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Breast Cancer and the Environment
Saulsalito, CA
Expert panelists engaged in open discussion on breast cancer at the Bay Area public forum - the latest in a series of community-based participatory events. Seated, left to right, are Birnbaum, Collman, Barlow, Reynolds, Rizzo and Das.
(Photo courtesy of Ed Kang)
The public forum at the Cavallo Point Lodge, a former military base turned hotel, brought together scientists, sufferers and survivors to talk frankly about environmental connections to breast cancer and prevention strategies.
One of Birnbaum's many activities included a stop at the Breast Cancer Fund, a group committed to identifying and eliminating environmental causes of breast cancer.
NIEHS Director Linda Birnbaum headlined a rousing, and at times, emotional public forum convened at historic Fort Baker. Attendees were mostly members of a concerned community struggling with a disease Birnbaum labeled in her opening remarks as "our common enemy — an equal opportunity killer."
Introduced by Robert Hiatt, M.D., Ph.D., director of Population Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, Birnbaum spoke of the "state of the science" of breast cancer research, and also joined a distinguished panel in initiating a frank and open discussion about community needs in ongoing breast cancer research.
Moderated by noted television reporter, Ysabel Duron, a breast cancer survivor and inductee into the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Hall of Fame, the panel of speakers (221KB) featured leaders in various disciplines. Joining Birnbaum and Hiatt on the dais were Gwen Collman, Ph.D., interim director of the Division of Extramural Research and Training at NIEHS; Janice Barlow, M.S.N., executive director of Zero Breast Cancer; Rupali Das, M.D., chief of the Exposure Assessment Section in the Environmental Health Investigations Branch of the California Department of Public Heath; Peggy Reynolds, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the Northern California Cancer Center; and Jeanne Rizzo, R.N., president and CEO of the Breast Cancer Fund. The combined influence of these renowned experts shed light on different aspects of breast cancer from basic research to advocacy to education and prevention.
Public participation is always encouraged at these kinds of meetings and other forums. "It provides an opportunity for feedback," Barlow said. "It does change the direction of the research and the relevance to the community; plus, when [the community is] involved from the beginning, it has an influence on the questions that are being asked." Birnbaum added, "We need input from communities in setting science agenda and in fostering positive partnerships. Together with my institute's partners and grantees, we will solidify our coalition in the national effort to keep the science moving forward."
Birnbaum's closing comments summarized the discussion with partners, grantees, community leaders and advocates. "I look forward to the day when I can stand here with all of our partners to say, 'We did it. We know how it happens, and we can stop it.' That day will come. Until then, we will continue the hard work." In borrowing a familiar concept, she added, "Knowledge is power," a simple but powerful adage that in the context of cancer and disease prevention takes on deliberate new meaning.
Environmental Health in Milwaukee
During a visit to Milwaukee's Intermodal Station, Birnbaum talked with community leaders about the city's sustainable transportation initiatives. Shown, left to right, are Mayor Tom Barrett, Peter McAvoy, J.D., and Birnbaum.
(Photo courtesy of UWM)
At one stop on the Trolley Tour, Birnbaum, left, talked with Sandra McLellan, Ph.D, who moderated the Town Hall Meeting. In the background is a community garden planted in the shadow of a brownfield - a former paint manufacturing plant - on Milwaukee's near north side.
The October 1 Town Hall Meeting was a standing-room-only event, as Birnbaum and key staff heard from Milwaukee community members about their environmental health concerns.
At the Milwaukee Town Meeting, Linda Birnbaum set the stage for a panel discussion by environmental public health specialists and city and regional officials. Birnbaum began her presentation with impressions from the afternoon trolley tour of the city — recounting the neighborhoods, gardens and river valley industrial brownfield sites she saw that day to emphasize the interconnectedness of the environment with public health and quality of life.
In her talk, Birnbaum highlighted "some of the outstanding work that NIEHS is supporting here at UW-Milwaukee," including basic research into the biological mechanisms of toxicity, detection of freshwater viral, bacterial and chemical contaminants, and the innovative outreach initiative, Healthy Latino Families and Schools. She described work at UWM as an example of the productive mix of "'small science' conducted by individual labs" with the work of "'big science' teams, which may be needed to answer some of the most intractable questions."
Moving to the national and international levels, Birnbaum surveyed the institute's "larger research investment" in environmental health science, especially in research on the long-term health effects of early environmental exposures. She focused on new and renewed efforts to prevent disease through effective translation of research results into public health initiatives for improving children's health and development by preventing and treating chronic diseases.
Birnbaum's closing comments brought her back to the streets and neighborhoods of Milwaukee. "We look forward to supporting and working with scientists, health care providers and community members here in a great city on a great lake," she concluded, "to continue the success of this work, to better understand how the environment affects our health, and to develop effective prevention strategies to protect public health."
In closing, Birnbaum emphasized the pressing need for environmental health research. "You can't change your genes, but you can change your environment," she said. "The question is not, 'Can we afford to do this research?'" she said. "It's, 'Can we afford not to?'"
The Environment and Child Health
New Brunswick, N.J.
One of many high points at the Town Hall Meeting was the student panel discussion. Area middle school students, above, described what they've learned about environmental health through an NIEHS-funded outreach project.
(Photo courtesy of Wilson Rodriguez and UMDNJ)
As they mingled with attendees during the reception, it was evident that Birnbaum, center, and Hoppin, right, were in New Jersey to listen as well as speak.
"We're particularly glad to be back here now to focus our attention on children and environmental health," Birnbaum said.
While the NIEHS representatives were in the area, they visited faculty and staff of the NIEHS Center and, later, the School of Public Health at UDMNJ. Standing, left to right, are Laura Hemminger, Mitchel Rosen, Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, Ph.D., Mark Robson, Ph.D., and Glenn Paulson, Ph.D. Seated, left to right, are Hoppin, NIEHS Associate Director Allen Dearry, Ph.D., Birnbaum and Audrey Gotsch, Dr.PH.
(Photo courtesy of Audrey Gotsch and UMDNJ-SPH)
There were few empty chairs at either of the sessions, as students and people from the community turned out to hear experts and leaders in the environmental health sciences.
NIEHS scientists traveled to New Brunswick, N.J., in support of a June 17 Environmental and Child Health Town Meeting that included opening comments by NIEHS and National Toxicology Program (NTP) Director Linda Birnbaum. The program was organized by the NIEHS Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease (CEED), which is housed in the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). The meeting was held at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick.
The event was an opportunity for Birnbaum, a native of New Jersey, to visit the city where NIEHS held its first town hall meeting in 1998. She told her audience at the evening session of the program that NIEHS is proud of its "long history of seeking involvement from a broad array of constituencies, including scientists, health care professionals and communities, in setting its research agenda and in fostering community-university partnerships to implement parts of that agenda."
"As we go forward, we want to make sure we are supporting the most important types of science, from 'small science' conducted by individual labs, which can be nimble and innovative, to 'big science' research teams, which may be needed to answer some of the most intractable questions," Birnbaum explained. "We will need to use a judicious mix of the best individual investigators, as well as the capabilities of research teams, to uncover all the complex ways in which environmental exposures work on biological systems with genetic and other host susceptibility mechanisms to affect health and disease."
An afternoon program of expert speakers opened with a welcome and introduction by UMDNJ Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine Helmut Zarbl, Ph.D. , who is the principal investigator on the university's NIEHS Center grant. Zarbl was followed by talks by UMDNJ investigators on findings of their NIEHS-funded research. The presenters included Michael Gochfeld, M.D., Ph.D., Jason Richardson, Ph.D., Michael Gallo, Ph.D., and Kathy Black, Ph.D. They spoke on such environmental health topics as heavy metal exposure, neurological disorders linked to pesticides, endocrine disruption and breast cancer and childhood asthma. A poster session and reception followed.
The evening program opened with Birnbaum's comments and a brief panel session of local middle school students involved in the CEED Community Outreach and Engagement Program, leading into the highlight of the evening — a 90-minute panel session with scientists and environmental justice and public health advocates.
NIEHS Epidemiology Branch Staff Scientist Jane Hoppin, Sc.D., was one of the five members of the evening panel discussion. Hoppin described her research as part of the Agricultural Health Study and how "what we learn from farmers and their families [can be] relevant to the U.S. population as the chemicals used in agriculture are used for residential and public health purposes as well."
Hoppin was joined by two UMDNJ professors — Daniel Wartenberg, Ph.D., and Howard Kipen, M.D., MPH— as well as Elyse Pivnick, vice president of Environmental and Community Health at the non-profit organization Isles in Trenton, N.J., and Ana Baptista, Ph.D., program manager of the Ironbound Community Corporation in Newark, N.J.
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Photographer Captures One In A Million Photo, Doesn’t Realize It Until He Gets Home
Sometimes in nature things happen that seem too good to be true, perfect coincidences that vividly illustrate the beauty and wonder of the world around us.
One such episode occurred over the Costa Brava, in Northeastern Spain, when a mass of starlings began to gather into a shape-shifting cloud, known as a murmuration. This phenomenon is a true spectacle, with hundreds, sometimes thousands or more birds moving and twisting in what appears to be a coordinated, single organism that can quickly morph into some startling shapes.
Photographer Daniel Biber from Hilzingen, Germany was there when the starlings began to swirl and twist, most likely the result of a predator such as a falcon or hawk being in the vicinity. It was almost supernatural that in response to the predator, the cloud of starlings ended up twisting and turning themselves into a giant, single bird, as if to say to their tormentor, “we are bigger than you.”
The photos have earned Mr. Biber a prize in an international photography competition, but he didn’t realise that he had captured such unique shots until later on. “Only when I checked the pictures on the computer later, I realised what formation the starlings had created,” he told the Daily Mail. “I was so concentrated on taking pictures at the time that I hadn’t realised that the starlings had created a giant bird in the sky.”
It was a case of patience pays off for Mr. Biber, who had tried and failed to capture the starlings in full flow before. “’I’ve tried to photograph the starlings but it never worked out as well as I hoped for,” he said. “’I eventually drove to the spot every day for four days in a row in order to capture them. I picked a spot where I thought they would turn up and picked a matching foreground and backdrop in order to put them in scene.”
Scroll down below to check out Mr. Biber’s incredible shots, and if you are a bit of an amateur twitcher yourself, you can add your own bird photos in the comments!
Sometimes in nature things happen that seem too good to be true
Image credits: Daniel Biber/lensculture
Photographer Daniel Biber from Hilzingen, Germany was trying to capture the murmuration of starlings for 4 days when he finally succeeded
Image credits: Daniel Biber/ SWNS
“I’ve tried to photograph the starlings but it never worked out as well as I hoped for”
“I eventually drove to the spot every day for four days in a row in order to capture them”
“I was so concentrated on taking pictures at the time that I hadn’t realised that the starlings had created a giant bird in the sky”
“It took less than 10 seconds for the birds to create that formation”
“I realised that I had captured a unique snapshot, technically, sharp and in high quality”
“It usually happens that birds of prey turn up and the starlings then create bizarre forms. It can be quite erratic and completely random”
“A number of people were watching this display but they were observing it from other spots and might not have seen what I captured”
The incredible images ended up winning an international photography prize!
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Theater Review: Michael Mendelson claws through ‘Mistakes Were Made,’ sharply
In Artists Repertory Theatre's production of Craig Wright's play about an almost-play, the actor shines
September 30, 2013 // THEATER // Barry Johnson
Michael Mendelson in Craig Wright’s “Mistakes Were Made” at Artists Repertory Theatre/Owen Carey
Felix Artifex spends most of “Mistakes Were Made” at his desk facing a big aquarium that barely encompasses an orange and white koi named Denise. He wears a phone headset sometimes, but mostly he jabs at his phone and the intercom that connects him to Esther, his receptionist.
The news that lights up his phone console is not good. Sure, movie star Johnny Bledsoe is interested in committing to the French Revolution play by an unknown playwright he’s trying to launch on Broadway, but Johnny has “an idea” for the script that means junking the whole thing. And frankly, no Johnny, no Broadway. And yeah, the sheep convoy in some unnamed Middle Eastern land is on the road, part of Felix’s Byzantine funding scheme, but it’s surrounded by rebels determined to make a point. The playwright? Guess what he thinks about Johnny’s suggestions.
And Esther keeps screaming at him to stop feeding the fish.
It’s going to take some fast talking to get out of this mess with dreams, dignity and cash flow intact, and Felix, played by Michael Mendelson in Artists Repertory Theatre’s new production of Craig Wright’s play, is ready for action, in his brown suit and vest and spiffy bow tie, his little white pills, his posters of past productions on the wall (Van Damme in “Macbeth”!), and Denise, well-fed Denise, slowly testing the edges of her universe as Felix tests the edges of his.
The role tests an actor’s skills: He speed-talks boatloads of lines and assumes many attitudes and, um, positions as he attempts to get his play on the boards. He must go from pitiful begging to all-out verbal assault as the winds and the phone calls change. Mendelson is terrific at it, modulating a nasal accent and dancing an expressive choreography around that desk, twisting one way and then the other. It’s great fun to watch, a fine actor pushed by a difficult assignment.
Mendelson, who is the director of the production, wasn’t his own first choice to play Felix.
Todd Van Voris, an Artists Rep news release that came in earlier in the month said, had to step down from the role of Felix Artifex because of a family emergency. Because the play is the nearest thing to a one-man show you can have without actually BEING a one-man show, that sounded pretty dire. And indeed, opening night was moved back a week, the release continued.
Then the release got really interesting: The director of the production, Mendelson, who was helming his first show for the company, was going to replace Van Voris. And Mendelson was going to be directed by Damaso Rodriguez, the company’s artistic director, who would be listed as Associate Director in the program.
Mendelson replacing Van Voris? This is what causes heads to do “The Exorcist” swivel!
Van Voris is a big, avuncular figure onstage, often figuring in comic roles. He has a nice baritone, and when given the chance has shown a lot of range as an actor (the evil Cardinal in “(I AM Still) The Duchess of Malfi,” the head of a law firm in David Mamet’s “Race”), enough to imagine him as the obsessed theater producer Felix.
Mendelson, the artistic director of the Portland Shakespeare Project, has been one of the city’s leading actors since winning a Drammy Award for “Bent” in 1992. Lately, he’s specialized in humorous character roles that require a Mittel Europa/Yiddish accent, like Max in Artists Rep’s “Superior Donuts.” And he’s shown a talent for scattered, nearly hysterical roles, which makes him a natural for Felix, more than Van Voris, actually. Which is what made casting Van Voris so interesting in the first place.
Once the casting for Felix became fluid in my mind, it became difficult to dislodge. How would Van Voris intone a line like, “Thank you for being you!” And wouldn’t a woman make a good Felix (Felicity?) these days? I can think of several local actresses who could twist Felicity to their purposes.
Denise listens; Felix (Michael Mendelson) talks./Owen Carey
“Mistakes Were Made” isn’t about a producer’s attempt to rope script, principals and money into a Broadway corral, while saving sheep transporters from the bad guys. That’s just the plot. And the title of the play he wants to produce, which is a joke, right? A play about the French Revolution entitled “Mistakes Were Made”?
This would be almost too obvious to mention except that New York Times drama critic Charles Isherwood found the incongruities in Wright’s construction of Felix’s imaginary world too incredible and wasn’t able to suspend disbelief. Which I found disappointing. And L.I.T.E.R.A.L. “And for that matter would this small-fry fellow really have 10 phone lines?” Weren’t there 12?
Felix isn’t a description of a theater producer trying to make one last score before he collapses in self-disgust and financial ruin. He’s just like us: Wheeling and dealing and trying to keep the details fluid enough long enough for things to fall in place.
Does Felix stretch the truth sometimes? He shoots it, mutilates it and leaves it for dead in the highway. Because the truth is in the way; because the truth is that a silly play about the French Revolution is NEVER going to see the bright lights of Broadway; because the truth is only useful as a weapon of last resort. So, Felix is, um, pragmatic. He actually believes in what he’s doing, maybe, and the ends justify the means.
There are two kinds of truth we’re talking about here. The first is his honest opinion: Felix probably doesn’t even know what his honest opinion is about anything connected to his project. His opinion is whatever will work at the moment. (Just for the record, I’m attempting to record my honest opinions here for you right now. For example, I was worried that Mendelson might turn Felix into a sort of Woody Allen nebbish going into the play, and though I had a moment of worry about it early on, my worry quickly dissipated. My honest opinion is that he avoids that resemblance. I’m in the honest opinion business, after all, though my honest opinion changes with more thought, more data, exposure to a better opinion, or a good nap.)
The second is the literal actual truth. Felix discards this as easily as he discards honest opinions. Just like his opinion, the truth is a tool. Yes, the commandos are on their way to help the sheep transport convoy. Yes, the writer is working on a new version of the script. Yes, a famous actress is lined up for an as-yet unwritten role in the play. Felix is working on a fantasy, a nice fantasy, where an unknown writer’s play gets produced and both sheep and shepherds make it to their destination. Opinions and “truths” are simply ways to make the dream come true.
Michael Mendelson as Felix in “Mistakes Were Made”/Owen Carey
The truth isn’t just a tool. It isn’t just a hurdle. It’s a condition (that we can offer different opinions about and variously useful descriptions of), too. Felix attempts to shape the truth into something more or less resembling his fantasies… until the fantasy simply can’t be supported any longer by a sane person. I’ve resisted calling “Mistakes Were Made” a comedy, even though Wright is a very funny writer, because Felix is headed toward that point.
Here’s my favorite line in “Mistakes Were Made”:
“No one will say, quickly and simply, just yes.”
In the audience we’re going to laugh at Felix, at his ineptitude, at his transparent flattery and outright lying, at the impossible reality he’s attempting to construct. But Wright doesn’t allow him to drift too far offshore. How many times have I sat there hoping against hope that a simple, quick “yes” would get my particular show on the stage? And I’m not even in the theater! Felix wants that simple “yes.” Someone else wants what he wants and agrees that this is the best way to get it: This is how the world is and this is how it works… and oh, by the way, you trust me to pull it off.
Is Felix going to get the “yes” he wants? That’s unlikely, isn’t it? Even he understands what a fantasy that is. But maybe he’s going to get an affirmation of some kind that he can work with, even if it’s not the big one he wanted. Maybe Wright is suggesting that affirmations like that are better than crossing off items on our stupid wish lists.
Lucy Paschall plays Esther, the receptionist, with the right grating edge to her voice. And Liz Ghiz operates Denise, the fish, which was designed by Jane Clugston.
Craig Wright went to seminary and was a United Methodist pastoral intern, before breaking with the church. He was interviewed by Sojourners, a national Christian organization committed to faith in action for social justice, for the group’s website. The last sentence of this quote from the interview was in the program notes, but the whole thing is totally apt for “Mistakes Were Made”:
“There’s something essentially humorous in the fact that the universal [God, the holy] only happens in the particular,” he says. “So people can be talking about the biggest ideas in the world and still have to live in a small apartment, clean their toilets, things like that. I like to affirm that people are wrestling with these big questions in their real lives. Regular people wondering what life’s all about.”
Third Rail Repertory Theatre is the leading proponent of Wright’s plays in Portland. The company has produced “Recent Tragic Events,” “The Pavilion,” and “Grace” to excellent effect, and Wright wrote “The Gray Sisters” with and for the company. But CoHo did “The Unseen,” and now Artists Rep has jumped on board.
I linked to Isherwood’s pan of “Mistakes Were Made.” Here’s a positive review from Vulture’s Scott Brown.
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Home/SERIES/American Society of Missiology/Miracles, Missions & American Pentecostalism
Miracles, Missions & American Pentecostalism
WINNER, PNEUMA BOOK AWARD, SOCIETY FOR PENTECOSTAL STUDIES
"Historical scholarship at its best."--Grant Wacker, Duke University Divinity School
"This book will go a long way in helping missiologists from other Western churches to gain a greater appreciation for the reasons why Pentecostalism is growing so rapidly around the world . . . "--Dale T. Irvin, New York Theological Seminary
Miracles, Missions & American Pentecostalism examines the historical, theological, and missiological context and development of American Pentecostal missions, including the expectation of miracles and how this fits into the mission scene of the twentieth century. Gary McGee shows this movement emerging from the ranks of nineteenth-century radical evangelicalism as a renewal movement that achieved a global impact.
The first five chapters move historically from the expectation of miracles from the time of the ancient church to the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. The next five chapters provide a superb analysis of the theological underpinnings of Pentecostalism. Though alienated from other Christians by their insistence on glossolalia, Pentecostals carried the gospel in a supernaturally-wrapped package that fit well with the worldviews of peoples outside the milieu of the North Atlantic / West and helped this charismatically-inclined spirituality become predominant today among "Majority World Christianity."
The late Gary B. McGee, the author of seven previous books, including Introducing World Missions (with A. Scott Moreau and Gary R. Corwin), was distinguished professor of church history and Pentecostal studies at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Missouri.
American Society of Missiology Series
Gary B. McGee
Notes, bibliography, index
Matt Biber, in Anglican and Episcopal History 01/13/2016, 01:03 PM
...offers an insightful look into the role of missions and the miraculous in the propagation of modern Pentecostalism, especially during the movement's nascent stages. McGee's study is a welcomed addition to the growing literature on Pentecostalism and a sound contribution to both church history and missiology.
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Parkview Neighbourhood Garden is an organic market garden, volunteer-run and operated, guided by a leadership team. We garden and make decisions as a group; we do not have individual allotments. We aim to provide an enjoyable, safe place to grow crops, to teach and learn the techniques of successful sustainable gardening, and to gather as friends. We sell our produce to the community from a cart in the garden, donate a portion of the revenue to charity and use the remainder to buy seeds and supplies. We also donate produce to the local food bank and to shut-ins. We’re a relatively new garden – our first planting day was 23rd May 2009.
Anyone can volunteer – no gardening experience is necessary. Some volunteers are apartment dwellers, who miss gardening. Others just want to garden with friends.
Parkview Neighbourhood Garden 2008 ~ 2014 “Back to the Farm”
A group of interested citizens met at the historic John McKenzie house at 34 Parkview Avenue in North York to decide what use could be made of the vacant city lot next door at 44 Parkview. Toronto Councillor John Filion and Executive Director Rob Leverty (Ontario Historical Society) hosted the meeting at which time, after much consideration, a decision was made that an organic market garden could be created and operated by volunteers. Thus, the garden has evolved into its sixth year of operation successfully growing lush produce, some of which is shared with those in need and some sold with profits donated to worthy causes, at the end of the growing season. With the continued support of John Filion, in June 2014, the garden celebrated a milestone – a second expansion. The City of Toronto purchased the adjacent property at 46 Parkview Ave, razed the house, and turned the property over to the Parkview Neighbourhood Garden to manage as part of our garden. The expansion blends seamlessly with the original garden and has a real presence from the Parkview Avenue elevation. A new patio and pergola have been added for the comfort of neighbours. In addition, new signage has been created by the City of Toronto and will be permanently installed soon.
Variety describes the character of the garden. This is borne out in our volunteers who have come from many countries and willingly share their cultural gardening traditions. Community members contribute their skills e.g., building wooden plant climbing structures, construction of a market garden wagon, installation of bee houses for research purposes, designing and planting a flower garden, storytelling via garden tours etc. Produce includes many kinds of vegetables, herbs and fruit grown using up-to-date organic practices. Native flower species are planted to entice and serve bees and butterflies for our mutual benefit given the work they do to ensure our fruitful produce. Available for our use is a stable for supplies and tools and an old hand-operated water pump. This is our 21st century version of ‘back to the farm”. But what was happening on this land from the 18th century onward?
What did the site of the PNG look like in 1797?
Imagine a land forested with sugar maple, beech and hemlock. Imagine the first settlers, having received a 200-acre land grant, who saw only a potential farm, a plot of land to grow crops on, but which was covered with trees that stood in their way of survival. Once the land was cleared it became known as a ‘farm’.The Jacob Cummer and Lawrence Johnson families, being the first pioneers, settled on land spaning from Finch Avenue to Park Home Avenue and along both sides of Yonge Street in 1797. By 1798 four log houses had been built with about twelve acres of land cleared on each lot. Examples of trades that existed from 1799 to1878 included blacksmiths, builders, carpenters,shoemakers,wagon makers, well diggers,tanners, dress makers, potters,distillers etc. Cummer’s settlement became known from 1855 as Willowdale, named after some willows that existed near the Willowdale Post Office opened by David Gibson in 1855. Jacob Cummer was the first Postmaster.
What happened on the PNG site from 1884 to 1915?
A portion of the original farm was sold by Cummer’s heirs to Philip McKenzie, a carpenter and casket-maker by trade. McKenzie and his family lived in the old Cummer farmhouse, a one-and-a half storey Georgian brick-style dwelling. The house built in 1840s or 1850s faced Yonge Street and was located between Parkview and Norton Avenues. On Phillip’s death, his son John farmed the land, specializing in Holstein cattle.When local conditions for agriculture began to deteriorate McKenzie decided to subdivide the farm for suburban residential development. The ‘Empress Subdivision” was registered in October 1912. In 1913 McKenzie built a new brick house to replace the earlier farmhouse on a large lot on the rise of land on Parkview Avenue at the head of Doris Avenue. It was and is an imposing structure combining Queen Anne Revival details with Arts and Crafts form to include 12 rooms and 3 bathrooms. A strip of land was retained to allow room for two Jersey cows to graze. At the rear of the house the brick milkhouse (1907) and the brick stable (1915) served the scaled-down agricultural practices of the household after the creation of the subdivision.
