However, such movements with an overall length in excess of 75 feet:
a. Shall be equipped with a working warning light device.
b. Shall be accompanied by a company-provided flasher-equipped escort vehicle when making turns within corporate city limits.
2.a. When transporting poles during nighttime and when the vehicle and load do not exceed 120 feet in overall length. Such movements shall be equipped with a working warning light device and shall be accompanied by one leading and one trailing company-provided flasher-equipped escort vehicle.
b. The provisions of sub-subparagraph a. notwithstanding, for vehicles and loads with overall lengths not exceeding 85 feet and being transported under emergency conditions, only a single trailing company-owned flasher-equipped escort vehicle shall be required, provided that the pole being transported shall be equipped with active marker lights, visible from both sides, at a maximum of 6-foot intervals mounted along the pole or trailer extending the length of the trailer and at 36-inch intervals along the pole extending beyond the rear of the trailer.
3. When transporting poles during emergencies or required maintenance. Such movements may be made on all days and at all hours, provided the respective daytime or nighttime requirements are otherwise met.
4. When operating flasher-equipped straight truck utility vehicles that have permanently mounted equipment that extends up to 9 feet beyond the front bumper, provided:
a. Such equipment, when in the travel position, is supported in such a manner that it has a minimum of 80 inches clearance above the roadway;
b. Such equipment is illuminated on the forwardmost sides with high visibility reflective tape;
c. The respective daytime and nighttime requirements for operation are otherwise met;
d. Nighttime emergency or required maintenance operation of such utility vehicles with overall lengths in excess of 50 feet are led by a company-provided flasher-equipped escort vehicle; and
e. Trailers are not pulled by utility vehicles over 50 feet in length.
A flasher-equipped escort vehicle is defined as an automobile or truck that closely accompanies an over dimensional vehicle or load carried thereon to alert approaching traffic of that vehicle or load. Such escort vehicles shall be equipped with a working warning light device, as defined in this subsection, except that such device shall be located on top of the escort vehicle. Warning light devices required in this subsection shall be consistent with size, color, type, intensity, and mounting requirements developed by the Department of Transportation.
(c) Truck tractor-semitrailer or pole trailer combination vehicles transporting poles or other objects of a structural nature that cannot be readily dismembered, when operating in the daytime, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays and when the vehicle and load do not exceed 75 feet when proper flags are displayed as required in s. 316.228.
(d) Vehicles transporting tree-length unprocessed logs, when operating in the daytime and when the vehicle and load do not exceed 75 feet; but, in respect to such movement, proper flags shall be located at the extreme ends of the load.
(e) Straight trucks transporting poles or other objects of a structural nature that cannot be readily dismembered, when operating in the daytime, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, when the load does not extend past the rearmost part of the vehicle more than one-half the length of the permanent bed or cargo-carrying structure of the vehicle, when at least two-thirds of the length of the cargo rests on the bed or cargo-carrying structure, when the load complies with subsection (4), and when proper flags are displayed in accordance with s. 316.228.
(8) WRECKERS.—The limitations imposed by this section do not apply to a combination of motor vehicles consisting of a wrecker licensed in accordance with s. 320.08(5)(d) or (e) and a disabled motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, or tractor-trailer combination, or a replacement motor vehicle, which is under tow by the wrecker, if the size and weight of the towed vehicle is consistent with statutory requirements and the requirements of this subsection.
(a) The limitations imposed by this section do not apply to a combination of motor vehicles consisting of a wrecker licensed under the International Registration Plan and a disabled motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, tractor-trailer combination, or a replacement motor vehicle, which is under tow by the wrecker, if the size and weight of the towed vehicle is consistent with statutory requirements and the requirements of this subsection.
(b) However, a wrecker may not tow a disabled nonconforming vehicle operating under a current special use permit or permits where the combined weight of the wrecker and the towed nonconforming vehicle exceeds the permitted weight of the towed vehicle’s permit.
(c) Where the combined weight of the wrecker and the towed vehicle exceeds the maximum weight limits as established by s. 316.535, the wrecker must be operating under a current wrecker special use permit or permits as provided in s. 316.550(5) or in accordance with paragraph (b).
(d) The limitations imposed by this section do not apply to a combination of motor vehicles consisting of a wrecker licensed in accordance with s. 320.08(5)(d) or (e) and a nondisabled tractor-trailer combination that is under tow by the wrecker, if the tractor-trailer combination is being towed by the wrecker in an emergency situation as directed by a law enforcement officer. No wrecker shall tow a nondisabled tractor-trailer combination except in an emergency situation as directed by a law enforcement officer, or as provided in s. 715.07.
(9) BUSES AND PRIVATE MOTOR COACHES.—
(a) Anything in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, no bus or private motor coach may exceed a length of 50 feet, for a single-unit coach, or 65 feet, for an articulated coach. No bus or private motor coach may exceed a width of 102 inches, exclusive of safety equipment.
(b) School buses which are subject to the provisions of s. 316.615 or chapter 1006 are exempt from the provisions of this subsection.
(10) AUTOMOBILE TOWAWAY AND DRIVEAWAY OPERATIONS.—An automobile towaway or driveaway operation transporting new or used trucks may use what is known to the trade as “saddle mounts” if the overall length does not exceed 97 feet and no more than three saddle mounts are towed. Such combinations may include one full mount. Saddle mount combinations must also comply with the applicable safety regulations in 49 C.F.R. s. 393.71.
(11) REFUSE COLLECTION AND TRANSPORT VEHICLES.—A combination of vehicles up to five in number is authorized for the sole purpose of collecting refuse and transporting refuse to a dump. Such a vehicle or combination of vehicles shall be covered in such a manner that refuse transported therein does not spill from the vehicles, shall otherwise comply with the provisions of this section, and shall use the state roads only to the extent necessary to collect and dispose of refuse.
(12) TURNPIKE LIMITATIONS.—The adopted vehicle width, height, and length rules of the Florida Turnpike are in addition to the requirements of this section. Vehicles seeking to operate on the turnpike shall meet the requirements of the rules adopted by the Department of Transportation for the turnpike.
(13) MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT.—The vehicular dimensional limitations imposed by this section do not apply to equipment owned or operated by the Department of Transportation when performing maintenance operations on public roads during daylight hours. However, such equipment shall be operated in accordance with all safety requirements prescribed by law and Department of Transportation rules.
(14) MANUFACTURED BUILDINGS.—The Department of Transportation may, in its discretion and upon application and good cause shown therefor that the same is not contrary to the public interest, issue a special permit for truck tractor-semitrailer combinations where the total number of overwidth deliveries of manufactured buildings, as defined in s. 553.36(13), may be reduced by permitting the use of multiple sections or single units on an overlength trailer of no more than 80 feet.
(15) MOTOR HOMES.—No motor home may exceed a length of 45 feet exclusive of bumpers and safety devices.
History.—s. 1, ch. 71-135; s. 1, ch. 74-117; s. 1, ch. 76-31; s. 4, ch. 79-99; ss. 3, 7, ch. 81-209; s. 3, ch. 83-298; s. 1, ch. 84-122; s. 2, ch. 85-81; s. 80, ch. 85-180; s. 3, ch. 85-343; s. 1, ch. 86-230; s. 8, ch. 86-243; s. 1, ch. 86-260; s. 1, ch. 86-282; s. 6, ch. 88-215; s. 3, ch. 88-246; s. 64, ch. 89-282; s. 1, ch. 89-320; s. 2, ch. 90-200; s. 4, ch. 91-418; s. 1, ch. 93-33; s. 4, ch. 95-247; s. 1, ch. 97-58; s. 9, ch. 97-280; s. 33, ch. 97-300; ss. 15, 16, ch. 2000-313; s. 41, ch. 2002-1; ss. 5, 69, ch. 2002-20; s. 11, ch. 2002-295; s. 957, ch. 2002-387; s. 15, ch. 2003-286; s. 11, ch. 2004-257; s. 19, ch. 2006-290; s. 13, ch. 2007-55; s. 1, ch. 2008-236; s. 11, ch. 2010-225; s. 3, ch. 2012-83; s. 19, ch. 2012-174; s. 15, ch. 2013-160; s. 4, ch. 2015-163; s. 10, ch. 2016-239.
Note.—Former s. 316.196.
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Electronic Commerce (e-commerce)
1. Introduction to e-commerce regulation
2. Information service providers
3. Information society service
4. Information to be provided by providers
5. Commercial communications
6. Trading disclosures
7. Provision of Services Regulations
8. Information tobe provided where contracts are concluded by electronic means
9. Storage of cookies
10. Enforcement: civil; criminal
1.1 “Electronic commerce” in this context refers to the marketing and selling of goods and services wholly or partly by electronic means, i.e. the internet and email. Due to the special characteristics of electronic commerce (“e-commerce”), chiefly speed, lack of physical presence and anonymity, special regulations have developed.
1.2 Compliance with the law is not made easy because there is a patchwork of regulations which overlap, including:
* Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 (“DSR”)
* Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 (“ECR”)
* Provision of Services Regulations 2009 (“PSR”)
* Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (“PECR”)
* Companies Act 2006 disclosure regulations
Broadly, the DSR apply to “distance” (online or off-line) supplies to consumers; the ECR apply to e-commerce sales and commercial communications online to businesses and consumers; and the PSR and Companies Act disclosure regulations apply to business communications (off-line and in certain cases online) both to consumer and business customers.
The PECR in this context deal chiefly with marketing communications, see the section on Marketing and advertising regulation. However, the placing of so-called “cookies” on customers’ computers is also regulated by PECR.
1.3 There are separate sections within the Selling and Marketing law part of this site dealing with the DSR and PSR. However, for completeness relevant parts of these regulations are mentioned in context below.
1.4 If you are selling to consumers using e-commerce means, you will need to comply with the DSR – see the separate section Sales to consumers: distance and online.
The issue of adding extra charges to the price for debit and credit card transactions and other practices is particularly relevant to e-commerce; see Advertising to consumer regulations and unfair commercial practices.
1.5 Suppliers should also bear in mind the general law about the sale of goods and supply of services, and marketing laws. With regard to terms and conditions of sale, suppliers using e-commerce methods need to be particularly careful about the process used to lead to a binding contract, in order to avoid problems such as pricing errors.
1.6 Help and guidance: how do companies and unincorporated businesses comply with all these overlapping regulations as well as the general law? Contact Legaleze for advice on e-commerce and website compliance.
Distance selling generally: Business Companion
Regulation of cookies: ICO guidance
06/04/2018 ICO fines Royal Mail Group for sending marketing emails
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined the Royal Mail Group Ltd £12,000 after sending emails to over 320,000 people, despite those people opting out of receiving direct marketing and not consenting to those emails being sent.
Royal Mail Group stated that its emails were detailing a price drop for parcels and were concerning a service, but ICO found that the emails constituted marketing, which breaches regulation 22 of the Privacy and Electric Communications Regulations. ICO has published guidance for companies carrying out marketing, which outlines the circumstances in which companies may market over the phone, by text, by email, by fax or through the post.
2. The Electric Commerce Regulations and Information service providers
2.1 The Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 (SI 2002 No. 2013) (“ECR”) came into force on 21 August 2002 (regulation 16 on 23 October 2002). The regulations implement the EU Directive on electronic commerce (Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market) (“the E-commerce Directive”).
Read more> E-commerce directive background
2.2 B2B and B2C: the ECR apply to supplies to businesses and consumers.
2.3 Who must comply?: The regulations apply to any provider of an 'information society service' (see 3. below) established in the United Kingdom irrespective of whether that information society service is provided in the United Kingdom or another member State.
2.4 Non-UK providers: if they have a fixed establishment in the UK, non-UK providers are subject to the same laws and regulations as are applicable to UK based providers, whether general or specific to the particular service. This does not apply to laws and regulations applicable to goods or to services not provided by electronic means.
2.5 The ECR do not apply to any law made after 30 July 2002 unless specifically stated in any amendment to the regulations. To date, certain copyright laws have been applied and the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002.
3. Definition of an Information society service
3.1 The ECR apply to a person providing an “information society service”. This is defined in the Directive as:
“ any service normally provided for remuneration, at a distance, by means of electronic equipment for the processing (including digital compression) and storage of data, and at the individual request of a recipient of a service”
Legaleze comment: the extent of this definition is not immediately obvious. The E-commerce Directive states that information society services “span a wide range of economic activities which take place on-line”. Examples given in the Directive include:
* Selling goods on-line [even though the definition refers to “services”]
* Services which are not remunerated by those who receive them, such as those offering on-line information or commercial communications, or those providing tools allowing for search, access and retrieval of data
* Services consisting of the transmission of information via a communication network, in providing access to a communication network or in hosting information provided by a recipient of the service [online newspapers are included
* Services which are transmitted point to point, such as video-on-demand or the provision of commercial communications by electronic mail
3.2 The following services are excluded from the Directive’s definition of information society services:
* Delivery of goods as such or the provision of services off-line
* Television broadcasting within the meaning of Directive EEC/89/552 and radio broadcasting are not information society services because they are not provided at individual request
* The use of electronic mail or equivalent individual communications for instance by natural persons acting outside their trade, business or profession including their use for the conclusion of contracts between such persons
* The contractual relationship between an employee and his employer
* Activities which by their very nature cannot be carried out at a distance and by electronic means, such as the statutory auditing
* Activities of a public notary or equivalent professions to the extent that they involve a direct and specific connection with the exercise of public authority
* Representation of a client and defence of his interests before the courts
* Betting, gaming or lotteries which involve wagering a stake with monetary value
4. Information to be provided by an information society services provider
A person providing an information society service must make available to the recipients of the service (and any relevant enforcement authority) in a form and manner which is easily, directly and permanently accessible, the following information:
4.1 The name of the service provider.
[Note: see also Disclosure of by companies and unincorporated businesses in 5.1 and 5.2 below].
4.2 The geographic address at which the service provider is established
Note: the PSR require service providers in addition to provide their “official address” i.e. an address, such as the registered office of a registered company, which the business must maintain by law in order to receive notices and other communications.
4.3 The details of the service provider, including his electronic mail address, which make it possible to contact him rapidly and communicate with him in a direct and effective manner
[Note: the PSR in addition require service providers to give a telephone number, as well as a postal address, fax number or email; address, to which a recipient of the service may send a complaint or request for information].
4.4 Where the service provider is registered in a trade or similar register available to the public, details of the register in which the service provider is entered and his registration number, or equivalent means of identification in that register
Legaleze comment: the concept of a “trade register” comes from the commercial register in which some European jurisdictions require businesses engaged in commerce to register. If probably refers to an official register rather than yellow pages or other trade directory.
4.5 Where the provision of the service is subject to an authorisation scheme, the particulars of the relevant supervisory authority.
4.6 Where the service provider exercises a regulated profession:
(i) the details of any professional body or similar institution with which the service provider is registered;
(ii) his professional title and the member state where that title has been granted; and
(iii) a reference to the professional rules applicable to the service provider in the member state of establishment and the means to access them.
4.7 Where the service provider undertakes an activity that is subject to value added tax, the relevant identification number.
4.8 Prices: where a person providing an information society service refers to prices, these must be indicated clearly and unambiguously and, in particular, must indicate whether they are inclusive of tax and delivery costs
[Note: under the PSR, a service provider must in addition inform a recipient of the service of the price of the service if it is pre-determined.]
5.1 Commercial communications must contain certain information set out in the Ecommerce Regulations. A “commercial communication” means a communication, in any form, designed to promote, directly or indirectly, the goods, services or image of an information society service provider [e.g. “spam” email].
5.2 Exceptions: excluded from the requirements are communications:
(a) consisting only of a geographic address, a domain name or an electronic mail address; or
(b) relating to the goods, services or image of the service provider provided that the communication has been prepared independently.
5.3 A service provider must ensure that any commercial communication provided by him as part of an information society service must:
(a) be clearly identifiable as a commercial communication;
(b) clearly identify the person on whose behalf the commercial communication is made;
(c) clearly identify as such any promotional offer (including any discount, premium or gift) and ensure that any conditions which must be met to qualify for it are easily accessible, and presented clearly and unambiguously; and
(d) clearly identify as such any promotional competition or game and ensure that any conditions for participation are easily accessible and presented clearly and unambiguously.
5.4 Unsolicited commercial communications: a service provider must ensure that any unsolicited commercial communication sent by him by electronic mail is clearly and unambiguously identifiable as such as soon as it is received.
6.1 Disclosures by companies: under separate regulations, every UK registered company (and limited liability partnerships) should list on its business letters, order forms and website its:
* name;
* company registration number;
* place of registration; and
* registered office address.
(The Companies (Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2008 regs. 6-7 & the Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009 reg. 14)
6.2 Disclosures by sole traders and partnerships: sole traders and partnerships who carry on a business in the UK under a business name different from the surnames of the trader/partners (with or without first names or initials) must also state on business letters, written orders for goods or services to be supplied to the business, invoices and receipts issued in the course of the business, and written demands for payment of debts arising in the course of the business [websites are not mentioned specifically in this context]:
* in the case of a sole trader, the individual’s name
* in the case of a partnership, the name of each member of the partnership
Note: the PSR require service providers to inform recipients of their “legal status and form”. Legaleze comment: in the context of UK law, it is this could be “sole trader” or “partnership”
6.3 In either case, in relation to each person named, an address in the UK at which service of any document relating in any way to the business will be effective.
6.4 Large partnerships exemption: a partnership of more than 20 persons is exempt subject to certain conditions as follows:
* the document states in legible characters the address of the partnership's principal place of business and that the list of the partners' names is open to inspection there
* it maintains the list of partners’ names at its principal place of business a list of the names of all the partners
* any person may inspect the list during office hours
(Companies Act 2006 ss.1200-1206)
7.1 The PSR require most providers of services (with some exceptions) to provide recipients of services with certain information before the service is provided, and to provide additional information on request (see the section on the Provision of Services Regulations). This requirement is not confined to e-commerce but to all forms of delivery of the service.
7.2 Dispute resolution procedure: another PSR requirement applies if a service provider is subject to a code of conduct or trade/professional body which provides for a dispute resolution procedure (e.g. arbitration or mediation) outside the normal court process. In this case, the service provider must inform recipients of the service of this fact and how to access detailed information about that procedure.
7.3 Other relevant PSR requirements are mentioned above in context in 5.2 above and 7.2 below.
8 Information to be provided where contracts are concluded by electronic means
8.1 The Ecommerce regulations require the service provider to give certain information when the supply contract is to be made by “electronic means” [in practice this means by internet because contracts concluded exclusively by exchange of electronic mail or by equivalent individual communications are excluded].
8.2 Prior to an order being placed by the recipient of a service: the provider must provide to that recipient in a clear, comprehensible and unambiguous manner the following information:
* the different technical steps to follow to conclude the contract;
* whether or not the concluded contract will be filed by the service provider and whether it will be accessible;
* the technical means for identifying and correcting input errors prior to the placing of the order;
* the languages offered for the conclusion of the contract;
* which relevant codes of conduct he subscribes to and give information on how those codes can be consulted electronically;
* allow the recipient a means to store and reproduce any terms and conditions of the contract.
[Note: the Provision of Services Regulations require a service provider in addition to inform recipients of the service of any contractual terms concerning the competent courts or the law applicable to the contract, and any after-sales guarantee offered in addition to legal rights.
[Legaleze comment: although the terms and conditions will normally include this information, it is advisable to provide this information as a separate item].
8.3 On receipt of an order from the recipient: a service provider must:
* acknowledge receipt of the order to the recipient of the service without undue delay and by electronic means; the provision of the service is itself a sufficient acknowledgement
* make available to the recipient of the service appropriate, effective and accessible technical means allowing him to identify and correct input errors prior to the placing of the order.
8.4 Business to business supplies: it is possible to exclude the above requirements by agreement in the case of supplies to non-consumers.
9. Storage of information on customers’ computers/”Cookies”
8.1 The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (“PECR”) were amended in 2011 to introduce a requirement to obtain customers’ informed consent in order to store or access information on the customers’ computers. This is commonly done by the placing of small text files (so-called "cookies") on the computers of website users in order to facilitate or speed up functionality of online communication (see regulation 6 of PECR as amended).
9.2 The change was introduced into UK law following changes to the “parent” EU legislation.
(Articles 2 and 3 of Directive 2009/136/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 amending Directive 2002/22/EC on universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic communications networks and services, Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector and Regulation etc.) .
9.3 Information may not be stored or accessed on customers’ computers unless the customer::
(a) is provided with clear and comprehensive information about the purposes of the storage of, or access to, that information; and
(b) has given his or her consent].
9.4 The consent may be signified by a customer who amends or sets controls on the internet browser which he uses or by using another application or programme to signify consent
9.5 Note that the customer must be given “clear and comprehensive information about the purposes of the storage of, or access to” the information, otherwise the consent will not be effective.
9.6 Advice on how UK businesses can comply with the new regulations on the use of cookies technology has been published by the Information Commissioner’s Office
10. Enforcement:
10.1 Civil enforcement:
10.1.1 The duties to give information as set out in 7.2 and 7.3 may be enforced by the recipient by a legal action against the service provider for damages for breach of statutory duty.
10.1.2 If the service provider fails to allow the recipient a means to store and reproduce any terms and conditions of the contract (see 7.2), the recipient may obtain a court order requiring compliance.
10.1.3 If a recipient entered into a contract to buy, but the service provider failed to make available to the recipient of the service appropriate, effective and accessible technical means allowing him to identify and correct input errors prior to the placing of the order (see 7.2), the recipient may ask the court to rescind (cancel) the contract unless the court decides it would not be appropriate.
10.1.4 If he feels that the “collective interests of consumers” may be harmed by an infringement of the ECR or PSR, the Director General of Fair Trading may apply to the court for a “Stop Now” order against a service provider to stop further infringement.
10.1.5 If a supplier tries to enforce a contract made at a time when it had failed to make the required disclosures on business documents (see 5), the defendant may have a defence to the claim in certain circumstances, if he shows that:
(a) he has a claim against the claimant arising out of the contract that he has been unable to pursue by reason of the latter's breach of the disclosure requirements; or
(b) he has suffered some financial loss in connection with the contract by reason of the claimant's breach of those requirements;
unless the court is satisfied that it is just and equitable to permit the claimant’s action to continue.
10.1.6 A customer or any person who can prove damage caused by a breach of the PERC regulation requiring consent to use of cookies etc. (see 8 above) has the right to claim compensation. However, there is a defence to such a claim if the seller or person who broke the regulation can prove he took such care as was reasonably required to comply in all the circumstances.
10.1.7 The Information Commissioner may serve an enforcement notice requiring compliance with PERC.
10.1.8 The Information Commissioner may impose a monetary penalty on a person in breach of PERC in a serious case in the same way as a breach of the Data Protection Act (see section on Data Protection)
10.2 Criminal enforcement:
10.2.1 There are no criminal penalties for infringement of the ECR or PSR.
10.2.2 Failure by a company or unincorporated business to comply with the trading disclosure regulations (see 5) is an offence punishable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale; and for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 3 on the standard scale. This offence carries Director’s criminal liability.
(The Companies (Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2008 regs. 6-7 and Companies Act 2006 s.1205)
10.2.3 Failure to comply with an enforcement notice from the Information Commissioner (see 9.1.7) is an offence punishable by a (unlimited) fine. There is a defence if the accused can prove that he exercised all due diligence to comply with the notice in question. This offence carries Director’s criminal liability.
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No Griezmann, No Problem: Mourinho’s United Can Still Win the Title
June 26, 2017 / Manchestered / 0 Comments
Source: Manchester United via Facebook
Manchester United are a force to be reckoned with this season. It looks like transfer target Antoine Griezmann, arguably one of the best players on the planet, will stay at Atletico Madrid for the time being – but that shouldn’t hinder United’s chances too much. According to various reports, the Red Devils are chasing Real Madrid star Alvaro Morata and he could be a better fit than the Frenchman.
Given the chance to prove his worth, Morata can show that he deserves to be ranked as one of the best strikers in European football. Statistics available from Soccerway shows that the 24-year-old scored 15 goals in 26 appearances this season – at an average rate of a goal every 89 minutes. At £70 million, he won’t come cheap but United are in desperate need of attacking help following Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s release at the end of the season.
No matter who United sign, Mourinho’s men will be there or thereabouts in the Premier League title race. As of June 26th, Bitcoin bettors looking for sports to bet on can back the Red Devils at 7/2 to win the crown; something that they haven’t been able to do since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013. With Mourinho, a proven winner, at the helm, champagne could be flowing on the Old Trafford turf come next May.
Defensively, the Red Devils are well placed to challenge the likes of Chelsea, Tottenham and arch rivals Manchester City in the Premier League title race. David de Gea found himself in and out of the starting line-up last season but the Spain star can regain his rightful place as United’s number one shot stopper. In front of De Gea, Eric Bailly, Marcos Rojo and summer signing Victor Lindelof will provide assurance and protection to the United goal.
With a couple of astute additions, United will be in business. Last season, wayward efforts in front of the Old Trafford faithful let Mourinho’s men down. Draws against West Ham, Burnley and Bournemouth were just a few of United’s disappointing results and United must focus on their consistency against the Premier League’s “lesser” sides. If the Red Devils can turn those draws into victories, Mourinho’s side will be a LOT closer.
If truth be told, United should be competing for the crown every year. Mourinho is building a title-winning squad and challenging at the top should be United’s primary objective – even with the Premier League now more competitive than ever before. The Portuguese has had his fair share of difficulties in recent years but he remains one of the best managers in the business and his winning record is second to none.
Signing Antoine Griezmann would have been fantastic for supporters but United are well positioned to challenge without the Frenchman. Signing a proven striker like Morata is the key to United’s title chances this season and Mourinho knows it. The Old Trafford ‘fear factor’ will return in the near future and United could be set to secure more silverware in the not-so-distant future.
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Facebook pages are far more detailed than Twitter accounts. They allow a product to provide videos, photos, longer descriptions, and testimonials where followers can comment on the product pages for others to see. Facebook can link back to the product's Twitter page, as well as send out event reminders. As of May 2015, 93% of businesses marketers use Facebook to promote their brand.[36] A study from 2011 attributed 84% of "engagement" or clicks and likes that link back to Facebook advertising.[37] By 2014, Facebook had restricted the content published from business and brand pages. Adjustments in Facebook algorithms have reduced the audience for non-paying business pages (that have at least 500,000 "Likes") from 16% in 2012 down to 2% in February 2014.[38] [39][40]
Traditional advertising techniques include print and television advertising. The Internet has already overtaken television as the largest advertising market.[90] Web sites often include the banner or pop-up ads. Social networking sites don't always have ads. In exchange, products have entire pages and are able to interact with users. Television commercials often end with a spokesperson asking viewers to check out the product website for more information. While briefly popular, print ads included QR codes on them. These QR codes can be scanned by cell phones and computers, sending viewers to the product website. Advertising is beginning to move viewers from the traditional outlets to the electronic ones.[citation needed]
Instagram has proven itself a powerful platform for marketers to reach their customers and prospects through sharing pictures and brief messages. According to a study by Simply Measured, 71% of the world's largest brands are now using Instagram as a marketing channel.[58] For companies, Instagram can be used as a tool to connect and communicate with current and potential customers. The company can present a more personal picture of their brand, and by doing so the company conveys a better and true picture of itself. The idea of Instagram pictures lies on on-the-go, a sense that the event is happening right now, and that adds another layer to the personal and accurate picture of the company. In fact, Thomas Rankin, co-founder and CEO of the program Dash Hudson, stated that when he approves a blogger's Instagram post before it is posted on the behalf of a brand his company represents, his only negative feedback is if it looks too posed. "It's not an editorial photo," he explained, "We're not trying to be a magazine. We're trying to create a moment."[57] Another option Instagram provides the opportunity for companies to reflect a true picture of the brandfrom the perspective of the customers, for instance, using the user-generated contents thought the hashtags encouragement.[59] Other than the filters and hashtags functions, the Instagram's 15-second videos and the recently added ability to send private messages between users have opened new opportunities for brands to connect with customers in a new extent, further promoting effective marketing on Instagram.
Keep resources crawlable. Blocking page resources can give Google an incomplete picture of your website. This often happens when your robots.txt file is blocking access to some or all of your page resources. If Googlebot doesn't have access to a page's resources, such as CSS, JavaScript, or images, we may not detect that it's built to display and work well on a mobile browser. In other words, we may not detect that the page is "mobile-friendly," and therefore not properly serve it to mobile searchers.
While most search engine companies try to keep their processes a secret, their criteria for high spots on SERPs isn't a complete mystery. Search engines are successful only if they provide a user links to the best Web sites related to the user's search terms. If your site is the best skydiving resource on the Web, it benefits search engines to list the site high up on their SERPs. You just have to find a way to show search engines that your site belongs at the top of the heap. That's where search engine optimization (SEO) comes in -- it's a collection of techniques a webmaster can use to improve his or her site's SERP position.
Thanks for sharing such a valuable and informative blog here and I read your blog really nice explanation about search engine marketing and it’s platforms and I have read many blogs related to SEM but here i found some new things and strategies so thank you very much for sharing such a valuable post for us so keep posting and I am waiting for your next post also.
Think about the words that a user might search for to find a piece of your content. Users who know a lot about the topic might use different keywords in their search queries than someone who is new to the topic. For example, a long-time football fan might search for [fifa], an acronym for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, while a new fan might use a more general query like [football playoffs]. Anticipating these differences in search behavior and accounting for them while writing your content (using a good mix of keyword phrases) could produce positive results. Google Ads provides a handy Keyword Planner34 that helps you discover new keyword variations and see the approximate search volume for each keyword. Also, Google Search Console provides you with the top search queries your site appears for and the ones that led the most users to your site in the Performance Report35.
Social Media for Content Promotion — Social media marketing is a perfect channel for sharing your best site and blog content with readers. Once you build a loyal following on social media, you'll be able to post all your new content and make sure your readers can find new stuff right away. Plus, great blog content will help you build more followers. It's a surprising way that content marketing and social media marketing benefit each other.
In 2012 during Hurricane Sandy, Gap sent out a tweet to its followers telling them to stay safe but encouraged them to shop online and offered free shipping. The tweet was deemed insensitive, and Gap eventually took it down and apologized.[96] Numerous additional online marketing mishap examples exist. Examples include a YouTube video of a Domino's Pizza employee violating health code standards, which went viral on the Internet and later resulted in felony charges against two employees.[93][97] A Twitter hashtag posted by McDonald's in 2012 attracting attention due to numerous complaints and negative events customers experienced at the chain store; and a 2011 tweet posted by a Chrysler Group employee that no one in Detroit knows how to drive.[98] When the Link REIT opened a Facebook page to recommend old-style restaurants, the page was flooded by furious comments criticizing the REIT for having forced a lot of restaurants and stores to shut down; it had to terminate its campaign early amid further deterioration of its corporate image.[99]
In 2007, Google announced a campaign against paid links that transfer PageRank.[30] On June 15, 2009, Google disclosed that they had taken measures to mitigate the effects of PageRank sculpting by use of the nofollow attribute on links. Matt Cutts, a well-known software engineer at Google, announced that Google Bot would no longer treat any nofollow links, in the same way, to prevent SEO service providers from using nofollow for PageRank sculpting.[31] As a result of this change the usage of nofollow led to evaporation of PageRank. In order to avoid the above, SEO engineers developed alternative techniques that replace nofollowed tags with obfuscated JavaScript and thus permit PageRank sculpting. Additionally several solutions have been suggested that include the usage of iframes, Flash and JavaScript.[32]
Another ethical controversy associated with search marketing has been the issue of trademark infringement. The debate as to whether third parties should have the right to bid on their competitors' brand names has been underway for years. In 2009 Google changed their policy, which formerly prohibited these tactics, allowing 3rd parties to bid on branded terms as long as their landing page in fact provides information on the trademarked term.[27] Though the policy has been changed this continues to be a source of heated debate.[28]
There are many reasons explaining why advertisers choose the SEM strategy. First, creating a SEM account is easy and can build traffic quickly based on the degree of competition. The shopper who uses the search engine to find information tends to trust and focus on the links showed in the results pages. However, a large number of online sellers do not buy search engine optimization to obtain higher ranking lists of search results, but prefer paid links. A growing number of online publishers are allowing search engines such as Google to crawl content on their pages and place relevant ads on it.[16] From an online seller's point of view, this is an extension of the payment settlement and an additional incentive to invest in paid advertising projects. Therefore, it is virtually impossible for advertisers with limited budgets to maintain the highest rankings in the increasingly competitive search market.
Mobile devices have become increasingly popular, where 5.7 billion people are using them worldwide [13]. This has played a role in the way consumers interact with media and has many further implications for TV ratings, advertising, mobile commerce, and more. Mobile media consumption such as mobile audio streaming or mobile video are on the rise – In the United States, more than 100 million users are projected to access online video content via mobile device. Mobile video revenue consists of pay-per-view downloads, advertising and subscriptions. As of 2013, worldwide mobile phone Internet user penetration was 73.4%. In 2017, figures suggest that more than 90% of Internet users will access online content through their phones.[14]
Imagine that you've created the definitive Web site on a subject -- we'll use skydiving as an example. Your site is so new that it's not even listed on any SERPs yet, so your first step is to submit your site to search engines like Google and Yahoo. The Web pages on your skydiving site include useful information, exciting photographs and helpful links guiding visitors to other resources. Even with the best information about skydiving on the Web, your site may not crack the top page of results on major search engines. When people search for the term "skydiving," they could end up going to inferior Web sites because yours isn't in the top results.
In March 2006, KinderStart filed a lawsuit against Google over search engine rankings. KinderStart's website was removed from Google's index prior to the lawsuit, and the amount of traffic to the site dropped by 70%. On March 16, 2007, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (San Jose Division) dismissed KinderStart's complaint without leave to amend, and partially granted Google's motion for Rule 11 sanctions against KinderStart's attorney, requiring him to pay part of Google's legal expenses.[70][71]
By relying so much on factors such as keyword density which were exclusively within a webmaster's control, early search engines suffered from abuse and ranking manipulation. To provide better results to their users, search engines had to adapt to ensure their results pages showed the most relevant search results, rather than unrelated pages stuffed with numerous keywords by unscrupulous webmasters. This meant moving away from heavy reliance on term density to a more holistic process for scoring semantic signals.[13] Since the success and popularity of a search engine is determined by its ability to produce the most relevant results to any given search, poor quality or irrelevant search results could lead users to find other search sources. Search engines responded by developing more complex ranking algorithms, taking into account additional factors that were more difficult for webmasters to manipulate. In 2005, an annual conference, AIRWeb, Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web was created to bring together practitioners and researchers concerned with search engine optimization and related topics.[14]
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CAPTAIN MARVEL Character Posters Reveal Carol Danvers, Goose, and More
Just under seven weeks remain until the release of ‘Captain Marvel,’ the highly anticipated Brie Larson-led superhero standalone, and to keep us all going until then the folks over at Marvel have a new batch of...
CAPTAIN MARVEL Trailer Introduces Brie Larson’s Intergalactic-Superhero
Set in the 1990s, Marvel Studios Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she b...
LIFE ITSELF – Trailer for Dan Fogelman’s Multigenerational Romance Drama
Director and writer Dan Fogelman (‘This Is Us’) examines the perils and rewards of everyday life in a multigenerational saga featuring an international ensemble including Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Olivia Cooke, Sergio Peris-M...
Watch: Saoirse Ronan & Annette Bening in Trailer for THE SEAGULL
"The stage is set for a little family drama…" From director Michael Mayer comes a film adaptation of the Anton Chekhov classic about a group of friends and lovers, all of whom are in love with the wrong person....
Watch Annette Bening & Jamie Bell in the trailer for FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL
The latest directorial effort from Paul McGuigan (‘Lucky Number Slevin,’ ‘Push,’ ‘Sherlock’), the film is based on Peter Turner’s memoir, and follows the passionate relationship between the British actor and Gl...
20TH CENTURY WOMEN Clip – “Are You Okay”
Watch a clip from the Mike Mills-directed coming-of-age ensemble starring Annette Bening, Billy Crudup, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, and Lucas Jade Zumann. In late 1970s California, Dorothea (Annette Bening) and her son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) live toget...
3.0Vibrant but drifting
20TH CENTURY WOMEN (USA/16/119mins) Directed by Mike Mills. Starring Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning, Billy Crudup, Lucas Jade Zumann THE PLOT: In late 1970s California, Dorothea (Annette Bening) a...
Annette Bening Stars In 20TH CENTURY WOMEN Trailer
From acclaimed filmmaker Mike Mills comes 20TH CENTURY WOMEN, the story of three remarkable women (played by Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning) who come together to help teach a teenage boy abou...
New Trailer For Warren Beatty’s RULES DON’T APPLY
“You make an old guy courageous, Marla.” Warren Beatty takes on Hollywood with an unconventional love story of an aspiring actress, her determined driver, and the eccentric billionaire who they work for. RULES DON'T APPLY – Irish release date is January 2...
RULES DON’T APPLY – Trailer for Warren Beatty’s New Film
"In this town, aren't those the rules?" It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty), arr...
First Look at Warren Beatty’s RULES DON’T APPLY
Our first look at Beatty's first film in over a decade, ‘Rules Don’t Apply,’ an unconventional love story of an aspiring actress (Lily Collins), her determined driver (Alden Ehrenreich), and the eccentric billi...
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DANNY COLLINS (USA/15A/106mins) Directed by Dan Fogelman. Starring Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale. THE PLOT: Danny Collins (Al Pacino) is an ageing rocker who still performs, but has never managed to give u...
Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning are 20TH CENTURY WOMEN
Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning are set to take the leads in ‘20th Century Women,’ the next directorial effort of Mike Mills (‘Beginners’). Slated to begin filming in Southern California later ...
DANNY COLLINS – New UK/IRL Trailer
Al Pacino stars as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change co...
DANNY COLLINS Trailer with Al Pacino, Jennifer Garner, Annette Bening, and Bobby Cannavale
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The best films about returning home
We bring you the best films about going home... THE JUDGE is released in Irish cinemas this week, and stars Roebert Downey Jr as Hank, a man who returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral. All is not wel...
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Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)
The Tchaikovsky Album - Vasily Petrenko
Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 (1880) [14.28]
Romeo and Juliet (1869, rev. third 1880 version) [19.50]
Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 (1876) [23.56]
1812 Overture, Op. 49 (1880) [13.56]
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko
rec. 2009-13, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK
CLASSIC FM CFMCD38 [72.12]
Vasily Petrenko became principal conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) in 2006. It’s safe to say that Petrenko’s tenure has been an overwhelming success and his reputation and that of the orchestra has gone from strength to strength. Released on the Classic FM label is this excellent ‘Tchaikovsky Album’ consisting of four popular works from the great Russian composer; repertoire that Petrenko knows so well. I’m sure many readers will have noticed the connection that both composer and conductor studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire.
Opening the album is the Capriccio Italien, a work inspired by a carnival Tchaikovsky attended whilst on holiday in Italy. Described as a ‘Fantasy’ or ‘Italian Fantasia’ for orchestra it was introduced by Nikolai Rubinstein in Moscow in 1880. Written in the manner of Glinka’s Spanish fantasias, Tchaikovsky uses a number of memorable folk melodies he had heard in Italy. Right from the dark brooding atmosphere of the opening to the thrilling conclusion Petrenko radiates bold assurance with this colourful score, so compellingly played by the RLPO.
One of many works in the classical music repertoire based on Shakespeare plays Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet originally composed in 1870 is presented here in the third revised version from 1880 subtitled 'Overture-Fantasia'. It was Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov who premièred the score in 1886 in Tbilisi. Under Petrenko’s polished baton it is hard to imagine this glorious music receiving greater advocacy.
Based on Canto V of the Inferno from Dante’s La Divina Commedia, Tchaikovsky wrote his Symphonic Fantasy: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 in 1876. Nikolay Rubinstein directed the score in 1877 in Moscow at a Russian Musical Society concert. The excellent playing of the RLPO is especially noticeable for its reserves of energy, expression and concentration together with such buoyant rhythms. The old repertoire warhorse the Festival Overture: 1812, Op. 49 dates from 1880 and was written to mark the 70th anniversary of Russia having repelled Napoleon’s Grande Armée in 1812. It was Ippolit Al'tani who conducted the premiere in 1882 in Moscow. Today in concert it is not unusual for cannon and fireworks or other visual pyrotechnics to add to the effect. The score has become a mainstay of the USA’s Independence Day celebrations. The RLPO give a brilliant and cogent account and it is quite thrillingly rendered with Petrenko drawing everything together.
The sound team have produced excellent sonics and the audio image is especially clear and well balanced. There is an impeccable integrity about Petrenko’s readings and such sincere, high quality music-making avoids any hint of the ostentatious. The RLPO's rhythmic security and ardently characterful playing delivers gold standard interpretations. Even if it entails duplication many Tchaikovsky devotees will, quite understandably, be anxious to add this stunning CFM recording to their collections.
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Bayesian evaluation for the likelihood of Christ's resurrection (Part 15)
Here is yet another example from which we can empirically derive the Bayes' factor for a human testimony.
The September 11 terrorist attacks killed about 3000 people. It is the worst terrorist attack in world history to date. As such, it caused a great deal of shared grief and an outpouring of sympathy for the survivors and the families of its victims.
Of course, human being being what they are, some people falsely claimed that a close loved one had perished in the attacks. This got them a lot of sympathy - and more importantly, it got them a great deal of aid money, exceeding a hundreds of thousand of dollars in some cases.
This naturally leads us to ask - how reliable was a person's claim that they had lost a loved one in the 9/11 attacks? What was the Bayes' factor for such a claim? The numbers for this calculation are readily available. We just have to assemble them.
First, let's calculate the prior probability that someone really did lose a close loved one in the 9-11 attacks. We will assume that every one of the 3000 victims had about 4 loved ones (father, mother, sister, son, etc) whom we can consider "close", and that all of these loved ones lived in New York City. This gives 12,000, or about 1e4, close relation of the victims in a city with a population of 1e7. Therefore, the prior odds for a random person in New York City actually having a close loved one as a victim is about 1e-3.
Now, if someone claims that they had a close loved one die, what is the posterior odds that this person is actually telling the truth? One may assume that a vast majority of the 1e4 actual close relations of the victims made that claim. But how many false claims were mixed in with those? The specific number is not possible to determine (as someone could have lied so well that they were never suspected), but the article I previously linked mentions numbers like "dozens", "two dozen", or "37 arrests". Taking these numbers into account, let us be generous here and assume that there were 100, or 1e2, false claimants. The posterior odds are therefore 1e4:1e2, which is equal to 1e2.
Therefore, the Bayes' factor for someone claiming to have lost a loved one in the September 11th terrorist attacks is sufficient to take the odds from an empirically calculated prior value of 1e-3 to an empirically calculated posterior value of 1e2 - so it must be given a value of 1e5.
Nearly all of the numbers here are from Wikipedia or the New York Times. You can follow up on their sources and verify the values yourself. In the few places where I had to make assumptions, they have a definitive bias towards reducing the Bayes' factor - for example, the people who lost loved ones are not all confined to New York City, and 100 false claimants are a good deal more than two dozen. There's probably also a greater tendency for the truth-tellers to communicate their loss to more people in cases like these. Therefore, 1e5 is an underestimate of the true Bayes' factor. The actual value is greater - 1e6 seems like a reasonable guess.
Consider what this means: even when there was a clear reason to lie - that is, even when there was cold, hard cash at stake as a tangible reward for lying - people turned out to be fairly reliable overall. The Bayes' factor for their earnest claim about the personal tragedy of losing a loved one turned out to be about 1e6. Now, the general case would not have the explicit possibility of fraud as a precondition, and we would not be constrained to only consider the minimum value. Therefore a value of 1e8 for the general case is quite appropriate. That is a good estimate of the Bayes' factor for an earnest, insistent, personal testimony.
These Bayes' factor calculations will be summarized in the next post.
You may next want to read:
The universe is an MMO, and God is the game designer.
Basic Bayesian reasoning: a better way to think (Part 1)
Another post, from the table of contents
We are calculating empirical values for the Bayes' factor of a sincere, personal human testimony. Several lines of calculations have all converged around 1e8 as a typical value. In the last post, I gave some real-life examples that I have personally lived through and verified - and they validate the 1e8 value. But perhaps you're not convinced by the stories from my past. Fair enough - they're event that I have directly experienced, so they're empirical for me, but they're not empirical for you.
Here, then, is a calculation that anyone on the internet can verify to get an empirical value for the Bayes' factor of a human testimony.
Go on LinkedIn, and search for "PhD physics Harvard". You'll find many people who claim to be in the PhD program at Harvard University. You may need to upgrade your LinkedIn account to see the profiles for these people, if they're outside your network. Now, are these people telling the truth? And what ought we make of their claim that they're getting the most advanced degree in the most challenging field from the most prestigious university in the world? And what is the Bayes' factor for that claim?
To address this, we first need to find the prior probability for someone on LinkedIn being in the Harvard physics PhD program. For this, we'll need to gather up some numbers - all of which are readily available online.
First, let's get the number of people in Harvard's physics PhD program. This is easy enough - their department's webpage tells you that they have about 200 graduate students.
It's also easy to find the number of people on LinkedIn. Their website will tell you that they have more than 128 million registered members in the United States.
Now, we'll make the generous assumption that all 200 people in Harvard's physics PhD program are on LinkedIn. This means that the prior probability for someone on LinkedIn actually being in the program is about 200/128 million, or about 1e-6.
What about the posterior probability? Well, we can take the people on LinkedIn who claim to be in the Harvard physics PhD program, and actually investigate them one by one. Many research groups have their rosters published online, so you can easily find out whether someone really is in a physics research group at Harvard. You may also find their scientific publications or teaching records online, all of which can confirm their status in the program.
So, I searched on LinkedIn for "PhD physics Harvard". I spot checked more than a dozen people from the search results who claimed to be in the Harvard physics PhD program. I chose my sample over many pages across the unfiltered LinkedIn search results, so that the "relevance" of the search results to me will not influence my sampling.
What was the result? I found that every single person I checked was telling the truth. I could verify each of their claim independently from the LinkedIn page, nearly always from an official Harvard physics department page. Since I had checked over a dozen people, this represents a posterior odds of 1e1 at a minimum for these people really being in the Harvard physics PhD program.
This means that, at a minimum, the mere claim of these individuals on LinkedIn changed the odds for that claim, from a prior value of 1e-6 to a posterior value of 1e1. Therefore, the Bayes' factor for these claims have about 1e7 as a lower bound. The actual value is therefore well within range of the 1e8 value that we've been using.
It's also important to note how weak a claim on LinkedIn is compared to the kind of earnest, personal testimony that we're interested in. Anyone can get a LinkedIn account; they just have to sign up for it. They can then say whatever they want in that account. Furthermore, there is not much concrete negative consequences for lying, while the incentive of getting a job or a business contact can be quite appealing. But even with all this going against it, the people on LinkedIn turn out to be quite trustworthy, with the Bayes' factor for their claims having a value near 1e8.
The Bayes' factor for the disciples testifying to Christ's resurrection must be at least that much. Therefore, Christ almost certainly rose from the dead.
More evaluation for the Bayes' factor of a typical human testimony are coming next week.
How to think about the future (Part 1)
On becoming a good person
Here are some more examples from which you can estimate the Bayes' factors for an earnest, personal human testimony.
Imagine that you've promised to meet me on a particular date, but I don't show up to the appointment. You're understandably peeved, but then you get a phone call from me saying, "I just got into a car accident. I'm okay. But I'm really sorry that I couldn't make it to our meeting today. Can we still meet?"
Now, would you believe my story? Did I really get into a car accident on the day of our appointment? What would you assign as the probability that I'm telling the truth?
The average driver gets into a car accident roughly once in 18 years. That's about once every 6500 days. So the prior probability for getting into a car accident on a particular day is 1/6500. If you choose to believe me - say, you think there's less more than a 90% chance that I really was in an accident - then you've changed the odds for my car accident from 1/6500 to 10/1, and you've therefore granted my phone call a Bayes' factor of 65000 - or nearly 1e5.
Remember our calculations from earlier: even with a Bayes's factor of just 1e4, there's already a 99.999% chance for the resurrection to be real. In other words, if you would believe that I got into a car accident, you ought also to believe in the resurrection. Otherwise you're being inconsistent. If you wish to disbelieve the resurrection, you must also be the kind of person who says, "I don't believe you. I think you're lying about the car accident. You need to give me additional evidence before I believe that something that unlikely happened".
Ah, but maybe the people who are skeptical of the car accident are right? Maybe we should be more skeptical in general? It might be the polite thing to do to believe someone in such situations, but how do we know that that's actually the mathematically right thing to do?
Well, this is where the fact that this actually happened to me comes into play. I once got into a car accident on my way to a wedding. I was not hurt, nor was my car seriously damaged - but the whole affair did cause me to miss the entire wedding ceremony. I only managed to show up for the reception. That day, I told numerous people that I had gotten into a car accident, and gave it as my excuse for missing the ceremony. Not a single one of these people doubted me in the slightest: they all believed me. And they were right to do so, because I had in fact gotten into a car accident.
In fact, I've never heard of anyone, anywhere falsely using the "I had a car accident" excuse for missing an appointment. There are simply no reports of it that I know of. This is in spite of the fact that I have heard of numerous car accidents, and have been in one myself, and have heard it used as a genuine excuse before. All this, combined with the great deal of trust that the others correctly put in me when I told them of my car accident, tells me that the earlier 90% chance for the accident is too conservative. If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that such car accident stories are trustworthy about 99.9% of the time. That means that the posterior odds for the car accident are about 1e3, and the Bayes' factor from an earnest, personal testimony about a car accident is about 1e7 - although this is admittedly somewhat speculative.
So, if someone tells you about their car accident on a particular date, the Bayes' factor for their testimony should at least be 1e5 as a lower bound, and probably (but more speculatively) around 1e7.
Now, what if someone claims to have gotten into two car accidents in one particular day? The prior odds for such an event, assuming independence, is about 1e-7.6. Now, I have not heard anyone make this claim exactly, but I have heard of somewhat comparable events, like two tire blowouts happening on the same day (this, too, actually happened to me once). The comparison is difficult to make, as there are strong dependence factors and statistics on blowouts are harder to come by. However, going on my intuition, and my experience with similar events like blowouts, I would be willing to believe someone who claimed to have had two car accidents on a particular day, or at least give them even odds that they're not lying. This gives their testimony a Bayes' factor of about 1e8. While this is not a solid measure of the Bayes' factor on its own, it does validate my earlier estimation of the Bayes' factor being around 1e7.
Now, what about the Bayes' factor in the following scenario?
You're talking to a friend that you haven't seen in a year, and you're exchanging news about mutual acquaintances. You ask, "how's Emma doing?" Your friend then replies and says:
"Oh, you haven't heard? Emma... is dead. She was killed in a car accident. And you know how she was really close to her mom? Well, when her mom heard the news of Emma's death, she committed suicide - they say that they had the funeral ceremony for both of them together."
You may have guessed that this, too, actually happened to me. A friend of mine told me this tragic story about a girl we both knew. Don't be too concerned - the name of the girl has been changed, and this happened long ago - long enough ago that all the parties involved must have gotten well past the shock and the grief.
But, let us turn back to the question at hand. Should I trust my friend, on this very unlikely story? The yearly car accident fatality rate is about 1 per 10,000. The suicide rate is about the same. My friend's story, therefore, has a prior odds of about 1e-8 of being true. There is some dependence factors which increase the odds (a mother is more likely to commit suicide after her daughter's death), but the specifics of the story (the specific cause and timing of the suicide) would again decrease the odds. Let's say that they basically cancel each other out.
I'll go ahead and tell you that I did believe my friend. I did not really doubt his story. If I had to put down a number for my degree of belief, I would say that I gave his story about a 1e3 odds of being true. So the odds for this sequence of events went from a prior of 1e-8 to a posterior of 1e3, and therefore the Bayes' factor for my friend's testimony is about 1e11.
But was I right to trust my friend? Maybe I should have said back to him, "I don't believe you. Your story is just too ludicrous"? Well, as it turns out, I did get independent verification for a good chunk of this story later on. I really was right to trust my friend. Given that this is only a single instance of verification, this only validates that I was right to trust my friend, but not necessarily that I was correct to give the story a posterior odds of 1e3. So, at a minimum, I was definitely justified in giving my friend at least 1e8 for the Bayes' factor as a lower bound, and I feel that the correct value should actually be closer to 1e11.
So, here is the summary of the Bayes' factor evaluations thus far. Using publicly available statistics (car accident and fatality rates, suicide rates), and empirical events in my own life which I have personally experienced, lived through, and verified, I obtained two separate Bayes' factors for an earnest, personal testimony. In a story about a car accident on a given day, the lower bound on the Bayes' factor for that story should be 1e5, and the actual is probably closer to 1e7. In a tragic story about the unlikely death of a mutual acquaintance, the lower bound on the Bayes' factor for that story should be 1e8, and the actual value is probably closer to 1e11.
We see that in each case, even the minimum possible Bayes' factor exceeds 1e4. Recall that a Bayes' factor of 1e4 for an earnest, personal testimony would already put the probability of the resurrection at 99.999%. The more likely values we calculated in these specific cases, of 1e7 and 1e11, agrees very well with the value of 1e8 that I've used for the general case.
There are more calculations to come in the next week.
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My claim, at its heart, is very simple: the evidence of the many people claiming to have seen the risen Christ is abundantly sufficient to overcome any prior skepticism about a dead man coming back to life. My argument consists of backing up that statement with Bayesian reasoning and empirically derived probability values.
The emphasis on empirical probability values is important. Humans are notoriously bad at estimating probabilities, especially when the values reach extreme levels, like 1e-22. Some people, especially when discussing a controversial topic like the resurrection, will just pull numbers out of thin air to support their preconceptions. They'll make statements like "I'll grant a 23.599% chance that the disciples went to the wrong tomb". This can sometimes result in some pretty hilarious statements, like someone assigning a 1% chance for a generic conspiracy theory - as if they couldn't imagine anything less likely than a 1% probability.
This is why having an empirical bases for the probability values is crucial. Otherwise, you're likely to simply make up such worthless numbers, influenced only by your preconceived notions.
In my argument, none of the numbers I used are something I just made up. I gave each of them ample empirical backing. The two important numbers are the prior probability for the resurrection, and the Bayes' factor for a human testimony. I set the prior probability at 1e-22: this is, as I said, far more conservative than any requirement of empiricism. One may be able to empirically argue that nobody alive today has ever seen a man come back from the dead - this would set the prior odds at around 1e-9 or 1e-10. But I've gone much, much further. I've chosen the value of 1e-22 by taking the total number of all the humans that have ever lived, assumed that none of them have ever come back from the dead, then squaring the already tiny probability, just to handicap my argument further. There is no way to argue that it should be empirically set lower.
As for the Bayes' factor for a typical human testimony, I've set at 1e8. I've given numerous lines of thought that demonstrates that this is about the correct value. These including several examples from everyday life where you choose to trust someone, and the results of a natural experiment with the recent 1.6 billion dollar lottery. All these empirically derived lines of thinking converge around 1e8 as the correct value for the Bayes' factor of a typical human testimony.
But, this number is perhaps more difficult to accept than the prior probability. There is a large variance inherent in human testimony, and Bayes' factors are less familiar and less intuitive as a concept than a prior probability. For these reasons, I think it's worth demonstrating with a few more real-life examples that the Bayes' factors for a human testimony is really around 1e8.
We'll look at these examples in the coming weeks.
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Gunmaker Magpul finalizes departure from Colorado to protest anti-gun laws
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Officials at Magpul Industries unveiled Wednesday its new facilities in Texas and Wyoming, making good on a vow to leave Colorado in response to the state's sweeping gun control legislation.
The firearms-accessories manufacturer announced that the company has finalized a contract on its corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas, after entering into a deal on the property in March. In the interim, Magpul had used a temporary facility in Texas, according to a Wednesday press release.
Meanwhile, Magpul's manufacturing and distribution center is slated to open in January in Cheyenne. A 50,000-square-foot addition is expected to be completed in December on the 185,000-square-foot facility.
At the same time, Magpul plans to retain a small footprint in Colorado in the form of an administrative office to facilitate the relocation and serve as a regional support office. Magpul officials have said that they will continue to support gun rights in Colorado even after moving their headquarters and production facilities.
"These new facilities in Texas and Wyoming immediately enhance and expand the company's business operations," said Duane Liptak, director of product management and marketing for Magpul Industries, in a statement. "Magpul remains committed to completing the final phases of this transition without disruption to our customers and business partners."
Magpul was the largest and most prestigious firearms company to announce it would leave Colorado after Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper signed three gun control bills in March 2013. Founded in 1999, the company had previously run its manufacturing and corporate operations from facilities in Erie, Colorado.
Magpul's announcement shortly after the bills were signed touched off a bidding war from officials in at least two dozen states hoping to attract the company, which supports 200 direct jobs and 400 supply-chain jobs and contributed an estimated $85 million annually to Colorado's economy.
Magpul CEO Richard Fitzpatrick said in a Jan. 2 statement that Texas and Wyoming were selected based on factors that included support for "individual liberties and personal responsibility."
The manufacturing company, which began in Mr. Fitzpatrick's garage, is known for its polymer firearms accessories, notably the magpul, a rifle magazine designed to be loaded easily under stress.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — After a dramatic, hour-long meeting that recalled events from nearly seven decades ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s three-member Cabinet granted posthumous pardons Friday to four African-American men accused of raping a white woman in a 1949 case now seen as a racial injustice.
The case of the men known as the Groveland Four has been documented in a book and is considered a blight on Florida’s history. One of the four was killed before he could be charged and the other three were convicted on dubious evidence.
The families of the men accused of the assault told DeSantis and the Cabinet — meeting as the clemency board — that there is overwhelming evidence the men were innocent and there was no rape. The woman who was 17 when she said she was raped, sat in a wheelchair and later told Gov. DeSantis and the Cabinet the rape did indeed happen, saying she was dragged from a car, had a gun put to her head and was told not to scream or they would “blow your brains out.”
At one point, the two sides briefly clashed. Beverly Robinson, a niece of one of the Groveland Four, was speaking to the governor and the Cabinet when she turned to the woman and her sons.
“It never happened. You all are liars,” Robinson said.
“That’s enough out of you,” the woman said.
“I know it’s enough out of me. It’s always enough when you’re telling the truth,” Robinson replied.
The unanimous vote to pardon came almost two years after the state House and Senate voted to formally apologize to relatives of the Groveland Four and to ask then-Gov. Rick Scott to pardon the men. Scott, now a U.S. senator, never took action. DeSantis replaced Scott on Tuesday and made the pardons a priority.
“I don’t know that there’s any way you can look at this case and think that those ideals of justice were satisfied. Indeed, they were perverted time and time again, and I think the way this was carried out was a miscarriage of justice,” DeSantis said.
The ordeal began in Lake County in 1949, when the then-17-year-old said she had been raped. Three of the men were arrested and severely beaten; a fourth, Ernest Thomas, fled.
A posse of about 1,000 men was formed to hunt down Thomas. He was shot 400 times when they found him sleeping under a tree. White residents also formed a mob and went to a black neighborhood, burning houses and firing guns into homes in a disturbance that took days to quell.
Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin and Samuel Shepherd were convicted by an all-white jury. Other evidence that could have exonerated them — such as a doctor’s conclusion that the teen probably wasn’t raped — was withheld at their trial. Greenlee was sentenced to life, and Irvin and Shepherd to death.
Thurgood Marshall, later the first African-American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, took up Irvin and Shepherd’s appeals for the NAACP, and in 1951 the U.S. Supreme Court ordered new trials.
Just before those trials began, Lake County Sheriff Willis McCall shot Irvin and Shepherd, claiming the handcuffed men tried to escape as he transferred them from prison to a jail. Shepherd died. Irvin was shot in the neck and survived despite an ambulance refusing to transport him because he was black. He was again convicted, even though a former FBI agent testified that prosecutors manufactured evidence against him.
Charges were never brought against any white law enforcement officers or prosecutors who handled the cases.
Irvin was paroled in 1968 and found dead in his car while returning to Lake County for a funeral a year later.
Greenlee was paroled in 1960 and died in 2012.
Greenlee’s daughter, Carol Greenlee, told DeSantis and the Cabinet that there was overwhelming evidence that her father was innocent.
“He was accused, put in jail and tortured for something he didn’t do,” she said.
The woman who said she was raped disputed the families’ stories.
“Y’all just don’t know what kind of horror I’ve been through for all these many years,” she said. “I don’t want them pardoned, no I do not, and you wouldn’t neither. I know (Robinson) called me a liar, but I’m not no liar.”
Afterward, state Sen. Gary Farmer, who sponsored the 2017 resolution apologizing to the families, said the woman’s comments were disappointing.
“She’s now here at the end of her life and she had a chance to come clean, to seek forgiveness for herself and to support the justice these four families and these four men deserve,” Farmer said. “It’s very said that she lost this opportunity and continues to perpetuate this lie. This crime did not happen. The evidence is overwhelming.”
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Time to abort the law
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The Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for the approval of RU486) Bill 2005, which proposed to remove the Federal Health Minister’s veto power over the availability of the abortion drug RU486 was recently passed by the Senate, with a vote of 45 to 28 in support of the Bill. The Bill proceeded to the House of Representative for a vote where it was passed with 95 for and 50 against.
Prime Minister John Howard has said that the vote on the Bill should be removed from the broader issue of whether abortion is right or wrong, but most commentators - and indeed Senators who considered the Bill, including Barnaby Joyce, acknowledge that it is hard to divorce the two.
The Bill provides us with an opportunity to lay our cards firmly on the table as to how, as a community, we should deal with the question of abortion. There are of course two contrasting views, with supporters on either side resolute.
This is all fine, and will continue to be the case. Debate is healthy, and you cannot change human nature.
But much more precarious is the role of the law in all this. Should the law restrict the availability of the drug RU486? Should we impose a penalty on individuals involved in an abortion in certain circumstances, or in all circumstances?
No doubt readers will hold some view on these questions. This is because each of us is directed by a moral compass, and accordingly we behave in a certain way. But this is morality, not law.
While it is impossible to separate the availability of RU486 from the broader issue of whether abortion is right or wrong, it is absolutely essential that we separate morality and law. The two are not the same, and should not be treated as such.
While it is often the case that what society considers to be morally repugnant becomes legally impermissible, and laws also help in shaping and refining morals, we should get away once and for all from the practice of filling our statute laws with fluffy moral principles.
It is all very well for cushy lobby groups, academics and parliamentarians squealing for this or that moral principle to be enshrined in law, but responding to the crow calls comes at a cost. Law is expensive. There is a cost in drafting the laws, a cost in administering the laws, and a cost in enforcing the laws.
On the other hand, morality costs little. Rather than requiring sandstone buildings, marble staircases and fat salaries which is the foundation for a system of regulation by formal laws, with morality we can simply sit little Mary on our lap and explain to her what is right and wrong.
A properly functioning society does not depend upon formal legal rules. Rather than legislate in an attempt to solve every problem, we should devote more time to informing members of the community, particularly young people, about moral issues and basic principles of morality that have developed over time. This should start in the home, and extend to schools, universities, and workplaces. Of course, different people will put a different spin on what is right and wrong, but that occurs now anyway.
If the ivory tower of formal legal regulation that sits at the centre of our modern society is influenced by moral principles which percolate in our homes and schools, why not just go straight to the source and save the train fare?
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James McConvill is a Melbourne lawyer. The opinions expressed are his personal views only, and were written in the
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Author Launches Business Funding Book at Book Signing Event
Written by Trevor Wright
Tallmadge, OH – Local business and finance writer and entrepreneur Tiffany C. Wright of Tallmadge will debut her book, The Funding Is Out There! Access the Cash You Need to Impact Your Business, as part of a multi-author book signing event at Barnes and Noble in Akron at 4015 Medina Road on Saturday, November 22 from 1-4 pm.
Tiffany C. Wright, is the founder of The Resourceful CEO, which provides small and medium business owners with the productized services, training and tools they need to achieve higher business cash flow and profitability. In addition, she is a former business consultant and serial entrepreneur who has advised a number of businesses over the years. Tiffany has been featured on radio and podcasts and brings humor, passion, and creativity to her work.
Tiffany makes finance and financing easily understandable for the typical entrepreneur who focuses more on the actual product or service delivered, or on marketing and sales, and finds financing a necessary yet difficult evil. She has helped dozens of business owners who had difficulty locating and obtaining financing for their ventures find the solutions they needed to grow their businesses. According to Tiffany, “In, The Funding Is Out There! I discuss a number of business funding solutions that many business owners are not even aware exist…and how to obtain that funding. And I do this with a sense of fun and humor. Financing can be boring but when you think about what it can do for you, it becomes more exciting. This is what I convey.”
Tiffany continued, “I am excited to be launching The Funding Is Out There! at Barnes and Noble in Akron. I grew up in the Akron area so Akron will always be near and dear to my heart. I’d love for business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs to stop by and ask me any questions they may have regarding business funding. I love to help people achieve their dreams.” Tiffany will be available for book signings and questions from 1-4 pm on Saturday, November 22, at Barnes and Noble in Fairlawn.
Tiffany is available for interviews and appearances. For booking presentations, media appearances, interviews, and/or book-signings contact Trevor Wright at 404-642-0509 or media@theresourcefulceo.com
About Tiffany C. Wright
Tiffany C. Wright is the president of The Resourceful CEO, a company that provides informational products and services to provide business owners with a de facto member of the executive management team. In addition to helping former clients obtain over funding, she has helped companies significantly increase revenues and improve profitability in industries ranging from IT to construction to business services. She has an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management and a BS in Industrial Engineering from The Ohio State University.
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By Roy Simon
[Originally published in NYPRR July 2002]
At its February 2002 Mid-Year Meeting, the American Bar Association (ABA) adopted three brand new ethics rules that are now officially incorporated into the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. New York lawyers should care about these new rules because each rule reflects a situation that was not adequately covered by the ABA Model Rules and — more importantly for our readers — is not adequately covered by the New York Code of Professional Responsibility. This article describes the new rules and the situations that they address. The full text of the new Rules is reprinted below.
One of the ABA’s new rules addresses conflicts of interest that arise out of a lawyer’s preliminary interview with a prospective client that decides not to hire the lawyer. Under the New York Code of Professional Responsibility and case law, such clients are considered full-fledged former clients, entitled to the full protections of the Code. Under New York’s DR 5-108(A), therefore, a lawyer who has interviewed or been consulted by a prospective client has a full-blown duty of confidentiality to that person and may not oppose that person in a substantially related matter without the person’s consent.
Moreover, if the person refuses consent (as many will), then the lawyer’s entire law firm is vicariously disqualified under DR 5-105(D). Is that fair? Should a one-hour interview with a prospective client by one lawyer in a firm disqualify the entire firm from opposing that person in a substantially related matter, even if the no other lawyer in the firm is privy to whatever confidences and secrets the person reveals during the preliminary interview?
The ABA thinks not. New Model Rule 1.18 explains a lawyer’s duties to a prospective client, defined as any person who talks to a lawyer about “the possibility of forming a client-lawyer relationship with respect to a matter.” Comment 3 to the new rule rejects any magical minimum time period by stating that a person who engages in discussions about the possibility of forming an attorney-client relationship is a prospective client “regardless of how brief the initial conference may be.”
The definition of a “prospective client” makes a difference. Comment 2 to the new rule provides:
Not all persons who communicate information to a lawyer are entitled to protection under this Rule. A person who communicates information unilaterally to a lawyer, without any reasonable expectation that the lawyer is willing to discuss the possibility of forming a client-lawyer relationship, is not a “prospective client” …
Thus, a person who approaches a lawyer at a cocktail party and begins blurting out the lurid details of her legal problem is most likely not a “prospective client” and is not owed any duty of confidentiality at all.
Those who do qualify as “prospective clients” are entitled to “some but not all of the protection afforded clients.” [See Comment 1.] A lawyer who has interviewed a prospective client “shall not use or reveal information learned in the consultation” unless the lawyer would be permitted to use or reveal the information under the rule expressly governing confidentiality duties to former clients (Rule 1.9(c) in the ABA Model Rules, which is almost identical to DR 5-108(A)(2) in the New York Code of Professional Responsibility).
Rule 1.18 does not expressly say so, but it effectively divides prospective clients into two categories — those who decide not to form an attorney-client relationship with the lawyer (I will call these “former prospective clients”) and those who are still deciding whether to hire the lawyer or waiting for the law firm to decide whether to take their case (I will call these “active prospective clients”). An active prospective client is essentially a current client, and a lawyer may not oppose a current client in any matter.
Former prospective clients also divide into three categories — (i) those who gave the lawyer information that “could be significantly harmful to that person in the matter,” (ii) those who did not give the lawyer any such information, and (iii) those who gave the lawyer such information but agreed with the lawyer in advance, based on informed consent, that “no information disclosed during the consultation will prohibit the lawyer from representing a different client in the matter.” The last category comes from Comment 5, which adds that “[i]f the agreement expressly so provides, the prospective client may also consent to the lawyer’s subsequent use of information received from the prospective client.”
Even absent such an agreement, Rule 1.18(c) does not prohibit a lawyer from opposing a former prospective client in a substantially related matter unless “the lawyer received information from the prospective client that could be significantly harmful to that person in the matter.” If the lawyer did not receive information that could be significantly harmful to the former prospective client, then the lawyer may oppose the former prospective client even in a substantially related matter. As Comment 6 explains, “the lawyer is not prohibited from representing a client with interests adverse to those of the prospective client in the same or a substantially related matter unless the lawyer has received from the prospective client information that could be significantly harmful if used in the matter.”
Comment 4 provides some practical advice: “In order to avoid acquiring disqualifying information from a prospective client, a lawyer considering whether or not to undertake a new matter should limit the initial interview to only such information as reasonably appears necessary for that purpose.” A lawyer who successfully avoids acquiring “disqualifying information” (meaning information that “could be significantly harmful” to the person) remains as free to oppose that person as if they had never met.
If a lawyer does acquire disqualifying information, however, then the lawyer is personally disqualified from opposing the former prospective client in any substantially related matter unless the lawyer obtains consent (confirmed in writing) from both the current client and the former prospective client. If either does not consent, then the entire law firm is disqualified by imputation unless the law firm meets three separate requirements: (1) “the lawyer who received the information took reasonable measures to avoid exposure to more disqualifying information than was reasonably necessary to determine whether to represent the prospective client”; (2) “the disqualified lawyer is timely screened from any participation in the matter and is apportioned no part of the fee therefrom”; and (3) “written notice is promptly given to the prospective client.” The written notice, according to Comment 8, should include “a general description of the subject matter about which the lawyer was consulted, and of the screening procedures employed” and “generally should be given as soon as practicable after the need for screening becomes apparent.”
Thus, under Rule 1.18, a lawyer who interviews a prospective client has some protection against later disqualification provided the lawyer either avoids acquiring any information that could be significantly harmful to the prospective client, or obtains the prospective client’s informed agreement that the client either will not disclose any disqualifying information or will not object if such information is later used against her. Some lawyers may decide that it is more important to form a close and useful bond with the prospective client than to worry about later conflicts. However, once a prospective client begins revealing information that could be significantly harmful if used against her, then the lawyer must not elicit (or listen to) any more information than necessary to decide whether to take the case. If the lawyer does not make reasonable efforts to limit the amount of disqualifying information, then the rest of the lawyers in the firm will also be disqualified no matter what screening measures they take.
Short-Term Limited Legal Services
A second new ABA rule addresses the dilemma that often confronts lawyers who want to engage in certain kinds of pro bono programs but aren’t sure how to deal with potential conflicts of interest. As Comment 1 to new Rule 6.5 explains:
Legal services organizations, courts and various nonprofit organizations have established programs through which lawyers provide short-term limited legal services — such as advice or the completion of legal forms — that will assist persons to address their legal problems without further representation by a lawyer. In these programs, such as legal advice hotlines, advice-only clinics or pro se counseling programs, a client-lawyer relationship is established, but there is no expectation that the lawyer’s representation of the client will continue beyond the limited consultation.
In New York, a lawyer participating in such a program must follow the mandate of DR 5-105(E) to check for conflicts of interest before providing any legal advice. But that is highly impractical because instant conflict checks are often impossible, especially when the lawyer comes from a large law firm with literally thousands of clients and former clients unknown to the individual lawyer. Yet the person seeking advice may find it equally impractical to come back on a different night after the conflicts check is completed, or to wait until then to obtain advice. Moreover, especially when participating lawyers are from large law firms, conflicts checks will often reveal a conflict. What can be done to remove these barriers to effective pro bono programs to enable lawyers to deliver short-term legal advice?
New ABA Model Rule 6.5 has devised a highly practical three-part solution. First, when an individual lawyer acting under the auspices of a program sponsored by a court or nonprofit organization “provides short-term limited legal services to a client without expectation by either the lawyer or the client that the lawyer will provide continuing representation in the matter,” then the lawyer is not restricted by the conflict of interest rules unless the lawyer “knows that the representation of the client involves a conflict of interest.”
Second, conflicts are not imputed from other lawyers at the participating lawyer’s firm to the participating lawyer personally unless the lawyer “knows that another lawyer associated with the lawyer in a law firm is disqualified …”
Third, as long as the participating lawyer does not know about any personal or imputed conflict, then any conflict that does exist or arise out of the matter will not be imputed to other lawyers at the firm.
These lenient conflict rules recognize, in the words of Comments 3 and 4, that “a lawyer who is representing a client in the circumstances addressed by this Rule ordinarily is not able to check systematically for conflicts of interest,” and that “the limited nature of the services significantly reduces the risk of conflicts of interest with other matters being handled by the lawyer’s firm.” Rule 6.5 also recognizes that clients who use these programs often cannot wait for conflicts checks. The new rule thus serves both lawyers and clients.
When such a program results in a longer-term attorney-client relationship, the rule restores the protection of the conflicts rules to the client. As Comment 5 explains: If, after commencing a short-term limited representation in accordance with this Rule, a lawyer undertakes to represent the client in the matter “on an ongoing basis,” the rules governing conflicts with current and former clients and the rules governing imputed conflicts once again become applicable.
Lawyers as Third-Party Neutrals
The third new ABA rule, Rule 2.4, addresses lawyers who act as third-party neutrals. Rule 2.4(a) defines a third-party neutral: “A lawyer serves as a third-party neutral when the lawyer assists two or more persons who are not clients of the lawyer to reach a resolution of a dispute or other matter that has arisen between them.” Comment 1 to Rule 2.4 further defines a third-party neutral as a person “such as a mediator, arbitrator, conciliator or evaluator, who assists the parties, represented or unrepresented, in the resolution of a dispute or in the arrangement of a transaction.”
Problems may arise, however, if the parties to a dispute or transaction do not understand the role of the lawyer serving as a third-party neutral. The potential for confusion is especially significant when the parties do not have their own counsel, because they may look to the lawyer-neutral for legal advice and even legal representation.
Rule 2.4 does not attempt to define in detail the ethical obligations on lawyers serving as third-party neutrals, but it does impose disclosure obligations to make sure the parties to the process understand the lawyer-neutral’s role. Rule 2.4(b) states:
A lawyer serving as a third-party neutral shall inform unrepresented parties that the lawyer is not representing them. When the lawyer knows or reasonably should know that a party does not understand the lawyer’s role in the matter, the lawyer shall explain the difference between the lawyer’s role as a third-party neutral and a lawyer’s role as one who represents a client.
The ABA rejected a proposal to prohibit third-party neutrals from giving legal advice, and a proposal to prohibit a neutral from assisting the parties in drafting a settlement document, and other proposals to impose more detailed obligations on third-party neutrals. The ABA declined to do so because courts, bar groups, and various private organizations have already done that. As Comment 2 notes:
[T]he lawyer may be subject to court rules or other law that apply either to third-party neutrals generally or to lawyers serving as third-party neutrals. Lawyer-neutrals may also be subject to various codes of ethics, such as the Code of Ethics for Arbitration in Commercial Disputes prepared by a joint committee of the American Bar Association and the American Arbitration Association or the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators jointly prepared by the American Bar Association, the American Arbitration Association and the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.
The result is a short and simple rule that simply requires a lawyer serving as a third-party neutral to explain to unrepresented parties that the lawyer is not representing them, and requires the lawyer to clear up any confusion if the unrepresented parties do not understand the difference between an advocate and a neutral.
New York is now in the preliminary stages of considering whether to adopt the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, so those rules should be of greater interest to New York lawyers than they may have been in the past. The three new ABA rules discussed in this article suggest that the ABA Model Rules contain many concepts and formulations that may be useful in New York.
Roy Simon is a Professor of Law at Hofstra University School of Law and annually writes Simon’s New York Code of Professional Responsibility Annotated.