Back to the Future with Parkview Neighbourhood Garden
Surrounded by vestiges of the original farm namely, the family home, the milk house, the stable, even an unearthed horseshoe, we have achieved much. We’ve donated a portion of our profits to food banks, a neighbourhood church with a lunch program, and various other food-related charities; conducted workshops on seed saving and viability, planting and watering; planted fruit and nut trees; wrote an article for publication in Our Canada magazine; hosted tours including an ESL tour in Farsi; translated signage into 4 languages; partnered with schools and community groups such as McKee Preschool and the Gibson House Summer Day Camp program for kids, McKee Summer Arts Campers, North York Garden Club and exchanged services and expertise with Spadina House gardens. There are many heart-warming stories yet to tell about the wonderful interactions among the volunteers and with our various communities and even about wildlife visitors to the garden. The garden has expanded for a second time in five years, it has been nominated for a second year in a row in the North York Front Yard Gardens contest.
Friends Give Their Gifts to the Garden
Volunteers from many nations work in the garden to nurture plants to maturity. This means that not only the local community can enjoy healthy produce but others further afield who do not have access to such bounty. Funds are raised through sales during the growing season and are donated to worthy causes. Produce is also distributed mid season. But, where to display and sell these goods.
Vegetables, herbs and fruit grew well, so we determined that we needed a cart. Building on a design created by a friend in Winnipeg, we adapted it to the size that would fit through our stable door. Having contacted the Trades Council of the Toronto District School Board, we found interested staff and students who were eager to build the cart. This project proved to be a valuable learning experience for these students. So Iqbal Ali, Eliot Asamoah, Antonio Bell, Malcolm Jones, Sarim Sem, Steefon Thom and Fitzgerald Thomas began work in March 2010 under the guidance of instructors Gilbert and Patrick. It was wonderful to watch the instructors’ pride as they guided their students in the construction of a sturdy cart which has since been put to good use.
We celebrated their work when they arrived at the garden to install its various parts. Being healthy teenagers we knew we should feed them and so we did. We gave each a personal photo album showing the various stages of their work and some of our produce. Included as well were our words of thanks. We gave them a tour of the garden where they enjoyed seeing the stages of a blooming strawberry, learning the progression from pink flower to red berry. We introduced them to lemon balm and gave them sprigs for their albums.
Later, this group of fellows gave us a welcome surprise. Our visitors brought us three wooden trugs they had made in their school’s carpentry department. One young boy also made a small bird feeder of found materials. These boys and their instructors have given us such warm memories that endure each time we use the cart and the trugs.
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Home Arts & Entertainment Life at 33 1/3: Birth of the ’Greatest Hits’ album
Life at 33 1/3: Birth of the ’Greatest Hits’ album
By Carl Meyer
The ’Greatest Hits’-album wasn’t necessarily a bad deal back in the 60’s and the early 70’s as they would collect a bunch of popular songs not found on the artist’s regular albums. The single record was an entity unto itself. In England big guns like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones rarely or never included singles on their albums. A single normally was recorded, arranged and mixed for the 45 format only. In other words, collecting all your scratched 45s on one vinyl album was a nice solution. You’d even get the chance to listen to your favourites in stereo.
In the early 60’s the pop album was still in its infancy. Teenagers bought singles, albums were for grown-ups. This changed in 1963 with the arrival of The Beatles who’s first LP, “Please Please Me”, topped the charts for 29 consecutive weeks, finally being replaced by their second album, “With The Beatles”, which after another 21 chart topping weeks was overtaken by The Rolling Stones’ first LP.
By 1966 both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones had clocked up enough hit singles not included on regular albums to consider the release of greatest hits-collections. For once the Stones beat The Beatles to it by releasing “Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass)” in the US in March 1966. It did good business, reaching #3 and staying in the Billboard-charts for 99 weeks. An expanded version packed in a superior sleeve was released in England in November 1966.
A few weeks later The Beatles followed suit with “A Collection Of Beatles Oldies… But Goldies!”. None of these albums were big sellers by the groups’ standards, but they opened the gate. From now on the ’Greatest Hits’ compilations would be a common sight in the LP charts.
What follows is an introduction to the first wave.
The Rolling Stones: “Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass)” (Decca, 1966). An excellent 14 track album that collects 10 of their 11 British hit singles (omitting “I Wanna Be Your Man”) and some American favourites. Gatefold sleeve with a booklet of colour photos is wonderful.
The Animals: “Most Of The Animals” (Columbia, 1966). After seven hit singles and two albums, The Animals left EMI and record producer Mickie Most for Decca. EMI responded with this 14 track compilation that includes all seven hits, some of them massive, like “House Of the Rising Sun”, “It’s My Life” and “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place”. Sold quite well this one.
The Kinks: “Well Respected Kinks” (Marble Arch, 1966). PYE Records hated Ray Davies’ album ambitions. To them The Kinks were for kiddies. Blocking the release of the groups’ excellent “Face To Face” album for months, they rushed out this compilation on budget label Marble Arch instead. Just ten tracks, recorded in 1964 and 1965, and except for the title track not at all representative for where the group was at in 1966/67. It outsold “Face To Face”, to Davies’ annoyance.
The Beach Boys: “Best Of The Beach Boys” (Capitol, 1966). The Beach Boys were new to most British ears before “Barbara Ann” hit #4 in March 1966. Then came “Sloop John B” (#2), the marvellous ‘Pet Sounds” album, “God Only Knows” (#2) and finally “Good Vibrations”, the group’s only number one hit in Britain. By the end of 1966 The Beach Boys even eclipsed The Beatles in popularity. Thus this 14 track compilation makes sense as it rounds up ten biggies from the past, unfamiliar to most British, and adds four recent 45-sides. The package plays extremely well and sold truck loads.
The Beatles: “A Collection Of Beatles Oldies… But Goldies!” (Parlophone, 1966). Value for money compilation, 16 tracks of which 13 were British hits (“Love Me Do” and “Please Please Me” are absent), 2 were crossover favourites (“Yesterday” and “Michelle”) and one (“Bad Boy”) had only been released on an American album before. Lousy sleeve, though.
Bob Dylan: “Greatest Hits” (Columbia/CBS, 1967). Confusing release, as contents of American, British and European versions are all different. Best buy is the US version, being the only one that includes the non-album track “Positively 4th Street”.
The Beach Boys: “Best Of The Beach Boys Vol. 2” (Capitol, 1967). As the group’s popularity was slowly declining, Capitol opted for yet another compilation, having more than enough from the group’s extensive back catalogue to pick from, and rounding the package off with that forever monster classic “Good Vibrations”.
Diana Ross & The The Supremes: “Greatest Hits” (Tamla Motown, 1968). Released as a 20 track double album in the US, and a huge success. Trimmed down to a superb 16 track single album in the UK, topping the charts for six weeks. A marvellous stack of hits recorded between 1964 and 1967.
The Four Tops: “Greatest Hits” (Tamla Motown, 1968). Released simultaneously with the compilation mentioned above, same 16 track concept, and another biggie. The Four Tops were the greatest vocal group in the world at the time. Their legacy is timeless. Try “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)”, “7 Rooms Of Gloom”, “I Can’t Help Myself” and “Bernadette” for a start.
The Hollies: “Hollies’ Greatest” (Parlophone, 1968). By 1968 greatest hits albums were becoming the hip thing. It was perfect for The Hollies as they were in a tight position, Graham Nash leaving, the future uncertain. Then came this compilation collecting most of their hits (but including an alternate take of “Yes I Will” by mistake). It topped the album charts for 10 weeks, providing the group with some sorely needed breathing space, and their stock rose just when they needed it most.
The Who: “Direct Hits” (Track, 1968). The Who of course did not play the game by the rules, so their first hits collection was eccentric as it completely ignored their Brunswick-releases from 1965-66 (for copyright reasons), focusing instead on the singles released on Reaction and Track during 1966-68, including the very odd “Dogs”. Seven A-sides, an EP track that was a hit in Sweden (?!), three B-sides and the alternate version of “Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand” only found on an American album. The rather mysterious sleeve didn’t help, and the album soon disappeared, being replaced a couple of years later by the superior “Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy”.
Fleetwood Mac: “The Pious Bird Of Good Omen” (Blue Horizon, 1969). As Fletwwod Mac hit the big time, they left blues label Blue Horizon for Reprise (stopping over at Immediate for the single “Man Of The World”). So Blue Horizon responded with this, a nice enough introduction to the band’s first phase. You get both sides of their four singles for the label, including the #1 “Albatross”, one track from each of their two albums, and two tracks with blues singer Eddie Boyd being backed by members of the band.
The Rolling Stones: “Through The Past Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)” (Decca, 1969). This one came a bit too soon as they had only released four singles since the first “Big Hits”-compilation appeared in November 1966. They solved the problem by including tracks only released as singles in the US (like “She’s A Rainbow” and “Street Fighting Man”), some strong B-sides, an EP-cut from 1964 and the 1966-demo “Sittin’ On A Fence”. Strange hybrid, but plays absolutely fantastic. Appeared in an octagonal-shaped sleeve.
The Bee Gees: “Best Of The Bee Gees” (Polydor, 1969). They’d only been around for a couple of years, but they already had enough hits to fill an album. Impressive. Ten of the 12 tracks had been released as A-sides (including the US only “Holiday” and “I Started A Joke”), the remaining two were B-sides and should have been replaced by their “Jumbo” /”The Singer Sang His Song” double A-side from early spring 1968. They probably didn’t want to be reminded as it had bombed painfully.
Cream: “Best Of Cream” (Polydor, 1969). Released after Cream had disbanded. As Cream always were an albums band, this compilation didn’t make much sense, although it did contain “I Feel Free” and the single edit of “White Room”.
Small Faces: “The Autumn Stone” (Immediate, 1969). Maybe the finest compilation album ever released in the 60’s. Not just a collection of hits, but also a handful of live nuggets and bits and pieces from the aborted album they were working on when the band imploded. Four sides of pure joy. How it was possible for an album containing tracks like “The Universal”, “Tin Soldier”, “Itchycoo Park”, “All Or Nothing”, “Lazy Sunday” and “Afterglow” not to chart is a mystery to me. I absolutely love “The Autumn Stone”.
Not counting Elvis who started it all back in 1958 with “Elvis’ Golden Records”, this then was how that ‘Greatest Hits’ thing developed during the late 60’s. It was a period of transition, with the 45 record still holding its own as a piece of instant pop art. But for lasting value, the record buyers now wanted these stray recordings collected on albums as well. For some years the answer was the compilation album. Then, as songs weren’t recorded exclusively for the singles format anymore, but were just strong tracks lifted from albums, the 45 died, and ‘Greatest Hits’ compilations turned into something completely different: Stop gap releases thrown onto the market every time an artist or a band ran out of ideas.
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Home Latest News World News Christians in Egypt bury their dead after attack
Christians in Egypt bury their dead after attack
By Samy Magdy and Hamza Hendawi
A relative of a slain Christian grieves during funeral service at Church of Great Martyr Prince Tadros, in Minya, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 3. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Minya, Egypt (AP) — Hundreds of Egyptian Christians attended a funeral service Saturday after seven people were killed in an ambush by Islamic State militants of buses carrying pilgrims to a remote desert monastery.
The service at Prince Tadros church in the central city of Minya was held amid tight security. Minya’s top cleric, Anba Makarios, led prayers over a row of six white coffins, all victims from the same family. A separate funeral was held for the seventh victim, a bus driver.
Relatives of the victims cried and held each other for support. Some rested their heads on the coffins and wept. A list of the victims’ names released by the church said a 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl were among the dead. Nineteen were wounded in the attack, according to the church.
Aida Shehata, who was shot in her legs, said masked men opened fire on three buses from different directions. Two of the buses were able to speed away and reach the monastery, but the militants stopped the third one and killed the driver and six of the passengers, including her husband and his brother.
“The driver tried to go to the monastery but they (the militants) were faster,” Shehata told a Coptic TV network.
An Islamic State affiliate based in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula claimed the attack, calling it revenge for the imprisonment of “our chaste sisters,” without elaborating.
The attack cast a shadow on one of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s showpieces — the World Youth Forum — which opens Saturday in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. The forum is drawing thousands of local and foreign youth to discuss a wide range of topics, with Egypt’s 63-year-old leader taking center stage.
In an apparent effort to keep the attack from overshadowing the start of the three-day conference, two state-owned newspapers ran front-page banner headlines about the forum. Akhbar al-Youm ran a large photo of el-Sissi cycling in Sharm el-Sheikh. Its reference to the attack lower down in the page made no mention of casualties.
IS has repeatedly targeted Egypt’s Christians as punishment for their support of el-Sissi, who led the military’s 2013 ouster of an elected but divisive Islamist president.
El-Sissi, who has made security among his top priorities since taking office in 2014, wrote on his Twitter account that Friday’s attack was designed to harm the “nation’s solid fabric” and pledged to continue fighting terrorism. He later offered his condolences when he spoke by telephone with Pope Tawadros II, spiritual leader of Egypt’s Orthodox Christians and a close ally of the president.
Begemy Nassem Nasr, the priest of the church of St. Mary in the central Egyptian city of Minya, near where the attack took place, suggested it was meant to embarrass el-Sissi as he hosted the youth forum. “I think that this is a terrorist act which is targeting Egypt through playing the card of the Copts,” he said.
Friday’s attack was the second to target pilgrims heading to the St. Samuel the Confessor monastery in as many years, indicating that security measures put in place since then are inadequate. The previous attack in May 2017 left nearly 30 people dead. IS has also targeted Christian churches with a series of suicide bombings since December 2016 that have killed scores of people.
The attacks led to tighter security around Christian places of worship and Church-linked facilities, where metal detectors and armed police are routinely deployed. They have also underlined the vulnerability of minority Christians in the conservative, Muslim-majority country.
The Interior Ministry, which oversees the police, said Friday’s attackers used secondary dirt roads to reach the buses carrying the pilgrims, who were near the monastery at the time of the attack. Only pilgrims have been allowed on the main road leading to the monastery since last year’s attack.
Some Christians in Minya said police negligence was partly to blame for the latest attack, saying they stopped providing armed escorts for pilgrims’ buses.
“They should have escorted them. They know it is dangerous to leave them alone on that road,” said Youssef Attya, a 38-year-old health worker from Minya.
The Interior Ministry said police were pursuing the attackers, who fled the scene.
Egypt’s Christians, who account for some 10 percent of the country’s 100 million people, have long complained of discrimination. Christian activists say the church’s alliance with el-Sissi has offered the ancient community a measure of protection, but sectarian violence still flares from time to time, especially in poorer and more rural areas.
Christians make up some 35 percent of the population in Minya, more than in any other governorate. The area has also seen the most acts of violence against Christians in recent years.
Christians there accuse the local police of going easy on Muslim assailants, saying authorities prefer to resolve disputes through reconciliation rather than arresting and prosecuting those who commit crimes.
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Leeds Then and Now
Eric Musgrave
Publication date: 4 July 2019
Series: Then and Now
Category: Lifestyle & Gardening
The centre of Leeds is the wide thoroughfare of Briggate and it has been since at least 1207 when the path northwards from the crossing over the River Aire – literally the bridge gate – was established. As with most settlements, Leeds started out as dwellings next to the water. The first mention of Leeds was made by the scholarly monk The Venerable Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People of 731 AD when he referred to the region of Loidis, but he was scant on details.
The modern Leeds is a product of the Industrial Revolution, a great Victorian northern industrial city shaped by the manufacturing boom that began in the late 18th century and employed thousands of people for almost 200 years in industries like textiles, clothing manufacturing, metalworking and engineering.
Using historic images, some dating back to the 19th century, paired with their modern-day viewpoint, Eric Musgrave charts the evolution of the city from its industrial heyday through the disruptions of two world wars, to its position as one of the most prominent of the northern powerhouses.
Sites include: City Square, Park Place, Leeds University, Leeds Town Hall, Odeon Cinema, Kirkgate Market, Briggate, Headrow, Boar Lane, Vicar Lane, Duncan Street, Quarry Hill Flats, Queens Arcade, Cross Arcade, Leeds Cathedral.
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Meet the roleplayers crafting new Star Wars stories in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
By Hannah Dwan 2017-06-09T10:00:50.159Z
Human extras and custom missions keep the Jedi Academy universe alive.
This article was originally published in PC Gamer issue 305. For more quality articles about all things PC gaming, you can subscribe now in the UK and the US.
Released back in 2003, Jedi Academy was, by most accounts, a really good game. Age hasn’t been kind to it. Try it today and you’ll notice that the graphics don’t hold up, the AI is shoddy at best, and the presentation and design are relics of the mid- 2000s. Despite that, it’s still fun—a testament to the strength of the combat, and the quality of its realisation of the Star Wars universe.
Jedi Academy is also highly customisable, with populated servers and a bustling mod scene. These are invaluable tools for one small community, called JEDI. Initially a clan of players who were skilled at Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, they transitioned to being a roleplay-focused community when they moved over to the game’s successor. Since then, JEDI has grown. The community has over ten years of roleplaying experience, and a whole unique lore created off the back of the first six Star Wars films. They’ve even made their own bespoke tools so that they can create missions, stories, and items.
JEDI’s roleplay isn’t just about having the imagination to act out a character’s behaviour in a given situation. The community makes full, scripted missions that go further than just talking about what can be done. One of the oldest members, John Mazuelos—the player behind High Councillor Cael Dan’kor—told me the story of a mission he directed, wrote, and ran.
A number of students in the community were sent to find some Jedi archaeologists who had gone missing. A whole new map was created to tell the story, and NPCs brought in. Other human players joined as extras—imbuing the story with far more human responses than could be achieved through scripting. This was a key part of why Mazuelos’ story worked so well.
The students discovered the archaeologists had been possessed by the spirits of Sith students and teachers, as the dig site was previously a Sith school. “In order to survive, given they were vastly outnumbered and trapped, and to figure out what had happened, the students had to pretend they were Sith Acolytes and enrolled in Sith school,” says Mazuelos.
The Sith Acolytes’ personal stories were written by their individual players, while Mazuelos controlled the overall pacing and some of the direction.
Thanks to the use of special effects, extra players in the background, and a whole bunch of creativity from everyone involved, it was a far more ‘real’ mission than anything one person could write. Everyone involved was, in essence, collaborating in the creation of this adventure. The Sith Acolytes’ personal stories were written by their individual players, while Mazuelos controlled the overall pacing and some of the direction.
To do all of this, JEDI has a custom mod for the game, called RPMod. The creator of this mod is Fabien Crespel, player of the JEDI character Soh Raun, and he’s been working on it for almost a full decade. With RPMod, JEDI can create entirely new weapons, vehicles and NPCs. Those who use it can also change the game’s weather patterns, add custom music, and even perform cinematic touches such as fade to black when a mission ends. It’s Crespel’s legacy to the JEDI community, and a key part of why the group is so enduring.
“It’s something I’m proud of, of course,” says Crespel. “It was my goal to empower JEDI to be what it was meant to be, to remove any barrier to the creativity of everyone here willing to RP the path of a Jedi.”
Creating these missions is a key part of what JEDI do as a community. They foster this creativity by encouraging players of all ranks to come forward and submit stories, plans, and so on. A lot goes on behind the scenes—news posts get uploaded to the website informing players of when major missions will happen. Extras are given scripts, and those running the mission spend time setting the scene like a theatre stage.
One of the people who runs many of these missions is Matilda Lambert, and her character Wrennin Vae. Not all of the missions are on a large scale, and she let me tag along on a story designed for one of the community’s young Initiates.
The Initiate was asked to travel to an outpost in a remote tundra—answering the call of locals who’d requested help from the Jedi order. Lambert plays one of the locals, and, after meeting up, the two trek over the tundra, towards the outpost, where they find a frozen-over box they must open. They complete the task, but heavy snowfall forces them to camp out in a nearby cave for the night. While camped, another local ambushes them. Lambert’s character calms the Initiate, explaining that it was all a prank.
Not every mission is a major part of the grand space opera. Here, the Initiate was being tested on some basic problem-solving in opening the frozen box, and on remaining calm and Jedi-like when something unexpected happens. It was designed to be a learning experience. In JEDI, it’s not always about being the big impressive hero who saves the day. This was a small, personal (and often quite funny) story.
The mission will likely never be repeated. Even if it was, the roleplaying element means it would never happen in the same way twice. The story arcs of old will never be available to replay, but they are passed on. Current Jedi Knights will tell the stories their mentors told them, and new Initiates will discover JEDI’s history through its website’s archive. The community is in a constant state of moving forward, of generating new stories and forging new paths.
Over 13 months, 23 individual key missions were played. Some were heavily scripted, forcing players along one path. Others let players make decisions that would change the dynamic of the entire galaxy.
While many stories are one-offs, sometimes JEDI will put together arcs that allow members to take part in an episodic adventure. The most recent of these was a year-long story, in which a plague caused an epidemic across the galaxy—wiping out branches of the Jedi Order, and facilitating a Sith uprising in certain areas. Over 13 months, 23 individual key missions were played. Some were heavily scripted, forcing players along one path. Others let players make decisions that would change the dynamic of the entire galaxy. Some planets resisted the Sith uprisings, others did not, and there are now maps that show the changes to the political power structure.
Some missions are lengthy, too, matching the duration of an average full game. Lambert tells me about a mission that took eight hours to complete, with a rotating cast of actors and extras that helped students learn key concepts about the role of a Jedi in the universe. It was a huge commitment from everyone involved, and it ended up being a massive success. It’s one of the missions that those who took part still talk about to this day.
Part of what makes the community special is how it tries to instil values. This is a Jedi Order that trains Initiates and Padawans, both in universe and in play. Older members mentor younger ones, enforcing a positive atmosphere that emphasises people helping each other. Mazuelos pulled back from being a leader of the community so that he could focus more heavily on mentoring.
“You watch over them in the beginning, to teach them what to do and how to do it,” says Mazuelos, “but then slowly ease off so that they can make their own decisions and show their true colours. And you try to make them feel like their character becoming a Jedi was an adventure, and that it feels like an ending to a really good story once they are knighted in a grand ceremony.” Whenever a Padawan is knighted, the community is brought together. They’ve got a special area for these ceremonies, complete with custom music. Most of the community is expected to be there. Together, they celebrate the character’s growth as a person, and the growth of the player behind that character.
Despite the intimidating nature of a decade-old roleplay community playing a 14-year-old game, the community does uphold a positive and relaxed atmosphere. “When I arrived I was a bit like ‘uuhhh, whatever, it’s just people standing around hitting each other with lightsabers,’” Lambert admits. “But I’ve actually met some really great friends through this and it’s been a nice place to just express yourself.” JEDI is an inclusive community, and one that encourages creativity in all its members.
With its opportunities to make new things and try out original ideas, there’s no better platform for the community than Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. The ability to do just about anything they want, coupled with over a decade of stories, characters, and friendships, means JEDI will continue to be active for some time. As Mazuelos puts it, “We’re just a bunch of people who really like Star Wars and want the freedom to make Star Wars ours.”
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T-Mobile's G-Slate Tablet: First Impressions
By Melissa J. Perenson
The T-Mobile G-Slate, available today, is the first of a coming class of "tweener" tablets. These smaller tablets all have an 8.9-inch display that straddles the realm between the more portable 7-inch models and the larger 9.7- and 10.1-inch tablets offered by the majority of contenders. I've been using a G-Slate for a while now, and have found much to like about its size.
Yes, I'd like it to be thinner. Given the direction of the tablet market, half-an-inch thick really feels like too much. Likewise, at 1.37 pounds, it's heavier than I'd have expected given its size. That's more than Apple's iPad 2, which checks in at 1.34 pounds (for the version with Wi-Fi + 3G).
Still, I found the dimensions very agreeable as a middle ground. Holding the tablet to read felt fairly balanced, and its smaller size made it less obtrusive while I was out and about with it. I found the screen had glare problems, though. It has a visible air gap between the glass and the display, and that didn't help the display handle light well.
The Android OS build is stock for Android 3.0; nothing special to report, beyond T-Mobile's preloaded apps. As with other Android 3.0 builds I've seen, this model suffers from the same image rendering issue-which causes images to look blurry-- I've observed in the Gallery app on Android 3.0 tablets.
Aside from its screen size, this model distinguishes itself from the rest of the pack thanks to its twin rear-facing cameras at back. The cameras make it possible to easily do 3D video capture and, while this may sound gimmicky, it actually can be fun. The tablet is compact enough to hold up as a video camera, and the video captured looked pleasing on the display, when viewed with the included anaglyph 3D glasses. Just don't try using these glasses if you already wear glasses-they won't fit so well.
My full review of the G-Slate is coming soon. In the meantime, let me know in the comments what you think about having a 3D camcorder built into your tablet.
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A versatile size and 3D video capture add to this tablet's appeal, but poor speakers and a high no-contract price limit its reach.
3D video capture
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My Little French Kitchen
Imprint: Michael Joseph
Over 100 recipes from the mountains, market squares and shores of France
Rachel Khoo follows The Little Paris Kitchen with The Little French Kitchen, bringing her modern twists to classic recipes from around the country.
Rachel Khoo became an overnight sensation when her first book The Little Paris Kitchen and BBC2 television series launched last year. Coveting her Parisian lifestyle, fashion sense and, more importantly, her accessible, delicious recipes cooked up in her tiny kitchen, the nation took her to their hearts and now they can receive second helpings.
Taking her 'Little Paris Kitchen' on tour in her second official book, Rachel is leaving the capital city to travel to the four corners of France in search of the very best recipes in the country. From the snow-topped mountains and Christmas markets of Alsace to the winemaking region of the Bordeaux, the dreamy vistas of Provence and the well-stocked larders of Brittany and Normandy, Rachel seeks inspiration in some of the best-known foodie places as well as uncovering hidden insights, all ready to share with you. Recipes include: pork and clams with cider and butter beans, spicy aubergine sticks with couscous, baked figs with walnuts, beer-glazed ham hock, caramelized apple bake and spiced almond biscuits.
Join Rachel Khoo on her tour de France in The Little French Kitchen.
Rachel is a graduate of Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London. It was her passion for patisserie that lured her to Paris, where she obtained a pastry diploma. She then put her skills to use at the delightful Paris culinary bookstore and tea salon, La Cocotte, where she catered for book launches and hosted cookery classes. Working as a freelancer, she now travels the world working on a variety of projects, from workshops to catering for huge blue-chip client events to smaller, intimate pop-up restaurants. Her first book was The Little Paris Kitchen, accompanying her hit BBC2 television series. She writes a weekly recipe column for the Evening Standard.
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After graduating from Central Saint Martin's College with a degree in Art and Design, British food writer Rachel Khoo moved to Paris to study pâtisserie at Le Cordon Bleu cookery school. Rachel's TV series, The Little Paris Kitchen, was broadcast by the BBC and her beautiful tie-in cookbooks have been published around the globe. Rachel now lives in Sweden with her husband and baby, and travels the world working on a variety of projects. Her other books include The Little Paris Kitchen and My Little French Kitchen.
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U.S. Business Agency SBA Tightens Lending Rules for Marijuana Businesses
Banks, especially after U.S. federal clampdown on legal marijuana in early January, have shied away from dealing with cannabis businesses, fearing legal consequences.
The U.S. federal agency, the Small Business Administration (SBA), has tightened its lending rules to prohibit banks from using its loans to finance any marijuana-related businesses, CNBC reported on Monday.
SBA’s sole mission is to give support to entrepreneurs and small businesses through its loans, which are made of banks, credit unions and other lenders who partner with the agency.
CNBC reported that the change was “quietly published in a Policy Notice,” which went into effect on April 3.
SBA rules already prohibit lending to any business directly involved in the marijuana industry. However, the new SBA rule excludes lending to any firm that is even indirectly doing business with a marijuana-related operation, increasing the number of businesses who are now not eligible for the SBA-backed loans.
The rule defines such a business as one that “derived any of its gross revenue for the previous year (or, if a start-up, projects to derive any of its gross revenue for the next year) from sales to Direct Marijuana Businesses of products or services that could reasonably be determined to support the use, growth, enhancement or other development of marijuana.”
While the change might be small but it could have a big impact on the growing legal marijuana industry in the United States. There are already 29 U.S. states that have medical marijuana legalized but they have issues when accessing financial services.
This has left marijuana businesses dealing with piles of cash as marijuana continues to be illegal on a federal level.
The change in SBA’s policy happened before U.S. President Donald Trump in mid-April promised to allow states to operate their legal marijuana without interference from the federal government following Colorado’s Senator Cory Gardner hold up of nominees for the Department of Justice.
Meanwhile, last week the Republican Gardner said he is partnering up with his Democratic counterpart from Massachusetts to press on Trump to stick to his promise of protecting states’ rights on marijuana.
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Justin Bieber is Herman Cain
He's the sexiest pizza boy ever to hit the political scene.
by Paul Frank
Wow, it's almost like there's no economic uncertainty, the country isn't in huge debt, the divide between the rich and poor isn't bigger than it's ever been, and global warming isn't slowly killing us all with news like this. I'm neither Democract nor Republican, but I think we can all agree on two things: One, the country is falling apart (or everyone is acting like it is). Two, all this news about molesting and sex and statutory rape is super fun.
Of course I'm talking about Herman "Pizza Rape" Cain and Justin "Black in a Past Life" Bieber. (We'll ignore the Penn State stuff 'cause that's pretty disgusting and there's very little humor in that (although apparently there was a TON of humor in the subject when it was priests doing it.)
In case you haven't heard, presidential candidate Herman Cain, a black guy who must be running on the platform that he's blacker than the current president, has recently been found to to be fond of fondling women. But, you know, like against their will. Sometimes it's other things besides fondling, but the man just straight up has a tendency to sexually molest women. Can't hold it against him. Isn't sex addiction a disease?
Really, though, how do you not get the hint when a woman wants nothing to do with you? How are all these famous people this stupid? Brett Favre, Anthony Weiner, Ben Roethlisberger, the list goes on. (Or rather, it would if I could remember any more examples.)
The point is, had it gotten to the rape level, Cain would have been polite enough to wear a condom (unlike a certain teen hearthrob we'll get to later) cause that's the goddamn gentlemanly, presidential thing to do when you're coercing someone to have sex with you in exchange for a job for a pizza company.
Also, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. We don't know Cain's history or what's running through his head. Maybe he was lured into sexual intercourse as payment by a pizza delivery guy as a kid. Maybe he has a bet with his friends to see who can sexually harass the most women. Maybe he thinks the fastest way to a woman's heart is through date rape.
Plus, he doesn't remember meeting her! Herman Cain was quoted as saying he doesn't remember meeting the 4th accuser. You heard it here, first, folks! If he doesn't remember it, it didn't happen!
All this almost makes you forget about the 9-9-9 plan, am I right?
I really enjoy how he's slowly just completely fucking it up. This always happens. The celebrity denies it when it's first brought up, then more evidence and stories and people surface, showing that this person is a total sexual deviant (and not even smart about it), and pretty soon you regret ever considering giving this person your vote/emulating their golf swing/watching Never Say Never five times.
He is making the CLASSIC mistake of thinking nothing else is going to come of this and it won't eventually be found out that he harassed like 20 women or something, some of them with promises of slices of pizza. More women always come forward. Doesn't this guy remember Tiger Woods? Yet it always starts with clueless ignorance. He's gone from being like, "What is sexual harassment? I don't even know what that means" to "Yeah, we paid a woman tens of thousands of dollars as a sexual harassment settlement, but who doesn't?" It's only a matter of days before it's, "I'm so fucking sorry, it was more of a Rape Warehouse than a Godfather's Pizza, can I still be president?"
Herman Cain: He had a job so delicious it qualifies him to be president. You know if Herman Cain can get a company to deliver a pizza in 30 minutes or less, he can get a country to fix its abortion problem in 30 years or less, right? So remember to separate the dick from the man. If he could run a business while fiddling chicks on the side and not getting thrown in jail, well that just takes skills. It shows he is smart and sneaky enough to be President of the United States of America.
One more thing before we move on to Biebs. Two weeks ago, you didn't know who Herman Cain was. Nobody's really following this presidential race closely, it's in the early stages and we as Americans hate the government and politics. There's still like 8 major candidates who only MIGHT be president. I bet you don't even know 4 of their names. I don't. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, think of all the people Herman Cain molested who don't know yet he's running for president.
There is one bright side to all this: Herman Cain's numbers with sexual molesters are WAY UP.
Herman Cain needs to do the sensitive thing here: STOP sexually harassing women, starting…now. Wait, starting NOW.
On to Part 2. In case you haven't heard, Justin Bieber (who needs no introduction but is the young, creamy-skinned pop star with the voice of a prepubescent angel) FUCKED a girl with no condom in the Staples Center and is supposedly the father of her baby. But enough about Justin Bieber's penis. (Boy, if I had a nickel for every time I've said that…)
Four words I never imagined would be in the same sentence: "Justin Bieber" and "paternity test." He is being sued by his baby mama for, I don't know, drug money or something. If anything, it's surprising Justin Bieber doesn't have hundreds of thousands of little Justin Biebers running around—he easily could. There haven't been this many rabid fans and giggling, in-love girls since the Beatles. Justin Bieber could have sex with anyone he wanted to under the age of 18.
If it was just some nutcase, the lawuit would be dismissed and Justin Bieber wouldn't even comment on it. Instead, he makes the first mistake everyone, including Herman Cain, do when presented with a true allegation: they lie and deny. Then more evidence trickles out, or more women come forward, and the star is forced to beg for forgiveness even though they just fuckin' lied to your face, Bromerica.
The fact is, Justin Bieber is scared. He's dating one of the cutest chicks ever, and this could ruin that along with his perfect reputation, fame, and millions of dollars. He has the most to lose out of anyone in the world, probably. He could have sex with chicks every hour of every day for the rest of his life, and if he doesn't, he's an idiot and he's going to regret it so much. When he's 30 and creepy, he's going to kick himself in his hairless balls for not having sex with literally a million girls, which is easily what he could do. But he made a mistake, which isn't really a mistake so much as it is a logical decision that every single guy wants to make: he didn't wear a condom. Condoms are the worst and should be outlawed. Congress should forget all this other nonsense they do and work on finding more alternatives. Or every girl should just take birth control, I don't know.
If I was Justin Bieber, which I basically am, I would hold a press conference and say, "Yes, I banged that chick after a concert without a rubber. And I'm NOT gonna pay child support because I'm broke." Bieber needs to admit and BRAG about this. He isn't the manliest guy. This would change it all. If he really did fuck this girl without a condom, I have soooo much more respect for him.
But he's not going to do that. Justin Bieber is gonna do the smart thing, because he's home-schooled, so he's super smart. He's gonna have someone else sperm in a cup for him, the test will come back negative, and no one will be the wiser…until that kid hits 4 and starts singing like a fuckin' angel.
Like I said before, when it rains, it pours. In a week it will be a different girl coming forward claiming Justin Bieber got her drunk and coked up and butt banged her in his tour van while Usher taped it.
Or hell, maybe he had sex with an 18-year-old girl while he was just getting famous and didn't even know what age of consent meant, in a Godfather's Pizza. I mean those places are practically rape warehouses with an oven, haven't you heard?
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cheerios November 12, 2011
I could have sworn Bieber was a lesbian. As always, very funny! Welcome back Mr. Frank..........I'd still do you.
Andrei Trostel November 11, 2011
HAHA! Paul you have a gift for saying the most ridiculous, inappropriate and outlandish shit possible while still cracking me up all at the same time.
"I'm so fucking sorry, it was more of a Rape Warehouse than a Godfather's Pizza, can I still be president?"
"STOP sexually harassing women, starting...now. Wait, starting NOW."
"until that kid hits 4 and starts singing like a fuckin' angel."
"I mean those places are practically rape warehouses with an oven, haven't you heard?"
Paul Frank November 12, 2011
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DJ Swagg is one of the most sought after DJs in the south, with over 10 years experience. From the nightclubs, corporate events to radio and everything in between; DJ Swagg also known as The Crowd Pleaser, has the ability to keep the crowd going.
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Tag Archives: Richest People
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Top 5 Facebook Billionaires
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Matthew Cutter
CLOSER YOU ARE
The authorized biography of Robert Pollard, indie rock icon and founder of the music group Guided By Voices
Bennie G. Adkins & Katie Lamar Jackson
A TIGER AMONG US
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Grace Gorenflo
Grace Gianturco Gorenflo is a public health consultant who specializes in public health agency quality improvement, performance management and accreditation; sharing public health services across political jurisdictions; and community health improvement planning. She has served as an expert panel member for PHQIX since its inception in 2012.
Prior to establishing Gorenflo Consulting, Inc. in 2011, Grace worked with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) for 20 years. While there, she established and directed a technical assistance program for health department accreditation, focusing on topics that included performance and quality improvement, community health improvement planning, and strategic planning. She also led NACCHO’s internal quality improvement efforts.
Grace has published articles and book chapters on quality improvement, accreditation, local health department infrastructure, and managed care. She received a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, and also has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Virginia. Grace worked for 10 years as a registered nurse in acute care and research settings, and for 30 years she volunteered for community organizations dedicated to medically underserved populations.
Kusuma Madamala
Lake Zurich, IL
Kusuma Madamala, PhD, MPH is an independent public health systems consultant with 15 years of experience in public health practice and research settings. She has consulted with a variety of organizations such as the National Network of Public Health Institutes, Association of State & Territorial Health Officials, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Michigan Public Health Institute and the Institute for Wisconsin’s Health. Kusuma led the development of the prototype for the QI Practice Exchange in Public Health with NNPHI, reviewed the QI projects from the Multi-State Learning Collaborative and helped synthesize those projects. She previously worked at American Medical Association as a senior scientist and has also worked at the Minnesota Department of Health, University of Minnesota and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kusuma currently serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health where she has taught Public Health Program Planning and Evaluation. She has published articles on quality improvement in health departments and is a co-author of “Embracing Quality in Public Health: A Practitioners Quality Improvement Guidebook.” Kusuma is an evaluation consultant for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Public Health Improvement Initiative, a member of the Public Health Accreditation Board’s Research and Evaluation Committee, a section councilor for the Health Administration Section of the American Public Health Association and has served as a member of the Advisory Committee for AcademyHealth’s Public Health Systems Research.
Ty Kane
Ty Kane is on staff at Wichita State University's Center for Public Health Initiatives. Ty spent ten years in governmental public health and independent consulting before joining Wichita State. Ty has served as an accreditation coordinator, quality improvement coordinator and project manager in the local health department setting. He has experience in a variety of public health practice areas including: administration, maternal and child health, community health assessment & health education. In his current role, Ty provides project management support for the Task Force on the Future of Public Health in Kansas, an initiative supported by the Kansas Health Foundation and led by the Kansas Public Health Systems Group that seeks to develop & explore implementation of a Foundational Public Health Services model for Kansas. Additionally, Ty supports local community health assessment & planning initiatives and collaborates with a variety of national, state and local organizations to assess organizational performance, design & execute improvement projects, and implement strategies to build & sustain quality culture.
Ty is a lifelong Kansan. He is married with four children and resides in Wichita. Ty received a MPH with an emphasis in physical activity and a BS degree in kinesiology from Kansas State University and is recognized by the American Society for Quality as a Certified Quality Improvement Associate. He has served on the NACCHO Accreditation Coordinators Learning Community, the NACCHO Performance Improvement Leaders Collaborative and the board of directors for the Kansas Public Health Association. Ty is also a Cycle IV Fellow of the Kansas Public Health Leadership Institute.
Gurleen Roberts
Cobb & Douglas Public Health
Starting in January 2016, Gurleen Roberts, MPH began serving as the Director of Quality Management at Cobb & Douglas Public Health (CDPH) in Marietta, GA. Since CDPH achieved public health accreditation status in 2015, Gurleen’s main priority is diffusing the culture of quality throughout the agency by focusing on training and performance management. Prior to CDPH, she served as Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement and Accreditation Coordinator at the North Central Health District (NCHD) in Macon, Georgia. In this role, she was responsible for leading the health district’s community health assessment and improvement planning processes, developing the strategic plan, leading quality improvement projects and teams, and assisting with the workforce development plan and performance management system. She serves on several statewide committees, which provide support to health departments pursuing accreditation, including the Georgia Accreditation Learning Community. Gurleen is a certified Lean Green Belt and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Public Health Leadership from Georgia Southern University. She graduated with her Master of Public Health from Fort Valley State University, and received her Bachelor's degree in Nutrition Science from the University of California, Davis.
Les Beitsch
Leslie M. Beitsch, MD, JD joined the faculty at the Florida State University College of Medicine in November 2003 as Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Center for Medicine and Public Health. He is currently Associate Dean for Health Affairs. Before joining FSU, Dr. Beitsch was the Commissioner of the Oklahoma State Department of Health. Dr. Beitsch served as Deputy Secretary and Assistant State Health Officer for the Florida Department of Health from 1997-2001. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Beitsch was Assistant State Health Officer and Division Director for Family Health Services and Medical Director of the Broward County Health Department in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Current interests have focused on public health systems and services research, accreditation, and quality improvement for state and local health departments. Recently he completed three years of service to the Institute of Medicine Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health. He is on the board of directors of the Public Health Accreditation Board and is the Research and Evaluation Committee Co-Chair. Dr. Beitsch is past chair of the board of directors for the Public Health Foundation (PHF) and the Public Health Leadership Society. He has been recognized for his contributions by ASTHO (2007 Alumni Award) and PHF (2008 Theodore Erwin Award).
Chris Bujak
Kempton, PA
Christopher Bujak is President of Continual Impact LLC. The goal of Continual Impact is to help private and public sector organizations achieve sustainable performance beyond what is thought possible by unlocking the limitless capacity of an organization’s most valued resource—its people.
Chris was the global director of continuous improvement (CI) for a Fortune 200 ($10B, 20000 people) company for over 10 years. He was one of the principal developers of a truly integrated CI model including lean enterprise, Six Sigma and critical enabling elements such as learning and people involvement. Chris led the multi-national rollout of the integrated approach including development of divisional strategies, creation of infrastructure and leadership of the global CI Center of Excellence. He was responsible for creating significant, measurable and multi-year improvements to corporate performance through development of CI plans for various businesses (e.g. manufacturing, home healthcare, corporate overhead functions), coaching organizations through execution and educating others in application know-how for a wide range of improvement tools.
Chris has spoken, written and contributed interviews globally on the subject of creating high performing continual improvement organizations. He is currently collaborating on a reference book, “The Lean Champions Reference Guide” to support those who are attempting the transformation. Prior to this role, Chris held leadership positions in engineering and manufacturing organizations helping improve their competitiveness. Christopher J. Bujak received his bachelor of science, mechanical engineering from Lafayette College in Easton, PA.
St. Johns, MI
Jim Butler founded and manages James Butler & Associates, a consulting practice providing training and technical assistance to health departments in the areas of national accreditation, quality improvement, and performance management. As the former public health administrator for the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH), Mr. Butler has served in a number of leadership positions: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials senior deputy; director of MDCH’s Office of Local Health Services; MDCH’s single point of contact for local health departments; administrator for Michigan’s Local Public Health Accreditation Program; and co-chair of the Michigan Multi-State Learning Collaborative Steering Committees I & II. He developed and led the QI Learning Sessions for Michigan local health departments for MLC-III. He is co-author of the first edition of Embracing Quality in Local Public Health: Michigan’s Quality Improvement Guidebook. Mr. Butler is a NNPHI QI Coach, and a Public Health Accreditation Board site-visitor.
Ololade Coker currently serves as Staff Analyst at the Houston Department of Health and Human Services serving in quality improvement, accreditation, and marketing. Ms. Coker’s undergraduate work centered on mass communication and design. She holds an MPH in Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health, an MS in Biomedical Informatics, and doctoral work in Cognitive Informatics from the University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics. Additionally, she is also an American Society for Quality Certified Quality Improvement Associate. She works with both the Office of Performance Management and the Performance Improvement and Accreditation Team (PIAT), which spearheads HDHHS efforts towards accreditation and quality improvement. In addition to accreditation, the PIAT team is responsible for developing and conducting performance management and quality improvement training, as well as managing QI projects within the department. Ms. Coker’s previous professional expertise also includes graphic design, marketing, and coordinating accreditation for public health academic programs.
Cindan Gizzi
Tacoma/Pierce County Health Department
Cindan Gizzi, MPH, is the Community Assessment Manager and serves as Deputy Director pro tem at the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in Washington State. Cindan leads the Department’s quality, performance management and accreditation initiatives; the Office of Assessment, Planning and Improvement; and the Vital Records program. Prior to coming to Washington State, Cindan worked in epidemiology in both public health and research settings in California and developed and evaluated health promotion programs for a Northern California HMO. She received an MPH in epidemiology from the University of California at Los Angeles and a BA degree in English and journalism from the University of Southern California.
Louise Kent
Northern Kentucky Independent District Health Department
Edgewood, KY
Louise Kent is a Planning Administrator at the Health Department where she has worked for over 16 years. She developed and directs the Health Department’s Northern Kentucky Public Health Institute, which focuses on workforce development. Kent also developed the Health Department’s performance management system, and provides staff training and technical assistance in QI. In addition, she co-leads community strategic planning activities for improving the community’s health. Kent is a Certified Quality Improvement Associate through the American Society for Quality.
Joyce Marshall
Joyce Marshall is the Director for the Maternal and Child Health Service of the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH). Prior to this appointment, she served as the Director for the Office of Performance Management, State Accreditation Coordinator, and the Special Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner for Family Health Services at the OSDH. She has many years of experience in public health administration and management, quality and performance improvement, accreditation, and strategic health improvement planning. Joyce received her Masters of Public Health in Health Administration and Policy from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, College of Public Health. Additionally, she is a National Public Health Leadership Institute Scholar, Management Academy for Public Health Fellow, and Oklahoma Public Health Leadership Institute Fellow.
Marni Mason
Ms. Mason manages a Seattle-based consulting practice specializing in assessment and improvement of public health practice, and in preparation for Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) and for National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) accreditation. She also provides consultation for operational and clinical improvement in general healthcare, public health, and behavioral health organizations. She has expertise in assessment and compliance with performance standards such as PHAB, NCQA, the National Public Health Performance Standards (NPHPSP), and the Baldrige Criteria for Performance. She served as consultant to the PHAB in the development of the national Standards for Public Health and in training the PHAB Beta Test site reviewers. Ms. Mason has more than 20 years’ experience teaching about performance management and the application of quality improvement methods and tools and helping clients integrate quality planning and improvement into organizational culture. Recently, Ms. Mason has been consulting with NACCHO for the CHA/CHIP development project, ASTHO for the National QI Demonstration project, and is a QI Coach for the National Network of PH Institutes COPPHI project. In the last five years she has consulted with NNPHI for the Multistate Learning Collaboratives, facilitating over 50 quality improvement (QI) teams and teaching QI methods and tools to public health leaders in numerous states. Marni has co-authored several articles regarding performance management in public health and contributed to the Public Health Quality Improvement Handbook, and Embracing Quality in Local Public Health: Michigan’s Quality Improvement Guidebook.
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November 27, 2018 / 12:57 PM / 8 months ago
South Korea to buy Israeli early warning radar to deter North despite thaw
Hyonhee Shin
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea plans to buy two Israeli early warning radar systems, it said on Tuesday, as it reinforces air defenses against North Korea despite fast-improving relations.
The decision to adopt the two Green Pine Block C radar systems, built by ELTA Systems, a subsidiary of state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries, was made at a defense acquisition committee, Seoul’s arms procurement agency, DAPA, said.
DAPA did not specify the value of the order, but an official at the defense ministry put it at 330 billion won ($292 million), saying the systems would be deployed in the early 2020s.
The project is intended to boost South Korea’s capabilities to “detect and track ballistic missiles from a long distance at an early stage”, DAPA said in a statement. It did not mention North Korea.
But South Korea’s defense ministry said last December it would buy additional early warning radars after North Korea successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile and declared completion of the “state nuclear force” a month earlier.
Reclusive North Korea and the rich, democratic South are technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.
North Korea has for years pursued nuclear and missile programs in defiance of U.N. sanctions. But the two Koreas moved to defrost their relations this year, clinching a comprehensive military agreement at their summit in September in Pyongyang aimed at defusing military tensions around the heavily fortified border.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to work toward denuclearization at their landmark June summit in Singapore, but the agreement was short on specifics and negotiations have made little headway since.
Editing by Nick Macfie
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U.S. Lawmakers Concerned About Russia's Gay Law
October 09, 2013 05:58 GMT
Russian President Vladimir Putin holding the Olympic flame during a ceremony in Moscow on October 6
Some 40 members of the U.S. Congress have sent a letter to the United States Olympic Committee asking for assurances about the treatment and safety of U.S. athletes and spectators at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
The letter said lawmakers are concerned about what it called "Russia’s anti-lesbian, -gay, -bisexual, and -transgender law."
Citing a spate of attacks on homosexuals in Russia, the letter said the lawmakers are worried about the safety of people who may disagree with the Russian law.
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican from Florida, called Russia’s treatment of gays "nothing short of reprehensible."
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The Russian law bans the spread of what it calls homosexual propaganda to minors.
Critics say it bars gay-rights rallies and could be used to prosecute anyone voicing support for homosexuals.