[Editor’s Note: In the article above, Professor Roy Simon discusses the importance of three new Rules added to the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct at the February 2002 ABA meeting. The text of the new MRs follows:
RULE 1.18: DUTIES TO PROSPECTIVE CLIENT
(a) A person who discusses with a lawyer the possibility of forming a client-lawyer relationship with respect to a matter is a prospective client.
(b) Even when no client-lawyer relationship ensues, a lawyer who has had discussions with a prospective client shall not use or reveal information learned in the consultation, except as Rule 1.9 would permit with respect to information of a former client.
(c) A lawyer subject to paragraph (b) shall not represent a client with interests materially adverse to those of a prospective client in the same or a substantially related matter if the lawyer received information from the prospective client that could be significantly harmful to that person in the matter, except as provided in paragraph (d). If a lawyer is disqualified from representation under this paragraph, no lawyer in a firm with which that lawyer is associated may knowingly undertake or continue representation in such a matter, except as provided in paragraph (d).
(d) When the lawyer has received disqualifying information as defined in paragraph (c), representation is permissible if:
(1) both the affected client and the prospective client have given informed consent, confirmed in writing, or:
(2) the lawyer who received the information took reasonable measures to avoid exposure to more disqualifying information than was reasonably necessary to determine whether to represent the prospective client; and
(i) the disqualified lawyer is timely screened from any participation in the matter and is apportioned no part of the fee therefrom; and
(ii) written notice is promptly given to the prospective client.
[Editor’s Note: Rule 1.9, referred to in Rule 1.18(b) above, reads as follows:]
(a) A lawyer who has formerly represented a client in a matter shall not thereafter represent another person in the same or a substantially related matter in which that person’s interests are materially adverse to the interests of the former client unless the former client gives informed consent, confirmed in writing.
(b) A lawyer shall not knowingly represent a person in the same or a substantially related matter in which a firm with which the lawyer formerly was associated had previously represented a client
(1) whose interests are materially adverse to that person; and
(2) about whom the lawyer had acquired information protected by Rules 1.6 and 1.9(c) that is material to the matter; unless the former client gives informed consent, confirmed in writing.
(c) A lawyer who has formerly represented a client in a matter or whose present or former firm has formerly represented a client in a matter shall not thereafter:
(1) use information relating to the representation to the disadvantage of the former client except as these Rules would permit or require with respect to a client, or when the information has become generally known; or
(2) reveal information relating to the representation except as these Rules would permit or require with respect to a client.
RULE 2.4: LAWYER SERVING AS THIRD-PARTY NEUTRAL
(a) A lawyer serves as a third-party neutral when the lawyer assists two or more persons who are not clients of the lawyer to reach a resolution of a dispute or other matter that has arisen between them. Service as a third-party neutral may include service as an arbitrator, a mediator or in such other capacity as will enable the lawyer to assist the parties to resolve the matter.
(b) A lawyer serving as a third-party neutral shall inform unrepresented parties that the lawyer is not representing them. When the lawyer knows or reasonably should know that a party does not understand the lawyer’s role in the matter, the lawyer shall explain the difference between the lawyer’s role as a third-party neutral and a lawyer’s role as one who represents a client.
RULE 6.5: NONPROFIT AND COURT-ANNEXED LIMITED LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS
(a) A lawyer who, under the auspices of a program sponsored by a nonprofit organization or court, provides short-term limited legal services to a client without expectation by either the lawyer or the client that the lawyer will provide continuing representation in the matter:
(1) is subject to Rules 1.7 and 1.9(a) only if the lawyer knows that the representation of the client involves a conflict of interest; and
(2) is subject to Rule 1.10 only if the lawyer knows that another lawyer associated with the lawyer in a law firm is disqualified by Rule 1.7 or 1.9(a) with respect to the matter.
(b) Except as provided in paragraph (a)(2), Rule 1.10 is inapplicable to a representation governed by this Rule.
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Iran rejects U.S. demand for U.N. inspector visit to military sites
ANKARA: Iran has dismissed a U.S. demand for U.N. nuclear inspectors to visit its military bases as “merely a dream” as Washington reviews a 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and six world powers, including the United States.U.S. President Donald Trump has called the nuclear pact – negotiated under his predecessor Barack Obama – “the worst deal ever”. In April, he ordered a review of whether a suspension of nuclear sanctions on Iran was in the U.S. interest.The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, last week pressed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to seek access to Iranian military bases to ensure that they were not concealing activities banned by the nuclear deal.“Iran’s military sites are off limits… All information about these sites are classified,” Iranian government spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht told a weekly news conference broadcast on state television. “Iran will never allow such visits. Don’t pay attention to such remarks that are only a dream.”Under U.S. law, the State Department must notify Congress every 90 days of Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal. The next deadline is October, and Trump has said he thinks by then the United States will declare Iran to be non-compliant.Under terms of the deal, the international nuclear watchdog can demand inspections of Iranian installations if it has concerns about nuclear materials or activities.During its decade-long stand-off with world powers over its nuclear program, Iran repeatedly rejected visits by U.N. inspectors to its military sites, saying they had nothing to do with nuclear activity and so were beyond the IAEA’s purview.Iran has placed its military bases off limits also because of what it calls the risk that IAEA findings could find their way to the intelligence services of its U.S. or Israeli foes.—Reuters
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Marine Sciences /
Archaeological potential for shipwrecks
By treasures | On 10/03/2010 | Marine Sciences
From Directions Magazine
The “AMAP2 - Characterising the Potential for Wrecks” project (AMAP2), commissioned in October 2009, is a collaborative project between SeaZone and the University of Southampton (UoS) which seeks to improve the management of the marine historic environment through the interoperability of reference and archaeological data for marine spatial planning.
The aim of the AMAP2 project is to study relationships between the survival of shipwrecks and the natural environment. The results will be used to develop a characterisation of areas of maritime archaeological potential (AMAP) based on the environmental parameters affecting the survival of wrecks in seabed sediments, thus providing the basis for a more justified assessment of potential for unrecorded wrecks.
Following the success of the AMAP1 pilot project in 2008, the AMAP2 project seeks to further the monitoring, mitigation and management of the marine environment for offshore industries such as renewable energy and marine aggregates by facilitating the assessment of potential threats to archaeological assets.
This will be achieved by:
(1) comparing and unifying wreck data acquired by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) and held at English Heritage’s National Monument Record (NMR);
(2) developing interoperability between the wreck data published in SeaZone HydroSpatial and historical data available from the NMR, thereby enhancing the usefulness and accessibility of both datasets; and
(3) analysing the statistical relationships between maritime archaeological data and the environment.
Improving the understanding of the relationships between wrecks and their environment, coupled with the results of seabed modelling undertaken by UoS, will provide a firm basis for interpreting the variables which affect the potential for wrecks to survive in different seabed conditions.
project AMAP2 SeaZone University of Southampton UK Hydrographic Office English Heritage National Monument Record
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OECD Home Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and CitiesLocal Economic and Employment Development (LEED Programme)Ray Boshara
Ray Boshara
Ray Boshara directs the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation. The program aims to significantly broaden the ownership of assets in the U.S. and around the world. Previously Boshara served in the U.S. Congress and United Nations as a policy advisor on economic opportunity issues. He has also worked in the private sector for CFED, the Aspen Institute, and Ernst & Young. Boshara has testified before Congress and advised the Bush and Clinton Administrations, as well as leaders in Europe and elsewhere, on asset-building policies.
He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, and the Brookings Institution, and has appeared several times on C-SPAN and radio programs across the U.S. A graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Yale Divinity School, and Ohio State University, Boshara is the recipient of several leadership awards, including a Littauer Fellowship at Harvard and CFED's Asset Building Innovation Award. In 2002, he was selected by Esquire magazine as one of America's Best and Brightest.
To read more about Mr. Boshara's work, publications and reports, please visit the New America Foundation's Website. You can contact Ray Boshara at: boshara@newamerica.net
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A dissident Republican voice on political change, political debate
March 3, 2015 By Pete Trumbore
Tony “TC” Catney
I met Tony Catney, a veteran IRA volunteer and former Sinn Fein national director of elections, in February 2013 and spent two hours interviewing him as part of the research I have been conducting on the maintenance of the peace process in the years since the 1998 Belfast Agreement.
Catney broke with the leadership of the Provisional Movement in 2005 in a dispute over political strategy and what he believed to be a climate within the movement which was intolerant of dissent and which deemed open debate over the movement’s direction illegitimate. After Catney died in August 2014, I shared excerpts of the interview with The Pensive Quill, a widely read blog run by former IRA volunteer, prisoner and writer Anthony McIntyre, who after his release from prison earned a PhD in history from Queens University Belfast. McIntyre, like Catney, is a prominent critic of Sinn Fein and its leadership.
On Saturday I will travel down to Dublin to attend the first Tony Catney Memorial Debate, sponsored by the 1916 Societies, on Republicanism in the 21st century. In advance of that event, I went back to the transcript of my original interview with Catney and put together excerpts in which he talks about he believed the future of Northern Ireland looked like, the potential for it to once again erupt in violence, and the importance of open debate to bring about changes in Republican politics. Those excerpts, along with an introduction by me and comments of my own to give context to Catney’s remarks and transition between topics, was published this morning at The Pensive Quill.
The essay is long, so rather than reprint it here, follow the link above to read it at TPQ, and then check out the earlier excerpts as well.
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“Mad Max” as Criticism of Car Culture…
By Ryver H.
Warning: spoilers ahead for pretty much the entire Mad Max series, including Fury Road.
Cinema, as with most forms of media, has a long and storied history of social commentary. This isn’t really all that surprising, if a creator feels strongly about something, it will often come across in their work, whether intentional or not. Those views tend to be reflected throughout the narrative, though they aren’t always apparent at first viewing. This brings me to Mad Max. While, on it’s face, this franchise (now consisting of 4 movies, 2 video games, and a couple of comic tie-ins) seems to be very much steeped in car culture. Both pre and post apocalypse settings in the series seem to revolve around automobiles and car culture, with plenty of chrome, leather and burnt rubber to go around. Despite this, George Miller (the director and writer for all four movies) seems to put a healthy vein of criticism for the same automobile culture that becomes increasingly apparent as the series goes on.
Starting from the beginning, the original Mad Max follows Max Rockatansky, a member of the Main Force Police, an organization specially charged with policing the extremely dangerous highways of a near-future society on the brink of collapse due to oil shortages. The world that Max inhabits is a harsh one, where violent crime is so prevalent as to be almost unenforceable, and road rage can and does escalate to the point of vehicular murder. While definitely comparable with many of the other “car” movies of the 1960’s and ‘70’s in terms of lengthy chase scenes, spectacular stunt work, and a focus on the vehicles almost as much as the characters, the criticism already starts to show. The movies villains (the Acolytes) are shown to steal gas and attack others, putting their own rides and thrill seeking before the lives of others. They are shown as over the top examples of many stereotypes revolving around “petrol heads” of the time, a picture of unchecked violence and fanaticism in a civilization on the decline. It is also hinted at that the Acolytes aren’t the only violent gang in the area and that the increasing scarcity of oil is driving these “mad” gangs into more and more dangerous behavior to get their thrills/ stay on the road.
In the second installment, The Road Warrior, some of the concepts present in the original are cranked up to 11. Taking place five years after the first movie, the world Max lives in has all but come to an end. Wars sparked over resources have ended in nuclear apocalypse, crumbling civilization and leaving the few humans remaining to squabble among themselves over increasingly scarce supplies. After Max is attacked by raiders attempting to steal his car and the “guzzoline” contained within it, he ends up teaming with a group of survivors and defending one of (if not the) last oil pumps left in the wasteland from the warlord Humunngus and his gang of marauders, hoping of fill his own gas tanks and keep his rig rolling. With the stylized design of the bandits and the main conflict of the story revolving around the oil derrick, the criticism feels a lot more apparent in Road Warrior than the original. Much of the design for the bandits seems to be a twisted take on many themes in car culture, with a lot of leather and chrome in their costuming as well as heavily customized cars and motorcycles to better terrorize the wasteland. The central conflict of the story seems to indicate that despite much of the world going to hell over oil, there are many in the wasteland, Max included, that are more comfortable killing and dying to fuel their engines than there are willing help rebuild others survive and rebuild what little they have left. They would rather die trying to get or keep the gas than be left with an empty tank.
Beyond Thunderdome was the next follow up, taking place 15 or so years after Road Warrior. It follows Max once more as he continues to try and survive in a world gone mad. This time he finds himself embroiled in the politics of Bartertown, a city in the middle of the desert that is caught between Auntie Entity (the leader and head of all the above ground commerce in Bartertown) and Master Blaster (who runs the methane processing plant below the city that helps power the place). It’s probably the weakest of the series, honestly, but the commentary is still there. Methane (a gaseous fuel that can be harvested from animal waste, as opposed to crude oil) is the main export of Bartertown and is traded for all manner of supplies and other goods, showing us once more that humans, Max included (who strikes a deal with Auntie to help fuel his car and have it returned to him), haven’t entirely shook the gas habit that ended their world, though many are shown using old cars as wagons drawn now by beasts of burden for lack of fuel.
Fury Road is the newest film in the series coming out after a nearly 30 year hiatus of the film. I takes place after the fall of society but it is unknown when in relation to the other films. Once more we join Max as he teams up with Furiosa, another driver who is trying to save a cadre of women from their captor and take them to the semi-mythical “green place”, a region untouched by the nuclear fallout that turned their world into the arid wasteland they have come to know. While oil consumption is less of a theme here, as an in narrative explanation shows that “guzzoline” is prevalent in the area, the topic of car culture and the society around that is back in force, certainly making up for what Beyond Thunderdome lacked. If Road Warrior cranked things to 11, Fury Road goes to 12. The central villain of the movie hasn’t just embraced car culture, he has made it into a religious experience for his followers, supped up rigs becoming holy relics, chariots for his followers (the War Boys) to ride into battle, promising a chromed out, muscle-carred valhalla to all those who die in his name. The main baddie himself, Immortan Joe, drives an ultra stylized monster of a rig (named The Gigahorse) powered by two “holy” V-8 engines. Joe’s cult is the ultimate conclusion of over-done car culture. His followers scream “Witness me!” before going (usually) to their death trying to perform some insane stunt along the lines of an extreme “He y’all, watch this!” They drive like mad and dance with death because ultimately they want their leader, whom they worship as a god, to find them worthy of his praise. Miller goes so over the top as to almost parody many of the aspects of car culture (fast cars, big engines, cool looking rides, insane stunts) and yet, in a way, some of it almost seems believable. There tends to be a lot of one-upmanship with people and cars, who is the fastest, who can do the craziest stunts, etc. that the war boys almost seem like the ultimate end to that.
While I think that while, on the whole, the Mad Max movies are a bunch of fun and crazy car action films, there is definitely a criticism to be had of car culture and the warning of going too far with something that runs throughout the franchise. In the real world there have been many cases of motorist violence and accidents caused by thrill seekers that, even as outlandish as the characters seems in the Mad Max universe, maybe they aren’t too far off. Things tend to get weird in places where society breaks down even a little. Who’s to say that as we start running lower on oil, and people get more desperate to keep their own ride, or for that matter their way of life going, thing don’t go a little crazy on the roads? Hopefully our attempts as a society to move away from combustion and toward cleaner and more sustainable forms of energy will also steer us away from “The fastest, the biggest, the meanest” cars in favor of more efficient, cleaner, and economic vehicles. Eventually moving us away from a world where Mad Max would be even possible. Because, really, can you see a smart car putting along in a wasteland at the end of the world?
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Ep 20:Privacy and the Internet; Where Private Rights Meet Public Wrongs
Welcome one and all to Professor Metal’s Irate Debate and Calamitous Commentary with the Philosophical Chain Gang.
This episode, we will be covering Doxxing.
Ryvers offers an explanation of what Doxxing is
Sean clarifies the distinctions in the definition, including that it specifically includes the release of vital information
Bruce asks wherein the line lies between Doxxing and just talking about someone
Sean explains that intent is largely irrelevant in the definition of Doxxing, but that what we will be discussing a more… malicious form thereof.
Bruce talks about things from back in the day that already have personal information that is widely disseminated: the Phone Book (See Whitepages if you do not know what these are).
Ryver and Sean discuss that these are easily stopped if one does not wish to be found in them and that these are not useful in these contacts.
Bruce talks about how if everyone is included in this information, that people are less likely to be terrible to each other.
Ryver brings up the localised nature of these means and how this is different from Doxxing.
Sean explains the differences in celebrity culture between then and now, and how Doxxing effects people in ways that were not likely to be problematic in the same way in the past.
Sean gives a brief history of the origins of what we now call Doxxing.
Ryver wonders if Doxxing can be used in a positive fashion, and that he does not believe it can.
Bruce proposes that most people will believe it to be negative, save in a specific circumstance that can only be resolved via special pleading.
Sean explains that even if we could find an issue where we might find it be universally acceptable, it might still be an immoral means of accomplishing these goals.
The conversation turns ad hitlerum, and Professor Metal takes umbrage at the implication of Hitler as the archetypal villain.
Bruce decides that the use of Doxxing is perhaps immoral, whereas Sean thinks that the practice itself is not immoral, but the uses of it definitely are.
Sean raises the possibility of this being a question of Justice as retributive or preventive.
Bruce and Sean come to the conclusion that Doxxing will likely continue to be used in awful ways, and that it is likely to continue being problematic.
Ryver discusses that there is a certain level of information that is not problematic, and that this information that leads to someone else actively seeking the target out is not an immoral act on the part of the person releasing this information.
Sean debates the fine points of Ryver’s argument.
Bruce talks about the responsibility to protect each other’s anonymity, which Sean disagrees with.
Sean comes back to and further explains his belief that Doxxing is more of a moral grey area than it is immoral.
Bruce and Ryver argue the points of this view.
Sean presents the possibility of Doxxing as social policy issue.
The Philosophers discuss the social and personal implications of Doxxing as it effects jobs, social interactions, personal safety, and general societal welfare.
Bruce and Sean discuss the effects of this on anonymity.
Ryver brings up anonymity in regards to celebrity culture.
Sean and Bruce discuss the impacts of celebrity and whether or not those in the culture should be treated differently in regards to personal information.
Ryver expresses the belief that celebrity does not, or at least should not, confer different status.
Sean expresses disagreement with Ryver’s argument.
Ryver defends his argument.
Sean and Bruce discuss the special place in culture that celebrity occupy.
The Philosophers discuss the difference between gradually attained and immediately gained celebrity status.
The Philosophers discuss the backlash that can often effect people with names or usernames similar in some way to people in celebrity culture.
Bruce expresses the belief that Doxxing sort of comes down to either bullying or vigilantism, and as such is, at best, irresponsible.
Sean suggests that Doxxing is ultimately a power game in a great many ways.
Ryver takes The Last Word
Ryver discusses having met a fair number of people with a great deal of celebrity, and that they are largely just like everyone else. Celebrity does not grant one charisma, confidence, or force of personality that is often expected. Ryver gives tips on how to deal with meeting someone of celebrity.
Professor Metal tells you to help support the Podcast. Or Else.
The Real Value of Education in the Humanities
(We apologize for the tardiness of this essay for the month of August. Technical difficulties with with Professor Metal’s robotic dog caused it to seek out and devour the philosophers homework!)
S. A. Kehr
We have spoken at some length during the show about the value and role of philosophy to the modern world. Still we are constantly bombarded by the sentiment that nothing is “getting done”. It seems as if Professor Metal’s many decrees ,and mandates fall on deaf ears. So today I would like to address two points:
(for the sake of clarity I would like to point out that I have used herein the term subject in two different ways, one being that of the subject-object relationship in which the subject is the observer, and two being subject as American English speakers will find themselves familiar with from primary school referring to e.g. math, science, art etc. I have tried to mark out these differences but please be aware as you read on.)
The humanities are not many subjects each with their own distinct spheres of influence as the natural sciences are. This remains a common misconception, the basis of which is the adoration heaped upon the natural sciences in our modern era. But let me say also that I do not by any means begrudge science the influence it has. I will address this in point 2 but for now just know that this essay is not anti-science. In the academic culture that has developed in the western world S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields are seen as the core of academic rigor. This leads to the belief that the humanities should similarly break down into clearly defined categories of study. Where science is easily broken into categories like biology, physics, and chemistry (with some admitted overlap of fields but still clearly defined even in those cases) and math breaks down to arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and calculus (My apologies if I have confused these categories) the humanities do not break down into art, music, literature, and philosophy in the same way. While each defines a discipline used to study the totality of human experiences they do not refer to different objects or examine differentiated categories of experiences. Instead the humanities are a single toolbox holding many tools but all of which approach the same singular subject matter. When a painter paints, they are engaging the same subject matter that a musician, an author, or a philosopher might. Now there are, of course, differences between individuals and, as mentioned, the tools are different from method to method; this is less akin to the difference between biology and physics than it is to the difference between Louis Pasteur using a microscope and Stephen Hawking using a telescope (for clarification this is merely a hypothetical). We would not expect the two scientists to produce the same work nor would we expect them to use the same tools in that work. It is because of the vast contributions of the sciences to our current prosperity that we have organized our academic institutions in a way that suits them. This is not an issue until we come to people who are not educated in the humanities. Within academia those misconceptions are of little importance and to the segment of the populace who receive direct education in the humanities the distinction is clear. But to that portion of the population that has received little to no humanities education the only framework that they have to apply is the one found in modern academic institutions which is inherently biased in favor of a reductionist model of the world that traces its roots back to the sciences. Whether this lack of education is because of the failure to fund such programs during compulsory K-12 education or because they did not attend post secondary education programs that emphasised a broad education, e.g. vocational programs, the outcome is inevitably that the population sees the humanities as many different spheres of influence. More damningly each is seen as a frivolous waste of time because it fails to get anything done in a concrete way. This expectation of a tangible result is itself a byproduct of misunderstanding the project of the humanities as being many separate domains; the inability to see the totality of such endeavors renders each less significant. Failing to see the transmission of a car as essential to the project of driving makes its workings seem indescribably unimportant, which is clearly not the case. This is the impetus for my concern about this seemingly simple misunderstanding.
I believe strongly in education. Full stop, no qualifiers, at its core education is vital to the progress of human beings. Don’t confuse this with endorsing anything that can be “taught”: education comes from a community of truth seekers not ideologues spreading their particular flavor of dogmatic belief. Here, I’m looking at you anti-vaxxers, and I humbly apologize to any of Professor Metal’s many propagandists; clearly I mean other ideologues. I believe that a fundamental education in the S.T.E.M. subjects can become the foundation for a broader understanding of the world. My problem is with the attitude that education should be a zero sum game (a zero sum game is one where, as with chess pieces, in order for one side to gain the other must lose in equal proportion). We must develop strong educational programs in S.T.E.M., but not to the exclusion of the humanities. While the fundamental building blocks of understanding our world are indeed nested within these subjects they do not compose the whole of it because they deal with only the object and not the subject. This is where the humanities should fit into our picture of a complete education. To know our world, we must also know ourselves and our relationship to it. Without the subject in our subject-object relationship we can not know of the relationship to the object and vice versa. But why should we care beyond just a more complete picture of the world (which I would argue is reason enough but fails to address the “getting things done” concern)? I submit that the S.T.E.M. subjects are like a tool which has the power to shape the world. I would also submit that the humanities are the technique for using that tool. It is only in both having the tool and understanding how it might be used that we become capable of utilizing that tool to its full potential. In this we see that both are vital and that without both we can not exercise our will upon the world (the relationship between them being our understanding).
If we continue cutting humanities programs from our educational curriculum in favor of an ever increasing focus on S.T.E.M. education we risk becoming a society of technicians capable of executing the operations of progress but lacking the creative vision to pursue what lies beyond our current stage. We risk becoming a rudderless ship adrift on an ocean of de-contextualized events. While the humanities alone do not correct this, their addition to the educational landscape allows for the possibility, if not the inevitability, of our future generations having the capability to proceed where we have fallen into stagnation. I said earlier that education should not be a zero sum game but in order to escape this we need to make changes to how we educate our populace. Firstly we need to be willing to pay for education. There is no magic bullet that prevents the need to raise more money to properly fund more education. We must fund education at all levels, including graduate studies, if we want a world that has room for progress. This means reversing course and undoing the system of higher education that turns students into debtors, it means paying higher taxes even if you don’t personally have children who benefit, it means paying teachers at all levels a wage that respects the value they add, it means more teachers and smaller classes so students aren’t lost in the shuffle, it means funding early childhood education. It means longer school years and the expansion of lunch programs to make sure students are able to learn, it means spending on development for better materials and curriculum, and it means investing in protecting children from violence and abuse so that schools can be a safe place to focus on learning. And what I’m sure will be the most controversial of my proposals, it means that education dollars and resources are distributed evenly between urban and rural schools as well as across socioeconomic groups rather than being based on the tax collected in that specific area; for this we will require a centralized agency to oversee both funding and curriculum. I know some of you will disagree with this because of concerns over the specter of bureaucracy but I ask you this: Is what we have now working? I don’t think it is and while we can disagree amicably about that, it remains my opinion, barring significant evidence to the contrary, that vast systemic change is required to fix our convoluted and antiquated educational system.
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Ep 19: Anonymity and the Internet; Just Who Do You Think You Are?
welcome one and all to Professor metals like a great debate and calamitous commentary with the philosophical chain gang. Today’s episode and in the media on the Internet just who do you think you are. I’m your host Professor Meadow and river. I’m Sean and I’m burgers and some things may have been changed to protect the innocent. I’ve also blurred your faces to protect our identities further you know because I just built this really cool machine I want to try it out. Oh I did feel a little bit if you will say in theory will learn and that’s a great question. We’re doing science here. All right I just want everybody know this is a special episode and do the content. There are a lot of F. bombs in this so if you don’t want to hear those might not be be absurd for you just let me know. We hope you enjoy it anyway. This is the Internet. Yes the concept of a pseudonym or there was no name whatsoever just lame lists chillis face in the maelstrom as it were. Well not even to face them and to be honest most people are most closely associated you know insular community of internet personalities by an avatar which has nothing to do with Face it has to do with an image that you associate in a sim. More kind of way but it’s certainly not required to be out of it and I may be represented by a robot dog. Sure a lot of people pick an image that they think goes with the type of voice they want to convey. This used to be almost all of the Internet. Are you thinking you know the mid to late ninety’s early two thousand and it that pretty much was everything was what I would call pseudonymity. You come up with a name and Avatar and it starts to build a reputation within that community. So you have a certain amount of degree of caring about what you say because you want to create for better or worse a particular reputation for that identity you created for yourself. Since then we’ve got those like four chan which go for like Universal anonymity where there really isn’t even an identity that you have that you’re trying to get across there’s just the message and things like Facebook which are pushing for just open this is who you actually are. Well to be fair with fortune you can have a site you can choose to voluntarily create a username that goes onto your post you just want to try to I think where we saw a larger degree of the pseudonym and you’re talking about I think the old online service days back in the air wells and Compu Serve as an adult when your ability to walk into that system necessitated this particular unit because it was after that that we developed the ability to have multiple users which didn’t create anonymity in the sort of distributed way but true and I was no longer responsible for what Mr X R five three said. Right I was only responsible for what I said on my main account. So I would use my dummy account to save the other things. But there’s still a lot of places that kind of do that I mean something awful still around Fark still around. Pen is mightier I think it’s still around and we do see some artifact ing from Earth. Earlier there that includes this but you’re right I think in a sort of distributed way we see more and indignity where if you want turf basically burn your account you can you can shut down the account and start a completely new one if you felt you’ve done something wrong or there is nothing more you can do with that account or you pissed off somebody to such a degree that you don’t want to be associated with it anymore or something. Well and I think any discussion of IN THE UNION going to have to touch on the changes that have gone on recently in places like you to comment search that were subtle is mostly vicious. Before the change that they said we can’t have an annuity anymore you don’t deserve anonymity Internet people instead we’re going to make you start a war in the end if you want to say something through an accountant we can measure. Now you can have multiple accounts or ways to get around that to have various things but yet it was by at least forcing you to use that system you created a certain level of accountability even if it’s just your trolling dummy account address and trouble at least you can shop. Yet don’t think Islam is them thinking you know who deserves what and I think a lot of people think about the decisions that sites make in those terms. So I just want to have better content. That’s what they’re viewing it as I mean what went through your commentary is a joke. That’s something you just want to improve and it isn’t about whether you like or dislike or what they deserve what they say they should have gotten this is trying to come up with this is going to generate better read it does it an interesting way they’ve got the karma system so that you know identity is a great you have a reputation you may actually care about this one you want to say more popular things sort of gets more points but then again you can have as many throw away counts as you want you can quit of them over the same email address. Absolutely and recently we started to see this term for the burner account. Harken back to sort of the burger photo and cell phones that you would use to make illicit transactions or you wouldn’t want to keep or rather you just break and toss out or get rid of in some fashion. But we’re seeing it in an Internet space where you create an account you say what you want to say and then you let it fall by the wayside affectively or call it when you want to say something unpleasant or if you want to troll someone there or say something that isn’t popular maybe. So the seem to be kind of a range of overlap between full anonymity which is I’m sort of maxed out with the fortune without a log in and some form of pseudonymity. But even so it is not and it’s not so much in the days when the of really the only identity you can present yourself is the log in that you need for your eyes to the one that you can’t escape. There’s a whole range between then and then there is the real identity pushing out which one thing Facebook pushes or which created a lot of interesting those are quinces lately. Oh certainly there are some problems as it were with folks that have gone under pseudonyms and they’ve run into some problems with Facebook for one reason or another there are other without their real name and with this whole identity you have to really be you sort of thing there’s it’s caused some very big problems. I got on Facebook in some hot water about it. Facebook is in some sense only responding to a larger sense that there needs to be an accountability for the kinds of things that go on. Right now you may want to be the center of that accountability and you want to be the profile that you used to be accountable for things of that responding to other places on the Internet wanting accountability from the users there. That’s certainly fair and I do think we’ve seen a greater push for accountability like you mentioned the You Tube having to be. Connected directly to the plus and the red carpet system although that’s a little more favorable. I don’t want to say as far as reputation goes there are proven tactics to improve karma. Why doesn’t I was thinking of the pictures are always in verging on Reddit and in the real world especially for you and Standard Time on a Monday morning. Eventually if you pick up the one of the some of the really good one that somebody posted at sixty six and then reposed So we’re getting down to the real meat of this which is why why do these sites want you to stop. Why does there have to be accountability and the answer to that is fairly obviously trolling or similar behavior to trolling in the federal action intended account which is hard for I think is the point where we need to bring a real greater Internet. Very I agree wholeheartedly. River. Get real. Greater theory comes from one of the creators of Penny Arcade comic that’s been around for a number of years at this point and illustrates the problem with the theory itself states that if you have a normally reasonable person that abides by social norms and what have you and you add open access to the Internet and the promise of you end up with kind of a bastard that person will use that to make me say the things that they didn’t think they could get away with Otherwise they will say the hateful things and this sort of catharsis almost So the reason that having internet to it is so important because it has not yet put someone out there for them to speak to in a way that causes them. Do you then want to say things that will attract more attention. Whether those things are positive or negative attention grabbers are still attention grabber and anonymity and that person can grab attention with any outlandish statement they wanted and we can say something like over curtains there has been some five hundred sixty five and you can have a lot of people who are fans of The Beatles being like I beg your pardon and kind of come up with these outlandish theories and the other thing and you have this like you said a captive audience. You may find it hopeful or you may find depressing relatively speaking. But when we see all of these Internet five words from the theory out there we think it seems like somewhere between forty and seventy percent of humanity is just horrible horrible horrible people all the time when actually in real They’re perfectly OK people every once in a while they can’t help just saying the horrible thing and then going back to being a perfectly OK person. If pressed on those if they have a response to the excuses Well this is all fun. Nobody really cares what goes on online. That was more true in the earlier days of the Internet when people didn’t rely on it so much from people didn’t take it quite so seriously when it was a smaller subset of the general population using it and they were using it less. Now there are serious consequences to people for the things that people say online and there’s not so much oh we can just discount it or ignore it. So the good news is that it’s not that there are a whole bunch of really really awful people out there it’s that we’re all almost all of us a little bit and occasionally awful which I’m not sure if that makes you feel better about humanity or worse it makes me feel a little bit better knowing that there aren’t like you know about half of a population are just horrible horrible people. We’re just all a little bit horrible and it creeps out every once in awhile. Specially when we’ve got the opportunity. Well one thing essential nature of human interactions under. He’s actually very old question it seems like all of us posting on those artifacts of living in modern era when in fact it’s not as a matter of fact if we went back pointer will see that there is an example in the gives in what he calls the ring of graduates so the red ink Guy G. story a man finds a magical ring sort of Lord Of The Rings that makes him invisible except that not always making them completely detectable so he cannot be hurting him. Snow sleet and ice is present is unknown when he gets access to his reply to his question is what is you do with it what is the first thing that a person given this power would do the question is about what human beings would do if there were no consequence for their actions. Which is essentially the problem then. For Plato the answer is he murders steals a cruise power has sex with his brother’s wife when he was just a terrible terrible part was for having access to our house you answer the question of what one does with the limit got a G.’s reflects what you think the essential character of human beings as a whole is when presented with the ability to be ominous. Why do you think I locked away when a woman gets here. Well not in this room so just convert other rooms. Maybe other places. However sometimes a group of people working in him that he can come up with better decision making because know that it’s tied to the status or particulars or point expertise and let’s get another serious philosophical example John wrote below ignorance to determine fairness in utilitarian elations you imagine what if we could decide what the rules of society would be before we’re born into society. This part analogy in and out of it if you’re into it imagine there are a bunch of souls who are about to be born into a particular country and you don’t know who your parents are going to be or where you’re going to be born. If you could. Side what the Constitution the rules of the society would be. Without knowing where your chips are going to fall did what you agreed upon reasonably would be a just society. So there’s a case where anybody can actually help the decision making in German. What fairness can be. I guess my question is why does that go so arrive from what we’ve seen in modern age. Sometimes groups of people acting in the one of the sle can be really great. Sometimes it can be really awful. I think part of the problem is that Rawls proposes an area in which you know you’re going to be part of this society but you don’t know where you’re going to fall in the socioeconomic hierarchy you want everybody to have a fairly similar sort of set up that way no matter where you felt your interests will be served. However once you know some information about them if I send out the same scenario well that instead of not knowing where you’re going to fall I’ll tell you you’re definitely going to be in the top half people right. All the sudden your decision making system changes. Bollocks since there is at least in terms of energy. No great unifier as to how all people should be treated. Instead there’s only how you never been and should be treated. We still make decisions based on which we find ourselves and then the difference would be there’s no loopback. The people being honest aren’t suffering the consequences of their own behavior they’re externalizing certainly and I think this kind of ties and the concept of her mentality for bad or for good you can do a lot of good things as a large group of people and the praise goes to everyone you know everybody gets an equal amount of praise but it doesn’t really work the other way around where if they do something bad as a group. There’s going to be scoring but chances are the individual members of that group are going to be like well I wasn’t that bad so I’m maybe not deserving of as much scorn everybody’s going to lift up the highs and diminish the lows in this case where a group of anonymous peoples on the Internet may do something really kind of turkey and a lot of them feel that they are particularly at fault for it. They were just following what the rest of the group was doing. Well whether we agree that in general the enemy of the Internet has all and more bad things or more good things. One thing that seems clear about we all like anonymity and we don’t personally I don’t want other people to be anonymous. Well we certainly want our own hand. Sure it’s attractive. It’s seductive in some sense. Some Why if we don’t want to use it to do bad things we like disassociating from ourselves which is I think to that end there’s a certain freedom you don’t have to take your baggage with you so you don’t have to worry about even that if you’re not doing bad things if you’re doing good things. You don’t have to worry about the external outcome of that. For me it’s the same reason that I like for us to chase you down. You’re known can claim appeal to authority. No one needs them selves too much because of how others might rip on their true life. Wherever the idea may take he was where it’s going to take you and there’s no restriction but that and I like that purity good fellows and some people like to see more casual than they’re allowed to be in their room and their speech and so forth I think the real problems with me is not so much individual behavior. That herd mentality when someone goes for something in the ten thousand people decided to pile on the same thing at the same time it would have been better to just a few of them but for whatever it may be and create huge problems. What I think is interesting about the way that we interact a notion that you know over and over again in a lot of different circumstances. Most of it with people like this that human beings desire in some way shape or form within it in a very specific set of circumstances under which it used. If I say I could give you the power supply people immediately think of a set of centuries in which they would want to fly. If I say I can give you the power to teleport around you can imagine a certain areas in which you want strength super speed all sorts of things like that any kind of ability to perceive there we immediately imagine a set of circumstances under which it forms that we would want to use it and it is different because we have mention immediately well if I were someone who wanted to do things that others wouldn’t approve of I didn’t want to be anonymous in that circumstance I would want to have the ability to shield myself from social consequence but it also works in the other direction. We see this over and over again in fairy tales where a prince or it came the worse of a higher being does count themselves as one of the RAM as somebody who can’t be discerned for who they are so they can engage in a different way to do things that are free from social confluence. But in order to do things the burden of their social standing with the mysteries of angels who come dressed as partners today to see if people are honest. You see stories about princes who come to the streets dressed as partners so that they can find true love from people who aren’t concerned with their money. We see stories about wise men who come into town dressed in rags so that they can find out who will do. What was their vision without their presence. We see over and over again the story of being freed from social consequence as an important human milestone. He was doing all kinds of waves not because we all wanted for one thing because we all want it for something and all of these examples you citing it seems to me usually what the people who do this are trying to get some sort of true that the way that we treat others socially is consuming something from the behavior that we take when we imagine we are in ones US stance is different from the others. That’s a good thing. It’s good that I don’t act in the same way when I’m hanging out with my parents that I want to act when I’m at a strip club with my friends. Right. It’s good that I don’t act in front of a judge the same way that I act. Wait and I didn’t learn better about myself. Those things are different social circumstances I mean to behave differently here. But that’s also a restart that’s also confined to feel that you have to act in certain ways under certain circumstances and to go back to work saying I think this offers a kind of freedom that we all as Google is a freedom that contains a truth of my identity more than the shell of social circumstances around ourselves that I think is worth bringing up at this point. Well Internet evidently used thing in many ways it is kind of illusory it doesn’t really exist we still access the internet from computers that have dedicated addresses and stuff like that and yet we see a lot of people who think it exists who who have this sort of faith or their anonymity hides them from from consequence. Well and love that title. What you mean by that. If you mean I am not immediately passable in the same way my face talking to your faces than I do have a kind is. You mean total anonymity where I cannot be found out I am in the sea weed and invisible and there are many layers protecting me from ever being found out and no court process is what it amounts to is there is a finite amount of time and trouble and knowledge it would take to find out who you are whatever that whatever that amount might be and it can be more or less going to be more or less worth the most trouble to try and I think actually it’s on the greatest anonymity that we can have on the anonymity of being one in such a great mess. Nobody actually cares who you are at work and lots of data processing market research stuff I’ve done lots of operations on files containing tens of thousands of people’s names and Social Security numbers. I didn’t care about any single one of them. I think one of the greatest thing that ever heard about this is that if a market research company has your own gender and month of birth I believe result in person and narrow you down to a given name and Social Security number if given the amount of data of a valve there and the ability to parse it. Yet the problem with that of course is that they don’t care they don’t want to know your name social security number they already have all the information is that if you are a male or female in this age range living in this area going beyond that would actually be a waste of resources for their purpose. Trying to find a needle in a needle stack. On the one hand you found the needle there it is on the other hand the needle stack. I think that kind of comes down to the sort of mutual respect for lack of a better term. That unless people on the Internet have for the end of the Internet the well I’m going to be anonymous and I might as well let other people be anonymous Also I don’t want to bother with having to do all the work to find out who these people are. It isn’t of consequence to me to be willing to do this. Well and does national calculus I found very helpful in my do they why there is two levels and when one extends the other you will be found out on one of the men a trouble that would be for you to be found out and level two was the amount of interest you generated in someone’s mind. I use this calculus when it comes to my car. If I don’t want my heart to be broken into either my car I have to be champion of and not have anything of value in it that even though it’s not very hard to break into and nobody wants to bother or if I have a valuable car with a lot of stuff on it I have to mention I have very high difficulty Very good I’ll never achieve impenetrable security and I will never achieve impenetrable anonymity. But in one side coordinating bombings across countries and involved in fairly various actions I’m probably not worth finding out who I am and most people here are lacking respect at the very least I’m too much trouble. Makes me wonder is being blamed being beneath everyone’s notice. My point started becoming work some point in the future be an asset and certainly I mean nobody can really fault him for just listening. There’s If you’re not on interactive in any sense other than observing. If you don’t create ways you don’t create the motive for someone to try to find you out or try and interact with you. So the ultimate is no and there were the years of course the lurker. Even the name reflects that right when we think of something lurking. Imagine someone in the shadows someone off to the side not someone standing in the middle of the Rings and I am the finest of all examples. Instead someone quiet who stays out of the way not contributing anything to the conversation or just reading in both pseudonymous and unless there is if you start to act or start to talk. Publish What have you without being there for a long time. Often times the response you’ll get or if you act ignorant in that space of that space the response you will get is more. You know obviously don’t know what’s going on here or what we’re about. So step back and listen. Pseudonymity that’s I think something really interesting about that. And I like to see more of it. It’s one of the things I’ve enjoyed most about the Internet is because it is the most we’ve ever had to have to claim the right to tell our own stories to tell people and show people who we are intentionally and to the best of our ability. More so than real life where we make blunders and there are things going to control that people judge us on identity that you create and try to build a reputation around. That’s this is really I think in the purest way us telling or showing the creating who you are. That’s true to some degree. What hide their identity on the Internet. And soon after that we make former selves. Do I want to appear in the Vela while I am in fact actually being a good guy. Do I want to say mean things to people but have points and the site end up sort of a joke or what I choose to make that persona into is an extension of who I am in some way shape or form the same as a writer can write a story in which a villain does something terrible that they don’t. Themselves it’s terrible if you use your main name identity to try and make you know the best high minded arguments you can to try to get a reputation doesn’t lie or you may try to be that someone who throws in the funny quips into the middle of a conversation. Whatever you can do to try to get it. Generally I think most of us naturally wants approbation. One positive feedback. There are course the trolls were intentionally going or does that provision for whatever reason. Well and I think that on some level that comes down to whether or not you are essentially more of an infinitely more of an extrovert on some level for some people it might be the greatest opportunity ever to gather secrets to listen to other people’s stories and not to be removed from that process in a way that they can’t in a person conversation. I can’t sit there and gather all the things you say as a human being standing in the room that you’ve been noticing them standing and I can’t enter I didn’t follow around someone I can cyber stark someone I can gather information or learn about someone else’s point of his or her a great many of those points of view and even possibly find things to try and hurt the world a way to gain power without being recognized in the same way. Certainly and it’s kind of interesting because there are other Web sites like Tumblr where you can ask each other questions like this one the T.V. is of Tumblr is a Web site is you can go to some of these pages if you want to ask them something even personal or work related to what they like or about like you said an artist after work you can ask it and there are two options you can either ask with your name your account like it’ll show your name it’ll have a link to your account. This question or comment or what have you will be. It included it was tied directly back to you or there is a box you can press to be anonymous that moves all four of the folks that you don’t want to not be associated with the question for whatever reason either they feel it’s unfair or sing or there are signs that something may be spiteful or unpopular war they feel they don’t want a direct connection to this person they don’t want to directly address this personally want to drop a question in the proverbial mailbox and maybe have the answer or respond to it in some way but they don’t feel like either they’re worthy or that they are appropriate to be connected to this person. It’s an interesting dynamic that the tumbler and two people the incentive to try to draw each other out by asking each other questions that are just telling each person put in what you think that there’s an interesting dynamic to get the people to help to try and draw each other out to generating we’re going to help but want to vanity Facebook thing. Whenever an instant Google is trying to go more that way to your actual real world identity being online and what it means I’m not really sure why these sites want to do that. That’s going to be the central basic you know the rich person the most important one that you have is the one that has your real name on it. Well with the rise of Facebook as Facebook has become more and more popular and the web of people that you’re connected to becomes more more important right. You see people guarding that identity in careful not saying terrible things because you’re connected to your real world friends and the people who didn’t know you have cited names and have social consequence or be. It’s hard to establish a fake identity and farms. It’s very easy to fake count but the fake account isn’t enough by itself. Webs of friends connections to places things that happened. Showing up at events checking in in places adding photos of the papers and all the generated totality that’s difficult to play and so it has a certain value to an external Web site to have a long interface or a long into Google in which case you are using that to pay for simplicity right. I ain’t paying you for the simplicity of modern create a whole new user on your Web site by linking it to this other account and in return I am signing up for a certain amount of social consequence. If I use it if I use that primarily to separate vision although there are legal consequences there could be arrested for this on Facebook and confess to crimes or it will cost jobs. I can’t remember where it was in fact that one’s own Florida again but it did in least one state is now we will serve the worst arguments be a Facebook if you have tried all other means you cannot reach person or I mean that that definitely points to that totality reflective self as it were of the total souls or the clothes that you’re going to get to a real self on the Internet if this account the state has this account. Close enough to you as a person that they feel that it’s going to stand in legal documents at least you know that actually had a run in with needing to verify your right and for some reason Facebook Google plus have told me my name’s not free. The problem I have. There are thirty five different spellings of the name genitals on Facebook and yet somehow Mine’s not real if you don’t want to make a counter to respond. I feel like the primary student in the whatever you tend to use the most as a pseudonym and the the things that you say under that I think that is actually a true reflection of who you are then your real name account with pictures and and all of the real life information if you will says more about who you really are. When when you’re free to say whatever you want but you’re also trying to create a reputation for someone from scratch I think there is a more true you inside you than the circumstances of your life which is what ends up all over this book in Google plus I mean there’s certainly something to be said there but with a completely separate sit in them even if it’s your main it is artificial in some sense you can construct the user that you want people to see. Well it will reflect on you in some sense it isn’t necessarily who you are. I don’t I feel the opposite of this is kind of true or not the opposite. I feel that there’s there’s an other side of the coin as it were to this with regards to the actual person and the actual you of Facebook and stuff like that. And in some ways I think this would support your argument Bruce where are people who are or who go by different names or people who are friends who don’t go by their given name or haven’t gone through the legal steps to change their given name as their identity changes have been running and a lot of problems with the well you’re supposed to use your real Your real. Well what is a real name is the name the top your birth certificate it is the name the courts call you by his name or your friends call you by because it’s the last one. Then Facebook shouldn’t be coming down on people with well you don’t have or this isn’t your real name when that’s the most closely identified with self. Yeah I really do think that who you choose to be is a better reflection of who you are and who your circumstances and what your circumstances tell you who you are what one thing keeps me from deciding to be someone carrying no student loan debt. Yes and there are also of social value to me having to live with the consequences of what’s gone on before. Obviously against rebels talking about trans people we want to allow for people to have room to change and grow and these people changed in very distinct ways something very realistically want to change how they are for to out in the world. Another reason someone might want to be referred to differently is to escape their past and why it actually was any tangible consequence circumstances of your life. I’m not saying that those should be eliminated. I’m just saying that those shouldn’t be who you are and try to do bigger quirks and family they still apply to you and you still have to deal with them but I guess some of divorced from your identity in the N.T. should more be more about how you communicate how you present yourself what you put out other people choose to word things with which to do the circumstances of your life are there but I still feel that the choices you make and how you present your says much more about who you are than the circumstances of your life that fit the circumstances of your life don’t still exist but you know a great example where that divergence of who you are the circumstances of your life is trans people and making that. And getting people to go and get on board with it to the difference between circumstances of your life being part of your current I don’t know your part of your history they could call you and your history will check if they need to personally who purpose other than that they don’t need to be what you put out there. That’s certainly fair and I don’t see this somewhat to you but it’s a bit of a hairy subject to put it that way. Just the whole pseudonymity vs who you present versus who you are as to how we’re going to say that there. So I guess the question at this point is why have anybody why continue to have an especially in the case of this push for more real identity on the Internet more physical or real you and less suited and you know as it stands just because we CAN I don’t think anybody ever really planned to make everybody communicate anonymously with each other I think it’s just a byproduct of other units developed phone where they could go back into my internet history file as it were and talk about the fact that the creator of four chan created fortune was better than anybody in mind especially after he had been booted off the Something Awful forums for multiple of fractions and stuff like that but it is something that’s kind of come and went as it were almost naturally leads into the positives and the negatives of them in this conversation at least some of them. I imagine that there are probably as many as anyone to tend to. But let me propose a reason to have something I think again links back to this idea of freedom and I’m going to start by outlining something that some of. Our listeners may not even remember a time before the Internet a time before the world wide web of interconnected everything runs on the Internet. When I die I will be. Yes it is for that day back in the old days when you had to specifically access a message board or some committee people via computer in a different way than you do now when you didn’t have everything flows from one end of that. What was beautiful about that was the society they created. Yes bad things happened. Yes people swap files. Yes people puzzles people how to make bombs. All of the bad things about the Internet were already barren but it became a kind of autonomous people an outlet for the need to have that in their lives. And we’ve seen this over and over again in societies that there are tons of black market underground drinking clubs during prohibition somewhere where the walls are broken not because breaking the rules is good for us because it is important to us to occasionally went off the steam of living in a society that we can control in some sense the older Internet the Internet that was before the end of the Internet that is at the dawn of the web page is not one of us. So for people living in societies that are ever more controlling myself that our ability to go on and be jerks the terrible results of all the other horrible things we are is actually a pressure valve for all the crap that could come out in our day to day lives. This is a way for us to get away with all of those things in the least terrible possible consequential time ago saying before it’s not that half the pocket would go up with solutions are always all powerful people is that we’re all occasionally awful people. The trolls we have met the trolls and they are us. I definitely can see it as a form of because Tarsus just kind of letting everything go. Like you say a place where one can act regardless of social consequence and not have to worry about it too. I was one of the social norms in some cases you know this this can be expressed as always and I think there are ways that is expressed nowadays I mean we’ve definitely seen other ton of The Stones come about four chan is for the best example of in some ways rather older that has gotten their feet put to the fire a couple of times in regards to certain things. Both sides and we still see ones like Tor and I want to say I do us and other large World Wide Web based internet protocols that have kind of come about or have been around but the new implementation in recent years. Usenet in particular has developed a huge culture. Absolutely alt dot of Usenet one of the nine main quote unquote Usenet categories Altaf is probably one of the best post previous to examples that autonomy and constant migration of that. I mean if one of them dies another one’s going to grow. It’s always seems to be shifting from one place to another does require not before there is no true in ANY it is merely a question of how much trouble is only to go to to find out who you are but it can be a lot and it can always be changing and you can always just throw that identity overboard and start up a new one. Bruce silence Sean. I grant you the last word. Well thanks professor. So I’d like to take this opportunity to run down one theory of my own about the way that pseudonymity end. Then the Internet work. I like this. Are we all assholes online. And the answer might surprise you. Imagine for a moment that we are examining a person called Mr X. Mr X. has a tendency to go online. He uses the pseudonym Mr greater than less that for his online participation. While he’s online he acts like the worst racist terrible mean spirited cruel jerk ever. And over the course of that process developed quite the reputation online for being that way in his day to day life. Mr X. is completely reasonable. He’s a kind person and he helps old ladies cross sidewalk whatever you can think of that makes someone not a bad person is what he does in his day to day want. The question becomes Is Mr greater than less than actually different from Mr X. in some sense. Mr X. minus social conformity norms and other consequences is Mr greater than less than. But are those really something you can remove without changing the essential nature of a human personality. I’d say no they’re not. As a matter of fact we have a little bit of a jackal and Hyde situation on our hands. One of them act out the best parts of this nature while the other one gets to feed dark desires blinders. If we imagine this we might ask why. Why does he want to do these terrible things when he’s in those circumstances. The reason is because Mr X. has no reason to do them in a day to day life but in his anonymous life in his life elsewhere Mr X. has no reason not to do when he is lacking in those social circumstances. Mr X. is given the freedom to act in term ways without consequence consequence keeps Mr X. and wondering if day to day life not because he is a terrible racist or a cruel spirited person but because quieting this. As he has no reason not to do the easiest thing. As I stated earlier we have very engine example of this in the ring of gaieties but we actually have a more visceral modern example. That’s something I like to call a little room of guy G.’s as a matter of fact it’s the men’s room in the men’s bathroom is a perfect example of what happens when we remove social consequences from a group of people they act like the worst immoral shit available to them. They smear racist things and coop on the walls they can in the corners that carve things in they tell terrible jokes all because they have no reason not to. There’s no payment value things the truth that none of us want to imagine it is that on some level being bad feels good. So if we have an example do we have a counter example. We do the women’s restroom. Women’s restroom is rarely kept in this kind of condition. You’ll find some of them a little bit abused and treated badly. But for the most part you will find a far less visceral level of disgust at any person working at their reason. Simple men are taught but they are alone when they are in the bathroom. Women are taught that they are in groups that they are part of a social contract that they have certain responsibilities. People will watch people will see if you know what you actually do your business but they’ll certainly know who came out of the room. Men on the other hand look away don’t acknowledge each other’s presence. We are not part of a social group when we are in the bathroom that allows us to act in a truly deplorable ways. If you still lack the confidence that this is in fact an underlying phenomenon look back at all of the terrible things that people have been able to do when they had no reason to fear the consequences. We see this in things like in what has now been called much to my chagrin affluenza. When people have too much money and do terrible. Things because they don’t feel a sense of connection to right and wrong. Why. Because the money removes social consequence over and over. We see the people minus social consequence equal problems. What we are seeing a greater Internet one theory writ large across a society we see is that when we give people the opportunity to receive any kind of benefit and no repercussions from writing badly they will act badly. Does this mean the essential nature of human beings attack they have no essential nature of human beings is to be in social circumstance. We all live with a certain level of social consequence dumped into the way that we’re supposed to act. When you remove us from that all of a sudden there are problems. Our brains are not able to process that we can act in the ways that we think we would want to because we have not been trained for the circumstance. So when we come down to the eventuality Yes Mr greater than less than different from Mr X. He is the Mr Hyde the Dr Jekyll of Mr X. He is in fact another person a person who exists only in those circumstances and that person is in fact an asshole. So when you come to the question are we all assholes on the Internet. The answer writ large is yes but we’re also not ourselves. Well that’s all the time we have for today. Don’t forget subscribe interview on i Tunes follow us on Twitter send us your questions and if you like what we’re doing here so Faurisson Patria I’ve been your host at the chain gang. I’m Bruce Kevin Carter. I told her wonderful recently and I’ve been having Dr underscore Potato Head was not right. Oh that was nice. It’s there. No.
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From our first proposal to the Council in July 2011, to the centre opening it's doors in September 2018, the Ravenscliffe@Spring Hall project was an epic one.
RHS presented the Ravenscliffe@SpringHall proposal to the Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council (CMBC) scrutiny committee in July 2011. The project gained unanimous support from councillors representing all political parties, with an agreement that Ravenscliffe@SpringHall should be treated as a matter of urgency. Subsequently, CMBC committed £1.5m to the project in autumn 2011.
CMBC then commissioned IBI Group, architects who have designed similar projects complete a feasibility study and to see if it was viable to build at the chosen site; after all the great idea was simply just that, until it could be confirmed that Spring Hall was indeed suitable for the development in question.
Returning in November 2013, IBI confirmed that it was entirely plausible to proceed with the development; however they suggested that a building to the specifications required by RHS would cost in the region of £2.4m, which naturally presented a problem; namely a funding gap of £900,000 plus the additional cost of equipping the centre to the highest standards.
With no further capital available from Local Government at that time, the onus to meet this shortfall was left with RHS. With that, RHS wasted no time in beginning a huge fundraising drive in early 2014 with the aim of securing the £900k required. This funding had to be in place by June 2014 in order to proceed with the project.
For a team of school staff who had never undertaken large scale fundraising before, meeting the shortfall in CMBC’s timeframe was a daunting prospect. With the help of Senior Executives from Lloyds Banking Group, RHS developed a strategy taking on three different approaches; community fundraising, grant applications and making savings closer to home.
It became quickly apparent that the community would play a vital role if RHS were to succeed in its ambitious plans. The School launched Buy-a-Brick, Cornerstone and Keystone Funding schemes and large-scale community events were organised to raise the profile of the project and generate much needed funds. These were held every few months, and included a Dress Down for £1 event, which raised £15,000 and included 42 Calderdale schools, and a Spring Ball which raised £9000. This approach also enhanced that of the countless individuals who took and continue to take part in sponsored events and have made personal donations since the project was first launched.
A second approach was to make grant applications to large national charities and organisations. RHS was always aware that this was likely the best way to attract large amounts of funding within the strict time frame. By June 2014, this team had attracted an astonishing £293,382 in grant funding.
Fundamentally, the Spring Hall Project was our idea. The Council's contribution started the ball rolling; however we were aware that if we were to make our dream a reality, we would have to contribute ourselves, particularly as the national issue of austerity in public services became prevalent. This had been apparent for a number of years, and thus RHS, through prudent spending, was able to commit £400,000 towards the project accrued over the last few years.
As D-Day loomed CMBC, in recognition of our tireless efforts, agreed to commit an additional £100k from local government reserves. In just 8 months, with the invaluable help of CMBC, grant making organisations and many hundreds of people across the country, RHS had raised an astonishing £900,000 to move one step closer to making the Spring Hall dream a reality.
Unfortunately, just when we thought the project was gathering momentum, RHS was hit with significant legal and logistical problems resulting in long delays outside of its control. This also coincided with pressures on the CMBC legal department from other areas of local government. As a result, despite the best efforts of both RHS and CMBC, it wasn’t until September 2015 that these issues were fully resolved and the project was ready to proceed to the next stage.
In October 2015, a planning application was ready to be submitted with a projected “Spade in the Ground” in Spring 2016. Following a meeting to finalise the costings and designs for the project, it was a significant blow to learn that the revised build would now cost £2,633,000, a full £233k more than budgeted for. This increase was mainly due to inflation and the increased cost of raw materials over the intervening two years. Having battled to reach £2.4m, RHS was left in the position where it simply had no more money to contribute, and would not be able to generate the required £233k shortfall in the short term having exhausted all its reserves. Moreover, the project could not proceed to a full planning application until this shortfall could be met.
RHS was left with no choice but to re-engage local and national government in order to agree a solution to this funding crisis. After speaking to CMBC, RHS was offered and subsequently negotiated a provisional prudential loan, at a preferential interest rate, in order to meet the shortfall, repayable over 10 years. This is a fall back position, and would only be taken if required. It did however allow the project to proceed to a planning application. At the same time, due to an increase in projected numbers in September 2016 and a subsequent increase in statutory funding that RHS were in a position in January 2016 to commit a further £100k to the project.
In January 2016, RHS received final costings for the project at £2,721,000 representing a further increase of £88,000, comprised mainly of contingency for the build itself. To prevent further delay, RHS Governors approved an increase in the provisional loan agreement (with hope that the contingency wouldn’t needed) and a planning application was submitted for approval on February 2nd 2016.
A decision was expected on May 11th 2016, however in the weeks leading up to that point concerns were raised about the design of the western elevation of the building, mainly focussed around the arrangement of windows. Our architects were asked to re-draft the plans, and re-submit them for approval. We received word on 29th January that the planning application had been successful.
Throughout Autumn 2017, RHS and CMBC worked hard to agree a final project budget prior to the development being advertised for tender. Again, due to inflation and materials increasing in price, the total cost of the project rose again. This prompted further value engineering to bring the project back in line with budget.
An initial tender date was set for January 2nd 2017, however in the days leading up to this it became apparant that there were some concerns over the nature of the soil that would need to be excavated. If contaminated, this would have seen an increase of £80,000. Fortunately, the soil tests showed that the ground was inert, and the project was advertised for tender on February 2nd 2017.
ESH Construction were appointed as contractors following the tender process, and works began on site on July 3rd 2017. The projected build period was 39 weeks, with handover scheduled for April 2018. Works proceeded in earnest until inclement weather put a halt the proceedings in February and March of 2018. A combination of the "Beast from the East" and a structural change to the courtyard balustrade pushed the completion date back into May.
However, further delays pushed practical completion of the project into the summer holidays and with September looming, the School were becoming increasingly nervous that the building would not be ready in time. As contractors worked around the clock, Ravenscliffe was finally given the keys to their new centre in the last week of the summer holidays, welcoming the first cohort of students through the doors just a few days later.
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Frederick Frelinghuysen
Frederick Frelinghuysen (April 13, 1753{spaced ndash}April 13, 1804) was an American lawyer, soldier, and senator from New Jersey. A graduate of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), Frederick went on to become an officer during the American Revolutionary War. In addition, he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress. He was a United States Senator from New Jersey from 1793 until 1796, and served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey in 1801.
==Birth and education==
He was born near Somerville in the Province of New Jersey to John Frelinghuysen (1727–1754) of Flatbush, Brooklyn and Dinah Van Berg (1725–1807) of Amsterdam. His father, John, was the son of the immigrant minister Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, the progenitor of the Frelinghuysen family in New Jersey.
He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1770, then he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1774 and practiced law in Somerset County, New Jersey.
==Family life==
Frederick married Gertrude Schenck (1753–1794), the daughter of Magdalen and Henry Schenck. They had the following children: Catharine Frelinghuysen (c. 1774–?); General John Frelinghuysen (1776–1833), Maria Frelinghuysen (1778–?), lawyer and New Jersey politician; Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787–1862); and Frederick Frelinghuysen (1788–1820). After Gertrude died in 1794, Frederick Sr. married Ann Yard (1764–1839).
Among his other descendants are Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817–1885), U.S. Senator and Secretary of State; Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (1869–1948) US Senator from New Jersey; Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (1916–2011) New Jersey Congressman; and Rodney Frelinghuysen (born 1946) New Jersey Congressman.
==American Revolution==
With the coming of the American Revolution, he became a member of the provincial congress of New Jersey from 1775 to 1776. In the War of Independence he served in the New Jersey militia as an artillery captain, seeing action at Trenton and Monmouth. In 1779 he served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress. He served as a clerk to the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset County, New Jersey from 1781 to 1789. He also served in the New Jersey General Assembly in 1784 and again from 1800 to 1804.
He was a member of the New Jersey convention that ratified the United States Constitution in 1787. He was a member of the New Jersey Legislative Council (now the New Jersey Senate) representing Somerset County from 1790 to 1792.
President George Washington appointed him as brigadier general in the United States Army for the 1790 campaign against the western Indians. Frelinghuysen was elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1793 to November 12, 1796, when he resigned. He was commissioned major general in the New Jersey militia in 1794, during the Whiskey Rebellion.
==Death==
Frederick died in Millstone, New Jersey on April 13, 1804, his 51st birthday, and was buried at the Weston Burying Ground on the border of Manville, New Jersey and Bound Brook, New Jersey. His tombstone reads as follows: Entombed beneath this stone lies the remains of Frederick Frelinghuysen, Esq. Major General of the military forces and representative in the General Assembly of this, his native state. Endowed by nature with superior talents, he was beloved by his country. From his youth he was entrusted with the most important concerns until his death. He never disappointed her hopes. In the bar he was eloquent and in the Senate he was wise, in the field he was brave. Candid, generous and just, he was ardent in his friendships, constant to his friends. The patron and protector of his honorable merit. He gave his hand to the young, his counsel to the middle aged, his support to him that was feeble in years. To perpetuate his memory, his children have raised this monument, a frail memorial of their veneration to his virtues and of their grief and their loss of so excellent a father. He died on the 13th of April 1804, aged 51 years.
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Morris v. Muniz: A Sword Against Whom?
By: Francis H. Sheppard and Robert P. Barton
Until recently, there had been confusion regarding the application of Florida’s Medical Malpractice Act[1] (the “Act”) as it pertains to (1) the proper appellate standard of review of a presuit expert’s qualifications, and (2) whether a showing of prejudice is a prerequisite to dismissal of a medical malpractice case for failure to comply with presuit discovery requests. The widely anticipated case of Morris v. Muniz[2] clarifies these issues. Justice Barbara Pariente wrote for a majority of the court in a 4-3 opinion. The case broadly interprets the applicable subsections of the Act in an effort to preserve and promote a plaintiff’s access to courts and accuses defendants of using the Act’s requirements “as a sword against plaintiffs.”[3] This is at odds with the dissent’s plain reading of the Act. Morris makes it more difficult, although not impossible, to defend against medical malpractice suits based on the Act’s requirements pertaining to presuit expert witness qualifications.
To summarize, before filing suit, the Act requires a Plaintiff to investigate his or her claim to establish whether there are reasonable grounds to bring an action and plaintiffs must corroborate those grounds by expert opinion.[4] The expert must also meet the definition of medical expert,[5] and be qualified.[6] The crux of this case revolves around whether Plaintiff’s expert, Dr. Thompson (“Thompson”), was a qualified presuit expert under the Act.
Standard of Review
The case sets forth a bright line rule for the review of future cases involving the expert witness provisions of the Act. It establishes that where a presuit expert’s qualifications are unrefuted, the proper standard of review of a trial court’s dismissal of an action based on its determination that the plaintiff’s presuit expert witness was not qualified is de novo. This means that the issue of whether a presuit expert meets the statutory qualifications is a legal one and involves merely comparing the expert’s qualifications with that of the statutory requirements.
Applying the de novo standard, the majority found Thompson to be a qualified expert under the Act. In reaching its conclusion, the majority explained that an expert must be “duly and regularly engaged” in the practice of her profession but that the section does not define “duly and regularly engaged.” Likewise, an expert cannot give testimony unless he or she has a valid license and has devoted “professional time” during the 3 years immediately preceding the date of the occurrence about which the expert is to testify. Again, “professional time” is not defined. The Act’s lack of clarification resulted in the majority interpreting the Act in a way that favored access to courts for the Plaintiff.
The dissenting opinion, however, construed the Act literally, as including both present tense and backward-looking requirements. The requirement that the expert must “have devoted professional time in the past three years” is backward-looking. On the other hand, the requirement that an expert “be duly and regularly engaged” is a present tense construction, requiring an expert to be duly and regularly engaged in the profession at the time his or her opinion is given, which Thompson was not.
Disagreeing with the dissent, the majority claimed there was ample unrefuted evidence that Thompson was qualified. For example, she was an OB-GYN for over 30 years, had been in several leadership positions, carried memberships to peer review committees, and attested that she was engaged in full-time patient care until March of 2008.[7] Further, Defendants failed to present evidence to suggest Thompson’s claims were false. Rather, Defendants questioned the truthfulness of Thompson’s sworn statements, which the majority notes is not the same as presenting evidence to suggest such statements were false. Finally, the majority found that no such requirement of specificity exists in the relevant subsections of the Act, and the lower courts’ reading such a requirement into the Act was error.[8] In other words, to effectively challenge an expert’s qualifications, defendant must apparently present direct evidence contradicting an expert’s stated qualifications, not merely challenging the feasibility or truthfulness of his or her statements.
Scope of Presuit Discovery
The case next addressed the scope of presuit discovery. The Act provides that access to reasonable information shall be provided without formal discovery. However, the Act does not specify the scope of this type of discovery. Although it may be necessary to hold an evidentiary hearing to determine an expert’s qualifications where his or her affidavit fails to establish he or she is qualified, the same is not true where, as in this case, the presuit affidavit “clearly establishes” an expert’s qualifications, and the defendant has failed to provide evidence to the contrary. Thus, because it was “clear” Thompson was qualified from her affidavit, the trial court erred in allowing formal discovery (Thompson’s deposition) in this case. Therefore, a defendant’s request for limited formal discovery is proper only where there is a genuine dispute regarding an expert’s qualifications. What qualifies as a “genuine dispute” was not addressed in the case, but it presumably involves providing direct evidence that he or she is unqualified by contradicting his or her affidavit.[9]
Prejudice Required
Lastly, the case establishes that, before a medical malpractice action can be dismissed for failure to comply with the informal presuit discovery process, the trial court must make a finding of prejudice.
The case quotes the well-established rule that “it is improper to dismiss an action for a plaintiff’s failure to comply with discovery where the defendant suffers no prejudice.”[10] This rule now applies to presuit discovery requests under the Act. Therefore, a motion to dismiss under the Act will survive only if the defendant can show prejudice. Defendants failed to identify any prejudice in this case, even though during Thompson’s deposition, Plaintiff’s counsel “repeatedly objected to questions,” “refused to allow” Thompson to answer certain questions, and “thwarted” Defendants from learning certain information.[11] Furthermore, it is now established that a claim of prejudice based on delay is “not the type of prejudice contemplated by . . . case law.”[12] The case does not, however, provide insight into what prejudice would have qualified as sufficient.[13]
In conclusion, this decision delivers a modest blow to defendants. Contrary to the asserted belief, defendants do not typically use the Act’s requirements “as a sword against plaintiffs.”[14] Instead, the Act’s provisions were intended to shield a defendant from unqualified plaintiff experts who lack sufficient knowledge of the relevant standard of care to properly corroborate whether there are “reasonable grounds” to bring an action under the Act. Thus, in presuming the Act is being used as a weapon, the majority threatens to frustrate the Act’s purpose of screening out meritless claims supported by unqualified experts. The arguments of both the majority and dissent detail numerous perceived ambiguities within the Act. Such ambiguities seem ripe for further review by the legislature. Without action by the legislature, ambiguities will likely persist and the Act’s purpose of screening out unfounded claims in the presuit period may be hindered.
[1] See Fla. Stat. §§ 766.101–316 (2018).
[2] Morris v. Muniz, No. SC16-931 (Fla. Sept. 6, 2018).
[3] Id. (quoting Michael v. Med. Staffing Network, Inc., 947 So. 2d 614, 619 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007)).
[4] § 766.203(2).
[6] Id.; Fla. Stat. § 766.102 (2011).
[7] The dissent found it significant that Thompson’s affidavit stated she retired in March of 2008, and thus, was not currently engaged in the practice of medicine at the time her opinion was given in 2011. Id. at 44 (Canady, J., Dissenting).
[8] The dissent found Thompson to be unqualified, citing to the fact that at the time she gave her opinion she had been retired from the practice of medicine for nearly three years. Similarly, when the incident arose in this case, Thompson had been retired for nearly ten months, although she was recertified as an OB-GYN in 2007 and 2009 in the state of Texas. According to the dissent’s construction of the Act Thompson did not meet the Act’s requirements to qualify as an expert.
[9] The majority does not disclose how such direct evidence contradicting the expert’s qualifications is to be obtained in the absence of any formal discovery.
[10] Id. at 34.
[13] Apparently, the inability to obtain direct evidence to contradict the Plaintiff’s expert’s affidavit regarding her stated “qualifications” is not sufficient to show “prejudice.”
[14] Id. (quoting Michael v. Med. Staffing Network, Inc., 947 So. 2d 614, 619 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007)).
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The European Sedan Chair: a brief history
Pius V, Pope 1566-1572,
printed 1568, Germany
The Sedia Gestatoria and the carrying chair was the local transport of the Pope and heads of state during the 16th century. The canopied carrying chair became popular in Naples, Genoa, and the Spanish Court in the last quarter of the 16th century. These forms of transport developed more widely into the fully enclosed (close) or covered chair and man-carried litters during the early 1600s.
The Sedan, a glass-windowed, cloth-lined enclosed chair or litter was developed in London during the early 1630s. Its name, according to Henry Peacham (1576-1644, author of Coach & Sedan, 1636) derives from the Principality of Sedan on the Meuse, an important centre of cloth manufacture and a Protestant enclave on the North European mainland. The two names ‘sedan’ and ‘chair’ were commonly combined during the first decade of the 18th century and by the late 19th century the combined term came to describe all man-carried transport with a seated occupant. Many European countries extended the use of earlier words to include this new glass-windowed carrying chair. So France used chaise a porteur(s) and Spain silla de manos. In Italy portantina replaced seggiola, whilst in Germany Sänfte described the new chair as well as the mule-litters already in use.
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Rooms at Bath, by James Gillray (1756-1815),
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In London, the glass-windowed sedans became available for public hire from October 1634 and by the late 18th century more than 2,000 sedan chairs were available to hire in over 37 cities/towns across Great Britain and Ireland. Ornamentation reached its zenith during the period 1745-1775 when there were tens of thousands in private use across Europe. Today probably only 1,600 survive.
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August 2002: The Artist at Work
BY DON FLUCKINGER • Having written about Mia Hamm last month, I wasn’t planning to write again this month about "celebrities my fountain pens have known."
But please, indulge me once more, and let me tell you about my good friend Mario Henri Chakkour. Like the Mia Hamm tale, this one also involves a Sheaffer, but not the same one — this Sheaffer is my new favorite carrying pen. A beautiful 1940s Balance 2000, the pen possesses substantial-but-not-excessive heft, a massive, gorgeous two-tone Triumph nib, and solid 14K trim including a generously wide cap band.
What happens when you give a lifelong painter a Sheaffer Balance, 30 seconds, and a blank page? Find out here.
It’s something of a miracle pen, one of those diamonds in the eBay rough that I’d won for a song, maybe twenty-five bucks. Although I can’t remember the exact figure, I do remember bidding low because it was a Vac-Fil, and I was factoring in the likelihood that I’d have to send the thing off to good friends Rick Horne or Nathan Tardif for filler repacking. The seller had noted that the pen didn’t fill properly.
That’s typical. While Sheaffer’s pens of the era were built like brick outhouses, the Vac-Fil packing almost always gives out by the time a collector rediscovers it. Furthermore, only a couple guys can properly repair them nowadays.
Contrary to the seller’s description, however, the pen filled perfectly and didn’t leak. It became an immediate favorite. Like me, you probably have about four levels of reaction to a new pen acquisition:
One, it comes and you hate it because the pen has a flaw or just isn’t the cool writing instrument you’d seen at first blush;
Two, it’s one that fills a gap in the collection but it probably won’t be making the rounds except on rare occasion;
Three, it’s a very nice pen that you carry for a while until the honeymoon ends, at which point it gets tucked away in storage but makes appearances in your pocket from time to time; and
Four, the Instant Classic. The pen you show all your pals. The pen you can’t let out of your sight for months at a time. One that gets heavy rotation.
This pen was an Instant Classic. I even relied on it to be the only fountain pen I took on a two-week vacation — and judging by frequent Zoss list threads on the topic, I’m not the only one who finds it hard to pick vacation pens.
Which brings us to Mario Chakkour. He doesn’t know it, but he’s something of a hero to me.
As a writer, I ain’t no Papa Ernie Hemingway, but I put together sentences well enough to scratch out a living doing it. As a speaker, however, I couldn’t talk my way out of a paper bag. Once my mouth opens, I sometimes get flustered and inarticulate before I even take my first breath.
Mario, on the other hand, can speak well — and persuasively. Once Mario talked me into changing jobs, and then he proceeded to talk the salty CEO of the company for which he thought I should be working into hiring me. By the time I got to my only interview for the job, my interviewer was salivating over the prospect of my working for him. That had nothing to do with me, let me tell you. When it comes to selling, Mario is nails.
Mario, who is Lebanese, also writes well. In English. Which is pretty cool, considering it’s his third language. He is an artist, an architect, and an author. He paints, he writes about painting, he designs multimillion-dollar buildings, and with partner Gregory Scott Wills he has written textbooks and multimedia software that college art professors use to teach drawing and painting techniques. (His trademark is Virtual Pose.) In his spare time, he writes and performs music.
He’s not only succeeded in technical and creative realms, but he did it after a tumultuous childhood in Beirut. Experiencing constant destruction around him through his formative years didn’t forge bitterness in Mario’s soul, but rather a caring, well-rounded personality. In his shoes, I’m certain I would not have turned out so well.
We met a few weeks ago at a Bethesda, MD, Thai joint to catch up. At the end of the night, Mario whipped out a copy of his newest book, Virtual Pose 2, that he’d brought along for me. I gladly accepted it, but being an incorrigible autograph hound, I gave it back to him for inscription. I handed him my Sheaffer 2000 and he went to work.
Mario, always the artist and the improviser, signed his name and whipped off a (literally) 30-second sketch of a baseball player, apparently because my enthusiastic anticipation for attending the next day’s Orioles game at Camden Yards had rubbed off on him.
“I didn’t know fountain pens could be used by a serious artist for drawing,’ I said to him as I watched in awe as he worked, a batter in stance quickly evolving on the page in real time as fast it would in one of those time-lapsed video segments of a half-hour PBS art lesson.
“Actually, some of them work well,” he said, the nib whipping around as he talked. “This one does.”
With that, Mario deemed his sketch finished and handed back the book. I thanked him and we said goodbye until the next time. By then he surely will have come up with some other way to blow me away with his talent.
Further Reading: Virtual Pose 2, by Mario Henri Chakkour, Missy Loewe (Photographer)
Recently, Mario Chakkour published a sequel to his original Virtual Pose book/CD-ROM multimedia art class.