'It's A Witch Hunt': Proposal To Confiscate Children Stokes Fear Among Russian LGBTs
Gay-Rights Activists Disrupt Met Opera
IOC 'Satisfied' Over Russian Gay Law
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Significant changes at United Autosports
The championships got decided in New York
Jaguar series finished off in New York
Fantastic Porsche fight at Silverstone
Graff enters in Asia
ADAC Formula 4
Electric Racing
Racing Memories
Category: ELMS
Tuesday July 16th, 2019 Jens Jensen
There will be significant changes at United Autosports in the coming months. The British-American team has been ever present in the European Le Mans Series since 2016, where they started out with two LMP3 cars, winning the Championship in that category in both 2016 and 2017. They expanded that programme in 2017 to include LMP2 as well, getting their first start at Le Mans too. The Daytona 24 Hours 2018 was their first step into the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Champinship, followed up with Sebring and Watkins Glen later in the…
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Driver and team changes in Barcelona
Thursday July 11th, 2019 Jens Jensen
The European Le Mans Series and Michelin Le Mans Cup returns after almost two months of summer break, competing at Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona. Not all teams have been on holiday. A lot of them were at Le Mans in June, to either participate in the 24 hours race or in the Road To Le Mans support race for GT3 and LMP3 cars. Several of the teams have had deals with the drivers until Le Mans, with changes happening afterwards. Inter Europol Competition #34 in the LMP2 category will…
ELMS, Michelin Le Mans Cup
Porsche presents new GTE car
Saturday July 6th, 2019 Saturday July 6th, 2019 Jens Jensen
Porsche has presented their new 911 RSR car, which will be used in the FIA World E2ndurance Championship, European Le Mans Series and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the three upcoming seasons. By stating that, Porsche has confirmed that they will do FIA WEC at least until the end of the 2021/22 season. Even though the car has got the same model name as its predecessor, 95% of the car is brand new. Headlights, braking system, clutch, drivers seat and some components in the suspension are the only things being…
ELMS, IMSA, WEC
Algarve Pro Racing with new line-up
Thursday June 27th, 2019 Jens Jensen
Algarve Pro Racing will have a new driver line-up in the second part of the European Le Mans Series 2019. Olivier Pla will join the team, and will be racing in #25 together with John Falb and Andrea Pizzitola. The team says goodbye to Mark Patterson, at least for now. Patterson was unlucky to get injured at Monza in a testing accident ahead of the ELMS round on the same track. That resulted in him having to miss both the Monza race and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The…
Tincknell: “It’s been character building”
It hasn’t been the best year for Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK #67 in the FIA World Endurance Championship this year, with the team currently sitting fifth in the drivers Championship, behind their teammates in #66, but with a 31,5 and 28,5 points gab to climb respectively, to potentially pass AF Corse #51 for third. Porsche has already secured the World Championship. Racing24-7.net sat down with Harry Tincknell yesterday, to talk about the season so far, and the weekend ahead, and a bit about the future too. It’s the fourth…
Monza delivers again
Sunday May 12th, 2019 Thursday May 16th, 2019 Jens Jensen
4 Hours European Le Mans Series race at Monza was just as dramatic and turbulent as the series often are. With 41 starting cars, incidents and problems were guaranteed. Cool Racing #37 with Alexander Coigny, Antonin Borga and Nicolas Lapierre had taken taken Pole Position, ahead of G-Drive Racing #26 and IDEC Sport #28. M.Racing #19 with Lucas Legeret and Laurent Millara had the LMP3 Pole, in front of Nielsen Racing #7 and Oregon Team #10. In fact, it was Norma 1-5 before United Autosports #2 which was the best…
Roussel also sidelined
Sunday May 12th, 2019 Jens Jensen
After Mark Patterson was judged out of this weekend’s race at Monza, and actually the 24 Hours of Le Mans too, another injury has been added to a European Le Mans Series team. Frenchman Leo Roussel has a crash in the second free practice, on his 5th lap in the Inter Europol Competition #34 LMP2 car. Something went wrong during the braking for Parabolica, so the car went straight on a high speed, hit the barrier and apparently went on top of the barrier. Roussel was able to leave the…
Even more hindrances for Eurointernational
Eurointernational is perhaps the most unlucky team on the whole of the European Le Mans Series grid. They have run into circumstances beyond their control for the second weekend in a row. We have already explained the issues in France, and the team has actually not yet got the cars released from France. So the team found two other cars prior to this weekend for the ELMS and Michelin Le Mans Cup. The car at Paul Ricard was Ligier JS P3 with chassis plate 001 – i.e. the very first…
Exciting qualifying at Monza
Saturday May 11th, 2019 Wednesday May 15th, 2019 Jens Jensen
The qualifying of the second European Le Mans Series race was run at overcast but dry Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Italy. The system for qualifying in ELMS is a totally classic version, with one driver per car, and ten minutes for the various categories to set the times. First it was the eight GTE cars’ turn. Proton Competition Porsche #88 unfortunately won’t compete this time, but it hasn’t been possible to get a comment from the team about the reason why they only run with #77 this weekend. Team…
Algarve Pro Racing hit by injury
Thursday May 9th, 2019 Jens Jensen
Algarve Pro Racing has been hit by an injury ahead of this weekend’s European Le Mans Series race at Monza in Italy. There was a test day held at the circuit yesterday, with Mark Patterson having a high speed crash, where he even ended up hitting teammate Tacksung Kim in the other car, who was at the wrong spot at the wrong time. Kim was luckily able to be released from the hospital after a quick check-up, with a lot of blue marks and painful muscles. He will be back…
ELMS, WEC
Inter Europol Competition ready with their Le Mans drivers
Inter Europol Competition has their three drivers ready for the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019. It will be three drivers already within the team, who will guide the team through their first participating in the 24 hours race. Jakub Smiechowski and Leo Roussel already race the Ligier JS P217 #34 in the European Le Mans Series, while Nigel Moore will be moved over their LMP3 car, to their LMP2 car for the Le Mans race. That leaves Dani Clos without a drive for the classic race this time around.…
Beche to help High Class at Le Mans
Tuesday May 7th, 2019 Jens Jensen
High Class Racing has named their third and final driver for the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019. The two regular drivers, Anders Fjordbach and Dennis Andersen, will be joined by Swiss driver Mathias Beche in their ORECA 07 Gibson #20 on Dunlop tires. Beche won the LMP2 championship in European Le Mans Series in 2012 for Thiriet by TDS Racing, but has then gone on to primarily race for Rebellion Racing in their LMP1 and LMP2 cars. He stood on the overall Le Mans podium in both 2017 and…
42 cars at Monza
Tuesday April 30th, 2019 Jens Jensen
European Le Mans Series will have one additional guest starter, when they will have their second round of the season, being run at Monza in Italy. The local Cetilar R. Villorba Corse outfit will enter Dallara #47 with Roberto Laconte, Sergio Sernagiotto and Andrea Bellichi in the car. Other than that, there are are only slight changes to the entry list at the opening round. Ben Hanley won’t be in the DragonSpeed #21, but will be replaced by Renger van der Zande, who will race alongside Henrik Hedman and James…
RLR MSport ready with their Le Mans reserve
Friday April 19th, 2019 Jens Jensen
RLR MSport has got all their drivers ready for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The winner of the European Le Mans Series LMP3 Championship in 2018, has moved into the LMP2 category, so they can compete in the prestigious race. Their ELMS team consists of John Farano and Arjun Maini plus Bruno Senna. Senna will be on Rebellion Racing #1 duties at the 24 hour race, so it was clear from the start, that they needed a different third driver for that exact race. The team announced today that…
ACO lets two more cars in
Tuesday April 16th, 2019 Tuesday April 16th, 2019 Jens Jensen
Automobile Club de l’Ouest has managed to get two more cars into this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. The French organizer has chosen to build two temporary garages, so there will be room for more teams in the prestigious race. That is really good new for the Danish team High Class Racing and British-American United Autosports, who were number one and two on the reserve list prior to today’s announcement. They were originally second and third on the reserve list, but Duqueine Engineering #30 was let into the race,…
Asian LMS, ELMS, IMSA, WEC
Exciting four-hour race in France
Sunday April 14th, 2019 Wednesday April 17th, 2019 Jens Jensen
The season opener of European Le Mans Series 2019 turned out to be four hours of good racing and some surprises. Under beautiful, blue sky and 12 degrees Celsius at the start of the race, the 41 cars drove around the 5.770 metres long track, hopefully without as much drama as Michelin Le Mans Cup yesterday, where there were run-offs and all kinds of confusion on and off the track. G-Drive Racing #26 had taken Pole Position in the LMP2 category, Oregon Team #10 took Pole in the LMP3 class,…
ELMS qualifying Paul Ricard
Saturday April 13th, 2019 Saturday April 13th, 2019 Jens Jensen
The qualifying on Saturday for the opening race of European Le Mans Series was run under beautiful, blue sky at Circuit Paul Ricard. It started with the nine GT cars on the track, where the teams could decide which driver they wanted to put in the car. Unsurprisingly they chose their fastest drivers. Proton Competition Porsche #88 and their teammates in Dempsey-Proton Racing #77 were the first two to set a fast time, while Luzich Racing #51 was the best Ferrari in P3 – just ahead of Kessel Racing Ferrari…
Rainy Bronze test
The Bronze test ahead of this weekend’s European Le Mans Series round at Paul Ricard was run on a wet track. So only about half of the teams opted to run in the session, where the Bronze rated drivers have 30 minutes extra opportunity for track time. Algarve Pro Racing #25 with John Falb was the quickest, ahead of John Farano in RLR MSport #43 and Alexander Coigny in Cool Racing #37 in LMP2. Inter Europol Competition #14 with Paul Scheuschner was fastest in LMP3, ahead of Oregon Team #10…
Eurointernational’s cars in French police custody – updated
Friday April 12th, 2019 Saturday April 13th, 2019 Jens Jensen
Eurointernational hasn’t been on track in neither the European Le Mans Series nor the Michelin Le Mans Cup, and there is one simple reason for that – the team don’t have any cars parked in their garage. French police showed up at the track Friday morning with a order to take the two Ligier JS P3 chassis’ into custody, that was going to be used in ELMS and LMC respectively. According to team sources, they however have done nothing wrong. It all comes down to an old contract, with a…
ELMS free practice in dry conditions
Friday April 12th, 2019 Sunday April 14th, 2019 Jens Jensen
The first official practice of the weekend for the European Le Mans Series was run in dry conditions, but with a light cloud cover over the Circuit Paul Ricard. The practice barely got started before we had a Full Course Yellow due to United Autosports #3 losing the left rear wheel on their Ligier LMP3. The car was transported back to the pits on a flatbed, where the mechanics managed to get a new tire mounted, and they ended up doing a total of 9 laps in the session. It…
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Homeland’s Claire Danes: Even I’m not sure whether Brody is dead
Is Damien Lewis's character really gone for good? Even his co-star isn't completely convinced...
Wednesday, 3rd September 2014 at 11:13 am
You might have thought the death of Damian Lewis’s troubled terrorist Nicholas Brody was an open-and-shut case after he was shockingly hanged in last year’s series finale of Homeland – but in a show known for its plot twists, apparently even the stars can’t entirely trust the evidence of their own eyes.
‘A lot of people, even my friends, were saying, “Is he really dead?”, Claire Danes told Harper’s Bazaar. “And it’s absurd, but I think there’s a part of me that is also a little unsure.”
Brody not dead? Zombie Brody? Ghost Brody? It wouldn’t be the most surprising of Homeland’s plot turns…Still, before you reach for the smelling salts, it looks like Danes’ confusion could just be wishful thinking.
“I’ll really start to believe it when we’re filming and he’s not there. That’s going to be hard and sad,” she said.
“I loved working with him and he carried half the weight of the show. So I’m a little bit daunted about what that means for me.”
The new series of Homeland will see Danes’s Carrie posted to Pakistan as a CIA station chief, while struggling with the choice to keep her and Brody’s child as a single parent. It will air on Channel 4 this autumn.
Homeland’s super twist has left it buzzing with a new energy
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Since 1998...
...Our Mission has been To create the foundation and future for the Rabondo community by providing education and scholarship support to its youth.
Here's just a small sampling of the work we have done with the Rabondo community over the years.
Creation of a community water Well
Hauling buckets of water for miles is a grueling task that was part of daily life in Rabondo village until we constructed a water well with your donations. The well has dramatically improved the lives of not only the children, but the entire village.
CLASSROOMS FOR YOUNG LEARNERS
We constructed classrooms and filled them with tables, chairs, books, and school supplies. Teacher housing was created as well, and with the help of many generous donors we have now seen 676 individuals pass high school with some joining universities across the country
Exchange Student: Sheillah
We sponsored Shelliah to travel to America when she was only 11 where she has been receiving an education and living with an incredible host family we work with. Here she is visiting family after 4 years of hard work. We are very proud of Sheillah and her accomplishments, and hope to see many more success stories like her's in the future.
Africa is on fire, and we need more firefighters.
— Timon Bondo
Timon Bondo is hard to miss with his bigger-than-life smile, hearty laugh and effervescent spirit. Though lighthearted in most aspects of his life, Timon is serious about helping the children of Rabondo, Kenya, a small subsistence farming community where he grew up. Fraught with AIDS, poverty and a sense of hopelessness for the past decade, Rabondo is experiencing dramatic change because Timon is taking action.
Timon may not be whom you picture when you think of a hero. While his story carries a legacy of heroic proportions, Timon himself is an unlikely superman. Unsure of his actual age due to a lack of accurate birth records, Timon estimates that he is somewhere between 65 and 85 years old. His youth is not the only thing slipping away; he has been losing his eyesight for the past 10 years and now is almost totally blind. So how, then, did an aging and ailing man almost single-handedly restore a sense of hope to a village that is nearly 8,000 miles from where he sits today? Admittedly, Timon acknowledges that he is neither a genius nor a millionaire. Determination, patience and a vision of education were the guiding and abiding lights of Timon’s efforts as his programs continue to strengthen and save Rabondo’s children and community.
It was a visit to Kenya in 1996 that shifted the focus of Timon’s life from Minnesota, where he lives today, back to Rabondo. According to Timon, this visit showed him a Rabondo that he never knew existed. HIV and AIDS had infected many people and they lacked access to basic health care, medication or information about the disease. “When I went back in 1996 it was dramatically different. [Because of AIDS] I saw a lot of orphans and widows, and there were people of productive age dying of disease.” Without parents, many children were forced to fend for themselves: finding shelter and food where and when they could. This community existed without sanitary facilities, safe water, electricity, motorized vehicles or businesses. To make matters worse, the only existing school in Rabondo was crumbling to the ground and scheduled for closure by the government.
Reggie Achieng, 5, and maurine atiyo, 6, cousins and best friends, sit outside of Atiyo’s mud home. Achieng is known in the village for her contagious smile, a reminder of her uplifting spirit.
Timon was then left with the dilemma of how to repair a community and school system already on a path to destruction—all as a one-person army. Without a background in community organizing, non-profits or development, Timon had quite an undertaking ahead of him.
Growing up in Rabondo for Timon was not the complicated and hopeless way of life that he witnessed in 1996. Timon recalls the prevalence of a barter system as a way of exchanging goods and services when he was growing up. As a child he had dreams of becoming a doctor or engineer, always knowing that he wanted to help others in some way. The hardship of losing his father when he was in third grade required Timon to help support his mother and family through farm work. That experience caused him to learn the importance of responsibility, hard work and to care for others.
“I knew that I had to do something
to help. I felt a responsibility that I could not run away from.”
Timon’s educational journey took him well beyond Rabondo. Interestingly, when growing up in Rabondo there was not a primary or secondary school for Timon to attend. Instead, he stayed with host families in three-month intervals, 50 miles from Rabondo in order to attend school.
After completing high school, Timon left Rabondo and the outlying rural communities for Nairobi because he knew he wanted to seek opportunities in a city. In doing so, he rode a bus for the first time and moved to a city where he knew no one. After working odd jobs in Nairobi, Timon moved to Germany for a short time. After three years of traveling, he eventually moved to the United States. He attended the University of Minnesota where he majored in Agricultural Economics. He then went on to receive his master’s degree in the same field from Kansas State University. Soon after that, he came back to Minnesota to work in sales and insurance. He was unaware of the serious nature of Rabondo’s problems until he visited in 1996.
The condition of Rabondo in 1996 would leave almost anyone overwhelmed. “The life of people at that time was governed by ignorance, poverty, illiteracy and sickness,” Timon recounts. “Many people did not know why they were dying, and prayer was the only thing that they thought would save them.” The barter system that Timon grew up with was no longer a way of life; now everything required money. The circumstance of the land itself even looked bleak. There was less land to farm because of over-population and infertile conditions. “Not only did people not have food to sell, they did not have enough to eat,” Timon explains. “I knew that I had to do something to help. I felt a responsibility that I could not run away from.”
Preschool and kindergarten students at rabondo’s nursery practice the alphabet. Due to overcrowding in the primary school, the younger students study outdoors under a thatched roof.
“Education is the only weapon that you have in a Third World country.”
Timon focused on efforts to provide education to the children of Rabondo as a way to encourage the young and empower the community as a whole. Timon believed education would help prevent HIV infections because students would be taught how the disease is transmitted, how to respect themselves and how to plan for their future.
“Education is the only weapon that you have in a Third World country,” Timon says with conviction. With so many problems in Rabondo it was hard for Timon to focus on efforts to improve just one, but he decided to start with building a primary school. This way children could attend classes in an actual classroom as opposed to the outdoor sessions they had been having for quite some time. It would offer a place to focus on studies and help children get into the mind-set of being students.
Fredrick Ochieng, the assistant principal, math teacher and bookkeeper at the secondary school, teaches a math lesson at St. Timon’s secondary school in Rabondo.
Risiki Auma Omollo, 7, (right) studies next to Elizabeth Akoth Okinyi, 8, in Edward Olango’s class in the primary school. The students study in dark classrooms because the school is lacking many basic resources, such as electricity.
In Kenya, all secondary schools are boarding schools and often are too expensive for students who come from communities like Rabondo to attend. Though the government does not provide school buildings and furnishings, they will provide teachers if a community builds a school. Alone, Timon knew that he did not have the financial means to start building a school structure, “I had to find a way to energize and mobilize some resources, and I found that to do things effectively you have to form a non-profit organization.” In 1998 he formed The Rabondo Community Project USA (The Project), a non-profit organization aimed at improving the quality of life in Rabondo through education and community involvement.
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Bespoke men’s shoes: Expect a three-year wait for Japanese shoemaker Yohei Fukuda’s creations
Yohei Fukuda has more than 200 pairs on backorder, but his clients’ don’t seem to mind the wait
Yohei Fukuda’s bespoke shoes are considered by the well-heeled to be among the most coveted on the planet. The Tokyo-based shoemaker’s creations are instantly recognisable as a cut above the rest, thanks to his impeccable attention to detail. He honed his classic cordwaining skills in the ateliers of London’s most esteemed shoemakers including John Lobb, Foster & Son and George Cleverly, and his process is so painstaking that Fukuda and his five apprentices only make 10 pairs each month.
His bespoke shoes are priced from US$4,600 (S$6,273) and can go up to US$12,000 (S$16,363) in exotic skins. You’ll also have to travel to Tokyo or Hong Kong to get a pair made. But in the meantime, The Armoury in New York City is carrying ready-to-wear pieces from US$2,300 (S$3,136) and made-to-order shoes from US$2,700 (S$3,681), made by Fukuda in collaboration with The Armoury’s founder Mark Cho.
We caught up with Fukuda during his first-ever visit to New York City in the fall of 2018. It turns out the shoemaking wizard stepped into his cordwaining career entirely by accident, kickstarted by a break-up and a visit to a Northampton shoe museum.
Each pair of Fukuda’s shoes comes in an immaculate wooden box
His signature style is the classic Balmoral Oxford, which ensures a timeless look throughout the years
Despite only having five apprentices to assist him in his workshop, Fukuda’s work is detail-oriented and precise
How did you get started making shoes?
When I was 18, I had a girlfriend who was going to study abroad in Los Angeles. I decided to follow her, but we broke up after getting there, so I decided to go to England to learn English instead. One of my classmates in England wanted to be a shoe designer and we went to a shoe museum in Northampton, which is where I saw a beautiful pair of black Oxford shoes that were made in 1910. I was so inspired and thought about how nice it felt to impress people with something like that. Initially, I was just interested in making shoes like this for myself, but eventually, I became a student at a shoemaking school there.
What sparked your interest in the bespoke niche?
I had the opportunity to get a part-time job at John Lobb. I worked in their shoe factory and while I was there, I bought 10 pairs at a discounted price. However, I have very wide, short feet, and at 21, I couldn’t afford bespoke shoes. That’s when I figured it would be a good idea to learn how to make my own.
How long did it take you to learn the bespoke process?
People say it takes around three years to learn, but I was lucky. When I was a second-year student at the shoemaking school, I had an opportunity to learn bespoke shoemaking from some of the best shoemakers in London. I studied three hours a week for six months, and made two pairs of shoes in that time. I also started doing repair jobs for George Cleverly, and would come to London once a week to get shoes from him to repair. As my skills got better, I showed my sample shoes to the folks at Edward Green and they let me make my first real pair of bespoke shoes. That’s how it all started.
RTW / Ebony For Mr.D.B. from USA. Thank you so much! #yoheifukuda #RTW #Oxford #style #gentleman #menswear #madeinjapan #tokyo #japan
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When did you decide to venture off on your own?
After living in England for six years, I came back to my hometown in Japan in 2006. At that time, there weren’t many bespoke shoe companies in Japan, and I didn’t want to work for another shoe company. So I decided to start my own company in Tokyo. It was very small in the beginning; I didn’t have a website or any retail space and I was working from home. I kept wondering why nobody came or contacted me.
When did your business start to take off?
A journalist friend of mine wrote a story about me 10 years ago, and a jewellery and watch store contacted me to do a trunk show. One of the clients that came in around then was from the Isetan department store in Shinjuku, Tokyo, and asked to display my shoes there. I had so many customers in Tokyo that I decided to move to there and open up a store about eight years ago. I started my Facebook and Instagram pages two-and-a-half years ago and did some practice photography by myself. I wanted to introduce good, Japanese-made shoes to the world because they are not well-known.
What qualifies as Japanese-made shoes?
I think Japanese shoemakers pay more attention to small details. If you think about cars, cameras, or clothes, these are not products that the Japanese have invented, but we have made them better. I think this is something we are quite good at.
What are the signature style details in your shoes?
My house style is a Balmoral Oxford. It isn’t new, but we don’t intend to make shoes that are solely about fashion. I want my shoes to be classic so the customer can wear them for 20 or 30 years. Details include a long vamp, punched cap, sweeping lines, hand lasting and a shape created through the arch, which is otherwise impossible to achieve with machine-welting.
Fukuda’s love for bespoke shoes began when he began working part-time at John Lobb
He employs an exceptionally thorough measuring and fitting process so customers will always get the perfect fit
He currently has almost 220 pairs in backorders, which means you’ll have to get in line to own a pair
How long does the process of creating a bespoke shoe take?
We take so many orders for our bespoke shoes, but we can only make about 10 pairs per month. We already have 220 pairs on backorder, and the wait time is currently around three years.
What is considered the top-end of your bespoke shoemaking?
Typically something using skin, like alligator, which can run up to US$12,000 (S$16,365).
The Armoury is the only boutique in the USA that sells your shoes. How did you start working with them?
About five or six years ago, Mark Cho of The Armoury came into my store as a customer and kept coming back at least once a month. We became good friends and, one day, he asked me if I wanted to do a trunk show at his Hong Kong store. I didn’t know anything about it, but I said yes, because it was exciting to do a trunk show in a foreign country. That’s how I started working with The Armoury.
What do you envision for the future of your business?
I have only five apprentices in my workshop, so my company is still quite small. A lot of young people want to become bespoke shoemakers in Japan, so I think the future is quite bright, but we don’t want to expand too much. We really want to be able to focus with the utmost detail on the quality of our shoemaking.
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Watching “1984” in Trump’s America
by Jana Monji
In 1949, World War II had been over for four years, but a different war was brewing. The government of the Republic of China had fled to Taiwan, leaving behind Mao Tse-dong and his Red Army to form the People's Republic of China. Former war hero, Harry S. Truman was sworn in for his second term as President in January. Arthur Miller's tragedy Death of a Salesman opened on Broadway, examining the American dream while Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" took on racism beyond black and white. In Europe, East Germany established itself as the Democratic Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb. The Greek Civil War ended with a Communist surrender.
In England, the formidable Margaret Roberts became a Conservative candidate and George Orwell's dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, is published. The book has been both a theatrical play and a movie. Two feature films have been made—in 1956 and another in 1984 (as well as several TV movies). The latter came to the US in 1985 and is being playing next week in theaters, on April 4, a crucial date for the protagonist of this tale.
As Roger Ebert said about the film: "George Orwell made no secret of the fact that his novel 1984 was not really about the future but about the very time he wrote it in, the bleak years after World War II when England shivered in poverty and hunger. In a novel where passion is depicted as a crime, the greatest passion is expressed, not for sex, but for contraband strawberry jam, coffee, and chocolate. What Orwell feared, when he wrote his novel in 1948, was that Hitlerism, Stalinism, centralism, and conformity would catch hold and turn the world into a totalitarian prison camp. It is hard, looking around the globe, to say that he was altogether wrong."
When the first movie came out, Orwell was already dead, dying at the beginning of 1950. He was only 46. He would never see the influence of his novels on the world. The first movie was black and white, in more ways than one. Ebert found it simplistic.
Yet of the second movie, Ebert wrote: "What is remarkable about the movie is how completely it satisfied my feelings about the book; the movie looks, feels, and almost tastes and smells like Orwell's bleak and angry vision. John Hurt, with his scrawny body and lined and weary face, makes the perfect Winston Smith; and Richard Burton, looking so old and weary in this film that it is little wonder he died soon after finishing it, is the immensely cynical O'Brien, who feels close to people only while he is torturing them. Suzanna Hamilton is Julia, a fierce little war orphan whose rebellion is basically inspired by her hungers."
What Orwell did not foresee was the birth control pill, but in some ways, he predicted Communist China's one child policy that was instituted in 1979. He also foresaw the desperate grayness of lives under communist regimes that had only just begin at the time of his death.
Where We Were in 1984
It is from "1984" we get phrases like Big Brother, Room 101, Thought Police, Thoughtcrime, Unperson, Memory Hole, Doublethink and Newspeak. Big Brother is a symbolic figure head that places every citizen under constant surveillance via telescreens. Citizens are constantly reminded that "Big Brother is watching."
Hitler and Stalin had already demonstrated how to Unperson people for various reasons. That tradition wasn't unknown under dictators and military regimes of the past and continued forward. But in the 1980s, reality TV hadn't reached its catty stride with tremendous viewership quite yet. (Remember the sweet innocence of the 1948 "Candid Camera"?)
In the year 1984, Apple Computer had just placed a Macintosh personal computer on sale. The TED conference was founded the same year. Ronald Reagan was president and visited his ancestral home in the Republic of Ireland. Los Angeles was hosting the Summer Olympics that year and by the fall, Reagan won his second term.
By this time, the Red Scare of the 1950s was over, but political Star Wars was not. The blue sea of Mao uniforms is echoed in the workers' costumes in Radford's movie. Introduced in 1949, the unflattering tunic suits became popular among European socialists in the 1960s and 1970s. At the time of the book's publication, the Berlin Wall had yet to be constructed. But, in 1989, the wall came tumbling down. The bleak despair of communism was changing from within.
Ebert wrote, "Radford's style in the movie is an interesting experiment. Like Chaplin in 'Modern Times,' he uses passages of dialogue that are not meant to be understood—nonsense words and phrases, garbled as they are transmitted over Big Brother's primitive TV, and yet listened to no more or less urgently than the messages that say something. The 1954 film version of Orwell's novel turned it into a cautionary, simplistic science-fiction tale. This version penetrates much more deeply into the novel's heart of darkness."
Looking at Radford's film now, in 2017, the past has come to the future. With smartphones, iPads and computer notebooks, that constantly ask our location, our movements are being monitored. Radford's vision of telescreens and cubicles are a steampunk version of the modern PC monitors in cubicles. The poverty and crushing mind-numbing grayness of socialism is not totally forgotten and communism continues, but reality is now manufactured and promoted by television in democratic nations.
From the molded reality moments, we now get our current president, Donald J. Trump. Four weeks into Trump's administration, Trumpian Newspeak gives us "alternative facts" to explain the visual comparison between a crowded National Mall for Obama's 2009 inauguration and the sparse crowd for Trump; all critical attacks on the president will be labeled "fake news" according to deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka and people who anger the president like Judge James Robart, will have their professional credentials questioned in a misuse of "so-called."
"So-called" is, according to Merriam-Webster used to describe something that is "commonly named" or "falsely or improperly so named." Robart not only really is a judge, he was appointed by the last Republican president, George W. Bush.
Merriam-Webster has been an active participant in this war of words, something that has been noted by Business Insider. Merriam-Webster has given pointed notes and rebuttals to the use and misuse of words as well as opportunities to learn new words like Götterdämmerung ("a collapse [as of a society or regime] marked by catastrophic violence and disorder"), claqueur ("a group hired to applaud at a performance") or snollygoster (a shrewd, unprincipled person").
Defining common words like "betrayal" became part of understanding the Trumpian logic. According to the White House, Sally Yates “has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States.” White House press secretary Sean Spicer called it "clearly a betrayal."
A business decision by a department store without any political stance becomes an "attack" upon the president and his daughter, Ivanka. The tendency to describe things in terms of almost feudalistic relationships of loyalty puts each citizen at war with another.
One broadcast journalist was so flustered he declared of Trump, "What does it mean when he says words?"
Because of Trump's rise to the presidency, Orwell's 1984 has become a best-seller again. The Daily Beast writer Michael Weiss feels "No, Trump Is Not Like Orwell's '1984'" but the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik, who never liked Orwell's novel has an apology and puts forth what Orwell got right in "Orwell's '1984' and Trump's America."
Trump's America does have something in common with the sea of white faces in Radford's film. Trump was supported by the Ku Klux Klan, something that he didn't, as President-Elect, disavow. Orwell wrote at a time when India and China had been major allies of Great Britain and immigration had already created a Chinatown in London and brought curry to the UK. Yet Radford's vision of a white Ingsoc (English Socialism) makes it easier to imagine how the hordes of East Asia could be threatening, echoing Thatcher's infamous 1979 "swamped" speech about Asia (East and Central) during the very year (1984) that Thatcher was negotiating the return of Hong Kong to a Communist China.
Orwell might have been thinking of Germany, Russia and China when he wrote about Big Brother and the Cult of Personality. He might have been thinking of Adolf Hitler, Tito Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin and Mao. That was before mass media, portable record players, radios and telephones and Reality TV and social media.
The movie begins with the quote:
Who controls the past
Controls the future.
Who controls the present
Controls the past.
While communist regimes have attempted to re-write histories, so have democracies and democratic republics. Now, in real time, we can see history being re-written on social media. Trump attempts to take credit for the first pre-inaugural concert, something that Barack Obama did eight years ago. Intel gives Trump credit for a US factory that it announced under Obama. Trump blames Obama for the seven countries on his travel ban list. The numbers attending the inauguration becomes the numbers witnessing the inauguration by any medium. Trump sounds peevishly like Shakespeare's Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew when he declares it did not rain during his inauguration speech.
Further, Trump declared that "Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election." Trump followed that declaration with a link to "16 Fake News Stories Reporters Have Run Since Trump Won," but that was criticized by the Washington Post. The media doesn't cover terrorism even when it does. In a tweet that was posted, taken down, reposted and then taken down again, Trump wrote that the media, specifically the "failing" New York Times, NBC News, ABC, CBS and CNN (but notably not Breitbart), was the "enemy of the American people."
In a time of globalization, when the Internet makes the world smaller by allowing people to reach instantly across nations and continents, the citizens of Trumpland wish to put America first as Trump draws battle lines between Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives, scientists and the superstitious, industrialists and conservationists, American and un-American. It's a Civil War of words and sometimes fists. Orwell wrote, "Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism" and "By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled 'good' or 'bad.' But secondly—and this is much more important—I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognizing no other duty than that of advancing its interests."
Dividing US citizens may have helped Trump conquer the electoral college, but is it really the way to make America great and the world a great place to live? Trumpland USA requires a corruption of American English; it requires a constant enemy. Check Twitter hourly to find out just who has been added to Trumpland USA's list of enemies.
In his proposed preface for Animal Farm, George Orwell wrote, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." In these Trumpian times, the best weapons are dictionaries, numbers and science coupled with the notion of saving our world, the Earth, from humanity's darkness: hate.
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The greatest films of all time
by Roger Ebert
I am faced once again with the task of voting in Sight & Sound magazine's famous poll to determine the greatest films of all time. Apart from my annual year's best lists, this is the only list I vote in. It is a challenge. After voting in 1972, 1982 and 1992, I came up with these ten titles in 2002:
"Aguirre, Wrath of God" (Herzog), "Apocalypse Now" (Coppola), "Citizen Kane" (Welles), "Dekalog" (Kieslowski), "La Dolce Vita" (Fellini), "The General" (1927) (Keaton), "Raging Bull" (Scorsese), "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Kubrick), "Tokyo Story" (Ozu), "Vertigo" (Hitchcock).
To add a title, I must remove one. Which film can I do without? Not a single one. One of my shifts last time was to replace Hitchcock's "Notorious" (1946) with "Vertigo," because after going through both a shot at a time during various campus sessions, I decided that "Vertigo" was, after all, the better of two nearly perfect films.
The other titles I consider the best work by their directors. I expect Coppola's "The Godfather" to be on this year's S&S list again, and it may even move higher. It is a great film. But "Apocalypse Now" is a film which still causes real, not figurative, chills to run along my spine, and it is certainly the bravest and most ambitious fruit of Coppola's genius.
I've written before how its critical reputation was harmed after he made an unwise statement at the Cannes premiere about being dissatisfied with the ending. I was there the night he said it, on a yacht while chatting with six or seven film critics. It was clear the film was a triumph. It was clear he was referring to the fact that the film's 70mm version was intended to play without end titles, which would be supplied by a brochure. The 35mm ending was as we see it now. That's all he meant. An urban legend has somehow perpetuated itself that he was referring to the entire Kurtz segment.
More critics would say "8 1/2" was Fellini's greatest work, and there is support for "Amarcord" and "La Strada." Sometimes the way you consider a film depends on when and why you saw it, and what it meant to you at that time. "La Dolce Vita" has become a touchstone in my life: A film about a kind of life I dreamed of living, then a film about the life I was living, the about my escape from that life. Now, half a century after its release, it is about the arc of my life, and its closing scene is an eerie reflection of my wordlessness and difficulty in communicating. I still yearn and dream, but it is so hard for me to communicate that--not literally, but figuratively. So the Fellini stays.
So does the Keaton. There must be a silent film, and I consider "The General" to be his best. "Aguirre" is the most evocative expression of Herzog's genius, and I admire it even more after watching him go through it a shot at a time with Ramin Bahrani a few years ago at Boulder. (Having agreed to do one of his films, it was the one he chose.)
"Citizen Kane" speaks for itself. "2001: A Space Odyssey" is likewise a stand-along monument, a great visionary leap, unsurpassed in its vision of man and the universe. It was a statement that came at a time which now looks something like the peak of humanity's technological optimism. Many would choose "Taxi Driver" as Scorsese's greatest film, but I believe "Raging Bull" is his best and most personal, a film he says in some ways saved his life. It is the greatest cinematic expression of the torture of jealousy--his "Othello."
There must be an Ozu. It could be one of several. All of his films are universal. The older I grow and the more I observe how age affects our relationships, the more I think "Tokyo Story" has to teach us. Kurosawa's "Ikiru" has as much to say, but in the rigid economy of the Sight & Sound limitations, impossible choices are forced.
That leaves only one title to be replaced: "Dekalog," by Kieslowski. This is an easy decision, because the magazine's new rules insist that if you vote for, say, a pair of films ("The Godfather" and "The Godfather Two"), or a trilogy (Ray's "Apu" trilogy or Kieslowski's "Blue," "White" and "Red" trilogy), each film counts as a separate title. Therefore, since "Dekalog" consists of ten films, averaging an hour long, it would take all ten places on my list.
At one point in pondering this list, here's what I thought I would do: I would simply start all over with ten new films. Once any film has ever appeared on my S&S list, I consider it canonized. "Notorious" or "The Gates of Heaven," for example, are still two of the ten best films of all time, no matter what a subsequent list says.
I decided not to do that--trash the 2002 list and start again. It was too much like a stunt. Lists are ridiculous, but if you're going to vote, you have to play the game. Besides, the thought of starting with a blank page and a list of all the films ever made fills me with despair.
So there must be one new film.
The two candidates, for me, are Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York" (2008) and Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" (2011). Like the Herzog, the Kubrick and the Coppola, they are films of almost foolhardy ambition. Like many of the films on my list, they were directed by the artist who wrote them. Like several of them, it attempts no less than to tell the story of an entire life,
In "Synecdoche," Kaufman does this with one of the most audacious sets ever constructed: An ever-expanding series of boxes or compartments within which the protagonist attempts to deal with the categories of his life. The film has the insight that we all deal with life in separate segments, defined by choice or compulsion, desire or fear, past or present. It is no less than a film about life.
In "The Tree of Life," Malick boldly begins with the Big Bang and ends in an unspecified state of attenuated consciousness after death. The central section is the story of birth and raising a family.
I could choose either film. I will choose "The Tree of Life" because it is more affirmative and hopeful. I realize that isn't a defensible reasons for choosing one film over the other, but it is my reason, and making this list is essentially impossible, anyway.
Apart from any other motive for putting a movie title on a list like this, there is always the motive of propaganda: Critics add a title hoping to draw attention to it, and encourage others to see it. For 2012, I suppose this is my propaganda title. I believe it's an important film, and will only increase in stature over the years. "Aguirre, Wrath of God" (Herzog), "Apocalypse Now" (Coppola), "Citizen Kane" (Welles), "La Dolce Vita" (Fellini), "The General" (Keaton), "Raging Bull" (Scorsese), "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Kubrick), "Tokyo Story" (Ozu), "The Tree of Life" (Malick), "Vertigo" (Hitchcock).
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From ‘Deflategate’ to court dates, New England took on the NFL in 2015 – and nearly won. Super Bowl 50 isn’t the same without them
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A friend of mine – let’s call him Stu – wanted to see the New England Patriots lose in Denver on Sunday. Stu is not a professional sports journalist, you see, so he can root openly and wantonly against any team as he pleases. And in much the same way as he roots against tyrannical regimes, Wall Street wolves, big-game poachers, schoolyard bullies, insidious diseases and the New York Yankees, Stu roots against the Belipricks (his term, not mine).
Matter of fact, he can’t recall wanting to see the shit-eating Patriots (um, that’s Stu again) win a football game since they were fresh-faced, two-touchdown underdogs against the St. Louis Rams 14 Super Bowls ago.
The Persecution of Patriots Nation
But there’s one thing about the Patriots’ 20-18 loss in Denver that’s slowly, oddly and unmistakably beginning to piss me off. I mean piss Stu off! And it’s the fact that they lost. They’re finished. They’re vanquished, however temporarily. Super Bowl 50 will go on without them. And as such, it won’t be damn near as good as it could’ve been.
In the NFL, only the Patriots – OK, the Dallas Cowboys a little bit – could pull a damned-if-they-do, damned-if-they-don’t, rain-on-my-parade move like this. I mean rain-on-Stu’s-parade.
The Super Bowl would have a legitimate villain if the Carolina Panthers were matched up against the Patriots, and villains are always good. Peyton Manning and the Broncos may not be your cup of tea, but they’re pathetic excuses for villains. Meanwhile, nobody hates the upstart Panthers save for the stick-up-the-ass few who resent Cam Newton’s joyful antics. Man, those people are assholes. At least that’s what Stu tells me.
You know what? This has gone on long enough. Fuck Stu. Not only because he doesn’t exist, but because his disdain for the Patriots is misguided and stupid. Yeah, they cheat and their fans are the worst and they always win, but that endless winning is probably why we should all respect the hell out of them. It’s why I’m feeling a gnawing, nauseating respect for them as I write this.
What the Belipricks did during the 2015 season, and what they’ve done now for a decade and a half, is incredible.
They’ve made it to six Super Bowls and won four. They’ve been to 10 AFC championship games, including the last five. They’ve won the AFC East 13 times in the last 15 seasons, including seven division titles in a row, tied for the longest streak in NFL history.
They’re the Yankees, only much better. They’re the Cowboys, only actually good. They’re the San Antonio Spurs, only far more villainous. They’re Alabama football or an unholy amalgam of Duke and Kentucky basketball, only…well, it’s kind of the same.
And let’s talk about 2015. Let’s talk about Brady being 38, about dealing with “Deflategate” and its aftermath, about taking on Roger Goodell and so many fans like Stu, about Rex Ryan’s move to Buffalo and his desire to topple New England once and for all (news flash: The Bills went 0-2 against the Pats this year), about the whole rest of the league gunning for the defending champs. Let’s talk about starting 10-0, and a 13th-consecutive season with double-digit Ws. Let’s talk about the Pats ending the Kansas City Chiefs’ 11-game winning streak in the divisional playoffs, then coming within a two-point conversion of taking the AFC’s Number One seed to overtime on their turf.
Or let’s not talk about any of it, at least not in detail. Because what would be the point, anyway? It’s just a given: The Pats are always dialed up to dominate. Next year, there will be countless reasons why they shouldn’t be great again. Brady is old as the hills. There’s no 1,000-yard rusher in sight. The wide receivers are little shits. The Broncos, Chiefs and New York Jets all appear to have better defenses. But will any of it matter?
It won’t. At least not until it does. When it does happen – when this run of Patriots excellence ends – it’ll shock the senses. It’ll come, too, with a heavy dose of letdown. Football won’t be as fun. The constant tension that dissipates with the death of an all-time Goliath will hurt the game. Don’t believe it? You just watch.
Until then, we have Super Bowl 50. Maybe it’s Manning’s “last rodeo.” Perhaps the Panthers win and make it to 18-1. Will it have nearly the impact on history that a victory over the Belipricks would’ve had? Absolutely not. It’ll just kind of…be. Not for Panthers fans (or for Broncos fans if things go the other way), but for the rest of us. Because we know how this thing works.
It’s the Pats’ world. The rest of us are just living in it. Begrudgingly, but still…
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This Dad's Line Of Paternity Clothes Proves Men Wear Fatherhood Better Than We Give Them Credit For
By Allison Piwowarski
Two billion dollars: that's how much the maternity wear industry is worth domestically, according to a 2016 report by Fast Company. It's an industry that 6 million women a year, in the United States alone, will need in some way. As it continues to grow, Andrew Bentley, founder and CEO of Father Figure, is pushing to tap into a new market: paternity wear, a fashion line for fathers to wear in parental moments. On Sunday, Oct. 29, Bentley will pitch his paternity clothing company to the celebrity investors of ABC's Shark Tank. But, beyond the tank, Bentley's company is doing way more than just dressing fathers in well-designed utility clothes. He's helping restructure the millennial father archetype.
Bentley first realized there was a void in the market when his wife was pregnant. "In the nesting preparation process where we were buying a crib, buying baby clothes and ... looking at research on how to actually be a parent, it was clear to me that most things ... were focused on the mother experience," Bentley tells Romper a few days before his Shark Tank episode is set to air. "The role of dad was typically secondary or as a support to the mother," Bentley says, noting that he always wanted to be a father because of the extremely positive relationship he had with his own.
At the point in his wife's pregnancy where maternity clothes were a must, Bentley, only half-joking, blurted out, "I want paternity clothes!" to his wife. "She was talking about all these maternity clothes she was buying and I was like, I want [that]!" Once his son was born, the feeling of wanting to be recognized as a nurturing, "potentially primary caretaker" of his son didn't go away. In fact, it was the early stages of being a father that inspired Bentley to create clothing for involved dads, a market no one else seemed to recognize. "I kept losing my burp rag at all the wrong moments," Bentley says. "I bought a glue gun and put a little loop on my shirt, and put burp rags there." That idea, that small but incredibly useful loop, is now featured on two of the paternity line's items, The Booker denim shirt and The Luca tee.
When they surveyed 350 millennial dads, Father Figure found that 84 percent wish parenting-related companies better understood their needs. Eighty-five percent of those surveyed said they'd be interested in apparel and gear designed for the "dad experience." So, with the research in hand, Bentley left his job at Google, became a part-time, stay-at-home dad, and launched a line to fill the void for those fathers who want to be just as embedded in the caretaker experience — and have a place to put their burp cloths.
Do dads actually need a burp cloth hook sewn into their shirts? You could argue that no one has ever offered them to moms, and women have done just fine. But, to Bentley, another purpose of the clothing line other than functionality is to really acknowledge fathers' involvement. You wouldn't need or want anything he's selling if you weren't an engaged father. Father Figure is about making millennial dads feel seen.
That desire for greater visibility for dads was part of Bentley's motivation in applying for Shark Tank. For many of the 45,000 applicants who apply each season, the main objective of getting onto the show is to gain notoriety for your product while hopefully securing a partnership with one of the business-savvy "sharks" in the tank that season. For Bentley, who was actually approached by a producer of the show who saw his successful Kickstarter, finding a backer was important, but another big draw was the opportunity to use Father Figure to showcase dads' experiences on a national level.
"One of the big pros for me, even if I didn't get a deal, was to articulate my vision for dads and to show the world that I'm a loving father." Bentley is hoping his appearance on the show is also a lesson in combatting negative stereotypes for fathers — especially fathers of color — in media, ads, and TV. "I think the media and the content we see tends to confirm the stereotypes that dads are often the support role or the goofy, fun guy..." Bentley says. "I think that message is particularly strong and cruel when it comes to dads of color. It really creates a lot of cognitive dissonance for me because that's not my world and that's not the reality. There's this widespread perception that [fathers of color] are absent and the worst-case perception is that we're neglectful or violent. I think that's cruel and it's just wrong."
Because of that, Bentley decided to use his opportunity on Shark Tank to not only pitch his products, but to fight back against the stereotypical images fathers of color face in the media. During the filming of his episode, Bentley decided to bring with him two other dads of color, with babies in hand, to model and display the Father Figure line.
"I wanted to make sure that the dads who surrounded me were dads of color because I wanted to show the world that [that stereotype is wrong]. I'm proud of that you'll see two dads of color standing up there with me being very loving to their children."
Father Figure is a company, but for Bentley it's more than that. "I got a note from a new mom in Brooklyn who bought the Bundle Of Joy [for her partner], which is the most popular purchase," he says. "She sent me a note after she bought it and she said, 'Hey, I just wanted to tell you that this is not only a gift for the dad but it's a gift for the mom because it helps me articulate how important it is that he's with me and we're a team. It empowers him.' I just loved that note."
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Thieves & Gypsys
The story of Thieves & Gypsys song “Penny Arcade” is one of those stories that makes me try to understand the wondering spirt and wholeness that is called randomness. I didn’t really think much about what the song was about or what the message was until it was finished. It was a bit of a reverse effect on me opposed to the “standard songwriting method”. At the end and once I had a chance to think about Penny Arcade and look at the words and the music, I was able to understand what I was trying to get through to people.
In the early life of Thieves & Gypsys, every now and then I enjoyed playing on the streets in downtown Santa Fe. After a few showings I grew to enjoy the feeling of getting a chance to show off some songs that I had written and getting gas money. At the time I had been seen a girl for a few weeks. Like all flings it was interesting and had its place. A few weeks later she broke up with me during one of my small busking moments. About ten minutes after the break up, a man with a his six or seven year old daughter stopped to listen. He would ask me, at the end of my song, if I knew how to play any reggae music. I told the man “I only play original music” . His daughter looked at me and asked “What if you wrote a reggae song right now” I laughed and said I’ve never written a song on the spot but I could try. At that moment something just came over me and I put my finger to the strings and the structure for the song came out at that moment. Almost like a free style rapper. Then the opening lines to the song and melody followed:
“Penny Arcade a nickel a game
Can drive you insane, right from the start
Head for the heart right for the heart
tell me what you know”
I repeated that line one more time then created the chorus:
“So how low to your pretty little soul?
Tell me stories about what you don’t know”
Once I finished the chorus I simply ended the song. The little girl smiled and laughed then told me “That was not a reggae song!” I replied “Well I tried for you” her father dropped a couple of ones in my case and off they went to continue with their lives. I stayed there for a few more minutes trying to make sure that the song was burnt into my head. i then rushed to find a pen. I stopped a local cafe and asked a waiter if I could barrow a pen I then wrote down the chords and lyrics that had just been given to me out of randomness.
I would later head home call Aaron Jones to come over check out this song I had written. We sat in my living room for a few minutes talking and learning the song together. After I finished the lyrics of the song in that jam session we took a break to get some food.
Aaron and I ended up cooking and talking about bass players and bass riffs that we both loved. We finished eating and asked Aaron to come back to the living room with me to play the song one more time to lock it into our memory for our next whole band rehearsal. Once we finished it I felt like the song was solid and there was not much else to do but show it to Dave (drummer). But once I put the guitar down Aaron started playing a thumping bass riff that caught my ear. I asked him what that “You just played” he answered casually “A riff I like to warm up with”. With excitement told him we need that riff to finish the song. Aaron modified his little warm up riff to fit the song for the opening and closing bass riffs for the song.
We had a rehearsal sometime later that week with the whole band. Dave started the song with a slight reggae feeling. Aaron asked if he could play a “faster punk dancer version” Dave let the song begin and right after the critique Dave executed the idea and Penny Arcade was born.
After playing the song over and over Dave and Aaron finally asked “What is the song about” I felt like I had a blank look on my face. I really didn’t know what to say. I just told them I did not have the slightest clue. I looked at the lyrics and told them the story. I then realized that the song was about simply about that day and my girlfriend breaking up with me and this little girl calling me out to write a song. Then I looked deeper and realized that the opening verse was me telling myself that sometimes I can lie to myself to believe that there is something less to something or a story then there really is. Like how you are in a penny arcade but its a nickel a game. Out side it says penny arcade on the sign but inside the games cost a nickel. That was the original verse that I wrote on the street and it explained the whole song to me. There is always more to everything on the inside then what you see from the outside. Then the chorus when the line is “how low to your pretty little soul, Tell me Something you don’t know” It feels like you are diving in into that idea much more. Like how far do you need to got to understand something and everything in life.
I truly believe that this song was created out of randomness. I don’t think it would be the true and honest song if it was not for the events that happened to me at the time of writing it. If I had not been dumped that day I would not have had the deep thought of “why” in my head. If the little girl did not ask me to write a song there on the spot I had the opportunity to write a feeling that was still raw that didn’t have the chance to be diluted by whatever conclusion I would have drawn with my wondering train of thought. I own the emotion that of the song to Aaron random riff that just happened to fit the song so perfectly to pull it all together.
From that point Penny Arcade is requested before and during show. We believe Its a song that people turn to because of its honest raw message. I’m happy for this song and the randomness that is the fog around it.
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Ehlinger's 3 TDs lead Texas past Georgia 28-21 in Sugar Bowl
By David BrandtAssociated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Sam Ehlinger ran for three touchdowns, the Texas defense largely held Georgia's offense in check, and the Longhorns earned their first 10-win season since 2009 by beating the Bulldogs 28-21 in the Sugar Bowl on Tuesday night.
Ehlinger was the star of a gritty win, running for a 2-yard touchdown in the first quarter, a 9-yard score in the second, and a 1-yard TD in the fourth. The 6-foot-3, 230-pound sophomore finished with 64 yards rushing on 21 carries and also threw for 169 yards.
No. 14 Texas (10-4) continued its quick rise under coach Tom Herman, capping his second season with a Sugar Bowl win that will surely send expectations soaring after nearly a decade of mostly mediocrity.
Texas stretched its lead to 28-7 with 11:49 left in the fourth quarter on Ehlinger's 1-yard run, finally scoring on fourth down after his first three attempts at running for the score fell just short of the end zone.
No. 6 Georgia (11-3) was a 12½-point favorite and claimed it would be ready for the Sugar Bowl despite just missing a spot in the College Football Playoff after a loss in the Southeastern Conference championship game. But a sloppy opening sequence indicated otherwise.
Texas jumped out to a 17-0 lead by early in the second quarter, largely because of Georgia's mistakes on special teams and offense.
The most costly was when D'Andre Swift fumbled deep in Georgia's own territory, giving Texas possession at the 12. Three plays later, Ehlinger deftly escaped trouble in the pocket and scored on a 9-yard run to give the Longhorns a 17-point advantage with 14:53 left in the second quarter.
Georgia got back into the game with a methodical 12-play drive that ended with Jake Fromm finding Brian Herrien for a 17-yard touchdown, but Texas still took a 20-7 advantage into halftime.