Freelance writer Don Fluckinger lives in Nashua, New Hampshire, and is the son-in-law of Richard Binder. His articles have been published in Antiques Roadshow Insider, The Boston Globe, and on the Biddersedge.com collectibles Web site. Please note: Any opinions stated in this column are Don’s alone and do not necessarily reflect those of Richard Binder or this Web site.
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In the market for a new bike? Here's what you need to know
Know what kind of riding you like to do and how much you're willing to spend before you try to find a bike that fits you.
By Bob Griendling, Special to the Times
Published October 28 2014
Updated October 30 2014
If you haven't bought a bicycle lately, you're in for two surprises: one, sticker shock, and two, you'll need to work hard not to get a good bike.
I bought my first new bike in 1976 for $165. Double that today and you can buy very nice handlebars. Bottom line is that new entry-level road bikes cost about $600 to $1,000. But they are good bikes.
My brother Paul, new to cycling, bought two bikes — an entry-level one to ride while visiting here and one that cost three times as much for his home in Colorado. He was afraid that after riding his Colorado bike that when he returned to his Florida bike he'd be disappointed, but no. "The cheaper bike still seemed like a nice ride to me," he said.
So how to decide on a new bike?
First, what kind of riding do you want to do? Commuting might require a hybrid with beefier tires and a more upright position. Beach cruising, time trials and mountain biking each demand different bikes. But let's assume that you want to get fit, lose a little weight and get the endorphins flowing. Road bikes are what you mostly see on the street.
First, decide your budget, says Val Tavanese, owner of Outspokin Bicycles in Tampa and St. Petersburg. "Most people have a budget, even if they say they don't," she says. "That budget must include a helmet, clipless pedals and cycling shoes."
Mark Yeager, owner of St. Pete Bicycle and Fitness, says if you can afford it, buy a bike with the latest components, meaning an 11-speed one, referring to the number of cogs in the rear wheel gear. "If you decide to upgrade later," he says, "you can get a better return if you have the latest components, or you can upgrade other parts of the bike incrementally." Both he and Tavanese say that under most circumstances, they will take your old bike as a trade-in.
Both sellers say bike fit is most important, and that's not just a matter of measuring your pant inseam. If you're buying a higher-end bike, you can benefit from a computerized fit, but a reputable store will at least take the time to see how you sit on the bike, ask about the type of riding you want to do and then suggest different brands and models that would work best.
"The best thing you can do for new riders is get the fit right to ensure they're comfortable," says Yeager, who added that he will switch a bike for a customer if the fit doesn't seem right after a few rides.
And as Tavanese puts it, "We want a long-term relationship, so we want to help make sure they'll enjoy riding."
Today, road bikes are usually categorized as either racing or endurance geometries. Endurance bikes allow you to sit more upright. But that's not be the only reason to consider one. A lack of flexibility may make a traditional frame uncomfortable. Or you may be built funny — like me. I have long legs and short arms, uncommon for men. I need to look long and hard for a bike that fits me, and though I like fast group rides, I recently bought an endurance bike.
Once you have the right frame, you can tweak the fit by changing handlebars or the stem that holds them, or by adjusting your seat's fore and aft position or its height and tilt.
Bike manufacturers are becoming more sensitive to the needs of women, Tavanese says. Due to their build and center of gravity, she says 80 percent of women would benefit from a bike designed specifically for them.
Ride as many bikes as you can because if you haven't ridden in a while, you'll need time to understand the differences among them and learn what's important to you. Take your time. A good shop allows test rides — and not just around the parking lot. Insist on a good 30 minutes to take it on a road or trail and see how it — and you — feel. However, keep in mind that when you ride regularly, your needs and fit may change based on the type of riding you do.
Should you consider a used bike? Randy Grace of Zephyrhills has bought more than 100 used bikes over the years. He says that if an ad is too good to be true, it probably is. You can spot scams if you've bought as many bikes as he has, but it's risky business. Hairline frame cracks and counterfeit components could spell disaster if they fail. Use a payment method such as a credit card so you have recourse if you need it.
Plus, developing a relationship with your local bike shop can pay dividends down the road. A shop that stays in business does so because of good customer service. And they know that if you like riding, your first bike won't be your last.
Bob Griendling is vice president of the St. Petersburg Bicycle Club and a member of the Mayor's Bicycling and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. He blogs at bobgriendling.com. Contact him at bob@griendling.com.
'It’s a game changer': New Vincent House in Pasco County to help people with mental illness find jobs in the community
The transitional employment placement program has centers in Hernando and Pinellas counties.
Bayfront Health St. Petersburg hires new CEO
Sharon Hayes, who formerly led Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point, Palms of Pasadena Hospital and others, will take over after the previous CEO resigned suddenly.
At Tampa General Hospital, 3-D printers are removing guesswork for doctors and patients
The technology is being used far more often in medicine, which means it could start showing up on hospital bills.
‘I’m a helper.’ A Clearwater man just donated his 100th gallon of blood
Tony Mann became a donor at a young age, inspired by his father’s illness. Years later, he sees no reason to stop.
Florida ranks 43rd in access to mental health care. A new group in Tampa Bay wants to change that.
Leaders from hospitals, businesses, law enforcement, government and education have formed a coalition to improve mental health care. One idea: “behavioral health urgent care.”
E-cigarettes may damage brain stem cells: study
Puffing on e-cigarettes or electronic cigarettes can damage neural stem cells important to brain function, a new study says.
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Svetlana Tsivinskaya
Svetlana Tsivinskaya grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she started playing the violin when she was six years old. Throughout her career, her diverse cultural environment and focused musical studies have shaped her into an accomplished, versatile violinist.
During her training in Russia, Svetlana performed as a soloist, as part of a chamber trio, and also with numerous orchestras. Her performances have graced the stages of St. Petersburg's Great Philharmonic Hall, Glazunov Hall and Court Chapel Hall - encompassing some of the greatest experiences of her youth.
After receiving her Masters Degree in violin and chamber performance from the State Music Conservatory in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Svetlana immigrated to the United States. She made her home in the metro-Detroit region and has since played with orchestras all over Michigan, including the Flint Symphony Orchestra, the Michigan Opera Theatre, and the Oakland Symphony Orchestra amongst others.
A special interest in performance of early Baroque music led Svetlana to participate in a program at the Baroque Performance Institute at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Marilyn McDonald and Mark Destrube in 2007.
Her drive for higher education ultimately brought Svetlana to Michigan State University where, in 2014, she earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts in violin performance. She credits her professors, Dr. Walter Verdehr and Dr. Yuri Gandelsman for helping her to reveal the deeper colors of music and to achieve a variety of performing successes.
Her drive to look for underlying musical meanings brought her to musicological and theoretical research that led her into making original discoveries in the works of Robert Schumann's sonatas for violin and piano. This drive also led to her advocacy of the underperformed contemporary Violin Concerto by Lee Actor, inspiring her to analyze, perform and popularize the score.
Currently, Svetlana runs "Strings Art Studio" where she teaches violin and viola. Her contagious passion for music has helped her students receive scholarships to nationally ranked universities.
Svetlana has given acclaimed recitals in the halls of the Kerrytown Concert House, the Steinway Gallery of Detroit, and the Ecumenical Seminary of Detroit. She is engaged in various projects including performing as a soloist with the Livonia Symphony Orchestra in February, 2017.
Svetlana recently released her debut CD, "Schumann's Enigma", on the Blue Griffin label.
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Weezer Share Video for Cover of Toto’s “Africa” Starring “Weird Al” Yankovic
Video Recreates Weezer's "Undone - The Sweater Song" Video, With Yankovic as Rivers Cuomo
Sep 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts
The Weezer covering Toto's "Africa" thing has gotten even sillier. Now Weezer has shared a video for their cover that stars "Weird Al" Yankovic, the greatest music parody artist of the 1980s (and perhaps any decade), as Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo in a recreation of Weezer's 1994 video for "Undone - The Sweater Song." More
Toto Release the Studio Version of Their Cover of Weezer’s “Hash Pipe”
In Response to Weezer Covering Toto’s “Africa” and “Rosanna”
Aug 10, 2018 By Christopher Roberts
Back in May a teenaged Weezer fan named Mary convinced the band to cover Toto's 1982 hit "Africa" via a jokey Twitter account fittingly named "weezer cover africa by toto." Toto had previously announced their intentions to cover Weezer's "Hash Pipe" and now that cover is also out. More
Weezer Finally Cover Toto’s “Africa” After Long Fan Campaign
Last Week They Covered Toto's "Rosanna"
May 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts
A teenaged Weezer fan named Mary has been trying to get the band to cover Toto's 1982 hit "Africa" via a jokey Twitter account fittingly named "weezer cover africa by toto." After several months of this, the band finally responded last week by covering Toto's "Rosanna" instead, a song also featured on their Toto IV album (it's the opening track, "Africa" is the closing track). More
Weezer Covers Toto’s “Rosanna” in Response to Campaign to Get Them to Cover Toto’s “Africa”
But What Does Rosanna Arquette Think?
A teenaged Weezer fan named Mary has been trying to get the band to cover Toto's 1982 hit "Africa" via a jokey Twitter account fittingly named "weezer cover africa by toto." After several months of this, the band has responded by covering Toto's... "Rosanna." More
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Nilüfer Yanya on “Miss Universe”
Raw Power
Apr 16, 2019 By Conrad Duncan Photography by James Loveday (For Under the Radar) Web Exclusive
Nilüfer Yanya thought she would have done her debut album when she was 20. The 23-year-old's cover of Pixies' "Hey" in 2016 marked her out as a distinctive voice in London's underground indie scene, by trading the original's anxious snarl for a bewitching after-hours vibe. Three EPs followed, each one more critically acclaimed than the last, along with enthusiastic profiles in national papers and a coveted BBC Sound of 2018 nomination. But when it came to making her debut, she almost had to force herself to do it.
"Anyone can do an album, but I wanted to feel like I knew what I was doing," she says, when I ask what held her back for so long. "Weirdly enough, when I came round to it, I still didn't feel like I knew what I was doing." She set herself a challenge to finish her debut album by the end of 2018, with the condition that it would contain none of the singles she had made her name with. And even if she didn't feel any more prepared, the time had done her good.
The result, titled Miss Universe, is a strikingly confident record that demonstrates the breadth of Yanya's talent. Whether she's tackling taut grungy alt-rock ("In Your Head") or sugary synth-pop ("Safety Net"), Yanya is a commanding presence whose voice bounces between aloof London-accented sing-speak and a sweet feather-light falsetto. The album's diversity is partly caused by its production, recorded across multiple cities and with numerous collaborators adopting a "try anything" spirit. The presence of co-writers was something that initially troubled her, if only for fear of a backlash from traditionalists. "I felt weird about putting so many co-writes on my debut album, because I'm supposedly a singer/songwriter—I'm not just a singer, so you feel like a bit of a fake," she says. "I don't want to be labeled as someone who can't write by themselves." Although that concept of a lone songwriter with total control of their work feels outdated in an era where songs are produced across countries via voice notes and emails. "I guess I just want to be like, 'I wrote it all!" Yanya says, as she laughs; a reflex that often kicks in when she seems to catch herself sounding too serious. "But why should I have to do that? Why does it make it any better?"
In hindsight, the idea that Yanya's use of collaboration could negate her contributions is laughable once you listen to Miss Universe, as it is her identity that binds these songs together. Whether she's borrowing the beat from Kelis' "Millionaire" on "Heat Rises" or trying on the indie-house stylings of Jamie xx on "Baby Blu," Yanya's songwriting always has a few recognizable features: melodically rich vocal lines, unpredictable changes of pace, and a forceful rhythmic focus, even in its sparsest moments.
The album is also linked together by a collection of tongue-in-cheek interludes which star Yanya as the Siri-esque voice of a company called WWAY Health ("We worry about your health so you don't have to"). Throughout Miss Universe, WWAY promises to make you fitter, happier, and more productive, all while offering banal, often meaningless advice.
"We're constantly being told how to behave and where to go and what to spend money on," she says, when asked what inspired the album's concept. "Self-improvement is just funny because everybody wants to be the best version of themselves. You want to be the best and the fittest and the strongest...but not everything about you is perfect and good," she adds. "And it's like, for what reason are we doing this? What's wrong with you? Nothing really."
Although Yanya doesn't think of Miss Universe as a concept album, the loose narrative does help reframe her songs with a satirical edge. It encourages you to interpret these songs, which might otherwise seem introspective and personal, in a wider social context. And you can't help but wonder if the decision was designed to distract from the confessional interpretations of her music.
"I think my music is not just [a personal thing]. I guess I just subconsciously don't want to be seen as a confessional female singer/songwriter and all that rubbish," she says, laughing again. "And since I have the freedom to put it in another context, I can put it into any context." The confessional tag might fit Yanya well but it's not one she's particularly keen on. "I think it closes your mind—I know I do it. It's like, what do you mean? I'm not whispering in anyone's ear when I'm singing."
In general, classification is something that doesn't seem to sit naturally with her. Miss Universe is clearly a rock record, but it's one that defies conventional at almost every turn. Yanya grew up listening to indie stalwarts like The Libertines and The Strokes, and while those bands are in this record's DNA, its creativity feels more in-tune with her current influences, such as Frank Ocean, Blood Orange, and experimental R&B singer Tirzah. Yanya's music often gets labeled with a set of adjectives—raw, soulful, intimate—that fail to capture the versatility of her music.
"I like raw. I feel that's a good way to describe it because I'm not really interested in making something sound polished," she tells me, when I put those descriptions to her. "Soulful? Yeah I guess. I don't really know what that word means."
On Miss Universe, Yanya shows how flimsy the barriers between genres are, much like how her peers in hip-hop and R&B have done in recent years. By forcing herself to make an album, she encouraged herself to try out new ideas and experiment with styles she might have previously dismissed. The writing of "Baby Blu"—a song that may take her music to a wider audience—proved formative in that process. "It doesn't sound like the rest of my songs...in a way, part of me was resisting it, but I needed to write something," she says. "I think it's abolished the feelings in my head about what my music is." It helps that Yanya is a writer with a vision that can stand out in any context. Or, to put it in her words, "It doesn't matter what my music sounds like. It could be anything, but it'll still be me."
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Tourinform > Monuments > Március 15. Square - Main Square
Március 15. Square - Main Square
The Március 15 Square was an important commercial centre even in the middle ages. A dominant building of the square was the St. Matthew Church.
The citizen houses, statues and public buildings had been built mainly in baroque style during the big baroque reconstruction of the town. László Sáros, an architect honored by Ybl-Award, gave the new look of the square.
The rebuilding finished in September 2006.
St. Matthew Crypt
There is an exhibition in the crypt under the big glass roof. The ruins of a stone church built in roman style and the ruins of the church's cemetery are there to see. During workdays the entrance to the crypt is ensured by the Tragor Ignác Museum.
White Friars' Church (Március 15 tér 24.)
One of the nicest buildings of the square is the White Friars' Church, which had been built in the XVIII. century in baroque-rococo style. There are different, wonderful decorations in the front of the church, Ion-offsets, spiral ornaments, vases and statues. Despite of the simple outlook the inside is very rich decorated. The colors are bright, the statues are white, and the altar-pieces are genial. The sensation of the year 1995 was the finds in a secret crypt of the church. 200 years along was the entrance of the crypt walled up. During the renovation of the church the entrance had been demolished and several mummies had been found here. A special climate of the crypt ensured the very good conditions of 262 coffins and the bodies as well. There is an exhibition Memento Mori in the cellar of the house at Március 15. tér 19. There can bee seen the mummies with the rich decorated palls, and the painted coffins. These founds are unique in Central Europe. In front of the church there is the statue of St. Joseph with the little Jesus.
St. Hedwig Statue
Vác is the heart of the Danube Bend. St. Hedwig is the patron saint of the Danube Bend. She helped the poor, the ill, the orphans and the widows. She was born in 1373 as the third and youngest daughter of the Hungarian-Polish King Louis the Great. The Tourist Committee of the Danube Bend's Regional Council dedicated the saint as the patron of the Danube Bend and now we celebrate the Danube Bend's Day on St. Hedwig's name day.
András Chazár Education Institute for Deaf-Mutes (Március 15. tér 6.)
The first school for deaf-mute people in Hungary was established by András Chazár in 1802. He was the clerk of the county Gömör. His statue is in the park of the school. The building had a lot of functions during the centuries - it was a bishop palace, a Teresianum, later became a cloister and girls' school. Behind the Restaurant on the square there is the Konstantin Garden, where the Christmas tree of the town stands at Christmastime.
Mansion (Március 15. tér 20.)
Regarding the keystone of the front door this medieval building might have been the personal property of the chapter or it was his residence. Referring a written document the house had been rebuilt in baroque style and from 1770 operated as a hotel. The front of the house is eclectic. The cellar is 140 m2 and since September 2006 there is a Wine Museum. There is also a Public Gallery in the house, where the painting of the artist of Vác can be seen. The public library organizes here a "Cultural Café" seasonally. A public toilet will be open in the house soon.
In front of the building there is Bell-Pavilion, plays a glockenspiel every hour.
Former Palace of the Great Provost (Március 15. tér 4.)
The medieval house had been rebuilt in baroque style in the second half of the XVIII. century. On the front side there are a lot of classical ornaments, like Ion-offsets, and the triangular frontage. The very nice grating of the balcony had been made from wrought iron. There is a clerical-art collection in the building fro the moment. In front of the house in the Europe park there is a baroque Maria Statue.
Hospital & Greek-Catholic Chapel (Március 15. tér 7-9.)
There is a small chapel inside the building. Originally it was a seminary and later became a hospital.
Beside the hospital there is the City Hall (Március 15. tér 11.). This is the nicest building of the worldly baroque architecture in Vác. Above the front door there is a nice wrought iron balcony. On the frontage there is the coat of arms of the town. Above the frontage there are three statues. In the middle there is the antic Greek goddess of the justice, Justice. On the right and on the left there are two lying women, holding arm of the nation and the Migazzis' family crest.
In the middle of the square there is the Fountain of the Partnertowns. There are the shields of the partnertowns of Vác on it and on the top of the column there is the statue of St. John.
Towards the Köztársaság Street the Main Square is closed by the modern Vienna Town Gate.
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Working against Ebola
After a few months off from the world of emergencies, I'm back in it as a Programme Manager for Oxfam's Ebola Response in Sierra Leone! I'm thrilled to be working in this programme, not just because it's a chance to be directly involved in an emergency I've been following since it started in early 2014, but also because it's a huge opportunity to grow more in this field. As much as the Philippines has been an excellent training ground with the numerous typhoons, floods, monsoon rains and other assorted natural disasters we're affected by yearly, working in Africa introduces a whole different world for living and working.
Why did I decide to work in this response? Though the decision was easy for me, it wasn't without weighing the risks carefully. A wealth of documents and information from the news, humanitarian organizations and Oxfam helped tilt the balance towards working here.
Starting out in Sierra Leone
My journey to Sierra Leone started from a gray and dreary Paris (I discovered that rain + winter makes Paris less romantic. Harrumph) through Casablanca, Morocco to Freetown, Sierra Leone. It was a lucky break I was in France because the Philippines discourages travelers from going to West Africa (really, my country needs to be a little less backward about things like this) and even blocks people from leaving if they find out that's your destination. (It's disappointing that the Philippines churns out thousands of medical professionals like doctors, nurses, and are known to be excellent caregivers. And yet, the government discourages them from going to West Africa to help in the response. But anyway).
For anyone going to Sierra Leone, the trip at the moment (with all the flight cancellations to Africa) is through Air Brussels (Brussels) and Royal Air Maroc (Morocco). From Morocco, it's a 3-4 hour plane ride to Freetown (I'd be more accurate but I was passed out during my midnight trip until we landed at the annoying hour of 4am). Let me tell you, it's a huge shock to the system to go from chilly Paris and Morocco at - degree weather and come out on the other end at 30 degree Freetown (technically, that's a lot hotter than the Philippines right now!).
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The Traditions at Cambridge condominiums for sale in Canton, MI are located at the south of Ford Road and east of Canton Center Road in the 48187 zip code. Lovely condominiums that feature open floor plan concept with kitchen including stainless steel appliances, granite counter tops, oak cabinets, counter breakfast bar and attached breakfast area with hardwood flooring. The great room is complete with recessed lighting and ceramic tile faced gas fireplace. The master bedroom comes with a gas fireplace, walk in closet, tray ceiling, and an updated ceramic bath. The Traditions at Cambridge is a highly desirable neighborhood that offer clubhouse, fitness center, racquet ball, tennis court, swimming pool, and more.
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The Traditions at Cambridge Condominiums Location
The Traditions at Cambridge condominiums for sale in Canton, MI are located at the south of Ford Road and east of Canton Center Road.
Kroger has several sections that grocery shoppers adore, such as Adult Beverage where cocktails, craft beer and great wines are sold, Deli and Bakery where one can find all party platters needs, cakes and Murray's Cheese. Kroger also has Fresh Produce section, Meat and Seafood section, and Natural Foods section. Shoppers prefer Kroger for a lot of reasons but primarily because of the store formats that include supermarkets, superstores, department stores, convenience stores, and mall jewelry stores.
Bombay Grocers was established in 2000 and it is known to be the real convenience store in the neighborhood. Bombay Grocers is devoted to continuing it's family tradition of personal service and exceptional quality. They guarantee that only the best spices and freshest produce are served. The store is committed to sharing what they know best about Indian heritage and culture: the food. Bombay Grocers continues to educate and expose new generations to the regional diversity of India and the richness of the culture and the food. From the delicious Indian and American foods selection, this store has almost everything needed for a party and convenience shopping. The best part though is that the prices are the best found in the area.
Just a short walking distance of 0.4 mile via Commodore Lane and N Canton Center Road, are where a few restaurants that are nearby are located such as, Bailey's, leo's Coney Island, La Shisho Palace, Tony Sacco's Coal Oven Pizza, Antonio's Cucina Italiana, Einstein Bros Bagels, and Bagger Dave's Burger Tavern.
Parks provide intrinsic environmental, aesthetic, and recreation benefits to cities and also a source of positive economic benefits. Located 1.3 miles via Saltz Road, Griffin Park is a public park tennis facility, but more than just the superb tennis courts, this family oriented recreational park comes with other amenities such as, an athletic field, baseball/softball diamond, basketball court, creek, nice playground for children, pond and woodland.
Flodin Park, located 0.4 mile via Stonewood Road and Waterside Road, comes with a splash park, this is great for children who enjoys water play since it has little or no standing water. The Flodin Park splash park is said to eliminate the need for lifeguards or other supervision, as there is little risk of drowning. Flodin Park also has pavilions and athletic fields which can be reserved for a fee. The park also offers other amenities like baseball/softball diamond, basketball court, nature trail, playground, pond, tennis courts, wetland and woodland.
Malls offer free year round entertainment for all ages, including musical/choral groups, dancers and a wide range of other events designed to engage and entertain. No other retail venue can provide the level of entertainment a mall can.
Centre Village of Canton Shopping Center is a strip mall located on the west side of Canton Center Road and south of Ford Road. It is also near New Towne Plaza Shopping Center that is 1.1 miles via N Canton Center Road and Ford Road. Other than the shopping centers, there are also home improvement stores and retail chains for branded apparel. To name a few are Lowe's Home Improvement located 1.4 miles via Ford Road. Lowe's offer everyday low prices on all quality hardware products and construction needs. Quality appliances, paint, patio furniture, tool, flooring, hardware and gardening supplies are few of what can be bought at Lowe's. Another home improvement store near The Traditions at Cambridge Condominiums is IKEA. Located 2.6 miles via Ford Road, IKEA is the world's largest furniture retailer as of January 2008. The company is known for its modern architectural designs for a vast number of appliances and furniture, and its interior design work is often associated with an eco-friendly simplicity. Marshalls is a store that shouldn't be missed. Located 2.5 miles via Ford Road, this is U.S.'s second largest off-price family apparel and home fashion retailer, behind its sister company, T.J. Maxx. They sell brand-name merchandise at prices generally 20%-60% below department and specialty store regular prices.
Located 5.1 miles via N Canton Center Road and Main Street is one of the famous attractions The Traditions at Cambridge residents enjoy going to, The Plymouth Historical Museum features 26,000 square feet of exhibits, a gift shop, and an archives and research library. This museum also features a late 19th-century Victorian recreation of Main Street, tracing the growth of the small town from the railroad depot to the general store. The largest Lincoln collection in the state of Michigan is housed in a separate room off of Main Street. And a Timeline of Plymouth is the newest permanent exhibit, featuring displays on the Daisy Air Rifle, Ford Village Industries, the Alter Motor Car, World War II, communication history, and much more.
The Traditions at Cambridge Condominiums Freeway Access
The Traditions at Cambridge condominiums for sale in Canton, MI are located at the south of Ford Road, east of Canton Center Road, and 7.4 miles northwest of Interstate 275.
Canton-Plymouth-Mettetal Airport is uncontrolled, and is used for general aviation purposes. Located 4.1 miles via Ford Road and N Lilley Road, no commercial airline service is available, although many small flight schools are based there. Due to the short runway length, touch and go operations, commonly used in flight training, are prohibited. Canton–Plymouth Mettetal Airport covers an area of 63 acres at an elevation of 696 feet above mean sea level. The airport is owned and operated by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). The airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, which categorizes it as a reliever airport.
The Traditions at Cambridge Condominiums School District
All parents want to be assured that their child will be in a safe and secure environment when he/she goes to school. The school districts are in place to make sure of this. Plymouth-Canton School District includes 26 schools and serves more than 19,300 students in grades PK through 12.
Workman Elementary School is public magnet regular school has 686 enrolled students in grades PK and K-5, located 2.6 miles via Saltz Road and Cherry Hill Road. The mission of Workman School is to provide high quality and equal learning opportunities for all students to achieve their personal best. The school strives to help students develop a curiosity and eagerness for learning that extends beyond the school day. Workman Elementary works to help students develop the tools and attitudes that set the foundation for personal and academic success throughout their lives. In 2014, Workman Elementary School ranked better than 82.5% of elementary schools in Michigan. It also ranked 7th among 15 ranked elementary schools in the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools District.
Located 1.6 miles via Saltz Road and Beck Road, Dodson Elementary School is a public magnet school enrolls 561 students in grades PK and K-5. According to state standards, 86% of students at this school are considered proficient in math and/or reading. In 2014, Dodson Elementary School ranked better than 97.1% of elementary schools in Michigan. It also ranked first among 15 ranked elementary schools in the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools District.
Montessori Academy of Canton, located 2.4 miles via N Canton Center Road, this school has 6 academic programs, such as, Infant Program, Toddler Program, Preprimary Program, Elementary Program (Grades 1-3) , Upper Elementary Program (Grades 4-6) and Summer School. The Elementary Program and Upper Elementary Program have more extensive curriculum among all 6, these include Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Nature, Geography/Cultural Studies, History, Practical Life and Enrichment Courses.
West Middle School is a public school with 855 students serving grades 6-8. Located 4.3 miles via N Canton Center Road and Sheldon Road, the West Middle School follows standards and benchmarks for English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. Aside from the rigorous curriculum that the West Middle School has, they also have athletics where students are encouraged to join. The athletics sports vary from Girls Basketball, Boys Basketball, Boys and Girls Cross Country, Girls Volleyball, Boys Wrestling, Boys and Girls Swimming and Boys and Girls Track.
Discovery Middle School, located 1.3 miles via N Canton Center Road, opened its doors in 2001 and current has an enrollment of about 968 students in grades 6 through 8. In 2014, Discovery Middle School ranked better than 95.9% of middle schools in Michigan. It also ranked first among 5 ranked middle schools in the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools District. The student/teacher ratio at Discovery Middle School is 20.2, which is the 2nd best among 5 middle schools in the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools District. The Discovery Track Team triumphed in the concluded 2015 PCCS District Middle School Track Meet. On May 2015, six Discovery students were honored by the Plymouth Rotary for writing the best Four-Way Test essays in each grade level. The Four-Way Test is based on doing the right thing. The suburban community is classified as “middle class”, and the community is very supportive of the arts. Aside from the extensive curriculum that the school has, Discovery Middle School also has extracurricular activities, one of which is the Discovery Middle School Band. The mission of the Discovery Middle School Band is to provide students with activities that instill pride, teamwork, motivation, leadership, self-esteem, values and respect, while recognizing the individual talents and contributions of all members. The Discovery Middle School Band Program consists of over 200 students annually in grades 6 through 8. Class offerings include two brass classes, two percussion classes, two woodwind classes, and three concert bands. All students participate in Symphonic Band (8th), Concert Band (7th), and Beginning Band (6th), and have opportunities to perform in chamber ensembles, percussion ensembles, and other small instrumental groups throughout the year. The Discovery Bands have performed at Walt Disney World in Orlando for the Magic Music Days festival; they have also performed at the Festivals of Music competition in Chicago, IL and were awarded superior ratings and a class championship. The band has also performed at the Lincoln Memorial Concert Series in Washington, D.C., and also had clinics with the United States Marine Band (The President’s Own).
The Plymouth-Canton Educational Park, commonly PCEP or "The Park", is located 2.7 miles via N Canton Center Road and encompasses three public secondary schools - Salem High School, Canton High School and Plymouth High School. PCEP is located on a 305-acre (1.23 km2) campus. The schools operate a joint academic program and, for most sports, individual athletic programs. Certain extracurricular activities, such as choir, orchestra, the Plymouth-Canton Marching Band, the FIRST Tobotics Team, equestrian, figure skating, girls hockey, and the united dance team are combined. One advantage to the 3-in-1 idea is reduced cost: there is only one auto shop (at Canton), one culinary arts facility (at Salem), two darkrooms for photography (both at Canton), one varsity football field (at Canton), two swimming pools (at Salem & Canton), two soccer and football fields (at Canton and Plymouth), one Robotics Shop (at Canton), and one band complex (at Plymouth). There are many clubs dedicated to different languages and cultures, and lifestyles such as the African American Student Association, Spanish and Latino Students' Association (SALSA), Asian Pacific American Club (APAC), The Chinese Club, Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), Polish American Club, Indian-American Student Association (IASA), French Club, Muslim Student Association (MSA), Middle Eastern Student Association, Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), Secular Student Alliance, and the Diversity Council. An annual Celebration of Diversity (COD) is held by some cultural clubs for support and recognition. Students at PCEP have the unique opportunity to take a course in which they operate The Rock Café, a restaurant located inside Salem High School and open to the public. This gives students real-world experience in business, marketing, nutrition, customer service, as well as cooking. The 2-hour long block course, known as Hospitality and Culinary Arts: Restaurant Operation, trains students on the job for careers in the restaurant, food service, and hospitality business using the nationally recognized Pro-Start Certification Curriculum.
Higher education is perceived as extremely important, and for most people a college education has become the necessary admission ticket to good jobs and a middle-class lifestyle.
Northwood University is located 9.8 miles via N Lilley Road and N Haggerty Road. This is a private university that offers the following programs: Bachelor of Business Administration degree with majors in: Accounting, Advertising & Marketing, Aftermarket Management, Automotive Marketing & Management, Computer Information Management, Economics, Entertainment, Sport & Promotion Management, Entrepreneurship, Fashion Marketing & Management, Finance, Health Care Management, Hospitality Management, Innovation Marketing & Management, Insurance Risk Management, International Business, Management, Marketing, Management Information Systems, and Operations & Supply Chain Management. Students have the opportunity to earn their graduate business degree in a variety of formats which include the a Traditional MBA, Accelerated MBA; Evening/Weekend MBA program; Executive MBA programs; or in our online Master of Science in Organizational Leadership program. Students also take part in the NCAA Division II athletics, club sports, and intramural activities. There is an active Greek Life that participates in Rush Week, Greek Week, and local volunteer projects. Watch for fun and entertaining events to come from the many clubs and organizations, and tons of parties and activities sponsored by Student Services.
Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university that was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School. Located 10.4 miles via Geddes Road, it offers degrees and programs at the bachelor's, master's, specialist's and doctoral levels. There are more than 200 majors and minors at the undergraduate level, and more than 170 graduate programs. EMU has six Academic Divisions and eight University Sites which include satellite campuses. Just like many other large universities EMU does offer online courses and degrees. Currently, EMU comprises seven colleges and schools: College of Arts and Sciences, College of business, College of Education, College of Health and Human Services, College of Technology, an Honors College, and a Graduate School. The university's site is composed of an academic and athletic campus spread across 800 acres with over 120 buildings. EMU has a total enrollment of more than 23,000 students. The school is a culturally diverse learning and teaching community set in a small city environment, amid a major metropolitan area. Students, attracted by the school's atmosphere and location, come not only from the Metro Detroit area but from the entire state of Michigan; EMU is well known both nationally and internationally.
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Why study in Ukraine
Bordering seven countries, two continents, and two seas, the country of Ukraine is a fascinating and beautiful destination for students to take their studies. The country is the second largest in Europe and falls within the world’s top fifty when it comes to geographical area, meaning that the landscapes, sites, and scenery are all varied and unique, offering guests – travelers, students, and business people – a range of attractions. Known for its vast farmlands and fertile soil, Ukraine is one of the largest producers of grain on the planet. Kiev, regarded as “the city of a thousand golden domes,” serves as the country’s capital and acts as one of Eastern Europe’s most significant industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural centers.
Why Choosing Ukraine
1. Quality of Education
Ukraine is one of Eastern Europe’s leaders in terms of industry, business, and education. Perhaps due to the fact that the country is the largest that falls entirely in Europe (Russia is split between Europe and Asia), the institutes, universities, and schools across the country are recognized worldwide for their academic rigor.
2. No Need for TOEFL or IELTS
Especially for students looking to study English language, the fact that Ukraine does not require foreign students to pass a language examination means that the country is a hub for many new learners of the language. They have the advantage of learning English from the very roots in Ukraine, while in some other countries, they might have to have a certain degree of comprehension in order to even apply for programs.
3. Easy Visa Process
Students from many countries are not even required to obtain a visa before traveling to Ukraine for their studies. However, even those from locations that do need a visa will find that the process is simple and straightforward. See more on this process below under “Visas.”
4. Diversity
Ukraine is an incredibly diverse country in many capacities. Due to its sheer geographical footprint, the country has a diverse set of environments, wildlife, landscapes, and scenery that will inspire students from all backgrounds. From historic cities to peaceful plains, to lively beaches and breath-taking mountains, Ukraine offers adventures around every corner. The people of the country are as diverse as the nature: sophisticated businesspeople cross paths and engage with local farmers and shopkeepers, all of whom likely have historical ties to one of the seven countries touching Ukraine.
5. Modern History
The country of Ukraine is one of the newest on the planet, having been formally recognized only in 1991. Since then, it has made world news for its relationship with Russia as it continues to develop as a young nation. The country is home to a history that is continuing to unfold to this very day and which dates back centuries to ancient times.
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Daughters of Ireland – A Quest for Freedom and Independence
February 28, 2019 Published By Sarah Garriepy
The second largest heritage claimed by Americans is Irish, with millions immigrating to the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. During the 1840s, the Irish made up nearly 50 percent of all immigrants. In 1890, the U.S. census reported that 260,000 Irish immigrants had settled in Boston and 27,488 in Essex County.
Upon Ellis Island’s opening in 1892, the first immigrant processed was a 15-year-old Irish girl named Annie Moore. During the 1890s, young single women made up 53 percent of Irish immigrants, making it the only immigrant group where men were outnumbered by women.
Young and unmarried Irish immigrants formed strong supportive networks; with new found economic freedom and a degree of independence, they helped other Irish women migrate. While the majority were employed in servitude roles, education facilitated the entrance of second-generation Irish women into the workforce. Many women became teachers, nurses, journalists, and social workers. By 1910, Irish-American women made up the majority of teachers in Boston’s public schools.
Despite being confronted with discrimination and prejudice, Irish women, often characterized by the mythical banshee (heroic Individual; war goddess), demanded justice and equality. Settlement Houses played a key role in providing access to opportunities for independence and self-sufficiency that allowed Irish women to establish themselves as a force to be recognized.
Reference: Raising a Glass to Irish American Women, Elizabeth L. Maurer, March 14, 2017
Tags: irish-american, settlement, women's history
This post was written by Sarah Garriepy
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Suspended Elliott Getting Emergency Hearing in NY
(AP) - A person with direct knowledge of the situation says attorneys for Dallas Cowboys star Ezekiel Elliott are set for an emergency hearing in federal court in New York as they try again to stop the running back's six-game suspension over domestic violence allegations.
Elliott's legal team filed a request for a temporary restraining order Monday and will get a hearing Tuesday in the Southern District of New York, the person told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the filing hadn't been made public.
Last year's NFL rushing leader is suspended for Sunday's game at San Francisco after a federal appeals court overturned an injunction that had allowed him to play this season.
The case is shifting to New York because the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ordered the dismissal of Elliott's lawsuit in Texas. Elliott's attorneys have indicated they are still pursuing the case with the New Orleans court.
The person told the AP that U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty would hear arguments Tuesday in New York because the presiding judge, Katherine Polk Fialla, is out of town.
Filed Under: dallas cowboys, domestic violence allegations, Ezekiel Elliott, six-game suspension
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Insider Selling Jumps as Transaction Windows Open: MSCI, Six Flags, Align Technology, Shake Shack and More
By Lee Jackson May 8, 2016 10:15 am EDT
With the first-quarter earnings parade nearing an end, so are the closed windows that are put in place around earnings announcements that prevent insiders from buying or selling company stock. The black-out periods restrict shareholders from selling shares during a window that falls before, and sometimes extends after, earnings are reported. One thing is for sure, we are starting to see some volume increases in insider transactions.
We cover insider selling every week at 24/7 Wall St., and we like to remind readers that just because an individual or 10% institutional owner sells stock, that is no cause for immediate alarm. Many top executives, and even directors, are compensated with stock and often sell just to diversify or purchase other assets.
Here are companies that reported notable insider selling last week.
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI) had a director sell a large block of shares this past week. Value Act parted with a total of 298,200 shares of the company at prices that ranged from $74.59 to $75.87. The total for the sale came in at $22 million. MSCI offers content, applications and services to support the needs of institutional investors in investment processes worldwide. The shares traded on Friday’s close at $75.38.
Six Flags Entertainment Corp. (NYSE: SIX) saw a director at the company selling stock. That director shed 175,000 shares at prices that ranged from $59.90 to $60.10 apiece. The total for the sale was posted at $11 million. Six Flags Entertainment owns and operates regional theme and water parks under the Six Flags brand name. The stock closed on Friday at $58.41, so a well-timed sale.
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Align Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: ALGN) also had a director selling stock last week. That director parted with some 64,773 shares of the stock at prices between $74.01 and $74.66. The total for the sale was right at $5 million. The company designs, manufactures and markets a system of clear aligner therapy, intra-oral scanners and computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing digital services for use in dentistry, orthodontics and dental records storage in the United States and internationally. The stock was trading at $74.70 as Friday’s session came to a close.
Shake Shack Inc. (NYSE: SHAK) is yet another company in which a director sold stock this past week. That director, who is also a 10% owner, sold a total of 92,583 shares at prices that ranged from $35.08 to $36.14 a share. The total for the sale came in at $3 million. The company owns, operates and licenses Shake Shack restaurants that offer hamburgers, hot dogs, crispy chicken, crinkle-cut fries, shakes, frozen custard, beer, shakes, wine and other products. The stock ended the week at $34.33.
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc. (NYSE: SKT) had the man at the top, the guy with his name on the door, pull the trigger on a big sale last week. CEO Steven Tanger sold a block of 65,000 shares, at prices that ranged from $35.52 to $36.00, for a total of about $2 million. This real estate investment trust invests in the real estate markets in United States. It focuses on developing, acquiring, owning, operating and managing outlet shopping centers. The shares were changing hands on Friday’s close at $36.18.
These companies also reported insider selling this past week: Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (NYSE: LH) and Lockheed-Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT).
With earnings season drawing to a close and the windows for buying and selling opening, watch for the volume of buying and selling to increase in the coming weeks. As always, we will keep our readers up to date on all the current transactions.
By Lee Jackson
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'Portrait of an Artist'
It's one of the most unusual books in the canon of U2 literature.
French journalist Michka Assayas has recently published an extended series of
conversations with Bono.
The conversations, took place over the past three years in different locations around the world. Assayas sees the book as an extended inquiry into the creative process, not documentary or biography.
Assayas, who has known Bono since he first reported on U2 in 1980, had the idea for the book after reading a book of conversations between the young film critic Francois Truffaut and then legendary director Alfred Hitchcock.
'There is a tradition of books which are quite different from anything you usually find in the rock and roll genre. I think this is the sort of book you would normally associate with a writer, a painter or a film director - but Bono is a very unusual rock star.'
The result of the 'conversations' is a 300-page literary journey from family life to songwriting, from the relationships within U2 to the relationship with Bono's father, from raising kids to campaigning for justice for the worlds poorest countries.
Reflections on fame jostle with those on global injustice, anecdotes about celebrities come cheek by jowl with arguments about theology. As the conversation proceeds, not only is the creative process illluminated, so is the chaotically creative nature of the subject at the centre.
'It was like being invited to make a series of sketches and paintings of a great contemporary figure and he was happy that I invited him to be part of such an experiment, that's the surprising thing to me.'
Not that the process was trouble free. There were times when Assayas had to
remind himself that Bono was a man of his word, that the conversations would
continue, that the book would be completed.
'Sometimes I thought it would take ten years to complete. Sometimes he was
totally unavailable for months and I would have no idea where he was!'
And what is his hope for the book? He cites the experience of visiting The Louvre in Paris or the National Gallery in London and studying the portraits of famous faces from history.
'Sometimes the way they stare at you .. you realise the painter has captured this extraordinary impression of truth in their subject. In my wildest dreams I hope that people who read this book in years to come will get that same feeling about my 'painting' of Bono ^ how did he manage to capture that look ?,
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The Ohio State University Launches New Research Department Focused on Human-Animal Interaction
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The Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge in Kansas features regional entrepreneurship competitions around Kansas to promote entrepreneurship and small business development in Kansas. The competition brings in many local Kansas youth who have some innovative thoughts far beyond their ages. This year’s winners will advance to the state competition next month at Kansas State University.
With sponsorship from Kansas State University, this competition gives local youth the opportunity to get a jump start on some of their business ideas. The competition aims to support young members of the community who have a concept that could lead to a future business.
Bridget Stanton, an 18-year-old former 4-H’er grew up on his family farm in Leonardville, KS. Through this program, he was able to form Bridge Digital Marketing which uses social media and graphic design services to create cost-effective marketing strategies for small businesses. Stanton’s project won the regional content for the past two years, earning $3,000 in winnings from one of the sponsors.
Kansas State University, Network Kansas and the Kansas Masonic Foundation are partners in providing awards for the Kansas Entrepreneurship Challenge, which will offer $5,000 for first place, $4,000 for second, and $3,000 for third this year. The money is intended to boost the youth’s business idea.
To learn more the Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge and Kansas State University, read more here.
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Gamecocks Win Certified SC Grown Palmetto Series Second Year in a Row
South Carolina Department of Agriculture
Hugh E. Weathers, Commissioner
Media Contact: Clint Leach, 803-734-2191, jcleach@scda.sc.gov
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 6, 2017
SOUTH CAROLINA – The University of South Carolina won the Certified SC Grown Palmetto Series the second year in a row. The Palmetto Series is an annual points competition between the state’s flagship universities in head-to-head athletic events. Points were also awarded for highest team GPA and for a food drive tackling hunger in their communities.
Presented by the South Carolina Department of Agriculture (SCDA), the series fosters a fun competition between the historic rivals while connecting fans with farmers and to the food grown right here in South Carolina.
“South Carolina is home to championship level athletes and farmers, and SCDA is proud to be a part of this fierce, but friendly, rivalry that brings two great universities together to support our farmers,” Commissioner Hugh Weathers said. “We encourage fans to look for the Certified SC Grown label and continue to support both our farmers and this great competition.”
Points were awarded for the winner of each athletic contest between the two schools, including sports in which both teams competed as part of multiple-team tournaments. Points were also awarded for academics and the food drive benefitting Harvest Hope Food Bank and Golden Harvest Food Bank. This year, the academic point broke the tie between the two universities.
USC earned eight points for wins in women’s soccer, volleyball, golf, basketball, diving, men and women’s tennis, and the academic point.
Clemson won seven points for the competition in men’s soccer, football, basketball, baseball, golf, and women’s cross country as well as the food drive.
“Our student-athletes dedicate themselves to excellence academically and in competition. I am so proud of their accomplishments and the coaches and staff who help them succeed,” USC Athletics Director Ray Tanner said. “Thanks to the SCDA, who brought the in-state competition to life, one that stretches beyond the fields, but in the community and in the classroom.”
“Our student-athletes, coaches and staff all enjoy the Palmetto Series and appreciate the South Carolina Department of Agriculture for their support,” Clemson Director of Athletics Dan Radakovich said. “We look forward this competition continuing for years to come.”
The Gamecocks will celebrate the victory with a student-athlete back-to-school picnic on August 24. The Palmetto Series trophy will be presented to USC on September 16 during the first home game of the season.
To learn more about the Palmetto Series, follow along and participate, visit palmettoseries.com. You can also connect online with the Palmetto Series on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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HomeBlogFilm FestivalsA Comprehensive List Of Exciting Film Festivals – A Yearly Tribute To Cinema
Entering your film into exciting film festivals can give you lots of exposure, and possibly, a few hints on becoming the next Oscar winner! Film lovers, on the other hand, see film festivals as the best place to experience the best of movie making. They also see this is an opportunity to see movies from all genres imaginable.
You won’t believe the large archive of film festivals I found during my search. I sieved through them to give you the major names associated with our favorite story-telling medium. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the list I’ve compiled.
Film lovers, on the other hand, see film festivals as the best place to experience the best of movie making.
Starting in 1932, the Venice Film Festival is on the list of oldest film festivals. This prestigious celebration of film gives out awards like the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory, Lion of the Future, Silver Lion, Golden Lion, and so on. In 2015, there were 100 film entries to this festival.
Two years older than Venice, the Cannes Film Festival is one of the events that receives the most publicity around the globe. Some of the awards given out are the Grand Prix, Palme d’Or, Camera d’Or, Queer Palm, and so on. Here is where documentaries from all over the world receive due notice. Fans can watch the events on live stream broadcast.
SXSW Film Festival
In 1987, SXSW began a tradition and is now one of the most anticipated film festivals that is held in the United States annually. Independent events and emerging directors are sometimes brought to the spotlight. Some studios use the avenue to test their comedies to see how they will perform at the box office.
British Film Institute London Film Festival
Often known as BFI, the London Film Festival is an event is which takes place annually in London. Held in the second half of October, its origin can be traced back to 1957. A festival organizer relates that it features over 300 films and documentaries from around the globe.
The Toronto festival which started in 1976 has grown to become a prestigious event. Best Canadian Feature Film Award and People’s Choice Award are the two key awards up for grabs to deserving movies. It attracts close to 480,000 people this year, making it one of the more well-attended events.
This American film festival takes place in Utah every year. Founded in 1978, this program initiated by the Sundance Institute attracts over 46,000 attendees every year. In the 1990s, low-budget films had the opportunity of nailing distribution deals from leading studios through the festival.
Born in 1951, the Berlin International Film Festival has been celebrated annually every February, since 1978. The attendance exceeds 500,000 making it the largest publicly attended film festival in the world. Consequently, 20 films compete for Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards up for grabs.
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Festival-goers can look-out for this annual fortnight of cinema screening and related events. Starting in 1947, EIFF is one of the longest-running film festivals in the world, which happens every June. The Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film is one of the major awards during the event.
This is an annual film festival which was first held in 1952. Happening over a three-week period every July, in one of Australia’s southern cities, Melbourne. Most noteworthy, in 2012 the festival was able to generate over $8 million in revenues. Moreover, it is one of the fastest- growing festivals around.
This is one of the largest film festivals in Asia, with over 250 film entries from 55 countries in over 11 cultural venues across the territory. Starting in 1976, this film festival is a deliberate attempt to introduce the Chinese language, Hong Kong, and Asian filmmakers to the world. It takes place between March and April every year.
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National Press Club Now Led by Award-Winning Georgetown Alumna
Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak, a 1991 Georgetown graduate and NPR health correspondent, takes on the role of National Press Club president.
28 Georgetown Alumni Serving in the 116th Congress
27 Georgetown alumni took the oath of office in the U.S. House of Representatives, and seven in the Senate, representing a total of 21 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (MPP’94) Elected to Lead House Democratic Caucus
Congratulations to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who was elected to the House Democratic Caucus chairmanship, the fifth most senior leadership position in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Alumna-Founded Mary’s Center Celebrates 30 Years of Prenatal Care for D.C.’s Immigrant Community
The center, created by Maria S. Gomez (NHS’77), MPH, RN, has grown from a basement-level clinic in the Adams Morgan neighborhood serving about 200 women to a multi-site organization serving about 50,000 women, men, and children each year.
Six McCourters Selected for Prestigious Presidential Management Fellowship
Congratulations to the six McCourt students and alumni selected as Presidential Management Fellows Finalists for the class of 2019.
Renowned Nurse Leaders to Serve as Visiting Distinguished Professors
"I am delighted that these nurse leaders have agreed to join us as we work to advance health equity and promote population health through teaching, practice, community engagement, and research and scholarship," says Dr. Patricia Cloonan, dean of the School of Nursing & Health Studies.
Foreign Minister of Japan Taro Kono (F’85) Returns to Georgetown to Deliver Lloyd George Centennial Lecture
Kono spoke at the second Lloyd George Centennial Lecture on the Future of Globalization.
Grad Student First Author on Study That Could Help Design Cancer, Disease Treatments
Jenny England (G’18), a biochemistry and biophysics Ph.D. candidate, is first author on a new paper on protein regulation in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study has important implications in the quest to identify new treatments for cancer and other diseases...
Four Graduates Win Prestigious Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowships
Four Georgetown alumnae are among 30 graduates nationwide selected for the highly competitive Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship.
Sen. Richard Durbin (F’66, L’69) Honored with Georgetown University’s Timothy S. Healy S.J., Award
Georgetown honored Senator Dick Durbin (F‘66, L‘69) with the Timothy S. Healy, S.J. Award for his life of service and commitment to the common good.
Four McCourt Students Selected as Presidential Management Fellows
Fernando Castro-Alvarez (MPP’18), Sakari Deichsel (MIDP’18), Harper Sutherland (MPP’18), and Thomas Wind (MPP’16) have been selected for a two-year appointment with the program, designed to to attract outstanding citizen-scholars to federal service.
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REVIEW: With or Without You by Zane Riley
August 1, 2016 August 1, 2016 alysiaconstantineLeave a comment
With or Without You by Zane Riley (July 21, 2016); 348 pages. Available from Interlude Press here.
So, ever since I reviewed Go Your Own Way by Zane Riley (here), I have been waiting for the release of the sequel, With or Without You, and guess what? It’s here!
If you’ve not read my review of GYOW, pop over there and do that first, or be, at least, forewarned: I’m going to talk about this like a sequel, as if these characters and this situation are familiar because, to me, they are. And I’m happy to see them get more book space.
(Oh, and probably: spoiler alert for book 1.)
With or Without You picks up where Go Your Own Way left off: Lennox McAvoy—a nominally homeless, rather crass high school senior—is living with (and falling for) the relatively-privileged Will Osborne. Lennox was living in a residence motel after being dumped there by an uncaring grandfather and The System (which, after releasing him from a pretty abusive juvie situation, slapped an ankle monitor on him and told him to go be successful… without going too far). Will’s family has taken him in, but they discover that keeping him safe and well-behaved and at “home” is a bit like trying to hold on to a wisp of smoke with nothing but a tissue and a rubber band; Lennox just won’t be contained that way.
Lennox has a dirty mouth and no filter, and absolutely no tolerance for folks (like Will’s dad) who neither trust nor particularly like him. Like a good Harvard Business School grad, he’s proactive: when he senses someone’s not going to treat him with the respect or understanding he needs, he acts like a jerk and pushes them away before they get the chance to hurt him.
Ironically (in the O. Henry sense, not the Alanis Morissette sense), the people Lennox trusts least (Will, Will’s dad and Will’s stepmom) are the most likely to help him stay safe and get him through high school and into college. Ironically (in the O. Henry sense, but maybe a little in the Morissette sense here, too), those folks are so wrapped up in their own ideas of what’s right and good that they do a bit of metaphorical foot-shooting and end up suffocating the kid with their good intentions.
Will pushes Lennox to apply for college at a very expensive, very exclusive music school (Lennox plays several instruments and composes music and is an incredible musician, after all, and Will… really, really isn’t), and it brings out the fear that underlies Lennox’s bravado. What if he bombs the interview or the audition? What if he doesn’t even get that far? What if Will goes away to college in New York as planned, and Lennox is left alone with nothing, holding his… gonads… and has to join the army?
Or what if he gets in after all, but can’t afford to go?
While Will’s in this up to his eyeballs, and has a lot of figuring out to do (how do you support someone without imposing your own values on them?), this book feels like Lennox’s story. Lennox has to learn to trust everything: Will’s dad, his stepmom Karen, Will, and even himself and his own abilities. He also has to learn to let go (his best friend Lucy is leaving him behind, moving to Boston with her new girlfriend). Finally, he has to learn to settle down into happiness and not screw it up just because he’s afraid and wants to ruin stuff before something or someone else does it for him. He is, in the classic sense of irony (and, okay, in Morisette’s sense, too) his own worst enemy.
Not that there aren’t enough really bad enemies out there for him anyway. His own grandparents reject him and keep him from seeing his little sister (his grandparents are white and he’s the child of a Black woman and a white man); the authorities don’t really care who or what he is, as long as his ankle monitor doesn’t indicate he’s gone outside his permitted zone; the racist homophobes at the motel where he was living just want to beat on somebody (he’ll do); Will’s dad kind of thinks he’s a punk, an opinion which may or may not be driven by some privileged racism.
This is a smart and compelling follow-up to Go Your Own Way. (It’s great as a sequel, but can also be read on its own, without having read the first book.) Lennox is tough to love; Will, though his motivations are probably more familiar to most middle-class readers than those of Lennox, is also tough to love much of the time. In fact, almost everybody in this novel (I’m giving Karen a pass) is a well-meaning jerk of one sort or another. (Okay, and the racist homophobes don’t get passes, but they also don’t get to be included here… they’re just jerks, not at all well-meaning.) All of them are interesting and compelling, complex enough as characters to pull you in and make you care what happens to them.
REVIEW: Daniel and Erik’s Super Fab Ultimate Wedding Checklist by K.E. Belledonne
June 30, 2016 alysiaconstantineLeave a comment
Daniel and Erik’s Super Fab Ultimate Wedding Checklist by K. E. Belledonne (June 23, 2016); 188 pages. Available from Interlude Press here.
So, not to make this book review all about me, but I’m going to talk about me for a moment. I prefer to identify as queer—not lesbian (though I do, when asked, agree), not gay, but queer. It’s a political thing. Part of that political thing is feeling suspicious of marriage, its effects and meanings. (I was one of the queers who opposed American gay marriage in theory but advocated for it in the political short term because it was the quickest, surest way to gain all the rights and privileges legal marriage confers on straight folk in the United States.)
That said, I married my partner when gay marriage became legal in the U.S., despite political misgivings. My resistance was not about my feelings for her, but about the expectations that we queers would conform to the straight values of legitimacy/legality, visibility, monogamy and, well, conformity, by accepting something that was a barely-modified form of a straight social/political institution. No sooner was gay marriage made legal than non-marriage was made socially illegitimate, and resistance was futile.
That said, I sure do like my Married Person tax breaks and extra rights.
I needed to include all these explanations at the start of this review because this book takes as its situation the event of a gay wedding/marriage. To be quite honest, I balked a bit, worried a bit about reading the story (even as I trusted its author) because of my feelings.
But enough about me. What do you think of me? (Just kidding; I don’t care what you think of me. This review is only a bit about me and my feelings. Instead, I’m going to tell you what I think of this book. Which is both about me and about this book.)
Daniel and Erik’s Super Fab Ultimate Wedding Checklist is fun. It’s funny, smart, sunny, romantic, by turns heartbreaking and sweet. It’s all the good things one expects of a rom-com. The characters are wise and complicated enough to be interesting without being too complex to understand. The situation is probably common enough that anyone who’s tried to throw a traditional wedding (or watched folks do it) will empathize. The writing is smooth and gently wry.
Here’s the deal: Daniel (a glasswork artist) loves Erik (an archeologist), and Erik loves Daniel, but when Daniel starts using a mobile phone app to plan their impending wedding, things spiral down the drain right quick. The app persona (Aurora), who is a minor character throughout the novel, is genial enough, but in the stress of planning every detail of an elaborate, classic wedding, it suddenly dawns on Daniel (get it? Aurora? Dawn? See what I did?) that he’s miserable, and everything breaks down rapidly from there. The two men wind up in different countries, on different paths, in different worlds, but similarly heartbroken.
Daniel seems to be all about form: he gets sucked into the Wedding Industrial Complex and agonizes over the differences between two essentially-identical paper colors for their invitations (this reminds me of that scene with the business cards in the film version of American Psycho), while Erik is over it and unafraid to say that he thinks the whole mess is ridiculous. One of them seems most driven by the glory of the ceremony (the wedding), and one seems more concerned with the glory of the outcome (the marriage). Between them, a vast political chasm. Filled with broken glass. And hungry wolves. With guns.
This story has all the trappings of a good rom-com: a hostile bestie secretly in love with one of the grooms-to-be, a few folk who root for the couple, a seemingly senseless but realistic breaking point, an interloping new love interest, and a dramatic journey to proclaim love and establish renewal. Like Belledonne’s first novel, Right Here Waiting, this story intervenes in a traditionally-straight narrative (in RHW, the war romance; in this case, the wedding-centric rom-com) and inserts gay folks at its center without changing the narrative too drastically. It’s one way of claiming territory to extend the borders of a previously-hetero-only institution to include outsiders while keeping the institution recognizable. (Another way is to change the institution itself, but that’s a subject for a different essay.)
DESFUWC a fun, beachy, lovely read. It’s engrossing (I read it in two large gulps over two evenings, because I didn’t want to stop). It’s sweet, and gently harrowing (in that bad things happen, but somehow you know it will all be okay in the end).
Ask me, because you knew it was coming: “do you take this book?” I totally do.
Review: The Better to Kiss You With by Michelle Osgood
April 30, 2016 April 30, 2016 alysiaconstantineLeave a comment
The Better to Kiss You With by Michelle Osgood (April 21, 2016); 182 pages. Available from Interlude Press here.
This is the story of Deanna, who works for a company that runs a werewolf role-playing game called “Wolf’s Run,” and who falls for her very sexy neighbor called Jamie, who turns out—in a weird coincidence–to be an actual werewolf.
Things get intense when Deanna gets stalked by a person on the Wolf’s Run message boards who claims to be an actual werewolf (they are EVRYWHERE!) angry about the portrayal of werewolves by the game. Deanna appeals for support to her best friend Nathan and—eventually—to Jamie, since the stalking becomes terrifying because, well, it’s STALKING. Things escalate—there’s frighteningly bloody stalker photographs, and actual blood, and creepy leering orange eyes—and everything comes to a head at the annual role-playing competition hosted by Wolf’s Run. It’s night, and there are hundreds of fans crowded into a small area, many of whom will be running around in the dark woods howling like wolves and trying to win a prize. Crywolf, Deanna’s stalker, appears to be there, but slips into the crowd before Deanna can do anything about it and, well, you probably see a confrontation coming, and you’re probably on the right track (yes, that’s a wolf-on-a-scent-trail-joke… it’s probably lame because I don’t get many opportunities to make those).
This is a tense story—not only does it have the will-they-won’t-they-budding-romance appeal of a good love story, but it has this jarringly-thrilling other plotline about the wolf-guy stalking the girl-girl, like Gamergate, but with fangs. I read this in a couple large gulps, because I needed to know what was going to happen in both plotlines, and because it was just that kind of shivery fun.
It’s probably no secret by now that I balk at supernatural stuff; I may be the only 45-year-old American lesbian who wasn’t into Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But this novel works so well for me, despite my anti-supernatural prejudice—mostly because the plot, the characters, the ideas, they all have lives outside of the supernatural thing. (When I was an undergrad creative writing major at a…ahem… snobby private university with a kilt-wrapped theme and a Scottish founder… no names mentioned here, but the initials were CMU… we writing students were taught that “genre” stories were bad because they usually eschewed the fundamentals of good storytelling… not so this one, folks, so CMU can go fly a kite, which is more awful a wish than it sounds, because of the kilts and the wind.) The world of this story is incredibly believable. The characters are people in whom you want to invest your faith and love (boy, did I love Nathan, the BBF (I don’t mean BFF, nor do I mean your clichéd Will & Grace GBF, but a BBF, a bi best friend with his own real life and personality)). In fact, Nathan is a great example of why this novel works so well: werewolves, bi best friends, lesbian love interests… it all has the potential to become cliché, too easily dealt with, usable for the story’s purposes, but it just doesn’t. This story doesn’t use its characters, but lets them be who they are, do what they will, even if it means that they grow fangs and fur.
The supernatural part is present, but it’s not the only important thing, and doesn’t dictate how you can read this story—you can read it because of the werewolves, the lesbians, the were-lesbians, or just the dang good storytelling.
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Tag Archives: Harry Bates
Saturday, May, 31, 2014
SCIENCE FICTION OF THE THIRTIES edited by Damon Knight
TITLE: SCIENCE FICTION OF THE THIRTIES
EDITED BY: Damon Knight
SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology
PUBLISHER: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis/New York, 1975
FORMAT: Hardback, 1st Edition, 464 pages
Foreword by Damon Knight
“Out Around Rigel” by Robert H. Wilson (1931)
“The Fifth-Dimension Catapult” by Murray Leinster (1931)
“Into the Meteorite Orbit” by Frank K. Kelly (1933)
“The Battery of Hate” by John W. Campbell, Jr. (1933)
“The Wall” by Howard W. Graham, Ph.D. (1934)
“The Lost Language” by David H. Keller, M.D. (1934)
“The Last Men” by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. (1934)
“The Other” by Howard W. Graham, Ph.D. (1934)
“The Mad Moon” by Stanley G. Weinbaum (1935)
“Davey Jones’ Ambassador” by Raymond Z. Gallun (1935)
“Alas, All Thinking” by Harry Bates (1935)
“The Time Decelerator” by A. Macfadyen, Jr. (1936)
“The Council of Drones” by W. K. Sonnemann (1936)
“Seeker of Tomorrow” by Eric Frank Russell and Leslie T. Johnson (1937)
“Hyperpilosity” by L. Sprague de Camp (1938)
“Pithecanthropus Rejectus” by Manly W. Wellman (1938)
“The Merman” by L. Sprague de Camp (1938)
“The Day is Done” by Lester del Rey (1939)
What SF Master Damon Knight has done for Science Fiction of the Thirties is to plough his way through hundreds of classic “pulps” from the 30’s, mining them for a few of the forgotten gems from that era, and picking out the best of them for this anthology. He has reappraised the best of the tales from the 1930s SF magazines, with the added condition that his choices are stories which have rarely, some of them never, been published before in SF anthologies. And it’s a real thrill to read these stories, particularly for a jaded old fan like me who thought he’d read all the good old stuff worth reading.
Reading the short but fascinating Foreword to this anthology, we come to understand that Knight had been a life-long critic of the stories in the pulps, but had undergone a recent change of heart. Sturgeon’s Law (“Ninety Percent of Everything is Crud”) applies to the pulps just as much as it does to everything else, and it is the ten percent of stories which are not crud which make it worth persevering, and wading through the crap, to find the diamonds in the rough. And these stories are all good ‘uns. Damon Knight, former unrelenting critic of the “pulps”, is a hard taskmaster, and his standards are VERY high.
So, given that I’ve read a LOT of vintage SF, how has he done? The good news is that I’m totally unfamiliar with at least six of the authors in this anthology. The rest of them are names that I know, but the real surprise is that I have never read most of these stories before. I’m familiar with only THREE out of the eighteen stories – Weinbaum’s “The Mad Moon”, Campbell’s “The Battery of Hate” and Bates’ “Alas, All Thinking” (all of which I read many, many years ago) – which is a pretty amazing strike rate for Knight and the stories that he has chosen here. He has really come up with the goods, producing an anthology of stories that few SF readers will have seen before.
Most modern SF anthologies showcasing stories from “the old days” have long since started to reprint the same classic stories over and over again, so an avid SF fan would very likely have read most of them before. As good as many classic SF stories are, it becomes a bit tiring and disheartening to see them in every other anthology – “The Cold Equations” and “It’s a Good Life” are two examples of classic SF stories that come to mind. I have these two in so many old anthologies that I could scream every time I see them in yet another. I love these stories to bits, but too much of a good thing, etc…
Which raises the question: if Damon Knight could find these forgotten gems, surely there are many, many more in those SF magazines, just waiting for some adventurous researcher and editor to find them? And now that Damon has sadly passed on from us, to that great everlasting Science Fiction Convention in the Sky, who is willing to step into his giant shoes and continue to unearth these hidden treasures of the past? Or do hardcore fans like me have to continue ponying up exorbitant amounts of money for the old SF magazines or rare, out-of-print anthologies from the dim and distant past, in order to unearth more forgotten SF gems?
SF editors need to start using a bit of imagination and initiative, as in “Great story, but it’s been published a zillion times before. How’s about something that hasn’t been published before?”. I know that great editors of the past (and present) have produced many excellent anthologies of vintage SF. Editors like Groff Conklin, Terry Carr, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Gardner Dozois, Brian W. Aldiss, Mike Ashley, and many others have produced some amazing anthologies over the years. But many of the classic editors/anthologists have now sadly passed on, and we have a dire need for newer editors to come forward and take up the gauntlet, to continue the great work that Damon Knight and the other great editors of the past have done to unearth the forgotten SF treasures of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Sure, I’d be the first to say that we need new authors producing great new SF. But we should also never, EVER forget the old masters.
So what’s my verdict of Science Fiction of the Thirties? Overall, I think this is an excellent anthology. Taking into account that these are NOT modern literary SF masterpieces, and that the stories are 1930s pulp SF tales, churned out at a few cents per word, it’s amazing that ANY of them were any good. But some were real beauts. Even for as low grade a market as the “pulps”, many talented writers took extreme pride and joy in their work, and went way beyond the line of duty, producing something much more than the miserly word rates they were being paid could ever merit. Damon Knight has uncovered a few of those forgotten gems for us and put them together in this very nice anthology. For someone like myself, who is a huge fan of finding good old SF stories that I haven’t read before, this type of book is just right up my alley.
I wish there were a few more volumes of anthologies containing similarly rare old SF magazine stories out there. Here’s hoping that someone will continue on with the good work of finding classic stories from the “pulps” that we haven’t read before. I, for one, will be eagerly watching out for more.
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Tag Archives: Piper’s TerroHuman Future History
Tuesday, February, 11, 2014
EMPIRE by H. Beam Piper
TITLE: EMPIRE
PUBLISHER: Ace Books, New York, 1981 (ISBN: 0-441-20557-7-250)
Terro-Human Future History Chronology
The Edge of the Knife
A Slave is a Slave
Ministry of Disturbance
The Return (with John J. McGuire)
The Keeper
Last time out, I featured FEDERATION, the first of two collections gathering together the short fiction of H. Beam Piper’s classic Terro-Human Future History cycle. This time it’s the turn of EMPIRE, the second collection of stories set in that future history.
The book starts with an excellent three-page chronology of Piper’s Terro-Human Future History, put together from dates, events and other data spread over all of Piper’s short fiction and novels. This is followed by yet another fascinating and detailed ten-page Introduction by Piper scholar John F. Carr, which gives a lot of useful additional details on the future history as related in the five stories in this collection.
The five stories in the FEDERATION collection are from the earlier phase of Piper’s Future History, whereas the five stories in EMPIRE cover the later stages of that Future History, with the exception of The Edge of the Knife, which is unique in that it is set in the more contemporary timeframe of the early 1970s, pre-dating the formation of the Federation, and thus placing the story effectively outside of the future history itself.
I haven’t read this collection for years, but I have fond memories of The Keeper, Ministry of Disturbance, and The Edge of the Knife, although I remember very little about either A Slave is a Slave or The Return (which are lined up for a much-needed re-read in the not-too-distant future). If they turn out to be even half as good as the other stories, that will be the cream on top of the cake, as far as I’m concerned.
The Keeper, in particular, is very moody and atmospheric, and is one of my favourite Piper stories, in my opinion bettered by only Omnilingual (I’ve always found it funny that my two favourite stories in Piper’s Future History chronology are, by their positions in that future history, the very first, Omnilingual, and the very last, The Keeper). The Keeper allows us the only available brief and tantalizing glimpses into the mysterious far future of the Fifth Empire, and is also the only known story written by Piper which is set beyond the end of the First Empire. The rest of the existing Terro-Human Future History Chronology doesn’t go beyond the First Empire, which makes The Keeper seem strange and out of place compared to the other stories, until we accept that it is the only surviving proof that Piper intended to write other stories extending his future history far into the distant future.
Aside from the few snippets of background information contained in The Keeper, we know absolutely nothing about Piper’s plans for developing the details of these distant far-future eras of his chronology. According to Jerry Pournelle, who had a lot of contact with Piper back in the day, he had certainly planned something much bigger. Pournelle has always asserted that he had seen Piper’s folders full of extensive notes and details of a much longer and more complex future history chronology. Tragically, those notes were lost after Piper’s suicide, and all that we’re left with is a big bunch of “maybes” and “what-might-have-beens”, only too aware that the future history material which (fortunately) still exists in print, as good as it is, gives us only a tiny portion of the greatness that might have been.
As it stands, EMPIRE is a very strong collection, and already contains at least three of my favourite Piper stories, plus the excellent chronology and introduction. And as such, it’s definitely well worth adding to any aspiring SF reader’s bookshelf.
Tagged Ace Books, H. Beam Piper, Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr, John J. McGuire, Piper's TerroHuman Future History
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Don’t Miss These 3 Shows
Portugal. The Man, Jeremih, and A Tribe Called Red.
Alexa Lee
Thu Jul 27th, 2017 10:49am
Portugal. The Man (Courtesy of Maclay Herlot)
The YouTube comment sections of Jeremih’s music videos overflow with people voicing explicit desires. “I wanna get fucked to Jeremih’s songs.” “If I ever have a girl by me, I’d play this song whenever it feels like a perfect time to be romantic honestly.” These quotes are only a small selection of the thousands of comments requesting to be squeezed, licked, and caressed. And who can blame them? Ever since his breakout single “Birthday Sex,” Jeremih has proven himself as the ultimate seductive crooner who listeners simply don’t want to leave alone.
A nearly constant presence on mainstream radio stations, Jeremih is releasing the final installment of his Late Nights album series, Later That Night, this summer. The first two parts of the trilogy are Late Nights: The Album, a record The New York Times called “gleefully debaucherous,” and Late Nights: Europe, where each song is titled after a place Jeremih visited during his European tour. In between these two albums and the upcoming Later That Night record, Jeremih also released a 2016 Christmas mixtape with Chance the Rapper under the cheeky title Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama.
Although Jeremih utilizes both rap and singing in his music, it’s his bold, silky vocals that intrigue listeners and set him apart from the dozens of other R&B artists who promise to ride it slow and give it to her good. His voice exudes an easy confidence, whether he’s hitting warm mid-range notes or playing with falsetto. The self-assured nonchalance of Jeremih’s vocals takes the edge off of his assertive lyrics, making lines like “On your knees in your Prada’s / Makin’ freaky shit come up out her” in “Planez” suddenly sound benign and romantic. Additionally, he keeps instrumentals to a minimum, using only touches of electronic harp or guitar to supplement his pristine vocals. These small details keep his song production sounding unfussy and clean, and serve as contrast to Jeremih’s elegantly alluring voice.
At 8:30 p.m., Saturday, July 29, at the Regency Ballroom. $30-$45; theregencyballroom.com
A Tribe Called Red
Powwow Dance
DJ NDN of the Nipissing First Nation, 2oolman, a Mohawk of the Six Nations of the Grand River, and Bear Witness of the Cayuga First Nation are all indigenous DJs from Ottawa, Ontario. Together, they are A Tribe Called Red, the EDM producers who fuse dubstep and traditional First Nations music to create the genre “powwow-step.”
A Tribe Called Red has released three albums and four EPs, was awarded Junos (Canada’s highest music accolade) for Breakthrough Group of the Year, Electronic Album of the Year, and Video of the Year, and is single-handedly expanding the electronic music genre to encompass First Nations musical influence. But before they were an officially formed group, A Tribe Called Red got their start throwing parties in Ottawa, playing music they thought would appeal to the indigenous community. Incorporating reverberating drums and chanting samples into their mixes, the three knew they had made music that would connect with their Ottawan audience, but had no idea that their sound would eventually gain popularity with outside audiences and the larger electronic dance scene. Speaking to NPR, Bear Witness comments, “To have this reaction from non-indigenous people as well, you know, this overwhelming reaction from people outside of the community, was very unexpected.”
While intended to be listened to in a partying, dance-floor setting, A Tribe Called Red’s music also contemplates themes such as the repression of aboriginal rights and the still-prevalent effects of colonialism. In “ALie Nation,” guest rapper John Trudell excoriates the materialism of hegemonic society, mocking the notion that “All the things of the earth and in the sky / Have energy to be exploited.” Likewise, “Burn Your Village to the Ground,” which was released right before Thanksgiving in 2014, reminds listeners of the real, un-idyllic relationship between Native Americans and Pilgrims. A Tribe Called Red, in a powerful role reversal for aboriginal representatives, is breaking ground on the frontier of Western music and culture.
With Judo No at 8:30 p.m., Thursday, July 27, at the Independent. $20-$22; theindependentsf.com
To hear lead singer John Gourley describe Portugal. The Man’s musical style, one would think that the band’s vision is unfocused and disparate. “Portugal. The Man to me doesn’t have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress and let things happen,” he says in an interview with Pop Matters. “There’s nothing specific about the band, which is, I think, why we’ve become a rock band. Rock ’n’ roll isn’t the hippest thing right now, but we’re just kind of in the middle of it.”
But don’t be fooled by Gourley’s humble, off-handed remarks. Contrary to the nonspecific, unhip image that he depicts, the band composes cohesive albums that invigorate the rock genre with their yearning, nearly frenetic sound. In an era when artists are becoming increasingly obsessed with cranking out singles and jumping on the candified hip-hop bandwagon, Portugal. The Man does neither, yet continues to rise in popularity and critical acclaim. Just this past June, “Feel It Still,” the charged uptempo track from the band’s most recent album Woodstock, climbed to the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Alternative Songs listing. Featuring a groovy, rumbling bass and Gourley’s impossibly high vocals, “Feel It Still” exemplifies the paradox of Portugal. The Man. The song, like the rest of Woodstock, attracts a massive following that seems counterintuitive given the band’s tendency to resist popular music tropes. Woodstock is a raucous album, full of moments where guitar, drums, bass, and keyboards all collide in a chaotic swirl of sound. Most notably, songs like “Easy Tiger” and “Rich Friends” embody a grittiness not usually demonstrated in rock with such broad audiences (looking at you, Coldplay).
But maybe it is actually this atypical grittiness that resonates with listeners. The roughness of Portugal. The Man’s music speaks to the way in which the band bares themselves, edges and all, in their songs, and perhaps such unaffected expression touches an audience so used to artists’ glossy exteriors. Either way, Portugal. The Man exposes their inner emotional turmoil and continues to forge, not follow, the trends that dominate rock music and beyond.