Fromm completed 20 of 34 passes for 212 yards, three touchdowns and one interception. The Bulldogs scored a touchdown with 14 seconds left to pull within 28-21 but Texas recovered the ensuing onside kick.
DON'T MESS WITH BEVO
Even the Texas mascot was in a feisty mood before the Sugar Bowl.
Bevo — which is the Longhorns' huge longhorn steer — charged through a barricade and toward Georgia's red sweater-clad bulldog mascot Uga X about an hour before the game. A few people, including photographers, were knocked down to the ground, but there were no reported injuries and Bevo was quickly restrained.
Texas: It's a validating win for Texas, which was the physically dominant team while playing one of the SEC's best programs. It's fair to say the Longhorns are ahead of schedule under Herman and expectations will skyrocket going forward.
Georgia: A very good Bulldogs' season ended with a huge thud after back-to-back losses to Alabama and Texas. Georgia made far too many mistakes against the Longhorns and Fromm didn't have one of his best games.
Georgia is a set to be very good again in 2019, especially on offense where most of the starters should return. The Bulldogs open next season with an SEC game on the road against Vanderbilt on Aug. 31.
Texas returns several key pieces, including Ehlinger, but loses several key contributors on defense. Texas will host Louisiana Tech in the season opener on Aug. 31.
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In the 2005-06 fiscal year, the district received $498,331 from 257 connections. In 2009-10, it received $67,442 from 17 connections.
So far this fiscal year, from July to September, the district had two connections, receiving $4,950. The district’s other source of revenue is from monthly ratepayers, Wallace said.
The district came under public scrutiny after its board voted in September to eliminate a lab technician position and contract with an outside laboratory to handle some of its wastewater testing in an effort, board members said, to save money.
The cost savings was estimated at about $40,000 this fiscal year and $75,000 in future years.
However, lab technician Devina Douglas maintained she was fired in part because she refused to throw away a sample in April 2009 that would have failed a lab test for a high level of fecal coliform bacteria.
Wallace had disputed Douglas’ claim about the sample and said the layoff was budget-related. He said last Thursday that the results of the sample were reported to the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in a monthly report.
The test result of that particular sample was inconclusive, Wallace said Friday. The district has since revised its methodology to ensure that the test results clearly show whether a sample is inside or outside the district’s set limit, he said.
In July, the district received a notice of violation from the state Water Resources Control Board outlining six deficiencies and compliance issues, including improper collection of effluent samples.
Wallace said the district had already changed its sampling methods to get a more representative sampling of the wastewater by testing on routine sampling days and on days when maintenance activity was taking place.
The board also discussed postponing several projects, including relocating streetlights, purchasing a new system to lift debris from wastewater as it enters the plant, and relining some but not all of its trunk sewers.
Reach Cynthia Lambert at 781-7929. Stay updated by following @SouthCountyBeat on Twitter.
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Tamil Nadu wants NEET exemption - FAQs answered
When I, every single time, start off to write on a social issue, a political vendetta or even a movie's viewer's note, one thing I have in my mind is that I, with all my responsibility, should torch a ray of knowledge on things I at least know. Since the fatal decision of the 17-year-old medical aspirant Anitha has created some emotional vibes across the State, for which even I am not an exception, I restricted myself to not to write on this immediately, as it will surely have a lot of personal and emotional agenda blended both knowingly and unknowingly. Even now, after 36 hours since the death of that pity soul, I am highly emotional. But, as I said earlier, as a journalist and a social representative, I have the responsibility to light my torch.
As the death of Anitha is being humiliated and to stop more Anithas coming up from the society, I am writing this. Though this is an effect of the ruling party's political agenda, let me not touch politics, as much as possible.
Source: Financial Express
Here are some FAQs that I have tried to answer from my understanding as a reporter who penned education bureau stories for about two years and still counting. These FAQs are being raised by those who humiliate the death of an innocent medical aspirant Dr. Anitha Shanmugam.
Q1. Why can't a student who scored whopping cut-off in State board exams could not score in NEET. Is she not ready to equip herself for her aspiration?
Firstly, it is to be understood that, for a long time, medical entrance in Tamil Nadu has been conducted based on the marks scored by a student in her Higher Secondary education. Every student in the State prepares himself/herself for HSC examination with respect to this medical admission process. In this juncture, a common entrance that involves content which he/she never was taught in the past and dropping the conventional admission method, will not only be a burden for the candidate but, will leave his/her dreams and aspirations in lurch. A student like Anitha who is capable of scoring 98 per cent marks in HSC could have easily cracked NEET. But, the question here is whether she was given proper time and opportunity to prepare herself for the exam. At the same time, when a student already has proved his/her ability through an exam, why is an another exam needed to prove himself/herself again? What's the point in conducting a public exam in HSC?
Q2. If so, is the State's school education system so poor to not to reach the standards of NEET?
Before dealing with the standard of Tamil Nadu's education system, an important question to be answered is, how is NEET considered as the benchmark of school education, that qualifies a medical aspirant. For a long time, even before independence, Tamil Nadu has been producing a number of doctors. Of them, there were a lot of quality doctors and there were some less effective doctors. Secondly, it is a well known fact that Chennai has been serving as the medical tourism capital of Asia as most of the private hospitals here are known for their less expensive, high infrastructures and quality medication, for which a lot of medical tourists drop in. Putting both these facts together, it is clearly evident that doctors from the same education system background of Tamil Nadu are the key factors for earning Chennai and Tamil Nadu this fete. Of course, every hospital will have doctors from creamy layer. But, if logically analysed, not all doctors would be from economically self sustained background. So, my question is what is the need of NEET?
Q3. Why is not school education in India uniform across the States?
Coming to the Standard of school education, the basic understanding one has to get about school education is that, school is the place to get fundamental education and not technical education. But, when we take the concept of 'fundementalistaion', it cannot be accounted as a constant value in a multi faceted society like India. Fundamental education is influenced by an individual's geography, environment, climate, history, language, culture, physiology and psychology. With India, which is a Union of various cultural cross sections, having a uniform fundamental education is completely absurd. It can be believed that there is at least a micro level unity in diversity, but this sub continent can never have a uniformity in diversity. If there is uniformity, then there won't be diversity and apparently, it would be social injustice.
Q4. If you really care for the future of Tamil Nadu's students, why are you not concerned about the students from your same State but from a CBSE school?
I sincerely care for a student from a CBSE school in my State with the same level of care I have on a State board school student. But, the point is that I have to maintain justice statistically. Comparing to the number of students attending school in State board schools, to the number in CBSE schools, it is openly evident that, the difference is very huge. I am ready to offer them equal opportunity. But, what is the point in giving them a fifty fifty chance in a State where there are 12 State board students for every CBSE student? If there is a justified proportion in the reservation, I solely admit it. With having an open competition, the number of candidates from other States grabbing the opportunity of a Tamil Nadu candidate is relatively very high. This will leave the opportunity for the native students negligible. This is not a logical debate, but a statistical one. The visible example is the rank of list of this year's Tamil Nadu medical admissions in which 15 out of top 20 rank holders were from CBSE school background.
Q5. So, you are not going to allow students from other State to study in the colleges of your State?
Why should I allow? Tamil Nadu has the most number of State run medical colleges in India along with a lot of private medical colleges. All these State run colleges are built, operated and maintained in the tax money levied on and acquired from me. How do you think, that one can give up all infrastructure, faculty and resources that are sourced out from his pockets? Then why should I pay tax in any form? If I permit it, doesn't that mean I'm committing social injustice to myself? Okay, let's say I allow other State students to study here. If he takes up medical education in my State, in my tax money, will he be at least serving as a medical practitioner in a village or in a city in my State? Even if he serves for name sake, will he be able to communicate in Tamil with the rural population that reaches out to him? So, why should I?
Q6. If NEET can be taken up multiple times, why should a girl take an extreme decision in the failure of her very first attempt?
The only person who could answer to this question is Anitha. It has to be inferred from a point where, a 17-year-old girl who was bold enough to knock the doors of Supreme Court to demand justice has taken this fatal decision. Means, a bold woman who was able to knock the doors of the apex court has taken this decision. So quoting her as a light hearted or mentally not strong itself is an extremism of humiliation. So, her last moment emotions cannot to be put into words. At the same time, the financial condition of her family has to be taken into account. Asking a daughter of a daily wage labour of an unorganised work to wait for one more year to make her dream come true is not acceptable at any cost. This answer is not specific to Anitha, but for every medical aspirant from a poor or a rural background of this State.
Q7. Aren't there any other opportunities for her? Why did she opted for a fatal end?
Yes, there were. She was offered with aeronautical engineering programme and veterinary science course under merit grounds in some leading colleges of the State. But, why should she choose them being a medical aspirant. She opted for MBBS and she deserved that. If she had born a year earlier, she would have been in a medical college by now. She was denied opportunity despite being an eligible candidate. And, the society in which she was living would have surely given her stress unknowingly by asking about her admission everyday. With all these surrounding, the final false and strong hope that was given to her by the Central and State governments added fuel to the fire.
Chennai, September 2, 2017.
By this, I'm not justifying her decision, but, her pain and emotion can be felt and explained only from her point. So, I feel it's better to stop here than humiliating the loss of a naive soul. It's not a time to debate, but to plan for the next move, either aggressive or defensive, there should be move and only then Dr. Anitha's loss will be a meaningful one.
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Prep Football: Wilmington rolls over Byron, 31-14
Jay Taft
As is often the case, Saturday’s Class 3A playoff game between Byron and Wilmington was decided in the trenches. “Oh, there’s no doubt. We got beat up front, and that was it,” Byron coach Jeff Boyer said after his team’s 31-14 loss. “We’ve got to tip our hats to Wilmington. Their guys on the line were tough. They knew what they had to do, and they went out and did it.”
As is often the case, Saturday’s Class 3A playoff game between Byron and Wilmington was decided in the trenches.
“Oh, there’s no doubt. We got beat up front, and that was it,” Byron coach Jeff Boyer said after his team’s 31-14 loss. “We’ve got to tip our hats to Wilmington. Their guys on the line were tough. They knew what they had to do, and they went out and did it.”
Starting with an eight-play, 79-yard drive, the Warriors took control early. Although a 78-yard pass from quarterback Nick Elsbury to wide receiver Base Byers quickly tied it up for Byron (7-3), once the Wilmington (8-2) ground attack got rolling, it was too much for Byron to stop.
“Our offense came out ready to roll. It just finally all clicked for us,” said Mike Wolfe, whose 18-yard touchdown run gave Wilmington the lead for good just over two minutes after Byron tied it. “And when we got a little lead, we didn’t want to stop. We’ve had to battle too much in the second half this year. We didn’t want to today.”
Although Elsbury, who finished 5-for-12 for 138 yards and two TDs, hit Devin Williams for a 6-yard TD late in the second quarter to cut the lead to 21-14, that was as close as the Tigers would get. Wolfe, who had 191 yards and three touchdowns, powered a rushing attack that gained 346 yards.
“We played our hearts out, it just wasn’t our day. They ran all over us, and we couldn’t get our offense going, really at any point,” said running back and linebacker Zach Pattat (51 yards rushing on offense and four tackles on defense). “Their line was just getting after it. I must say, they were just the better team today.”
Wilmington gained 420 yards on offense, while holding Byron to 262, including just 124 yards rushing. Fullback Chris Tworek added 108 yards to the mix for Wilmington, while Matt McMullen chipped in with 50 yards on the ground for Byron and Williams added 39.
Despite the disappointing season-ending loss, after their struggles last year, the Tigers know they took some big steps in 2012.
“We were 4-5 last year, and to bounce back with a 7-2 year that gets you into the playoffs, you’ve got to feel good about that. We will, eventually,” Boyer said. “We kept hanging in there, and we got things back to the way we want them. Now we just have to keep building.”
Jay Taft: 815-987-1384; jtaft@rrstar.com; @jaytaft
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Leading the 4:00 group at the Missoula Marathon, Dean McGovern and River Nuzzo run 3:59:07.
By Alison Wade
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Last month high school cross country runner River Nuzzo, 15, casually asked his stepfather, Dean McGovern, if he thought Nuzzo could run a marathon. The experienced ultramarathoner responded, “Of course you can run a marathon! I would love to help you train for one.”
But as the two discussed the idea more, McGovern realized that Nuzzo had a particular marathon in mind—the Missoula Marathon, to take place in their Montana hometown a few weeks later, on July 12.
Nuzzo remembered his mother running it with little training about five years earlier. Nuzzo had been training more than his mother did—about 20 miles per week. The longest he’d ever run was 14 miles, and his longest recent run was eight miles, but still, he felt confident that he might be able to pull it off.
McGovern, who was in charge of organizing the race's pace teams for nine years, planned to pace the 4:00 group this year. One day after Nuzzo inquired about running the race, McGovern’s pacing partner had to drop out due to injury. McGovern knew he could pace the group on his own, but that also gave him an idea.
“I thought, ‘Hey, if River just ran with me, maybe we could get this done. Maybe I can help him slow down, which is what he would need to do,’” McGovern said. “He’s usually like 6:30, 7:00 per mile and if he goes out like that, he’s going to crash and burn. So if he slows it down to what we would need to run, which is like a 9:09 mile, he’s got a shot to at least make it to 18, 20 miles.”
Though he was initially nervous about the idea, Nuzzo agreed to try it. McGovern advised him, like he does all of his pacers, that if he had to slow down or stop, he just needed remove his pacer shirt and get rid of his balloons, so that he didn’t throw the other runners off.
McGovern wasn’t worried about Nuzzo making his way home if he couldn’t cover the full distance. He knew that if his stepson stopped at an aid station, he’d be able to take the “sag wagon” back to the finish line, or as a local, he might bump into someone he knew who could give him a ride back.
In the end, Nuzzo didn’t need help. He and his stepfather carried out their duties perfectly, staying at or ahead of pace throughout the race and running 3:59:07.
“I was so impressed with his will to finish and stay on pace. As a pacer, he took that really seriously,” McGovern said.
Despite repeated reminders from his stepfather that Nuzzo could stop at any time, he says he felt the pressure to do his job well.
“Right before the race, we were in the corral and there were all these people who were talking to me, saying like how they really needed me and they were counting on me,” Nuzzo said. “I was kind nervous like, ‘I hope I can live up to…I hope I can make it in four hours.’ I kind of just told myself, ‘You can do it, River,’ and it happened.”
Things got tough for Nuzzo around mile 20. McGovern told him that was where many people, especially beginners, started to feel the wall.
“I said, ‘You know what, let’s see if we can get you to Caffe Dolce,’ which is one of the biggest aid stations, and it’s about three miles before the finish,” McGovern said. “He looked at me and said, ‘Well if we can make it to Caffe Dolce, then I can make it to the finish. And I said, ‘All right then, let’s go to Caffe Dolce.’ At that point I knew he was going to make it.”
Nuzzo says his stepfather’s belief in him helped him to the finish line.
“He’s one of those people that just, he has like the full belief that somebody can do something,” Nuzzo said. “He kind of just put his full belief in me and I believed him.”
Nuzzo says that his legs were “the most sore they’d ever been in my life” the day after the race, but he was back to running two days after the race, and felt that his legs were “pretty much back to normal” three days after the race.
And Nuzzo is already thinking about running another marathon. He says he’d be up for being a pacer again, but first, he wants to find out how fast he can run on his own.
McGovern says that this was, by far, the best race he has paced.
“I was smiling the whole time, just totally impressed that he was doing it,” McGovern said. “It was really fun to run with him. I always feel a little guilty when I’m out on a long run. Often I feel this pull to get back to my family, and yet I don’t want to drag them out there with me, because I know it’s my passion to be out there on the trails running for several hours. [To have River] step up and say, ‘I want to do this with you,’ was kind of fun. That was really nice for me.”
Editor's note: A previous version of this story said the Missoula Marathon was on July 10. It was on July 12.
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MESSAGE OF THE SADC EXECUTIVE SECRETARY ON THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY, 3RD MAY, 2018
Today, 3rd May, 2018, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) joins the international community in commemorating the World Press Freedom Day. This is the day set aside to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom.
SADC is proud that the World Press Freedom Day traces its origin from the SADC Region following the Declaration of Windhoek which emphasises that a free press is essential to democracy and fundamental human rights. The United Nations (UN) General Assembly proclaimed 3rd May, the day of the adoption of the Declaration of Windhoek, as World Press Freedom Day on the recommendation of UNESCO's General Conference.
It is encouraging to note that, since 1991 when the Declaration of Windhoek was adopted, the SADC Region has witnessed a proliferation of state and private controlled media outlets. In most SADC Member States, journalists continue to report freely in exercise of their freedom of expression, as stipulated in the Constitutions of most Member States. The Region has also media great strides in media training.
SADC values the important role of media, recognizing that the media helps to inform, educate and entertain a large, heterogeneous and scattered groups of people that would not be reached through interpersonal means. SADC also acknowledges the influence of the media in shaping public opinion and perceptions.
Today as we commemorate the Press Freedom Day, I call on the media in the SADC Region to exercise their influence responsibly to enhance social cohesion, promote peace and stability; and advance the SADC Regional Integration Agenda.
I also call for the media to assist in the promotion of the SADC Industrialization Agenda. In 2015, SADC adopted the regional Industrialisation Strategy and Roadmap (2015 –2063) which was developed as an inclusive long-term modernization and economic transformation scheme that enables substantial and sustained raising of living standards, intensifying structural change and engendering a rapid catch-up of the SADC countries with industrializing and developed countries.
In this regard, the SADC Secretariat stands ready to partner with the media to inform citizens on the identified regional values chains and the opportunities presented by the Industrialisation Strategy for different Member States, including the private sector.
Lastly, as we commemorate the World Press Freedom Day, I am cognisant of the speed and intensity of 'fake news' and dangers it poses. I, therefore, urge the media in the Region to desist from sensational reporting and propagating 'fake news' which can be detrimental to our society.
I wish to reiterate that, through the annual Media Awards, SADC will continue to reward journalists whose photo, print, television and radio content supports the process of SADC Regional Co-operation and Integration.
For more information contact Ms. Barbara Lopi, Head of Communication and Public Relations at the SADC Secretariat on email; blopi@sadc.int
Dr Stergomena Lawrence Tax
SADC Executive Secretary
3rd May 2018, Gaborone, Botswana
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Young people take the lead in nationwide Safer Internet Day campaign
30% of 11-16-year-olds experienced someone being mean to them online in the last year
But 3 in 4 believe young people have the power to create a kinder online community
New #Up2Us film tells of their internet experiences
[10th February 2015] Young people across the UK are joining together to create a kinder online community today, Safer Internet Day 2015, as a new study into Friendship in a Digital Age reveals that 30% of young people have been on the receiving end of mean online behaviour in the past year.
The research comes as official organisers of the day, the UK Safer Internet Centre, launch #Up2Us, a new film made by over 150 schoolchildren about their online experiences – both good and bad – with the aim of inspiring young people across the UK to do something kind online this Safer Internet Day. The film will be premiered at events across the UK today, attended by government Ministers and young people.
Celebrities, including young stars such as Britain’s Got Talent finalists Bars and Melody, and Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle, have backed the campaign. Beth and other celebrities feature on Safer Internet Day TV, which is hosted by CBBC Friday Download presenters Molly and Harvey, and will be available online today from 11am and 2pm, with a social media takeover by Bars and Melody at 8pm.
They join hundreds supporting the #SID2015 social media campaign to ‘share a smile online’, which is set to reach over 1.5 million in a mass tweet at 8am today, along with over 800 organisations that have pledged their support for Safer Internet Day 2015. High profile partners including the BBC, CEOP, Disney, the FA, Facebook, Google, Lloyds Banking Group, Microsoft, NSPCC, Twitter and the UK Government, as well as hundreds of schools and other organisations, are all coming together to deliver a range of inspiring activities across the UK.
Friendship in a Digital Age
According to the online study of more than a thousand 11-16-year-olds conducted by ResearchBods, more than three quarters (78%) believe that young people have the power to create a kinder online community. The majority (88%) of the young people questioned say they always try to be kind in their online interactions.
The study reveals the huge role that technology plays in supporting young people’s friendships, with over half (55%) saying they interact online with their closest friends several times an hour and 63% saying they are closer to their friends because of the internet. Reassuringly the internet is a positive place for the majority of young people surveyed. When questioned about their time spent on social networks and messaging apps, the majority of 11-16s (63%) felt that people were kind to them on the internet most of the time.
However, some young people face negative experiences online. Almost a third (30%) of young people said that someone had been mean to them in the last year, with 1 in 20 (5%) saying that people were mean to them most of the time on the internet.
Many of these young people are taking positive steps to tackle these negative experiences, with three-quarters (75%) of young people who experienced mean behaviour saying they have blocked someone in the last year, while 68% said they have supported someone else who was being targeted online. More positively, 64% of young people said they felt able to cope with anything negative that might happen online and 81% said they know what to do if someone is abusive towards them online.
An additional survey of UK adults by ComRes demonstrates that this isn’t just an issue for children. 45% of adults who use social networking and messaging apps said they occasionally see people on their social networks and messaging apps posting unkind, negative or upsetting content. People sharing gossip and rumours has occurred for three quarters (72%) of adults using social networking and messaging apps, while around three in five (59%) have experienced people posting things that attack a certain group (e.g. racist, sexist or homophobic comments).
That’s why everyone is being encouraged to play their part in creating a better internet.
Will Gardner, Director of the UK Safer Internet Centre, said:
“It’s heartening to hear that the majority of young people are finding the internet a positive place on the whole, but there’s more to be done to make sure that’s the experience for everyone. We’re encouraging everyone to take action today – whether that’s sharing a smiley face or making a promise about your online behaviour. It really is up to us to make the internet a better place.”
For more information on the activities taking place to celebrate Safer Internet Day, visit the UK Safer Internet Centre website.
For media enquiries, please contact Claire Lundie or Anna Claydon at Blue Rubicon: SID@bluerubicon.com / 020 7260 2700 / 07912 553 314
ResearchBods interviewed 1,004 young people aged 11-16 between the 5th and 11th January 2015. The data is representative of 11-16 year olds in the UK and ResearchBods are a registered member of Market Research Society.
ComRes interviewed 1,445 adults online between the 14th and 15th January 2015. Data were weighted to be representative of all GB adults aged 18+. ComRes is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules.
About Safer Internet Day:
Safer Internet Day 2015 will be celebrated globally on Tuesday 10th February with the theme ‘Let’s create a better internet together’.
Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre the celebration sees hundreds of organisations get involved to help promote the safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. For SID2014, over 650 organisations got involved, reaching 25% of children and 18% of teenagers.
The UK Safer Internet Centre – a partnership of three leading charities; Childnet, the South West Grid for Learning and the Internet Watch Foundation – provide resources for children, schools and families, and tools for getting involved at www.saferinternet.org.uk.
Globally, Safer Internet Day is celebrated in over a hundred countries, coordinated by the joint Insafe/INHOPE network, with the support of the European Commission, and 31 national Safer Internet Centres across Europe.
The day offers the opportunity to highlight positive uses of technology and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community. It calls upon young people, parents, carers, teachers, social workers, law enforcement, companies, policymakers, and wider, to join together in helping to create a better internet. Ultimately, a better internet is up to us!
Safer Internet Day TV
The UK Safer Internet Centre has created two twenty minute shows aimed at 8-15 year olds, which will be available atwww.saferinternetdaytv.com and www.youtube.com/UKSIC from 11am and 2pm today. There will be a social media takeover hosted by Britain’s Got Talent duo Bars and Melody at 8pm on the UK Safer Internet Centre’s Twitter account (@UK_SIC). The programmes feature advice and practical information from experts and providers such as Facebook, Google and Twitter on internet safety and issues from cyberbullying to reporting and privacy, as well as messages of support from lots of well known faces. Created in partnership with the Diana Award Anti-Bullying Programme.
#Up2Us Film and Premieres
On 10th February the UK Safer Internet Centre is launching a youth film, #Up2Us, which has been filmed by over 150 schoolchildren from across the UK. The film will be premiered at an event at Microsoft’s head offices in London, with a youth discussion chaired by young stars Molly and Harvey from CBBC’s Friday Download. Key speakers at the event will be Ed Vaizey, Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy and Edward Timpson, Children and Families Minister. The #Up2Us film will also be premiered in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland at the schools involved in the filming, attended by Ministers from the respective devolved governments.
Celebrities adding their support to the day include the Disney Channel’s Zendaya; Britain’s Got Talent duo Bars and Melody; Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle; dance groups Diversity and Original Kidz; CBBC Friday Download presenters and pop stars Molly Rainford and Harvey Cantwell; EastEnders cast members Anna Acton, Rakhee Thakrar and Danny-Boy Hatchard; vlogger twins Niki and Sammy Albon; and X Factor teen stars Emily Middlemas and Jordi Whitworth. Find out more at SID Stars.
Quotes from Safer Internet Day supporters
Nicky Morgan, Education Secretary and Minster for Women and Equalities, said:
"We know that the bullying and harassment of women and girls online in particular is a problem and, if ignored could create an internet that was not seen as a safe place for everyone.
“The work of the Safer Internet Centre is vital in ensuring that girls know how to remain safe when using the internet and how to tackle harassment online. Safer Internet Day plays a major role in providing children with the tools they need to keep themselves safe when using the internet and strengthens their understanding of appropriate behaviour online."
Digital Economy Minister Ed Vaizey said:
"It's fantastic to see so many companies, organisations and schools all joining together to make the internet a safer and friendlier place for everyone. The #Up2Us film provides a thoughtful insight into the way in which the internet can, and does, affect UK children. It will act as a catalyst to inspire viewers, old and young alike, to do something kind online this Safer Internet Day."
Children and Families Minister Edward Timpson said
"Thousands fewer pupils are being bullied than a decade ago thanks to the hard work of teachers, parents and charities. But no child should have to face being insulted or abused online and Safer Internet Day is a vial initiative in ensuring young people learn to use the internet appropriately. From this term children from the age of five are learning how to say safe online as part of the new curriculum and we've published advice to parents on how to spot the tell-tale signs of when their child is being bullied online, and the steps they can take to tackle it."
Baroness Shields, Digital Advisor to the Prime Minister:
“The internet is one of the most powerful creations in human history, but it is vital that we have a safe digital environment where young people feel confident and comfortable to go online. One of my main priorities working in government has been tackling child exploitation online and this is something that I know we can all help fight together. It’s amazing to see so many people coming together to support Safer Internet Day and I hope the campaign continues to inspire people to make the internet a kinder and safer place.”
First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, said:
“The internet is an ever present part of a young person’s life. It’s a fantastic source of education and entertainment; it makes the world a much smaller place by improving communication across the globe. While we actively encourage young people to embrace the internet’s huge potential, it’s vitally important they are equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to do it safely and responsibly. It’s for that reason, we’re once again delighted to support Safer Internet Day and I encourage people across the UK to spread the message - let’s create a better internet together.”
Junior Minister Jonathan Bell MLA, Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, Northern Ireland Executive, said:
“As the use of the internet becomes second nature to our children and young people, so too must they be equipped with the tools to stay safe online. We all have a role to play, whether young people, parents, carers, educators, the internet industry or government.
“I am regularly impressed by the confidence of children and young people online. It is important that we harness that confidence and help them understand the positive actions they can take to protect themselves and treat others with respect when using the internet.”
Junior Minister Jennifer McCann MLA, Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, Northern Ireland Executive, said:
“Safer Internet Day 2015 reminds us all of the responsibility we have in making the internet a better place. The use of the internet is now an integral part of the lives of our children and young people. It is a powerful resource for learning, knowledge and socialising, but it can also be a threatening place if they don’t know how to stay safe online.
“We are working together across Government here to ensure departments are actively promoting e-safety in their work. It is important that children and young people and empowered with the knowledge and skills to be able to use the internet safely, confidently and considerately. I am proud to support Safer Internet Day again this year.”
Fiona McLeod, Acting Minister for Children and Young People, said:
“The internet is a fantastic resource and it is absolutely right that creating a space that everyone can use and enjoy is up to us. As a former school librarian, I have seen this for myself. That’s why I am delighted to support Safer Internet Day and spend the morning meeting pupils from Falkirk to learn about the role the internet plays in their education. The Scottish Government is doing a lot of work with partners to make us all better at sharing information with parents and young people on staying safe online. We want young people to make the most of using the internet safely, and will continue doing all we can to encourage safe, responsible use of the internet.”
Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition, said:
“Social media and digital technology have the potential to greatly improve the quality of children’s lives. But that is why it is so important we ensure the internet is a safe place for our children and young people. ‘Safer Internet Day’ is a really important contribution to doing just that.”
Former Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle is supporting Safer Internet Day for the second time, having become involved last year after her own experience of being trolled online.
“For every negative comment I get online, there’s ten or twenty positive ones, so I try not to dwell on the bad ones. But if people are on the receiving end of threatening or abusive comments, or if someone is being cyberbullied, it’s important to know what to do. The first thing is to tell someone – a friend, a parent, a teacher – make sure you’re not facing it alone. You also need to know how to block and report the people who are upsetting you. It’s something I feel passionate about and why everyone needs to play their part to make the internet a kinder place.”
BBC: Andrew Tomlinson, the BBC's executive producer responsible for digital and media literacy, said:
“Internet safety is becoming increasingly important as more families get online and children start to use tablets, computers and smartphones earlier in their lives. For the third year in succession, BBC Learning is supporting the aims of the UK Safer Internet Centre’s Safer Internet Day with our Be Smart campaign. Be Smart is giving young people the chance to speak for themselves about the pressures they face on social networking sites via the video booth we installed in a school. We’re delighted to be working with St Margaret Ward Academy in Stoke on Trent and we’re hugely grateful to the staff and students there for agreeing to partner with us in this unique project. I’m sure that the stories and advice the students have shared with us will help children and parents to deal with this important issue.”
Director of the NCA’s CEOP Command, Johnnie Gwynne, said:
"The NCA's Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Command is pleased to once again support the work of the Safer Internet Centre in its co-ordination of Safer Internet Day. As always, this time of year provides a great opportunity to engage with industry, educators and Law Enforcement, who are working together to help keep children safe online. The resources that the Safer Internet Centre produce and support are invaluable and CEOP will continue to work with them and our partners to make the internet a safer place for young people, their families and those that work with them."
Alex Holmes, Diana Award Anti-Bullying Programme Manager, said:
“Princess Diana believed young people could change the world and that's why at The Diana Award Anti-Bullying Programme we're proud to be supporting Safer Internet Day to help empower young people to keep themselves and others safe online. Working in partnership with the UK Safer Internet Centre we hope that the hour of Safer Internet Day TV we have helped produced gives young people the facts in a fun and engaging way and ultimately help shine a light on the positive and creative ways young people are using technology.”
Boel Ferguson, Vice President and General Manager, Disney Interactive EMEA & UK, said:
“Disney Club Penguin is proud to be supporting Safer Internet Day 2015 and helping to create a better internet together. The internet is an exciting place, full of creativity and positivity, but it also presents the same challenges as the real world. Disney Club Penguin works closely with our safety partners such as the Safer Internet Centre to promote great initiatives like Safer Internet Day, empowering kids to take the lead in spreading positive behaviour and providing parents with tools to help them keep their family safe online.”
Rachel Tarr, The FA Child Protection Manager, said
“The Football Association (The FA) recognises that football has a responsibility both on and off the field of play and is happy to support Safer Internet Day, 2015. As reliance on the internet increases, so too should our realisation of its potential impact, both positively and negatively. What we choose to post says a lot about us individually, what we choose to host says a lot about us collectively - so ‘let’s create a better internet together’.”
Simon Milner, Director of Policy, Facebook, said:
“Over a billion people use Facebook to connect with friends and family every day, and it’s important to us that they have the right tools and resources to stay safe online. Safer internet Day is an important campaign that has real reach and positive impact on children and young people. That’s why, as part of our support for Safer Internet Day 2015, we’ve published Think Before You Share - a practical guide for young people created in partnership with MediaSmarts, Childnet International and Facebook, which includes tips about sharing responsibly and making good decisions online.”
Katie O'Donovan, Public Policy Manager, Google, said:
“Google is proud to support Safer Internet Day. We are celebrating the day on Google's homepage in the UK and across Europe to raise awareness among young people of the skills they need to enjoy their online experience safely.”
Carolyn Bunting, Manager at Internet Matters, said:
“Like many organisations, Internet Matters is delighted to be supporting this year’s Safer Internet Day. This annual event is a fantastic example of young people, schools, industry, parents, and charities coming together to highlight the issues and get young people up and down the country talking about how to stay safer online.”
Nick Williams, Consumer Digital Director at Lloyds Banking Group, said:
“It’s important to be aware of how, together, we can create a better, safer internet. That’s why, as part of Safer Internet Day, our digital champions will be visiting schools and hosting talks at our branches to help customers and young people stay safe online. As part of our commitment to help young people we recently launched, through Halifax, an online banking service for 11 to 15-year-olds which provides financial education and online safety information to help them better manage their money.”
Nicola Hodson, COO at Microsoft, said,
“We are proud to be working with the Safer Internet Centre to host the 2015 Safer Internet Day at Microsoft’s offices, the fourth consecutive year we have hosted it here. The industry has come together today to hear from schoolchildren from across the UK and to witness the premiere of their #Up2Us film. Young people learn best from each other and are on the front line as technology develops. Our job is to listen to their needs and to make sure we equip them with the knowledge to navigate the online world safely.”
Reg Bailey, Chief Executive of Mother’s Union and author of the government review into the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood, said:
“This Safer Internet Day, as we unite in creating a better internet together, I’m really pleased to see the important work that the UKSIC is doing to encourage and support parents and carers in engaging with internet safety and supporting their children, as well as the activities, tips and resources to help young people develop emotional resilience and to make the most of the internet.”
Peter Wanless, Chief Executive of NSPCC, said:
“The NSPCC is a huge supporter of Safer Internet Day and we will be flying the flag for #SID2015. Keeping children safe in the digital age is the child protection challenge of a generation. We cannot be complacent and rely on the positive action of a few technology providers to bring about change. This is a fight that has to be the top priority for every organisation that connects children with the digital world.”
Patricia Cartes, Head of Global Trust & Safety Outreach, Public Policy at Twitter, said:
“Protecting our users and creating a positive and trusted online environment is paramount to Twitter. Online safety is a priority for us and for this reason we support Safer Internet Day and we are very excited for today’s activities. 2014 has been a big year for us in terms of safety: we introduced significant changes to our reporting mechanisms, rolled out new user tools and our Trust and Safety or Safety Operations teams have continued to grow with hubs in Dublin and San Francisco which service reports from around the globe across timezones. Safer Internet Day 2015 (#SID2015) is our most international to date and we look forward to releasing new resources for our users and contributing to a number of events and initiatives taking place worldwide.”
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Lily Iona MacKenzie
The Seeds of a Novel
Read more by Lily Iona MacKenzie
When six-foot Curva Peligrosa rides her horse into Weed, Alberta, after a twenty-year trek up the Old North Trail from southern Mexico, she stops its residents in their tracks. A parrot perched on each shoulder, smiling and flashing her glittering gold tooth, wearing a serape and flat-brimmed black hat, she is unlike anything they have ever seen before. Curva is ready to settle down, but are the inhabitants of Weed ready for her? With an insatiable appetite for life and love, Curva’s infectious energy galvanizes the townspeople. With the greenest of thumbs, she creates a tropical habitat in an arctic clime, and she possesses a wicked trigger finger, her rifle and six-guns never far away.
Then a tornado tears though Weed, leaving all the inhabitants’ lives in disarray and revealing dark remains that cause the Weedites to question their foundations. And that’s how the novel starts, with the twister hurtling Curva’s purple outhouse into the center of town, Curva inside, “peering through a slit in the door at the village dismantling around her.”
From then on, we follow Curva and the Weedites as they recover from the chaos that follows. As the above synopsis shows, a good portion of Curva Peligrosa’s narrative takes place in the fictional small town of Weed, Alberta, about twenty-five miles from what is now a major city, Calgary. When I left the city in 1963, the population was two hundred fifty thousand. Today, Calgary, and its environs, has well over a million people.
While Curva Peligrosa doesn’t have autobiographical roots (I’m not Mexican American or six feet tall. Nor do I have a gold tooth!), it does have some parallels to historical moments in the province. When I was growing up in that area, agriculture was the main source of income. But in 1947, significant oil reserves were discovered at Leduc, Alberta, ushering in the oil boom that continues today. The excitement over extracting black gold from the earth brought job seekers and others to the area, eager to exploit the province’s riches.
I must have registered these developments subliminally, even though it wasn’t something I was particularly conscious of at the time. And as a young woman, I did secretarial work for Sinclair Canada Oil and other American petroleum companies. Impressionable, I thought the Texas accents signified power and prosperity and wanted to emulate them, faking a drawl whenever I could. It took me a while to realize that, in fact, many Americans were taking over our land and much of its oil.
My association with these (mainly) southerners fueled my interest in moving to America in my early twenties. Eventually I became an American citizen so that, as a single parent, I could take advantage of California’s university system and earn degrees (a B.A. and two Masters degrees) from San Francisco State. So while my early contact with these oilmen may not have been personally promising at the time, the experience propelled me into seeking higher education that wasn’t then available to me in Canada. However, the earlier image of American oilmen making off with our prairie identity had been planted. It stayed with me, surfacing in Curva Peligrosa and in Curva’s concerns over what she was witnessing in Weed, a town she had recently made her home. But none of this was intentional when I began the narrative. I had no idea then where it would take me.
In the novel, Shirley, an americano who is buying up nearby land so he can own all of the oil rights, represents the kind of southerner from my earlier experience. In Curva Peligrosa, he ends up being a villain in the old sense of the word where many readers will end up booing him. In turn, Shirley seems to embrace that identity and to enjoy the turmoil he is creating, not only in Curva, but also in the Weedites themselves. I had created a kind of Trumpian character long before Trump had brought chaos to America.
Like Curva, I’m not adverse to some kinds of development, but I do recognize that the word can be misleading. In certain cases, it might represent growth and advancement for the people involved. For example, the Blackfoot tribe in Curva Peligrosa benefit from the oil wealth. It allows them to build a museum that highlights Native life and also to open their own university. Under the leadership of their chief Billie One Eye, the wealth gives them an identity they otherwise had lacked, even though they sold out to the americano in order to enrich their tribe.
But in many other instances, such development can deplete the land of valuable resources and drastically disturb the environment, improving a few lives but enslaving many, not unlike what we are witnessing today in America. The continued practice of mining and burning coal doesn’t make sense given its harmful effects on the environment. This imbalance becomes one of Curva’s concerns. She also hates how life’s pace has speeded up, not leaving time for the basics, such as enjoying leisurely meals with friends and loved ones, fiestas, and sex.
I hadn’t set out to write a novel that harbored a political slant, but once I became involved in Curva’s quest, I didn’t have any choice but to follow along and express her concerns. In the process, I learned how seeds planted in our unconscious early on do sprout and bloom in our writing.
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Welcome to Shoosmiths > Client resources > Legal updates > Second-hand software market: To what extent can 'used' software be re-sold legitimately?
Second-hand software market: To what extent can 'used' software be re-sold legitimately?
Author: Michelle Sherwood
Creators of software programs may not be able to prevent the resale of 'used' copies of software programs legitimately paid for and downloaded by their own customers from the internet.
It follows a recent Opinion from Advocate General Yves Bot, a legal adviser to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), in Axel W. Bierbach (liquidator of UsedSoft GmbH) v Oracle International Corp.
However, creators of software programs may be able to prevent third-parties from reselling 'used' software licences obtained from the creator's customers as this may well be in breach of European copyright law.
Why has the Advocate General issued its opinion?
Advocate General Bot was asked to give his opinion following a referral from the Federal Supreme Court in Germany in the UsedSoft v Oracle case. The case involves Oracle, the US-based software giant that, amongst other things, manufactures and markets software for download via the internet, and UsedSoft, a German company that sells (second-hand) licences bought from Oracle's customers.
Oracle, having taken legal action against UsedSoft, was seeking to prevent UsedSoft from continuing to 'resell' computer software and licences that were no longer being used by Oracle's customers.
Oracle was seeking to rely on current European law that gives computer program rights-holders the exclusive right to do, or allow:
reproduction or translation of a computer program
any form of public distribution of the original or copies of a computer program
However, under European law, the first sale of a copy of a computer program in the EU by the rights-holder (or with the rights-holder's consent) 'exhausts' the rights-holder's ability to be able to distribute (as in B above) that particular copy within the EU (although it can still control future rental of that program).
This has the effect of giving rights-holders 'one bite of the cherry' in terms of the first sale of a copy of its computer program in the EU as, once the copy is sold, the rights-holder is unable to oppose its resale.
What were the arguments?
The judge in the case asked the ECJ to interpret the Software Directive (2009/24/EC) on the legal protection of software programs in light of the dispute between Oracle and UsedSoft. The judge wanted to know whether the principle of 'exhaustion' meant that Oracle had 'exhausted' its distribution rights in the copies of the software programs it had made available to its original customers.
This would determine whether UsedSoft had the right to 'resell' used copies of the computer software, which UsedSoft argued it did have, given that Oracle's original customers had erased, or no longer used, their copy.
Oracle, on the other hand, argued that as it was only licensing copies of its software to customers (under what Oracle described as 'software licence agreements') and not selling copies of its software. Therefore, Oracle felt that it still retained ownership and, more importantly, exclusive distribution rights over the software programs.
So what did the Advocate General say about Oracle v UsedSoft?
The Advocate General said that in the case of Oracle v UsedSoft, the principle of exhaustion did not apply because the sale of a copy of a computer program only exhausts the distribution rights of a rights-holder and not the reproduction rights.
The Advocate General said that, in this instance, UsedSoft was reselling (assigning) Oracle's user licences and creating new copies of the software program.
This occurred when UsedSoft directed its customers to the Oracle site to download a new copy of the software once the customer had obtained its 'second-hand' user licence from UsedSoft.
Therefore, this amounted to reproduction, which is an exclusive right of the rights-holder and not subject to the principle of exhaustion under the Software Directive.
What else did the Advocate General say? Was there a 'sale' of a software program?
The Advocate General also said that where software licensing meant that a customer acquired a copy of a computer program for an unlimited amount of time in return for a one-off lump-sum payment, a 'sale' would be deemed to have taken place.
This would mean that the rights-holder's ability to commercially exploit that copy of the program would be 'exhausted'. The Advocate General explained that this was necessary in order to prevent rights-holders calling their customer agreements 'licences' for the sole purpose of circumventing the exhaustion rule.
The Advocate General added that distribution of a software program by downloading it from the internet was a 'distribution' that transferred ownership for the purposes of the Software Directive. He considered that this method of transferring ownership was justified, despite arguments to the contrary, given that downloading was widely used in the industry to distribute software programs.
Although the Advocate General's opinion is not binding on the ECJ, it will undoubtedly be followed in future decisions.
So companies wishing to sell used software licences will need to ensure they have permission from the rights-holder to allow the sale of second-hand software licences. This might be contained in a clause in the software licence agreement.
What does the opinion mean for software developers?
In light of the Advocate General's comments on whether the licensing of software constitutes a 'sale', software developers should check their licence agreements to ensure that they are not granting users an unlimited right to use their software for a one-off fee, as this could result in the developer inadvertently selling (and losing control of) their program.
Developers should also ensure that their licence agreements do not envisage the sale of the software to subsequent purchasers.
Improvements in security measures to prevent the developer's software from being reproduced should also be continued to try to ensure that the developer retains ownership of the program.
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Review - Annabelle's House
One of the biggest film franchises of recent years has been the Conjuring, which recounts the stories of Ed and Lorraine Warren – renowned ghost hunters, who have been involved with such wide known poltergeist hauntings such as The Amityville Horror and The Enfield Haunting.
Although the films take obvious artistic license with the characters and situations – there are elements of potential truth in the stories, including that of the possessed Annabelle doll. The doll was supposedly possessed with the spirit of a dead child Annabelle Higgins, and was believed to be benevolent – it just wanted to stay and play with Donna, the child of the house.
Over time, more and more mysterious things started happening round the doll, and when the Warrens investigated, they discovered that there was actually a demon controlling the situation as it tried to possess Donna herself.
The doll was taken in by the Warrens, and following a number of freaky circumstances, was finally exorcised, and now sits in a locked cupboard in their house, with a warning to strictly never open the case.
The doll itself is just a classic Raggedy Ann style, BUT when James Wan came to make the first Conjuring movie, he decided on something a lot creepier. Hence, the much more hideous look that we see in the movies. Obviously, Annabelle became an iconic element to the movies, so it was no surprise that she soon got her own spin off movie - Annabelle.
The film itself was pretty awful, so it was a big surprise to find out that a sequel (well in effect – a prequel) was on the cards, but as the movie prepares to open at the cinemas this week, Warner Bros decided to crank up the publicity with a live action experience – Annabelle’s House. Tickets were extremely limited via a public competition and a few select media invites, and we are pleased to confirm that ScareTOUR were invited along to see how we would get on babysitting Annabelle…
The attraction was built in a secret East London location and on first impression, was a stunningly designed and built “house” that resembled a key location from the new movie. The house looked run down and with a scarecrow stood outside – was genuinely spooky. However, it was what went on inside that really affected us. We were introduced to the story and invited to look around the house, where we were expected to look after Janey for a short time. We were encouraged to explore on our own, and soon met the girl in her bedroom, and she asked us if we wanted to play. We settled ourselves on the bed and then the fun really started!
What followed was a master class in short sharp scare tactics. The room itself was wired for multiple effects and as the tension built up, things flew off the shelves, faces appeared in the mirror, draws slammed open and shut, demons stretched out of paintings and in a terrifying twist, the girl disappeared to be replaced by a maniacally grinning Annabelle doll starting back at us!
In fact, so much happened so quickly in such a short time – it’s almost difficult to remember every single element. Certainly, as we sat on the bed, it seemed that all hell had broken out in the room and the effects were genuinely terrifying. Things happened when we didn’t expect them, and the tension just built up to fever pitch, until we were suddenly forced to get out, in a massive live scare that had us screaming. Even as we ran out the door, there was one last scare as the scarecrow came back to life!
Out in the daylight again, it was hard to believe how much was packed into such a short experience. For a one off short event we were impressed with the level of theming and attention to detail throughout Annabelle’s House. It is clear that a lot of time and effort had gone into building it, which is why it is such a shame that only a select few people have been able to experience it.
In this respect, it is a lot like the two-day Resident Evil event a few months back. These events managed to create a huge buzz when announced but their very restricted run, cause a lot of frustration for those who just aren’t lucky enough to get tickets. We would love to see events such as this run on a proper-ticketed basis for perhaps a couple of weeks, which would at least give people a better chance of experiencing them. Both this and Resident Evil were genuinely great fun, and we are just honoured that we got invited to try them both for ourselves.
The new Annabelle move comes out in UK cinemas on August 11th
All other pictures copyright Warner Bros from the film Annabelle: Creation
Official Website - Annabelle
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Phil Rogers was born in Newport, S. Wales in 1951. He attended Newport and Swansea Colleges of Art and then, after graduating, spent almost 5 years as a teacher of art and pottery in secondary schools. In 1977 he moved to Rhayader in Mid Wales and opened his first workshop. In 1984 a move to Lower Cefnfaes, a fifteenth century farmhouse and buildings, about ½ mile outside Rhayader gave him the space he needed to expand the pottery and to build a variety of large kilns.
A past Chair and council member of the Craft Potters Association Phil has served as a trustee on the Adopt a Potter Foundation and the Craft Potters Charitable Trust. Currently he is working with the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge cataloguing and annotating the recently bequeathed Dr John Shakeshaft collection.
Phil Rogers has written respected books on ash glazes, throwing techniques and salt glazing. He has conducted workshops and lectured all over the world most notably in South Korea, Canada, S. Africa and the USA. In 1992 and 1995 he worked for Project Ploughshare to create a pottery for women in Ethiopia. Phil’s work is held in the permanent collections of more than 50 museums worldwide including, amongst others, the Victoria and Albert, The National Museum of Wales, The Museum of Ceramic Art in Mashiko and the Boston Museum of Fine Art.
My work is divided between three kilns. My new two chambered wood firing kiln has demanded much of my attention recently in part due to a Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council of Wales specifically designed to allow me to experiment and develop this aspect of my work.
My other kilns are still in commission, I have recently fired the salt kiln again after a long gap. and the older and trusted oil kiln is the mainstay of my operation although I fire almost as much in the wood kiln. The two chambers of the wood kiln are almost like firing two kilns and it therefore requires a lot of work to fill it. Salt Glazing is an exciting, but often less than predictable, method of firing pottery. As the kiln approaches the height of the firing the temperature has risen to a white hot 1260°C. At this point I throw small packets of common salt into the fireboxes of the kiln where it reacts with the intense heat and vaporizes. The sodium from the salt reacts with the silica and alumina from the clay to form a glass or glaze. This process continues until I have used 15 lbs. of salt and the temperature has risen to the searing white heat of 1300°C.
The manufacture of Salt glazed pottery first began in 14th century Germany and spread to England by the late 15th century. By the end of the eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth century, Salt Glazing became widely used in industry to produce millions of cheap utilitarian wares such as ink or Ginger Beer bottles. Salt Glazed pots are typically rich in texture and colour, the texture often compared to orange peel and the colours ranging from deep and intense orange to pink and yellow sometimes with a lustre reminiscent of Mother of Pearl. The wood kiln has a “salt chamber” which has provided something of a challenge in achieving the surfaces that I can obtain from the gas fired salt kiln.
In the oil fired kiln I fire reduction stoneware. I try to use as many local materials as possible for my slips and glazes particularly wood ash from the fires in the house and stone dust from a number of local quarries. A coarse, red clay that I dig from the woods on the other side of town makes a good slip that influences the colour of any glaze that I put over it. I believe what Hamada once said, to be true: it is better to use a limited range of materials and glazes and come to know them well than to have too great a choice and never fully explore the possibility of any of them. My work is not highly decorated; my main concern is the complex relationships that exist within the form of a pot and the subtle differences that make two very similar pots very different. However, I find it difficult to let a pot pass through totally undecorated. Most of my decorative technique takes place in the clay’s surface. Drawing, combing, faceting, throwing raised features onto the surface of the pot and Hakeme are my most often used methods although I am drawn to wax resist between slips. Phil - Kiln prep_1200Wood firing is a way of decorating by proxy in that the kiln performs a magic that isn’t entirely controllable. One can optimistically set the pots in the kiln in a certain pattern hoping to repeat the effect of a previous firing. Occasionally all goes to plan. More often the kiln, the vapours and the ash have a greater say.
I am not a potter attempting to make social or political statement. Rather, I am trying with the best of my ability to provide an audience with work that has beauty, grace and function while, at the same time, furthering a tradition that I am happy and comfortable to be a part of. The challenge for me is to find my own way along a narrow path, to seek creatively that variation and nuance that distinguish my pots from the work of another.