With Local Natives at 7 p.m., Friday, July 28, at the Greek Theatre. $45; thegreektheatreberkeley.com
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tv The Situation Room CNN July 15, 2013 2:00pm-4:01pm PDT
make sure to follow me on twitter @jaketapper and check out "the lead" on the internet. i now send you to wolf blitzer. >> is this what trayvon martin's parents want? are they planning a lawsuit of their own? family lawyer darrell parks standing by. plus, sitting down with cnn's sister verdict hln. what they say went wrong with their case and led them to believe the jury was on their side. and will george zimmerman ever, ever be able to return to any
sense of normality. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." 800,000 naacp signatures, 15,000 on a white house web site, all calling on the obama administration to act in the wake of george zimmerman's not guilty verdict. this amid a second full day of civil rights demonstrations reverberating around the country and across social media platforms. despite the outrage among activists, the white house is making it clear the president won't be involved in that decision. let's go to the white house. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin has the very latest. jessica, what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, civil rights advocates say they believe trayvon martin was shot because he was black and that is a hate crime. so now they want to see him face federal charges. that is a very high standard to meet and the obama administration is busy setting
realistic expectations. >> justice for trayvon! >> reporter: the pressure is mounting, with protests across the country and on the steps of the justice department. >> eric holder, we are asking the white house, president barack obama to file civil rights charges against george zimmerman. >> in previously scheduled remarks monday, the attorney general indicated his team has not decided whether they'll charge george zimmerman with a hate crime. >> we have opened an investigation into this matter. the department will continue to act in a manner that is consistent with the facts and the law. >> reporter: to prove a federal hate crime, the government would have to show george zimmerman intended to shoot trayvon martin and was motivated by racial hostility. legal experts say that's a very tough case to make. >> a federal civil rights case would be difficult because it
would, again, require the government to prove that george zimmerman had a bad intent, in this case a racist intent. and one jury has already rejected that claim. it's hard to argue that another jury would see it differently. >> reporter: this puts president obama in a delicate position. >> you know, if i had a son, he'd look like trayvon. >> that was more than a year ago. since the verdict, the nation's first black president has yet to address this issue on camera. instead in a written statement he called martin's death a tragedy for america, but he also called for calm and said we are a nation of laws and a jury has spoken. but the president's team knows that won't be enough. by mid monday there were more than half a million signatures on an naacp petition demanding a federal case. and more than 15,000 signatures on a similar petition to the white house. does the president feel some
pressure on his administration to bring a case against zimmerman? >> cases are brought on the merits. the merits are evaluated by the professionals at the department of justice. >> reporter: that means all eyes are on attorney general holder, a man not always known for his politic choice of words. monday he seemed to offer a window into his own views on the case, questioning zimmerman's self-defense argument. >> the tragic, unnecessary shooting death of trayvon martin. >> you heard him there, wolf, call it an unnecessary shooting death. sources tell us that the department of justice is still reviewing the trial evidence to decide if there is a case for racial hostility to make this case that the shooting was based on racial hostility. as you know, justice officials will not bring the case unless they believe that they can win
such a case. now, i would expect that you could hear the president address the broader issue of trayvon martin's death when he answers reporters' questions in interviews later this week, wolf. >> has the justice department, i don't know in you know the answer to this, clarified what eric holder said when he said this is an unnecessary shooting death? have they explained what he meant by that? >> they have not officially put out any word on that, wolf. i can tell you i have been led to believe we should not read too much into those word. we should not interpret that to indicate which way the justice department will go on the larger decision about whether there is a hate crimes case here or not, wolf. >> thank you, jessica yellin over at the white house. let's bring in our chief political analyst, gloria borger, to further assess what's going on right now. how much of this decision eventually by the attorney general and the justice department, let's say the obama
administration, will be political? >> you know, wolf, if this were a political decision, i think it probably would have been made already. it would be an easy political decision for president obama and for eric holder to pursue civil rights charges against zimmerman, but it is not a political decision. this is a legal decision. and as jessica and jeff toobin pointed out in the piece earlier, this bar is very, very high. you have to prove that zimmerman acted with deliberate intent, that he was racist and that was not the case that was proven in this particular trial. and the justice department is not in the business of raising cases or trying cases with our taxpayer money that it believes it cannot win. >> if they were to try a case like that and lose, who know what is the reaction would be then. they're better off not doing if they don't think they could win. >> if they could win, this woe be there. >> what are you hearing? i know you're working your
sources behind the scenes over at the justice department. what's going through the minds of officials? >> in talking to some legal sources, there's a sense in the department that there is no need, at least right now, to move quickly on this. they're looking, for example, to see whether there's going to be some kind of a civil lawsuit. if there's a civil lawsuit, i think there's some sense they'd like to see that play out. also, i think they need to have a debrief with the prosecution to find out what evidence was not used in trial, that it's something they might consider if they were to bring a case. so i think that at this point right now, there are people in the justice department saying take a deep breath, do our due diligence, talk to the prosecutor, see what happens on the civil side and let make a decision. >> based on what i've heard, they want everyone to calm down. they're relieved at least so far there hasn't really been much violence or anything like that.
should the president speak out to the american public on this issue any time soon? >> i think he has no choice. i think at some point he's going to be asked a question directly about it and he's going to have to answer it. i think the problem they've got inside the white house is that whef the president speaks about race, wolf, the conversation becomes about him and not about the issue. and so i think that's what the president is juggling right now. he's got to be the leader of the country, he's got to lower the decibel level, but he doesn't want this to be a conversation about how president obama reacted to the trayvon martin/george zimmerman verdict. he wants the nation to have a conversation about race, not him. >> gloria borger, as usual, thank you. >> sure. >> we certainly haven't heard a whole lot from trayvon martin's parents in the aftermath of saturday night's verdict. but let's get some perspective with how the trayvon martin
family is dealing with this. attorney darrell parks, thanks so much for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> the attorney general of the united states, do you have confidence in him that he'll do the right thing. >> i have every confidence that the attorney general will use the resources of the federal government to look into this matter. i happened to be at part of the meeting when the justice department had their first meeting with the family and we were able to see the resources that the federal government has used to investigate this case. so i know that they have gotten the information initially and now we're at a point where they can now analyze the evidence that came into the trial to make their decision. i think it's important, wolf, that the difference now, though, is that we now have evidence from the state criminal case where we seen that on all the previous calls that george zimmerman made to the police department all involved black people. the most important thing is in
this case the main reason he may have suspected trayvon was doing something wrong was because he was black, black being the common denominator. the evidence is a little stronger for the justice department to consider. >> why didn't the state prosecutor bring those issues into this? they didn't talk about race. at one point they mentioned profiling but it wasn't necessarily racial profiling. why didn't the attorneys bring this in? >> well, we don't like to talk about race and it was logical that they use criminal profiling. he had developed a profile that the people who were doing the robberies were all black and all looked a certain way. so black being the common denominator here. they were totally correct not to make race the issue but to make criminal profiling the issue.
>> they didn't bring in race at all into the course of those three weeks of testimony. what do you want to hear from the president of the united states? let me rephrase it. what does the trayvon martin family, the mom and the dad, the brother, what do they want to hear from the president? >> i think the president's statement he made in writing was totally appropriate. the president should not chime into this conversation while it's clearly a justice department issue. we don't want to make this political. the justice department is the legal arm of the federal government and they have standards that they must apply. they must apply the legal standard and factual evidence to come to their determination as to whether they can put together a case they can win. we have every belief and hope they will base this case from the civil rights division of the justice department in washington to make their decision. obviously they will be consorting with the u.s. attorney for the middle district of florida but the decision in terms of whether the civil right
violation we believe should come from the civil rights division of the department of justice in washington. >> tell us how the parents, the mom and the dad, how are they coping? how are they dealing with this not guilty verdict? >> well, obviously they were devastated by the verdict on saturday night, although they weren't in the courtroom. we notified them right then. i was so surprised. i had typed on my device "guilty on manslaughter," was about to hit the button and all of a sudden they say "not guilty." so they've gathered themselves. they're very strong people. they have very good fortitude as people. and they are strong. they have strong family support. so they are preparing to move forward. they're preparing to move forward with the trayvon martin foundation, preparing to move forward in their advocacy work around the country. they're going to continue to argue against violence against youths. this issue is bigger than george
zimmerman. george zimmerman just happened to be the person that took trayvon martin's life. but what we have is trayvon martin's legacy, it's causing this country to have a conversation it normally doesn't have. that's a plus for all of the country. >> will they file a wrongful death civil lawsuit against george zimmerman? >> obviously they have that right but right now, wolf, the big issue is the jury verdict that came down. so it's too fresh to make a decision trying to profit off this death. that is not the time of people they are. these are very good, hard working people who live down in the south florida/miami area. right now they believe their son's legacy has been dealt an ininjuries and they are happy and encouraged by the fact that so many other people feel that this is an injustice and that our government should answer in some way. >> you think we'll be seeing them any time soon, doing
interviews, anything along those lines, availability with the news media? >> it's funny, ben and i talked about that today at our luncheon meeting. this is a highly emotional, sensitive, very personal for our clients. and so unlike -- they've had their moments even in the past as we've built um for the trial, what's been difficult for them to go on. now that we have this very deaf enni d deafening event on saturday, they'll have to gather themselves and when they are ready, they'll make a statement. >> daryl parks, thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me, wolf. >> when we come back, the chilling one-word description prosecutors used to describe
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for the first time since their news conference the night george zimmerman was declared not guilty of second degree murder and manslaughter, prosecutors are now speaking out on the case they so desperately fought to win. they sat down to talk about what they think went wrong. watch this. >> you know, we're stuck with the evidence we have. >> well, no, it's the truth. we don't get to pick our witnesses. we've got to deal with what we've got and we've got to do
the best we can. >> there was a wealth of hard, cold physical evidence, dna and everything else that showed that george zimmerman lied in his statements to the police. >> there was no sort of narrative that this jury could follow, that america could follow. >> the problem you've got in a trial is you can't say jury don't speculate and then ask them to speculate. and so we're left with the defendant's story and what we attempted to do as best we could was to prove that his story was false. therefore, why would he be lying about something, something minor about trying to get an address? i thought that was blatantly obviously a lie. when i was talking to the jury and arguing to the jury, i saw them nodding their heads. >> what was the deciding factor? was it a group decision? >> yes. the problem you have is that there was enough evidence, even though i would argue it was insignificant or very little, that there was self-defense. you had john good, you had other people. so they were going to be able to get an instruction as to
self-defense. once we knew that was coming on, we felt we need to put this statement on and disprove it. >> and you had the injuries. the injuries indicate there was some sort of a struggle. our position all along, we never said that trayvon didn't do something to george zimmerman. what we said is you can't take a concealed weapon and encourage or incite a fist fight, which is what he did by stalking a teen-ager who didn't know who he was and then whip your gun out and shoot. that's what he said. i just got my gun out and shot him. never explaining the details of how he was able to pull his gun if he was being beaten as brutally as he claimed. so we had to put all that in and then clearly refuted it with the dna evidence. no dna on trayvon's hands, who supposedly was covering his bloody nose. those lies were put in front of the jury one after the other after the other. we heard his story or stories,
depending on your perspective, on what he said on audiotape, on videotape, at the scene, in the police car. what was your story? everybody was wondering what was the prosecution theory of what actually happened? >> well, we were left with inconsistent witnesses in terms of what actually happened and his story. what we were trying to prove is his story is false. our belief as to what happened is he chased down trayvon martin. he wanted to make sure trayvon martin did not get away. he felt trayvon martin was headed towards the back, which is normally what had happened in the previous cases where the guy himself got away that allegedly had committed crimes. he was going to make sure trayvon martin was not going to get away and was going to be there when the police got there. at what point he pulled out the gun, we can speculate. my opinion is he pulled it out early. he wanted to be a cop. >> the screams. what did you think the first time you heard it?
>> as soon as i heard those screams, it sounded like a young male voice to me. as soon as i heard that the screaming stopped, i knew it was his voice. i thought it was one. most compelling points of the case. >> villainizing trayvon martin and now villainizing you because you guys are hiding the evidence, aren't giving them what they're supposed to have. they kept saying it and saying it and saying it. did you feel like a villain in the courtroom? >> i thought what they were trying to do was create issues for appeal when there really weren't any. there's this thing of we got to depose ben crump. we did that. ben crump never testified. there was issue about this evidence that came out, our i.t. person testified about that. they had the evidence.
their own witness testified. mr. connor testified that they had it, that they were trying to create those false things going on from a media standpoint. what we were concerned about is what is the jury hearing. as long as the jury said whatever we heard we can set aside and hopefully they stuck to what they said they would, it's irrelevant. but it's the standpoint of the public, our position has always been we try the case in the courtroom. >> let's talk about that relationship. you ever experienced this before, bernie, during a trial, during a case what was going on between this defense team and you guys? >> you know, i've been doing this for over 30 years, no. and i've had some tough cases. i've had tougher cases quite frankly than this, murder of a police officer and everybody thought i'd lose it. you're in the courtroom, you do battle. at the end of the day you respect your opponent. the fighting is in the courtroom, not trying to sway the public out there, which is what was occurring. >> do you respect this defense team? >> i'm not going to comment
about them. i'll leave that to other pundits. >> one word to describe george zimmerman. >> murderer. >> george zimmerman. >> lucky. >> trayvon benjamin martin. >> i don't know that there's one word that can describe a victim.
trayvon benjamin martin. >> pr-r-e-yp-r-e-y, prey. >> even though he was found not guilty, she still says that george zimmerman is a murderer. >> she's standing by her conviction that he's a murderer. >> she's not backing down. even though the six women of seminole county said not guilty, set george zimmerman free, in her eyes, he's still a murderer. >> that's the first time -- i don't remember a time -- you have an example of a state attorney still calling someone a murderer who was acquitted. does that come to mind, anything along those lines, or is this pretty extraordinary for her to say that? >> never. never ever saw that. because, you know, we're all lawyers, right? we're very careful with our words afterwards. and it was an emotional response. i don't know if you could see her eyes, but at that moment she
didn't scream out murder. i mean, it was something that she was really thinking about. we'll see if there's any response to it, but the bottom line is she believes in her case and there's no doubt that they were motivated by anything other than what they truly believed happen happened in this case. >> vinnie, thank you. you can catch the entire interview on hln "after dark" at 10 p.m. >> coming up civil rights and the justice department. dr. martin luther king's daughter, dr. bernese king, she is here with me in the situation room. we'll discuss. [ mortazavi ] i'm definitely a perfectionist.
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. happening now, george zimmerman's acquittal raising civil rights issues to the top of the nation's agenda. dr. martin luther king's daughter, dr. bernice king is here in the situation with me. zimmerman himself is staying out of sight, at least for now. we're taking a closer look at what his future may hold. plus, a bizarre offshoot of the asiana plane crash here in "the situation room." >> the george zimmerman murder case ignited fierce debates about the state of race in the united states long before the not guilty verdict came down saturday night. now many are asking what all of
this means for the future of the civil rights movement in this country. our mary snow is working that for us with more information. what do you see? >> reporter: members of the congressional black caucus gathered here in new york today to discuss moving forward after the verdict. they say instead of seeing the verdict as a setback, they view it as a way to hit the reset button and they're calling for a real conversation about race and the criminal justice system. from the nation's capital to cities across the country, voices were raised. along with outrage, a message to send after a jury aquits george zimmerman. the verdict isn't ending the debate. rather it's forcing a nationwide conversation about race and the justice system. >> i view this decision as an opportunity to hit the reset button and for america to have a real conversation about the intersection between race, the criminal justice system and how
and whether young black men are treated differently on account of their colors. >> members of the congressional black caucus calling on the department of justice to consider federal civil rights charges against zimmerman. >> at least in my view, george zimmerman identified trayvon martin as a potential criminal because he was black. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands of people have signed online petitions asking the department of justice to act. the reverend al sharpton says demonstrations demanding federal action are planned in 100 cities on saturday. zimmerman's lawyers have said race was not a factor. but some members of congress see the widespread protests as evidence of why they need to work harder. >> we got a lot of work to do. a lot of individuals thought because president obama was
elected we live in a post-racial america. those of us in congress and on the street let us know that's not the case and we have a long way to go. >> not guilty. >> this case, they say, has strengthened their resolve. wolf, lawmakers who gathered today say the first place they plan to have conversations about race in america is congress and reevaluate some of the laws that exist. wolf? >> thank you very much. joining us, dr. bernice king, the daughter of the late martin luther king, jr. thank you very much for coming in. >> thank you. good to be here. >> if your dad were alive today and saw what was going on as far as the zimmerman trial was concerned and the not guilty verdict, what do you think he would say? >> well, i think the first thing he would make an appeal to everyone, because my father had an incredible ability to understand the range of human
emotions on both sides of the issue. so his first thing would be to make an appeal to all people, to not let this further divide us, that we should not drink from the cup of bitterness and anger and hate in this moment. this should be an opportunity for us to really look at this racial issue that continues to haunt us, that continues to face us as a nation. i do think that he would probably feel a little bit of a disappointment in the verdict in this situation. >> just a little bit? >> well, you know, he would feel disappointed, i'll say it that way. but, again, i think he would focus -- because he was a leader. he was a non-violent leader. his main focus in everything that he did was about keeping people grounded in that. >> do you think he would take any specific action as a result of the not guilty verdict? in other words, encourage people to go to the streets, to
demonstrate, peacefully, but to do things along those lines? >> i think he would encourage people to do those things, but i think also what attorney general eric holder at the justice department has done, he would encourage that as well. but more importantly, he would probably in times like these, because we are 50 years later and there has been some changes in america, although for a lot of african-american children, in particular black males, there has not been. so he would look at this as an opportunity for us as a nation to really sit down and have a dialogue and discourse and the kind of discourse that doesn't rise to the level of hostility. because oftentimes when we get to these very difficult places, it gets very hostile and very emotional. and unfortunately, you know, hate cannot put out hate. only love can do that. and so we have to figure out how to have these discussions out of a heart of love knowing that it's a very difficult
discussion. because over and over again african-american boys in particular get the short end of the stick in our justice system. >> you were there when eric holder, the attorney general of the united states, spoke out today on the zimmerman trial and the verdict. do you have confidence that eric holder as attorney general will do the right thing? >> i have confidence that he will certainly do his best. i do. but for me, i think this is -- this is a call for all of us. i mean, our president has spoken, the justice department is doing their part, but at the end of the day presidents come and go, attorney generals come and go but we as a people still remain. and we are the ones that are going to have to really engage in these discussions in our local communities. >> the trayvon martin family attorney benjamin crump tweeted that -- he said you tweeted him that this was, in his words --
or maybe your words -- the defining moment for the status of my father's dream. i wonder if you'd explain what you meant by that. >> i said a defining moment. we're in the 50th anniversary year of his "i have a dream" speech. and depending on how we handle this is going to determine how much progress we've made. if we ignore what has happened because regardless of whether the rule of law spoke, people have spoken and people have very heart-felt feelings of what has taken place. and some people do see this has a racial issue and rightfully so. if we just spend the weekend on it and move on, that we're not giving it the justice it needs. i think it's defining in that
vain but also whether or not we will have decent dialogue and discussion to look at what we need to do to prevent these kind of things and even change some of these laws. but more importantly, this is a time where we must understand our roll and responsibilities of citizens to be more vigilant. >> dr. bernice king, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> up next, what may be ahead for george zimmerman based on what other high-profile defendants went through after their acquittals. plus, why the ntsb is getting rid of an intern and a tv station may be in some serious legal trouble, all because of what happened after the asiana crash. tony used priceline to book this 4 star hotel. tell 'em why.
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free man and the challenges that may lie ahead. >> reporter: he's been in hiding for over a year, daring to venture out only in disguise and wearing body armor. since killing trayvon martin, life for george zimmerman is filled with isolation and caution. >> there a lot of people who think george killed trayvon for racial reasons, even though nothing supports that. and if they feel that anger enough, they could react violently. >> reporter: there have been tweets, e-mail and letters wishing him bodily harm or death. now that george zimmerman is free, it's almost certain he won't be able to go back to the life he had before, pursuing a career in law enforcement. >> that is the absolute worst thing you can do. it might be your old passion. my advice would be you need to find a new passion. and it needs to be helping people in a very different way. a way that is much more compassionate, not just involving law enforcement. >> reporter: for a view of life
after acquittal, zimmerman may need to look no further than casey anthony, the hated young mother found not guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daughter. she has since lived in hiding and financial ruin. cheney mason was her defense attorney. >> and you never know who the nuts are and where they are. there are still people that threaten me. >> reporter: it sounds like there are some very severe consequences for being found guilty in a court of public opinion. >> they are. you don't have jello and cheese sandwiches in jail. >> reporter: it may not be over for zimmerman. he continues to have support from his family and friend frie. >> he has to be careful about accepting money from groups that maybe would create more friction because of the tenor of this
case. he's got to be very careful about who he associates with afterwards, even if they're offering financial support. >> reporter: shortly after his dramatic acquittal, george zimmerman's first steps back into private life were hidden from cameras and public view. his destination, his plans a closely guarded secret. >> he has always feared for his safety, we have always feared for his safety and our safety as a family. clearly he's a free man in the eyes of the court but he's going to be looking around his shoulder for the rest of his life. >> reporter: david mattingly, cnn, sanford, florida. >> and just ahead, why a story about the asiana plan crash got a government intern and a tv station in big trouble.
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this is cnn breaking news. >> security forces tear gassing protesters in cairo right now. there are demonstrations pro and anti-mohamed morsi. nick, you're in the middle of all that. what's going on? you're on the phone. >> reporter: we are around the square in cairo here and we're witnessing a lengthy standoff between pro-morsi and the police. some were crossing the bridge over the square and there seems to be firing and then protesters
returning with rocks. it crossed over the bridge to the other side and it appeared to be a quite different atmosphere there with a different crowd there, supporting and cheering the police along. what's important the most is on top of this bridge [ inaudible ]. it appears there is the arrival of some police further down. they are now throwing rocks in that general direction. but this is the worst scuffle, tension you might even call it, that we've seen for days now here. let me give you the context. it comes after a weekend of heavy government activity to appoint a cabinet, to get the foreign relations team, vice president of internal affairs and foreign minister ready. the prime minister met with the army chief of staff and defense
minister here. certainly these are the scenes i'm sure neither side wanted to the bridges and the roads were blocked by protesters, but it will take some investigation to get to the bottom of that. we are seeing thousands of protesters, predominantly pro-morsi. using the rocks to throw at the police. substantial tear gas in the air. one man limping, injured. definitely a tense atmosphere. the question is when the army or police lose their patience. >> we see the tear gas. we see the smoke. it's a dangerous, dangerous situation. nick, be careful over there. right in the middle of the activity. and william burns is in cairo right now meeting with
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new developments today in a bizarre side story in the recent asiana airlines crash that has nothing to do with the crash itself. what caused the crash, but with a mocking list of racist names broadcast by a california tv station. more on what happened. explain what happened. >> reporter: very bizarre,
indeed. it just keeps getting more strange. first the ntsb summer intern, the ntsb is confirming to cnn, being let go, losing his or her volunteer summer job. and asiana says it is now preparing to file a lawsuit against a california tv station for inadvertently airing what appears to be just a random joke. here's the statement that we got from asiana airlines. the airline saying "after a legal review, the company decided to file a lawsuit against the network because it was their report that resulted in damaging the company's image." ktvu did apologize for airing the offensive remarks. asiana, despite the fact that they're in the middle of this very large plane investigation, three people who have died, three young people who have died, trying to help all the injured, asiana says it is moving forward with this lawsuit. what is happening here is that this is a company, a
korean-based company that has global aspirations. it truly does feel that its reputation is being harmed because these comments are being perpetuated on the web, and really, wolf, what's happening is that these are quite juvenile kmen comments. one of the names that was released, reporting that these are pilot names released, someone of them was sum ting wong. it's something you would hear on a playground. asiana feeling that it has this visceral reaction to this. this is all happening in the background. a very strange sideshow to this entire television. >> thanks very much. when we come back, the guessing game in great britain and beyond. when will the royal baby make his or her appearance?
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the only official word we had about the due date was mid july. we're now into that period. i've also been told that prince william has been given the next few days off work, so he seems to be braced for the big moment as well. certainly the world's media are ready. if you look at the pack of journalists and camera men outside the hospital, every part of the world is represented here. all the u.s. networks, for example. even polish networks. five polish networks have been here recording pieces, building up to this part of the fairytale. a fairytale that started with a commoner meeting a prince, getting married, and then the next big step to the story is they have a baby. all we need now is the baby to appear on the steps behind me. max foster, cnn london. happening now, protests, prayers, and pressure on the justice department to bring new charges against george zimmerman. this hour, the tough choice after the not guilty verdict.
plus, one of the zimmerman jurors makes plans to tell her story, but right now, there's enormous secrecy and fear surrounding those six women. and we're awaiting the results of an autopsy and drug test on the "glee" star cory monteith after the 31-year-old actor's shocking death. i'm wolf blitzer. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. you're in "the situation room." in churches, on the streets, online, americans are venting their opinions and emotions about george zimmerman's not guilty verdict. for trayvon martin supporters, the outrage seems to be hardening with each passing hour since the jury's decision saturday night. many protesters are focused on the possibility of new charges against zimmerman for martin's death, but the former neighborhood watch volunteer supporters say justice was served and it's time to move on. cnn's martin savidge is in
sanford, florida, watching this case for us. he has been since the beginning. what's the very latest, martin? >> reporter: here in the community of sanford, which really for the last 18 months has been living through the tragedy of 17-year-old trayvon martin's death, there was some concerns initially that there could be a violent reaction. so they had planned accordingly. but during the process, they realized that rather than rely on police and force, it would be better in this community to rely on their faith, and that's what we saw today. >> we sanctify this time today -- >> reporter: sanford residents gathered for a noon service to promote healing. there were prayers for the families of trayvon martin and george zimmerman. does it help the community? >> yes, yes. it helps the community keep the peace. >> reporter: a day and a half after the decision, many here remain divided but are not surprised that through it all,
the community has remained calm. >> this is not going to be what defines us, either during the trial or the day after the trial. >> reporter: that's not the case everywhere. in los angeles, protesters angrily demonstrated against the not guilty verdict, triggering a number of arrests. >> i feel great right now. i feel great right now. >> reporter: in new york, they marched in times square. a handful even gathered outside the department of justice in washington. in orlando monday, the naacp national meeting held a moment of silence. >> pray for our nation, which is joining in a moment of silence. >> reporter: it would be wrong to say that back here in sanford everyone is in agreement with the verdict. they definitely are not. it is still a divided community,
even though the trial has come to an end. >> martin, what else are city officials doing to maintain the peace? >> they're very aware here that this community remains a touch stone to many people who are connected to the tragedy of trayvon martin's death and the outcome of this trial. so the church service, like the one that was held today, there will be ones held on every monday for the next coming weeks and everyone is allowed to attend. they also point out that if people wish to come to this community to demonstrate, they are welcome. as long as they are peaceful and inclusive of everyone else's thoughts and ideas. wolf? >> martin savidge on the ground for us in sanford, florida. thank you. more than 800,000 people have signed petitions urging the justice department here in washington to pursue civil rights charges against george zimmerman. the naacp has been leading the push for federal action. the attorney general of the united states eric holder says his department is investigating
to uncovering the truth. athena jones is looking at this part of the story. it's a difficult part of the story, having done some research into the legal aspects of what's going on. >> that's exactly right. the justice department is still deciding whether to bring federal civil rights charges against george zimmerman. and while officials are facing a lot of public pressure to do so, it's far from certain that they will. anger and calls for federal action in response to the not guilty verdict in the george zimmerman case. >> we are also mindful of the pain felt by our nation surrounding the tragic, unnecessary shooting death of trayvon martin in sanford, florida, last year. >> in remarks to one of the largest black sororities in the country, attorney general eric holder said the rule of law will dictate how the government proceeds. >> i want to assure you that the department will continue to act
in a manner that is consistent with the facts and the law, and we will never stop working to ensure that in every case, in every circumstance, and in every community, justice must be done. >> justice department prosecutors have been working with the fbi and florida officials on a parallel investigation into the case since last year. reviewing evidence, interviewing witnesses, and talking to people who know zimmerman. but officials face a high bar when it comes to charging him with a federal hate crime. >> they're going to have to prove, a, that zimmerman did not act in self-defense, and that b, in fact, his motivation was racial hatred, to think that the justice department will be able to prove racial animus, it's a real mountain o'crimto climb.
>> in brooklyn new york, federal prosecutors convicted two african-american men of killing an orthodox ju. and some of the best known civil rights cases were brought under a different law because they involved police misconduct. when rodney king was beaten by four los angeles police officers in 1991, the officers were acquitted in state court. federal prosecutors later won convictions against two of them for violating king's civil rights. and as you mentioned, as of this afternoon, more than 800,000 people had signed petitions calling on the justice department to file civil rights charges against zimmerman. that's according to the naacp. we know those cases aren't tried on the basis of public opinion here in the u.s. but these protests and petitions we've been seeing around the country are a clear sign of just how much anger we could see if zimmerman isn't ultimately charged. >> a lot of politics involved. a lot of pressure under way right now. thanks very much. let's bring in our analysts to
assess what's going on. sunny, what do you any? do you any the justice department has enough there to actually not just go ahead with a charge, a civil rights charge of a hate crime against george zimmerman, but to win, to win that case in court? >> well, wolf, we don't know what they have. we know that they've been conducting this parallel investigation for at least a year. they have worked with state prosecutors, so they have that information. they have the information that also there was an acquittal in this case. and my understanding is that they've interviewed many witnesses. so we don't know the strength of their investigation. we don't know the strength of their evidence. and so i think it's too soon to suggest that they don't have enough to go forward. i will tell you this. the bar is pretty high for this type of prosecution. and federal prosecutors don't necessarily like to take these kinds of cases to trial without real evidence of racial motive,
racial bias, and so unless they have that kind of evidence, i suspect they won't bring a case. but at this point, we don't know what they have. >> there are some who say there is that kind of evidence supposedly out there that for whatever reason the state prosecutors in florida decided not to use. they didn't bring up the whole racial issue in the whole three-week trial in florida. what's your sense? what does the justice department have at least as far as we know? >> well, from what we've heard, and there's no way to substantiate this, that there's about 30 witnesses that the fbi and the government has, in fact, spoken to considering their parallel investigation. and we know that we had a very aggressive state attorney's office. and we have hate crime laws in florida. if, in fact, they could have assessed that there was a hate crime, one surely would have had to believe that they would have brought that forward. in fact, the state attorneys, when they were giving their press conference, made it a point of saying that this was,
in fact, not about race. so because the standard is so very, very high, as it relates to a hate crime and because so many question marks do exist, and many things didn't come out on both sides, as i understand it, that i think that it's an insurmountable mountain for the government to, in fact, climb, and in fact, if they were to try to do that, i think that for them to not be able to prove a case would prove all the worse for the government. i think that we need to move forward in addressing things such as the laws on the books, the firearm issues, and matters such as that so we can find some good out of this horrendous tragedy. but to simply go ahead and try to now make a hate crime that the government i think most experts would agree would have next to an impossible time proceeding with is not the right direction to go in. >> jeff, you used to work for the u.s. attorney's office. you were a prosecutor. what do you think? >> it's tough. and remember, the opening statement of the prosecutor in this case was about zimmerman's
hostility, zimmerman's anger. that was the evidence that the government tried to put forward here. that was a big part of the government's case. and for whatever reason, the jury didn't buy it. so the u.s. attorney, the united states justice department is going to have to decide what's different, what can we bring to this case that the united states government -- that the florida state government didn't bring, and why would we win when they lost. it's slightly different under the law, but it's not that different. and, you know, the question is what would be different at a trial? at this point, i don't know. >> we're going to continue this. but one of the things some of the trayvon martin family lawyers have suggested is there are a whole bunch of other 911 calls that george zimmerman made and they insist all of them involved what they called suspected black males walking around the neighborhood there in sanford, florida. again, don't go away, hold on. we've got more to discuss, including trayvon martin's
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trayvon martin's mother describes the moments after george zimmerman was acquitted as her darkest hour. the teenager's parents are still trying to come to grips with the verdict. i spoke with their attorney darrell parks a little while ago here in "the situation room," and i asked him if his clients will move forward with a civil lawsuit against the man who killed their son. >> right now, wolf, the big issue is the jury verdict that came down. and so it's too fresh to make that type of decision. they're not some money-hungry people trying to profit off of
his death. that's not the type of people these are. they are very good, hard-working type of people who live in the south florida miami area. they'll make that decision at the appropriate time. right now, though, they believe their son's legacy has been dealt an injustice and they are happy and encouraged by the fact that so many other people feel that this is an unjustiinjustic that our government should answer in some way. >> let's go back to our panel. jeffrey, you covered the o.j. simpson trial. he was acquitted on the murder charges, but then there was a wrongful death lawsuit that the family filed. he was convicted on that. are we going to see a similar thing develop now? >> well, we could. and, of course, the big difference between a civil and a criminal case is that in a criminal case, the burden of proof is very high. it's proof beyond a reasonable doubt. in a civil case, the plaintiffs, trayvon martin's family, would only have to prove preponderance
of the evidence. more probable than not. and jail wouldn't be on the table, but money damages would. the question, of course, is in addition to sort of the legal issues is would it be worth it when george zimmerman doesn't appear to have any money to speak of? would lawyers spend all this time, all this money for a symbolic judgment against him? they might. but that's obviously something to consider. >> what do you think, mark? what's the downside of the family doing this? >> well, just having to relive all of this again. going through the pain and agony of having to relive yet another trial and another case. but there's some more aspects to it. and that is that george zimmerman in a civil case does not have any fifth amendment privileges. so if, in fact, there is more of a moral aspect to it than a financial one, it's very possible that, unless he went for default judgment, which would have a judgment answered against him without testifying, that they could be wanting to have him on the stand so that at least that could come out under
oath during the course of a case. there's also another issue, and that is that george zimmerman has a pending case, as we understand it, against another network for slander, defamatory statements, libel for editing the tapes, considering beginning all this, which some would allege is what helped ignite the fire about this case where the tapes were allegedly altered. if, in fact, there's a substantial recovery there, there would at least arguably be a pool of money for the martin family to go after, trayvon's parents to be able to go after. so there's a lot of moving parts in this, and i think that their attorney, who i think is accident, daryl parks, he said it well, right now they're having to absorb what's going on. and then i think they'll sit down and evaluate all these different areas and decide which direction they're going. because it is a very big, long, tedious ordeal to be going through another lawsuit and that surely has to factor into their
decision. >> that other network that they filed that lawsuit against is nbc. let's talk about that. what do you think the family will do or should do? >> you know, i think certainly they're looking at their options, and it's not unpr unprecedented for a family to file a wrongful death civil suit and to be successful. we saw that with the goldman family. and i think in many respects, families feel that it is some sort of justice. they have power over a defendant for some time, because if you have the power to take every bit of money that someone will ever make for the rest of their lives, that does give you a sense of power. but i think another point, wolf, that we're missing is that we still have that stand your ground statute in florida, and if, perhaps, he invokes it civilly, i'm told that he may even have immunity to civil litigation. i spoke to mark o'mara about that this afternoon. so that's yet another piece of this that i'm sure the family
has to think about. if you do all of this, are you then going to -- you know, is george zimmerman going to be immune from suit? >> i want all three of you to weigh in, but very quickly, because we have very little time on what angela cory, the florida state attorney told our sister network hln. she was asked, do you have one word to describe george zimmerman? and then she said low-key "murderer." we have the sound byte. >> one word to describe george zimmerman. >> murderer. >> george zimmerman. >> lucky. >> you heard her say -- and i'll
start with you, jeffrey. murderer. even though he was found not guilty by this jury in her state. >> what a politician's answer. why don't they do a better job trying cases and a little less playing word games with reporters. i just think that's bogus and ridiculous. >> sunny? >> i don't know. i mean, i think this prosecution certainly felt that they had enough evidence to seek a second-degree murder conviction. and when you're a prosecutor and you feel that way, and you feel that you lost your case, yeah, you still see that person as a murderer. so perhaps that was her way of saying that. >> mark? >> i think it's basically a lot of denial and a lot of twisting and turning and spinning. they should have never brought a second-degree murder charge. everybody knows that. almost everybody knows that. >> i don't know that. >> they thought they had a case -- i said almost everybody. i think if they thought they had a solid case, manslaughter was the way to go. i think they contaminated the case by twisting facts, trying
to prove second-degree murder, such as who was on top of who, when they knew right from the beginning, the real fact from the real start. i think they went ahead and misled the public in many ways and gave false hope to many people in many ways and by overcharging this case, they went ahead and in large part lost the case because of their, in my opinion, arrogance of twisting the facts in this case when they should have just gone straight up to a manslaughter and gone in that direction, rather than all the smoke and mirrors that they tried to get in, that eventually they even backed away from at the end -- before the trial even ended. by use of the dummies and the switch-around. i think this is simply, as was stated, i think it's politicians acting like politicians rather than as prosecutors. >> all right, guys. we're going to continue our analysis. thanks so much, in the meantime, for joining us. up next, president obama walks a very careful line after the zimmerman verdict.
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happening now, new demands of justice for trayvon martin. the legal and political pressure on the obama administration now
that george zimmerman has been acquitted. plus, jurors in the jodi arias murder trial tell us what the zimmerman jurors are going through right now and how it could get worse if they go public. and huge protest against the republican-led state government. is north carolina the new wisconsin? i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." the white house says president obama won't personally get involved in deciding whether to pursue civil rights charges against george zimmerman. the president issued a carefully worded statement yesterday, urging americans to respect the not guilty verdict in zimmerman's murder trial. he also called the death of trayvon martin a tragedy. it was a less emotional take on the case than we heard from the president in his now famous remark shortly after martin was killed. >> but my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin. you know, if i had a son, he'd
look like trayvon. and, you know, i think they are right to expect that all of us as americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. >> let's talk about the president's role in this case, the politics at play, and more. we're joined by two of the new co-hosts of "crossfire," the new show on cnn that will start airing this fall. the former house speaker newt gingrich is joining us as well as the former obama white house official van jones. newt, i'm going to call you newt now that you're a colleague at cnn. you can call me wolf. or you call me mr. blitzer, i'll call you newt. all right, should eric holder file a civil rights hate crime charge against george zimmerman? >> i think it would be an absurdity. i think it would be a miscarriage of justice. the standard for a hate trial is
higher than the standard for murder. a jury of six people spent five weeks listening to all the case, all the arguments, and concluded there was not a case there. this is a tragedy. it's a tragedy that trayvon martin is dead. but the jury concluded it was not an act of murder. it wasn't even an act of manslaughter. to think that the justice department can come in and cross this much higher threshold, i think would be absolutely an abuse of justice rather than the behavior of injustice. >> let's see what van jones has to say. go ahead. >> well, look, i think we need to let the process go forward. there is, i think, a basis for continuing an inquiry here. it does seem that there was a pattern and practice on the part of mr. zimmerman of focusing in on minority kids when he began to become this neighborhood watch hero, possibly in his own
mind. that pattern and practice could be the basis for real concern here. i do want to say this. you know, the president of the united states has gotten a lot of criticism for the statement that he made about if this young man -- if he had had a son, he would look like that young man. i think the criticism has really been unfair. i do think that in that moment, you had a need for him to make a human connection across the board with all americans. it's almost become the point where if this president acknowledges his racial or ethnic background in any way, he is criticized. i don't think that's right. if you look at what he actually did -- just to complete my thought, what he actually did in making that statement, he talked about all americans, and he had the department of justice look into it and he has since stood back and played no role. and by repeatedly criticizing him for one half of a fragment of a sentence, it's almost as if the president of the united
states is somehow inserted himself into the actual trial. he never did that. >> i just think it's important at the very end of the president's statement, as you just played it, the president says we should get to the bottom of this. well, under our system, we had a prosecution with full power of the government, the attorney general indicated he and the fbi have been talk for the last three weeks. you have to presume that every possible effort they made to help the prosecution, they had five weeks in a jury trial. they had six jurors sworn to do their duty. these six jurors listened to this case. deliberated for 16 hours. and they said while it is a tragedy, it is not murder, it is not manslaughter, that in fact, they believe george zimmerman had reasonable grounds to believe his life was in danger and it was self-defense. now, my only point is for the justice department to try to jump in on top of that would be absolutely a travesty of justice. it would be exposing zimmerman to a second round of risk, which
is deeply against our system, and there's no evidence that they could pass that threshold any more than the prosecution. >> van, go ahead and respond. >> well, listen, first of all, we've been down this road before. please let's not forget that the first trial for the rodney king case, where you had those four lapd officers who almost beat a black motorist unarmed to death, were initially acquitted. and then you had the department of justice look into it and they found that there was reason to move forward and they did move forward and they actually wound up with convictions. now, that was under the law, those were actual police officers and not neighborhood watch people. but we do have a tradition in this country, where there are multiple levels of review. we've had one level of review. the department of justice should look into this. it made a big difference in the rodney king outcome finally. we also -- should be a civil case explored. i just think that we need to respect the entire system.
i think done a good job respecting this jury's decision at the state level. but there are other levels of our system that should be allowed to go forward. >> quickly to both of you, van, you first, the florida state attorney who led the prosecution, even though she wasn't necessarily in the courtroom, she just told our sister network hln that one word to describe george zimmerman, and she called him "murderer." does that respect the system? >> well, her job was to bring forward a prosecution, if she did not believe he was a murder, she shouldn't have charged him with second-degree murder. so i think it's consistent with her role and her function, her duty. i think obviously if i were mr. zimmerman, though, i would take offense and i think most americans think that that was ill-considered on her part. but i understand her trying to be consistent. she might be criticized if she were to say he was not a murderer, having just charged him with murder. >> does that respect the system?
>> no, it doesn't respect the system. you have a prosecutor going out of her way to say that six jurors are wrong, the judge is wrong. she lost the case, to call a person who has been declared innocent a murderer is inflammatory -- >> not innocent. not guilty. there's a difference. >> i think it's very difference. >> she didn't use those two words, not guilty. she said murderer when she was asked by vinny, one word to describe george zimmerman, even though a jury acquitted him and said he was not guilty. make a final point, then i've got to go. >> she may not have been respectful of the jury. i do want to point out there was all this fear that black community and black youth would be disrespectful and riot and there was almost no violence at all. please let's give respect to the young people across the country who have shown respect for this process and i think that the media owes them a big apology for assuming that just because they were black and mad, they were going to riot. no riots in america. >> we never assume that.
not this part of the media, at least, in this room, "the situation room." our thanks very much, van jones, newt gingrich, the new co-host of "crossfire" that starts later in the fall. up next, should the jurors who acquitted george zimmerman go public? and what happens if they do? we're talking to jurors in some other high-profile cases. we know it's your most important videoconference of the day. hi! hi, buddy! that's why the free wifi and hot breakfast are something to smile about. book a great getaway now and feel the hamptonality
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so i know how important that is. we learned today that would have been the jurors who acqu acquitted george zimmerman is planning to write a book. there is concern for their safety. cnn's brian todd has more on the six women of the jury and what they may be facing right now. what are you learning? >> there is a lot of concern about their safety, their privacy. we spoke with jurors from other highly charged cases, some of whom say for these six women on the zimmerman panel, life may not be the same again. so far, this is all we've heard
from them. the six women who acquitted george zimmerman are still anonymous. we don't know when judge deborah nelson might lift an order which keeps the jurors' names secret, but it seems now that like george zimmerman, the members of this panel are dealing with significant public backlash. >> the system is not broken. it's the people that are involved with the system, like the jurors themselves. >> reporter: what's in store for members of the zimmerman jury if their names are made public? we spoke to jurors from other highly charged cases. tara kelly was an alternate on the jury that convicted jodi arias of murdering her ex-boyfriend. she says it's a completely different world once your name is out there. >> you know, i had people googling me and shopping pictures off my facebook of my kid and my family. if you're on social media, it can get ugly. >> reporter: diane schwartz was a regular juror in the arias trial.
she says most of her post-verdict experience was mostly positive. what is the biggest change in your life after a case like this? >> for us, not being sequestered, we all became very careful with where we went, who we talked to, what we did, because everyone wanted to talk about the trial. >> reporter: julie, part of a panel that convicted scott peterson in 2004 of killing his wife and their unborn child, has a similar story. >> i would go to work, a lot of people would want to ask me, oh, all about -- they wanted to know everything. what was this like? what was that like? you know, just like random people that i never really even talked to before. >> reporter: she says others on her jury got death threats. judge gregory mize is concerned about the zimmerman jurors' safety. he says they may also go through what's called vicarious traumatization, being so connected with the facts of a tragedy that emotionally you feel like you've gone through it yourself. >> the jurors are hearing some
very disturbing things over and over and over again. you add that to their not going home, they're going to their sequestered location at a hotel, you add all of that up, it's rough. >> reporter: judge mize says very often the court will offer jurors help with that with counselling, information packages or debriefing with others who have dealt with that kind of trauma in their professional lives like first responders. >> what about physical protection if needed for one of these jurors, or a couple of them? >> judge mize said if need be, the courts will offer protection for them. the courts would work with the local sheriff's offices if they have information about a credible threat to their lives. but he said it's not open-ended. they can't get it forever. even the stress of 24-hour protection is stressful on the juror. >> let's hope that doesn't
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the russian president vladimir putin says the nsa leaker edward snowden is "shifting his position when it comes to meeting russia's terms for asylum." phil black is in moscow where snowden is still holed up. what's the latest, phil? >> reporter: well, these were president putin's first comments on edward snowden since the fugitive declared his intention to seek political asylum in this
country and putin began by blaming the united states for snowden's continued presence in this country. he said it was america's actions that had trapped him here. take a look. >> translator: the moment news arrived that he was in midair, our american partners actually blocked his further movement. the united states had intimidated other countries so that nobody wants him. that's how they blocked him on our territory. this is some kind of christmas gift for us. >> reporter: president putin admitted that russia had previously offered snowden asylum here because he turned it down because of that condition which said he'd have the stop all political activity here. putin said he insisted on that condition because he was worried about damaging relations between the united states and russia. but he now senses that snowden is beginning to change his position on that condition, although he says it's not entirely clear. crucially, for snowden, putin didn't rule out the possibility of being allowed to leave that
transit zone at the airport to set here for a time. but he did say that as soon as there's a chance he can travel to another country, naturally, he will do so. >> phil black reporting. a quick update, by the way, on a story that shocked a lot of folks over the weekend. the coroner's office performed an autopsy and toxicology tests today on the body of the actor cory monteith, the 31-year-old star of "glee" was found dead in a vancouver hotel room on saturday. we're not expecting results, we're told, for several days. up next, big protests at the north carolina state house. there's growing anger at the republican governor. our jim acosta asked him. this man is about to be the millionth customer. would you mind if i go ahead of you? instead we had someone go ahead of him and win fifty thousand dollars. congratulations you are our one millionth customer. nobody likes to miss out. that's why ally treats all their customers the same.
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thousands rallying, protesting at the north carolina state house for weeks. today, they heated up due to a controversial abortion bill and it is all part of the protest dubbed, moral monday. our national political correspondent jim acosta is in raleigh. he is joining us now. what's going on in north carolina? >> reporter: wolf, washington no longer has a monopoly on partisanship and political rancor. take what is happening at the moral mondays protest in north carolina. in the last 15 minutes, hundreds of protesters filed into the state house behind me. many of them expect to be arrested. >> this is moral mono over. >> reporter: every week for three straight months and 700 arrests later, demonstrators are still rallying at north carolina's republican dominated state house to send a message. >> it is just wrong. what they did with unemployment
is wrong. what they did with medicaid is wrong. >> reporter: they're calling it moral mondays. a day to stand against a key part of state's gop agenda. >> overall, there tends to be a movement as we would call it, backwards. >> reporter: ever since they won control of both the governor's office and the legislature for the first time in more than a century, republican lawmakers have cut unemployment benefits, health care for the poor and moved to change voting laws. just last week the house approved new laws for doctors performing abortions. guidelines the governor indicates he will sign into law. try to ask some republican lawmakers about the protests and they take a pass. >> it is the people's house. >> reporter: conservative activists are firing back online where they posted some of the mug shots of the liberal protesters. also not down, republican governor pat mcrory who unveiled plans to cut taxes just before the latest moral monday protest. >> i have stepped on the toes in
my first six months in office of the right and the left. and the media. >> you seem proud of it. >> maybe that means i'm doing something right. >> reporter: democrats say mccrory broke a campaign pledge. >> absolutely not. >> add some restrictions? >> no. >> that's going to be a promise kept. >> absolutely a promise kept. >> i think there are people all over the place who say, you know, it doesn't help if you have this much disagreement. >> reporter: the political science professor says north carolina has joined the list of such states as texas and wisconsin where conservative leaders are making gains no matter the protests. that goes for moral mondays. >> the real key is, is it going to have an effect on the legislative agenda in raleigh. that's an open question. >> so far i don't think that's the case. >> reporter: but these moral
mondays, protesters say they'll keep on demonstrating even though they know we won't have a major impact on the laws being passed in this legislature. that, they say, is what the next election is for. >> thanks very much. we're just getting in some videotape, abc news' barbara walters sat down with trayvon martin's parents and got this reaction. >> when you finally got a chance to talk to your son in the courtroom, after the verdict, what did he say to you? >> i had him. i kiss him. and he said thank you, mom. i want to go home. >> are you concerned for george's safety? >> yes. >> why? what do you think could happen? >> it's a lot of death threats in the social media. >> are you concerned about death threats? have you had death threats? >> we had an enormous amount of
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a raven in distress landed at the white house. >> when porcupine meets bulldog, it is the dog that gets bullied with a face full of quills. to remove them, dogs can be knocked out. what if it is a raven that needs to be plucked? >> this is going to hurt. >> this wild raven with quills in his face landed on girdy cleary's face in nova scotia. they say ravens are extremely intelligent. this one was smart enough to let a human help. with her daughter holding the camera -- girdy went after the first quill. >> there's one. good job. >> that went well. >> let me get the other one. i know, i know. >> he's screaming ought. i don't think he is trying to bite you. >> easy for the one not plucking to say. >> there you go. >> it reminded me of a child with a splinter. when you pull a splinter out,
they holler and screech and pull their hand away. >> when a vet put a quill under the microscope, you see the barb that's make it so painful to pull out. are you surprised at how much attention it has gotten? >> i am. i at any time think it was such a big deal. i was just helping this poor creature. let me get that last one, ahhh. there we go. good. >> girdy removed a total of four quills. three in the raven's cheek, one in its wing. >> when i pulled the one out of the wick, he fell off the fence i pulled it so hard. >> they named the raven will fred. they gave it tuna and water. willfred flew off. now when she hears a raven calling at her -- >> i say, is that you? >> it takes a plucky lady to pluck a loud reign. ask edgar allan poe. >> take thy beak! >> make that, take thy quill
from out my cheek. >> quote the raven never more. >> cnn. >> got it! good! >> new york. >> that's it for me. thank you for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. up front next, should, could we see another george zimmerman trial? will the obama administration file a civil rights suit for a hate crime against man who killed trayvon martin? plus the latest from the snowden investigation. the nsa has the blue prints of the united states of manager's entire spy program. that's a huge claim. does it add up? and later, a racist joke on a news station offends an airline that crashed in san francisco. should they sue? we checked the tapes. let's go out front.
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in friday's deadly rampage. six new raids in belgium overnight and hundreds more here in france in recent days have failed to catch him. >> translator: the republic is doing everything to destroy terrori terrorism. >> reporter: french security services have netted perhaps the most dangerous suspect, abdelhamid abaqoud, the alleged mastermind confirmed killed in a furious gun battle with police wednesday. >> translator: in the operation there was a target and it was reached. >> reporter: and tonight, we're seeing chilling new video of this raid, just moments before police killed abaaoud. france is working feverishly to prevent scenes like this one captured, of tbtained by daily mail.com. one woman saved because the terrorist assault rifle appears to jam. today french lawmakers voted to extend the country's state of emergency giving police broad new powers to detain suspects. >> translator: we are at war and for us to remain ourselves because that is what is in question, france must not lose itself to win this war. france must respond to hatred with fraternity. france will respond to
in friday's deadly rampage. six new raids in belgium overnight and hundreds more here in france in recent days have failed to catch him. >> translator: the republic is doing everything to destroy terrori terrorism. >> reporter: french security services have netted perhaps the most dangerous suspect, abdelhamid abaqoud, the alleged mastermind confirmed killed in a furious gun battle with police wednesday. >> translator: in the operation there was a target and it was reached....
Wolf : CNNW : November 23, 2015 10:00am-11:01am PST
canalron was in -- david cameron was in france to discuss the events of the last week. and what assistance is david cameron offering there? >> well, wolf, i want to get to that, but one thing that paris police have told cnn and that is an area in paris has been sealed off after the discovery in a garbage can of something that is resembling a suicide have vest, and a bomb retrieval group will be there to remove it, and we will tell you more about that when we get it. and now, as to the prime minister, yes, he crossed the english channel to meet with the president in a show of solidarity. this is what he had to say. >> it is good to be back in paris, a city whose people have shown determination and courage and resilience. a city where millions came out friday night to live their lives and send a clear message to the terrorists, you will e never win. you will never beat paul. >> the two leaders visited together at the scene of the bataclan theater where more than 80 people were killed, massacred at a rock concert by the terrorists. but david cameron brought more than a show of solidarity, bec
canalron was in -- david cameron was in france to discuss the events of the last week. and what assistance is david cameron offering there? >> well, wolf, i want to get to that, but one thing that paris police have told cnn and that is an area in paris has been sealed off after the discovery in a garbage can of something that is resembling a suicide have vest, and a bomb retrieval group will be there to remove it, and we will tell you more about that when we get it. and now, as to the...
a battle zone. scores of police and commandos race past the stade de france sports complex to the site where they thought they might find the ringleader of friday's attacks, abdelhamid abaaoud. there in two apartments they confronted a cell of heavily armed terrorists apparently ready to carry out another attack. the raid sets off an hour long fire fight and six-hour siege. [ gunfire ] the force of the assault and the explosive response so powerful that a floor in the complex collapsed. at the end the facts still unclear. belgium state broadcaster rtbs reports a female cousin of abaaoud appeared to blow herself up with an explosive belt. at least one other suspected terrorist is dead, but exactly how many more killed? difficult to dissurgecern with parts littered among the rubble. the key question tonight, is abdelhamid abaaoud dead? dna tests under way to match the body parts found in the apartment. eight people were taken into custody, but officials say abaaoud was not among them. a resident of the building describes the mayhem. >> translator: really we could see the bullets, th
a battle zone. scores of police and commandos race past the stade de france sports complex to the site where they thought they might find the ringleader of friday's attacks, abdelhamid abaaoud. there in two apartments they confronted a cell of heavily armed terrorists apparently ready to carry out another attack. the raid sets off an hour long fire fight and six-hour siege. [ gunfire ] the force of the assault and the explosive response so powerful that a floor in the complex collapsed. at the...
CNN Newsroom With Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul : CNNW : November 21, 2015 7:00am-8:01am PST
this map, showing brussels on high alert. france's state of emergency has been extended three months. mali been declared a state of emergency. beijing police have increased the alert level throughout the city to prevent potential terror attacks and handle emergencies. christian, what is your reaction? >> through the voice of the french president, we are a target. it is only the start of the war. we are so far away from the end. there will be targets for all the french that are considered to be a target, not only in france but in mali yesterday. i am sure they tried to find out if there were some french people at the radisson hotel, which is the place where most of the westerners go. it is supposed to be the most secured place. everywhere for the french government, gave instruction to the french to protect themselves, not to move to very big place with too many people. they know that we are a target. it is not over. we do know that in france, the extension of the state of the emergency is appreciated by the french population. we still think it might be extended longer. because, once m
this map, showing brussels on high alert. france's state of emergency has been extended three months. mali been declared a state of emergency. beijing police have increased the alert level throughout the city to prevent potential terror attacks and handle emergencies. christian, what is your reaction? >> through the voice of the french president, we are a target. it is only the start of the war. we are so far away from the end. there will be targets for all the french that are considered...
New Day : CNNW : November 24, 2015 3:00am-6:01am PST
russia, the united states, the gulf states, jordan, iran, hezbollah, france and others. it's a serious development but not all together one that wasn't anticipated. >> ben, thank you so much for that. the kremlin is calling the downing of their fighter jet a very serious incident. let's turn to matthew chance who is live in moscow. what's the reaction from there? >> reporter: the russians are confirming it was indeed a russian warplane that was taken down by that fire. they say though on a number of different levels they dispute the turkish account. first of all, they deny this warplane went into turkish airspace. they say it completely stayed inside syrian airspace where russian is carrying out air strikes against rebel groups opposed to the syrian president. they also deny that this plane was brought down by an air to air missile. turks say the f-16 interceptors were scrambled and shot the russian plane out of the sky. russians say it was brought down by fire from the ground. that will be clarified in the hours ahead. the big concern in russia at the moment was the fate of th
russia, the united states, the gulf states, jordan, iran, hezbollah, france and others. it's a serious development but not all together one that wasn't anticipated. >> ben, thank you so much for that. the kremlin is calling the downing of their fighter jet a very serious incident. let's turn to matthew chance who is live in moscow. what's the reaction from there? >> reporter: the russians are confirming it was indeed a russian warplane that was taken down by that fire. they say...
terror attacks to let them know if you're in france, they want to account for all americans. we'll have the phone numbers on the screen. reach out and make a call to the numbers if you are there in paris. live coverage of the terror attacks continues right now with anderson cooper. >>> erin, thanks very much. good evening, everybody. we're covering the wave of terror that's broken out over paris tonight. the deputy mayor put the death toll at 118 but that could rise. you're looking at the scene of a recent concert hall by the time security forces ended the siege there. one witness described a slow-motion massacre. ten to 15 minutes of gunfire according to this witness. the killers apparently not saying anything, just shooting, reloading and shooting again according to this witness. shooting and reloading, the word he used was blood bath. it was one in a string of shootings, terror attacks, bombings at two restaurants that we know of in the city's major soccer stadium throw the deputy mayor said there were attacks at six to seven locations. paris tonight is under curfew, all of france un
terror attacks to let them know if you're in france, they want to account for all americans. we'll have the phone numbers on the screen. reach out and make a call to the numbers if you are there in paris. live coverage of the terror attacks continues right now with anderson cooper. >>> erin, thanks very much. good evening, everybody. we're covering the wave of terror that's broken out over paris tonight. the deputy mayor put the death toll at 118 but that could rise. you're looking at...
french president francois hollande at the site of one attack. and as france launched new air strikes at isis targets inside syria, david cameron says he'll push for britain to do the same thing. and other european capital meanwhile is on lockdown right now. schools, stores and the subway system they're closed in brussels, home to the european union and nato. belgium is on high alert for what authorities say is an imminent threat of a paris style attack. as security forces hunt for the suspected eighth paris attacker, salah abdelsalam. also at large, the so-called voice of death, an infamous isis commander who claimed the paris massacres in the name of the terror group. we're learning he may have helped direct that slaughter along with other attacks and may be planning a new strike. i'll speak with congressman andre carson of the intelligence committee and our correspondents, analysts and guests they'll have full coverage of the day's top stories. let's begin with our justice correspondent pamela brown. she has the very latest on all these fast moving developments. what are you learni
french president francois hollande at the site of one attack. and as france launched new air strikes at isis targets inside syria, david cameron says he'll push for britain to do the same thing. and other european capital meanwhile is on lockdown right now. schools, stores and the subway system they're closed in brussels, home to the european union and nato. belgium is on high alert for what authorities say is an imminent threat of a paris style attack. as security forces hunt for the...
Erin Burnett OutFront : CNNW : November 17, 2015 4:00pm-5:01pm PST
expected at that game. francois hollande was at that game in france that was struck on friday. here in france tonight, officials announcing a possible second suspect linked to the paris attacks is at large. this as a massive manhunt for salah abdeslam intensifies. there is an unprecedented display of force. i went to belgium today. i spoke to his brother mohammed abdeslam. i asked him if he could speak to his brother right now, his brother on the run, what would he say? >> translator: i would tell him to surrender. that it's best solution. to contact authorities, but he must not be afraid to surrender to explain. >> new images of french air strike. the story continues to move by the hour. we again with max foster on the foiled plot to attack a soccer stadium in hanover, germany. this was specific intelligence of a striked plan at this game today. >> reporter: serious enough to have a stadium cleared 1 1/2 hours before the match started. this is something no one wanted to see. they wanted to show defiance in the face of this threat you are seeing in paris. the local police chief put it
expected at that game. francois hollande was at that game in france that was struck on friday. here in france tonight, officials announcing a possible second suspect linked to the paris attacks is at large. this as a massive manhunt for salah abdeslam intensifies. there is an unprecedented display of force. i went to belgium today. i spoke to his brother mohammed abdeslam. i asked him if he could speak to his brother right now, his brother on the run, what would he say? >> translator: i...
State of the Union With Jake Tapper : CNNW : November 15, 2015 6:00am-7:01am PST
french interior ministry, they have concluded the first suicide bomber at the stade de france, the football match that was going on live on friday night, was somebody who is in possession of what they believe were fake documents that were issued to this person as he came, they believe, in a wave of refugees and migrants. they know, according to these documents they say he was processed arrivine ining on the island of leros october/3 a 3rd with other refugees made the trip through macedonia and serbia and croatia and registered according to french authorities in a serbian refugee camp on october 7th. it is proposed and concluded by investigators here this person would have gradually made their way to paris over the period of over a month since then the attack happened november 13th. they say that the fingerprint of the first bomber at the stade de france matches the print on this document that was found with him. they say the name is ahmad mohammed. they say he was born according to these documents the 10th of september, 1999. they also say the -- 2345e7b th. they say the new develo
french interior ministry, they have concluded the first suicide bomber at the stade de france, the football match that was going on live on friday night, was somebody who is in possession of what they believe were fake documents that were issued to this person as he came, they believe, in a wave of refugees and migrants. they know, according to these documents they say he was processed arrivine ining on the island of leros october/3 a 3rd with other refugees made the trip through macedonia and...
Early Start With John Berman and Christine Romans : CNNW : November 24, 2015 1:00am-2:01am PST
time, they let him go. now salah abdeslam is france's most wanted. cnn's erin burnet spoke to his family in belgium. >> what would you say? what do you say to him? >> translator: i would tell him to surrender. >> reporter: belgium authorities picked up two men with him in the car charging them with complicity and through their attorney, they tell a most interesting tale. the two men say a couple hours after the attacks, they received a phone call from salah abdeslam and he founded upset claiming his car broke down and he needed a ride back to belgium. the two friends came here and picked him up in paris. the attorney says he had no idea he had been involved in the attacks. the attorney says the men noticed he was carrying something. quote a big jacket and other things. maybe like an explosive belt or something like that. unquote. it raises the question. is salah abdeslam a suspected terrorist on the run or did he simply change his mind and run away? martin savidge, cnn, paris. >>> breaking news. a russian plane shot down on the turkish side of the border. we have more from ivan wa
time, they let him go. now salah abdeslam is france's most wanted. cnn's erin burnet spoke to his family in belgium. >> what would you say? what do you say to him? >> translator: i would tell him to surrender. >> reporter: belgium authorities picked up two men with him in the car charging them with complicity and through their attorney, they tell a most interesting tale. the two men say a couple hours after the attacks, they received a phone call from salah abdeslam and he...
CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin : CNNW : November 25, 2015 11:00am-1:01pm PST
. >>> good evening, 8:00 local time here in beautiful paris, france. i'm brooke baldwin. of course, continuing our special live coverage of the terror attacks. you're watching cnn. today some breaking details about one of the suspects. investigators are trying to hunt down. a source close to the investigation tells cnn that mohammad abrini traveled to syria last year and somehow returned to europe undetected, which is extraordinarily concerning for investigators. keep in mind abrini is the new suspect. this is the same man who we talked about this time yesterday who was caught on camera in a gas station en route from bruls els to paris with the other fugitive they're also looking for, salah abdelsalam. and saw them on this footage just two days before the attacks. so i can tell you an international arrest warrant is now out for abrini. another huge concern for investigators here in france, watching for signs of radicalization among airport and public transit workers. a french counterterrorism source says the monitoring actually had been going on for a number of years. this is not n
. >>> good evening, 8:00 local time here in beautiful paris, france. i'm brooke baldwin. of course, continuing our special live coverage of the terror attacks. you're watching cnn. today some breaking details about one of the suspects. investigators are trying to hunt down. a source close to the investigation tells cnn that mohammad abrini traveled to syria last year and somehow returned to europe undetected, which is extraordinarily concerning for investigators. keep in mind abrini is...
. >> france is under a state of emergency. the first time the entire nation has been under such a state of emergency in more than 50 years. >> right now, french lawmakers debating whether to extend the state of emergency for three more months. the debate comes the day after the bloody and dramatic raid on two apartments in a paris suburb. >> hundreds of police officers, special forces, military troops descended on a building north of paris in saint-denis early wednesday looking for the man who is believed to have orchestrated the friday attacks. abdelhamid abaaoud. he's belgian. investigators are trying to determine if one of the bodies in the building there is abaaoud. >> there was so much destruction, they have to sift through the body parts and try to match the dna if they can get it. they say one woman blew herself up at the beginning of the raid. she was wearing some kind of suicide belt. she has been identified in some reports as abaaoud's cousin. eight people were arrested in wednesday's operation. officials make clear they do not think abaaoud was one of them. >> meanwhile
. >> france is under a state of emergency. the first time the entire nation has been under such a state of emergency in more than 50 years. >> right now, french lawmakers debating whether to extend the state of emergency for three more months. the debate comes the day after the bloody and dramatic raid on two apartments in a paris suburb. >> hundreds of police officers, special forces, military troops descended on a building north of paris in saint-denis early wednesday...
CNN Special Report: Targeting Terror: Inside the Intelligence War : CNNW : November 25, 2015 8:00pm-9:01pm PST
biggest draw of the night is a huge international soccer match at the stade de france, france's national stadium. france versus rival germany draws tens of thousands of fans, among them, the french president, francois hollande, but it becomes the event the terrorists chose to begin their deadly ram page. 9:20 p.m., the game is already underway when a man approaches the stadium entrance. >> translator: i come face to face with this individual. his beard is dripping with sweat. this was not reassuring and prompted me to wonder what was going on. and i could see he was very anxious, disturbed. >> security guards frisk him and find their worst nightmare, an explosive belt. >> boom! >> translator: he had blown himself up. my shoulders and body were propelled back. >> the soccer match continues. fans unaware, paris unaware. until four miles away, three masked gunmen armed with assault rifles open fire at two restaurants popular with young parisians. >> we heard huge gunshots and lots of glass coming through the window. so we ducked onto the floor with all of the other diners. >> back
biggest draw of the night is a huge international soccer match at the stade de france, france's national stadium. france versus rival germany draws tens of thousands of fans, among them, the french president, francois hollande, but it becomes the event the terrorists chose to begin their deadly ram page. 9:20 p.m., the game is already underway when a man approaches the stadium entrance. >> translator: i come face to face with this individual. his beard is dripping with sweat. this was...
Fareed Zakaria GPS: Blindsided: How ISIS Shook the World : CNNW : November 17, 2015 9:00pm-10:01pm PST
terror attacks in paris. i'm isha sesay. >> two air france planes just diverted in north america. but we begin with gun fire in a northern paris suburb. police are not confirming a report that officers had been shot during this operation. [ gun fire ] >> it happened in a suburb st. denis. let's go straight to senior international correspondent who's live in paris with details. atika, what can you tell us? >> well, i'm on the way now to the neighborhood of st. denis. this is one of the northern neighborhoods of paris. it's actually where the stadium attack occurred. now what we understand is around 4:30 in the morning, residents reported hearing automatic gun fire and at least one explosion. police have now confirmed to us that an operation is under way in connection to the hunt for those suspects of the paris attacks. now, we have not confirmed this ourself, however, our local affiliate is also reporting that one police officer has been wounded in the operation. this is still on going. they have closed off some of the routes to the neighborhood. but this does seem to be in relati
terror attacks in paris. i'm isha sesay. >> two air france planes just diverted in north america. but we begin with gun fire in a northern paris suburb. police are not confirming a report that officers had been shot during this operation. [ gun fire ] >> it happened in a suburb st. denis. let's go straight to senior international correspondent who's live in paris with details. atika, what can you tell us? >> well, i'm on the way now to the neighborhood of st. denis. this is...
At This Hour With Berman and Bolduan : CNNW : November 16, 2015 8:00am-9:01am PST
attacks that rocked this city. just moments ago france president -- french president francois hollande said, we are at war. france is at war. but he says, it is not a battle of civilizations because isis represents no civilization. here are the latest details in the paris terror attack investigation. an urgent international search is under way right now for the brother of one dead attacker. belgian born french citizen salah abdeslam. ops failed to catch him in a raid this morning. police tell the public he is dangerous. do not approach him. they had him. they questioned him on a highway on the way to belgium not hours after the attack but let him go. we have more information, also, about the isis connection. two members of the terror group are thought to have masterminded the paris attacks. they are believed to be in iraq or syria right now and have french and belgian connections. cnn's french affiliate reports six attackers, six of the eight people believed to be primarily responsible for the attacks on friday spent time in syria. as i said, french president francois hollande addresse
attacks that rocked this city. just moments ago france president -- french president francois hollande said, we are at war. france is at war. but he says, it is not a battle of civilizations because isis represents no civilization. here are the latest details in the paris terror attack investigation. an urgent international search is under way right now for the brother of one dead attacker. belgian born french citizen salah abdeslam. ops failed to catch him in a raid this morning. police tell...
. john? >> martin, there is investigations going on all over france and belgium, as well. i understand authorities there are looking for ten additional people who they say could be some kind of terrorist threat. what do we know about this search and is this just a different thing than the paris attack? >> reporter: it is believed to be different but goes a long way to explain why in belgium they are under this lockdown since last friday. that did begin to ease today. the subway system reopened with the exception of two lines. there are are e ports coming from government officials there that there are ten members of a terrorist cell that are believed to be heavily armed, possibly with explosive vests that may be looking for targets in which to strike. they do not identify which group this may belong to. they certainly don't give any geographic locations where they may be but they do hint that their targets could become meshl a commercial areas which is another area they are warning the public to stay away from. ten members of a cell armed with explosives, that is a fantastically frighte
. john? >> martin, there is investigations going on all over france and belgium, as well. i understand authorities there are looking for ten additional people who they say could be some kind of terrorist threat. what do we know about this search and is this just a different thing than the paris attack? >> reporter: it is believed to be different but goes a long way to explain why in belgium they are under this lockdown since last friday. that did begin to ease today. the subway...
thing. this is the number we talked about a lot. 11,000. in france alone. 11,000 people suspected of ties to terrorism or radicalization. they will say and i hear this from u.s. officials. you have numerous warnings like this. numerous possible plots you are trying to extinguish on any given day of any year. we covered a lot of terror attacks. often times when an attack happens, you say hindsight is 20/20. in this case, i have to say these are multiple information points here. you knew about the mastermind of a previous plot. you knew they were planning an attack in this mold. you had several of the attackers on a warning list here. we know they don't have the resources to follow and monitor all of them. this is a remarkable number of signs to have missed. >> what about the mastermind? they say they were monitoring him. >> they were trying to monitor him. that is the thing. it looks like they were not able to monitor him. apparently he faked had his own death or attempted to fake his death by having someone to make a phone call. oh, poor abdelhamid abaaoud, he's dead now. then use th
thing. this is the number we talked about a lot. 11,000. in france alone. 11,000 people suspected of ties to terrorism or radicalization. they will say and i hear this from u.s. officials. you have numerous warnings like this. numerous possible plots you are trying to extinguish on any given day of any year. we covered a lot of terror attacks. often times when an attack happens, you say hindsight is 20/20. in this case, i have to say these are multiple information points here. you knew about...
CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow : CNNW : November 22, 2015 2:00pm-3:01pm PST
the authorities here in france, belgium, that they can track him down? it seems pretty amazing that someone could evade all of these countries looking for him. >> i think it is amazing, seems to be no trace of him after about a week. he arrived back in belgium on a saturday morning. a week later, nobody knows where he is. >> nothing. >> there is nothing. some speculate that he may have even taken his own life. he was in a very agitated state. he didn't know where to turn. others, very, very poor sourcing on this say he maybe was spotted. that's why this intense belgian operation continues because they feel he is still out there and may finally carry out this act of martyrdom. >> and what other lives might he take. thank you very much. you can go to cnn.com, read tim's fascinating piece. also, we know that in less than 48 hours, president obama will sit down for a face-to-face meeting with the french president. president obama slamming isis when he spoke today on his trip to malaysia. >> they're a bunch of killers. with good social media. the americans who are building things and mak
the authorities here in france, belgium, that they can track him down? it seems pretty amazing that someone could evade all of these countries looking for him. >> i think it is amazing, seems to be no trace of him after about a week. he arrived back in belgium on a saturday morning. a week later, nobody knows where he is. >> nothing. >> there is nothing. some speculate that he may have even taken his own life. he was in a very agitated state. he didn't know where to turn....
now, france on edge, hundreds of people deemed security risks. >>> magnificent mile protest. thousands taking to the renowned shopping district to protest the shooting death of laquan mcdonald. today we're asking, did the protests work? >>> and carson in jordan. the republican presidential candidate making a surprise trip, going overseas to visit refugees. but will the trip silence critics of his grasp of foreign policy? . >>> and you are in the "cnn newsroom." i'm pamela brown in for poppy harlow. thank you for being with us this saturday. we have brand-new details just emerging in that deadly rampage in colorado springs. we've just learned at least four survivors have been released from the hospital. at this point we believe five people are still being treated. the suspect, robert dear, is due in court on monday. he's being held without bail in colorado. and i want to show you this, a first look at the suspect's residence. this tiny yellow shack located in the woods near black montana, north carolina. this is the place where robert dear allegedly lived before he traveled to colorado
now, france on edge, hundreds of people deemed security risks. >>> magnificent mile protest. thousands taking to the renowned shopping district to protest the shooting death of laquan mcdonald. today we're asking, did the protests work? >>> and carson in jordan. the republican presidential candidate making a surprise trip, going overseas to visit refugees. but will the trip silence critics of his grasp of foreign policy? . >>> and you are in the "cnn...
CNN Newsroom-Paris Terror Attacks : CNNW : November 14, 2015 6:00pm-7:01pm PST
situation not seen in france in generations. the french president calling them an act of war. and our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is with me now. jim, we just literally have these headlines crossing, identifying the first of the attackers. >> that's right. this appears to be the same frenchman we reported had been identified by his fingerprints and someone known to the police previously, known to have been radicalized but not necessarily involved in terrorism. this gives you what president hollande referred to earlier in the day, this plot had apparently had both local and international involvement. >> so we're learning about this man, 29 or 30 years old, was known to french authorities prior to this. but that is one of seven. >> exactly. >> of course, there's a network beyond that. what about the other names? >> you have that initial ring of the attackers that carried out these attacks. they have one of those identified. they discovered a syrian and egyptian passport. there's some doubts about the authenticity, so those are not positive identifications at this point.
situation not seen in france in generations. the french president calling them an act of war. and our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is with me now. jim, we just literally have these headlines crossing, identifying the first of the attackers. >> that's right. this appears to be the same frenchman we reported had been identified by his fingerprints and someone known to the police previously, known to have been radicalized but not necessarily involved in terrorism. this...
>>> breaking news this morning, more than 150 terror raids overnight in france. investigators revealing new information about who was behind the paris attacks. a manhunt happening for one dangerous suspect as french jets bomb isis in syria. live team coverage breaking it all down begins right now. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans in new york. >> and i'm john berman live in paris this morning. it is monday, november 16th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. it is 10:00 a.m. here in paris. welcome viewers in the united states and all around the world. this morning, i'm standing in the plaza de la republique. today, there are not as many people here, but that may be a good sign. to the extent, people are getting back to work today. kids are going to school. some of the landmarks are beginning to open today, though not all. we have breaking news at this hour on the investigation. overnight, police conducted more than 150 terror raids across france making arrests. not clear whether these raids were connected directly to the attacks here on friday or separate from sep
>>> breaking news this morning, more than 150 terror raids overnight in france. investigators revealing new information about who was behind the paris attacks. a manhunt happening for one dangerous suspect as french jets bomb isis in syria. live team coverage breaking it all down begins right now. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans in new york. >> and i'm john berman live in paris this morning. it is monday, november 16th. 4:00 a.m. in the...
CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield : CNNW : November 21, 2015 10:00am-11:01am PST
the operation here and therefore may have links to other cells in france and belgium, other cells that may be, may planning other attacks, fredricka. >> nic, these other cells, whether they be in belgium or right there in france, that you mentioned, are investigators feeling that they may be concentrated in particular areas, especially maybe the neighborhoods where they already in saint-denis conducted the raids? is there a concentrated effort, you know, to kind of better comb that area, to see if there are active cells there? >> well, saint-denis would be one of the neighborhoods where they would look more extensively given what they've already discovered there. but what we're seeing here and what we're seeing from the french ministry's office over the past few days, as recently as yesterday, in the past five days alone, almost 800 raids, more than 100 arrests, more than 170 weapons rounded up. and these are coming all across the country. now, many of them are happening in the larger cities, like leon, like marseille in the south, where there are neighborhoods that have high immi
the operation here and therefore may have links to other cells in france and belgium, other cells that may be, may planning other attacks, fredricka. >> nic, these other cells, whether they be in belgium or right there in france, that you mentioned, are investigators feeling that they may be concentrated in particular areas, especially maybe the neighborhoods where they already in saint-denis conducted the raids? is there a concentrated effort, you know, to kind of better comb that area,...
CNN Newsroom-Paris Terror Attacks : CNNW : November 16, 2015 6:00am-8:01am PST
, police launch more than 150 raids here in france. within the last few hours, this sweep in neighboring belgium. two dozen people are now in custody. more than 100 others are under house arrest. also, a global man hunt now underway for this man who may have been involved in the attacks. salah abdeslam is a french civilian born in belgium. one of his brothers died in the attack. another has just been released from custody in belgium, where prosecutors had arrested him as part of the investigation. in fact, of the seven people arrested in belgium, five of them are now free. next hour, we're beginning to hear from the leaders of france and the united states. president hollande will address the french parliament and barack obama will discuss the u.s. role in france's air strikes on isis. there's a lot ahead in the next hour, as well as in this hour. i want to begin with nick paton walsh, who is joining us this morning from erbil, iraq. what's the latest on the new threat from isis? >> well, it is very much r relevant to the usual language, goading on the enemies but referencing the attacks
, police launch more than 150 raids here in france. within the last few hours, this sweep in neighboring belgium. two dozen people are now in custody. more than 100 others are under house arrest. also, a global man hunt now underway for this man who may have been involved in the attacks. salah abdeslam is a french civilian born in belgium. one of his brothers died in the attack. another has just been released from custody in belgium, where prosecutors had arrested him as part of the...
friday. we will have much more on that in just a moment. meanwhile, here in france, police literally digging through the rubble of an apartment in the suburb of saint-denis. that is where the raid was yesterday. the huge raid involving more than 100 law enforcement officials. 5,000 rounds fired. it was targeting the man believed to be the ringleader of last week's attacks. abdelhamid abaaoud. officials say they moved in toward that apartment because of wire taps. they had information showing that at a minimum, abaaoud's cousin was saying there. it is believed at this point that cousin is dead. she apparently blew herself up early in the operation wearing some kind of suicide explosive device. at this point, police say they do not believe abaaoud is among the eight people arrested. there were eight people taken to custody and in custody right now. abaaoud is not one of them. however, what they are doing is going through the apartment building testing body parts. so much destruction, all that is left is body parts. trying to link dna to that man, abaaoud, to see if he was kil
friday. we will have much more on that in just a moment. meanwhile, here in france, police literally digging through the rubble of an apartment in the suburb of saint-denis. that is where the raid was yesterday. the huge raid involving more than 100 law enforcement officials. 5,000 rounds fired. it was targeting the man believed to be the ringleader of last week's attacks. abdelhamid abaaoud. officials say they moved in toward that apartment because of wire taps. they had information showing...
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon : CNNW : November 19, 2015 8:00pm-9:01pm PST
expanded to france and belgium and the netherlands. the netherlands says that it is a global manhunt. and abdeslam in the past has spent time in the netherlands. and one of the things we have to keep in mind is that this is the guy in the cell who rented some of the cars. one of the cars that was rented was found in a paris neighborhood here very close to where the ring leader then was later killed. this is certainly someone who knows how to get around europe and certainly this participate of europe in particular. >> do we know when he was last seen? >> yeah, i mean, that is one of the things that puzzles many people in this investigation. the last time is when he was checked by the police after the attack. he was taken into custody, questioned and, then, don, he was released. that is one of the big failures that people are talking about. at that point in time, the authorities did not keep him in custody. the cops didn't feel a reason to keep him in custody. he was last seen on a highway outside of paris. but knowing that area a little bit, the highways branch off into the netherlands and
expanded to france and belgium and the netherlands. the netherlands says that it is a global manhunt. and abdeslam in the past has spent time in the netherlands. and one of the things we have to keep in mind is that this is the guy in the cell who rented some of the cars. one of the cars that was rented was found in a paris neighborhood here very close to where the ring leader then was later killed. this is certainly someone who knows how to get around europe and certainly this participate of...
CNN Newsroom Live : CNNW : November 29, 2015 1:00am-3:01am PST
many have been mobilized to protect france at the moment. they're around the site of the conference itself. big security perimeter there. a lot of streets will be locked off as more leaders arrive and the talks get under way officially tomorrow. 3,000 security forces or around that number alone protecting that site. a massive operation. when you get a sense of those resources required to hold something like this, protect so many world leaders and visitors and so forth, you have to understand, the environmental activists themselves can understand why perhaps a huge march involving hundreds of thousands of people are something the police security forces and the government wouldn't have been able to deal with today. >> huge effort by a lot of people involved. phil black in paris. we'll check in with you later. thank you very much for joining us. >>> scientists running for months all the way from norway to paris. it's all to raise awareness for how climate change has affected the arctic. take a look. >> irwin knudson is a climate scientist from norway. he's been running for nearly four
many have been mobilized to protect france at the moment. they're around the site of the conference itself. big security perimeter there. a lot of streets will be locked off as more leaders arrive and the talks get under way officially tomorrow. 3,000 security forces or around that number alone protecting that site. a massive operation. when you get a sense of those resources required to hold something like this, protect so many world leaders and visitors and so forth, you have to understand,...
against france. of course, malg li is a former french colony. mali was home to the french intervention in 2013 where they tried to work to stamp out these very fanatical movements that looked to be behind today's attack. >> robyn, it's also coming through that six american citizens were among those rescued so far in mali. that coming from u.s. africa command that was sent out on twitter. what else are you hearing about who could have been inside that hotel? who were among the rescued? >> reporter: the hotel seemed fairly full. a number of chinese people were inside. we understand some of them were rescued. german foreign office said two germans were able to escape. we heard there were russians who managed to get out as well. also not sure if others remained inside. six american citizens, an american special operations forces on the ground there assisting in some way. we're not sure in what capacity they were assisting malian forces who were running the operation along with the u.n. mission there. a number of other indian nationals, algerians rescued as well. at the moment
against france. of course, malg li is a former french colony. mali was home to the french intervention in 2013 where they tried to work to stamp out these very fanatical movements that looked to be behind today's attack. >> robyn, it's also coming through that six american citizens were among those rescued so far in mali. that coming from u.s. africa command that was sent out on twitter. what else are you hearing about who could have been inside that hotel? who were among the rescued?...
CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield : CNNW : November 21, 2015 11:00am-12:01pm PST
happened this week. so we belgium, france, turkey, of course, the sanctuary in syria. we see it's a complete international affair and that we have to deal with the sanctuary itself, because of the international. >> and professor, i wonder if an obstacle for investigators there is the fact that paris is a very international city. i went to school there as an exchange student in college for a semester and saw that for myself. and whether it be the police force or whether it be in a restaurant or anywhere, it is very international. there are people who represent the world right there in paris. i wonder if that becomes an obstacle, as investigators rye to sift through and look at potential suspects. >> well, i'm not sure it's an obstacle for the police, but what i'm sure is that paris was indeed, for this reason, targeted. you know that there was a debate regarding to the world solidarity with paris and not that much with beirut, for instance, or bamako. and i think it's a technique, precisely because of this world attention on paris, that isis targeted france. and if i may, i would als
happened this week. so we belgium, france, turkey, of course, the sanctuary in syria. we see it's a complete international affair and that we have to deal with the sanctuary itself, because of the international. >> and professor, i wonder if an obstacle for investigators there is the fact that paris is a very international city. i went to school there as an exchange student in college for a semester and saw that for myself. and whether it be the police force or whether it be in a...
once a transportation bus driver in france until 2012. he was charged with collaborating with a terrorist enterprise after he allegedly tried to fly to yemen. it's one reason why it's been investigated whether radical islamists are working at major transportation hubs. >> security is only as good as people doing security. >> reporter: aircraft has been refused access for being too radicalized, according to a police official. in the wake of the paris attacks and downing of a russian jetliner from a bomb believed to be placed in the plane's cargo hold, french airport police conducted searches at several companies whose staff work at the airport. >> how do you vet thousands and thousands of people? because as we always say, they just have to get lucky once to close our aviation down and this is a real threat. >> reporter: in the u.s., an airport employee in minneapolis with access to commercial airplanes traveled to syria and died while fighting for isis. >> that was somebody who was radicalized and just as easily could have slipped a bomb on an airplane. >> reporter: today, homela
once a transportation bus driver in france until 2012. he was charged with collaborating with a terrorist enterprise after he allegedly tried to fly to yemen. it's one reason why it's been investigated whether radical islamists are working at major transportation hubs. >> security is only as good as people doing security. >> reporter: aircraft has been refused access for being too radicalized, according to a police official. in the wake of the paris attacks and downing of a russian...
more immediate goal? >> he believes that, if he maintains his cool, that countries like france, great britain, and he hopes also the united states, will allow him at the big table and that he will then get a de facto spear of influence over syria. >> reporter: u.s. officials hope this incident will finally convince putin to stop fighting rebels who are fighting al assad and instead fight isis. that's the change in strategy that washington wants to see. but don't hole your breath yet. >> barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks so much. remarkable video of that incident. cnn's senior international correspondent nick walsh is back from the battle lines. now in istanbul, turkey, turkey the front line in the battle against syria, with plane shot down. what's the reaction there? >> reporter: well, turkey, frankly, staunchly defiant about what it did. their justification, this is not the first time russia has, in their opinion, openly violated airspace. late the september a number of similar instances, russian and turkish officials met and tried to hammer out any confession, and it clearly see
more immediate goal? >> he believes that, if he maintains his cool, that countries like france, great britain, and he hopes also the united states, will allow him at the big table and that he will then get a de facto spear of influence over syria. >> reporter: u.s. officials hope this incident will finally convince putin to stop fighting rebels who are fighting al assad and instead fight isis. that's the change in strategy that washington wants to see. but don't hole your breath...
engulfing most of france into russia was dealing with some fog. take a look at some of these numbers. wednesday and thursday, looking at cities like copenhagen, hamburg, germany, even around zurich could be dealing with heavy fog on wednesday and thursday. part of the reason for this is a lot of these areas have had a saturated surface. when it rains, you get water that comes down, and then at night the clear skies. that helps the heat move away. the temperature comes down closer to your dew point temperature and that helps to create some of the radiation fog we've been seeing in a lot of these areas, especially for several hours in the morning. we have all of that gulf moisture coming into parts of the southeast and above average temperatures. out of the west, a different story. cooler temperatures and coolest of the season for many of those areas. one good thing that has come out of it is the rain in parts of much needed california where they've been ravaged by wild fires for much of the year. starting to get rain and snow pack. take a look at the last couple years. we have seen be
engulfing most of france into russia was dealing with some fog. take a look at some of these numbers. wednesday and thursday, looking at cities like copenhagen, hamburg, germany, even around zurich could be dealing with heavy fog on wednesday and thursday. part of the reason for this is a lot of these areas have had a saturated surface. when it rains, you get water that comes down, and then at night the clear skies. that helps the heat move away. the temperature comes down closer to your dew...
do. what we are hearing is the u.s. would like to see both france and great britain put more special operations forces into the fight, specifically to join some of those 50 u.s. troops that are headed towards northern syria. the big effort there is to help local kurdish fighters open up some routes to get them to be able to challenge isis in its strong hold of raqqah. all of this really now putting more focus on syria and more focus inside syria to boot isis out of raqqah if they can make it happen. it's a very tall order. isis has seen raqqah as its de-facto capital, as its center of power for its leaders but there is an effort now really to focus some serious fire power on that problem. erin? >> barbara starr, thank you very much from the pentagon tonight. and now, our national security analyst, former assistant secretary juliette kayyen is injoing me, along with intelligence lieutenant colonel rick francona. lieutenant, let me start with you. this is a very sobering warning. it's broad based and based on the metro jet attack and off of the attacks in paris. a pretty fright
do. what we are hearing is the u.s. would like to see both france and great britain put more special operations forces into the fight, specifically to join some of those 50 u.s. troops that are headed towards northern syria. the big effort there is to help local kurdish fighters open up some routes to get them to be able to challenge isis in its strong hold of raqqah. all of this really now putting more focus on syria and more focus inside syria to boot isis out of raqqah if they can make it...
Erin Burnett OutFront : CNNW : November 6, 2015 4:00pm-5:01pm PST
news. the crash of metro jet 9268 was no accident. cnn affiliate france reporting investigators are certain there was a bomb on board. and now it's not just the airplane in sharm el sheikh. a major airline banning checked baggage from cairo itself. and in russia, vladimir putin did a major about-face suspending all air traffic after intelligence was shared with him from the u.s. and uk. matthew chance is "outfront" from moscow. matthew, for russians to do an about-face, we were just talking about this with the formatter cia operative phil mudd. this must be very clear and a big deal, this intelligence. >> yeah, absolutely. american and british intelligence according to the kremlin official i spoke to earlier on this evening. clearly it was enough, big enough, for them to do an about-face like you say, but also to ban flights, not just from the sinai peninsula or shafrm el shake but from the whole of egypt. they suspended all air operations to and from egypt. it gives the suggestion that there is the possibility of a continued threat towarrussian airliners from that country. so they'
news. the crash of metro jet 9268 was no accident. cnn affiliate france reporting investigators are certain there was a bomb on board. and now it's not just the airplane in sharm el sheikh. a major airline banning checked baggage from cairo itself. and in russia, vladimir putin did a major about-face suspending all air traffic after intelligence was shared with him from the u.s. and uk. matthew chance is "outfront" from moscow. matthew, for russians to do an about-face, we were just...
Amanpour : CNNW : November 19, 2015 11:00pm-12:01am PST
abdelhamid abaaoud the french officials say the threat is not over. france wraps up military action against isis. also ahead this hour, the backlash against syrian refugees. the u.s. house of representatives votes for stricter regulations. >>> good morning and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour live from the place de la republique in a very rainy paris this morning. as the hunt is still on for the man who has been called the eighth suspect. now, he is the french national we've been talking about for the last week, salah abdeslam. possibly the only one who survived friday's attacks. and a source tells cnn that the search has now expanded to the netherlands. but dutch media says the justice ministry there denies that. french police confirm that the alleged ringleader of last friday's attacks, abaaoud is dead, killed in wednesday's raid in saint-denis. the prosecutors say fingerprints and prints from the soles of his feet helped identify his bullet-riddled body. cnn's erin burnett spoke with nathalie galat who is relieved. >> he knew in the last month that his son was linked to al
abdelhamid abaaoud the french officials say the threat is not over. france wraps up military action against isis. also ahead this hour, the backlash against syrian refugees. the u.s. house of representatives votes for stricter regulations. >>> good morning and welcome to the program. i'm christiane amanpour live from the place de la republique in a very rainy paris this morning. as the hunt is still on for the man who has been called the eighth suspect. now, he is the french national...
CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield : CNNW : November 28, 2015 8:00am-9:01am PST
measures in france after the paris attacks. redid you say 97?97! yes. you know, that reminds me of geico's 97% customer satisfaction rating. 97%? helped by geico's fast and friendly claims service. huh... oh yeah, baby. geico's as fast and friendly as it gets. woo! geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. >>> good morning, again. thanks so much for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. >>> we are following new developments at the deadly shooting at a planned parenthood clinic in couldle clorado sprin. the gunman has been identified as 57-year-old robert lewis dear. one of the victims has also been named, a veteran police officer, 44-year-old university of colorado police officer garrett swasey died along with two others yet to be identified. a procession took the body of officer swasey away from the scene. his colleagues pausing to salute as he went by. a witness known as judy called into kakk tv from her car to describe the scene. >> i heard what i thought was gunshots. i kept thinking, is that gunshots? i was walking over to the planned parenthood area. i seen a car. i saw somebo
measures in france after the paris attacks. redid you say 97?97! yes. you know, that reminds me of geico's 97% customer satisfaction rating. 97%? helped by geico's fast and friendly claims service. huh... oh yeah, baby. geico's as fast and friendly as it gets. woo! geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. >>> good morning, again. thanks so much for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. >>> we are following new developments at the deadly shooting at a planned...
volkswagen models during the sign- then-drive event. >>> all right, france says it has stopped nearly 1,000 people from entering the country since the paris terror attacks. the french interior minister says people who have been turned away were deemed security risks to our public order. he also said that there are 15,000 officers currently stationed along france's borders. and three people are dead after a mortar attack in northern mali overnight. mortars launched at a united nations base killed two peacekeepers and a contractor and wounded other people. >>> and intelligence officials in kenya say they have uncovered what they call an iranian-sponsored spy ring in the country's capital. they also say the operatives were planning on carrying out terror attacks. cnn correspondent robin krooel is live for us from nairobi on some exclusive information about this. robin, what do we know so far? >> well, fredricka, what we know is that counterintelligence officials here in kenya told cnn that the two men, both kenyan nationals, were plotting terror attacks on soft targets, such as western hotels
volkswagen models during the sign- then-drive event. >>> all right, france says it has stopped nearly 1,000 people from entering the country since the paris terror attacks. the french interior minister says people who have been turned away were deemed security risks to our public order. he also said that there are 15,000 officers currently stationed along france's borders. and three people are dead after a mortar attack in northern mali overnight. mortars launched at a united nations...
mayors of france gathering -- the association of mayors gathering, 11,000 mayors. in france, the mayors have a different role than in the united states. they have policing powers, especially in smaller villages where there aren't as many police. they have police forces in their own towns. the mayors are very important in getting the message out, providing security, that sort of thing. they will talk about the values of the republic and all that. i also suspect because of the events this morning, he'll speak about what happened. >> when the french put out, as jim bitterman was saying, when the french officials come out, they have things it talk about. one other point, are you hearing what we've been hearing that this idea of these raids have been an awakening for the authorities, that they are discovering an intricacy of a network and criminality and terror framework in and around their midst they were not aware of. >> i think absolutely. after charlie hebdo -- the interior minister is speaking now. >> we'll get a translation. let'slien in. >> translator: i would like to give my sincere
mayors of france gathering -- the association of mayors gathering, 11,000 mayors. in france, the mayors have a different role than in the united states. they have policing powers, especially in smaller villages where there aren't as many police. they have police forces in their own towns. the mayors are very important in getting the message out, providing security, that sort of thing. they will talk about the values of the republic and all that. i also suspect because of the events this...
accomplices and to try to plot more terror here this week in france. erin? >> clarissa, you were there. you heard part of this. this wasn't just -- it went down quickly -- it went on for hours and hours. >> it went on for seven hours. our colleague atika shubert was there from very early in the morning as the grenades and explosions were going off. police were rushing a church and banging down the door. it wasn't clear what was inside the church and then we were actually able to get up on a rooftop where we could see the back of the apartment building and it was incredible to see all of the windows had been blown out. the entire wall was pock marked with heavy munitions and we could see forensic experts combing through the entire apartment, looking for dna, looking for any clues as to who was killed and who may have spent time there. >> and part of the rush here, paul, was they felt they couldn't wait. obviously they were afraid he would flee if he was there but because they thought another attack might be imminent. >> absolutely right. the concern was that this was wave two of the paris at
accomplices and to try to plot more terror here this week in france. erin? >> clarissa, you were there. you heard part of this. this wasn't just -- it went down quickly -- it went on for hours and hours. >> it went on for seven hours. our colleague atika shubert was there from very early in the morning as the grenades and explosions were going off. police were rushing a church and banging down the door. it wasn't clear what was inside the church and then we were actually able to...
the pipeline. mastermind, as police carry out dozens of raids across france and belgium where the attacks were apparently organized, we're learning the man suspected of planning the paris massacres may be in syria, a close associate of the isis leader. and slamming the door, republican presidential candidates called for blocking syrian refugees and more than a dozen governors now say their states won't accept them. president obama says slamming the door is un-american. he says it's a betrayal of the country's values. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> our breaking news, an urgent hunt is underway right now for a surviving suspect in the paris massacres along with those who planned and facilitated the attacks. the suspected eighth terrorist managed to escape the security net before authorities realized who he was. he's on the loose right now is considered very dangerous. there have been more than 150 raids across france and in belgium along with multiple arrest
the pipeline. mastermind, as police carry out dozens of raids across france and belgium where the attacks were apparently organized, we're learning the man suspected of planning the paris massacres may be in syria, a close associate of the isis leader. and slamming the door, republican presidential candidates called for blocking syrian refugees and more than a dozen governors now say their states won't accept them. president obama says slamming the door is un-american. he says it's a betrayal...
CNN Newsroom Live : CNNW : November 21, 2015 9:00pm-3:01am PST
coverage of the terror attacks in france. we do want to get to major leads and developing stories across europe. brussels is on lockdown. belgian officials fear an attack in several places at once. >> we've also learned police in brussels arrested one person friday in the molenbeek suburb. >> and turkey arrested this belgian citizen of moroccan descent. >> and authorities are hoping to find this suspected attacker, salah abdeslam. he was last seen driving towards belgium. >> we want to get you live to paris now where our max foster is standing by to give us updates on not just the investigations under way in the region, but the mood there on the ground. max? >> reporter: errol, there was an eerie evening over in brussels where restaurants and bars closed early, because people had been advised with this alert level not to go to any sort of crowded places. very odd atmosphere there. of course, the context to that is salah abdeslam. he's still on the run. there are fears that he has a suicide vest with him, which may or may not have been intended for use in paris. he's still on the r
coverage of the terror attacks in france. we do want to get to major leads and developing stories across europe. brussels is on lockdown. belgian officials fear an attack in several places at once. >> we've also learned police in brussels arrested one person friday in the molenbeek suburb. >> and turkey arrested this belgian citizen of moroccan descent. >> and authorities are hoping to find this suspected attacker, salah abdeslam. he was last seen driving towards belgium....
special coverage of the horrific attacks on france ahead. take a look at this. these are french police officers who are shooting with terrorists last night terrorists, who are now claiming to be isis militants. this video taken outside the concert hall, provided to us by a french publication. one of several deadly attacks that rolled across this city in a wave last night. what turned out to be six is coordinated attacks, shootings and bombings that have gripped this city and its people with fear. 129 souls murdered. more than 350 others wounded. 99 in critical condition at this hour. at least seven terrorists went on these killing spraoes at six different sites, the deadliest massacre at the concert hall where we are standing in front of them. some of them lined up and executed at random. some of them at point-blank range. the search for any accomplices has spread far beyond france into belgium and the suburbs of brusse brussels. they have made several arrests in belgium alone. u.s. secretary of state john kerry calling it the embodiment of of evil. pope francis saying the attacks were
special coverage of the horrific attacks on france ahead. take a look at this. these are french police officers who are shooting with terrorists last night terrorists, who are now claiming to be isis militants. this video taken outside the concert hall, provided to us by a french publication. one of several deadly attacks that rolled across this city in a wave last night. what turned out to be six is coordinated attacks, shootings and bombings that have gripped this city and its people with...
, france, germany, ireland and russia. and now tonight there's a possibility that u.s. aviation accident investigators could also become directly involved in this crash investigation. u.s. investigators may finally have a chance to examine the wreckage of metrojet 9268. egyptian officials say they will allow experts from the national transportation safety board to have direct involvement in the investigation. that means direct access to parts of the plane. egypt's foreign minister broke the news on cnn tuesday. >> my understand iing there has been an american application to become part of the investigation, manufacturing of the engine, which we accepted and investigators encrypted immediately. >> the engines made in the u.s. under international law that automatically allows the ntsb to assist. but with egypt leading the investigation, the ntsb's access to the rest of the plane or crash site will likely be limited according to a u.s. official. >> if they're going to run it by the book, america, the united look at the engines.ccess to - but the engines only. the egyptian don't hav
, france, germany, ireland and russia. and now tonight there's a possibility that u.s. aviation accident investigators could also become directly involved in this crash investigation. u.s. investigators may finally have a chance to examine the wreckage of metrojet 9268. egyptian officials say they will allow experts from the national transportation safety board to have direct involvement in the investigation. that means direct access to parts of the plane. egypt's foreign minister broke the...
Fareed Zakaria GPS : CNNW : November 15, 2015 7:00am-8:01am PST
bother to issue demands. france's president has scored friday's attack an act of war. they were worse. war has a goal. it's fight by soldiers against violence. this is violence. that doesn't answer the question what to do. in the wake of the attacks people rightly ask what could france have done better? what could the united states have done better? people are offering up various solutions regarding borders, visa's police procedures and the battle against iraq and syria. would this really have prevented these kinds of attacks. france already has in place very tough anti-terrorism policies at home. the united states has spent $5 billion and launched over 8,000 air strikes against isis. would more strikes have resulted in fewer terrorist responses by i isis? would the vary policis people have implicated have stopped the paris attacks? we don't know the details but they appeared to have been carried out by seven or eight people armed with weapons that are easily obtainable anywhere in the world, coordinated in the sense they all attacked at the same time. they chose soft targets th
bother to issue demands. france's president has scored friday's attack an act of war. they were worse. war has a goal. it's fight by soldiers against violence. this is violence. that doesn't answer the question what to do. in the wake of the attacks people rightly ask what could france have done better? what could the united states have done better? people are offering up various solutions regarding borders, visa's police procedures and the battle against iraq and syria. would this really have...
released this photo of one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up outside the state de france. they do not know who he is and urging the public to come forward with any information they have on him. let's go straight to brussels, the senior international correspondent is there, tonight, a city in a major european hub on lockdown and now the raids still not turning up the most wanted man in europe. how on edge are people in brussels? >> reporter: well, there's definitely a sense that the tension is rising here in brussels, poppy. even with the 22 raids, 16 arrests. into tomorrow, we won't have a sense how many of the 16 are even relevant to the broader fears that the prime minister has reiterated twice now about this serious and imminent threat he says his capital city is facing. the prosecutor says that the operations and investigations are continuing. and we are seeing it here, even 1:00 a.m., soldiers and police are patrolling in the plaza down below us here, poppy, right in the center of town. there is a real sense here that they are preparing themselves really for anything. >> a
released this photo of one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up outside the state de france. they do not know who he is and urging the public to come forward with any information they have on him. let's go straight to brussels, the senior international correspondent is there, tonight, a city in a major european hub on lockdown and now the raids still not turning up the most wanted man in europe. how on edge are people in brussels? >> reporter: well, there's definitely a sense that...
CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield : CNNW : November 7, 2015 9:00am-10:01am PST
speculate on. but it has been the focal point of a lot of speculation, including that france ii report. our cnn affiliates report this was the sound of an explosion. that's what they're hearing from their sources. as you said, it doesn't feel like we've moved that much further along. and there's a reason for that. they say investigators haven't been able to access that site for the last three days, since wednesday, they say, bad weather has been hampering this investigation. what they're hoping to do is to get this plane to move all of the various parts to cairo, to a neutral and sterile environment, to be able to really try and take it apart there. i think what was really heartbreaking, when we were listening into that press conference is even though the lead investigator was trying very hard to use very, very measured language, for the families of the victims in this, to hear that the blasts or whatever this was, that broke this plane apart, was able to throw debris for 30 kilometers, that's going to be a very difficult image for them, fredricka. >> all right. thank you so much. so nic ro
speculate on. but it has been the focal point of a lot of speculation, including that france ii report. our cnn affiliates report this was the sound of an explosion. that's what they're hearing from their sources. as you said, it doesn't feel like we've moved that much further along. and there's a reason for that. they say investigators haven't been able to access that site for the last three days, since wednesday, they say, bad weather has been hampering this investigation. what they're...
CNN Newsroom Live : CNNW : November 22, 2015 10:04pm-1:01am PST
, the threat level is still incredibly high there in france. max, it's just past 7:00 in the morning monday where you are. i got to ask you, as the workweek begins, what's the mood like there in paris? >> well, it's interesting. people are just sort of getting up and starting to go back to work. i think today is going to be a very interesting test really. it is the day where everyone is expected to go back to work and back to school. there's a real sense of defiance that must carry on and people very much of the intention to live their normal lives. they're not going to succumb to the fear that isis are trying to spread in this city. but you cannot get away from the fact that there are armed soldiers on the streets. and many more police, 100,000 police have been deployed across france. so that is there. with the exception tans it needs to be there and children are going to have their bags checked shs isha, in school today. they're going to be asked to not gather in groups. when they want to smoke, smoke away from buildings. parents being asked to drop their kids off at school, not to
, the threat level is still incredibly high there in france. max, it's just past 7:00 in the morning monday where you are. i got to ask you, as the workweek begins, what's the mood like there in paris? >> well, it's interesting. people are just sort of getting up and starting to go back to work. i think today is going to be a very interesting test really. it is the day where everyone is expected to go back to work and back to school. there's a real sense of defiance that must carry on and...
french border town as people were coming back from france into belgium, there were police checks taking place, like a border check back in the old days, but that was the only thing we saw out of the ordinary that would affect the average citizen of belgium. >> reporter: drew, joined by founding strategic risk and consulting firm served 26 years, thank you for joining us, and you were aware of this, what do you think of it? >> well, anderson, this shows there is something as paul mentioned going on here where there's going to be some type of dragnet that they are going to be doing, so they are going to take all the elements of national power that they have, such as the law enforcement, military potentially, as well as any type of intelligence services they can bring to bear on this. what hay are going to do is try to find this guy. seems to me as if they may have an indication that he's there or there is something else going on in terms of a plot. if that's the case, then they clearly have to raise the terror level like they did. >> reporter: concerning for a number of factors. th
french border town as people were coming back from france into belgium, there were police checks taking place, like a border check back in the old days, but that was the only thing we saw out of the ordinary that would affect the average citizen of belgium. >> reporter: drew, joined by founding strategic risk and consulting firm served 26 years, thank you for joining us, and you were aware of this, what do you think of it? >> well, anderson, this shows there is something as paul...
alliance against the terror group. as the manhunt continues for one suspected terrorist, france and belgium looking for another man seen driving a car used in the kaeks investigators say the paris mastermind planned another wave of terror strikes. with french and belgium capitals on alert, there are security precautions in this country heading into the thanksgiving holiday. i'll speak with president obama's former defense secretary and former cia director, leon panetta. our correspondents, analysts and guests have full coverage of the day's top torys. >>> downing of a russian fighter jet in turkey, a nato ally. barbara starr, a stunning development. first, what do we know about the russian pilots? >> good evening, wolf. the russian state news agency reporting tonight that one of the pilots was killed. look at this video, as they were parachuting to the ground, under heavy fire from the ground. one pilot apparently killed. the fate of the other unknown at this hour. and on this videotape you hear men on the ground calling for the capture of the two russians. but again, russian state
alliance against the terror group. as the manhunt continues for one suspected terrorist, france and belgium looking for another man seen driving a car used in the kaeks investigators say the paris mastermind planned another wave of terror strikes. with french and belgium capitals on alert, there are security precautions in this country heading into the thanksgiving holiday. i'll speak with president obama's former defense secretary and former cia director, leon panetta. our correspondents,...
New Day Saturday : CNNW : November 14, 2015 3:00am-6:01am PST
>>> this is cnn breaking news. >> france under a state of emergency today and just in, the country's president says isis is to blame. >> paris is grieving this morning as 128 people were killed in the second terror attack in less than a year. one of the things trending is social media, prayers for terrorists. >> i'm victor blackwell, cnn is using our world wide resources to cover this story from every angle today. we want to get you straight to paris. hala gorani is there from the theater which saw the worst of the carnage last night. first, i want to talk about what we heard from the french president moments ago, saying isis is, indeed, behind this attack. >>. >> reporter: all right. ooimt i'm outside the concert hall where the carnage took place. the wrench president hollande declared isis terrorists where responsible for yesterday's attack. he called tear actions in this city, quote, an act of war. here's the latestest death toll. it is likely to increase. at least 128 people have been killed. eight of the attackers are dead. officials are scouring the video trying to fi
>>> this is cnn breaking news. >> france under a state of emergency today and just in, the country's president says isis is to blame. >> paris is grieving this morning as 128 people were killed in the second terror attack in less than a year. one of the things trending is social media, prayers for terrorists. >> i'm victor blackwell, cnn is using our world wide resources to cover this story from every angle today. we want to get you straight to paris. hala gorani is...
very deadly, may have been coordinated or initiated outside of france, maybe in belgium or someplace else? >> we heard isis talk about this, the saber rattling when they want to attack the west. this was well coordinated. it took a lot of time. this was weeks or months into the planning. and jim sciutto mentioned this was a large network of people. this is a game changer for us in terms of isis' capabilities and how they're going to try to impact not only western europe but the united states. >> you're a former fbi agent. you know the fbi. they've issued a directive to all fbi field offices here in the united states, "make sure you know where everyone is." what kind of specific steps would fbi field offices be taking right now, even if there's no real credible, immediate threat to follow suit in france and paris, here in the united states? >> well, wolf, i think they want to make sure that they're up to date on all the intelligence gathering, checking in with every informant in that community, going to community leaders and checking in with them also. making sure that all your dots a
very deadly, may have been coordinated or initiated outside of france, maybe in belgium or someplace else? >> we heard isis talk about this, the saber rattling when they want to attack the west. this was well coordinated. it took a lot of time. this was weeks or months into the planning. and jim sciutto mentioned this was a large network of people. this is a game changer for us in terms of isis' capabilities and how they're going to try to impact not only western europe but the united...
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David McCullough, The American Spirit
David McCullough, The American Spirit : CSPAN2 : October 14, 2017 12:00am-12:56am EDT
who never owned a slave. out of principle. his wife abigail was even more out of it. the next president never owned a slave was john quincy adams. it ran in the family. is also brilliant and was interested in everything. he spoke many languages. in many ways he may have had the highest iq of the more versatile mine including the greats among the founders as chance would haven't he was only one term president and they don't get the attention the others too. >> i want to ask about another president. he spoke on the fourth of july and immigration ceremony at monticello. thomas jefferson gave us the creed that all men are created equal wrote the preamble to the declaration of independence. how the square that with the fact that he's a slave owner and how did you address that issue. >> i don't, i can't. i don't understand it. no door i understand the fact that he destroyed ever c wrote to his wife in every letter she wrote to him so we know nothing about her that even what she looks like. i can understand that. we don't understand that he kept close track of every time he ever spen
who never owned a slave. out of principle. his wife abigail was even more out of it. the next president never owned a slave was john quincy adams. it ran in the family. is also brilliant and was interested in everything. he spoke many languages. in many ways he may have had the highest iq of the more versatile mine including the greats among the founders as chance would haven't he was only one term president and they don't get the attention the others too. >> i want to ask about another...
David McCullough, The American Spirit : CSPAN2 : October 14, 2017 4:00am-4:56am EDT
he never owned a slave. and his wife abigail was even more adamant on the subject. the next president who never owned a slave was john quincy adams. so it ran in the family. as a dedication to public service. he's also brilliant he was interested in everything. he spoke many languages. he was in many ways i think you have the highest iq that anybody who have been president including the greats among the founders. as chance would have it he was only a one term president and they don't get the attention that the others do. let me ask about another president you have talked about. you spoke on the fourth of july in immigration said ceremony monticello. it is held every fourth of july. thomas jefferson gave us the creed that all men are created equal that he wrote in the preamble to the declaration of independence. how do you square that with the fact that he was a slave owner. and how did you think he address that. i don't. i can't. i don't understand it. nor do i understand the fact that he destroyed every letter he ever wrote to his wife and every letter she ever wrote to him
he never owned a slave. and his wife abigail was even more adamant on the subject. the next president who never owned a slave was john quincy adams. so it ran in the family. as a dedication to public service. he's also brilliant he was interested in everything. he spoke many languages. he was in many ways i think you have the highest iq that anybody who have been president including the greats among the founders. as chance would have it he was only a one term president and they don't get the...
David McCullough, The American Spirit : CSPAN2 : October 13, 2017 8:00pm-8:56pm EDT
. >> he was the first president to reside in the white house. in the first night he was alone abigail had not arrived yet. and the next morning it happened to be his first night, he lewrote her a letter.in which he said, when he wrote in the letter, franklin roosevelt had carved into the wooden part of r.the mantelpiece in the eas room, the estate planning. when truman was in charge you major the quotation stayed there. when kennedy became president he had it carved into the marble. so it would stay forever. and what adams said in the literature abigail, may none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. [applause] >> so -- >> and i think it is very important, very important to understand and think about he put honesty first. ahead of wisdom. honesty. [applause] >> in your pulitzer prize-winning book, on john adams. which also was made into an hbo series that won a lot of awards as well. he went through about a thousand letters between john adams and abigail adams. have you ever experienced anything like that between a husband and wife before? what was it that struck you so u
. >> he was the first president to reside in the white house. in the first night he was alone abigail had not arrived yet. and the next morning it happened to be his first night, he lewrote her a letter.in which he said, when he wrote in the letter, franklin roosevelt had carved into the wooden part of r.the mantelpiece in the eas room, the estate planning. when truman was in charge you major the quotation stayed there. when kennedy became president he had it carved into the marble. so it...
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What Are the Unborn?
Rachel N. Morrison, J.D.
News, Op-Eds
So far in 2019, New York has passed an expansive pro-abortion law, effectively legalizing abortion up to birth; Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has explained that, under a Virginia bill, an infant could be delivered and then left to die; and Members of Congress are actually debating whether to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would strengthen the 2002 Born-Alive Infants Protection Act to better protect infants born alive after a “botched” abortion.
The question underlying all these laws is “what are the unborn?” Not “what do we want the unborn to be” or “what do we feel the unborn should be.” But what, really, are the unborn. To answer this question, we should look to science, not to each person’s differing perception.
Biology tells us that mammals (including humans) go through two major stages of development from conception until birth: the embryonic period and the fetal period. An “embryo” is the “young of any organism in an early stage of development,” and a “fetus” is “an unborn animal in its later stages of development.”[1] “Embryo” and “fetus” are also the names given to unborn humans during gestation.[2] For humans, the embryonic period is “the stage of prenatal development from the time of fertilization of the ovum (conception) until the end of the eighth week,” and is “characterized by rapid growth, differentiation of the major organ systems, and development of the main external features.”[3] The fetal period is when “the human being [is] in utero after the embryonic period . . . from the ninth week after fertilization until birth” and is characterized by “the beginning of the development of the major structural features.”[4]
Often in the context of abortion, “embryo” or “fetus” are used as shorthand to refer to unborn humans. But it is important to remember that being human is “defined biologically, by species, not developmentally,” which means that to be a human being is simply to be a member of the species homo sapiens.[5] Thus, human embryos and fetuses, by definition, are not egg, sperm, or mere tissue; they are unborn human beings.[6]
Although unborn humans, like most mammals, develop in their mother’s womb and are dependent on their mother for survival, they are separate and distinct human beings from their mother. This is because unborn humans have unique DNA that is different from their mother (and father).[7] Male unborn humans are a different sex from their female pregnant mother. And unborn humans conceived by parents of different races are a combination of their parents’ races and thus are a different racial composition from both of their parents. Even the U.S. Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart recognized that “by common understanding and scientific terminology, a fetus is a living organism while within the womb, whether or not it is viable outside the womb.”[8] In sum, unborn humans are separate and unique human beings, and not merely a part of their mother’s body.
This fact has been recognized both inside and outside the context of abortion for over a hundred years under state law and for decades under federal law. For example, many federal and state laws define unborn humans as human beings. The federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act—which makes it a federal crime to kill or cause bodily injury to an unborn human in utero—defines “unborn child” as a “child in utero,” or “a member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb.”[9] Many states have adopted this definition or have used a similar definition in their own laws. Further, states have increasingly recognized unborn humans as “persons” with legally enforceable rights and have afforded unborn humans legal protections in the areas of criminal law, tort law, guardianship law, healthcare law, property law, and family law.[10]
Even within the context of abortion, federal and state laws still recognize the humanity of unborn humans. For example, the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act guarantees legal protections as a “person” under federal law to all infants born alive, including those who survive an abortion procedure,[11] and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act makes it a federal crime to perform the gruesome and inhumane partial-birth abortion procedure.[12]
So what are the unborn? Science, law, and even the Supreme Court all agree that the unborn are living human beings in their earliest stages of development. Other than location, there is no material difference between a child moments before birth and moments after the child is born. Aborting an unborn human in utero is just as much the taking of an innocent life as letting an infant die who has been born alive.
[1] Embryo, Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary 783 (23d ed. 2017); Fetus, Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary 911.
[2] Clarke D. Forsythe, Legal Perspectives on Cloning: Human Cloning and the Constitution, 32 Val. U. L. Rev. 469, 474 (1998).
[3] Embryo, Mosby’s Medical Dictionary 605 (10th ed. 2017).
[4] Fetus, Mosby’s Medical Dictionary 690.
[5] Forsythe, 32 Val. U.L. Rev. at 478.
[6] See, e.g., id. at 477 (“[T]he one-celled human embryo is not simply ‘human life’ but a human being.”); Fetus, Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary 911 (defining “fetus” as “an unborn human”).
[7] See Forsythe, 32 Val. U.L. Rev. at 475, 477.
[8] Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. 124, 147 (2007).
[9] 18 U.S.C. § 1841(d).
[10] See Phillips v. State, No. 1160403, slip op. at 149, 158–76 (Ala. Oct. 19, 2018) (Parker, J., concurring specially) (surveying state laws demonstrating that “unborn children have numerous rights that all people enjoy”), available at http://acis.alabama.gov/displaydocs.cfm?no=906161&event=5BM0OIZOW.
[11] 1 U.S.C. § 8.
[12] 18 U.S.C. § 1531; accord Gonzales, 550 U.S. 124 (upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act as constitutional).
Rachel N. Morrison, J.D. is Litigation Counsel for Americans United for Life
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Pinochet and genocide in Chile
October 20, 2014 by www.acasadevidro.com
WATCHERS OF THE SKY (Directed by Edet Belzberg – 2014 – 120 minutes) #HotDocs
“Love despite difference,
Or rather because of difference.”
Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959)
WATCHERS OF THE SKY interweaves four stories of remarkable courage, compassion, and determination, while setting out to uncover the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin – the man who created the word “genocide,” and believed the law could protect the world from mass atrocities. Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Problem From Hell, WATCHERS OF THE SKY takes you on a provocative journey from Nuremberg to The Hague, from Bosnia to Darfur, from criminality to justice, and from apathy to action.
http://www.watchersofthesky.com/about-the-film
With his provocative question, “why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?” Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. An extraordinary testament to one man’s perseverance, the Sundance award-winning film Watchers of the Sky examines the life and legacy of the Polish-Jewish lawyer and linguist who coined the term genocide. Before Lemkin, the notion of accountability for war crimes was virtually non-existent. After experiencing the barbarity of theHolocaust firsthand, he devoted his life to convincing the international community that there must be legal retribution for mass atrocities targeted at minorities. An impassioned visionary, Lemkin confronted world apathy in a tireless battle for justice, setting the stage for the Nuremberg trails and the creation of the International Criminal Court. Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Problem From Hell, this multi-faceted documentary interweaves Raphael Lemkin’s struggle with the courageous efforts of four individuals keeping his legacy alive: Luis Moreno Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the ICC; Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Ben Ferencz, a former Nuremberg prosecutor still tenaciously lobbying the UN for peace, and Rwandan Emmanuel Uwurukundo, UN Refugee Agency Field Director in Chad. Alternating live interviews with rare archival footage and striking animation, Watchers of the Sky illuminates the compassion and bravery of these humanitarians and powerfully demonstrates the ability of global activism to give a voice to the silent victims of genocide.(C) Music Box
REVIEW BY TORONTO’S NOW MAGAZINE
Rating: N N N N N (5 stars)
“A bracing and heart-wrenching look at genocide over the past century, Edet Belzberg’s documentary could become a vital instrument of change.
Bouncing back and forth between the story of Raphael Lemkin, who in the 1940s tirelessly tried to get the UN to amend its definition of war crimes, to first-hand witnesses to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Rwanda, Argentina, Germany and Darfur, Belzberg paints a comprehensive picture of history depressingly repeating itself due to a lack of proper legal deterrents to these atrocities.
Belzberg’s thesis is solidly backed up and needs no dramatic embellishment. It stands alongside The Act Of Killing as one of the best films made on such a delicate subject.”
NOW Magazine (Toronto, Canada)
Rotten Tomatoes – Roger Ebert
The Act of Killing – DOWNLOAD FILM (TORRENT). The Act of Killing is an award-winning documentary that examines a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes. The filmmakers challenge the killers to reenact their real-life mass murders in the style of the American movies they love. Director: Joshua Oppenheimer. Executive Producers: Werner Herzog and Errol Morris.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS TO KNOW MORE
SAMANTHA POWER – A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Download FREE EBOOK at libgen.org in MOBI or EPUB format [3 mb each].
“As I surveyed the major genocides of the twentieth century, a few stood out. In addition to the Bosnian Serbs’ eradication of non-Serbs, I examined the Ottoman slaughter of the Armenians, the Nazi Holocaust, Pol Pot’s terror in Cambodia, Saddam Hussein’s destruction of Kurds in northern Iraq, and the Rwandan Hutus’ systematic extermination of the Tutsi minority. Although the cases varied in scope and not all involved the intent to exterminate every last member of a group, each met the terms of the 1948 genocide convention and presented the United States with options for meaningful diplomatic, economic, legal, or military intervention. The crimes occurred in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The victims covered a spectrum of races and religions – they were Asian, African, Caucasian, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Muslim.
The perpetrators operated at different stages of American might: The Armenian genocide (1915-1916) was committed during World War I, before the United States had become a world leader. The Holocaust (1939-1945) took place just as the United States was moving into that role.The Cambodian (1975-1979) and Iraqi (1987-1988) genocides were perpetrated after the Holocaust but during the Cold War and after Vietnam. Bosnia (1992-1995) and Rwanda (1994) happened after the Cold War and while American supremacy and awareness of the “lessons” of the Holocaust were at their height. U.S. decisionmakers also brought a wide variety of backgrounds and foreign policy ideologies to the table. Every American president in office in the last three decades of the twentieth century – Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton – made decisions related to the prevention and suppression of genocide. Yet notwithstanding all the variety among cases and within U.S. administrations, the U.S. policy responses to genocide were astonishingly similar across time, geography, ideology, and geopolitical balance…
A grant from the Open Society Institute enabled me to travel to Bosnia, Cambodia, Kosovo, and Rwanda, where I spoke with victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. I also visited the international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague in the Netherlands, as well the UN court for Rwanda, located in Arusha, Tanzania.
People have explained U.S. failures to respond to specific genocides by claiming that the United States didn’t know what was happening, that it knew but didn’t care, or that regardless of what it knew, there was nothing useful to be done. I have found that in fact U.S. policymakers knew a great deal about the crimes being perpetrated. Some Americans cared and fought for action, making considerable personal and professional sacrifices. And the United States did have countless opportunities to mitigate and prevent slaughter. But time and again, decent men and women chose to look away. We have all been bystanders to genocide. The crucial question is why.
In exploring a century of U.S. reactions to genocide, I asked: Were there early warnings that mass killing was set to commence? How seriously were the warnings taken? By whom?
In 1915 Henry Morgenthau Sr., the U.S. ambassador in Constantinople, responded to Turkey’s deportation and slaughter of its Armenian minority by urging Washington to condemn Turkey and pressure its wartime ally Germany. Morgenthau also defied diplomatic convention by personally protesting the atrocities, denouncing the regime, and raising money for humanitarian relief. He was joined by former president Theodore Roosevelt, who went a step further, calling on the administration of Woodrow Wilson to enter World War I and forcibly stop the slaughter. But the United States clung to its neutrality and insisted that Turkey’s internal affairs were not its business. An estimated 1 million Armenians were murdered or died of disease and starvation during the genocide.
Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew and international lawyer, warned about Hitler’s designs in the 1930s but was scoffed at. After finding refuge in the United States in 1941, he failed to win support for any measure to protect imperiled Jews. The Allies resisted denouncing Hitler’s atrocities, granting refuge to Europe’s Jewry, and bombing the railroad tracks to the Nazi concentration camps. Undaunted, Lemkin invented the word “genocide” and secured the passage of the first-ever United Nations human rights treaty, which was devoted to banning the new crime. Sadly, he lived to see the genocide convention rebuffed by the U.S. Senate. William Proxmire, the quixotic U.S. senator from Wisconsin, picked up where Lemkin left off and delivered 3,211 speeches on the Senate floor urging ratification of the UN treaty. After nineteen years of daily soliloquies, Proxmire did manage to get the Senate to accept the genocide convention, but the U.S. ratification was so laden with caveats that it carried next to no force.
A handful of U.S. diplomats and journalists in Cambodia warned of the depravity of a sinister band of Communist rebels known as the Khmer Rouge. They were derided by the American left for falling for antiCommunist propaganda, and they failed to influence a U.S. policy that could not contemplate engagement of any kind in Southeast Asia after Vietnam. Pol Pot’s four-year reign left some 2 million Cambodians dead, but the massacres elicited barely a whimper from Washington, which maintained diplomatic recognition of the genocidal regime even after it had been overthrown.
Peter Galbraith, a staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, drafted punishing legislation for his boss, Senator Claiborne Pell, that would have cut off U.S. agricultural and manufacturing credits to Saddam Hussein in retaliation for his 1987-1988 attempt to wipe out Iraq’s rural Kurds. The sanctions package was defeated by a determined White House, State Department, and U.S. farm lobby, which were eager to maintain friendly ties and sell rice and wheat to Iraq. And so Hussein’s regime received generous American financial support while it gassed and executed some 100,000 Kurds.
Romeo Dallaire, a Canadian major general who commanded UN peacekeeping forces in Rwanda in 1994, appealed for permission to disarm militias and to prevent the extermination of Rwanda’s Tutsi three months before the genocide began. Denied this by his political masters at the United Nations, he watched corpses pile up around him as Washington led a successful effort to remove most of the peacekeepers under his command and then aggressively worked to block authorization of UN reinforcements.The United States refused to use its technology to jam radio broadcasts that were a crucial instrument in the coordination and perpetuation of the genocide. And even as, on average, 8,000 Rwandans were being butchered each day, the issue never became a priority for senior U.S. officials. Some 800,000 Rwandans were killed in 100 days.
No U.S. president has ever made genocide prevention a priority, and no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on…”
SAMANTHA POWER – A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide.
SYSTEM OF A DOWN’s Screamers doc:
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About Amory Funeral Home
For over eighty years Amory Funeral Home has been of service to the people of York County. The funeral home has grown along with county.
The Amory family has called York County home for many generations. At one time they owned a general store, post office and farm in the Grafton section of the county. In 1887 they started Grafton Bottling works which was one of the earliest soft drink companies in the United States. They continued in business until 1942 when wartime rationing forced the bottling works to go out of business. In 1929, Earnest Amory made one more purchase. He bought a funeral home from Clinton Wainwright and Captain Eddy Burcher.
In the 1920s Earnest Amory worked at the funeral home and was trained by Capt. Burcher. In 1929 Wainwright sold out his share to Burcher and later on that year he sold out to Earnest Amory. He also purchased a 1929 Chevrolet hearse. In those early years, Amory Funeral Home averaged about 25 calls a year.
During World War II the Federal government granted the Amory Funeral Home hearse (1942 Chevrolet) an exemption to wartime gas and tire rationing as it was considered essential to the war effort. During the years before the York County Fire Department was established in 1954, Earnest Amory provided an ambulance service to the people of York County.
The original Amory Funeral Home was a wooden building that resembled a regular house. Over the years it has been added onto several times and is now bricked.
In the early 1960s Earnest Amory’s son David began embalming at the funeral home. During this time David Amory was one of the few licensed embalmers on the Peninsula and performed this procedure for many other area funeral homes. He began working fulltime at the funeral home in 1970 and took over the operation of Amory Funeral Home in 1987.
For over three quarters of a century Amory has been an icon in the York County community and continues as a family owned business and is among oldest family owned businesses in York County.
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YouTube Music now has Charts to help you keep up with the latest
Ida Torres
If you’ve been using YouTube Music since it launched earlier this year, you’ll probably be happy with all the updates and new things that they’ll be introducing over the next few months. You want to make sure you’re getting the most out of your $9.99 per month subscription. The latest one will help you keep up with all the latest and most popular musical trends happening. YouTube Charts was previously announced to arrive to the streaming service soon and now it’s finally available in all of the 29 launched markets.
The various YouTube Charts will show you the most-played songs within a particular week as well as the most-viewed music videos or the various trending songs and artists. You will be able to see these charts as playlists on your home screen. You can also search for the charts in case you’re not on your home screen but you still want to find some new music to listen to.
The Charts will be available in all the 29 markets where YouTube Music is available. There will be five different playlists for each of these markets: three will be specific to their country while the other two are global lists. If you want to always be updated when they update these charts, you can add the charts to your library.
The Top 100 Songs chart includes the most played songs on the service both locally and globally. The Top 100 Music Videos obviously is about which music videos have been viewed the most, again both locally and globally. The Top 20 Trending are the localized charts and is updated several times in a day to reflect real-time information about what people are listening to in local markets.
Hopefully, YouTube Music will also be expanding to more markets, especially if they want to be able to compete with the likes of Spotify, Pandora, etc.
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Posts Tagged ‘nicky paraiso’
Culture Vulture: Nicky Paraiso, Amanda Palmer, WHITE NOISE, Basquiat, and more
April has been a cultural smorgasbord!
April 6 – Lucas Hnath’s Hillary and Clinton (at the Golden Theatre) feels weirdly similar to his previous play, A Doll’s House Part 2: an extremely unlikely Broadway show starring the great Laurie Metcalf as a powerful woman in a showdown with the husband she has very mixed feelings about, with two ancillary characters to add dramatic tension and comic relief. Set on the eve of the New Hampshire primary in 2008, loosely based on real-life happenings, the play pivots on an invented encounter with Barack Obama, who shows up to offer Hillary the vice presidential slot if she’ll drop out of the race, but really exists as an extended meditation on the power of the imagination to invent multiple parallel universes. On Broadway it serves the purpose of giving New Yorkers devastated by the results of the 2016 election some liminal space to gain strength and hope from the idea of possibility and change. I enjoyed the framing device, in which we watch Laurie Metcalf come out as herself and with no more than the power of suggestion transform into Hillary Clinton; I admired the performances and the simple staging by Joe Mantello. But, like Doll’s House Part 2, it struck me as an exercise and left no lasting impression.
April 7 – In 1986 I wrote a piece for the Village Voice that began: “What becomes a legend last? Surely it’s the Off-Off-Broadway star, the performer who devotes the best part of a career to toiling for no money in the back alleys of lower Manhattan. The machinery exists to turn film and television performers into international celebrities quicker than you can say Live at Five, but some of the most original and creative actors in America continue to work year after year in basements and lofts, in semi-obscurity and near-poverty, resisting embitterment while clinging to whatever environment will allow them to become more and more themselves. Though you won’t find them in Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame, actors such as Ruth Maleczech, Kate Manheim, Ron Vawter, Jeff Weiss, and Crystal Field are nonetheless national treasures, and any ranking of them must include the Ridiculous Theatrical Company’s leading lady Black-Eyed Susan.”
photo by Albie Mitchell for the New York Times
Nicky Paraiso belongs in that pantheon as well. Even among the colorful creatures of the downtown theater world, there is no one else like Nicky – multitalented, vivacious, ubiquitous, universally beloved by and unstintingly generous to his fellow artists. Since I moved to NYC at the tail end of 1979, Nicky has always been a fixture on the scene. He was a key collaborator for decades with Meredith Monk, Yoshiko Chuma, and especially Jeff Weiss – none of whom provide the financial security that collaborators named Shonda Rhimes or Ryan Murphy would. In middle age Nicky was barely scraping by waiting tables at McBell’s when Ellen Stewart, with her super-power for genius-spotting, zeroed in on his networking skills and made him resident curator, booking music, theater, performance art, spoken word, and miscellaneous events for The Club at La Mama and eventually becoming coordinator of the annual La Mama Moves! dance festival. All this and much more childhood and family history got folded into now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories at the La Mama Annex. Because Nicky is Nicky, he got John Jesurun to direct and design the show, and he corralled four respected downtown choreographers (Irene Hultman, Jon Kinzel, Vicky Shick, and Paz Tanjuaquio) to improvise onstage alongside his autobiographical monologue, in addition to a fun video appearance by two other high-powered Filipino-American downtown legends, Jessica Hagedorn and Ching Valdes-Aran. The show amounted to a kind of life review (not unlike John Kelly’s Time No Line, which played in the same space last year), an impressionistic chronology from growing up in Queens to the present moment. Touching, funny, and honest, the show among other things showcased Nicky’s wizardry as a musician. Every so often he’d wander over the piano and bang out some brief brilliant burst of music (pop, classical, cabaret, show tune) before leaping up and moving on to something else. Weirdly, he never so much as mentioned the Laura Nyro song from which he borrowed the title of his show. But I enjoyed imagining Nicky encountering Nyro’s wildly passionate original musicianship as a queer kid and using that inspiration to launch his own artistic spirit.
April 10 – I’m a big fan of Taylor Mac, but his play Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus (another highly unlikely Broadway mounting) left me cold. The performances by Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen, and a vocally overtaxed Julie White amount to an exhausting mugfest. And George C. Wolfe’s busy busy busy staging reminded me of his production of Shuffle Along: all footnotes, no show.
April 19 – I was psyched to see Camille Vidal-Naquet’s Sauvage at Film Forum because it promised to be a sexy, gritty portrait of French gay male sex workers. In some ways it provides a fascinating glimpse of Eastern European gay-for-pay street hustlers gathering in packs for survival and scrambling to make it work under crummy circumstances. The depiction of older schlumpy customers (one in a wheelchair, one recently widowed) is honest and compassionate. But the story revolves around a wildly unbelievable main character who is a manifestation of a curiously French attachment to the notion of the noble savage, lurching from touching moments to scenes that are ugly and sensational.
April 20 – Amanda Palmer started out as a street performer in Boston and played with Brian Viglione as the punk cabaret duo Dresden Dolls for years before launching her solo career. She recorded and toured behind her 2012 album Theatre Is Evil thanks to an overwhelmingly successful Kickstarter campaign; a memoir and a TED talk detailed her road to success via her knack for The Art of Asking, and along the way she acquired a famous husband, the fantasy author Neil Gaiman. The social media savvy that made her a DIY cult figure Rockstar also generated a lot of nasty blowback that got so ferocious that Palmer had to take a break. Now, after four years, she’s back with a new album, There Will Be No Intermission, and an 18-month international solo tour, just her and her piano and her ukulele. Andy’s a diehard fan and got tickets for her show at the Beacon Theater as soon as they went on sale. The day of the concert, an email arrived announcing that the show would start promptly at 7:30 and be over at…11:30. We’d seen her in concert three times before, and I liked her fine, but I wasn’t sure I had the stamina for four hours of Amanda Palmer solo. We gave ourselves permission to bail when we’d had enough, but we stayed for the whole thing. Palmer referenced both Springsteen on Broadway and Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette (both Netflix specials), and they clearly influenced her decision to undertake the brave notion of a solo concert that combines music and storytelling (a LOT of talking) with a very specific political agenda. She’s had three abortions in her life, she’s been raped twice, and she’s had a miscarriage, and as she says in the show after those upsetting experiences she looked around for some art work (movies, books, plays, songs, albums) that reflected the range and depth of emotions she was feeling and didn’t find any. So in this moment when access to abortion is again politically under assault, she resolved to fill in the gap and Talk About It herself. It makes for a bold, challenging show that alternates between songs from her new album, selections from her back catalogue, and fun covers. For all the ways she teeters on the verge of insufferable self-indulgence – let’s just say she needs a lot of attention – she does have an extraordinary ability to read the room and disarm an audience. Early on she warned the Beacon crowd what was coming and established a rule: at any time, anyone in the audience could call out “Amanda, I’m feeling so sad!” and she would immediately respond with the jaunty opening of her song “Coin-Operated Boy.” And that did happen several times during the concert. And it made a 2000-seat theater feel like a pretty cozy living room.
April 21 – “I can’t sleep” is the first line of Suzan-Lori Parks’s White Noise (at the Public Theater), which addresses the mixed blessing of being #woke – it’s both empowering and exhausting. Leo (Daveed Diggs) is a black artist; his white girlfriend Dawn (Zoe Winters) is a lawyer. Their best friends (and former significant others) are Ralph (Thomas Sadoski), a white English professor, and Misha (Sheria Irving), a performer who hosts an edgy podcast called “Ask a Black.” The set-up feels rom-commy, but as usual Suzan-Lori Parks can’t help coloring outside the genre-lines – as staged by Oskar Eustis, the play unpredictably veers into pockets of farce, tragedy, melodrama, soliloquy, and performance-art weirdness. After Leo is roughed up on the street by cops, he conceives of a provocative art project for his own healing: he talks Ralph (who comes from a rich family) into buying him for 40 days of slavery. Being owned settles Leo down emotionally and energetically; he’s finally able to sleep. Meanwhile, Ralph surprises even himself by how much he gets into ownership, and the two women resume their on-again off-again love affair, which has its own kinky aspects. For all the elements that land as contrived and preposterous, the mood of the play matches the feeling of the American zeitgeist over the last two years, with the shredding of the social contract, white supremacist bullying fully emboldened, and (as Dawn asserts in her monologue – each character gets one) doing good is seen as suspect activity by clueless libtards.
What is Parks saying, that blacks should give up and that White Makes Right is manifest destiny? Even as my friend Jay and I stood in the lobby of the Public having a juicy conversation about the play and our quibbles with certain plot points (yeah, right, an unpublished author can write a story and get it published in the New Yorker in less than six weeks), I received the play in the Brechtian sense I believe it is intended. Brecht was no fan of dramatic naturalism and emotional plausibility. His fantasy was that critical thinking — that is, imagining how things could be different than they are now — acquired through theatergoing could spur critical thinking on political and social issues. Critical thinking means being alive and alert at the theater rather than dozing through a pleasant entertainment.
At a typical play, according to Brecht, most people say to themselves: “Yes, I have felt like that too — Just like me — It’s only natural — It’ll never change — The sufferings of this man appall me, because they are inescapable — That’s great art; it all seems the most obvious thing in the world — I weep when they weep, I laugh when they laugh.” He wanted spectators at his theater to say: “I’d never have thought it — That’s not the way — That’s extraordinary, hardly believable — It’s got to stop — The sufferings of this man appall me, because they are unnecessary — That’s great art: nothing obvious in it — I laugh when they weep, I weep when they laugh.”
April 26 – What can I say about the Jean-Michel Basquiat show at the newly renovated Brant Foundation Art Study Center in the East Village? Being in the presence of almost 70 Basquiat paintings over the four floors of the gallery made me absolutely crazy with joy. I don’t know how to explain it, because normally I live with a distinct aversion to chaos. But when I look at Basquiat’s work, especially the gigantic paintings busy with lists and icons and as many overlapping narratives as a medieval tapestry, I don’t see chaos but feel privileged to be viewing the inner workings of…not just a mind but a heart and a sensibility super-alive to child-like playfulness and sophisticated art-music-life references.
The Brant Foundation show is running for another couple of weeks, through May 15. Tickets are required, it is ostensibly sold out, but the waitlist shifts all the time; be patient with the confusing and arduous process and you might well end up in the door after all. The show includes some famous Basquiat works (Hollywood Africans, on loan from the Whitney, and the untitled skull painting that sold for a record-breaking $110.5 million) but also lots of stuff I’d never seen before, some stuff that hasn’t been exhibited in New York before. (The show was put together by Dieter Buchhart for the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.) My friend Clint described me as looking like St. Teresa de Avila in a state of rapture. There is, of course, the gift shop on your way out the door that sells among other things a Basquiat yoga mat. I didn’t get one, but you know, I have a birthday coming up….
Speaking of my birthday, if anyone wanted to gift me with a pair of tickets to see Lizzo at Brooklyn Steel on Sunday May 12, I wouldn’t say no. Her single “Juice” has already established itself as candidate for The Song You’re Going To Be Hearing All Summer Long. Her video featuring stars from RuPaul’s Drag Race is hilarious:
April 27 – Curse of the Starving Class was the first in a sequence of five semi-autobigraphical family dramas that represent the single strongest period of Sam Shepard’s long, anything but homogenous playwriting career. Set in the semi-rural Southern California of Shepard’s adolescence, it portrays an almost cartoony family of Mom, Dad, Brother, and Sister just on the verge of combustion from a flammable combination of dreams, despair, hormones, addiction, financial distress, and genetic predisposition for self-destruction. Julian Crouch’s set for Terry Kinney’s revival at Signature Theatre captures the fragility of the environment spectacularly well, and the zeitgeist ensures that Shepard’s fable of family life as metaphor for American life and/or Western capitalism stays pertinent. Having studied and written about Shepard for 35 years (the first edition of my biography was completed in 1984, the revised edition in 1997), I view productions of his work from so many different angles. I had mixed feelings about this one, mostly because of quibbles with the casting. Gilles Geary gives a one-note dead-eyed performance as Wesley, the poetic-souled son, and both Maggie Siff as his mother and Lizzy DeClement as his sister were too perky and clean-cut for my taste. Meanwhile, David Warshofsky as the dissolute, mercurial dad was just about perfect. I somehow hadn’t realized how consistent this string of family plays returns to the concept of role reversal – it shows up most clearly in act two of True West but it starts with Curse, continues in Buried Child, and returns in A Lie of the Mind (and beyond, in The Late Henry Moss). The pleasures of a Sam Shepard play almost always include boldly visceral real-time theatricality: a nude body, a live animal, the smell of breakfast cooking.
April 28 – Thaddeus Phillips (above) is a travelling man, and his solo performance 17 Border Crossings at New York Theater Workshop does what it says on the tin. With the simplest of means, and in close collaboration with lighting designer David Todaro and sound designer Robert Kaplowitz, Phillips recollects a globe-sprawling array of encounters (most but not all his own) with customs and immigration officials, some of them uneventful if humorous, others hair-raising. It’s a sweet short (90-minute) exercise in theatrical storytelling that starts with a burst of Shakespeare, segues into a succinct history of passports, and carries on unpredictably from there. My plus-one was Laurie Anderson, who introduced me to Arto Lindsay (they’d just had a meeting with some cutting-edge sound designers). I in turn introduced Laurie to Jackie Rudin (see below), who had just seen Laurie at the Kitchen in Anohni’s performance She Who Saw Beautiful Things. After the show, Laurie and I had a delicious dinner at Piccolo Strada, the minuscule trattoria a few doors down from the theater.
Tags: 17 border crossings, amanda palmer, brant foundation, curse of the starving class, hillary and clinton, jean-michel basquiat, lucas hnath, nicky paraiso, sam shepard, sauvage, suzan-lori parks, terry kinney, thaddeus phillips, white noise
Performance Diary: PRELUDES, ADA/AVA, and AND THAT’S HOW THE RENT GETS PAID
Extraordinary week of theater.
Saturday July 11: I’m a huge fan of Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin, the writer-composer/director team who created Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Ghost Quartet, and now Preludes, the spectacular production at Lincoln Center Theater’s tiny black-box space called The Claire Tow. The show, which Malloy and Chavkin developed together, was inspired by the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff and takes place, the program says, in Moscow 1900/the hypnotized mind of the composer. Apparently after early success starting at age 19 with his “Prelude in C# Minor, op. 3, no. 2,” Rachmaninoff experienced a major setback when his “Symphony No. 1 in D. minor, op. 13” premiered in St. Petersburg with a drunk conductor and an underrehearsed orchestra. The viciously negative critical reaction sent the 24-year-old composer into a three-year depression that stopped him in his tracks and ended with the help of a hypnotherapist named Nikolai Dahl summoned by his wife. Mimi Lien’s dreamscape of a set, Paloma Young’s costumes and the fine six-member cast fleetly and wittily straddle the historical time period and casual contemporary references. As the central character, named Rach, tall handsome Gabriel Ebert gives a performance that is impressive without being overly showy; I’ve seen him before but not in Matilda so I was bowled over by how nimbly he displayed his musical, physical, and acting chops – brooding artist who’s part dancer, part clown. He plays piano half-decently, though the show’s spritely musical director Or Matias mostly inhabits Rachmaninoff at the keyboard.
Nikki M. James is lovely as Rach’s piano-teacher wife Natalya (though she has to fake it when she sits down to play), and Eisa Davis brings the strong, confident, brainy presence we’ve seen before in Passing Strange and her own Angela’s Mixtape to the role of Dahl. (I loved Chavkin’s casting choices. Along with everything that’s impressive about Hamilton, I can’t help noting that the hip multiracial casting coexists with a square attitude when it comes to gender.) The score mashes up Rachmaninoff pieces – some well-known, some rare and exquisite — with Malloy’s original songs, many of them “suggested by” the composer’s work, with the occasional snatch of Beethoven or Mussorgsky. A short gorgeous section from Rachmaninoff’s Vespers (which moved Andy, an a cappella aficionado, to tears) was only one of numerous moments where the show took an unexpected turn. In the middle of the show, a trippy number called “Loop” suddenly transports us to a rave in Goa. And the climax of the show is a long (possibly too long) demonstration of Dahl’s work with Rachmaninoff, “Hypnosis.” Stories about blocked artists dangerously court all kinds of clichés, and afterwards I had some nits to pick about the story and the script. But while I was watching it, I was completely absorbed in the ingenious, frequently surprising unfolding of Chavkin’s staging.
Sunday July 12: The Chicago-based performance collective Manual Cinema has evolved its own fascinating funky original form of theater combining shadow puppets, live music, sound and visual design, and performance-art presence. Their first piece, Ada/Ava, was performed in a first-floor apartment window in Chicago in 2010. Since then it’s been performed at various festivals (including the Tehran International Festival of Puppet Theater, the first Americans to play there) as well as opening the show for a Bonnie “Prince” Billy concert. The company’s five founders – Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, and Kyle Vegter – came to NYC to perform Ada/Ava at 3-Legged Dog in the Financial District as part of The Tank’s Flint & Timber series. Presumably inspired by tech-savvy ensembles like the Wooster Group and Mabou Mines, Manual Cinema favors low-tech materials (overhead projectors, black construction paper, homemade masks) deployed with tremendous ingenuity and sophistication. The show tells the story of two elderly twin sisters, inseparable all their lives until one collapses dead at the chessboard, and how the survivor experiences her grief, depicted via crazy dreams, ghostly hauntings, and mysterious visits to a carnival sideshow’s hall of mirrors.
The eerie and poignant Hitchcockian hour-long wordless shadow play appears on a screen hung from the ceiling, and everything that the performers do to create their simple theatrical effects is fully visible to the audience. The performers operate four projectors while two musicians (Kauffman and Vegter) play a delicate, Daniel Lanois-like original score on guitar and keyboards and Maren Celest mixes in sound effects from a laptop.
Drew Dir explains how the overlapping projections work to simulate animation.
Sarah Fornace demonstrated the that prop that created the old-lady silhouette for both Ada and Ava.
Afterwards, the company invites the audience to stay, hang out, ask questions, manipulate the puppets, and take pictures, which turned out to be as charming and fascinating as the shadow play. The show has been extended twice (largely thanks to a deserving rave review in the New York Times) and plays now through July 26.
Tuesday July 14: The big event of the week was the three-night revival at the Kitchen of And That’s How the Rent Gets Paid, the notorious/legendary extravaganza created by masterful performer Jeff Weiss and his partner Richard C. Martinez that ran off and on for many years at various downtown venues (mostly the Performing Garage and P.S. 122), morphing into a show called Hot Keys and eventually Come Clean. Weiss and Martinez started out doing this and other shows at their storefront theater on East 10th Street. Some years ago (maybe 15?), Martinez started showing signs of Parkinson’s disease, Weiss suspended his acting career (he’d started getting gigs uptown, on Broadway and at Lincoln Center) to care for him, and the couple moved back to Weiss’s home town, Allentown, PA.
This revival of And That’s How the Rent Gets Paid was masterminded by director Brooke O’Harra, best-known for co-creating her own long-running lesbian comic soap opera Room for Cream with the Dyke Division at La Mama. For this occasion, O’Harra pulled together many of the performers who appeared in How the Rent/Hot Keys over the years (including the invaluable singer/actor/musical director/impresario/right-hand-man Nicky Paraiso, musical director emeritus Mark Bennett, Brenda Cummings, Dorothy Cantwell, Sturgis Warner, Christine Donnelly, Keith McDermott, Mary Shultz, and Kate Valk), invited other actors from the extended downtown theater world to join the cast (the likes of Greg Mehrten, Jim Fletcher, Jennifer Miller, Moe Angelos, and Tanya Selvaratnam), and rounded out the roster with a bunch of the next generation of cutting-edge/gender-queer hotshots (notably Becca Blackwell and Jess Barbagallo) and kids right out of college new to the scene. Each of the three nights featured more than a dozen scenes, most of them two-handers, none of them repeated. Between scenes, the Glee Club (a volunteer chorus of 20-odd singers) performed all kinds of music: Weiss-Martinez originals for chorus, some solos, and a few standards, including “the traditional opening number,” “Where or When,” and the closing number, “There’s a Kind of Hush (All Over the World),” which believe me, in this context, did not sound like either Herman’s Hermits or the Carpenters.
Jeff Weiss…And That’s How the Rent Gets Paid…Hot Keys…it’s hard to convey what these cultural phenomena mean and meant to anybody who wasn’t in New York in the 1980s and ‘90s. Jeff Weiss was a gay theater pioneer going all the way back to the early days of Caffe Cino and La Mama ETC. This show (Rent/Keys) has always been an outrageous live comic book/soap opera, really dirty, really gay, really un-PC. The basic story concerns Conrad (Connie) Burkhardt, a closeted married husband and father who cruises the streets in the persona of Bjorn, a Finnish gymnast, who lures guys into sex and then sometimes kills them. He is pursued with Javert-like avidity by detective Tom Persky, who’s always keeping tabs on Connie/Bjorn but can never quite pin anything on him. The action travels backwards and forwards through time, from gay bars and bathhouses in Manhattan to the Jersey shore home of jewelry merchants Sol and Vicki Sheisskopf. A lot like John Jesurun’s (somewhat more highbrow) Pyramid Club serial Chang in a Void Moon, the shambolic non-linear scenes were mostly a showcase for terrific, wild vaudevillean comic turns by downtown performers. The first time I saw And That’s How the Rent Gets Paid, at the Performing Garage in 1980 or ’81, Weiss played all the roles himself and Martinez ran the lights and sound and everything else. The next time I saw it, the original Wooster Group all-stars and extended fellow travelers played all the parts (alongside Weiss and Paraiso). I saw Hot Keys several times at P.S. 122. The shows were always long (three to four hours, sometimes more), sometimes tedious, sometimes amateurish, sometimes incoherent, and yet often riveting and surprisingly poignant, with unbelievably good performances. As I wrote in a 1996 review,
“The unabashedly queer sitcom sketches Weiss writes are perverse, filthy, and played for laughs… Eros rules in this universe. Every human action turns out to be driven by some sexual fetish, some humiliating desire, some outrageous passion. And yet the tone of the show stays unswervingly sweet, like an East Village version of Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion, complete with tall tales and special guests.”
When I showed up for the first night at the Kitchen (the whole run sold out as soon as tickets went on sale — thank you, Nicky, for organizing the tickets for me), I wasn’t expecting Jeff Weiss to be on hand, but there he was, in a comic crown, meeting and greeting. “I know you!” he said, hugging me (and every other familiar face in the crowd). It was not only an all-star cast, it was an all-star audience: I saw John Jesurun, Everett Quinton, Alisa Solomon, Robert Blacker, Jim Leverett, Neil Greenberg, Linda Chapman and Lola Pashalinski with Jim Nicola (the New York Theater Workshop crew), Cynthia Hedstrom…it was a kind of great, exhilarating reunion of a certain tribe from downtown theater. It was super-exciting, fun to be there with Andy (who had no file on Jeff Weiss whatsoever), great to see old friends…and yet I found myself unexpectedly emotional, sad, close to tears on and off throughout the evening. A lot of ghosts flying around. (To name just a few: Ron Vawter, Paul Schmidt, Charles Ludlam, Harry Kondoleon, John Bernd…)
Before the show began, Jeff (above) made it a point to introduce the oldest living lesbian drama teacher, a mentor of his from back home in her nineties, attending with the woman who was about to become her fourth wife. Jeff asked them if they had any questions for him. The “child bride” piped up: “Do you believe in God?” Jeff turned away, paused for a long moment, turned around and very evenly said, “Yes. He gives good plague.” His devastating, flip response hit the nail right on the head for me. This was a roomful of people who had lived through the horrible years of the AIDS epidemic that swept mercilessly through our community. For all the fun and festivity that this evening at the Kitchen would bring, for many of us it was also a gathering of grieving survivors whose experience of massive losses (not just from AIDS, but mostly from AIDS) we will never recover from. Ever.
Let me describe some high points from the show. It opened with an extremely provocative scene father-and-son sex scene with (very brave) Jim Fletcher as dad and Danny Ryan as his son, his drawers stuffed with an insanely huge Tom of Finland dick. When he came in his pants and dad demanded to see, Ryan called out, “Props!” and someone came running to empty two canisters of whipped cream into his underpants. Dad wanted a taste, then Jeff Weiss wanted a taste, and then the three of them went through the house offering anyone who wanted a taste of the boy-cream. In the Hot Keys tradition, every scene ends with an actor calling “Blackout!” After that first scene, a stream of audience members (all women) headed for the door, clearly not prepared for what this comic extravaganza had in store. What else? In scene 2, an actor described auditioning for a show called I Helped My Mother Die – the Musical. One of the early between-scene songs was sweet Brenda Cummings strumming her ukulele and singing the Petula Clark classic “Downtown.” Kate Valk commanded the stage playing Tom Persky (a role originally played at the Performing Garage by her Wooster Group colleague, the late great Ron Vawter) with lines like “Connie showed me the naked ass of evil.”
There were three and a half musical directors on hand to play piano and conduct the Glee Club: in addition to Paraiso and Bennett (above), there was a one-night-only appearance by Michael Roth, an old chum of Weiss and Martinez who now works mostly in theater and film in LA but flew in for the occasion, and a young protégé of Paraiso’s, Dane Terry, who performed a long intriguing spoken-word/song from a show he’ll perform at La Mama next season. Tanya Selvaratnam was an amazing Vicki Sheisskopf.
Weiss would introduce many scenes with reminiscences that sometimes wandered quite far into the weeds. He loves nothing more than jokes about sex, bodies, and poop. He announced, “My sphincter is a mess,” rummaged around in his pants for evidence of his frequent involuntary flatulence, and offered a sniff of his fingers to people in the front row. But then he suddenly launched into a rendition of “Just a Gigolo” that was both stylized Brechtian and scary desperate. Certain scenes between Connie and his mother and his sister pretty clearly lean into autobiographical material. The scene where Connie (played by the amazing Becca Blackwell) visits his sister in the state hospital pulled an astonishingly deep and emotional performance out of Dorothy Cantwell; during it, Weiss slowly circled the stage until he was standing against the back wall, and as Blackwell-as-Connie started reassuring Annie by singing “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” Weiss started singing along – who knows if that was rehearsed, but it was a stunning example of upstaging as coup de theatre.
The likes of this show will not be seen again. And now I can’t get out of my head the lilting strains of the “love theme” from Hot Keys, “Please, Let Love Pass Me By.”
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Tags: ada/ava, and that's how the rent gets paid, becca blackwell, dave malloy, dorothy cantwell, eisa davis, gabriel ebert, jeff weiss, manual cinema, mark bennett, nicky paraiso, nikki m. james, preludes, rachel chavkin, richard c. martinez, the kitchen
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“Holocaust Study: The Medical Cartel is Destroying America”
February 12, 2017 / sojourner
Image: http://www.deesillustrations
Beyond the never ending holocaust, which the U.S. Corporation and its European allies are perpetrating in the middle east and elsewhere around the world, there is another Zionist [corporate-capitalist] perpetrated holocaust taking place, and it’s right here in the U.S. of A.:
by Jon Rappoport
Buckle up.
I’ve been telling you about this for years.
***A message to “quack busters” who attack natural health behind a phony mask of “scientific skepticism”: put your own house in order—that’s where the real quacks and shameless killers are.
This story, nine months ago, surfaced and then dropped like a stone in a lake. Gone.
But I haven’t forgotten it. So here it is. Again:
The structures of medical propaganda are cracking.
The Washington Post (May 3, 2016) reports on a new Johns Hopkins study. I’ll give you the Post’s explosive quotes and then analyze them.
“…a new study by patient safety researchers provides some context…Their analysis, published in the BMJ on Tuesday, shows that ‘medical errors’ in hospitals and other health care facilities are incredibly common and may now be the third leading cause of death in the United States — claiming 251,000 lives every year, more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke and Alzheimer’s.”
“Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who led the research, said in an interview that the category includes everything from bad doctors to more systemic issues such as communication breakdowns when patients are handed off from one department to another.”
“’It boils down to people dying from the care that they receive rather than the disease for which they are seeking care,’” Makary said.
“His calculation of 251,000 deaths [per year] equates to nearly 700 deaths a day — about 9.5 percent of all deaths annually in the United States.”
“Moreover, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t require reporting of errors in the data it collects about deaths through billing codes, making it hard to see what’s going on at the national level.”
“Frederick van Pelt, a doctor who works for The Chartis Group, a health care consultancy, said another element of harm that is often overlooked is the number of severe patient injuries resulting from medical error.”
“’Some estimates would put this number at 40 times the death rate,’ van Pelt said.”
There you have it. Now let’s dig in.
First of all, this study, as you can see, is focusing on medical errors in hospitals and “other health care facilities.” Did the researchers do much work looking for fatal errors that occur in average doctors’ offices? If not, the death numbers mentioned in this study are on the low side.
The CDC, which regularly reports mortality figures, doesn’t receive data, nor does it require data, from doctors, on errors which lead to patients’ deaths. So the CDC is completely in the dark on the third leading cause of death in the US. This, of course, is the same agency that assures the public that vaccines are wonderfully safe and effective.
Consider the final quotes above. The estimate that “severe patient injuries from medical errors” are 40 times the death figure would give us this: every year in the US, there are 10 million severe injuries as a result of medical errors.
For years, I’ve been hammering on another landmark study out of John Hopkins. It was published on July 26, 2000, in the Journal of the American Association: “Is US health really the best in the world?” The author was Dr. Barbara Starfield, a revered public health expert. Starfield separated deaths from errors/mistreatment in hospitals, and deaths from medical drugs:
Yearly deaths from mistreatment and errors in hospitals: 119,000.
Yearly deaths from correctly prescribed medical drugs: 106,000.
The new study doesn’t specifically give a death-number for the medical-drug category.
So again, we can assume the new study is citing an overall death figure that is on the low side.
So let’s just round off the new 250,000-death figure and call it 300,000 deaths in America per year as a direct result of the medical system.
That works out to 3 MILLION deaths per decade.
And 120 MILLION severe patient injuries per decade.
This is the altruistic umbrella under which more Americans than ever will live and die, as a result of the glorious Obamacare insurance program.
This is the foundation on which doctors and medical bureaucrats stand, when they make statements to the press about the unqualified success of modern medicine—for example, in the area of vaccines.
“I’m the expert here. I represent a system that kills 3 million Americans per decade and severely injures 120 million Americans, and therefore you can believe me when I say that vaccines are remarkably safe and effective.”
Who are the clueless? Who are the liars? Who are the people killing and maiming the people?
Who are the lunatics?
The people who opt for natural health?
I don’t think so.
The lunatics and their dupes and proxies are in plain view, every night, on your television screen.
There they are. Look at them.
Understand what is going on.
The full meaning of it.
Source: Holocaust study: the medical cartel is destroying America « Jon Rappoport’s Blog
Here is more of the same:
New Vaccines Still Cause Autism and the U.S. Government Knows It
By Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null
Today in the US and a growing number of other countries, the official policy is that any scientific study, regardless of its methodology, quality, author credentials, and peer-reviewed process is summarily dismissed as incomplete, irrelevant or unsupported if it finds a connection between any vaccine or combination of vaccines and autism spectrum disorder. Even when the CDC’s own immunologist, Dr. William Thompson, whistle-blows and provides thousands of pages of scientific data and research proving a vaccine-autism connection, the matter is rapidly shoved under the table.
In the case of Dr. Thompson’s release of confidential documents to a Congressional subcommittee, the CDC intentionally concealed their evidence that African American boys under 36 months had a higher risk of autism after receiving the MMR vaccine. The documents also proved the CDC has know for a long time that neurological tics, indicating brain disturbances, were associated with thimerosal-containing vaccines, such as the influenza vaccine.
We have also known for over fifteen years, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act filing, that CDC officials, vaccine scientists on the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, the WHO and private pharmaceutical executives met secretly for two days at the Simpsonwood retreat center near Atlanta to deliberate on the Verstraeten research’s findings proving thimerosal’s role in the rise of autism. The meeting was held for the specific purpose to find ways to prevent the findings from reaching the public, and spin and manipulate the data to disprove a vaccine-autism connection…
New Vaccines Still Cause Autism and the U.S. Government Knows It | Global Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
And here is even more of the same:
CDC CRONYISM EXPOSED: SCIENTISTS WITH INTEGRITY CALL OUT THE AGENCY’S CORRUPT INDUSTRY TIES
FEBRUARY 9, 2017 | NATURALNEWS NETWORK | NATURALNEWS.COM
by Daniel Barker
According to its mission statement, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “conducts critical science” to protect Americans against health threats. But can an agency with deep ties to various industries really conduct research and formulate policy in a critical, unbiased manner?
The Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA) says no.
In fact, the ANH-USA has repeatedly uncovered evidence of industry influence on the agency – for example, that of food corporation giant Coca-Cola. Barbara Bowman, director of the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, recently resigned her post at the CDC after her long-term connection with Coca-Cola was made public. Bowman was once a senior nutritionist at Coca-Cola, and has been accused of granting favors to a lobby group backed by the beverage maker.
According to ANH-USA, Coca-Cola was able – with Bowman’s help – to influence the setting of WHO sugar limits.
Now, the ANH-USA reports that a group of ethically-minded scientists within the CDC have sent a letter to the CDC chief of staff voicing their concerns regarding rampant corporate influence over the agency…
CDC Cronyism Exposed: Scientists With Integrity Call out the Agency’s Corrupt Industry Ties | The Daily Sheeple
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Money and malfeasance —
SCO boss: I was offered $2 million by Utah’s top prosecutor
CEO recorded money talks and gave recording to feds, report says.
Jon Brodkin - May 24, 2013 9:50 pm UTC
Darl McBride, the former chief executive officer of SCO, says he was offered $2 million by the Utah attorney general in May 2009 in exchange for taking down a website criticizing an area business person. Still pursuing the years-long legal battle against Novell and IBM over Unix and Linux intellectual property, SCO needed money at the time.
McBride was controversial for claiming that SCO owned Unix copyrights and that corporate users of Linux owed his company licensing fees. SCO ultimately lost its battle, but in 2009 the legal wrangling was still going on.
Besides SCO's legal battles, McBride was trying to collect money he believed he was owed by a business person named Mark Robbins because of a failed investment deal. McBride set up a website called Skyline Cowboy to try to shame Robbins, and Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff allegedly tried to convince McBride to stop going after Robbins.
An amount was discussed—$2 million. The money apparently never changed hands, but McBride recorded the conversation and later passed the recording on to federal agents investigating alleged misconduct in the attorney general's office.
The bizarre events were reported yesterday by the Salt Lake Tribune, which also published a partial transcript of the conversation between McBride and Shurtleff. The Tribune reports:
"He [Robbins] is very concerned, because he can’t get any deals done because people go out and see that [website]," Shurtleff says on the recording, before launching into the pitch: "What can I do?"
McBride says he needs $2 million. Shurtleff replies that he doesn’t think Robbins has that kind of money, but he believes he can get it from one of Robbins’ associates—Marc Sessions Jenson. A year earlier, Shurtleff’s office had charged Jenson with six securities-related felonies, but the businessman was free at the time as a result of a plea deal struck with the attorney general’s office.
"I think he’d do it," Shurtleff says. "I’ve kind of got a weird relationship [with Jenson] because he is still under a plea-in-abeyance program. We put him on a three-year plea-in-abeyance. He’s got to pay the money back. If he does that, the charges will be dropped… He’s got every motivation in the world."
Later in the conversation, "McBride indicates if he could get a few million dollars, it would prolong the life of his company." But McBride reportedly never heard from Shurtleff again. Robbins and Jenson both said they had no involvement in Shurtleff's pitch to McBride and no intention of funding a payment, the Tribune reported.
McBride was fired by SCO in October 2009. Shurtleff left the attorney general's office in January of this year.
As we noted at the time of his firing, "McBride was the architect and public face of SCO's misguided campaign against Linux. He claimed that the open source operating system infringed on SCO's copyright and included a significant quantity of code stolen from Unix System V. On the basis of this claim, SCO threatened to sue a multitude of corporate Linux users and demanded hefty licensing fees."
Courts ruled that Novell was the rightful owner of Unix copyrights. In June 2010, SCO was denied a new trial seven years after the litigation began.
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Poems have the ability to connect people to the power of the written word in a way that books cannot. Often times, a shorter poem can result in a more thought-provoking the message, as the reader can spin a million interpretations and connections. I chose three very different poems from the 2009 volume of Best American Poetry (https://www.bestamericanpoetry.com/ pages/volumes/?id=2009) to analyze because they touch on many disparate American ideals – from gun-toting thieves and homes, to finding one’s soul. The humor and clever associations found in these poems make them intriguing to read. “They knew What They Wanted” by John…
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Crossword History: Dawe and D-Day
Posted on June 1, 2017 by gmdirect
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June 6, 1944 is a date that will continue to resonate for decades to come, and perhaps centuries. On that day, D-Day, the largest amphibious military attack in history was launched as the Allied forces landed at Normandy. This was one of the major offensives that helped bring about the end of World War II.
But a few days before that, a curious confluence of events brought crosswords to the attention to British agents, namely those of MI5.
Yes, tomorrow, June 2, 1944, marks the anniversary of the day a physics teacher and crossword constructor named Leonard Dawe was questioned by authorities after several words coinciding with D-Day invasion plans appeared in London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.
More specifically, the words Omaha (codename for one of Normandy’s beaches), Utah (another Normandy beach codename), Overlord (the name for the plan to land at Normandy on June 6th), mulberry (nickname for a portable harbor built for D-Day), and Neptune (name for the naval portion of the invasion) all appeared in Daily Telegraph crosswords during the month preceding the D-Day landing.
So, the authorities had to investigate the highly improbable, yet still possible, scenario that Dawe was purposely trying to inform the enemy of Allied plans, and scooped up the constructor to investigate.
In the end, no definitive link could be found, and consensus is that Dawe either overheard these words (possibly mentioned by the loose lips of soldiers stationed nearby) and slipped them into his grids unwittingly, or this is simply an incredible coincidence.
Some crossword fans suspect that there’s more to the story, though.
According to The Guardian newspaper:
During the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of D-day, one of Dawe’s former pupils approached the Telegraph and insisted that as a lad, he had overheard US and Canadian soldiers discussing the plans, picked up on the codewords, and suggested them to his headmaster as possible entries.
This has been dismissed by most historians as an attempt to rewrite or embellish an already baffling story.
Nonetheless, it’s possible that, somewhere, some document connecting Mr. Dawes and the codewords is waiting to be discovered.
Until then, it simply remains a curious moment in crossword history.
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The Power Moves You Didn’t Even Know Existed | #55
A revisit to our first in the “Off the Sidelines” series on Women and Power with Commissioner Bridget Gainer. If you take away anything from this episode it will be to not touch the f**king muffins.
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You’re gonna be old school one day soon. | #54
Feeling like you can’t keep up in today’s workplace or just don’t want to? You’re not alone. By 2020 75% of the workforce will be millennials and you don’t want to be in the corner mumbling to yourself “kids today…” What’s the alternative? Listen in and find out….
F**k Gratitude. | w/ Amanda Steinberg and Michelle Smith #53
In honor of the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s demands for equal pay, we’re re-posting our take on the dark side of gratitude. “Be grateful women get to play professional soccer at all.” Are you f**cking kidding? F**k gratitude, and whoever said that.
Get Your Career Unstuck. Fast. | w/ Adrian Granzella Larssen of The Muse #52
There are times when we all feel stuck in our careers. You look around and it seems like everyone you know is on the right career path but your choices seem limited. That’s where you’re wrong. Rachel and Suzanne share their take on how to to get “unstuck,” and chat with Adrian Granzella Larssen, Editor-in-Chief of career website The Muse, to find out what advice she gives to their 1.5 million subscribers.
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Canada’s 6th National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
In November 2018, Canada submitted its 6th National Report to the CBD. The 6th National Report takes stock of efforts by Canadian governments and their partners in biodiversity conservation.
A Summary of Canada's 6th National Report to the United Nation's Convention on Biological Diversity is available for download. This summary report provides an overview of Canada’s progress toward meeting the 2020 Biodiversity Goals and Targets for Canada and highlights Canada’s contributions to the global Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.
The report notes that Canada is on track to meet 11 targets plus the marine and coastal portion of Target 1, and progressing at an insufficient rate to meet 6 targets plus the terrestrial and inland waters portion of Targets 1. Further, there was insufficient data to assess progress on one target.
>> Read the Summary Report
>> Read the complete 6th National Report
Canada is on track to meet its target of conserving 10% of coastal and marine areas by 2020. Progress towards Canada’s terrestrial target – which aims to conserve at least 17% of terrestrial areas and inland water by 2020 – has been slower to date. However, major efforts to accelerate this progress have been launched, through both the Pathway to Canada Target 1 process and an unprecedented federal investment of $1.3 billion in nature conservation, including a $500 million Canada Nature Fund.
Canada is making steady progress towards its targets related to wetland conservation, sustainable forest management, sustainable aquaculture and agriculture, and controlling invasive alien species. Steady progress is also being made in expanding and improving the scientific information needed to support decision-makers, integrating information about biodiversity into school curricula, connecting Canadians with nature, and incorporating biodiversity considerations into both municipal planning and Canada’s national statistical system.
While important steps have been taken by Canadian governments and their partners in recent years, progress has been somewhat slower with regard to the recovery of species at risk, ecosystem-based management of fisheries, and reducing pollution levels in Canadian waters. These will continue to be areas of shared focus in Canada moving forward.
Indigenous cultures and societies are inextricably linked with the land and the water. As such, while Indigenous Knowledge and customary use of biological resources are specifically highlighted under Canada Targets 12 and 15, the knowledge, innovations and practices of Indigenous communities are relevant to all of Canada’s biodiversity goals and targets and are therefore highlighted throughout Canada’s complete 6th National Report and in the summary report.
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I’ve always had a ‘thing’ about bringing my own pillow (if possible) whenever I overnight away from home. And, that includes when I’m admitted to hospital… my non-allergenic, frequently washed pillow comes too plus a supply of my own pillowslips.
Why? There are lots of reasons why but chief amongst them is hygiene. I’ve never liked the idea of burying my head in someone else’s pillow. The crisp, white pillowslips found on hospital/hotel pillows, do not reassure me. According to an article in yesterday’s paper, my reservations are well-justified…
A recent clinical trial carried out by Bart’s Hospital and the London NHS Trust, concluded that the risk of infection from bedding is “grossly underestimated”. “Dead skin, bodily fluids and dandruff found on hospital pillows made them a potential source of more than 30 types of infection”. Read on… if you dare!
Pillow aims to halt the spread of superbugs
Carol Ryan
AN IRISH company has invented a pillow that may help to reduce the risk of picking up a hospital-acquired infection (HAI) such as MRSA from lying on contaminated bedding.
Gabriel Scientific’s “SleepAngel” pillow was the subject of a clinical trial by Barts and the London NHS Trust, which found its product to be more hygienic than regular hospital pillows.
Several international studies have found that hospital bedding can harbour bacteria if they become contaminated with the bodily fluids of a patient who has an infection.
While regular washing is a standard infection-control measure in all Irish hospitals, the Barts study concluded that the risk of infection from bedding is “grossly underestimated in clinical practice”, and that regular cleaning may not be enough.
The inventors of the SleepAngel pillow, Billy Navan and David Woolfsen, both worked in the health industry and saw the problems caused by superbugs in Irish hospitals. They thought the risk of infection from pillows was being overlooked in hospital hygiene policies and spent nine years creating their infection-control pillow.
Most of that time was spent searching for a material that could keep germs out of the interior stuffing while still allowing the pillow to “breathe”. A membrane normally used in heart stents was incorporated into a specially designed filter.
During the Barts study, their product was put to work alongside standard NHS pillows in UK hospital wards. Both were used on cardiac, vascular and respiratory wards and tested after three months.
The results showed high levels of contamination in the standard pillows. Some had bacteria levels which were described by Dr Arthur Tucker, who led the study, as a “bio-hazard”. Dead skin, bodily fluids and dandruff found on the pillows made them a potential source of more than 30 types of infection ranging from flu to leprosy. The SleepAngel pillows tested negative for interior contamination and were much less likely to have bacteria on the outside.
There was also some unpleasant news about domestic pillows – apparently you are never alone in bed because after two years of use, one-third of a pillow’s weight is made up of dust mites, dead skin and bacteria.
Infection control has become a big challenge for hospitals in recent decades. Dr Brian O’Connell, medical director at the National MRSA Reference Laboratory in St James’s Hospital, explained that the superbug problem first surfaced in Ireland during the 1980s and quickly became “endemic” in some hospitals. Rates of infection have declined in the past few years but cross-infection still creates a huge extra workload for hospital staff and puts patients at risk.
Of real concern is stopping the spread of MRSA, a strain of the common Staphlococcus aureus bacteria that has developed resistance to antibiotics, making it difficult to treat. If the bacteria gets into the system through a break in the skin it can cause infections but, in more serious cases, can lead to life-threatening diseases.
The HSE Infection Control Action Plan estimates that about 25,000 in- patients develop a HAI every year in Ireland.
The cost of treating and preventing HAIs is €23 million per year and about one-third of infections are thought to be preventable.
Source: HEALTHplus – The Irish Times
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Risky Medical Procedures
A friend of mine is going into hospital tomorrow to undergo a risky medical procedure.
She spoke to her surgeon earlier today to explain that she’s feeling a little nervous, but the surgeon was able to reassure her…
“There’s only a 1 in 100 chance of anything going seriously wrong”, he said.
“Besides, I’ve done 99 of these operations before and they’ve all been successful”
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Any patient who has ever worn a conventional oxygen mask for any length of time, will know the discomfort involved and also appreciate the difficulty created by the mask in terms of communication.
An Irish university student, James D’Arcy has come up with an innovative way of delivering oxygen to the hospital patient. The Flo2w offers a new user experience in respiratory therapy and represents a real breakthrough in patient comfort. It’s also more efficient than the current masks used which surely has to be welcomed in this current era of cutbacks in hospital resources?
James has been shortlisted for a prestigious international prize having made it to the finals of the James Dyson Awards. I wish him the very best of luck on October 5th.
“A University of Limerick student has been shortlisted for a prestigious international prize for a revolutionary new oxygen-delivery system.
James D’Arcy is the only Irish entry to make it the finals of the James Dyson Awards with a device called Flo2w.
The device holds an oxygen tube to a patient’s head with an adjustable headpiece that can be clipped on and off.
Mr D’Arcy (23), from Minane Bridge in Cork, has already beaten more than 500 entries from 21 countries across the world to make the final 18. He could win the grand prize of €12,000 plus €12,000 for the design department at the University of Limerick, where he has just completed his final year.
Mr D’Arcy said his invention is a new way of delivering oxygen to a patient and eliminates many problems associated with the current device that supplies oxygen.
“Flo2w eliminates the big, intimidating, one-size-fits-all mask that is currently being used,” he said. “The subtle design makes the user feel as if they are not even wearing it. The oxygen is supplied to the patient through nasal tubing.
“The system integrates a new form of regulating oxygen in an innovative and easy way for both the patient and health care professional.”
Other inventions to make the global shortlist include an ultraviolet sportspack designed by a Canadian that eliminates bacteria and odour from the user’s shoe.
The James Dyson Foundation will announce the global winner on October 5th.”
Information Source: The Irish Times and the James Dyson Award.
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MRSA Awareness
Everyone has heard of the hospital superbug MRSA and many have a view on how to stop it. I recently came across the results of a survey carried out in Ireland*, to assess the knowledge and perception of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among the general public.
The study concluded…
“The public are generally knowledgeable about MRSA but most agreed that they would feel angry and afraid by its diagnosis. Future public education campaigns on MRSA should be aware of this response.”
MRSA infection can be very serious or even fatal so it’s easy to understand why people would be afraid of a diagnosis. I was pretty scared when first diagnosed with MRSA but I can honestly say that I did not feel angry about it. The only time I felt any anger was when I was exposed to the stigma attached to MRSA, by hospital staff who had not been properly trained in infection control. Why is it then that most people in the above survey, agreed that they would feel angry if diagnosed with MRSA?
I can’t help but feel that the media coverage of MRSA has a lot to do with the opinion of the general public. The newspaper coverage tends to be alarmist in nature and is centered around individual’s stories. MRSA is a problem and should be reported but the media should reflect the whole story about MRSA.
Hospital cleaning is part of the answer but so is the reduction of antibiotic use, which is regarded as one of the most effective ways of reducing MRSA. More microbiologists are needed as well as more infection control nurses. Increasing the number of isolation units so those with MRSA can be treated without the fear of infecting others, is also part of the answer as well as reducing bed occupancy rates in hospitals.
And always remember… the most important thing you can do to reduce the spread of MRSA, is to wash your hands thoroughly and often. If soap or water isn’t available, use alcohol-based hand sanitizers.
How do you think you would feel if you, or someone close to you, was diagnosed with an MRSA infection? Would you feel angry?
* This survey was published in the British Journal of Infection Prevention.
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When I got out of bed this morning, I knew there was something significant about today’s date but I couldn’t think what? Having escorted my husband to the private hospital where he’s undergoing a minor operation today, I drove home deep in thought. It was another few hours before the penny dropped and then the memories came flooding back.
This day last year, I was re-admitted to a large, public hospital via the emergency department having been at home for only 6 days following a week of IV treatment in the hospital. I’d developed a nasty infection in my head following an operation some weeks earlier. At home, the pain in my head had gradually increased to a point where I could no longer bear it and I knew I needed help. As I sat in A&E going through the process of admission, the swelling around my eyes began to visibly worsen so I was rapidly hooked up to several drips and put in the queue for transfer to a ward. As luck would have it, a bed was found within hours and this was to become my home for the next twelve long days.
On arrival in the ward, my first reaction was the gloominess of my surroundings. I was transferred to a bed in a dark, cramped corner of the ward where I lay exhausted but grateful to have escaped A&E so quickly. On looking around the room, it soon became obvious that I was the youngest by far, by at least 25 years and I’m no spring chicken myself! Two of the patients were bed bound, a third was a psychiatric patient and the fourth lady (in the bed next to me, luckily) was a sprightly 90 year old who became a great buddy over the following days. We were soon doing the crossword together everyday but sadly, she was discharged home all too soon only to be replaced by a seriously ill, incontinent patient.
I’ll never forget the days spent in that ward. The two old dears in the beds nearest the windows complained whenever the windows were opened so they remained closed most of the time despite having two incontinent patients in the room. I used to take myself and my drip to sit by a window in the corridor, to escape the awful conditions in that room. I was also trying to escape the attention of the psychiatric patient who was very restless and needed 24 hour care with her own special nurse.
Every morning, a new agency nurse would arrive on our ward to care for the daily needs of our confused room mate. Each day, I would watch the same situation evolve where the mood of the psychiatric patient would gradually deteriorate to a point where her young nurse could no longer calm her and we would then be exposed to many hours of disturbed behaviour. After a few days of observing this situation, I could clearly see where these inexperienced nurses were going wrong so in order to save my own sanity, I decided to intervene. Every time a new nurse arrived, I would quietly warn them of the pitfalls that lay ahead and give them tips on how best to manage the situation. This worked a treat and our days became slightly less chaotic as a result.
The nights were another story. The agency tended to supply ‘carers’ rather than nurses for night time duty. Many of them were college students with little or no nursing experience who had simply enrolled with the agency as a summer job. Having put my eldest son through college and with my daughter still in college, I understood these ‘kids’ and often chatted with them quietly for hours while their charge slept soundly thanks to heavy duty nightime sedation. As my bed was nearest to the door, these carers tended to sit all night on a chair at the end of my bed, using the light from the corridor as a reading light. I would often settle down to sleep for the night with a hunk of a male student sitting just inches away from my feet!
Until this morning, I hadn’t given another thought to the time spent in that room. I was eventually transferred to another ward where I spent a much happier fortnight being nursed back to health in a lovely bright, airy room and where my companions were delightful. Sitting here a whole year later writing about my memories from that time, it feels like it was only yesterday. Today, it’s my husband’s turn to experience hospital life from a horizontal position. When I collect him from the day unit shortly, I know I’m going to find it very hard not to smirk at his tales of woe!
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It’s Just Not Fair
It is a disgrace and a source of national shame that in 2010, in the country with the highest rate of cystic fibrosis (CF) in the world, we still do not have a purpose-built adult CF unit. An independent review of CF services in Ireland by Dr R.M. Pollock, published in 2005, found that most adults with CF were being treated in facilities that were dangerously inadequate. In reality, very little has changed since then for CF inpatients. The average life expectancy for a CF person in Ireland is a full 10 years lower than in Britain or the US, largely because of the failure to provide specially trained staff and sterile, en-suite hospital facilities. It’s just not fair that people with CF should be spending so much of their already short lives waiting for the most basic of services.
St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin is the national adult referral centre for CF patients in Ireland. Last year, the HSE said that it didn’t have the money to go ahead with building a special 120 bed facility, with 30 en-suite rooms to cater for these patients. The public outcry that resulted, led our Minister for Health to declare that an alternative funding approach involving builders and banks, could deliver the facility as promised. This latest hold-up has come about as a result of a failure on the part of the Department to award a tender to construct the €40 million unit.
Orla Tinsley is a young woman with cystic fibrosis. For the past five years, she has campaigned vigorously for the provision of a dedicated CF unit. While receiving urgent medical treatment at St. Vincent’s hospital last week, she wrote the article below about her frustration that the designated site for the new facility remains empty…
“OPINION: The news that there has been further delay in the cystic fibrosis unit at St Vincent’s hospital in Dublin is disheartening, but hardly surprising, writes ORLA TINSLEY
Five years ago this month, my first article was published in this newspaper. I wrote about being an 18-year-old with cystic fibrosis treated in the national referral centre, St Vincent’s hospital. It was my first experience of sleeping in a room with senile and confused women who coughed, pooped and died in the room in which I slept.
I didn’t understand how the rules on cystic fibrosis care could change so much from a children’s hospital to an adult hospital. As a child I was not allowed to share a room with someone who had cystic fibrosis because of cross-infection.
In Vincent’s, sharing a room with another CF patient was a common occurrence until two years ago because there was no other space. I shared a room with a girl who also had CF and we became great friends over the summer months we were in there. We stood outside the hospital on the June bank holiday eating cool-pops and watching the mini- marathon go by. A month and a half later she was dead.
It was the first time I fully realised that CF is something you cannot control, although it takes a while to accept.
I ran the mini-marathon two weeks ago and finished in high spirits. When I sprinted past Vincent’s, I thought briefly of that day and was glad to be running. The next day I flew to Barcelona and lay on the beach, relaxing for five days. I had gotten over the previous rough summer of spontaneous lung bleeds that halted my life and made it impossible to plan anything. I had gotten over the collapsed lung last year and I started work, like any 23-year- old, which feels so great.
Then I got some shoulder pain: my lung had collapsed again. Had I trained too hard or done something wrong? My consultant said it was just one of those things that happens with cystic fibrosis.
Admitted to Vincent’s a week ago, I was put on 100 per cent oxygen to try and reinflate my lung and given painkillers. My medical team were incredible and I got a bed immediately.
For the first two days I shared a room with five other women on a ward where the staff did not specialise in cystic fibrosis. I was exhausted and filled with painkillers; I was not as aware as I needed to be. When I had to go for an X-ray, the nurse looking after me said I didn’t need oxygen to go along with my wheelchair. My oxygen saturations were good and it was a short trip.
I explained she was wrong, the oxygen was flushing the nitrogen oxide out and encouraging the lung to reinflate. We argued but I left without oxygen. I waited there without oxygen among patients who were coughing.
The ward sister apologised that I had been left without oxygen.
The distressing element of this scenario is that if I was in a unit with nurses specially trained in CF, this would not have happened.
I am just one person with cystic fibrosis and each person’s story is so individual. When I am not sick I work as hard as I can and I love my life. I know some day that that will end, things will get slower, I will spend more time lying in beds with various tubes.
I will be unable permanently to make that choice to get up myself and walk away from a screaming room-mate or a dying woman or drag all my medical equipment and tubing with me to sleep in the corridor, as I have done on previous occasions.
Not being able to access a single en-suite room when I needed one was not surprising, but it was frustrating. The lack of sincerity in the Government commitment to our dedicated CF unit is disheartening and degrading to the 1,300 people living with CF on this island.
There has also been no commitment to the number of beds that would be specifically ring-fenced for people with cystic fibrosis in the 100-bed unit that will treat many other illnesses.
We need 34 beds to deal with the daily intake of patients with cystic fibrosis. These beds cannot, as it has been suggested by those in charge, be given to other patients if people with cystic fibrosis are not there to take them.
We need cleanliness and exclusivity. We’re not asking for gold-plated oxygen tanks, we’re just asking those in power to help us stay alive in rooms that comply with international standards.
This litany of broken promises is embarrassing for Ireland. When I talk to patients or parents of young children abroad they are continuously shocked by the standard of care for CF patients here.
They have offered money to sort out our Irish mess.
I do not want to die in our Irish mess.
The eight single en-suite rooms at the national referral centre are not enough. We deserve single en-suite rooms when we present at hospital with a mild exacerbation or a painful, collapsed lung. It is the only way to get full quality treatment for most patients with multi-faceted cystic fibrosis.
People waiting on the transplant list deserve to be in single en-suite cubicles.
This time coming into hospital, I didn’t have to go through AE, but I will have to again. This time, no one used the room I slept in as a toilet or had MRSA or screamed throughout the night, forcing me to sleep in the corridor.
But it will happen again and is happening to other people with cystic fibrosis around Ireland who are exposed to life-threatening cross-infection as you read this.
The Pollack report was published in 2005. It In reality, very little has changed since then for CF inpatients. When building eventually starts on the unit, it will take 14 months to complete.
We live in hope with a heavy dollop of cynicism, as always.
I walked by the site in the sunshine the other day during physiotherapy. It sits there, decanted and waiting, just like the rest of us.
If there’s such a thing as campaigners fatigue, I may be experiencing it. I have been writing the same thing for five years. It’s a depressing thought that I will be doing it for another five”.
I salute Orla Tinsley for writing this courageous article. It’s a damning indictment of our government’s appalling lack of commitment to CF patients who continue to be exposed to life-threatening cross-infection. The Irish political system is rotten to the core if it can allow this issue to continue. It’s just not fair!
Information Source: The Irish Times 25/06/10 and 26/o6/10 and The Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland.
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It all started last Sunday. We had some visitors staying and I wrongly assumed that my constantly recurring headache was as a result of the extra workload. I’m well-accustomed to popping pain relievers in order to function normally and I make no apology for it. As anyone who suffers from a chronic condition will know, it’s the only way to get things done. The secret however, is knowing when to shout for help.
When I dragged myself out of bed last Monday morning I knew I was in trouble. I’d barely slept a wink overnight as my headache was no longer responding to pain killers. As luck would have it, I’d a hospital appointment already booked with the surgeon for the following morning so expert help was at hand.
By the time the surgeon got to examine my head on Tuesday morning, I was in so much pain I could barely talk. A few hours later, I was lying inside an MRI scanner having a brain scan to rule out a possible brain abscess. Thankfully, nothing of this nature was diagnosed although a nasty infection was visible at the site of my recent surgery.
The same evening, my daughter arrived home from her work placement in a hospital, looking like death. She was suffering a flu-like reaction to travel vaccinations received the day before. Despite running a very high temperature overnight and still looking very pale the next morning, she insisted on going back to work. By lunchtime, she was in A&E of the hospital having developed a severe nose bleed while on the wards. Her nose had to be cauterised to stem the flow of blood and she limped home to bed for the second evening in a row.
The next day, I woke with horrible nausea and the return of colitis as a result of the antibiotics prescribed to treat my head. I had no choice but to lie very low that day.
On Friday morning, my husband was admitted to hospital for a cataract operation. Having collected him from the hospital at lunchtime and brought him home to recover, I was looking forward to a quiet afternoon but no such luck. One of our cats appeared with his tail bent double and I knew immediately that an urgent trip to the vet was in store. Last year, this same cat became very unwell having developed an abscess in his tail (most likely from a bite from another cat) and the tell-tale sign was a drooping tail. So, Friday afternoon was spent getting the cat sorted with an antibiotic.
As if the week hadn’t been testing enough, Saturday morning started with an early morning trip to bring the eye patient back to the hospital for a routine check. Having delivered the patient safely home again, I then attended a funeral before spending the afternoon at the nursing home where both of my parents are in rapid decline at the moment.
Today, apart from frequent trips to the loo, I’ve done nothing but loll around in the garden enjoying the sunshine. The pain in my head has eased but I’m not out of the woods yet. If I go quiet again next week, please don’t worry. Wimbledon fortnight starts tomorrow. Bring it on!
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Takeda opens new global research center in San Diego
In addition to the internal research conducted on site, the San Diego research center plays an important role in connecting local collaborators with Takeda’s global network of more than 200 research partners.
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Takeda has announced the opening of a new research facility in San Diego, California. Extending Takeda’s 14-year presence in San Diego, the 165,000-square-foot facility is home to more than 250 employees focused on leveraging specialized drug discovery technologies and advancing discovery research in gastroenterology and neuroscience. The facility is home to four research platform groups – structural biology, early target discovery, computational biology and biologics – that provide key capabilities to discover and advance promising molecules. The new research center in San Diego complements Takeda’s global Research & Development center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and its other global research site in Shonan, Japan.
“Our San Diego research center demonstrates an ideal balance between highly specialized internal research competencies and dedication to external partnerships both within the local community and on a global scale,” said Steve Hitchcock, Ph.D., Head of Research at Takeda. “By consulting with and leveraging our relationships with academic and industry partners and patient groups, we are able to operate nimbly and efficiently to advance early discovery research that could potentially translate into transformative, life-changing therapies for patients in need, complementing our efforts in our other global research centers in Cambridge and Shonan.”
Takeda’s R&D efforts are in four therapeutic areas – Oncology, Gastroenterology (GI), Neuroscience and Rare Diseases – with targeted investments also committed to Plasma-Derived Therapies (PDT) and Vaccines. With a modality-diverse pipeline aligned to its therapeutic area strategies and an externally oriented mindset toward drug discovery and development, Takeda collaborates with partners around the world to unlock innovation and deliver potentially transformative therapies to patients. Today, more than 50 percent of Takeda’s research pipeline focuses on non-small molecules, including biologics, peptides, oligonucleotides, cell and gene therapy, the microbiome and other modalities. The work being done in San Diego today represents the future of Takeda’s pipeline.
In addition to the internal research conducted on site, the San Diego research center plays an important role in connecting local collaborators with Takeda’s global network of more than 200 research partners. Additionally, in the last three years, Takeda, through its venture group, has committed $35 million to Southern California startup companies, underscoring its commitment to the active life sciences cluster in the San Diego and broader California area. The company supports the local community through continued engagement in patient advocacy and disease awareness, children & STEM education and the environment. For example, since 2005, Takeda has partnered with the San Diego Center for Children – the region’s oldest children’s non-profit, to support children with mental, emotional and behavioral health challenges. In addition, Takeda provides over 25 paid college-level student internships in the sciences each year.
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TRAILER: Storm Reid and David Oyelowo Star in the Blumhouse Thriller ‘Don’t Let Go’
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The latest rendition of Charlie's Angels comes through the lens Elizabeth Banks and will provide a refreshing perspective of the legendary franchise. Director Elizabeth Banks takes the helm as the next generation of fearless Charlie's Angels take flight. In Banks'...
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s Netflix Production ‘American Factory’ Premieres August 21st
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August Wilson’s Play ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Coming To Netflix
The award-winning play from the illustrious August Wilson Ma Rainey's Black Bottom will be adapted into a feature film and air on Netflix. The film stars Viola Davis , Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo and Michael Potts. Multiple Tony Award...
Tichina Arnold Is The Epitome of an “Auntie” in ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’
Tichina Arnold is in full "Auntie" mode in this clip from The Last Black Man in San Francisco. The A24 film, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a story about friendship, community, and captures the true essence of...
Avengers: How Marvel Masterfully Integrated The Comic Book Universe with the Cinematic Universe
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In its purest form, art is about taking an idea and converting it to a medium that conveys that idea. The artist works in whatever medium they are most comfortable in, and that result may, in turn, spawn escalation...
Meet the Cast of ‘Annabelle Comes Home’
Film Catalina Combs
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Disney Studios Release Beyoncé’s Appearance in ‘The Lion King’
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The Evolution of Zombie Getaway Cars in Honor of Zombie Awareness Month
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After escaping from the zombies that killed her brother in the graveyard where their parents were buried, 1967’s Night of the Living Dead sees Barbra (Judith O’Dea) escaping in her Pontiac Lemans to eventually find sanctuary with others. Horror...
‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’ Makes Its Trailer Debut
Just before its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood made its trailer debut. Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star...
A Whole New World: Will Smith on the Reimagining of Music and More in Disney’s ‘Aladdin’
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The year 2014 has been designated the International Year of Crystallography by the United Nations General Assembly, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of X-ray diffraction and the 400th anniversary of the observation of the symmetry of ice crystals. In accordance with this, we thought it would be appropriate to describe some of the crystallographic databases that may be of interest to the chemical information professional.
The Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database, available at http://xpdb.nist.gov:8060/BMCD4/index.faces, contains data on 43,000 proteins, nucleic acids, and viruses. It is provided as a free service by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Each entry includes identifying data such as protein function and the species it is derived from, as well as space group and unit cell data. It does not contain a complete crystallographic structure, but a bibliographic reference to primary literature is provided.
The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), found at http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/Solutions/CSDSystem/Pages/CSD.aspx, is provided by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. The CCDC was originally part of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, but is now a separate entity. The CSD contains crystal structures of nearly 700,000 organic, organometallic, and boron-containing compounds; over 40,000 new structures are added per year. One has to pay to access the database, but submission of new structures is free.
CRYSTMET, available at http://www.tothcanada.com/databases.htm, is provided by Toth Information Systems. The database provides crystallographic and supporting bibliographic information on inorganic systems, with a focus on metals, alloys, intermetallic compounds, and minerals. Three-dimensional structures can be displayed, with a variety of plot options. One has to pay for CRYSTMET; there is a demo version, but that requires Materials Toolkit, which is not free.
The Database of Zeolite Structures, available at http://www.iza-structure.org/databases, is provided by the International Zeolite Association, free of charge. It contains structural information, bibliographic references, and powder diffraction data for zeolites. The database is designed to be searched by three-letter structural code (e.g. FAU for faujasite).
The Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD), which can be found at http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/icsd.html, is provided by FIZ Karlsruhe. It contains about 166,000 crystal structures for elements and inorganic compounds. The term "inorganic" is used strictly here: organometallic structures are not included. The ICSD is not free, although there is a 30-day demo version. It is available on STN, or at a dedicated, password-protected website.
MINCRYST, found at http://database.iem.ac.ru/mincryst/index.php, is provided by the Institute of Experimental Mineralogy Russian Academy of Sciences. As the name implies, this is a mineralogical crystallographic database. MINCRYST includes 8557 entries (some minerals have more than one entry), containing space group, unit cell parameters, atomic positions, and other data. It is provided free of charge.
NIST Crystal Data Standard Reference Database, described at http://www.nist.gov/srd/nist3.cfm, is provided by the National Institute for Standards and Technology. One has to pay for this database, but it appears to be fairly inexpensive ($490 and that's not a per-year charge) as these things go. The NIST Crystal Data Standard Reference Database contains data on “more than 237,671” organic and inorganic systems, including minerals, drugs and pesticides.
The Nucleic Acid Database, available at http://ndbserver.rutgers.edu, is a free service provided by researchers at Rutgers University. It contains three-dimensional structures of about 7000 DNA and RNA species, and their complexes with drugs and proteins. Structures from solution NMR are included, as well as those derived from X-ray diffraction. The site includes a rotatable 3D viewer.
The Pauling File, described at http://paulingfile.com, is provided by Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) and Material Phases Data System (MPDS). The Pauling file contains phase diagrams, crystal structures, and physical properties of elements and inorganic compounds. It includes 271,710 crystal structures. The Pauling File is commercially available from several vendors in various formats, including from ASM, Materials Design, and Springer Materials, although some of these are subsets of the complete Pauling File.
The Powder Diffraction File, found at http://www.icdd.com/products/pdf4.htm, is provided by the International Centre for Diffraction Data. An annual subscription is required. The inorganic database contains 340,653 structures; the organic database, sold separately, contains 479,278 structures. A minerals-only database is also available, for less than the full inorganic database.
The Protein Data Bank (PDB), available at http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do, is provided by the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics. It contains structures of just under 100,000 proteins and nucleic acids. The PDB is available for free, and the site includes a rotatable 3D viewer. A “detailed view” gives such information as the space group, the primary structure (amino acid or base sequence), the resolution of the structure, and a citation to the primary literature.
Thus, several crystallographic databases are available to the information professional, either online or via shippable media. Some are free of charge; others require either a one-time fee or an annual subscription. Most specialize in some broad region of chemical space, such as biomolecules or inorganics. On that last note, the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry hosted "A Celebration of Crystallography in Solid-State and Materials Chemistry: Complex Problems and New Solutions in Inorganic Small-Molecule Crystallography" at the Spring 2014 ACS Meeting, indicating that research in this useful technique continues to be performed.
David Shobe, Assistant Editor, Chemical Information Bulletin
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U.S. Supreme Court Limits Forum Shopping in Patent Infringement Actions
In a unanimous 8-0 decision, the Supreme Court held that a domestic corporation “resides” for venue purposes in a patent infringement action only in its State of incorporation. In reaching its decision, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed 30 years of Federal Circuit precedent. Interpreting 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b), the Court held that venue (i.e., a geographic location of a court or courts in which a lawsuit may be brought) “for patent infringement may be brought in the judicial district where the defendant resides, or where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business.” The Supreme Court’s decision should severely reduce plaintiff “forum shopping” to forums generally viewed as patent friendly, such as the Eastern District of Texas, and seemingly would increase the quantity of cases filed in Delaware, where many corporations are incorporated and thus “reside” for venue purposes. TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brands LLC, No. 16-341, ___ U.S. ___ (May 22, 2017) .
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SMU Lyle to offer first-of-its-kind graduate degree in datacenter systems engineering
Posted on March 7, 2014 Updated: March 7, 2014
SMU’s Lyle School of Engineering has created a new Master of Science in datacenter systems engineering, the first of its kind in the United States. The first students in this multidisciplinary program will be admitted for the Fall 2014 term.
The program is open to full-time and part-time graduate students, and is available on the Dallas campus as well as through the Lyle School’s distance education program. Enrollment is expected from current professionals in industry and government, as well as undergraduates in engineering, science, mathematics and business preparing to enter the field for the first time.
At least four million workers currently are associated with datacenter operations, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, and the number is expected to increase by 800,000 in 2016, and by an additional 2 million by 2018. Approximately 70 percent of these workers will have Bachelor’s degrees or higher.
“Our society has become intimately linked to a variety of digital networks including social media, search engines, e-commerce, gaming and big data,” said Lyle Dean Marc Christensen. “Data center design is a fascinating challenge due to the millions of dollars lost per second of outage. The proper management and design of these datacenters require a diverse combination of highly specialized skills, and SMU Lyle is uniquely positioned to offer a degree that will connect all the needed technical disciplines.”
The new degree is built around five core courses that address the industry broadly, while offering elective specializations in three technical areas:
Facilities, infrastructure and subsystems
Datasystems engineering and analytics
Computer networks, virtualization, security and cloud computing
The program is directed toward preparing professionals for a leadership role in the field, whether specifically as a technical contributor or more broadly in management. The degree is designed to build a solid foundation for continued professional growth consistent with modern datacenter engineering practices and the changes that lie ahead for the industry.
Written by Kimberly Cobb
> Read the full story from SMU News
Categories: NewsTags: degree programs, distance education, graduate degree programs, Kimberly Cobb, Lyle School of Engineering, Marc Christensen, Master of Science in Datacenter Systems Engineering
Pamela Patton wins 2014 Eleanor Tufts Book Award
SMU Meadows and Dallas Chamber Symphony host international piano competition, March 12-15, 2014
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Yinon Roichman
‘It is rare to find a person my age who is a passionate, no-caveats defender of Zionism’
“Looking at Zion” is an online project that aims to present a comprehensive look into the Israel – Diaspora relationship. In order to reach this goal we present a series of questions to members of Jewish communities around the world, asking them to articulate their thoughts and feelings towards Israel.
The interviewee– “A. I prefer to stay anonymous. I have a formal job in the Jewish community and these answers would be damaging to me. I can say that i was born in the late 1980s, and live in the American South.”
In your opinion, what importance, if any, does the existence of a Jewish state have to you personally and to Jewish people in general?
“I was raised learning about the modern state of Israel and visited as a child. I have family there and was taught that it was an important place where Jewish people lived as a majority, sometimes under threat of violence. I was also trained to lobby on behalf of the Israeli government in the US Congress by several organizations. Israel was important to me personally in the sense that it felt like a serious matter that I had a responsibility to learn and care about. I also formed relationships with Israelis through school and summer camp, and these people oftentimes became friends who I cared about deeply. When I became an adult and began to learn that there was much more to the story of Israel than I had realized, I felt a new responsibility to fight for justice for all people who lived there, and this has continued to motivate me despite a lack of success.
“It is a cliche, but a true cliche, that Jewish people more generally seem very divided by age in terms of what Israel means to them. My grandfather recently informed me that he would be buying Israel bonds for my daughter–I had to patiently make up reasons in order to persuade him not to do this. The real reason is that I don’t want money from our family supporting the Israeli government, but I could not say that to him. My wife had a nearly identical conversation with her grandparents a few weeks earlier. All of these people are in their 90s, whereas we are in our late 20s.
“I believe that my grandparents’ generation of American Jews will die truly ignorant of any even slight complexity of what is happening or has happened in Israel vis a vis Palestinians. Their minds are forever locked in the 1960s, and they cannot fathom how or why any Jewish person of any age would feel otherwise. This is broadly true of my parents’ generation as well. In my own generation, attitudes are completely different. It is rare to find a person my age who is a passionate, no-caveats defender of Zionism. Most Jewish people my age are embarrassed by these individuals. And most hardcore Zionists that I know of in my generation are one of two things: paid professionally to hold these opinions (e.g. AIPAC employees), or white people with racist views not only of Arabs but of most non-white people. This is also true of the hardcore Israeli Zionists that I know, generally. The more passionately patriotic my Israeli friends are, the more likely it seems that they are shamelessly racist towards Arabs and other minorities.”
Do you feel committed in some way to defend the future existence of Israel?
“Not as it currently exists. I feel committed to transforming the country into a democracy that protects the rights, culture, and lives of its Jewish citizens. I feel equally obligated to transforming the country into a democracy that protects these same rights for Palestinians. I feel that the state of Israel in its current form is an enemy of justice.”
Do you affiliate yourself with a specific denomination in Judaism? What is your view regarding the dominance of the Orthodox denomination in Israel religious establishment?
“I was raised Conservative and this is the environment where I feel most comfortable. However I have worked or studied in both American Orthodox and Reform settings as well. I consider myself essentially post-denominational but also religious.
“I think that Judaism as it is practiced in Israel is somewhat ridiculous, in part because of the domination of the Israeli Orthodox and in part because of the disconnected secular middle, who seem to think that simply living on the land is a Jewish act. (It is not.) That said, I don’t share the intensity of my liberal coreligionists’ concerns about the Orthodox monopoly. It seems silly to me to protest gender segregated prayers space at the Kotel and not race segregated towns and territories. Both are wrong but the latter is far more deadly and unjust.”
Do you feel morally responsible for Israel’s actions (such as its management of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict)?
“Absolutely. It makes me embarrassed to be Jewish.”
In your opinion, what is the main thing Israelis fail to understand about the reality of being Jewish outside of Israel?
“From my time working with Israeli staff at Jewish camp, they of course have deeply ingrained misunderstandings about religious practice, because it is often so warped and extreme in Israel, where one is either all or nothing. I think they also have extreme views of anti-Semitism in the Diaspora, while ironically also believing in several anti-Semitic stereotypes. They perceive non Israeli Jews as weak, manipulative, and rich.”
How would you describe Israel’s policy (formally and in practice) regarding its relationship with the Diaspora?
“I don’t know what the ‘formal’ policy is, especially as I believe the Jewish Agency’s most recent initiative was dismantled last year, which did not surprise me at all. In practice I think the relationship is for the Israeli elite, those who are in government, to extract as much capital as possible from the diaspora while yielding as little benefit as possible.”
In your opinion, does Israel have an obligation to defend and help Jewish communities in need?
“I’m sure Israel has this self-conception, but in my opinion it is neither needed nor welcome. Given how terribly Israel is perceived by the rest of the world, the last thing American Jews need is more Israeli interference in our government or lives. It will make our lives more difficult. I believe Bibi Netanyahu’s stunt at the American Congress in 2015 made life for American Jews materially more dangerous. Not that he cares.”
Have you ever been to Israel? if you have, can you summarize your impression from the Israeli reality?
“Yes, I lived in Jerusalem for a year during the first Gaza war and the elections that brought Bibi to power. I think Israelis live in a social/political/media bubble that is unlike anything I have experienced in the US. Your media is censored by the government and the military, and your reporters also censor themselves. They avoid reporting on the millions of people who live under permanent occupation by your military, because they fear to speak to those people and also fear what their readers would think if they spoke of them. Israeli reporting on the world beyond its borders, meanwhile, is obsessed with anti-Semitic incidents, identifying as many as possible and feeding them into a meta-narrative of “the whole world is against us.” Every international item is put into this context, including American media — while I lived in Israel, the only American news station that was widely available was FOX News, which is a complete joke here and well known for being unreliable and right-wing.
“Even liberal Israeli friends are absolutely terrified of Arabs, while most Israelis — who are not liberal and would be insulted to be described that way — are simply racist. This includes my own family. Attitudes towards race and racism in Israel are completely bewildering to me, I felt as if I was living in the American South in the 1950s much of the time. When it was discovered, on a recent return trip, that I was in the country to assist a Palestinian farmer repair farmland that the IDF had partially destroyed, my family literally stopped speaking to me in the middle of Shabbat dinner. It was awkward.
“Increasingly, I simply don’t know why non-Orthodox Israelis bother to live in Israel. During my time there I was amazed at how difficult it was for middle class people to make ends meet. The cost of living is insane, it is difficult to find good jobs for an educated workforce, and everything functions on patronage. And on top of it all, Israelis are terrified of their non-Jewish neighbors and absolutely hate every neighboring country, and are contemptuous of Jewish religious practice. So why live there at all? Why not just move to the US? What is the point? I was very glad to come home.”
Can you tell us a bit about the Jewish community in your hometown? Is it organized? Are there community activities?
“We have a lovely Jewish community here, with six strong synagogues of many denominations as well as some independent communities that do not have synagogues. There is a Jewish day camp in the summer, and many children attend overnight Jewish camps that are five or six hours away. We have Jewish education on the weekends, children have bar mitzvahs, and we have several independent Jewish organizations including a social justice group.”
For more interviews and info on the project go to: lookingatzion.com
Contact the project editor: lookingatzion@gmail.com
Yinon Roichman was born in 1974 and grew up in a small Moshav near Hadera. Both of his parents were born in Israel, but his family roots go back to the Jewish community in: Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Czechoslovakia.He holds a B.A degree in Film, Communication from Tel Aviv University. For more than last 15 years he has worked as a writer and editor in different positions in the Israeli media industry.
American Jewry
Chemistry on a multicultural US college campus. (Part 1)
Elyakeem Kinstlinger
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May 6, 2016 / 12:32 PM / 3 years ago
A flaming passion: ex-miner creates everyday replicas with matches
Janusz Chmielewski, Kacper Pempel
RUDA SLASKA, Poland (Reuters) - Janusz Urbanski has a one of a kind chessboard he never plays, a personalised guitar he does not strum and a boat he cannot sail. Why? They are all made from tens of thousands of matches.
Janusz Urbanski holds matchsticks as he makes a new sculpture in his flat in Ruda Slaska, Poland May 4, 2016. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
For the last 40 years, the former Polish miner and ironworker has harboured a passion to build replicas of objects, buildings and famous sites with just match sticks and glue.
The 60-year old’s home in Ruda Slaska, a small town in Poland’s southern Silesia region, is filled with such sculptures as well as plastic bags full of matchboxes.
See Reuters Wider Image photos: reut.rs/1VMwL2s
“It takes me 10, 12 hours everyday. Once you begin, it pulls you in, you want to finish fast and see the end product,” Urbanski told Reuters. “You already have the next idea brewing in your head.”
Urbanski believes he has used around 11 million matches since he first started making the sculptures, a hobby which began from a model making workshop.
He burns the heads before painstakingly gluing the matches together. His sculptures fill his flat and vary in size. The boat, named “Stefania” after his late mother-in-law, is 2.4 metres (7.9 ft) long.
“I wanted to make a big boat to commemorate her,” he said. “Maybe this is the biggest ship made from match sticks.”
Urbanski has also made a replica of part of the Great Wall of China, which took him several months and around 150,000 matches. He also has replicas of the Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, a soccer stadium, truck and small house.
A local celebrity, he likes to make the sculptures as gifts and rarely sells them.
But some of his works are displayed at a local museum and a replica of his local church was donated to the parish.
“I’m proud of every one of my works,” Urbanski said.
“When I make something, it’s big. Of course it takes time, but I put my heart into it.”
Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian. Editing by Jeremy Gaunt.
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CLSA in FierceMedicalDevices: Medical device tax repeal included in proposed $1.1T spending bill
December 16, 2015 | By Varun Saxena, FierceMedicalDevices
A two-year suspension of the 2.3% medical device excise tax is included in a $1.1 trillion spending bill that is expected to receive a vote in the House this week, to the delight of industry and med tech associations.
Passage would mark victory in a long and hard battle on the part of the device industry to repeal the tax that funds the Affordable Care Act. The tax went into effect in 2013. It does not apply to devices bought by consumers, such as contact lenses.
AdvaMed and fellow med tech associations the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) and the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) released a joint statement applauding Congress for including the suspension of the tax in the comprehensive spending bill.
“MITA is encouraged by the inclusion of the two-year suspension of the medical device tax in the tax extenders package, which comes at a crucial time for the medical technology industry,” said MITA Board Chairman Nelson Mendes, who is the CEO of Ziehm Imaging, in a statement. “The tax has been a drain on the economy and has halted investment in research and development for advanced imaging and other life-saving technologies. We appreciate the bipartisan efforts of Congress in taking this step to protect U.S. jobs and innovation, and we urge them to support the legislation.”
The California Life Science Association also chimed in, saying in a statement “Since its inception nearly 5 years ago, there has been increasing bipartisan support to scrap the medical device tax. While a two-year delay is welcomed news, CLSA and our device members will continue to advocate for full repeal of the tax, which is expected to cost firms nearly $25 billion and continues having an adverse impact on R&D investment and job creation, jeopardizing the U.S. position as a global leader in medical device innovation. California is home to over 1,500 medical technology companies, more than any other state in the nation, employing over 75,000 people with wages averaging $91,000 a year, making the impact of the tax on our state particularly troublesome.”
Also included in the gigantic spending bill is a repeal of the so-called Cadillac Tax on high-cost health insurance plans.
Read the full artice at FierceMedicalDevices.
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Category Archives: Parson to Person
Daniel, Parson to Person, Pastor Gary Image
Parson To Person – Sunday June 9, 2013
DANIEL Ch. 11 Gives us prophesies of future wars & kings, but the prophesy concerning Antiochus Epiphanes & the abomination of desolation which defiled the Jewish temple (around 168 B.C.) concerned more than Antiochus; it was also a prophecy of what the Antichrist will do during the Great Tribulation (Rev.13). Antiochus was a “type” of the Antichrist, but Jesus made it clear that this prophecy of Daniel also spoke of the future, so He warns all His disciples, even those of us in the 21st century, of the events prophesied in Daniel that concern the future Antichrist. (Mat 24:15) It is one example of double fulfillment, or “near” and “far” prophecy. There is a reference to the actions of Antiochus, but a further reference to the actions of Antichrist. These are more amazing prophecies given in such great detail from our God who holds the future.
Daniel, Parson to Person, Pastor Gary
Daniel’s vision of the fall of the Greek empire and the death of Alexander the Great, was so
clear that liberal so-called scholars say that the Book of Daniel couldn’t have
been written by Daniel. He couldn’t have possibly known about these empires
unless he was writing after the fact. But when the Dead Sea Scrolls were
discovered in 1947 it presented a problem for them because the Book of Daniel
is part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and they are much older than the so-called
scholars estimate the time when Daniel was written.
And the so-called scholars have an even bigger problem to deal with when
claiming Daniel is a forgery; Jesus quoted from the book of Daniel and said it
was written by Daniel (Matt.24:15). Would Jesus Christ quote from a forgery, or
would He not know who wrote the book?
Sunday Morning Daniel 7:
NEBUCHADNEZZAR had a dream Daniel interpreted as the future world kingdoms (Daniel Chapter 2). Here, in Chapter 7, Daniel has a dream about these same kingdoms, only from his spiritual perspective the kingdoms are seen as savage beasts, not a man. The lion corresponds to the head of gold, which is Babylon, and the man’s heart being given the beast may refer to the change in the king after being delivered from his insanity, and he praises and honors the Living God (Dan.4). The bear would be the Medo-Persian Empire, and the three ribs refer to Babylon, Egypt & Libya that they conquered. The leopard is the Greek Empire of Alexander the Great, who swiftly conquered the world in only ten years. It had four heads because the empire was divided among four generals after Alexander died at the age of 32. The 4th beast, with teeth of iron, would be Rome. The 10 horns correspond to the 10 toes, representing a ten nation confederacy on earth during the Great Tribulation. The little horn with a big mouth (Antichrist) will die a fiery death. Revelation reveals how Antichrist comes on the scene and is cast into the lake of fire. God makes these predictions through a Babylonian king, a Hebrew prophet & the apostle John over more than 600 years. But it isn’t difficult for our God, the Creator of all things, who exists outside of time.
Sunday Morning, Daniel 6: No Compromise
Daniel continued to do what he had done since he was a young man Although he knew it could mean a death sentence. He prayed and gave thanks to God out in the open, with nothing to hide. Daniel was about 88 years old by this time, and he had lived a life devoted to God from the time he was a boy in Israel. Daniel prospered because of his faith in God, it made no difference who the rulers were; whether Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon, Darius the Mede or Cyrus the Persian. He had lived an uncompromising life for 88 years and he wasn’t going to change now. Good habits formed early become the basis for strength and stability later on in life. https://calvarysantarosa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/daniel-6-4-21-13.wav
Parson to Person, Pastor Gary
The Blessed Easter Message
But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
The resurrection of Christ is a finished work. Since Christ was raised from the dead, death no longer has power over Him. But Christians die! Every day the bodies of Christian men and women are taken to the cemetery and laid to rest with Songs and Scripture. We may try to avoid the facts, but Christians die just as Jesus died before them. Their cold helplessness, their sudden, strange silence, which no pleadings of anguished love can break; their apparent defeat by the relentless force of nature– all this stuns the heart and brings fear that this is all, and we have seen our loved ones or friends for the last time. The resurrection certainly teaches us that we cannot trust appearances. The body of Jesus in the tomb appears to mean the of everything for Christ and His disciples. The limp form of a newly-dead Christian suggests defeat. Yet how wrong are these appearances! Christ arose the third day according to the scriptures. Faith accepts the appearance of defeat, knowing the true Christian cannot be defeated finally. “Because I live, you also will live!” That is the blessed easter message. What a blessed message if people would only believe.
Parson to Person, Spurgeon
Divine Provision
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? (Matthew 6:30)
Clothes are expensive, and poor believers may be led into anxiety as to where their next suit will come from. The soles are thin; how shall we get new shoes? See how our thoughtful Lord has provided against this care. Our heavenly Father clothes the grass of the field with a splendor such as Solomon could not equal: will He not clothe His own children? We are sure He will. There may be many a patch and a darn, but raiment we shall have.
A poor minister found his clothes nearly threadbare, and so far gone that they would hardly hold together; but as a servant of the Lord he expected his Master to find him his livery. It so happened that the writer on a visit to a friend had the loan of the good man’s pulpit, and it came into his mind to make a collection for him, and there was his suit. Many other cases we have seen in which those who had served the Lord have found Him considerate of their wardrobe. He who made man so that when he had sinned he needed garments, also in mercy supplied him with them; and those which the Lord gave to our first parents were far better than those they made for themselves.
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Academic Experimental Pathologist, Microbiome Research, Assistant/Associate Professor
Assistant/Associate Professor, Academic Experimental Pathology, Microbiome Research
UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of California (UC), Davis, School of Medicine, is recruiting for a full-time scientist or physician-scientist in the Assistant/Associate Professor, Regular/In Residence (50%/50%) series, to develop a thematic research program focusing on the influence of the microbiome on the development and progression of human disease. This position is central to the growth and expansion of research programs within the department, the UC Davis Health, and the School of Medicine.
The successful candidate will spend a minimum of 50% effort in research. Responsibilities include intellectual leadership in building an independent, thematic, multi-disciplinary, extramurally-funded translational research program. Research themes may include, but are not limited to: (1) effect of microbe-microbe, microbe-host and/or diet-microbe interactions on host physiology and human health; (2) biomarker identification for diet-associated diseases leading to prevention and treatment; (3) drug discovery that uses bugs or microorganism-generated metabolites as well as targets; (4) immunotherapy for solid tumors. Creating and/or implementing laboratory-developed tests and FDA validation studies are encouraged. The successful candidate is expected to integrate and leverage existing research and clinical programs at UC Davis Health, including the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Alzheimer's Disease Center, School of Agriculture, School of Veterinary Medicine, and the Center for Comparative Medicine, the California National Primate Center, and the Center for Mouse Biology. Teaching in formal educational programs and mentorship of trainees is required.
Qualification Requirements: MD/DO, or PhD, or MD/DO-PhD; a strong record of publication and career development in biomedical animal- and/or human-based research and demonstrated teaching experience. Active extramural research funding is highly desirable. In addition, the candidate must have the ability to anticipate change and implement initiatives to meet the challenges of academic medicine and science, a demonstrated commitment to diversity including a record of successful mentorship of students and others, and should exhibit excellent interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships with administration, trainees, clinicians, faculty in other disciplines, and technical staff. The ability to work cooperatively and collegially within a diverse environment is required.
For full consideration, applications must be received by August 9, 2019; however, the position will be open until filled, but no later than June 6, 2020. Qualified applicants should apply at https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF02890. Please submit the following documents in pdf version: (1) Curriculum Vitae; (2) Cover letter; (3) Statement of teaching experience; (4) Statement of Research experience and interests; (5) Statement of contributions to diversity; (6) List of names and contact information for at least five references; 7) Signed authorization to release information form.
The University of California is committed to creating and maintaining a community dedicated to the advancement, application, and transmission of knowledge and creative endeavors through academic excellence, where all individuals who participate in University programs and activities can work and learn together in a safe and secure environment, free of violence, harassment, discrimination, exploitation, or intimidation. With this commitment, UC Davis requires all candidates of ladder rank faculty tenured or security of employment searches to complete, sign, and upload the form entitled “Authorization to Release Information” into RECRUIT as part of their application. If the candidate does not include the signed authorization with the application materials, the application will be considered incomplete, and as with any incomplete application, will not receive further consideration. Although all applicants for faculty recruitments must complete the entire application, only finalists considered for positions with tenure or security of employment will be subject to reference checks. Reference Check Authorization Form: https://aadocs.ucdavis.edu/your-resources/forms-and-checklists/forms/authorization-release-form.pdf
The UC Davis School of Medicine is part of the UC Davis Health System, which is also comprised of the UC Davis Medical Center, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, and the UC Davis Medical Group, an 800-member physician practice network. UCDHS has more than 10,000 faculty and staff and an annual budget of $1.6 billion; UC Davis is an established leader in the use of telecommunications and information technology to advance health. U.S. News & World Report recently ranked the SOM among the top 50 medical schools in the nation.
UC Davis supports Family-friendly recruitments. UC Davis covers travel expenses for a second person to accompany a faculty recruitment candidate who is a other (or single parent of either gender) of a breast or bottle-feeding child less than two years of age. http://academicaffairs.ucdavis.edu/programs/worklife/index.html
At UC Davis, a Work Life program has been in place since January 2003. A group of Faculty Advisors for Work Life was established in 2007 to help publicize and inform the faculty about the programs, policies, and resources associated with work life/life changes. This group of advisors represents various academic units (colleges, schools, divisions) on the campus. The following summarizes the programs and updated UC policy. http://academicaffairs.ucdavis.edu/programs/work-life/index.html
The UC Davis Partner Opportunities Program (POP) is a service designed to support departments and
deans offices in the recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty.
Eligibility is limited to full-time Academic Senate Ladder Rank faculty, Cooperative Extension
Specialists, and in a few instances, members of the Senior Management Group.
https://academicaffairs.ucdavis.edu/partner-opportunities-program-pop
For questions regarding how these policies/programs affect academic appointees, contact: Lisa Brodkey, Director Faculty Relations and Development, (530) 752-7643.
UC Davis commits to inclusion excellence by advancing equity, diversity and inclusion in all that we do. We are an affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and particularly encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct.
If you need accommodation due to a disability, please contact the recruiting department.
Under Federal law, the University of California may employ only individuals who are legally able to work in the United States as established by providing documents as specified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Certain UCD positions funded by federal contracts or sub-contracts require the selected candidate to pass an E-Verify check. More information is available at http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify.
UC Davis is a smoke & tobacco-free campus (http://breathefree.ucdavis.edu/).
To apply, visit https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF02890
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Reaching for the sky: $270m building set to tower over Sydney's CBD
This article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on Friday, 19 October 2018, story by Carolyn Cummins.
Sydney is to get another shiny new tower with new plans lodged by the City Tattersalls Club, one of the oldest operating in the country, for a $270 million, 49-storey mixed-use development atop its Pitt Street premises.
It comes after a series of issues with financing and developers and some concerns about heritage designs by the City of Sydney council halted proceedings, but it is now back on track.
Following the false starts, the Board of Directors appointed the new chief executive Marcelo Veloz, who has worked with architects to prepare an indicative design scheme to illustrate the potential to create a complete re-development of the 123-year-old club.
The plans including the construction of a four-star boutique hotel with about 100 rooms and a residential tower comprising 246 apartments.
Mr Veloz said the illustrative design has been submitted to demonstrate how the envelope will deliver a ” high-quality development outcome”.
It will be developed by ICD Property as its first venture into Sydney after developing successful projects in Melbourne including residential high-rise Eq Tower, ongoing land subdivision community Gen Fyansford in Geelong, as well as 65 Federal Street, a mixed-use tower in Auckland, designed by Woods Bagot.
Mr Veloz, who has also overseen the upgrade of the venerable Lower Bar at 194-204 Pitt Street, Sydney, said the new submission represented a major milestone for the historic club which, along with ICD Property, had to go back to the drawing board last year after an earlier development application was declined.
The proposed internal reconstruction of the Club and the new hotel and residential tower for this site will be spectacular and a fitting innovative addition to the heart of our city.
– Mercelo Veloz
”The process of rethinking the proposal, while carrying out extensive consultation with stakeholder groups on key aspects, including traffic impact, heritage conservation elements and planning matters over the past year, had helped all parties develop a more considered submission,” Mr Veloz said.
Mr Veloz added that it will be a state-of-the-art multi-purpose facility for inner city residents and a new base from which the ”Club can continue to serve the city and its many thousands of members well into a second century”.
ICD Property’s deputy managing director Matthew Khoo said the activation along the ground floor with modern restaurants and bars will bring people together to socialise, while the hotel offering complements Sydney’s booming tourism market.
If approved, the tower will kick-start a series of major developments in this area of Sydney city, with plans underway for Scentre Group and Cbus Property to redevelop the nearby David Jones Market Street store into an upmarket retail complex and also apartments.
The challenge for the developers, owners and architects is to ensure the towers do not throw a shadow over Hyde Park.
”We’ve also greatly considered how to best integrate the building into its neighbouring surroundings to ensure the highest quality outcome not only for the site but the entire surrounding area,” Mr Khoo said.
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Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters of the Convent of Divine Love
God, through His Spirit, Who is Love, has called us and gathered us together into a religious community whose members are entirely dedicated to the contemplative life and the service of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and thus to serve the Church’s missionary activity. As in the life of our founder, St. Arnold Janssen, and in accord with his wish, the Holy Spirit and His saving work are to receive a prominent place in the sisters' life of faith and piety. Our founder gave us a rose-colored habit as a reminder of the ardent love of the Holy Spirit. The Eucharist, in which Christ bestows on us His own life by the communication of His Spirit, is the heart of the sisters' personal and communal life. By the service of witness and example that we render in their contemplative life and total dedication of prayer and sacrifice, we participate in the Church’s missionary work.
Mother Superior
Convent of Divine Love
2212 Green St.
www.adorationsisters.org
Professed Members: Contact for more information
Federation: United States
Archiocese: St. Louis, MO
Worldwide: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Germany, India, Indonesia, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Slovakia, Togo
Qualifications: High school education; good mental and physical health; capability for development; a spirit of faith which is intent on following Christ in the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty, and obedience; inclination for the cloistered contemplative life and readiness to serve the Church's missionary endeavor therein; aptitude for community living.
Formation: Postulancy (1 to 2 years): introduction to our way of life and apostolate. Novitiate (2 years): time of further discernment and thorough preparation for total dedication to God in our way of life. Temporary Vows: these years serve to further test and develop one’s ability to live according to the evangelical counsels, to carry out the obligations of our contemplative-missionary apostolate, and to find personal fulfillment in our calling. Temporary vows are made for one year at a time for five or six years. After this period, a Sister may request to make her perpetual profession. Ongoing Formation: The process of formation does not terminate with perpetual profession. Throughout our lives we endeavor to perfect our spiritual, doctrinal, and practical development.
Belated vocations? Yes: If all the other entrance requirements are present, belated vocations are considered on a case-by-case basis, up to 40 years of age.
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Stuart is a Colorado native with deep roots in both Lake and Park Counties. Married with four children, he splits his time between Denver and Leadville. Stuart is an environmental scientist and has been a consultant for the oil and gas and mining industries for more than 29 years. When not working, Stuart spends his time in Leadville with his family where they hike, fly fish, mountain bike, ski and relax. He is passionate about the mission of C4, particularly how it supports and encourages conservation practices with second home owners.
Heather Glyde, Secretary – Owner, Leadville Outdoors
Heather moved to Colorado in 1997 after finishing her degree at Penn State and immediately fell in love with the unique geography of the Arkansas Valley. After seasonal biology work took her to the Sonoran desert, Yellowstone, and Kodiak and the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, she made Leadville her permanent home. She spent 15 years in the outdoor industry before founding Sawatch Guides and Leadville Outdoors. Heather believes that sustenance for the body, mind and spirit are important benefits of spending time outdoors, but that of equal or greater value is the connection and responsibility it fosters to the resources all creatures depend on.
Susan Fishman, Treasurer – Lake County Resident
Susan moved to Leadville in 2002. She has been a teacher, speech pathologist, interpreter, and program director of after school programs. She spends her free time hiking, biking, cross country skiing, raising service puppies, and volunteering for a variety of organizations. She started with C4 as a regular volunteer for zero waste and is committed to the mission of C4, trying to put the mission into her own life.
Eric Wanless – Senior Associate, Rocky Mountain Institute
Eric is a Manager with RMI’s industry and electricity practices, where he is a key contributor to the Reinventing Fire: China program as RMI’s industrial sector lead and champions a nascent effort to eliminate energy waste in consumer products by harnessing business’ drive for profit. He is also actively involved in energy strategy development and implementation, and design innovation for electric utilities, heavy industry, and corporations. Eric has been involved with RMI in various capacities since 2005.
T. Barnabas Kane – Senior Landscape Architect, Consilium Design
Barnabas is a second generation Landscape Architect & Planner. His multi-disciplined approach blends architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, art, and community planning skills in an ever emerging industry. Because of his passion for the field he founded his design firm in 1999 with the intent to influence every project and client to design the best possible project while improving all the cultural and ecological systems involved. He has a diverse portfolio of projects from around the country and offers a very robust skill set. He is a permaculture instructor, has taught at the ASU design school and presented to many diverse audiences including the national ‘Green-Build’ conference. He founded ‘Skywater’ a rainwater harvesting design/build company, nearly 10 years ago to fill a local market niche, to tell this important story, and to promote the technology.
Beth Helmke – Director, Get Outdoors Leadville!
Beth oversees GOL! program administration and financials, monitors GOCO Inspire Grant deliverables, and also leads coordination of capital and infrastructure projects. Her work with GOL! combines her love of outdoor adventuring, public health research, youth programming, servant leadership, the nonprofit sector, and Lake County’s amazing natural assets. Beth has worked in research, nonprofits, and education administration for the past 20 years – but never with an organization quite as awesome as GOL! Outside of work, you’ll usually find Beth cheering on her husband and kids in their various pursuits, out on the trails running, hiking, and biking, seeking new far-flung travel destinations, volunteering, or just goofing around with her adventurous family and two ridiculous mutts.
Rachel Pokrandt – Vice President and Campus Dean, Colorado Mountain College, Leadville and Chaffee County Campuses
Rachel began her career as a ski instructor and high school teacher where she was recruited out of the classroom to write sustainability curriculum for the Keystone Center and Science School. During her time at Keystone she became the Director of Professional Education and Leadership and worked on projects with NASA, EPA, DOE, DOW Chemical and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. She then went on to become one of the founding members of the non-profit Beyond Benign where she co-wrote the first educational modules in Green Chemistry and trained educators and practitioners on this curriculum in India, Germany, Bangladesh, England, Ireland and Australia. Rachel has an undergraduate degree in Theatre and British Literature, and in education, an MBA and graduate certificate in sustainability and a doctoral degree in Management. Rachel has served in multiple roles and campuses of CMC for almost 5 years.
Melissa Kirr – Sustainability Programs Director, Walking Mountains Science Center
Melissa moved to Colorado in 2002 and has lived in Lake County for the past 14 years with her husband and two daughters. She holds degrees in Forest Resource Management from Penn State University and the University of Montana. Her entire professional career has existed in the non-profit sector, specifically the environmental and sustainability realms. She currently works at a local, regional and global level on sustainability initiatives. Melissa knows that meaningful relationships with stakeholders and partnership collaboration are key to sustaining any organization and is proud to serve on the C4 board.
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YouTube silences key witness in Colombia’s ex-chief prosecutor’s case
by Adriaan Alsema April 1, 2012
Google shut down the Youtube account of a key witness in the trial against Colombia’s former chief prosecutor who is accused of having ties to paramilitary groups.
Witness Richard Riaño was a former agent of the technical investigation unit of the Prosecutor General’s office, who was dismissed from his post after uncovering paramilitary infiltration of the office in 2002. He has been in exile in Canada for the past nine years after being convicted for allegedly illegally leaking inciminating evidence against Osorio, something that the exiled former official denies.
On Friday March 23, just six days before former Prosecutor General Luis Camilo Osorio was scheduled to testify, Riaño received an email from YouTube Services saying that they had received a complaint regarding his YouTube account HackerFiscalia and that they determined that activity in his account violated their Terms of Service.
The notice went on to say that Riaño is prohibited from accessing, possessing or creating any other YouTube accounts. The email did not specify the source of the complaint or how Riaño had violated their policies.
Colombia Reports emailed the Google press office about the case, but has to date received no response.
Riaño said he is sure that the termination of the account is related to Osorio’s pending trial. “It’s related to Osorio because in the video I explain the case step by step, including facts about impunity…that’s why they deleted the information, because it’s key to the case.”
“It’s a good review highlighting important information about the case with audio, video and text that will offer the Commission of Accusations a bigger picture of the investigation,” said the former investigator.
Riaño’s personal website was also temporarily shut down. Riaño first noticed that something was wrong when he was asked for his telephone number before he was allowed to access his email account last Friday.
According to Riaño, “they blocked the site and then they asked me for my telephone number on my email where I had all my contact numbers, so I felt forced to enter my cell phone, so that was the strategy that they used to get my information.”
He went on to say that “the friends of Osorio are the same friends of ex-president Alvaro Uribe. So in that sense I believe they are trying to collect information about the people who are against them, so in this situation they are trying to gather information about me, especially with the telephone number.”
“They have my number and they deleted my videos and my channel, so they got what they want… they tried to silence me because I am the main witness who uncovered the case. It’s a serious violation of my right to free speech. The violation of the right to freedom of expression is recognized as a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognized in international human rights law,” he added.
Riaño has since uploaded the video on YouTube competitor Vimeo, because “its important that Colombia knows the truth.”
According to Riaño, officials were supposed to fly to Canada to get his testimony, but according to the former official he has not heard from the authorities.
Riaño said he is confident that Osorio will be indicted if his testimony is well received. “In my situation they know that I have evidence and that I am telling the truth. If the commission finds that I was a detective involved in the investigations, Osorio will be sentenced for these crimes in addition to others … he will really have a difficult time trying to defend himself after the whole list of witnesses that are testifying against him,” he said.
Osorio’s trial was set to begin Thursday March 29, but has been delayed by defense lawyer Jaime Granados.
It has not yet been announced when the trial will go before the Commission of Accusations.
Luis Camilo Osorio
Colombia court urges investigation of former chief prosecutor for ties to AUC
Trial of ex-govt official might slow Colombian Congress
Colombian ex-prosecutor general files to dismiss paramilitary inquiry
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2019 Idaho Contractor Licenses: Search/Lookup, General Contractors
How to get a license
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State of Idaho Contractor’s License Board and License Requirements
The State of Idaho requires that contractors working anywhere in the state must first be registered before they can take on any projects. The Idaho Contractor’s Board, under the State of Idaho, Bureau of Occupational Licenses, handles all state-level contractor licenses.
The general contractor licenses are issued both at the state level and at county level, depending on the type of license they wish to apply for. So, contractors must check if they should also obtain licenses at the counties they will work in, aside from registering at the state level.
Those who want to register as licensed contractors in the state can contact the office of the Bureau of Occupational Licenses at 700 West State Street, P. O. Box 83720, Boise, Idaho 83720-0063, send a fax at (208) 334-3945 or email at [email protected], or call them at (208) 334-3233. County-level licenses are obtained at the respective county offices, so contractors must direct their inquiries to the local offices.
For specialized contractors, particularly the construction manager, electrical, plumbing, public works, and HVAC contractors, they must obtain their licenses at the Division of Building Safety. But if they are also doing other contracting work outside the scope of their license, they must also be registered with the Idaho Contractor’s Board. These specialized contractors may contact the Division through fax at 877-810-2840 and through phone and 800-955-3044 (toll free), or at any of their three offices in the state:
1090 E. Watertower Street, Suite 150, Meridian, ID 83642, with phone number (208) 334-3950
1250 Ironwood Drive, Suite 220, Couer d’Alene, ID 83814
2055 Garrett Way, Building 1, Suite 4, Pocatello ID 83201
Out-of-state corporations that want to register to be able to work on projects in the state are required to file their registration with the Idaho Secretary of State. General inquiries can be done through mail at P. O. Box 83720, Boise, ID 83720-0080, through phone at (208) 334-2300, and via fax at (208) 334-2847.
How to Obtain a Contractor’s License and the Advantages of Getting One
Those required to register with the Idaho Contractor’s Board are both contractors and sub-contractors of both commercial and private projects. The State of Idaho does not require contractors to have a certain amount of experience nor educational requirement before they can apply for registration.
Both individual contractors and companies are allowed to register at the state level. To do so, they must fulfill and submit the following requirements:
Social security number of the individual contractor or the employer tax identification number of applicants representing a company
Name and address of the applicant if applying as a solo contractor or the business name and address of the company
If applying on behalf of a company, the names and addresses of those sharing in the ownership of the business, such as partners, principals, members, and shareholders, must also be listed.
Certificate of Insurance (general liability policy) that proves that the applicant or business is qualified to do business in the State of Idaho and also the Worker’s Compensation Insurance Certificate. For applicants that are not required to provide the worker’s compensation insurance, they must explain the reason for such. The insurance must have a single limit coverage that has a total value of $300,000 or more and should be paid for by the employer only, not the workers.
Statement indicating the type of construction work to be undertaken and that the applicant and those with controlling interests in the business have never been issued a contractor license and/or registration that has been revoked, denied, or surrendered in any state. Otherwise, they must indicate the reason for the surrender, revocation, or denial of the said registration and/or license.
Application form that has been completely filled-out and must be notarized.
If applicable, the Construction Manager Certificate and/or Public Works Certificate.
Payment of the registration fee of $35 through check or money order. This should be made payable to the Idaho Bureau of Occupational Licenses.
All these requirements must be submitted via mail to the office of the Idaho Bureau of Occupational Licenses.
The State of Idaho has the right to file misdemeanor charges against individuals who will do contracting work without having to register first with the board. Unlicensed contractors will also waive their lien rights and collect the appropriate dues, as well as to sue those they have entered contracts with but have been unable to pay them for contracts and/or construction work.
The Importance of Hiring A Contractor with a License
Although the State of Idaho is quite lenient when it comes to registering contractors, it is still highly recommended that only licensed contractors be hired to work on projects. This is because licensed contractors primarily have insurance coverage that assures their clients of payment in case the project is left incomplete or there has been some damage to the property. Also, there is also insurance for workers of licensed contractors, so these workers are covered if accidents should occur at the construction site. Receipts are also issued by licensed contractors and they are also required to disclose certain information about themselves or the company. Licensed contractors are also required to present disclosure statements to their clients if the project is valued at $2,000 or more.
Contractor License Search and Lookup
Idaho maintains a database of all the licensees and registration of general contractors at this website: https://secure.ibol.idaho.gov/eIBOLPublic/LPRBrowser.aspx?Profession=CON&DefaultBoard=Y.
For other types of contractors, their licenses may be searched here: https://web.dbs.idaho.gov/etrakit3/.
The licenses of the contractors can also be checked by directly contacting the Board, Division, or Office that issues those particular contractor license types.
Contractor License Classifications
Most contractor licenses in the State of Idaho are valid throughout the state, except for general contractors’ licenses that may be required by specific individual counties. The rules regarding general contractors are regulated at the local level, but most of them follow the state-level requirement of contractors being registered only.
General Contractor’s License
Only the General Contractors are not required to take an exam in the state, since it is a requirement for them to be registered only, not licensed. This is because the general contractors are not issued licenses by the Idaho Contractor’s Board.
While general contractors must be registered, there are contractors that are exempted for doing so. Those who are not required to be registered include:
Contractors that have licenses and are regulated by the state, as long as they will not do contracting and construction work outside their specialization,
Employees of a contractor,
Volunteers of a non-profit charitable activity,
Participants of any activity required by a legitimate educational institution as part of the curriculum,
Representatives of the state, political or municipal organizations related to the state, or the United States government,
Suppliers of materials, equipment, or supplies but are not involved in their installation or fabrication, as well as in their use during construction activities,
Public utilities that are under the public utility commission of the state,
Farmers and ranchers involved in agriculture, poultry or stock operation, farming, dairy production, horticulture, and viticulture,
Workers that are part of discovery operations and drilling of gas, oil, and minerals,
Those individuals working on projects that have a value of less than $2,000 and are considered as minor, casual, or inconsequential. This does not apply to work that is part of a larger construction project,
Individuals involved in constructing agriculture buildings that are on the exception list of the building code of Idaho,
Contractors working on their own private or commercial property, unless he or she is constructing or making various improvements with the intent to sell it. This will apply for 12 months after the work has been completed,
Contractors involved in constructing buildings that are designed for industrial chemical processes that are covered under the Idaho Code Section 39-4103,
Those belonging to the logging industry and are creating forest access roads to harvest and transport logs that come from the forest to the mills,
Water management or water delivery entities, as well as operating agents of irrigation districts that have the directors of member districts as part of their board,
Workers of projects involving the clearing of land in rural areas and other similar activities for the purpose of fire prevention,
Those involved in the creation of readily movable modular structures in the state but will be transferred and installed on another state, and
Licensed real estate brokers assisting clients in minor repair and maintenance work of properties that are to be transferred.
You can read more under the Idaho Contractor Registration Act.
Electrical Contractor’s License
Electrical contractors who will work within the State of Idaho are required to obtain their license from the Division of Public Safety after successfully accomplishing all the requirements and passing the required examinations. The requirements to obtain an electrical contractor’s license are as follows:
The individual applicant must either be a master electrician licensed by the State of Idaho or at least have one under his or her employment. He or she must be the one personally applying for a license and must completely fill out the application form and pay the application fee of $15.
For those applying as an entity, the person submitting the application is required to be an employee that has a supervisory position in the company and will be their representative. The company should also have a master electrician licensed by the Idaho Board working as their full-time employee and who is available during working hours in order to oversee electrical works. The representative is required to submit a filled-out application form and pay the $15 application fee.
Once the applicant or company representative has passed the exam, which must be taken within 60 days after the application has been approved, he or she must pay the license fee of $125 and also submit the Worker’s Compensation Insurance Certificate and Liability Insurance that has a coverage that is worth $300,000 or more. For those exempted from the Worker’s Compensation Insurance, they should also submit their statement of exemption. Applicants who fail to take the exam within 60 days must re-file their application.
The above requirements are also applicable for electrical specialty contractor applicants, with the exception being the qualifications required to apply. For those applying for this license:
The individual applicant must be an electrical specialty journeyman licensed in the state and who is from the same category as that of an electrical specialty contractor with a license for a minimum of 2 years.
Business entity applicants must be part of a company that has an employee that is a licensed electrical specialty journeyman whose license was issued by Idaho. The electrical specialty journeyman must also have the same category as that of an electrical specialty contractor who has a valid license of two years or more. This employee must be present to supervise electrical works done during working hours.
The specialty electrical licenses are classified under the following:
Well Drillers and Water Pump Installers
Manufacturing or Assembling
Limited Energy
Irrigation Sprinklers
Refrigeration, Heating, and Air Conditioning
Outside Wireman or Lineman
The other electrical-related occupations that are also licensed by the state include:
Apprentice Electrician
Journeyman Electrician
Master Electrician
Specialty Trainee Electrician
Specialty Journeyman Electrician
Electrical License Lookup
The easiest way to lookup an electrical license is by visiting eTRAKiT.
Contractors in Idaho that work with heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems and appliances, or HVAC, are also required to obtain their licenses in the state of Idaho. Their scope of work includes the installation, repairs, and maintenance of such systems. They can also work on equipment that is gas-fired and needs gas supply piping systems or subsystems, as well as special venting. These contractors, when licensed in the state, are allowed to work on various equipment such as pool heaters, oil or electric-fired water heaters, boilers, air filters connected to air conditioning units, and more.
The requirements to apply for and obtain the HVAC contractor license are:
Proof that the applicant has worked as an Idaho-licensed HVAC journeyman for a minimum of 2 years
Application form that has been completely filled out
Payment of $35 for the application fee
Passing the examination within 1 year of application
Specialty HVAC contractors, which have the same scope of work with the HVAC contractors but deal with specialized fields, are also required to be licensed by the state. Idaho has four different types of Specialty HVAC licenses, namely:
Waste Oil,
Hearth,
LP Gas Limited Heating, and
Fuel Gas Piping
To obtain a specialty HVAC contractor License, the applicant must accomplish and provide the following:
Proof that he or she has been employed as an HVAC specialty journeyman that has either been licensed by the state or, for out-of-state applicants, notarized Employer’s Verification Form(s) proving that the applicant has work experience in the same category, with both for a minimum of 2 years
Completion of the application form
$35 payment for the application fee
Passing the examination, which must be done within a year after filing the application
Applicants who pass the exam for both HVAC contractor and specialty HVAC contractor licenses will be given a certificate of competency and they must pay the required license fee and provide a $2,000 compliance bond. This certificate expires exactly a year after it was issued or at the last day of the month of the period of certification. Licensees may also request for early renewal at a maximum of 60 days before the date of expiration. It is also possible for those with expired licenses to have theirs revived, as long as they pay the revival fee of $35 and the full annual renewal fee, as well as any penalties and permits due if available, within 1 year of expiration starting from the first day of the certification period’s final month. If more than a year has passed, the licensee must reapply for his or her license.
The state of Idaho also issues licenses for other HVAC-related applicants, particularly:
HVAC Apprentice
HVAC Journeyman
Specialty HVAC Apprentice
Specialty HVAC Journeyman
Plumbing Contractor License
Plumbing contractors are also required to be licensed in the state first before they can bid on and later work on different projects within the state. To acquire this license, the contractor must:
Have an active journeyman plumbing Certificate of Competency issued by the Idaho Plumbing Board. This is also applicable for out-of-state applicants who are also previously licensed as a journeyman in another state.
Have worked as a journeyman plumber for a minimum of two and a half years for applicants with a license issued by Idaho and for out-of-state applicants with licenses from another state. For out-of-state applicants who have never been issued licenses, their experience must be a minimum of four years and proof must be in the form of three sworn affidavits.
Complete the application form and pay the application fee of $22.50
Pass the examination, which must be taken within a year of submitting the application
Specialty plumbing contractors are also required by the state to get their licenses. Three license types are available for specialty plumbing contractors, and these are:
Water Pump Specialty
Appliance Specialty
Mobile Home Specialty
Before a specialty plumbing contractor can take the exam, he or she must first have the following qualifications:
Individual applicants must have experience as a licensed plumbing specialty journeyman for a minimum of two and a half years, either in Idaho or another state, that is in the same category or specialty being applied for
Out-of-state applicants must also have the same minimum number of work experience but must also submit three Employer’s Verification Forms that are notarized
The Plumbing Board also requires applicants who pass the exam to pay the fees to obtain their licenses, as well as provide a surety bond of $2,000. Only the licensed mobile home specialty contractors are not required to provide this bond.
Plumbing License Lookup
The easiest way to lookup plumbing licenses is with eTRAKiT.
Public Works Contractor
Contractors working on projects considered as public works must first be licensed before they can take on this kind of work. They can work on projects that are considered:
Heavy construction – including for drainage, sanitation, irrigation, flood control, railroads, elevated highways, transmission lines, and hydroelectric developments
Highway construction – such as roads, curb settings, tunnels, bridges, and highways
Building construction – like homes and other dwellings
Specialty construction
Eight different classifications fall under the public works contractor license. These are:
Unlimited – for contractors that will engage in public works contracts with a value that exceeds $5,000,000. They must have a $1,000,000 minimum net worth and $600,000 working capital. The license fee is $600 at maximum.
Class AAA – applicable for those whose contracts have an estimated cost that is less than $5,000,000. It costs a maximum of $500 to obtain this license.
Class AA – suitable for contractors that have projects with a value of less than $3,000,000 and whose license fee must not cost more than $400.
Class A – applies to contractors whose projects have a $1,250,000 value. Those acquiring this license must pay a license fee not exceeding $300.
Class B – for contractors with projects worth less than $600,000. He or she must pay a license fee not more than $150.
Class CC – applicable for contractors that have contracts with a value of less than $400,000. They must also pay a license fee that is less than $150.
Class C – for contractors whose contracts are worth less than $200,000. The license fee for this type costs less than $100.
Class D – suitable for contractors with contracts that are not more than $50,000 in value. This type of license must have a fee of not more than $50.
Biggest Cities
The general contractor’s license in the state of Idaho may be regulated at the city or county level. This is true for the state’s biggest cities, including City of Boise, Meridian, Nampa, Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Caldwell, Coeur d’Alene, Twin Falls, Lewiston, and Post Falls.
City of Boise
The City of Boise follow’s the state when it comes to general contractors. It does not issue any general contractor’s license but only requires them to be registered with the Idaho Contractor’s Board. Not included in this requirement are those exempted under the Idaho State Code 54-5205.
City of Meridian
Like the City of Boise, the City of Meridian also does not issue licenses for general contractors. Instead, they require contractors to present proof of registration with the Idaho Contractor’s Board before they can be issued the necessary permits for their projects within the city.
City of Pocatello
General contractors who wish to bid and work on projects in the City of Pocatello are required to have contractors’ licenses. Depending on the requirements, contractors can apply for any of the 13 classifications available for this license. Its Building Department is the office responsible for issuing these licenses.
Specific classifications that fall under the general contractor’s license in Pocatello are:
Building Class A-1 – allows contractors to work on both residential and commercial buildings of any size. It has a $150 license fee and requires a $1,000,000 combined single limit liability insurance and a permit and license bond of $50,000. This requires a commercial construction work experience not less than 5 years.
Building Class A-2 – holders of this license are only allowed to work on residential projects, regardless of size and type. It requires contractors to have a residential construction experience of 5 years at minimum. The license fee for this type is $100 and licensees must have a liability insurance of $500,000 (single combined limit) and a license and permit bond amounting to $25,000.
Building Class B – contractors with this license can only do a limited number of construction-related work. This includes the repair, installation, and maintenance of sprinkler systems for irrigation, roofing, windows, tiles, counters, cabinets, concrete work, sheet-rock, siding, carpets, and paint, among others. Those with this license must pay a license fee of $50, have a $10,000 license and permit bond, and $300,000 combined single limit liability insurance.
Housemover – requires a license fee of $50, a bond of $10,000, and a combined single limit liability insurance of $1,000,000
Excavator – the required license fee costs $50, and licensees must also provide a combined single limit liability insurance worth $100,000 and a license and permit bond of $10,000
Sign Contractor – also requires a $500,000 liability, a license and permit bond of $10,000, and payment of the license fee worth $50
Electrical Contractor – only requires a license and permit bond of $10,000 and combined single limit liability of $500,000
Electrical Apprentice
Electrical Journeyman
Plumbing Contractor – must pay the $25 license fee and provide a $10,000 license and permit bond, as well as a combined single limit liability insurance of $500,000
Plumbing Apprentice – only requires the payment of the $7.50 license fee
Plumbing Journeyman – must only pay the license fee of $15
Mechanical Contractor – requires a combined single limit liability insurance worth $500,000 and license and permit bond worth $10,000
Mechanical Apprentice
Mechanical Journeyman
Before being issued a license in the city, the contractor is required to be registered with or licensed by the State of Idaho and submit a copy of their license or registration together with their application. Also, the liability insurance must indicate “The City of Pocatello” as its certificate holder. Contractors must also provide Workman’s Compensation Insurance for all of his or her workers for the project.
Obtaining a building contractor’s license issued by the city of Idaho Falls is a requirement for contractors. Aside from filling out the application form, contractors must also submit proof of their general contractor registration with the state, pass the ICC examination issued by the city, and pay the $100 application fee.
Four types of building contractor’s license are available in this city, and these are:
Class A – for contractors working on all types of buildings, with a license fee of $200
Class B – applicable for contractors with building projects with a maximum height of 3 stories, also with a $200 license fee
Class C – suitable for contractors that will only work on residential homes that will house only 1 or 2 families; its license fee is also $200
Class D – only for sub-contractors, they are only limited to doing masonry, roofing, framing, drywall, and concrete works. The license fee for this type is $125.
State of Idaho Contractor License Reciprocity
Contractor license reciprocity agreements allow license holders to obtain the same kind or category of license from another state, which has this agreement, much faster and easier, as other requirements for obtaining these licenses are waived. Oftentimes, licensees must only submit documents and other requirements and are no longer required to take the exams required by the other state. Granting licenses under these agreements are still under the discretion of the different states.
There are no state-level general contractor reciprocity agreements present between the State of Idaho and another state because the general contractors are only required to be registered at the Idaho Contractor’s Boar. This board does not issue licenses for general contractors.
Only the electrical and plumbing licenses, particularly journeyman licenses for both, have license reciprocity agreements with other states. Electrical contractors, as well as plumbing contractors, are not covered by these license reciprocity agreements. The electrical licensense reciprocity covers Colorado, North Dakota, Maine, Oklahoma, Montana, Oregon, Nebraska, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Texas, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
The plumbing reciprocity agreements include Montana, Oregon and Washington.
HVAC contractors with licenses issued by the state of Idaho are also not under any license reciprocity agreement with another state.
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Proper 9B
Mark 6:1-13
This lection from Mark 6 provides a curious set of contrasts as well as a wonderful irony.
First, we twice read the word “amazed” here: first in verse 2 and then again in verse 6. Jesus here is doing what he’s been doing ever since Mark 1 and 2 when he began his public ministry of authoritative teaching and wondrous miracles. This time, however, he’s doing this work back home among people who “knew him when.” And so although we are told that they were “amazed” at his work, this is a different Greek word than the one used in verse 6.
The people are, in Greek, ekplesso, a word that contains more than a hint of incredulity. This kind of amazement is not the fall back in awe sense of wonder you have when something amazes you in a delightful way but more the astonishment you feel at something you’re not 100% is even real. Sometimes people amaze me by what they say but a good portion of the amazement I feel stems from my disbelief that ANYONE could ever think in so odd or illogical a way! (The Greek word here explesso may have no linguistic connection to “perplexed” but part of this word reminds me of “perplexed”.)
For his part in verse 6, Jesus’ amazement is from the more common Greek word thaumazo, which is the kind of astonishment that contains little doubt but that bowls you over with power. When a gifted violinist whizzes through a series of arpeggios in a Bach violin solo, I am amazed, blown away, simply left speechless at the wonderful thing I just experienced. That’s how Jesus felt: he had no doubts as to what he was seeing before his eyes, it just took his breath away that the situation was what it was.
Jesus’ amazement stems from their dubious amazement as to what Jesus was saying and doing in their midst. The reason is that the crowd can’t quite believe what they are witnessing. This has to be some sort of conceit, some trick, some chimera that is not what it appears to be at first glance. Notice how they move themselves from dubious astonishment to a wholesale impeaching of what arrested their attention in the first place.
Literally translated, here are the people’s collective comments in verse 2: “What’s all this now? Who gave this fellow such wisdom? What kind of (miraculous) power is this that flows through his hand?” These comments are peppered with vague words of the “how now?” and “wassup?” variety. The Greek is littered with tiny particles and interrogatives of a general and generic nature.
But precisely by stating and framing things just this way, the people are implying that the obvious conclusion—viz., this is all from God himself—cannot be the right conclusion. SOMEthing is up, but who can say just what it is? All their “whither” and “whence” queries darkly hint at the possibility that the source for all this is something shady, something underhanded, maybe even something evil. It’s almost as though they are sputtering, casting about for some explanation, ANY explanation, other than the obvious one.
They then further back this up by mentioning Jesus’ pedestrian origins in a simple family from their community. Who does he think he is anyway? He’s parading himself around as someone great, but everyone in his hometown knew better than to accept that at face value! And so they rather quickly manage to transform their initial (albeit dubious) astonishment at Jesus’ words and deeds into a scandal—a hometown scandal. In verse 4 the Greek skandalizo—literally to be tripped up by someone—is the word translated as “offense” in some versions of Mark 6. They found Jesus to be a stumbling block, a cause of falling down instead of a source of inspiration that could lift them up.
Jesus could not do much for or with people who viewed him that way. Doubtless there was a little envy going on here, and as we all know (and see the Illustration Idea on this text) once you are the target of envy, there is little you can do to defuse that envy. You’re rendered powerless by those who envy you—anything you do to try to get around their envy merely deepens their suspicion.
In a wonderful twist, however, Mark shows us that Jesus turns right around and far from being undone by the treatment he received at the hands of his fellow townsfolk, he actually EXPANDS the mission by sending out the disciples (who will soon be referred to as “apostles” for the first time ever in verse 17 of this same chapter) armed with more power over disease and demons than they ever had before. That’s the great irony here. The more the world tries to tamp Jesus down, impugn his character, hinder his ministry, the more the Holy Spirit responds by sending out more workers to do even more miraculous teachings and deeds!
And THAT, very properly, should evoke amazement from us all!
Questions to Ponder/Issues to Address
In Mark 6 is it the case that Jesus couldn’t do many miracles or that he just wouldn’t do them? On the assumption that Jesus could do whatever he wanted with his power—that is, on the assumption that even yahoos and yokels were not sufficient to actually sap Jesus of his divine abilities—I tilt more toward the “would not” side of the ledger.
You see, miracles and deep teachings of the type Jesus had been performing were meant to redound to the glory of God. They were not sideshow spectacles designed only to be eye-popping for their own sake. This was not titillation for titillation’s sake. No, these were signs of the kingdom, arrows pointing to the new day dawning through Jesus’ presence on the earth.
But when people were torn up with envy and riven with disbelief, none of that could happen. Criticism replaced praise, doubt displaced thanksgiving. And if people were not going to glorify God for what they see—if they were not going to become more hungry for the kingdom as a result—then the very purpose of the whole enterprise was short-circuited from the get-go. What’s the sense of even trying in that case?
Maybe it was like trying to hold a party in the midst of one of the most sour, dour, and gloomy folks you could imagine. Imagine whipping up some excellent cuisine—some perfectly cooked lamp chops perhaps, a side of melt-in-your-mouth good whipped potatoes with hints of truffle and cream. But then imagine placing this great food in front of people who just poked at it, sniffed it, and then pushed it aside. “Got any burgers or fries?” they might say to you.
Your goal in producing great food was to create a festive atmosphere, to throw a party for heaven’s sake to celebrate some great thing. But how can that happen when the best you have to offer is scorned? It reminds me of a moment on the videotape of our wedding. We’d just had a wonderful lunch at a fine Grand Rapids restaurant. My bride and I had selected the menu ourselves: Dijonaisse Amish Chicken Breast, Pan-Roasted Vegetable Medley, Caramelized Onion Tart. But at one point during the video footage shot just after lunch, you can hear my father-in-law ask one of his relatives how they enjoyed their meal, only to hear one of our grumpier relatives grouse, “There were no potatoes.”
That kind of comment just does not put one in mind to have this person over for a meal sometime!
Jesus did not do many miracles in his hometown because people flat out missed the point.
Textual Points
As noted above, the Greek of this text contains some interesting clues as to how to interpret what is going on here. First, there are two different verbs in verses 2 and 6, even though in many English translations both get rendered “amazed.” But the people’s amazement in verse 2 (Gk: ekplesso) contains a whiff of incredulity and doubt. Jesus’ amazement in verse 6 (Gk: thaumazo), on the other hand, is the more usual sense of being surprised at the situation before him. Speaking of the people’s doubt-tinged amazement, the “offense” that the people take at Jesus as reported on in verse 4 is in the Greek skandalizo, which is literally a stumbling block. This could even give you a title for this sermon: “Hometown Scandal.”
In his story “Abel Sanchez,” writer Miguel deUnamuno nicely highlights the nature of envy and why it that the envied person is often trapped. In this retelling of the Cain and Abel story from Genesis 4, the Cain character is played by a skilled surgeon who has for years secretly envied his friend, Abel Sanchez, a skilled artist. At one point in the story, the doctor is scrutinizing one of Abel’s paintings. This particular painting is a depiction of the Cain and Abel story from the Bible. At first, the doctor is convinced that the face of Cain in the painting is modeled on his own face. And he becomes furious! How dare Abel Sanchez use HIM as a model for envy? The gall! The nerve! The implied accusation!
But then, upon closer inspection, the doctor decides it’s not his face after all. Does this defuse his anger, however? By no means! Instead the surgeon becomes irate that Abel Sanchez did NOT deign to use him in one of his famous paintings! How dare Abel NOT use his face!
DeUnamuno’s point is clear: when you are the object of envy, you cannot do a blessed thing to make the situation any better. Try to be extra kind to the one who envies you, and this kindness will get written off as condescension and charity. Try to rise above things by ignoring the one torn up with envy and you will be written off as arrogant and rude, thereby merely confirming the envier’s low opinion of you. Neither approach nor avoidance can help the envied one.
It’s difficult to know how much of a role envy plays in Mark 6 but surely the sneering attitude of Jesus’ fellow townsfolk revealed at least a smidgen of envy-driven sentiments. Maybe this had something to do with his inability/unwillingness to do miracles there. He was doomed no matter what he did. Do more miracles, and the people write him off as a showboat (and/or as someone drawing off power from dubious sources). If he refused to do miracles, maybe a few would say, “What now?! We’re not good enough for ya, not WORTHY of your wonder-working power!?”
Perhaps the only thing left to do was leave town and go to other villages, from which Jesus sent forth his disciples-cum-apostles to do wonderful work in places where it could be unalloyedly appreciated.
2 Samuel 5:1-10
When North Americans think of politics, even some Christians sometimes think only of endless campaigns and slick advertising. We sometimes relegate talk about God’s involvement in politics to the conversations of people we think of as religious zealots. At least some Christians are especially reluctant to talk about God’s role in putting people into political office.
The Old Testament lesson the Lectionary appoints for this Sunday describes the zenith of David’s rise to political office. By its end, he has fully morphed from a largely irrelevant youngest son into Israel’s king. It’s the kind of political “underdog” story to which North Americans sometimes seem drawn like bugs to a light.
David’s meteoric rise is improbable. When, after all, God used Samuel to launch it by anointing him to be Israel’s king, Saul was still sitting on Israel’s throne. He also had a number of sons who were his potential successors. So if David was to actually become Israel’s king, he would need a lot of help.
That assistance comes from unlikely sources. First, Israel’s mortal enemies, the Philistines, kill both Saul and all but one of his potential successors. That prompts the people of Judah to anoint David to be their next king. However, Abner, Saul’s former commander, anoints Saul’s sole surviving son Ish-Bosheth king over all but Judah.
Yet at that point still another unlikely ally came to David’s aid. Abner, after all, does a 180 by defecting to David’s side. This leaves Saul’s son Ish-Bosheth unprotected from David’s soldiers who promptly eliminate him by murdering him.
So at first sniff, David’s rise to power smells a bit like the political shenanigans that have so often plagued so much of the world’s politics. After all, David’s rivals dead bodies seem like the steps he ascends to Israel’s throne.
Of course, others have “built” those “steps.” David has not ordered henchmen to carry out his work for him. He hasn’t even dirtied his hands or sullied his reputation by calling for his rivals’ deaths. David, in fact, has both publicly grieved their deaths and severely punished those responsible for them. Yet he doesn’t take over after his predecessor dies of natural causes. David seems to have become Israel’s king simply because people have eliminated all of his potential rivals.
The books of Samuel, however, tell us who really makes David king. It reports, after all, that it’s God who directs a reluctant Samuel to anoint him Israel’s new king, even while the old one is still “in office.” Only God, in fact, can even imagine that David, the runt of his family, will be Israel’s king.
So even as tensions escalate between David and Saul, God persistently protects David. In fact, only that sometimes-implicit protection of him spares him. David could well have and, in fact, perhaps “should have” died several times before he actually becomes king.
The bud that is David’s reign over Israel finally flowers as 2 Samuel 5 opens. After all, according to verse 2 the tribes of Israel try to convince him to become their next king. Yet they also make it clear that they’re not making their own appeal to David to become king. They claim to only be acting on God’s behalf. The Israelites basically beg the man who started out tending his dad’s sheep to say “yes” to God’s call to tend God’s Israelite “sheep.”
By referring to God’s call to David to “shepherd” (5) them, the Israelites set a high standard for his rule. God, after all, expected the “shepherds” who were Israel’s kings to rule in ways that both strengthened and protected God’s “flock” that was Israel.
God, in fact, clearly expects all people who have authority to use it wisely for God’s glory and people’s good. While David will generally meet that criterion, he will also sometimes act like the “bad shepherd” that texts like Ezekiel 34 so roundly condemn. He will periodically act as though Israel exists not for God’s sake, but for his own. Most notably, David will act like a predator when he takes the beautiful but married Bathsheba.
Such sin will eventually result in Israel’s loyalty drifting away from David and toward Absalom, who’s, ironically, a result of David’s predatory acts. However, 2 Samuel 5’s Israel’s tribes are so desperate to be David’s “sheep” that they set no preconditions for his leadership. They simply beg David to become their next king.
Yet while such desperation doesn’t always produce good leaders, David largely flourishes. After all, as Bruce Birch notes, he’s both a surprisingly young and durable leader, at least by ancient standards. David, however, isn’t just a durable king. He’s also a very successful one. David leads Israel to the high point of her nationhood, establishing remarkable stability and security.
Yet the threats to that security are both immediate and daunting. Israel’s ancient nemesis, the bloodthirsty Philistines, lurk just over the horizon. The first threat to David’s rule is, for some reason, the formidable obstacle that is Jerusalem. Yet our narrator takes only one short verse to eliminate it: “David captured the fortress of Zion, the City of David” (7).
Both 2 Samuel 5 and songs like Psalm 20 remind us that only God’s protection is completely reliable. So while David takes steps to secure Jerusalem, II Samuel insists that its security is not the secret to his success. Jerusalem’s first occupants mistakenly assumed that it would be strong enough to protect them. Our narrator won’t let Israel, you or me make the same mistake. He insists that David grows more and more powerful because “the Lord God Almighty is with him” (10).
We, however, know that God didn’t first come to be with David when he became king and conquered Jerusalem. After all, in II Samuel 7:8-9 God tells David, “I took you from the pasture and from following the flock to be ruler over my people Israel. I have been with you wherever you have gone.”
In fact, God even goes on so far as to promise that long after David has died, God will stay with his often-faithless descendants. David’s house and kingdom, God insists, “will endure forever” before the Lord.
At least some North American Christians are understandably nervous about asserting that God made people like President Trump or Prime Minister Trudeau our leaders. Most Christians, after all, recognize the unique role that God played in elevating Israel’s kings to their thrones.
Yet the Apostle Paul seems to at least imply that God has some kind of role in raising up leaders. In Romans 13, after all, he writes, “The authorities that exist have been established by God.” So the Belgic Confession professes “our good God has ordained kings, princes and civil officers.”
That doesn’t mean that God pulled, for example, Justin Trudeau out of Parliament or Donald Trump out of the Trump Towers be a national leader in the exact same way God plucked David out of his dad’s fields to be Israel’s king. Israel was, after all, a theocracy that God directly ruled. No modern nation can legitimately make that claim.
Yet since they believed God has a role in putting leaders in place, biblical writers like Peter called his letter’s readers to respect them. “Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every governing authority instituted among men,” the apostle writes. “Honor the king.”
In the Belgic Confess Reformed Christians profess that “Everyone, regardless of status, condition or rank, must be subject to the government, and pay taxes, and hold its representatives in honor and respect, and obey them in all things that are not in conflict with God’s word, praying for them, that the Lord may be willing to lead them in all their ways.”
Yet even as we respect and pray for our leaders, we’re also realistic about their limitations. Some of them do some good things for their countries and world. So we continue to pray that God will use people like national leaders to honor God and bless God’s world.
David, after all, richly blessed Israel. Very quickly in II Samuel we read of how he defeats Israel’s mortal enemies, the Philistines. David is also godlier than most leaders. However, he will also morally stumble, sometimes very badly.
Yet God’s anointing of David as king links him to his descendant, Jesus Christ, who perfectly saves God’s people. Jesus is David’s “son” who brings the deliverance that is God’s salvation to the Lord’s people.
In fact, in the Heidelberg Catechism Reformed Christians profess that God the Father ordained him to be, among other things, our king. In that royal role, they profess, Christ “governs us by his Word and Spirit and … guards us and keeps us in the freedom he has won for us.”
Yet those who proclaim 2 Samuel 5 also note that God is not just “with” this Son of David like he was with David. God is, in fact, Jesus Christ, the Son of David. In this anointed descendant of David, God is “with” not only David, but also God’s adopted sons and daughters always.
On June 16, 2018 USA Today quoted United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions as using Romans 13 to defend President Trump’s administration’s immigration policies. “I would cite to you the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order,” he said. “Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves and protect the weak and lawful.” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later added: “It is very biblical to enforce the law.”
This use of Romans 13 enraged many Americans as well as people across the world. Yet while oceans of ink have been spilled debating Sessions and Sanders’ exegesis, I was struck by the response to it of a wise member of the church I pastor. He said, “I always get nervous when government officials quote Romans 13 to defend their own policies.”
In doing so my friend wasn’t just alluding to governments’ historic abuse of Romans 13 to defend things like slavery and racism. He was also noting that it wasn’t a government official who first penned its words. It wasn’t even just an outsider who wrote Romans 13.
Its author Paul was a member of a persecuted religious minority. The apostle wrote Romans 13, in other words, not from a position of power, but of vulnerability. Instead of trying to defend his own policy, he was urging respect and prayers for those who made and implemented policies that sometimes threatened Christians.
Psalm 48 is one of the several Songs of Zion scattered throughout the Psalter (Psalms 46, 76, 84, 87, 122). They sing the praise of the great capital city of Israel, because God has blessed her beyond imagination. This combination of patriotism and religion makes Psalm 48 a perfect Psalm for this first Sunday after July 1 (Canada’s Dominion Day) and July 4 (America’s Independence Day). It not only swells with pride and confidence over Jerusalem because “God makes her secure forever (verse 8).” It also gives us an opportunity to preach about the danger of placing too much confidence in the supposed security of a nation that says, “In God we trust.” As we celebrate the freedoms of our great nations, Psalm 48 and particularly the history that followed the writing of this Psalm provide a cautionary tale for all who are proud of their country and are sure that God is on our side.
As we proceed into this patriotic Psalm, it is important to note that it is first and last about God, not about Jerusalem. If Israel (and all subsequent singers of such patriotic songs) had remembered that, things might not have gone so badly for them in the end. I say “first and last,” because verses 1 and 14 bracket the Psalm with praise for and confidence in Yahweh. “Great is Yahweh, and most worthy of praise,” and “this God is our God forever and ever; he will be our guide (an echo of Psalm 23, where Yahweh is the Shepherd King of Israel), even to the end.”
Within the brackets of that comforting confession, Psalm 48 turns immediately and insistently to the glory of Jerusalem and the mountain on which it is built. Indeed, God’s greatness is to be found quintessentially in Jerusalem. “Great is the Lord, and most worthy of praise, in the city of God, his holy mountain.” Our Psalm is composed of 4 symmetrical stanzas: verses 2 and 3, with 3 lines about the beauty of Zion as God’s impregnable citadel; verses 4-7, with 4 lines about the futility of enemy attacks against Jerusalem; verses 9-11, with 4 lines about Zion’s joy over God’s saving acts in defeating the enemy; and verses 12-13, with 3 lines, singing the glories of Zion’s impregnability. Right in the middle is verse 8 with its rock-solid assurance that “God makes Jerusalem/Zion secure forever.”
Verses 1-3 alternate between singing the praises of Jerusalem (“beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth, like the utmost heights of Zaphon”) and the praises of God who is “in her citadels” and has “shown himself to be her fortress.” The “heights of Zaphon” are probably a reference to a high mountain in Phoenicia where the storm god El allegedly lived (a kind of Canaanite Mount Olympus). The implied claim here is that Mount Zion is greater, because Yahweh is greater than El or any other god.
Israel’s utter confidence that Yahweh is greater was based on many historical events, in which he defeated the other gods, most prominently the Exodus from Egypt. But here in verses 4-7 the Psalmist refers to another victory, when “the kings joined forces… and advanced together,” presumably against Jerusalem. Scholars are uncertain about the historical reference here. One calls these verses the foundational story of Jerusalem, connecting them to David’s initial conquest of the city chronicled in II Samuel 5. Others think they refer to some coalition of minor kings whose attack on Jerusalem is not recorded in the Old Testament. And still others see this as a reference to the attack of Sennacherib on Jerusalem in 701 BC. But none of those explanations quite fit the words of verses 4-7. So. one enterprising scholar says that this is simply a reference to all who ever have or would attack Jerusalem.
Such attacks will always be futile, say verses 5-8, because Yahweh makes that city secure. When the kings attack, they are overwhelmed by the awesomeness of Jerusalem and they are utterly defeated. Their defeat is described in humiliating language to underscore the futility of attacking the city where Yahweh dwells. The reports Israel has heard about Yahweh’s past victories have now been proven before their very eyes. “As we have heard, so we have seen….”
In verses 9-11 the victorious Israelites repair to the Temple to worship the God who lives there. They will meditate on God’s covenant faithfulness (the word hesed looms large in their worship, as always). There will be a quiet thoughtful dimension to their celebration; this is not the debauched reverie of pagans. But they will also make a lot of noise; God’s praise will reach to the ends of the earth as the villages of Israel join the celebration on Mount Zion. And it will not be a celebration of the violence of war. It will focus on God’s righteousness. God’s mighty right hand doesn’t merely smite his enemies; it is filled with righteousness and justice. Yahweh is not some bloody warrior God, though he does wage war. Rather, he is a just judge who fights for Israel in order to bring justice and equity on the earth.
The last stanza (verses 12 and 13) pictures a triumphal procession around the impregnable city, in which the worshippers “count her towers, consider her ramparts and view her citadels.” Here the focus seems to shift from the praise of the victorious Yahweh to the admiration of the city he saved. This is a switch often seen in victory—from God to country, from the Divine Warrior to the weapons we used to win the victory. Is this a subtle hint of the idolatry of nation that would ultimately ruin Israel? And is the reference to “the next generation” an unintended prophecy of the day when Jerusalem would lie in ruins? The Israelites who sang this song would not have anticipated that event, because “God makes her secure forever…. [and] this God is our God forever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.”
This kind of unshakeable faith in God’s presence in Jerusalem has led to the kind of theology voiced by Jewish theologian Michael Wyschogrod. “There is a place where God dwells and that place is Jerusalem. He dwells in Number One Har Habayet [= Mount of the House/Jerusalem] Street. It is a real dwelling and for every Jew, the sanctity of the land of Israel derives from the sanctity of Jerusalem, and the sanctity of Jerusalem derives from the sanctity of the temple, and the sanctity of the Temple derives from the sanctity of the Holy of Holies where God dwells.” Such is the theology of the religious Jews who fight for Israel today and the theology of the Christian Zionists who support them.
I’m not going to argue with them. I only want to point out that the close identification of patriotism with religious conviction can be a very dangerous thing. As I said before, some scholars think that Psalm 48 might have been written on the occasion of the defeat of Sennacherib described in II Kings 19. When Sennacherib mocked Yahweh, King Hezekiah asked Yahweh to defeat him, “so that the kings of the earth may know that you alone, O Yahweh, are God (II Kings 19:19).” God did just that, declaring in verse 34, “I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.”
Because of that defeat, many Jews came to believe that God’s protection of this city would forever save them from any defeat. That’s the confidence voiced in Psalm 48. But, as Patrick Henry Reardon says, “Their presumptuous confidence in this illusion grew into an arrogant, almost magical audacity at odds with earlier warnings they had received from the prophet Micah. Unrepentant sin inevitably invites the judgment of God, even on his chosen city (Micah 3:12).”
Then, more than a century later, Jeremiah repeated this warning when Nebuchadnezzar led Babylon against Jerusalem. Reardon writes, “So strong and popular was their rash, magical presumption of Jerusalem’s invincibility that Jeremiah’s words fell largely on the deaf ears of a people not convinced of their need for conversion. God would protect his holy city…, so why repent?”
So, it happened that Jerusalem fell and the Jews found themselves in Babylon, where they said in Psalm 137, “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion… our captors demanded song of joy; they said, ‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion.’ How can we sing the song of the Lord in a foreign land?’” And how could this terrible thing happen, given the confidence of Psalm 48? How could God allow such devastation to befall his beloved people?
The Jewish nation wrestled with that question for centuries, as have Christians (think of Paul in Romans 9-11). There has been no agreement among Christians. But as early as the late fourth Century AD, an Egyptian Father distinguished 4 meanings of the name Jerusalem in the Bible: historically, the city of the Jews; allegorically, the church of Christ; analogically, the heavenly city of God; and tropologically, as the soul of man. In other words, Jerusalem is more than Jerusalem.
Again, this is a larger question than I can deal with here, but this Psalm does clearly warn us against identifying our country, our city, our cause with God himself. Even the city in which God chose to dwell in Old Testament days finally fell because of unrepentant sin. It happened to them; it has happened to one empire after another throughout history; and it can happen to us. This Psalm does forbid not our singing, “God Bless America.” Patriotism is a good thing. But presuming that God is on our side, no matter what we do as a nation, is the kind of rash, magical presumption that can lead to ruin.
So, let us sing our national anthems, celebrate our freedoms, support our troops, and rejoice in our beautiful and powerful countries. But let’s remember the beginning and end and middle of Psalm 48. Our only hope is Yahweh, the God who entered history again and again to help his people. Let us pledge our ultimate allegiance to the God who became one of those people so that all the world could be part of “the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, beautifully dressed for her husband… the wife of the Lamb (Revelations 21:2 and 9).” “God makes her secure forever.”
The absolute certainty about the homeland being secure in Psalm 48:8 stands in stark contrast to our fearful preoccupation with security today in North America, particularly in America. We talk about border security, go through airport security, and invest in internet security. The fear of a security breach has us running for all manner of devices and procedures and structures that will keep us safe. Psalm 48 calls us to the source of ultimate security.
2 Corinthians 12:2-10
As we have been noting, throughout 2 Corinthians Paul seems a bit all over the map. The criticisms made behind his back and the charges of the “super apostles” seem to have driven Paul to a kind of emotional brink. By his own admission in one form or another, he has been nearly beside himself in defending both his mission, his person, and above all the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ.
But now late in this letter we encounter this odd passage in 2 Corinthians 12. Is the man who had been caught up into the third heaven really Paul himself? At first it seems he really is talking about someone else but then next thing you know, he is claiming that these “superior visions” are actually his after all. “I don’t want to brag on myself” Paul writes “but I would brag on this other guy (who is not me but kind of is). So I won’t brag and anyway to keep me from thinking too much of myself given these grand visions I have this thorn thing to keep me grounded and humble.”
I suspect that if any of us who preach today came off this way in the pulpit, our Executive Committee would convene a secret meeting to see about getting the pastor some time off. Soon!
What are we to make of this curious passage, and is it a real preach-able text? Well, let’s admit we have to do a lot of work to explain these verses. That is complicated by the fact that no one has ever been sure about that mysterious “thorn” in Paul’s flesh. That he mentions “flesh” makes it fairly likely it is a physical ailment. Some speculate it is some leftover vision problem from his Damascus Road blazing encounter with the glory of Christ. Others think Paul seemed to be prone to come chronic illness (maybe migraines or a malaria-like condition that apparently—reading between the lines of some of Paul’s writings—laid Paul out flat for some time every now and again).
In the end it doesn’t matter and is a somewhat academic question to nail it down. But this is the one place where Paul makes it clear he had prayed—often—for a cure, for a healing but that the Spirit of Christ had conveyed to him that for whatever the reason, that was not going to happen. And although the whys and wherefores of that refused prayer request for Paul may have been as wide and varied as it is for any of us when for whatever the reason the Lord does not come through for us on what most would regard as a reasonable request, in Paul’s case God has a very specific reason: to teach Paul to rely on God’s strength above all. If God got great things done through Paul despite his weakness, then there could be no doubting—not for God and above all not for Paul himself—what was the source of that success and what was the origin of that strength. And it was not from Paul!
How interesting! And it makes you wonder: from everything we know about the former Saul of Tarsus, he appears to have been a highly motivated, decidedly driven individual. He reminds me of something someone once said of Charles Colson, the convicted Nixon hatchet man who later turned to Christ and founded Prison Fellowship. Colson is said to have been the ultimate Type A personality such that when he was working for Nixon, he was ALL IN on Nixon and would do anything for him (and he did do pretty much “anything” which is why he ended up going to jail over the Watergate cover-up and such). Thankfully Jesus got a hold of Colson but once that happened, Colson was equally ALL IN for Jesus. It was the same basic personality, the same drive, zeal, and hyper motivation it’s just that thankfully it got turned in a righteous direction eventually.
Maybe Saul-turned-Paul was like that. As he himself says in places like Philippians 3, when his gig was Pharasaism, he was the Pharisee of the Pharisees. A few might have tried to top Saul in the zeal department but no way! This man could not be beat. And once this Class A Pharisee turned his ire on this Jesus person and his sorry band of messianic followers, there was likewise no stopping his persecution of the just budding church. In the battle Saul vs. Jesus, Jesus was going down.
But then Jesus got a hold of Saul and he became the hyper zealous Apostle to the Gentiles who was once again ALL IN but this time for Jesus. Same zeal, same hyper temperament, same basic personality bent on success. It just all got shifted and aimed toward righteousness for God’s kingdom in Christ instead of ascending the ranks of the Pharisees by wiping Jesus’ name from the face of the earth. As the ironies of history go, this was a good one!
Still, even for a believer, that is the kind of thing that could go to your head. Even Paul was perhaps not immune from the temptation to survey all the churches he had planted and then pat himself on the back to say “Well done, old boy, well done. Lookee here what ye have accomplished!” So God found a way to keep his #1 Apostle grounded, perhaps literally, through a physical ailment that laid him flat now and then as a reminder that it is finally all about God, not us.
Part of me wants to say that was not very nice on God’s part but . . . I prefer not to question the tactics of the all-wise God. And anyway, it worked. Paul remained a loyal, zealous, outrageously effective Apostle to the end of his days.
And when it was all over, Paul had no reason to doubt: it had been the power of Christ in him all along. None of us in the church today should have any reason to doubt the same is true of us all no matter what we do or how gifted we are. And if we do feel that way, God may find a way to re-orient our thinking too.
In the movie Star Trek: First Contact, the crew of the USS Enterprise inadvertently travels back in time as they pursue the dreaded nightmare species of The Borg. As it turns out, the Borg had traveled back to late 21st century earth in order to prevent earth’s first contact with an alien species. According to the story, a man named Zepharim Cochrane had figured out how to build a spaceship that could go to “warp” speed, traveling faster than light. On the day he took his initial flight, another spaceship from a planet called Vulcan was passing by, took note of earth’s ability to break the light speed barrier, and so made contact with the earthlings, with Zepharim Cochrane becoming the first human being to shake the hand of an alien.
This was key in the story because in the Star Trek universe, the first part of the 21st century on earth had been marred by a global nuclear war that made the future of the human race precarious. Cochrane’s accomplishment and the discovery that there was other intelligent life in the universe saved earth, giving people a purpose and a rallying point that united the planet and led to a whole new day. If the Borg has succeeded in preventing Dr. Cochrane from taking his space flight, the Borg could have easily conquered the planet themselves (they did not succeed of course!). Zepharim Cochrane was a legend, a hero, as famous as Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr.
But then Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew made a discovery once they traveled back in time: it turned out that Zepharim Cochrane was not quite the heroic figure that crew of the Enterprise had grown up adoring and honoring and nearly worshiping as earth’s savior. Turned out Cochrane was drunk a lot of the time, that he could be rude and loud, that he developed his warp ship not to save the planet but make some money. He was a regular, flawed person. So when members of the Enterprise crew from 300 years into the future fawned over Cochrane and told him things like “I went to Zepharim Cochran High School” and things like “Right over there is where your 200-foot statue will be in the future when this whole area becomes an international park honoring you” . . . well, Cochrane could not abide it. He didn’t want stuff named after him. He did not want a statue. It was all a bit too much.
I wonder sometimes what the Apostle Paul—who worked so hard to let the power of Christ alone shine through him—would make of all those future churches and cathedrals named “Saint Paul Church” or what he would think of “Saint Paul the Apostle High School.” What would be make of half the New Testament consisting of HIS letters, including little memos like the one he dashed off one day to Philemon (“Really!? You regard that little note of mine as divine Scripture!!!?”). What would he make of the thousands of biographies of Paul that have been written, the miles and miles of library shelves sagging under the weight of books dedicated to dissecting his theology.
Surely he would be like the fictional Dr. Cochrane: he didn’t want all this. THIS had not been his goal or desire.
Yet few of us would deny Paul deserves the honor we give him even as we cherish the divine gift that just is his body of writing in the New Testament. Oh, it’s still all God but God has a good sense of humor too: he had used Paul’s thorn to keep him from being too big for his own britches in his lifetime but God then let the Holy Spirit make Paul a very big deal to the glory of God in Christ after all!
Paul might protest. “I am too weak, too unimportant for all this fuss.” True enough. But God’s power is made perfect in precisely that, Paul!
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Spaces and moments of leisure
Posted on April 16, 2017 by FarahnazZahidi
Farahnaz Zahidi March 26, 2017
Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema celebrates the life and times of Karachiites through an art by the people and for the people.
http://tns.thenews.com.pk/spaces-moments-leisure/#.WPMZEsZRU1k
“People who saw the video liked the spot where it was shot on the Seaview beach. They still come to me, requesting to shoot a similar video of them at the same spot,” says 28-years-old Basheer Muhammad, one of the citizens of Karachi who was part of videos shot as part of the Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema (MKMC) project.
The project used a rickshaw powered projector to show cell phone videos in diverse neighbourhoods where the videos were made. Basheer was the community coordinator for the screenings at Seaview. For Basheer who makes a living by photographing tourists along the Seaview beach, being part of a video project was something that left not just fond memories but a sense of ownership about his city. These outdoor screenings were free of cost and were held in various parts of Karachi, thereby creating an archive of cell phone videos about everyday life of Karachiites.
“This project was not a political reportage. We were not trying to be native informants. This project gathered Karachiite’s spaces and moments of leisure in the city,” says Yaminay Nasir Chaudhri, the key person behind MKMC. Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema was a way of engaging with different publics, explains Chaudhri. “We wanted to change the relationship of people to media. Normally the people we met and worked with were consumers of the media, but did not get to produce it themselves. In MKMC, they had a chance to make media and if they wanted to, to represent themselves.” The approach was participatory.
The MKMC team would teach basic video making and editing techniques using cell phones. Members of the community became collaborators and a part of the creative process. They could, for example, express their choice for music or particular scenes they liked in the videos they made, and want the MKMC team to fine tune that. “We would work on it together. It was a very important aspect of the project to create a sense of ownership and agency over the images we put out in the world,” says Chaudhri.
Karachi is a melting pot of different ethnicities, languages and cultures. This series of videos, though limited in number, were aimed at being snapshots into life of Karachiites from all walks of life. They were produced in response to the question “Home: What did you do last Sunday?” A Mobile Cinema Rickshaw carried around the projector that projected these videos on walls of houses, railway bogies and buildings, added another dimension to it that is typical to life in Karachi.
Karachi is a melting pot of different ethnicities, languages and cultures. This series of videos, though limited in number, were aimed at being snapshots into life of Karachiites from all walks of life. They were produced in response to the question “Home: What did you do last Sunday?”
The project celebrated the life and times of Karachiites, and created a new use of public spaces. This was a use of art that was not a luxury for the elite – it was by the people and for the people.
The MKMC team was headed by Yaminay Chaudhri. Other team members included Cyrus Viccaji, Sadia Khatri, Mohammad Saddique Khan, Khadija Abdul Lateef, Krishna Raju and Farhad Mirza.
Areas that were covered included Ibrahim Haidery, Lyari, Cantt Station and Seaview. Karachi’s migrant communities were also focused upon. Some of them have been living in the city since decades but still do not have legal status here. The videos, simple at a glance, were conceptually layered, tapping into complex themes like identity and ownership. Both regular and irregular settlements were tapped into.
Vernacular aesthetics and tools were used in this project. The rhythm of the city was important. These videos were not made for an international audience, which helped deliver a more fluid and organic narrative. “Often when films or documentaries are made for a global audience, producers end up orientalising, objectifying and exoticising Pakistan, resorting to stereotypes about terrorism, and over simplification of people based on ethnicities,” explains Chaudhri.
“MKMC is an incredibly diverse and inclusive project. It’s so beautiful how it’s rooted deeply in Karachi and its inhabitants, building a poignant and personal archive of all the vulnerable and aspirational relationships we have with the city, its public spaces and communities,” says Abeera Kamran, a graphic designer and web developer who worked on the website of Tentative Collective. She adds that it’s so rare to find artists that are committed to such collaborative intersectional work.
The screening of videos in MKMC created an alternative narrative in public spaces. The screenings fostered new kinds of conviviality in these neighbourhoods and leftover spaces of the city. In Lyari, in one screening, some 300 people, mostly women and children, came together on an empty parking lot and street in the middle of Baghdadi. “Our gatherings never used security apparatus and we never had any problems. The feeling of community and desire to be in a public space together doing something fun was a kind of organiser in itself,” says Chaudhri.
MKMC made an effort to hire a few people from each neighbourhood they engaged with as community leaders. They offered salaries to the ones who wanted salaries and support in other ways to those who were insulted by the offer of money. The project took one year to plan and ran for three years. It involved applying for grants, crowd sourcing, personal savings and getting funding from friends.
The second phase of the project, still underway, involves the showing of previously unshared parts of MKMC, a documentation of the process, and analysing what the team learnt from it. According to Chaudhri, the MKMC team wants to look at what gets deleted, what is deemed screen worthy and what is not. As artists working with new collaborators, they also want to decipher what it was that they saw in these engagements with unlikely friends.
As often happens, lack of funds eventually became a reason why the project had to be discontinued. “We got offers to turn this project into a brand, and were offered funding from dubious sources, but we turned it down. It was important to us that the agendas of funding bodies were not reflected in the outcomes of our project. That would defeat the purpose of making a project like this with its open-ended outcomes and flexibility of programming,” says Chaudhri, adding that by the end of the project, the structure of the videos had changed dramatically based on the groups they met and their desire to make media a certain way. “The project went in all of those directions happily. With big funding, branding, and foreign agendas, none of that would have been possible.”
MKMC was a project of the “Tentative Collective” — a collective of people who share resources to create critical works of art in public places. The Tentative Collective is currently working on a project exploring some of the outcomes of modernity and development, working with literal and metaphorical notions of waste and wasted lives.
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Chancellor Fariña: ‘Kids aren’t supermarket items that you can move around’
By Cassi Feldman - August 22, 2016
PHOTO: Christina Veiga
Chancellor Carmen Fariña
New York City schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña knows she has something to prove.
When she started in 2014, she seemed intent on moving the nation’s largest school system away from the aggressive policies of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who closed more than 150 schools. Since then, Fariña has established her own program for struggling schools, created new training programs for teachers, and worked to transform school discipline.
When Chalkbeat interviewed her last week, she was proud of her efforts thus far, but mindful of the need to show concrete results.
She pointed to signs of progress at the city’s remaining 86 “Renewal” schools, which were given extra funding to add supports like health clinics and food pantries. While she acknowledged the challenge of sustaining student enrollment at these schools, she dismissed concerns about staffing. “A lot more teachers apply to teach in Renewal schools than apply to leave Renewal schools,” she said.
She also made it clear that, despite the schools’ June 2017 deadline for improvement, she hopes to keep the added supports in place for years to come. “I would think, over time, they will stay, no matter what,” she said.
She didn’t rule out the possibility of closing one or two struggling schools next year, but emphasized that isn’t the backbone of her improvement plan. “Kids aren’t supermarket items that you can move around,” she said. “We’ve got to really stay the course and see progress over time.”
She took a similarly incremental approach to the issue of desegregation, restating her position that diversity plans should spring from districts and schools. Yet, she also said her office was working closely with superintendents to encourage dialogue in the “eight to 12 districts that we feel are really ready and right for this.”
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Here is the interview, condensed and lightly edited for clarity.
Chalkbeat: Let’s talk about Renewal Schools. Is it hard to attract teachers to those schools, and principals?
A lot more teachers apply to teach in Renewal schools than apply to leave Renewal schools. In one of the classrooms I was in, half of the teachers were in Renewal schools. And when I asked them why they applied, they said, “It’s because we’re going to get a lot more staff development, we’re going to get more support, and we’re going to be able to give back.” And a lot of these teachers have been rated “highly effective” in their existing schools. I think it was 248, but the number’s changing, “effective” and “highly effective” teachers moving into Renewal schools.
Some of these schools have lost a lot of staff. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Can you fill those slots?
I think what you need to do is have high expectations. If we’re going to have an equitable system, the best principals need to be in every single school, not just in some schools. So, I think one of the messages we gave in the very beginning is that not all principals were the highest quality leaders — we moved about 30, 40 principals just from Renewal schools. Because people saw that we only wanted the best people, we had people apply. We didn’t really have trouble recruiting, but we wanted to make sure it was the best person in the job.
What about declining student enrollment, which we know is a struggle at some of the Renewal schools?
It’s a struggle in some places, and one of the things we talk about is rebranding … Let parents come and see your schools. A lot of schools took years and years to get the negative reputation they did. So the neighborhood still knows it as the “bad school,” so unless you bring them into the building, to walk the building with you, then you’re not going to change that around. But [the principal] told me today, this is a Renewal school, that she has more people on the wait-list than she has room for them right now. So that’s good.
Obviously, enrollment, there are just X number of kids to go around. But again, that means that parents have choices, and that goes back to the equity issue as well. If I’m a parent, particularly in middle school, I have choices I can make and it’s great.
It also ups the game because a lot of these schools — I’m thinking of one of the middle schools in Brooklyn — he’s put in so many extra programs in that building. He now has more programs than a middle school that was listed gifted and talented, because he knows he has to work harder to attract parents to come to that building.
The Renewal schools’ state test scores were mostly up. How much weight can we give those numbers, given that the tests changed this year?
Let me be very clear. The test has changed, but as the [State Education] Commissioner [MaryEllen Elia] has said, the rigorousness and the difficulty of the test has stayed the same. What has changed is the amount the time. And I heard a quote that she made last night that I thought was perfect: Are we testing kids’ stamina or are we testing their comprehension? I’d like to think we’re testing their comprehension. And also, the entire state took the same test, so we’re comparing ourselves and I think we have done very, very well.
The other thing I’m particularly proud of and here it goes back to the equity issue: Every single district in the city has progressed. In the past, there’d be the gainers and losers. And that did not happen this year. Some districts progressed more than others, but everyone made progress.
But these Renewal schools are going to be judged at the end of the three-year period [June 2017] and the test scores will be one of the measures.
Absolutely. We’re looking at enrollment, we’re looking at attendance, we’re looking at teacher satisfaction … Is there trust? There’s going to be, even in this coming year, more mergers, consolidations, maybe even one or two closures. So everything is still on the table, but having the progress there raises morale and raises the enthusiasm for the people to do the work.
So if they don’t meet their targets, they definitely could be candidates for closure?
It’s one school at a time. We look at each school individually. We changed enough principals and now teachers. Kids aren’t supermarket items that you can move around. We’ve got to really stay the course and see progress over time.
I think pre-K is a game-changer. I think emphasis on literacy for second graders: game-changer. If you look at the scores, they were particularly high in third and fourth grade, and that shows two-and-a-half years’ effort on writing and reading that we did. Now we need to focus it more on math, which is certainly where we’re going.
When you do hit the deadline for Renewal schools, what happens to the supports in the schools?
I think that’s a question we have yet to — The community schools have definitely been an asset. They’ve been an asset because they’re in neighborhoods, by and large, where we need family support and it gives them that. And again, when you’re looking at equity, equity in the highest-poverty area of the Bronx is not the same as equity, again, in Cobble Hill, where I live. So how do you balance that as well? This family needs more support, they may need the mental health [services], they may need food pantries.
I would think that, over time, [community schools] will stay no matter what. If schools have a certain amount of budget, we don’t take it away from them the next year, regardless of what it is. So I strongly feel that will be part of what we do going forward.
So it’s not like, June 2017 — time’s up?
No, and also, we analyze three times a year. We don’t wait until June on the scores. Right now, attendance is one of our biggest things that we look at, and attendance is up in almost all our Renewal schools. We look at, is chronic absenteeism lowered? And that’s something we focus on a lot. So, are the community schools getting the students into school every single day?
And the other thing, when we look at numbers, in terms of test scores, we’re not looking always at the overall numbers. We’re looking at, did we lessen the number of Level 1 [least proficient] kids? And that was a big success in terms of the Renewal schools. So those are all the kinds of pictures that we look at.
We also look at, do teachers want to teach in the school? I was in a Renewal school recently where I had gone there for some activity, it was 5 o’clock, and all the teachers were still there. So teacher satisfaction is part of what we look at. Do they want to teach in that building?
On integration, the mayor recently talked about a “bigger vision” for diversity and integration. What does that mean?
I think it means we’re really putting a very strong focus on equity and what does equity look like where diversity is aligned. And I now have a deputy chancellor, Josh Wallack, who’s heading this work, and he’s going to be meeting individually with a lot of the superintendents who are in areas where we see a possibility of moving quicker in these areas. Some of the districts have already expressed — you have District 1, you have 3, you have 15 — you have a whole slew of them.
So what does it look like? And it’s going to look a little different in every district, because I also see diversity as fair share of special ed kids. You cannot have three schools within a same geographical area [where] she has 40 percent special ed and you have zero, which is what we’re finding. So, how do we equalize that, I think, is important.
We have a pilot project now with schools that are not necessarily zoned. You have the Brooklyn New School, you have Julie Zuckerman [principal of Castle Bridge School], you have Naomi Smith [principal of Central Park East II], who set aside seats for kids whose parents are incarcerated. So we’re allowing principals who have seats and are not turning away zoned kids to look at diversity as how it suits them. I think we’re going to see that grow.
We’ve also starting putting programs in place, like the Arts [Audition] Boot Camp. And I want to see double the number of kids next year, and these are kids from every borough coming and getting help so they can apply to the specialized arts schools and not have to pay for private tutors for their training. So that’s another way to do diversity.
Another way to do diversity is in co-located buildings, particularly our high schools, to share the AP courses. [Herbert H.] Lehman High School [in the Bronx] comes to mind because I’ve been shouting them out everywhere I go. There are six high schools. Each of those six high schools has a little bit of a different take on diversity. One of the schools is much more focused on arts-centered kids. But if they have to take their AP courses across the whole campus — and AP courses are for all kids, not just kids who score at a certain level — I think that will help with diversity as well.
And I think also a big focus on diversity is going to be in middle school and high schools where there’s more options for kids to travel on their own, rather than zoned schools.
But everyone is talking about it, and I think talking about it is the first part.
But you’re still talking about a school-by-school or district-by-district plan. Any bigger, sort of citywide vision coming out?
I think when you get people to buy into a vision that’s theirs, that they’re creating on their own, you’re going to have much deeper buy-in than if you mandate things from the top. We’ve already started talking to the CEC [Community Education Council] presidents about how much they want to get involved in these discussions. I met with them last week.
Were the CEC presidents receptive and excited about doing this?
In Manhattan’s District 1, we’ve written about whether a “controlled choice” integration plan is going to happen there. It seems like we’re hearing that.
Well, we have more for them to do. And the more they’ll discuss and the more they finalize it, I’m happy to hear what they have to say.
But it’s not a done deal yet.
It’s still in discussion. I mean, they have an advantage, if you want to call it that, that most of their schools are not zoned. It’s not something that can be easily replicated somewhere else, but I’m certainly interested to see what they come up with. But that’s my whole idea. It has to come organically from the people who are going to be engaged in the work.
What happens then, if you have a district like District 3 [on the Upper West Side], where there’s been a fight about rezoning? Some parents want it, some parents don’t. How does the Department decide how to proceed?
You talk, and you talk, and you talk. And you listen, and you listen, and you listen. And we are actually doing a lot more training of superintendents on how to handle the dialogue and get people to the table. I don’t think you do this without doing a lot of listening, and we now have a team that’s going to go out and do this. We designated anywhere from eight to 12 districts that we feel are really ready and right for this, and we’re going to be working with those superintendents to support them and get their ideas.
This is not going to be ‘Carmen says.’ I do that sometimes, but this is not that. Equity means it comes from you, this is what you need. And what you need on the Upper West Side is not necessarily what you need on the East Side.
The City Council asked the Department of Education to make a formal a proclamation in favor of diversity. Why not do that?
Because then it’s just words and no actions.
It would have symbolic weight, though, presumably.
Proclamations, without a plan of action, are proclamations.
Quickly jumping to discipline. What if a principal or a teacher comes to you and says, ‘The proposed ban on suspensions in kindergarten through second grade is going to make my life harder. I need to have all the tools at my disposal to keep my kids safe.’
Look, they’re still going to have tools — let’s be very clear. We are developing a plan where, a principal who has a 7-year-old that is out of control and has been doing that systemically, we’ll have phone numbers to call. We’re certainly putting extra support at the borough levels. We’re going to be training a lot more teachers — all our pre-K teachers went through special training on social-emotional [support].
And the other thing I would say to a principal is, ‘Really? Do you have a grandchild? Do you have a child that was 7 years old at one time? If they had meltdowns, how would you have handled it?’
So I wouldn’t say the principal has no recourse. I mean, most of the principals I’ve spoken to are perfectly OK with the plan for K to 2. In fact, we had principals on the committee that made these decisions. And they were very much in favor of having much more of a child-centered approach to how we look at behavior in the classrooms.
The unions have been hesitant on it.
That’s their role to play. I have my role to play.
I see myself as making sure that every child in New York City has an equitable and safe experience. To me, equity is being in the classroom with your peers. Or the traditional “time out” within a couple of hours in a building — but not at home or someplace else. I mean, how do you say to a 6-year-old, ‘You did something wrong,’ if they’re isolated from the actions that they took?
So, you know, and like I said, I was a mother. I am a mother and a grandmother and I know kids can act inappropriately. But there’s a training that you have to put in place. And keeping them out of the place is not going to change behavior. And a lot of the more successful schools are using something called PBIS [Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports], restorative justice practices. We have so many different programs that we put in place.
I know in my school I had a very small cafeteria. Very large school. We started playing music at lunch. We let the kids pick the music they wanted to play. On Fridays, we had casual Fridays where you could sit anywhere you want. So how do you get the kids involved in changing behavior?
Are you worried about how discipline disproportionately affects some students more than others? Black and Latino students?
I’m concerned about any child who’s excluded from class. Because if they’re not there, they’re not learning. It’s that simple.
By Cassi Feldman cfeldman@chalkbeat.org
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Glencullen House, Glencullen. County Dublin 1800
Daniel O’Connell, The Valley of Holly & A a famous architect
Glencullen House was built in 1800 and was possibly designed by the famous Irish architect, Francis Johnson. The house, along with it’s Doric portico was added to an older farmhouse already positioned in this stunning tree lined valley which has beautiful views towards Little Sugar Loaf Mountain. Johnson’s other notable works include The GPO in O’Connell Street, Armagh Observatory, The Chapel Royal in Dublin Castle and Nelsons Pillar on O’Connell Street (before it was bombed!) The house was owned by the FitzSimon family who were of Norman origin and once owned the entire Glencullen estate. They lived here until the early 1900’s when it was sold but was later bought back by Colonel Manners O’Connell FitzSimon in 1953 who lived here until his death in 1985. His ancestor, Daniel O’Connell held the first meeting for the Catholic association in the garden where a large rock still commemorates this event. This area is covered with stone walls similar to those found in the west coast of Ireland due to the abundance of granite. In fact, the area once provided employment for hundreds of stone cutters and quarrymen as it supplied most of the granite for the most important buildings in Dublin. N.B – Access is strictly limited as it is now on private land.
Duckett’s Grove, Rainstown. County Carlow 1850
Mussenden Temple, Castlerock. County Derry 1785
Athcarne Castle, Balrath. County Meath 1590
Taghadoe Round Tower, Taghadoe. County Kildare 10th century & 1831
Leixlip Castle, Leixlip. County Kildare 1172
Barberstown Castle, Straffan. County Kildare c.1500
The Molly Malone Statue, Dublin City 1988
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Acts of the Apostles - Podcast Index
Book of Acts Chapter 1, Part 2 - Christogenea Internet Radio 04-19-2013
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The opening remarks to this podcast, entitled What Is Universalism?, are found here on the Christogenea Forum.
The Book of Acts, Chapter 1 Part 2 – Christogenea Internet Radio, April 19th, 2013
Discussing Amos chapter 3 here last month, we presented a lengthy dissertation concerning the Biblical phrase “all the families of the earth”, and from many scriptures found in both the Old and New Testaments it was demonstrated that within the Biblical context, the use of the phrase can only be applied to that group of White Adamic Nations which is listed in Genesis chapter 10. It can not be applied to anyone outside of that group. As Genesis 5:1 says, “This is the book of the generations of Adam.” The listing of those generations (which is the Hebrew word toledah, Strong's number 8435, meaning descendants) found in Genesis chapter 10 are a part of that book, and none of the promises made to those people, families and nations - such as those made to Abraham in Genesis chapter 12 - can ever justly be applied to anyone else.
Then again just last week, where we left off discussing verse 8 of Acts chapter 1, we presented many scriptures from the Old Testament which demonstrate that the phrase “all the ends of the earth” is a prophetic phrase which relates to the dispersion of the children of Israel, and to nothing else. Yahweh had said through the prophets, especially the prophet Isaiah but also others, that Israel would be scattered to “all the ends of the earth”. As the Word of God says in Isaiah 26: “15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.” Therefore in Acts 1:8 there is Luke's record of some of the last words of Christ to the apostles where He said “8 Rather you shall receive power of the Holy Spirit coming upon you and you shall be My witnesses in both Jerusalem and in all Judaea and Samareia, and unto the end of the earth.” Among other prophecies, this is in fulfillment of the promises to Israel made in Isaiah chapter 55: “3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.” That witness, Yahshua Christ, came only for the sheep – as Yahweh had promised.
9 And speaking these things, upon their watching He was lifted up and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 10 And as they were gazing into heaven upon His going, then behold, two men in white clothing stood by them. 11 And they said “Men, Galilaians, why do you stand looking into the heaven? This Yahshua, who is taken up from you into the heaven, thusly shall He come in the manner which you have beheld Him going into the heaven.”
Many commentators even in Christian Identity frequently rationalize the promised return of Christ by claiming that it would be manifest in some way other than His actual, physical return. That Christ shall indeed return personally in the exact same manner by which He is said to have departed is clearly expressed in this passage.
From the epistle of Jude: “14 And Enoch, seventh from Adam, prophesied to these saying “Behold, the Prince has come with ten thousands of His saints 15 to execute judgment against all and to convict every soul for all of their impious deeds which they committed impiously and for all of the harsh things which the impious wrongdoers have spoken against Him!”
Luke had already informed us that Yahshua was taken up into heaven from the presence of the apostles, where he wrote at Luke 24:51: “And it happened upon His blessing them that He had separated from them, and was carried up into the heaven.” So was Yahshua taken up into the heavens once? Or was He taken up twice? Luke opens this Book of Acts, his second book detailing the Coming and the Gospel of Christ, with this statement: “That first account I had made concerning all things, O lover of Yahweh, which Yahshua continued both to do and to teach, 2 until that day He was taken up...”
There were not two ascensions of Christ. Luke mentions the ascension of Christ at the end of his Gospel, and then he describes it in further detail here at the beginning of his Book of Acts. This repetition is a literary device which can be called recapitulation. Some universalist pastors in Christian Identity deny that such a literary device is employed in Scripture. However clearly we see it here in the transition from Luke to Acts. We see another example of recapitulation at the end of Genesis chapter 10, where the division of the Adamic nations is mentioned, but then a fuller account of that division is provided in Genesis chapter 11. But the first example of recapitulation occurs in the opening chapters of Genesis. In Genesis chapter 1 we see the creation of the Adamic race mentioned in verses 26 through 28. Then in Genesis chapter 2 through to Genesis chapter 4 a more detailed account of the creation of that race and the events of its earliest history is provided. Then again at the opening of Genesis chapter 5 there is one more recapitulation of the same event where it says “1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” In Genesis chapters 1, 2 and 5 all of the words for man or men in connection with these creations are the same Hebrew word adam, whether it is accompanied with the article or not. These are not three different creations of Adamic man. Rather, they all refer to the same creation of the same race, an account which is recapitulated in these early chapters of Genesis in various ways.
In order to discuss another important aspect of this passage, here we shall repeat these verses: “9 And speaking these things, upon their watching He was lifted up and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 10 And as they were gazing into heaven upon His going, then behold, two men in white clothing stood by them. 11 And they said 'Men, Galilaians, why do you stand looking into the heaven? This Yahshua, who is taken up from you into the heaven, thusly shall He come in the manner which you have beheld Him going into the heaven.'”
That “a cloud received Him”, we must compare the account of the cloud found at the transfiguration on the mount described in Matthew 17, in Mark 9 and in Luke 9, and a statement found in Job 26, and the circumstances of Ezekiel’s vision, from the first chapter of that prophet's book.
From Luke chapter 9: “30 And behold, two men were speaking with Him, which were Moses and Elijah, 31 who appearing with effulgence had spoke of His departure which was about to be fulfilled in Jerusalem.... 34 And upon his saying these things there came a cloud and it overshadowed them, and they were frightened upon the entering of them into the cloud.” When the cloud had lifted, the men were gone.
From Job chapter 26: “8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. 9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.”
From the ancient Sumerian Hymn to Enlil, as it is recorded in Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (J. B. Pritchard, ed., Princeton University Press, 1969), p. 575: “As he sets up (his) dais in the mountain mist, He rotates it in heaven like a rainbow, He makes it roam about like floating cloud.”
In the Book of Ezekiel, in the very first chapter, there is a fantastic description of what is ostensibly this throne of Yahweh described by Job. Ezekiel begins his description at verse four by saying “And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.” The prophet goes on to describe what is apparently a much more complex machine.
Now Ezekiel had said that this apparition which he had seen happened when “the heavens were opened, and [he] saw visions of God”, so it is arguable whether the account must be accepted literally at face value, or whether the prophet merely saw visions as representations of something. However the testimony of the apostles Matthew, Mark and Luke concerning the event called the transfiguration on the mount, and this account described here in this first chapter of Acts certainly represent something tangible, and therefore the visions of Ezekiel and the proclamation of Job must be given merit as representing something tangible.
Since the dawn of time man believed that God could transcend His creation, and we should certainly believe that now. Today we hear of UFOs, we read of physicists who talk of string theory and parallel universes. These things are all human attempts to describe what the ancients already witnessed, believed and recorded: that there is more to the Creation of God than what we here on earth can normally perceive. Sometimes we are able to receive glimpses of that greater existence. However Christians are told not to consult with sorcerers and necromancers. Modern physicists may well fit into those categories, and even if they seem to be educated in the name of so-called science, they are really no different than the ancient Babylonian priests who were able to hold sway over the people because they pretended to a greater knowledge.
On the other hand, if God is not real, and if He does not transcend His creation, then Christians have no hope in the world. For these thoughts Paul scolded the wisdom of Rome, where he said in his epistle to the Romans (1:18-20): “18 For the wrath of Yahweh is revealed from heaven upon all profane and unjust men, who withhold the truth with injustice. 19 Because that which is to be known of Yahweh is visible among them, since Yahweh has made it known to them. 20 Namely, the unseen things of His from the creation of the order are clearly observed, being understood in the things made both of His eternal power and divinity; for this they are inexcusable.” Paul, a true physicist because he recognized the divinity of Yahweh our God, declared in Hebrews 11: “1 Now faith is expecting an assurance, evidence of the facts not being seen. 2 For by this were the elders accredited. 3 By faith we perceive the ages to be furnished by the word of Yahweh, in which that which is seen has not come into being from things visible.” As the appellation expressed in the Tetragrammaton, Yahweh, is from an ancient word which means I AM, God does indeed exist. Only in that do Christians have hope, and in that shall our race obtain the victory over His enemies, over all those who have corrupted or are themselves corruptions of His creation.
12 Then they returned into Jerusalem from the mountain called “of Olives”, which is near to Jerusalem, being a Sabbath day’s journey.
There is no explicit command in the law concerning the distance that one may travel on the Sabbath (v. Exodus 16:23-29, 20:8-11, 31:12-17, and 35:2-3; Leviticus 23:3 and 24:8; Deuteronomy 5:12-15). This restriction was evidently one of the legalistic traditions of the Pharisees, and it was later codified in the Talmud. In order to determine “a Sabbath day’s journey”, which was the distance one was customarily allowed to travel on the Sabbath day, evidently the Pharisees used the distance which was mentioned in Joshua 3:4 and Numbers 35:4, which was two thousand cubits.
In Numbers chapter 35 the regulations were given for the exact size of the Levitical cites and the area around them which each of the 12 tribes would cede to the Levites. Verses 4 and 5 state: “4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. 5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.” [The two thousand cubits actually seems to describe the perimeter, and the thousand cubits the distance to the perimeter. The Pharisees evidently missed the difference.]
In Joshua chapter 3 the people of Israel were commanded by the officers of the army to follow the Ark of the Covenant when the Levites moved it, and they were told to maintain a distance of two thousand cubits when they followed. Verses 3 and 4 state: “3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.”
Concerning the Sabbath Day, when it was first commanded in the Exodus, men were required not to wander from there place of rest. [In the Exodus they could not even gather manna on the Sabbath, but were able to gather twice the amount the day before.] This is described in Exodus chapter 16, and verse 29 states: “See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day”. Therefore it is evident that the Pharisees used the two thousand cubit distance of those other scriptures in Numbers chapter 35 and in Joshua chapter 3 in order to judge how far a man could travel on the Sabbath Day before he was “out of his place”, although it is also obvious that this figure is quite arbitrary and that it was not a command from Yahweh. A standard cubit being about 18 inches, two thousand cubits would be about a thousand yards. Yet from that we can determine that the distance from the gate of Jerusalem to the Mount of Olives must have been a distance of about a thousand yards, or just over half a mile.
13 And when they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying, both Petros and Iohannes, and Iakobos and Andreas, Philippos and Thomas, Bartholomaios and Maththaios, Iakobos son of Alphaios, and Simon the zealot and Iouda the brother of Iakobos.
Here there are eleven apostles: Judas Iscariot not being present he is the subject of the latter part of this chapter. Discussing Luke chapter 6 and the listing of the apostles there, it was explained that Luke's list varies somewhat from those of Matthew and Mark. Luke counts Jude among the apostles, where in the original lists of the others a “Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus” appears. John puts Jude among the disciples of Christ in John 14:22. But nowhere is it explained what happened to Thaddaeus. Jude is listed as the brother of James the son of Alphaios, and calls himself the brother of James in his epistle.
Where Luke says “Iakobos son of Alphaios” and then “Iouda the brother of Iakobos”, the relationships are only implied and are not explicit in the Greek. There is no place where Alphaios is mentioned in connection with Iakobos where the relationship is explicitly stated, here or in either Matthew 10:3, Mark 3:18, or Luke 6:15. However since the brothers of Christ are explicitly mentioned in several places, James must be the son of Alphaios, which is the primary use of the Greek construction. The relationship of Jude to this James is certain since this surely is the Jude of Matt. 13:55 and Mark 6:3, where the relationship of both Jude and James to Yahshua is explicitly stated, and he is also the Jude of the epistle (Jude), where the author explicitly calls himself the “brother of James”.
14 All of these were persisting with one accord in prayer, with the women and Mariam the mother of Yahshua and His brethren.
The Majority Text, and therefore the King James Version, has “with prayer and in supplication”; the text here follows the Codices Sinaiticus (א), Vaticanus (B), Alexandrinus (A), Ephraemi Syri (C), and Bezae (D).
The King James Version adds some commas in the text. It must be noted that the placement of punctuation is often quite arbitrary, since the Greek text originally had no punctuation, although there are certain grammatical indications of the beginnings of many sentences. The King James therefore has the end of this last verse: “... and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.” The last occurrence of the word with seen in the King James Version is found in the Codex Vaticanus (B) and in the Majority Text, but it is wanting in the Codices Sinaiticus (א), Alexandrinus (A), Ephraemi Syri (C), and Bezae (D). The Christogenea New Testament therefore follows those manuscripts which state that Mary is “the mother of Yahshua and His brethren.”
In Matthew 13:55-56 it is recorded that the people ask of Christ “Is this not the son of a craftsman? Is not His mother called Mariam and His brothers Iakobos and Ioseph and Simon and Iouda? And are not His sisters all here with us?” The text of Mark 6:3 also contains those same exact questions. Iouda and Iakobos, or Jude and James, are the brethren of Christ, and His half-brothers through his mother Mary. It is evident that Mary had several children later in life: at least four sons and two daughters, after she gave birth to Christ. Both Luke (2:7) and Matthew (1:25) call Yahshua Christ her firstborn son. After Christ, whom Luke says was supposed to be the son of Joseph, James and his other brothers must be sons of Mary by Alphaios, and there is a good Biblical reason for that which goes beyond this identification here, and which can be demonstrated quite easily: If Joseph was the legitimate heir to the throne of David, and if later he had other sons, those other sons would have a claim to that throne since Christ was not Joseph's genetic son. Yet if Joseph had no other sons, and Mary's later children are sired by another husband, then Christ is indeed Joseph's only legitimate heir, although He was actually raised up by Yahweh for Joseph. Therefore if Joseph died before he had other sons, Christ can be considered a son raised up as an heir to Joseph by Yahweh Himself, even though the conception happened before Joseph actually died. So while Mary indeed had other children later in life, she must have had them by another man, and here we see that James is mentioned as the son of Alphaios.
15 And in those days, Petros standing in the midst of the brethren spoke, (and the multitude of names there in that place were about a hundred and twenty,)
The Codex Bezae (D) and the Majority Text have Peter “standing in the midsdt of the students”; the text here follows the Codices Sinaiticus (א), Alexandrinus (A), Vaticanus (B) and Ephraemi Syri (C).
The Greek phrase ὄχλοςὀνομάτων (ochlos onomatōn) is literally a “multitude of names”, as it reads here. In his Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Joseph Thayer says of the use of ὄνομα(onoma, 3686) “In imitation of the Hebrew שמת(Num. i. 2, 18, 20; iii. 40, 43; xxvi. 53), the plural ὀνομάτων (onomatōn) is used equivalent to persons reckoned up by name: Acts i. 15; Rev. iii. 4; xi. 13.” It is an acceptable notion that Luke is using a Hebraism here, he himself being a Greek, as we have asserted that Luke did not come into the picture until the events recorded in Acts chapter 15, and therefore it must be that he has reproduced an account which he obtained from someone with a Hebrew background (i.e. a Galilaian, one of the other apostles). However the 9th edition of the Liddell & Scott Greek-English Lexicon gives one similar use of ὄνομα in Greek, in the construction “ἐν ὀνόματι εἶναι[which means] to have a name, to be notable” and it may be possible that the word Greek word may have naturally been used to indicate that about a hundred and twenty persons of those known by name among the disciples were present, and possibly others not so known. Nevertheless, the phrase which Luke used seems instead to be a Hebraism in the manner which Thayer has described in his lexicon.
[שמותshêmôwth shay-mōth, plural of שם, “name” (Strong’s #8034). The precise Hebraic format noted by Thayer above can be found at Gen. 2:20; Num. 1:20, 22; I Chr. 23:24; Ezra 10:16; Psa. 147:4; and Dan. 1:7 (Biblia Hebraica edited by Rudolf Kittel, 1937). There are many other Hebraic formats based upon the root שםwith prefixes, gender variation, etc., some of those noted by Thayer above. – David Gray]
16 “Men, brethren, it is necessary for the writing to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit before spoke through the mouth of David concerning Ioudas who had been a guide for those who seized Yahshua, 17 because he was counted among us and had obtained a share of this ministry.
A comma placed here after the word men is a device by which to palatably render the words “men brethren” in English. The Greek phrase implies the meaning “men who are brethren”.
Judas was a guide to those who seized Yahshua when he led them to the place called Gethsemane and indicated to them which of the people gathered there was Christ, as related in all four gospel accounts (Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22 and John 18). That Judas had a share of the ministry of Christ is allowed by Christ Himself, who is recorded in John chapter 6 as having stated: “...Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? 71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.”
18 So then he acquired a field from the wages of unrighteousness, and having been crashed face-down in the midst then all of his bowels had spilled out. 19 And it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, so as that field is called in their language ‘Akeldamach’, which is ‘Field of Blood’.
The word διάλεκτος (1258) is here “language”, but may have been rendered “dialect”, it obviously being the Greek root of our English word. διάλεκτος is “discourse: discussion, debate, arguing...II. language: the language of a country, dialect: a local word or phrase...III. a way of speaking, enunciation” (Liddell & Scott) and it appears in the New Testament only in Acts. It is always language in the Christogenea New Testament, at 1:19; 2:6 and 8; 21:40; 22:2; and 26:14. The word γλῶσσα (1100), is literally tongue, as it is in the Christogenea New Testament at Acts 2:4 and 2:11 to distinguish it from διάλεκτος. It may also have been rendered as language in this context, as it is at Acts 10:46 and 19:6. Peter’s use of the phrase “in their language”, speaking of a Hebrew word and speaking of the Judaeans of Jerusalem, certainly indicates that here Peter was speaking Greek and not Hebrew. While Peter certainly spoke Hebrew (i.e. Matt. 26:69-75) it was evidently with some difficulty (Matt. 26:73). The NA27, apparently following all of the later manuscripts and/or papyri (it does not state), adds the word for “own”, where it has has “in their own language”, as the King James Version has it “in their proper tongue”. The text here follows the Codices Sinaiticus (א), Vaticanus (B) and Bezae (D).
The reference to the field is a reference to that potter's field which the priests had purchased from the thirty pieces of silver which Judas returned to them. From Matthew 27: “1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: 2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. 3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. 6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. 7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. 8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. 9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; 10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.”
Many have charged that the account of Judas the traitor’s fate here conflicts with that related by Matthew (Matt. 27:3-10). Yet in their haste to find fault they fail to realize that neither account is necessarily complete, but both when placed together are quite cohesive if the events which are related here in Acts took place after Judas hanged himself as described by Matthew, which is entirely plausible. Judas hanged himself, and then when the body came down, whether it fell or whether it was cut down, being weakened in its constitution from rotting it could easily have been “crashed face-down in the midst then all of his bowels had spilled out.”
20 For it is written in the Book of Psalms: ‘His home must be desolate, and there must not be one dwelling in it’ and ‘Another must take his office’.
This is the writing Peter referred to at the beginning of this discourse recorded in verse 16. It seems that most Bible commentators attribute the first clause here to Psalm 69, where David prays against his enemies and says in part: “25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.” The second clause is then attributed to Psalm 109, where David prays against the wicked and says, among other things: “6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”
Yet in the Septuagint version of Psalm 109 we see both ideas expressed, and I will read two additional verses beyond those which were just cited from the King James Version: “6 Set thou a sinner against him; and let the devil stand at his right hand. 7 When he is judged, let him go forth condemned: and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few: and let another take his office of overseer. 9 Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children wander without a dwelling-place, and beg: let them be cast out of their habitations.” One cast from his dwelling-place certainly has a home left desolate.
As for the word office, where the King James Version has bishoprick, the Greek word ἐπισκοπή(1984) is “a watching over, visitation...II. the office ofἐπίσκοπος...generally an office” (Liddell & Scott). It is akin to the word ἐπίσκοπος (1985), the root word through the late ecclesiastical Latin word ebiscopus of our English word bishop, which is is “one who watches over, an overseer, guardian...a public officer, intendant” (Liddell & Scott). It is usually bishop in the King James Version. ἐπίσκοπος only appears at Acts 20:28 in Luke's writing where the word is overseer in the Christogenea New Testament, although it is rendered as supervisor in this version wherever it appears in Paul’s letters, at Philippians 1:1; I Timothy 3:2; and Titus 1:7.
21 Therefore it is necessary, of the men gathering together with us during all the time in which Prince Yahshua came in and went out with us, 22 beginning from the immersing of Iohannes until the day when He was taken up from us, for one of them to become a witness with us of His resurrection.”
The Greek word γενέσθαι is an infinitive form of the verb γίγνομαι (1096), which is literally “to come into being” (Liddell & Scott) and is therefore in this form to become here, the King James Version makes into “to be ordained”.
23 And they stood up two: Ioseph called Barsabbas who was surnamed Ioustos, and Maththias.
The Codex Bezae has “And he stood up two...”, he meaning Peter. The Greek word ἵστημι (2476), literally “to make to stand” (Liddell & Scott), may metaphorically have been rendered nominate here, “and they nominated two”.
As it has been said here already, the Book of Acts is a book of transition. In it, the apostles still have a lot to learn. Many of those things are later reflected in their epistles, and in the latter chapters of Acts. It may seem pretentious to second-guess the apostles. However it must, and it can, be realized that these were men no different from ourselves, even if they had the benefit of walking with Yahshua Christ for over three years. Of course Peter was a good man, and blessed in many ways, however the gospel accounts themselves tell us in many places that he was not perfect, and that he often was found rebelling against Christ, insisting upon his own will rather than giving himself over to the will of God. Therefore Peter was told “Get behind me, Satan; thou art an offence unto Me”, as it is recorded in Matthew chapter 16 when he resisted the things which Christ had told him concerning His own fate. Later Peter swore that he would never be offended on account of Christ, and as Christ immediately prophesied, Peter denied Him three times that very night. Peter also had to be told three times, as it is recorded in John after the Resurrection, that if he loved Christ he should feed His sheep. Once more, at a time much later than this, in Acts chapter 10 it is recorded that Peter had to be shown the vision of the four-square sheet three times before he understood what was being related to him by God.
The words of Christ describe to us the stubborn will of Peter where it is recorded that He told him in John chapter 21: “18 Truly, truly I say to you, when you were young, you girt yourself and walked about wherever you wished. But when you should grow old, you shall extend your hand, and another shall gird and bring you where you do not wish.” Here we have another example of Peter's stubborn will. Even if he intends to do good, here he is attempting to fill the role of the replacement for Judas Iscariot on his own initiative. Note that there is no indication that he has of yet prayed on the matter, nor is he “filled with the Holy Spirit” as we see happen in Acts chapter 2.
The proof of this interpretation is made right here: after this chapter of Acts, we do not hear again of this Matthias who is chosen by Peter to replace Judas. The will of man is vanity. Yahshua Christ chooses Paul as an apostle shortly afterward, and in Acts chapter 9 we see Paul's conversion by Christ Himself on the road to Damascus. Paul goes on to become the chief apostle to the nations of dispersed Israel, and his ministry is remembered to this day. The will of man is vanity, but the will of God upheld. [The Paul-bashers are as stubborn as Peter!]
24 Then praying they said: “You, Prince, Knower of all hearts, show which one of these two You have chosen 25 to receive the place of this ministry and ambassadorship from which Ioudas has transgressed to go to his own place.” 26 And they gave lots to them and the lot fell upon Maththias and he was counted along with the eleven ambassadors.
Prayer or not, good intentions or not, at this point the apostle had taken it upon his own initiative to nominate two men as candidates for the office left vacant by Judas, and the lot had to fall to one or the other. The prayer only asked Yahweh God to choose one of the two. Neither was not an option for the casting of the lot. Yet as we have already related, nothing ever became of the ministry of Matthias. Later, Christ had revealed His Own selection in Paul of Tarsus. That reflects the actual will of God, that when the devices of men are not aligned with His will, nothing will ever become of them.
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The Surprising Lead Cause of Death for Pregnant Women
MONDAY, May 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A major medical group has issued new guidance on detecting and treating the leading cause of death in pregnant women and new mothers in the United States.
Heart disease accounts for 26.5% of pregnancy-related deaths, and rates are highest among black women and those with low incomes. On Friday, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) responded with new guidelines on screening, diagnosis and management of heart disease.
"Most of these deaths are preventable, but we are missing opportunities to identify risk factors prior to pregnancy and there are often delays in recognizing symptoms during pregnancy and postpartum, particularly for black women," ACOG President Dr. Lisa Hollier said in an organization news release.
While pre-existing conditions play a part in the death toll, acquired heart conditions can develop silently during or after pregnancy.
A heart muscle disease called peripartum cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of death in expectant mothers, accounting for 23% of deaths late in pregnancy, according to ACOG.
The new practice guidelines are the work of a Hollier-led task force aimed at lowering heart disease-related deaths during and after pregnancy.
"The new guidance clearly delineates between common signs and symptoms of normal pregnancy versus those that are abnormal and indicative of underlying cardiovascular disease," Hollier said. "As clinicians, we need to be adept at distinguishing between the two if we're going to improve maternal outcomes."
Common risk factors for maternal death due to heart disease include age, high blood pressure during pregnancy, and obesity.
But the leading factor is race. The risk of death from heart disease is 3.4 times higher among black women than white women.
All pregnant women and new mothers should be assessed for heart disease using a tool known as the California CVD Tool Kit algorithm, according to the guidelines.
It was developed from research in California that found about 9 in 10 pregnant women and new moms who died of heart disease would have been identified as high risk had this new screening algorithm been used. High-risk patients need further evaluation and referral.
During pregnancy, the cardiovascular system undergoes major changes to sustain "tremendous increases in blood volume," said Dr. James Martin, chairman of ACOG's pregnancy and heart disease task force.
"Pregnancy is a natural stress test," he said. "That's why it is critical to identify the risk factors beforehand, so that a woman's care can be properly managed throughout the pregnancy and a detailed delivery plan can be developed through shared decision making between the patient and provider."
Women with known heart disease should see a cardiologist before getting pregnant and receive pre-pregnancy counseling, the practice guidelines advise.
Patients with moderate and high-risk heart disease should be managed during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum in a medical center that can provide a higher level of care. Collaboration between health care providers -- particularly ob-gyns and cardiologists -- is crucial, according to the guidelines.
The increased risk of death from heart disease can last up to a year after a woman gives birth. A follow-up visit with a primary care doctor or cardiologist should occur within 10 days for women with high blood pressure disorders and within seven to 14 days for women with heart disease and related disorders.
"It is crucial for these women to have a longer-term care plan," Hollier said. "So, we also recommend a comprehensive, cardiovascular postpartum visit at the three-month mark, at which time the clinician and patient can discuss collaborative plans for yearly follow-up and future pregnancy intentions."
The practice guidelines were published in the May issue of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.
The American Heart Association's campaign Go Red for Women has more on pregnancy and heart disease (https://www.goredforwomen.org/en/about-heart-disease-in-women/latest-research/pregnancy-and-heart-disease ).
SOURCE: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, news release, May 3, 2019
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Kathy Parsons' Review of "Reflections"
Dan Chadburn’s second album of impressive piano pieces quickly went from being an exciting discovery to one of my “Top 10 Favorite” albums for 1999. Four tracks include strings, flute, and/or horns, and eight are solo piano. The closing track, “Stay With Me” is one of the few vocal selections on otherwise instrumental albums that I really like. In most cases, for me, these songs seem awkward and out of place, but “Stay With Me” fits in very nicely and brings this excellent collection to a warm and tender close.
My favorite piece on “Reflections” is “Shifting Sands”, a pensive and somewhat somber solo piano work. The meter changes several times during the course of the piece, giving a sense of questioning or perhaps confusion. Passions rise as the piece develops, and then quiet to a feeling of inner peace. Pieces like this make my fingers itch to play them!
The title track is a lovely, wistful opening to the CD - reminiscing set to music. “Dream Catcher” is also a gentle, flowing piano solo. “Nightfall” is a soothing duet for piano and viola. “Amazing Grace” seems to be to the late ‘90s and early 2000s what Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” was to the ‘80s. I’ve reviewed three albums in the past few months that included it, and all had a lovely interpretation that was different from the others. Dan’s “hymntune improvisation” on this beloved hymn is fresh and contemporary while still true to the song’s sacred roots. “Invitation” is perhaps the most upbeat song in this collection. It is full of changing themes that dance and sing and maybe even plead a little bit. “Companion” is truly a love song with strings and horns gently underscoring the emotions expressed so beautifully. “Farewell” tugs at the heartstrings. Summed up in a single word, “Wow!”
The warmth and sincerity of Dan Chadburn’s playing and composing are refreshing, soothing, and inspiring. I am so happy to have found his music, and look forward to seeing what else he has up his sleeve!
Kathy Parsons
MainlyPiano.com
Kathy Parsons' Review of "Solo Piano"
Dan Chadburn’s debut recording is a soaring collection of thirteen wonderful compositions and improvisations. Some solo piano albums seem a bit empty and in need of accompaniment, but Dan clearly indicates why solo piano can be the most expressive of any musical medium. I’ve probably listened to this album at least twenty times, but each time, I’ve discovered something new, and the songs always seem as fresh as the first time I heard them. Dan’s playing style reflects his classical background, as well as his love of improvisation, and his compositions are full of passion and emotion without being overblown or melodramatic.
The CD opens with “Beginnings”, a sweetly uplifting piece full of hope and the joy of discovery. “Solitude” is spare and very atmospheric - I can picture someone playing this in a dark, empty room with only moonlight for illumination. My favorite song on the album is “Silence Once Served”, an introspective piece of musical soul-searching. The melody is simple, but so heartfelt that it affects me every time. “Midnight Romance” is a gently swirling waltz - quiet but passionate. “Elegy” is my other favorite piece. As its title indicates, there is a feeling of loss and sadness, but there is also a feeling of celebration of someone’s life. Gentle, yet very strong, there is an intensely personal feeling in this piece. “Home Again” lightens the mood, conveying warmth and a sense of relief at being back “home” - very contented!
Excellent from start to finish, I highly recommend this album!
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Secret document confirms US-Israel nuclear partnership By Jerry Mazza
By Jerry Mazza
www.jerrymazza.com
“According to Army Radio, the US has reportedly pledged to sell Israel materials used to produce electricity, as well as nuclear technology and other supplies.”
This information appeared as the lead article in yesterday’s Haaretz. The article went on to say, “Israel’s Army Radio reported on Wednesday that the United States has sent Israel a secret document committing to nuclear cooperation between the two countries . . .
“Other countries have refused to cooperate with Israel on nuclear matters because it has not signed the NPT [Nuclear Proliferation Treaty], and there has been increasing international pressure for Israel to be more transparent about its nuclear arsenal.”
In fact, Israel’s nuclear plant/arsenal was built in the Negev with the help of the French in 1956, and has been maintained by Israel to this day. It contains an estimated 200 to 300 nuclear warheads.
Haaretz added that “Army Radio’s diplomatic correspondent said the reported offer could put Israel on a par with India, another NPT holdout which is openly nuclear-armed but in 2008 secured a U.S.-led deal granting it civilian nuclear imports.” And thanks to the fact that previous President George Bush would not sign the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty on behalf of the US, as well.
Haaretz said that “During Tuesday’s meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama, the two leaders discussed the global challenge of nuclear proliferation and the need to strengthen the nonproliferation system.” This is certainly a laudable action if it’s true.
“They also discussed calls for a conference on a nuclear-free Middle East, which was proposed during the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NTP) review conference in New York and which Netanyahu said he would not take part in because it intends to single out Israel.” Was Netanyahu’s reference to New York a reference to the UN? Certainly, the city itself has the largest Jewish population outside of Israel?
In any case, “Obama informed Netanyahu that, as a co-sponsor charged with enabling the proposed conference, the United States will insist that such a conference have a broad agenda to include regional security issues, verification and compliance and discussion of all types of weapons of mass destruction.” Here, here, for President Obama.
Again, “Obama emphasized the conference will only take place if all countries ‘feel confident that they can attend,’ and said that efforts to single out Israel would make the prospects of such a conference unlikely.”
Well, why would Israel be singled out? Could it be for its repeated offers to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities? Or for Menachim Begin’s leveling Iraq’s newly built nuclear facility in 1981 with US F-15s and F-16s. Fortunately, there was no nuclear material in it at the time, but it remains the only time any nation has bombed a nuclear facility.
Despite that unpleasant history, “The two leaders agreed to work together to oppose efforts to single out Israel at the IAEA General Conference in September.”
Certainly, we wouldn’t want Israel to feel victimized. Especially in the way Jeff Gates recently described its victimization of the Egyptians in the 1967 War in his article, Bibi back at the White House – the consistency of Israeli duplicity comes ever more clearly in focus. It turns out, according to Gates, that “Israel was neither under attack nor under threat of attacks as its leadership has since conceded. Air raid sirens were just props in the stagecraft of waging war by way of deception.”
Gates also pointed out that “Though the US has been deceived with stunning consistency for more than six decades, a mid-east course correction remains possible. If this latest president can concede to himself that his political career is a product [of] those complicit at this deceit, he may yet emerge as the transformative leader that his supporters once hoped he would be.” How true.
Haaretz reported that “Obama emphasized that the U.S. will continue to work closely with Israel to ensure that arms control initiatives and policies do not detract from Israel’s security, and ‘support our common efforts to strengthen international peace and stability.’”
Ironically, “Dan Meridor, Netanyahu’s deputy prime minister in charge of nuclear affairs, said Obama’s endorsement was not new but that its public expression — two months after Washington supported Egypt’s proposal at a review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) — was significant.”
Perhaps some old wounds can be licked, seeing how, as Gates writes, “In the [1967] war’s first few hours, the ‘victimized’ Israelis destroyed the Egyptian Air Force while its aircraft was still on the ground.” So who is the real victim?
But Meridor went on to say that, “Obama’s statement ‘was without a doubt a special and significant text. It was important for us, and it was important for the region.’”
And Haaretz writes, “Israel neither confirms nor denies having nuclear weapons under an ‘ambiguity’ strategy billed as warding off foes while avoiding public provocations that can spark regional arms races.” An “ambiguity strategy; how ambiguous is that?
Perhaps as Haaretz concluded, “The official reticence, and its [Israel’s] toleration in Washington, has long aggrieved many Arabs and Iranians — especially given U.S.-led pressure on Tehran to rein in its nuclear program.”
That pressure comes as sanctions. As Shamus Cooke reports, Obama’s New Iran Sanctions: An Act of War. Cooke writes, “When the UN refused to agree to the severe sanctions that the U.S. wanted, Obama responded with typical Bush flair and went solo. The new U.S. sanctions against Iran — signed into law by Obama on July 1st — are an unmistakable act of war.” That’s a pretty heavy-handed response from the man bearing an olive branch for Israel and not wanting to “aggrieve” Tehran.
The New York Times responded, “If fully enforced, Iran’s economy will be potentially destroyed.” The Times outlined the central parts of the sanctions: “The law signed by Mr. Obama imposes penalties on foreign entities that sell refined petroleum to Iran or assist Iran with its domestic refining capacity. It also requires that American and foreign businesses that seek contracts with the United States government certify that they do not engage in prohibited business with Iran.” (July 1, 2010). Does that really make sense?
Cooke writes, “ . . . as Iran must import the majority of its oil from foreign corporations and nations, since it does not have the technology needed to refine the fuel that it pumps from its soil. By cutting this refined oil off, the U.S. will be causing massive, irreparable damage to the Iranian economy — equaling an act of war.
“In fact, war against Japan in WWII was sparked by very similar circumstances. Franklin Delano Roosevelt spearheaded a series of sanctions against Japan, which included the Export Control Act, giving the President the power to prohibit the export of a variety of materials to Japan, including oil. This gave Roosevelt the legal stance he needed to implement an oil embargo, an obvious act of war. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor simply brought the war out of the economic realm into the military sphere.” Right you are, Mr. Cooke.
“Iran is facing the exact same situation. Whereas the Obama administration calmly portrays economic sanctions as ‘peaceful’ solutions to political problems, they are anything but. The strategy here is to economically attack Iran until it responds militarily, giving the U.S. a fake moral high ground to ‘defend’ itself, since the other side supposedly attacked first.” So, starve Iran of refined oil and wait for the desired response. That’s clever.
But the bad news doesn’t stop there. According to the New York Times, “The Obama administration is accelerating the deployment of new defenses against possible Iranian missile attacks in the Persian Gulf, placing special ships [war ships] off the Iranian coast and antimissile systems in at least four [surrounding] Arab countries, according to administration and military officials.” (January 30, 2010).
The very same article says that U.S. General Petraeus admitted that, “ . . . the United States was now keeping Aegis cruisers on patrol in the Persian Gulf [Iran’s border] at all times. Those cruisers are equipped with advanced radar and antimissile systems designed to intercept medium-range missiles.” Iran, as well as the whole world, knows full well that “antimissile systems” are perfectly capable of going on the offensive — their real purpose.
The capper, Cook writes, is that “Iran is completely surrounded by countries occupied by the U.S. military, whether it [is] the mass occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, or the U.S. puppet states that house U.S. military bases in Arab nations (not to mention Zionist Israel, a U.S. cohort in its war aims against Iran). Contrary to the statements of President Obama, Iran is already well contained militarily.” This is truly mind-boggling.
As stated by Cooke, “It remains to be seen how closely U.S. allies will follow the new oil sanctions; they will be under tremendous pressure to do so. The European Union has already signaled that it will follow Obama’s lead.”
But then, what really is Obama’s lead? Leading Israel to the non-nuclear proliferation table while driving Iran to war to save itself from ruin? I’m confused. Won’t this further aggravate conditions in the Middle East? Isn’t this walking towards the brink of all-out war between Middle East nations and the already war-straddled US? Is there no end to the machinations, the waste of blood and money? And how does Israel keep US policy in its pocket on behalf of this insanity?
Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer, life-long resident of New York City. His book “State Of Shock – Poems from 9/11 on” is available at www.jerrymazza.com, Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.
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David Costillo has a passion to see people from all walks of life grow and flourish in the plans that the Lord would have for them. Finding deep-seated conviction in Jesus’ words that He came to give His followers “life abundantly” (John 10:10), David has a heart to see the Church grow emotionally and spiritually as well as bring this life-abundant message to others.
David serves as a spiritual director and advancement director for The Leadership Institute, an Orange, California-based ministry that mentors hundreds of Christian leaders to listen and respond to God’s voice, embody His character and extend His kingdom. This involves developing retreats, seminars, courses and mentoring relationships that intentionally keep intimacy with Christ, love for people and engagement in the mission of Christ at the heart of the lives and ministries of Christian leaders.
David has a master of arts degree with an emphasis in spiritual formation from Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, CA, studied undergraduate psychology at Biola University and was in the master of business administration program at Hope International University with an emphasis in international development. He has travelled internationally to Mexico, Romania, Mongolia, Rwanda, Kenya, DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, and France.
Prior to his role with The Leadership Institute, David served for four years as the western regional director of church relations for Christian relief and development ministry World Relief and as the program administrator of Biola University’s graduate philosophy program for three years.
David is married and has two daughters. David attends Redeemer Church in La Mirada, California, where he serves as chairman of the deacon board, and is also a spiritual director with the Evangelical Spiritual Directors Association. His hobbies include gardening, biking, camping, woodworking and reading. David is an ordained minister with the Evangelical Church Alliance.
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North Korea’s Internet, Mobile Networks “Paralyzed” Again, China’s News Agency Reports
China’s Xinhua news agency is reporting that North Korea’s Internet is “paralyzed”again, but this time its 3G mobile networks are down as well. Internet connectivity was still inaccessible as of 21:30 local time, according to Xinhua and reported by Reuters.
The latest reported outage comes hours after the North Korean government called President Obama a “monkey” and blamed the U.S. for the Internet disruptions, after the U.S. pinned the blame on North Korea for the Sony hack attack. The White House has not responded to the latest accusations by North Korea. The government is furious about Sony’s comedy The Interview, in which leader Kim Jong-un Kim is assassinated by a bumbling talk-show producer (Seth Rogen) and host (James Franco). Obama promised the U.S. would “respond proportionally to the attack, and in a place and time that we choose”. North Korea has denied responsibility for the Sony attack.
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What is data analytics?
Data Analytics is about understanding your data and using that knowledge to drive actions. It reveals the trends and outliers within the data which might be otherwise difficult to note. It is a scientific way to convert raw data into information that helps guide difficult decisions. A number of statistical tools and softwares are available to perform data analytics. The nature of data and the problem which needs to be solved using the insights from data guides the choice of statistical tools and techniques. Domain knowledge and expertise are also very important to interpret and apply the results obtained from analytics. Lastly, in our experience, the best data analysts are those who have the ability to dig into the data but can also layer common sense and domain knowledge into their recommendations.
What can analytics do for my business?
Businesses are using analytics to make more informed decisions and to plan ahead. It helps businesses to uncover opportunities which are visible only through an analytical lens. Analytics helps companies to decipher trends, patterns and relationships within data to explain, predict and react to a market phenomenon. It helps answer the following questions:
What is happening and what will happen?
Why is it happening?
What is the best strategy to address it?
Collecting large amounts of data about multiple business functions from internal and external sources is simple and easy using today’s advanced technologies. The real challenge begins, when companies struggle to infer useful insights from this data to plan for future. Using analytics businesses can improve their processes, increase profitability, reduce operating expenses and sustain the competitive edge for the longer run.
Where can I get analytics help?
Building analytics function requires long term commitment and extensive resources. An organization has an option to seek analytical help from in-house resources or from outside analytical vendors or use both in parallel. Any organization needs to spend considerable time and money to recruit and train in-house analytical help. At times they may not possess the required know-how to recruit such specialized staff or decide on the technologies that would be best suitable for carrying out analysis. In these circumstances they rely on analytical vendors like IQR Consulting. Such vendors can closely work with the management team to help the organization to adopt analytics. The organization has to trust and co-operate with the vendors while sharing their data and researching it to make the analytics engagement a success. Organizations can follow another model in which they build an internal team to manage their relationships with an external analytical vendor. Many analytically mature companies resort to this to supplement their internal efforts
What do analytics projects or engagements look like?
A typical analytics project or engagement is generally divided into the following four stages:
Stage 1 - ‘Research’ where the analyst helps to identify and understand the problems and issues that the business is facing or would be encountering in the future. At this step there is significant interaction between the management team and analysts.
Stage 2 - ‘Plan’ where the analyst helps decide what type of data is required, sources from which the data is to be procured, how the data needs to be prepared for use and what methods to be used for analysis.
Stage 3 - ‘Execute’ where the analyst explores and analyzes data from various angles. The analysis paves way to interesting results that are shared with the management. Based on these results, strategies are formulated to tackle the problems identified in stage 1.
Stage 4 - ‘Evaluate’ where the analyst measures the results of the strategies formulated and executed. This stage helps learn and revise future strategies and processes.
What does a good business strategy using analytics look like?
A strategy built using analytics is a set of simple implementable recommendations that efficiently uses the information drawn from the data. An effective and efficient strategy suggests best use of the available business resources. It helps to find solutions for some of the biggest problems faced by the company. The process followed to formulate the strategy might be complex, but the final result is actionable and useful for management.
When is the right time for me to deploy an analytics strategy?
Analytics is not for one time or special event, yet it is a continuous process. The businesses should not take their attention off analytics and plan to adopt it as a regular business function. The business has to make collecting, cleaning and analyzing data a routine and a support role to functions that do not have the capability to do so. Most businesses look towards analytics when they face a problem and think the solution lies within their data. Once businesses start appreciating the potential analytics has to solve problems, they begin to use it to take all kinds of strategic and regular business decisions.
How much time and resources are required?
The resources and time required for an analytics project is dependent on a number of factors. The major factors being the scope and scale of the project, readiness and availability of required data, understanding of the analysis tools, skills and knowledge of the analytical team and most importantly, acceptance and approval from the management team to carry on the analytics project. The analytics team generally defines a project timeline dependent on the factors listed above. Intermediary findings and analysis difficulties might alter the goals and objectives of the project. This might require the team to re-work the time and resources required for completing the project. Deemsoft would be happy to provide you an estimate of the resources required to complete the analytics project and goals that you have in mind for your organization. Please contact us with details of your project.
What kind of data is needed for analysis?
Data is the most important resource for any analytics project hence the business should make sure that it captures its business and customer data in a structured manner. This will ensure that company has all the relevant data in the most usable form and can help the project move along quickly.
Delays in analytics projects generally take place when the data rendered to the analytical team is not usable in its current form. The data needs to be structured, cleaned and mined to make it usable. This step can take from hours to days to months depending upon the size and form of data.
Deemsoft would be happy to talk to you more about the state of your data and more specifically how 'ready' it is for analysis projects. Please contact us with details of your project.
How much does data analytics costs?
For analytical needs, an organization can decide to use data analysis softwares like SAS or SPSS, seek help from custom consulting companies like Deemsoft or even build data analytic capabilities in-house. Today companies are even using a combination of the above.
Each of the above options comes with their own pros and cons. An organization has to find which option would suit their analytical needs best depending upon the nature of their business and existing resources. The costs associated with these options are rarely same for any two organizations. Deemsoft provides free consultation to evaluate the solutions needed.
How predictive modeling is used across business functions?
There are two types of models, predictive and descriptive. Descriptive models are good to explain what has happened and what is happening. Predictive models explain what would be happening and why. These models are increasingly being utilized to solve problems across finance, marketing, human resource, operations and other business functions. At IQR, we have seen these models being used in financial services, casinos, airlines, retail, telecom, insurance, healthcare and even manufacturing industries.
Increased competition has expanded the scope, the need and the use of predictive modeling. Businesses need to be more proactive than before to build or sustain a competitive advantage. They need to get answers for tomorrow even before it arrives.
Predictive models are created using past and present data to foresee happenings in future. These models are being built to find answers to some of the most challenging businesses questions. It helps to manage portfolio returns, retain customers, undertake cross-selling activities, organize direct marketing campaigns, assess employee attrition and absenteeism, manage risks and formulate underwriting criteria, predict inactive customer accounts, cope with customer service requests, plan inventory and much more.
“Big data” is an all-inclusive term used to describe vast amounts of information. In contrast to traditional structured data which is typically stored in a relational database, big data varies in terms of volume, velocity, and variety. Big data is characteristically generated in large volumes – on the order of terabytes or exabytes of data (starts with 1 and has 18 zeros after it, or 1 million terabytes) per individual data set. Big data is also generated with high velocity – it is collected at frequent intervals – which makes it difficult to analyze (though analyzing it rapidly makes it more valuable). Or in simple words we can say “Big Data includes data sets whose size is beyond the ability of traditional software tools to capture, manage, and process the data in a reasonable time.”
How much data does it take to be called Big Data?
This question cannot be easily answered absolutely. Based on the infrastructure on the market the lower threshold is at about 1 to 3 terabytes. But using Big Data technologies can be sensible for smaller databases as well, for example if complex mathematiccal or statistical analyses are run against a database. Netezza offers about 200 built in functions and computer languages like Revolution R or Phyton which can be used in such cases.
What is the role of intuition in the era of big data? Have machines and data supplanted the human mind?
Contrary to what some people believe, intuition is as important as ever. When looking at massive, unprecedented datasets, you need someplace to start. In Too Big to Ignore, I argue that intuition is more important than ever precisely because there’s so much data now. We are entering an era in which more and more things can be tested. Big data has not replaced intuition — at least not yet; the latter merely complements the former. The relationship between the two is a continuum, not a binary.
A key piece of big data is its reliance on “unstructured” and “semi-structured” data. Can you explain what’s going on here?
Roughly 80% of the information generated today is of an unstructured variety. Small data is still very important — e.g., lists of customers, sales, employees and the like. Think Excel spreadsheets and database tables. However, tweets, blog posts, Facebook likes, YouTube videos, pictures and other forms of unstructured data have become too big to ignore. Again, big data here serves as a complement to — not a substitute for — small data. When used right, big data can reduce uncertainty, not eliminate it. We can know more about previously unknowable things. We can solve previously vexing problems. And finally, there’s the Holy Grail: Big data is helping organizations make better predictions and better business decisions.
Is it a new trend?
Not exactly. Though there is a lot of buzz around the topic, big data has been around a long time. Think back to when you first heard of scientific researchers using supercomputers to analyze massive amounts of data. The difference now is that big data is accessible to regular BI users and is applicable to the enterprise. The reason it is gaining traction is because there are more public use cases about companies getting real value from big data (like Walmart analyzing real-time social media data for trends, then using that information to guide online ad purchases). Though big data adoption is limited right now, IDC determined that the big data technology and services market was worth $3.2B USD in 2010 and is going to skyrocket to $16.9B by 2015.
Where does big data come from?
Big data is often boiled down to a few varieties including social data, machine data, and transactional data. Social media data is providing remarkable insights to companies on consumer behavior and sentiment that can be integrated with CRM data for analysis, with 230 million tweets posted on Twitter per day, 2.7 billion Likes and comments added to Facebook every day, and 60 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute (this is what we mean by velocity of data). Machine data consists of information generated from industrial equipment, real-time data from sensors that track parts and monitor machinery (often also called the Internet of Things), and even web logs that track user behavior online. Major retailers like Amazon.com, which posted $10B in sales in Q3 2011, and restaurants like US pizza chain Domino’s, which serves over 1 million customers per day, are generating petabytes of transactional big data. The thing to note is that big data can resemble traditional structured data or unstructured, high frequency information.
Where is the big data trend going?
Eventually the big data hype will wear off, but studies show that big data adoption will continue to grow. With a projected $16.9B market by 2015 (Wikibon goes even further to say $50B by 2017), it is clear that big data is here to stay. However, the big data talent pool is lagging behind and will need to catch up to the pace of the market. McKinsey & Company estimated in May 2011 that by 2018, the US alone could face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts with the know-how to use the analysis of big data to make effective decisions. The emergence of big data analytics has permanently altered many businesses’ way of looking at data. Big data can take companies down a long road of staff, technology, and data storage augmentation, but the payoff – rapid insight into never-before-examined data – can be huge. As more use cases come to light over the coming years and technologies mature, big data will undoubtedly reach critical mass and will no longer be labeled a trend. Soon it will simply be another mechanism in the BI ecosystem.
Who are some of the BIG DATA users?
From cloud companies like Amazon to healthcare companies to financial firms, it seems as if everyone is developing a strategy to use big data. For example, every mobile phone user has a monthly bill which catalogs every call and every text; processing the sheer volume of that data can be challenging. Software logs, remote sensing technologies, information-sensing mobile devices all pose a challenge in terms of the volumes of data created. The size of Big Data can be relative to the size of the enterprise. For some, it may be hundreds of gigabytes, for others, tens or hundreds of terabytes to cause consideration.
Data visualization is becoming more popular than ever.
In my opinion, it is absolutely essential for organizations to embrace interactive data visualization tools. Blame or thank big data for that and these tools are amazing. They are helping employees make sense of the never-ending stream of data hitting them faster than ever. Our brains respond much better to visuals than rows on a spreadsheet. Companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Netflix and many others understand the cardinal need to visualize data. And this goes way beyond Excel charts, graphs or even pivot tables. Companies like Tableau Software have allowed non-technical users to create very interactive and imaginative ways to visually represent information.
Data science, some say, is actually a mix of art and science — the art of knowing what to look at amidst a profusion of information. Can you explain a bit about this? How people can develop those skills?
The data scientist is one of the hottest jobs in the world right now. In a recent report, McKinsey estimated that the U.S. will soon face a shortage of approximately 175,000 data scientists. Demand far exceeds supply, especially given the hype around big data. However, to become a data scientist one does not necessarily follow a linear path. There are many myths surrounding data scientists. True data scientists possess a wide variety of skills. Most come from backgrounds in statistics, data modeling, computer science and general business. Above all, however, they are a curious lot. They are never really satisfied. They enjoy looking at data and running experiments.
We seem to be entering an era of exponential growth of data. Is there a point at which many enterprise systems will cease to operate?
It’s an interesting point, and I discuss it in Chapter 4 of Too Big to Ignore. If we look at the relational databases that organizations have historically used to store and retrieve enterprise information, then you are absolutely right. However, new tools like MapReduce, Hadoop, NoSQL, NewSQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others allow organizations to store much larger data sets. The old boss is not the same as the new boss.
How will big data impact small businesses? Will we see an era where every business (even barbershops or corner stores) will somehow be leveraging big data?
A few relatively small organizations that have taken advantage of big data. Quantcast is one of them. There’s no shortage ofmyths around big data, and one of the most pernicious is that an organization needs thousands of employees and billions in revenue to take advantage of it. Simply not true. I don’t know in the near future if my electrician or my barber will embrace big data. However, we are living in an era of ubiquitous and democratized technology.
How big data will trickle down and impact individuals? Are there direct ways this will impact our day-to-day lives in the coming years?
It’s already happening. Big data is affecting our lives in more ways than we can possibly fathom. The recent NSA Prism scandal shed light on the fact that governments are tracking what we’re doing. Companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter and others would not be nearly as effective without big data. As you know, most people don’t work in data centers. Rather, it’s better for people to know about the companies whose services they use. Are those companies using big data? These days, the answer is probably yes. By extension, then, big data is affecting you whether you know it or not. In addition, as more and more companies embrace big data, there will be major disruption in the workforce.
Are “big data skills” something that everyone will need to learn moving forward? Or will it become simple enough over time that anyone can do it — much like anyone who knows Microsoft Word can update a website now versus needing to know HTML 15 years ago? What skills do workers need to sharpen to prepare for the era of big data?
I hesitate to say that everyone will need to learn data-related skills. Dataphobes will always exist, for better or worse. (Again, the barber example is a good one.) However, knowledge workers will have to follow, lead or get out of the way. Based upon my research, we have entered a more data-oriented world. Millenials are particularly comfortable with data. They are constantly interacting with technology and data. Wearable technology and the Internet of Things are coming, and soon. “Get used to big data. It really has become too big to ignore.”
What tools do I need to analyze it?
Another reason big data is starting to go mainstream is the fact the tools to analyze it are becoming more accessible. For decades, arcplan partners Teradata (NYSE: TDC), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and Oracle (NasdaqGS: ORCL) have provided thousands of companies with terabyte scale data warehouses, but there is a new trend of big data being stored across multiple servers that can handle unstructured data and scale easily. This is due to the increasing use of open source technologies like Hadoop, a framework for distributing data processing across multiple nodes, which allows for fast data loading and real-time analytic capabilities. In effect, Hadoop allows the analysis to occur where the data resides, but it does require specific skills and is not an easy technology to adopt. Analytic platforms like arcplan, which connects to Teradata and SAP HANA, SAP’s (NYSE: SAP) big data appliance, allow data analysis and visualization on big data sets. So in order to make use of big data, companies may need to implement new technologies, but some traditional BI solutions can make the move with you. Big data is simply a new data challenge that requires leveraging existing systems in a different way.
What is Hadoop?
The Apache Hadoop software library allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. The software library is designed to scale from single servers to thousands of machines; each server using local computation and storage. Instead of relying on hardware to deliver high-availability, the library itself handles failures at the application layer. As a result, the impact of failures is minimized by delivering a highly-available service on top of a cluster of computers. For more info, see this Hadoop FAQ. Or Hadoop is a distributed computing platform written in Java. It incorporates features similar to those of the Google File System and of MapReduce.
Who supports and funds Hadoop?
Hadoop is one of the projects of the Apache Software Foundation. The main Hadoop project is contributed to by a global network of developers. Sub-projects of Hadoop are supported by the world’s largest Web companies, including Facebook and Yahoo.
Why is Hadoop popular?
Hadoop’s popularity is partly due to the fact that it is used by some of the world’s largest Internet businesses to analyze unstructured data. Hadoop enables distributed applications to handle data volumes in the order of thousands of exabytes.
Where does Hadoop find applicability in business?
Hadoop, as a scalable system for parallel data processing, is useful for analyzing large data sets. Examples are search algorithms, market risk analysis, data mining on online retail data, and analytics on user behavior data. Hadoop’s scalability makes it attractive to businesses because of the exponentially increasing nature of the data they handle. Another core strength of Hadoop is that it can handle structured as well as unstructured data, from a variable number of sources.
What are the enterprise adoption challenges associated with Hadoop
To many enterprises, the Hadoop framework is attractive because it gives them the power to analyze their data, regardless of volume. Not all enterprises, however, have the expertise to drive that analysis such that it delivers business value. Scaling up and optimizing Hadoop computing clusters involves custom coding, which can mean a steep learning curve for data analytics developers. Hadoop was not originally designed with the security functionalities typically required for sensitive enterprise data. Other potential problem areas for enterprise adoption of Hadoop include integration with existing databases and applications, and the absence of industry-wide best practices.
How has Hadoop evolved over the years?
Hadoop originally derives from Google’s implementation of a programming model called MapReduce. Google’s MapReduce framework could break down a program into many parallel computations, and run them on very large data sets, across a large number of computing nodes. An example use for such a framework is search algorithms running on Web data. Hadoop, initially associated only with web indexing, evolved rapidly to become a leading platform for analyzing big data. Cloudera, an enterprise software company, began providing Hadoop-based software and services in 2008. In 2012, GoGrid, a cloud infrastructure company, partnered with Cloudera to accelerate the adoption of Hadoop-based business applications. Also in 2012, Dataguise, a data security company, launched a data protection and risk assessment tool for Hadoop.
Is there an easy way to migrate data from Hadoop into a relational database?
The Hadoop JDBC driver can be used to pull data out of Hadoop and then use the DataDirect JDBC Driver to bulk load the data into Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, and other relational databases.
When loading results from a Big Data reduction into a relational database with indexing we see some really slow results dealing with such a large index. How can we make it more manageable?
The load operation is actually updating the index while you’re loading – the key is to make sure you’re not indexing while loading as it causes too many collisions and slows the whole process down.
What is big data security analytics?
Add the words “information security” (or “cybersecurity” if you like) before the term “data sets” in the definition above. Security and IT operations tools spit out an avalanche of data like logs, events, packets, flow data, asset data, configuration data, and assortment of other things on a daily basis. Security professionals need to be able to access and analyze this data in real-time in order to mitigate risk, detect incidents, and respond to breaches. These tasks have come to the point where they are “difficult to process using on-hand data management tools or traditional (security) data processing applications.”
What is a security analytic?
First, security analysis is the examination of a multitude of phenomena for the purpose of detecting and/or responding to security incidents capable of impacting the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of IT assets. I would then define a security analytic as: A deduction based upon the results of interactions of multiple simultaneous security phenomena. The thing that big data security analytics technologies allow us to do is capture more data and perform multi-variable security analytics. In the past we relied on simple security analytics to help us trigger a response. For example: “Trigger a security alarm when someone has 3 failed log-in attempts on a critical system.” Effective but too simple and way too many false positives. With big data security analytics, we can generate security analytics that get much deeper: “Trigger a security alert when someone has 3 failed log-in attempts on a critical system when this activity is executed after hours from an employee device, the employee’s job responsibility is such that he or she should not be logging into this system, and the physical security system indicates that the employee is not in the building.” This is the kind of stuff that companies like Click Security, Lancope, and Solera Networks are working on.
Do big data security analytics require Hadoop?
No. Hadoop technologies are certainly built into some big data security analytics solutions from vendors like IBM and RSA, but there is no requirement for Hadoop per se. Lots of vendors have developed their own data repositories (in lieu of Hadoop) that collect, store, and analyze security data. In the future, it is likely that Hadoop and other big data technologies will find their way into big data security analytics solutions but there are plenty of leading big data security analytics solutions that don’t use or integrate with Hadoop at this time.
Isn’t big data security analytics only good for analysis of massive amounts of historical data?
This is certainly one of the primary use cases but there are others as well. Many big data security analytics solutions are built using “stream processing” to accommodate the high I/O rate needed to process massive amounts of security data. In simple terms, stream processing distributes the processing load over a number of distributed nodes. Each node can provide local security analytics and the nodes combine to form a computing grid for more global security data analysis value. Big data security analytics built using this type of stream processing and grid architecture are designed for instant event detection and forensics. ESG calls this model, “real-time big data security analytics solutions.” ESG calls big data security analytics designed for the historical use “asymmetric big data security analytics solutions.”
Isn’t big data security analytics for big companies with lots of security skills and resources
Yes, those are the types of organizations on the leading edge but I would argue that all medium to large organizations need this type of security intelligence. Big companies will likely buy products and solutions while smaller companies will reach out to service providers like Arbor Networks (PacketLoop), Dell/SecureWorks, or the new SAIC spin-out Leidos. The best products and services will bake-in intelligent algorithms, intuitive visualization, and process automation.
How do I get started with big data security analytics?
My suggestion is to download open source tools like BigSnarf, PacketPig, or sqrrl. This isn’t an exhaustive list but I’ve hit the major areas. Hopefully, this will help security professionals move beyond the hype and start to understand how big data security analytics can deliver real value.
What exactly is Big Data Analytics?
It’s two things: big data and the kind of analytics users want to do with big data. Let’s start with big data, then come back to analytics. Data isn’t big until it breaks 10Tb. So that’s the low end of big data. And some user organizations have cached away hundreds of terabytes--just for analytics. The size of big data is relative; hundreds of TBs isn’t new, but hundred just for analytics is—at least, for most user organizations.
Big Data is all about multi-terabyte datasets, right?
No, there’s more to it than that. Size aside, there are other ways to define big data. In particular, big data tends to be diverse, and it’s the diversity that drives up the data volume. For example, analytic methods that are on the rise need to correlate data points drawn from many sources, both in the enterprise and outside it. Furthermore, one of the new things about analytics is that it’s NOT just based on structured data, but on unstructured data (like human language text) and semi-structured data (like XML files, RSS feeds), and data derived from audio and video. Again, the diversity of data types drives up data volume. Finally, big data can be defined by its velocity or speed. This may also be defined by the frequency of data generation. For example, think of the stream of data coming off of any kind of sensor, say thermometers sensing temperature, microphones listening for movement in a secure area, or video cameras scanning for a specific face in a crowd. With sensor data flying at you relentlessly in real time, data volumes get big in a hurry. Even more challenging, the analytics that go with streaming data have to make sense of the data and possibly take action—all in real time. Hence, big data is more than large datasets. It’s also about diverse data sources or data types (and these may be arriving at various speeds), plus the challenges of analyzing data in these demanding circumstances.
What kinds of analytics go with big data?
The kind of analytics applied to big data is often called “advanced analytics.” A better term would be “discovery analytics” because that’s what users are trying to accomplish. In other words, with big data analytics, the user is typically a business analyst who is trying to discover new business facts that no one in the enterprise knew before. To do that, you need large volumes of data that has a lot of details. And this is usually data that the enterprise has not tapped for analytics. For example, in the middle of the recent economic recession, companies were constantly being hit by new forms of customer churn. To discover the root cause of the newest form of churn, a business analyst grabs several terabytes of detailed data drawn from operational applications to get a view of recent customer behaviors. He may mix that data with historic data from a data warehouse. Dozens of queries later, he’s discovered a new churn behavior in a subset of the customer base. With any luck, he’ll turn that information into an analytic model, with which the company can track and predict the new form of churn.
What kind of analytic tool does a business analyst need for the “discovery analytics” that’s common with big data?
Discovery analytics against big data can be enabled by different types of analytic tools, including those based on SQL queries, data mining, statistical analysis, fact clustering, data visualization, natural language processing, text analytics, artificial intelligence, and so one. It’s quite an arsenal of tool types, and savvy users get to know their analytic requirements first before deciding which tool type is appropriate to their needs.
Is big data a problem just to be managed (with its size, diversity, and speed) or is it an opportunity to be seized?
An early extraction of survey data shows that only 30% of users responding to the survey are concerned about the technical challenges of collecting and managing big data. The vast majority – namely 70% percent of the users responding to the survey – say that big data is definitely an opportunity. That’s because through analysis the user organization can discovery new facts about their customers, markets, partners, costs, and operations, then use that information for business advantage.
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ANDY: The Innocents (Clayton, UK, 1961)
05/02/2012 · by Andy · in Andy's List. ·
Ambiguity in film can be one of the hardest things to pull off successfully. Unlike in literature where the novelist has the potential use of internal monologue and an assorted bag of writers’ tricks to hand, in a film you are presented with the ultimate problem that at some point you have to put something on the screen. THE INNOCENTS contains one of those cinematic images that is burned onto my retina and it is extraordinary because the viewer is forced to question what they are seeing as much as the story’s central character, the highly-strung governess Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr). It is a simple wide shot of an ornamental lake in the grounds of stately Bly house on a grey afternoon pouring with rain. Through the mist, amongst the reeds near the opposite bank we see the terrible figure of a woman in black seemingly standing on the surface of the water. The woman is, we have been led to believe, the previous governess of Bly, Miss Jessel, who drowned herself a year ago. Every time I watch this unsettling scene I find myself leaning forward and peering into the screen to try and make sense of what I am seeing. We discover that Jessel took her own life after the death of her lover Quint (Peter Wyngarde), the coarse and aggressive valet to the master of Bly. The master is responsible for his young niece and nephew, Flora and Miles, after the death of their parents but does not wish to be involved with the raising of children, keeping them isolated in his country estate whilst he resides in town. The newly-arrived Miss Giddens begins to suspect that the spirits of Quint and Jessel not only haunt the grounds of Bly but are attempting to possess the bodies of the children who were so attached to them in life.
An adaptation of Henry James’ novella The Turn Of The Screw, Jack Clayton’s film had a succession of impressive names attached to the screenplay over the course of its development. From its beginnings in the form of William Archibald’s stage adaptation The Innocents, Harold Pinter, John Mortimer and finally Truman Capote all had a hand in the finished product. It was Pinter who advised Clayton against the use of flashbacks, arguing that to show Quint and Miss Jessel before their deaths would diminish the power of the “ghosts”. John Mortimer inserted scenes with the uncle returning to Bly and the family attending a cricket match in the village, but these were promptly removed by Capote to keep the action firmly restricted to the house, ratcheting up the claustrophobic tension. The finished screenplay belongs principally to Capote, who brought an atmosphere of Southern Gothic to an otherwise quintessentially British production. It was he who added the decaying grandeur of the house and its vast gardens of marble statues infested with beetles, as well as the Freudian undertones to the relationship between Miss Giddens and Miles which have probably led to the film actually increasing in shock value since the sixties. Clayton’s direction and the cinematography of Freddie Francis deliver a master class in how to transfer a ghost story to film: there are numerous horror movies staples at work here that have probably never been bettered in execution. When Deborah Kerr walks the corridors of the house in the dead of night with a flickering candelabra the edges of the screen are completely black, like we’re peering down a tunnel of dim light. Notably, whenever we see an image of Quint or Miss Jessel it is always preceded by a shot of Miss Gidden’s reaction, not the other way around as in most horror movies, leading us to question whether we’re seeing something that’s really there or seeing through her eyes as she becomes more paranoid and afraid. Every detail is perfect: at the beginning of the film even the traditional fanfare over the 20th Century Fox logo is missing, replaced by Flora’s eerie song. “Creepy kids” is another horror movie staple but the performances that Clayton extracts from his two child actors (Martin Stephens and Pamela Franklin) are astonishing. Everyone remembers the girls from THE SHINING (1980) but the director does far more here than get children to stare blankly into the lens: in one scene he might have us thinking that the children are communing with the devil himself, in the next they are fragile, vulnerable babies being terrorised by a deranged governess with no one else around to help them.
Traditionally, haunted house films had always been viewed as campy run-arounds: equal parts comedy and horror. Vincent Price or Abbott and Costello were probably mugging in the pantry. Even the darker efforts like James Whale’s THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932) play as many scenes for laughs as screams. I am struggling to think of a horror film made before 1961 that takes itself as seriously as THE INNOCENTS (the obvious exception is PSYCHO (1960), which is also a kind of haunted house film), but the decision to tone down the melodrama and eliminate the comedy pays off. Why? Because it’s terrifying.
Tags: deborah kerr, henry james, Horror, jack clayton, truman capote
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2 responses to “ANDY: The Innocents (Clayton, UK, 1961)”
domf666 06/02/2012 at 2:16 pm · · Reply →
The only other serious Ghost story is The Uninvited(US1944, Lewis Allen), which by pure coincidence is due out in March on DVD (I have just checked and it has been put back to May!), a brilliantly effective film from Paramount with Ray Milland, just a year before The Lost Weekend.
I also love “The Bespoke Overcoat” an excellent short film from Jack Clayton, now included as an extra on the BFI DVD.
dirkmalcolm 06/02/2012 at 10:02 pm · · Reply →
It is a genuinely creepy film. I love the source novel and if you want to add another book to the pile, may I recommend Sarah Water’s homage to TURN OF THE SCREW: THE LITTLE STRANGER which is an excellent examination of British class and a brilliant exercise in ambiguity.
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Tag: Christmas Day Parade
Disney Announces Performer Line Ups for Holiday TV Specials
Halloween is over, November is here and Disney has announced the performer line ups for the upcoming Holiday TV Specials that will be broadcast on ABC and the Disney Channel.
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
“The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration” premieres Thursday, November 29, from 9–11 PM EST on The ABC Television Network and on the ABC app. Join singer, songwriter and “Dancing with the Stars: Juniors” host Jordan Fisher and “Modern Family” actress Sarah Hyland as they host the magical two-hour event from Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort. Joined by Disneyland host Jesse Palmer, Disney Parks and ABC will kick off the holiday season with a star-studded prime-time celebration showcasing incredible musical performances, special appearances and Disney magical moments including an extraordinary castle lighting spectacular from Disney Parks around the world – traveling the globe from Lake Buena Vista, Florida, and Anaheim, California, to Paris, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Musical performances include the following stars:
Multi-GRAMMY Award-winning superstar, Gwen Stefani lights up the night with “Feliz Navidad.”
GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter Meghan Trainor performs a medley of her hits.
CMA Award-winning country artist Brett Eldredge, joined by Meghan Trainor, sing the classic holiday duet “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from Eldredge’s album “Glow.”
Andrea Bocelli shares his unmistakable voice, singing a Christmas classic; then Andrea is joined by his son, Matteo Bocelli, to perform their beautiful new duet, “Fall on Me” from Disney’s “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.”
Jordan Fisher performs his Christmas hit, “Come December.”
GRAMMY Award-nominated artist Aloe Blacc performs his debut single, “I Got Your Christmas Right Here,” from his first-ever holiday album, “Christmas Funk,” out November 9.
American Idol winner Maddie Poppe sings “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”
Chart-topping, breakout music group Why Don’t We performs a medley of the classic “Silent Night” and their original holiday song “Hey Good Lookin.”
Disney Parks Presents a 25 Days of Christmas Holiday Party
“Disney Parks Presents a 25 Days of Christmas Holiday Party” kicks off Friday, November 23 in the DisneyNOW app and Saturday, December 1, from 8-8:30 PM EST on Disney Channel. Hosted by Jordan Fisher and Disney Channel’s “Coop & Cami Ask the World” stars Ruby Rose Turner and Dakota Lotus, this festive half-hour special will feature star-studded musical performances and special appearances by Disney Channel stars Booboo Stewart (Disney’s “Descendants 3”), Kylee Russell (Disney Channel Original Movie “ZOMBIES”), Sadie Stanley (Disney Channel Original Movie “Kim Possible”) and Sean Giambrone (Disney Channel Original Movie “Kim Possible,” ABC’s “The Goldbergs”). Stanley and Giambrone will take viewers behind the scenes of Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy, where guests will experience the world of Pixar’s “Cars” films and come face-to-face with Lightning McQueen. The experience rolls into Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in spring 2019.
Musical performances include:
Gwen Stefani sings the holiday classic “Let It Snow.”
Brett Eldredge performs “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas.”
Disney Channel’s “Andi Mack” star Asher Angel rocks out to “Last Christmas.”
Disney Channel’s “ZOMBIES” star Meg Donnelly brings tropical cheer with her performance of “Mele Kalikimaka.”
Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade
“Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade” airs on Tuesday, December 25, from 10 AM until 12 PM EST and 9-11 AM CST/MST/PST on ABC and on the ABC app. Airtimes may vary, so be sure to check local listings.
This Christmas, Disney Parks celebrates the joy of the season as hosts Jordan Fisher and Sarah Hyland share this magical holiday tradition with families around the globe. Co-hosted by Jesse Palmer, the Christmas Day celebration will be merrier than ever before, bringing together the adored Christmas Day parade, special musical performances, surprise celebrity guests and heartwarming family stories to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year. Joining the festivities as parade correspondents are Freeform’s “grown-ish” actor Trevor Jackson and star of Freeform’s upcoming series “Good Trouble,” Cierra Ramirez.
Musical performances include the following:
Gwen Stefani performs “Winter Wonderland” from her Christmas album, “You Make It Feel Like Christmas.”
Brett Eldredge sings the holiday classic “Do You Hear What I Hear?”
Andrea Bocelli sings the incredibly moving “Ave Maria”; then Andrea is joined by his son, Matteo Bocelli, to perform “White Christmas.”
Host Jordan Fisher performs “This Christmas.”
Aloe Blacc performs “Tell Your Mama” from his first holiday album, “Christmas Funk,” out November 9.
Freeform’s “Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger” star and Hollywood Records artist Olivia Holt sings a holiday tune.
American Idol winner Maddie Poppe celebrates the season with “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”
Disney’s dynamic a cappella group DCappella performs the popular Christmas hit “Last Christmas.”
Why Don’t We performs “Kiss You This Christmas” from their holiday album, “A Why Don’t We Christmas.”
Author RayPosted on November 3, 2018 November 3, 2018 Categories ABC, Disney ChannelTags ABC, Christmas, Christmas Day Parade, Christmas Holiday, Disney Channel, Disney Days of ChristmasLeave a comment on Disney Announces Performer Line Ups for Holiday TV Specials
ABC Christmas Day Parade – ‘Disney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration’ Taping Scheduled
The taping days for the ABC Christmas Day Parade has been announced to be on December 8th and 9th at the Magic Kingdom.
Guests in the park during the filming days will be able to take part, although special tickets will not be made available to guests.
As reported earlier, this year’s parade marks a departure from previous years, and is expected to be heavily based around the ‘Frozen’ movie. The title for this year’s parade is “Disney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration.”
The Disneyland Resort in California filmed its segments last week.
Author RayPosted on November 17, 2014 Categories Walt Disney WorldTags ABC, Christmas Day Parade, Disney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration, Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney WorldLeave a comment on ABC Christmas Day Parade – ‘Disney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration’ Taping Scheduled
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Maker Studios In Deal To Buy Blip As It Works To Reach More Screens
Ryan Lawler @ryanlawler / 6 years
YouTube multichannel network Maker Studios has agreed in principle to acquire long-running video distribution network Blip. While the deal hasn’t closed yet and there are a number of issues to be worked out, it would bring more content under the Maker umbrella and could give the company more technology to distribute outside of the YouTube platform.
We’ve heard that the deal largely will be a stock transaction, with Maker retaining staff, technology and content deals that Blip has built up over the years. That will add to its existing content mix, which includes thousands of YouTube channels that attract billions of views per month across the network. But the big selling point is probably Blip’s technology.
End of an era for Blip
This will largely signal the end of the road for Blip, which was one of the early Internet video pioneers. The company has seen a number of iterations over the years:
Once upon a time it was sort of a YouTube competitor, back before YouTube was the big winner in the race to distribute videos over the Internet.
As YouTube rose to prominence, there was a bit of co-opetition between Blip and YouTube, and the two even signed a distribution deal.
Later, Blip positioned itself as a tech platform for distributing streaming videos to a number of different partners, including YouTube and Verizon, as well as devices like Roku streaming boxes.
Finally, Blip ended up where it started, re-launching as a destination site where high-quality creators could build a more beautiful online presence than what was offered at YouTube.
But while Blip had launched as a promising alternative to YouTube at a time when there was no clear winner in the video distribution wars, the company has languished in the world of emerging multichannel networks built off the back of YouTube. Maker has seen successful in that world, and so it makes sense for Blip and its creators to hitch their wagons to that rising star.
What Maker wants from Blip
The big question is what Maker gets out of the deal. Theoretically, Blip’s destination site could offer a place for Maker to distribute its content off YouTube, where it could garner higher CPMs and enable it to own its distribution platform. There have been a lot of rumors around Maker or another multichannel network essentially creating a YouTube competitor over the last year, ever since Jason Calacanis wrote his famous screed about not distributing on YouTube anymore.
It sounds good, and Maker is one of the networks that’s actually big enough to attempt such a thing. But the sense I get in talking to someone familiar with the deal is that Maker doesn’t really have much interest in moving all of its content onto Blip, or some other destination site that is not YouTube. What’s more likely is that Blip content gets added to Maker and is distributed as part of the YouTube multichannel network.
What could be interesting for Maker, though, is the technology that Blip has built for distributing to a number of different platforms. While Maker is unlikely to attempt to move its content completely off YouTube, it’s definitely interested in finding ways to distribute to more places and devices. That means hooking up with game consoles like the Xbox 360, streaming boxes like Roku, connected TVs and Blu-ray players, and getting on more mobile devices and tablets.
All of that is Blip’s bread-and-butter, and it had built out analytics and ad insertion for a number of different platforms where YouTube wouldn’t take its regular 45 percent cut. Obviously, for the time being, the bulk of Maker’s views will come from YouTube — whether it be on the web or through YouTube’s own mobile apps.
Maker has enough consumer-facing brands of its own that building more focused apps makes sense, whether it be on tablets, or Xbox, or other destinations that Blip currently services. That wouldn’t necessarily be a change in strategy for Maker, but an acceleration of its plans to serve its viewers on whichever device they’re watching.
Oh yeah, check out this video we shot at Maker last month to get an idea of how it thinks about its distribution plans:
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All articles are carefully read, screened for content, linguistic and other errors, reference omissions and mistakes, and when required, authors will be contacted for clarification and corrections through a number of queries by the editor. All proofs are carefully checked prior to publication, but authors as well as readers are free to contact DGS at any time if they spot or believe there is an error in the publication.
If and when errors are detected in our published content, our approach is to follow the guidelines set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) . When major errors as well as misconduct become evident, the Editor in Chief, after consultation with the board of the journal and TCI, can either decide on retracting the article; issuing a statement of concern; correction; or removal. The author/s will be duely informed of developments throughout the process for transparency. Such measures are taken not to humiliate or punish, but to protect research and academic integrity.
A retraction is defined as: ‘a public disavowal, not an erasure or removal. Retractions will occur if the editors and editorial board find that the main conclusion of the work is undermined or if subsequent information about the work comes to light of which the authors or the editors were not aware at the time of publication’ (guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Statement of Concern
A statement of concern will be issued if there is inconclusive evidence of research misconduct / ethical wrongdoing or there is an ongoing investigation and results are pending.
A correction will be published if the scholarly record is seriously affected (e.g., if accuracy/intended meaning, scientific reproducibility, author reputation, or journal reputation is judged to be compromised). Corrections such as misspellings or grammatical errors will not be published. Published corrections will be added to the original article whenever possible. When that is not possible, the correction will link to and from the original work.
Removal of published content may occur if an article is determined to be defamatory by a court of law, if it infringes on legal rights, or if there is a reasonable expectation that it will be subject to a court order for any reason. The bibliographic information about the work will be retained online, but the work will no longer be available through the journal. A note will be added to indicate that the item was removed for legal reasons.
We take instances of plagiarism very seriously at DGS. We define plagiarism as any use of any other person or organisation’s work (including text, images, data etc.) without adequate attribution and/or permission. All submissions to DGS are screened and checked for plagiarism using third party software to check for similarity in content and plagiarism.
In cases where there is clear evidence of high similarity or plagiarism, the Editor in chief will advise with the board to conduct further investigation and remedial actions taken. These are at the discretion of the Editor in chief in consultation with the board and depending on the seriousness of the plagiarism, can include corrections in the article or retraction of the published article. Depending on the gravity of the case, the author may also be banned from publishing in DGS as well as reporting the author to his/her institution and/or funding bodies linked to the published output.
We take any allegation of misconduct very seriously at any stage, before, during or after the publication. In this case we will take all necessary steps to locate any instance of misconduct and to stop publication of any paper associated with this, be it data fabrication or manipulation, blatant plagiarism, or reported coercion of participants or unethical behaviour in research or professionally. If and when there is any report of misconduct made to the journal, the issue will be taken up by the ethics committee of The Critical Institute (the publisher of DGS) who will discuss and seek adequate measures to address the problem.
In the case where reports of misconduct involve a journal member, The Critical Institute will seek recourse from an independent person or team to investigate the matter and once again measures implemented.
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