Technique is important... skills enable the vision to become reality. However, that innermost intuitive expression which is contained in the heart is more valuable to the potter than the fundamentals of hand. Technique can be the enemy of spontaneity... there should always be evident a sense of adventure. I endeavour always to leave a personal signature, to imbue my work with an indefinable quality that speaks of me as an artist. That is my role as contemporary maker.
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New point-of-care diagnostic solution introduced
Abbott has introduced the m-PIMA HIV-1/2 VL, a viral load point-of-care test designed to provide healthcare professionals, especially in remote and underserved communities, with a fast, accurate and easy-to-use test to manage HIV.
By providing viral load test results in less than 70 minutes, this innovative technology allows patients to get tested and treated in the same visit.
In recent decades, the global health community has made great strides towards ending the global AIDS epidemic by working to ensure that all people living with HIV know their status, receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) and, through effective disease management, reach an undetectable viral load (VL). Moreover, UNAIDS has established a set of collaborative goals to ensure all HIV patients receive the optimal level of care, no matter where they live.
"The integration of point-of-care viral load solutions in healthcare networks will be instrumental in achieving UNAIDS’ 90-90-90 goals," said Professor Matilu Mwau, Director at the Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Control Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Busia, Kenya. "Viral load testing is critical for the monitoring of individual treatment response, the effective use of costly antiretroviral medications, and to track the emergence of resistance in people who are HIV-positive.'
"Abbott is committed to delivering HIV diagnostic solutions that support the UNAIDS agenda and enable life-saving decisions that have a profound impact on people and society," said Damian Halloran, Vice President, Infectious Disease-Emerging Markets, Rapid Diagnostics, Abbott. "The m-PIMA HIV-1/2 VL is an example of how we are focused on delivering tools that empower healthcare providers and their patients where and when they need it most."
To provide the most effective HIV treatment and care, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that everyone receiving ART undergoes a viral load test at 6 months and 12 months, and annually thereafter, if the individual is stable on ART. Viral load testing is the gold standard for monitoring ART treatment failure.
Unfortunately, very few people in resource-limited settings, such as select countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America, receive this necessary level of care due to limited laboratory infrastructure, shortage of skilled clinical and laboratory staff, weak specimen transport systems, inefficient systems for providing results and patients lost to follow-up. These are the exact challenges the m-PIMA HIV-1/2 VL has been designed to address. The m-PIMA platform is portable and robust, allowing the provision of healthcare in the most challenging of settings. Data Point connectivity supports decentralised programme management so ministres of health are able to monitor and raise the standard of care nationwide.
The m-PIMA HIV-1/2 VL is a quantitative nucleic acid amplification test for viral load measurement of HIV type 1 groups M/N and O, and HIV-2 in plasma samples. The test is easy to use, deployable at the point of care and is designed to measure viral load in under 70 minutes, while the patient is still present. The impact is that every patient that needs a VL test can get one in the same visit, allowing more immediate treatment decisions, and consequently helping to reduce mental, emotional and physical burdens.
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The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan
Majestic 6th-century Chinese Buddhist sculpture is combined with 21st century 3D-imaging technology in this exploration of one of the most important groups of Buddhist devotional sites in early medieval China. A video installation, touch screens, and research kiosks enable visitors to digitally envision some of the caves as they appeared before their tragic despoliation.
Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan (pronounced “shahng-tahng-shahn”) were the crowning cultural achievement of the 6th-century Northern Qi dynasty (550-77 CE). Once home to a magnificent array of sculptures — monumental Buddhas, divine attendant figures, and crouching monsters framed by floral motifs — the limestone caves were severely damaged in the first half of the 20th century, when their contents were chiseled away and offered for sale on the international art market.
During the past six years the caves have become the focus of a research and reconstruction project based at the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago. Combining cutting-edge 3-D imaging technology with old-fashioned scholarly work, an international team of experts has photographed and scanned the dispersed objects as well as the interior of the caves themselves.
The San Diego Museum of Art’s presentation of Echoes of the Past includes 14 objects from Xiangtangshan and three related Northern Qi works of art. The exhibition juxtaposes dispersed sculptural fragments with a set of media projects including an immersive video installation, a documentary film directed by Judy Hoffman about the present-day environs of the cave sites, and interactive touchscreen labels related to the monumental stone fragments on view.
Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshanis organized by the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Major funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leon Levy Foundation, the Smart Family Foundation, and the E.Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.
Still of screen from Digital Cave: close-up view of 3-D reconstruction of missing Buddha head in yellow.
No Longer on View See Museum Map
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Now through November 11, 2019
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Ó Snodaigh: Labour councillor’s comments transphobic and wrong
26 July, 2010 - by Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD
Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Equality and Human Rights Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD has rejected calls by the Labour Party Councillor Colm Keaveney for the Health Service Executive to withdraw funding for sex reassignment surgery.
The Dublin South Central TD said,
“Councillor Keaveney’s comments are sure to cause great hurt to transgender people and their friends and families. I am baffled as to why he would wish to make a target of an already-marginalised and vulnerable community.
“The HSE’s funding difficulties are not the fault of transgender people – or indeed of any service user. They are the consequence of political decisions made by the Health Minister and the Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government. His comments give credence to their lie that savings must be made in the health service by rationing care. Shame on him for pitting public patients against each other in this way.
“I call on Councillor Keaveney to retract his wrongful and ill-advised statement, which will only have the effect of stirring up transphobia. The Labour Party should also clarify its official position on the issue.” ENDS
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It's Time to Quit - World No Tobacco Day, 31 May
Health workers throughout the region are raising their voices in warning about the dangers of tobacco smoking.
Pacific Island countries and territories have marked World No Tobacco Day with special events and publicity including community information events, banners, posters, advertising and media coverage. In New Caledonia, the WNTD poster (pictured) says 'Want to quit? Maybe now is the right time.'
In 2011 health workers around the region also honour the global health treaty - the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). The treaty has been ratified by 171 countries, meaning that about 87 per cent of the world's population are affected by increased tobacco control measures in their countries.
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and other international agencies promote and support Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) in their work to implement FCTC. For those who are not signatories to FCTC, SPC provides support with the development and implementation of comprehensive tobacco control strategies.
SPC's Non-communicable Disease Adviser on Tobacco, Jeanie McKenzie, said there had been some notable successes in the Pacific region.
'Many countries have made substantial inroads in developing strong tobacco control legislation, including the enforcement of smoke-free public places and substantial tax increases on tobacco products.'
'Country after country has banned tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship and strengthened health warnings on cigarette packs,' she said.
Australia is currently seeking support for its plan to introduce plain packaging, which would mean that cigarettes are sold in a dark olive brown packet with graphic health warnings on the front and back and the name of the brand of cigarettes written in a plain font, without any marketing or other branding.
The intention is to reduce the appeal of the tobacco products, particularly to young people, and to increase the visibility of the health warning.
PICTs already have written health warnings on most cigarettes, with the exception of some illegally imported cigarettes, and are also starting to embrace graphic warnings, she said.
'We hope cigarettes sold in the Pacific will shortly also only be available in plain packages. The tobacco industry however isn't giving up without a fight and uses every opportunity to challenge the initiatives known to be most effective globally.'
Ms McKenzie said FCTC is focusing on the issue of tobacco industry interference and noted that, as in the rest of the world, PICTs play an important role in demonstrating strong leadership and ensuring public health interests are paramount and at the forefront of the debate.
'With the upcoming UN Summit on NCDs (September 19-20), the world will have plenty of opportunity to reflect on the contribution that tobacco control makes to development and alleviation of poverty.'
'The Pacific is in a position to make a strong contribution to the negotiations,' she said.
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BTS, The Rose, NCT Dream, Yuri, And iKON Take Spots On Billboard’s World Albums Chart
Billboard has updated its charts to reflect the rankings for the week ending in October 20!
On the World Albums chart, BTS’s “Love Yourself: Answer” remains in the No. 1 spot for the seventh week in a row. “Love Yourself: Tear” comes in at No. 2, now in its 21st week on the chart, while “Love Yourself: Her” spends its 56th week at the chart and is currently in the No. 3 spot.
The Rose’s latest mini album “Dawn” rises from its debut last week at No. 9 to the No. 5 spot this week.
BTS’s Japanese album “Face Yourself” has also risen on the chart, from No. 11 last week to No. 8.
NCT Dream’s “We Go Up” re-enters the chart, now in the No. 10 spot. This is the fifth time the mini album has grabbed a place on the weekly chart.
Yuri’s “The First Scene” comes in No. 11, while iKON’s “New Kids: The Final” takes No. 12.
Congratulations to all the artists!
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Kang Young Seok Talks About Working With EXO’s D.O. In “100 Days My Prince”
by K. Lew
Kang Young Seok recently talked about what it was like acting in his first historical drama, working with EXO’s D.O., and more.
On November 6, the actor sat down for an interview where he talked about his role as Kwon Hyuk, the bodyguard of the crown prince, in the recently concluded “100 Days My Prince.”
Kang Young Seok shared, “At first, I received the audition script for the role of Dong Joo, but the director later gave me the role of Kwon Hyuk. I thought I wouldn’t get a lot of screen time, as the character doesn’t talk much, but I kept appearing until the last episode. Because it was a historical piece, I didn’t know when my character would die, so I didn’t even imagine that I would appear until the end. I was happy because I had a lot of screen time.”
The drama was his first historical piece and also included his first action scene. He commented, “I actually didn’t have too many action scenes. The stunt team did the action scene in the very end [of the drama] instead. Filming riding scenes wasn’t very different either, as I filmed while sitting on the horse.”
On the difficulties of filming historical dramas, Kang Young Seok added, “We started off wearing parkas, but later it became so hot that there was even a staff member that fainted. We always filmed with fans. I’ve also never done a historical dialect before, so it was difficult. I thought a lot about how to speak.”
Kang Young Seok also talked about his great chemistry with D.O., who played the crown prince Lee Yool. He remarked, “Kwon Hyuk was Yool’s only hands and feet. I just did as the writer told me to. I think EXO fans really liked it. D.O. and I are both really shy, so even though we’re close in age, we still haven’t spoke informally to each other.”
As the drama surpassed 10 percent in viewership ratings, the cast members gathered together to fulfill their ratings promise, which was to dance to EXO’s “Growl.” When asked how he had felt as he wasn’t able to participate, Kang Young Seok laughed and answered, “If they had called me, I would have worked hard. I was a part of the dance club in high school, so I danced for fun. If I had danced to ‘Growl,’ I think D.O. and I would have been the center positions. Kim Seon Ho was really bad at dancing. He must have not played around when he was in school.”
Kang Young Seok concluded by saying, “I knew that the drama would do well, but I didn’t know it would do this well. It was hot and difficult, but it came out well in the end. I think it was an opportunity that became a new stepping stone for me. I went on an audition recently and when I said I went on ‘100 Days My Prince,’ the director’s gaze changed. I think that’s really great.”
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Heaviest HP job cuts outside AP region
By Lia Timson and Leonie Lamont
Updated May 25, 2012 — 9.06am first published at 3.00am
HP's decision to shed 27,000 staff globally - more than 8 per cent of its workforce - should fall less harshly on the Asia-Pacific region, according to an analyst.
Yesterday HP Australia would not reveal how many jobs would be lost, nor even how many staff were employed in the south Pacific region.
HP CEO Meg Whitman seen here when running for office as California governor in 2010. Credit:Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
''We have not yet announced specific plans with regards to specific locations. We do expect the workforce reduction to impact just about every business and region,'' said a spokeswoman, Stephanie Aye.
Recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings have scant information on HP's global breakdown, other than the Asia-Pacific region accounted for 19 per cent of the company's $US32.1 billion revenue during 2011.
The company says the job cuts will save it up to $US3.5 billion a year, and the jobs will go between now and 2014.
Earlier this month, Hewlett Packard's managing director for HP South Pacific, Paul Brandling, left the company after 19 years.
The contraction may spill into the property sector. HP noted in its annual report it owned or leased about 6.5 million square metres of space worldwide, and some 2.5 million square metres of that was its core data centres, manufacturing plants, R&D facilities and warehouses.
The company is set to open a new high-tech data centre facility in Eastern Creek, NSW, next month. HP Australia mainly comprises two lines of business: hardware sales and services; and enterprise services comprising data centres, cloud and outsourcing previously provided by EDS, which it acquired in 2008.
Gartner research on the outsourcing market - where for example a bank will outsource its IT requirements - showed HP was ranked fourth in the Australian market, with revenue of $344 million.
The director of research at analyst firm Ovum, Kevin Noonan, said while the impact of the cuts on local operations was not clear, it was unlikely to affect any of the services the company has deemed ''innovation'', such as data centres and cloud.
''We understand it will be done methodically over 18 months. It's unlikely the APAC region will see most of the cuts because it is a profitable and growing region,'' Mr Noonan said.
He said it was clear HP had acquired too many staff layers as a result of recent acquisitions and would be looking at ''rewiring and tightening'' its focus.
He said local operations would feel the pressure to prove they were profitable and growing despite worsening market conditions, but ''regional and local sales staff might find clearer lines of communication in getting things done for the customer'' as a result of the cuts.
He said the new HP chief executive, Meg Whitman, was attacking the right issues in refocusing the company and ironing out some of the bureaucracy.
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The smoking lava dome, inside the crater of Mount St. Helens volcano, Washington.
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First Singapore satellite launched from the International Space Station
Video of Six CubeSats deployed from Kibo into orbit
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New nanosatellite to use NTU’s micro-propulsion technology and Kyutech's wifi technology in space. PHOTO: NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Jan 17, 2017, 1:38 pm SGT
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Felicia Choo
feliciac@sph.com.sg
SINGAPORE - The first Singapore satellite launched from the International Space Station took place successfully on Monday (Jan 16) evening.
Called AOBA VELOX-III, it is a joint project between Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Japan's Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech).
It will be conducting tests to evaluate the durability of commercial off-the-shelf microprocessors in space while orbiting at 400km above sea level.
These include testing a micro-propulsion system, consumer-grade electronic components and a wireless communication system.
The 2kg nano-satellite has micro-thrusters which will enable it to remain in space for six months - twice as long as it usually would.
Instead of being launched from a rocket, the satellite was shot into orbit around earth by a Japanese astronaut at the station using a special launcher.
It is the 7th satellite that NTU has launched. The university's last two satellites were launched in December 2015.
"Building up the local satellite talent pool and developing disruptive technologies like the micro-thruster in the AOBA VELOX-III is important for Singapore's budding space industry," said Mr Lim Wee Seng, director of the NTU Satellite Research Centre.
"Riding on the success of the AOBA VELOX III, we are now developing our second joint satellite with Kyutech which could lead to small and manoeuvrable satellites being used as space probes in future," he added.
Professor Mengu Cho, Director of Kyutech's Laboratory of Spacecraft Environment Interaction Engineering, said, "We are looking forward to another joint satellite that is under development and scheduled to be launched in 2018. The long-term goal of the Kyutech-NTU joint space programme is to do a lunar mission using the technologies demonstrated by these two satellites."
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Study Abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France
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Study Abroad in Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence (often called Aix) is a small, classically Provençal town, famous for being home to Cézanne. Three universities and several French-language schools for international students produce a very strong student presence. Aix is only 20 miles from Marseille. Below you will find our list of Study Abroad and Internship programs in Aix-en-Provence, France. It is an index to international education in Aix-en-Provence listing university level study abroad, internships, volunteer and intensive language school programs oriented to American college and university students. Some pre-college and post-graduate options are also included. We invite you to read the student reviews, see the ratings scores and use this site to compare programs and understand what other students have encountered during their education abroad.
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General Zod TV Spot for “Krypton” Season 2
May 8, 2019 Television News Comments Off on General Zod TV Spot for “Krypton” Season 2
Syfy has released a new TV spot focusing on General Zod for Season 2 of “Krypton”.
For the love of Zod, just kneel.
Zod! Brainiac! Doomsday! Lobo! Seg-El’s enemies are closing in, and the future of his home planet of Krypton has been stolen. Join the fight to take it back when “Krypton” returns to SYFY on June 12.
What if Superman never existed? Set two generations before the destruction of Superman’s home planet, KRYPTON follows Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe), the legendary Man of Steel’s grandfather, as a young man who fights to save his home planet from destruction. Season 2 brings us back to a changed Kandor, locked in a battle over its freedom and its future. General Dru-Zod (Colin Salmon) is now in control. He’s on a ruthless mission to rebuild Krypton according to his ideals and to secure its future by conquering the universe. Faced with a bleak outlook, our hero, Seg-El, attempts to unite a dispersed group of resisters in an effort to defeat Zod and restore hope to their beloved planet. Their chance at redemption is threatened however, by their opposing tactics, shifting alliances and conflicting moral boundaries – forcing each of them to individually determine how far they’re willing to go in pursuit of a better tomorrow.
KRYPTON is from Warner Horizon Scripted Television and is executive produced by David S. Goyer (Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Dark Knight Trilogy) through his Phantom Four banner, alongside Cameron Welsh (Constantine, The Last Ship), who serves as showrunner. Based on the DC characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the series stars Cameron Cuffe (The Halcyon) as Seg-El, Georgina Campbell (Broadchurch) as Lyta-Zod, Shaun Sipos (The Vampire Diaries) as Adam Strange, Colin Salmon (Arrow) as General Dru-Zod, Ann Ogbomo (World War Z) as Jayna-Zod, Aaron Pierre (Britannia) as Dev-Em, Rasmus Hardiker (Your Highness) as Kem, Wallis Day (Will) as Nyssa-Vex, Blake Ritson (Da Vinci’s Demons) as Brainiac and Ian McElhinney (Game of Thrones) as Val-El.
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Yahoo Pulls Out of America Online Talks
Discussion in 'Technical' started by Quigley_Sharps, Nov 10, 2005.
NEW YORK - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) has pulled out of discussions over buying a stake in America Online Inc., leaving Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. as the leading potential suitors.
The decision to abandon the talks came after Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel and chief finance officer Susan Decker met in late October with Time Warner executives in New York, said Yahoo spokeswoman Joanna Stevens.
Stevens said Yahoo had "politely passed" on proposed terms and "walked away from any interest in a deal."
Two people close to the discussions said a key stumbling block was Time Warner Inc.'s insistence that it retain majority ownership in the AOL unit. They spoke on condition of anonymity because public discussions of any private negotiations were contrary to their companies' policies.
One of the people, familiar with Time Warner's position, said one arrangement under discussion had called for Yahoo to pay Time Warner in stock worth $13 billion for an 80 percent stake in AOL's growing content business, which includes its Web sites and the news, music and other services featured on them.
Under that proposal, the person said, Time Warner would keep all of AOL's Internet access business, which is in decline as users abandon dial-up connections for higher-speed cable and DSL lines.
The Yahoo withdrawal, reported earlier on the Web site of The Wall Street Journal, leaves Microsoft and Google as the leading contenders, with Google possibly combining with Comcast Corp. in a bid.
The interest in AOL comes as the company transforms itself from a declining "walled garden" focused on providing dial-up access to a provider of free content that is tapping the recent boom in online advertising.
Late last year, the Dulles, Va.-based company abandoned its longtime strategy of exclusivity and began making its rich offerings — including concerts, news, sports and e-mail — available through AOL.com for free, a model Yahoo drove to become the Web's top brand.
The Web portal side of AOL's business is worth about $11.3 billion, based largely on AOL's advertising potential, according to media analyst Michael Nathanson at Sanford C. Bernstein.
A Google deal with AOL would give the Internet search leader a way to build a portal — and grow its advertising potential — while preserving an existing relationship with AOL. More than 10 percent of Google's revenues come from a partnership in which AOL uses Google's search results and the two companies share ad revenues.
A deal with AOL would be in Microsoft's interest as it could dampen competition from Google and create synergies. Microsoft's MSN online division and AOL share many businesses, including an online portal, instant messaging services and dial-up access.
There would also be considerable overlap between AOL's and Yahoo's businesses.
Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is the leading Web destination, according to Nielsen/NetRatings and comScore Media Metrix, as more people head to the Internet for news, entertainment, communications and other services.
Yahoo shares rose 94 cents, or 2.5 percent, to close at $38.69 Thursday on the Nasdaq. Shares in New York-based Time Warner rose 5 cents to close at $17.71 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Quigley_Sharps, Nov 10, 2005
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Tearing Down Tall Tales
Review of Tall Tales about the Mind and Brain : Separating Fact from Fiction edited by Sergio Della Sala, Oxford University Press, 2007, 509 pp, ISBN 978-0198568766 (cloth), 978-0198568773 (paper)
Review published in Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 14, No.11 (2007), 117-119
“The IKEA catalogue is more practical, colourful and easier to read” claims the editor, and of course he’s right. But although only in black and white, this book is a lot of fun and hugely informative.
If you’ve ever been accosted at a party with a demand to “Explain why I only use 10% of my brain” or “Tell me how your reductionist science can explain telepathy”; if you are oppressed by emails from people who have solved the mystery of consciousness, or know why the full moon causes madness; if you are dubbed a “closed-minded scientist who won’t even look at the evidence for NDEs, OBEs, clairvoyance, spirit communication, dowsing …..” (and I’m familiar with them all) then you need this book.
A readable introduction explores the inconsistency of dualists who use drugs to alter their state of mind while declaring that the mind is a spiritual entity, and the blind spots of such great scientists as Linus Pauling who went to his grave believing that massive doses of vitamin C could alleviate cancer. The personal growth industry makes a fortune out of untested methods when the only known reliable routes to success are skills training, hard work and practice; and subliminal tapes are widely sold when the sleeping brain cannot absorb their advice. And if you ever wondered where that 10% myth came from, I had always thought that it began in the 1950s with EEG machines that could not detect activity deep inside the brain, but apparently it started with William James who said he doubted that many people used more than 10% of their potential. (Although that, of course, could be a tall tale too).
The rest of the book consists of nearly thirty chapters by many well known authors, covering such topics paranormal belief; myths about learning, memory and intelligence; language and communication; and strange brain states and experiences. Some of the “tall tales” are quirky or relatively harmless such as the Mozart effect (Yes, listening to Mozart may have a small effect on one spatial-temporal task but no, it won’t turn your child into a genius) or the widespread belief that the full moon causes accidents or madness (No it doesn’t, and lots of studies have failed to find an effect, but people go on believing just the same). Others concern such big political controversies as race and IQ (Yes, IQ is highly heritable but group differences could still be cultural) and the ‘gay gene’ (there’s no such thing, nor can you reliably tell sexual orientation from finger length, but sexual orientation probably does have a heritable component).
Some of the “myths” didn’t seem to me to be myths at all. One example is the “legend of the magical number seven”. This began with Miller’s famous 1956 paper showing that, by and large, people have a digit span of seven. That is, given unrelated items such as digits of a phone number or meaningless syllables, seven is about the average recalled. I learned about this as a psychology student in the early 1970s and always assumed it was true. So I turned to this chapter with special excitement. Has this simple, foundational fact of cognitive psychology been overthrown while I wasn’t looking? Well it turns out that it hasn’t. Like many other over-simplifications, it has been worked on, challenged, added to, and adapted. The truth about short term memory capacity is far more complex than Miller could have guessed – but that’s just science, and the basic finding remains. To be fair the authors explain all this but they still conclude that Miller’s discovery is not a general rule and is therefore a legend. But if this is a legend then so is nearly everything we know in every branch of science.
For readers of JCS, few of the topics directly concern consciousness, but several are at least obliquely relevant. There are many myths surrounding Freud’s theory of the meaning of dreams. Then there are exaggerated claims that the blind can not only have powerful imagery (which is true) but better visual imagery than the sighted (which is not). The psychology of magic involves misdirection and manipulation, with clever magicians twisting their observer’s suspicions, exploiting ambiguity and change blindness, inducing false expectations and tampering with spectators’ memory of what they have just seen.
Stage magic is at least honest in its deception but other ways of playing with memory or inducing false memories are not, as is explored in a study of memory myths. Nor is the whole left-brain/right-brain myth harmless, according to an amusingly illustrated account of a whole variety of left/right myths. The trouble happens when such ideas escape from scientific scrutiny and make big money for false prophets and charlatans.
The ideo-motor effect is another gift to the unscrupulous. For example chiropractors use gadgets that detect small movements of the fingers, and quacks use pendulums to diagnose disease when the movements observed are caused entirely by the person using the apparatus. It is sad to reflect that Michael Faraday exposed the basic principle involved in his classic studies of table turning in the 1850s, yet these myths are alive and well, and the fraudsters are still getting rich.
Rather different are the myths that turn out to be real phenomena wrongly described. Out-of-body experiences were once described as the spirit or astral body leaving its physical home, but now we know they occur with disruptions of body image processing in the right temporo-parietal junction; where once inducing them meant years of meditation, weird multisensory training techniques or powerful drugs, now they can be induced by direct brain stimulation. Sleep paralysis has even more myths associated with it, from the Kanashibari of Japan to the Kokma of the West Indies and the original incubus and succubus. To my mind this is the most satisfying form of myth busting; when science can show why peoples all over the world have invented similar stories, not because they are fanciful or mad, but because they have been struggling to explain genuinely strange experiences.
Tall Tales is long and rich in detail, and would have benefited greatly from abstracts or chapter summaries. Their absence makes it far less useful as a resource for research, but it still provides terrific ammunition against those troublesome party poopers.
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Dark Phoenix brings 17 action-packed minutes of footage to WonderCon
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An arena full of fans at WonderCon got the meatiest look yet at Dark Phoenix ahead of the film's June arrival.
We're less than three months away from Dark Phoenix premiering in theaters, and today at the Anaheim Convention Center writer/director Simon Kinberg, producer Hutch Parker, and six members of the cast — Sophie Turner (Jean Grey), Tye Sheridan (Cyclops), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Alexandra Shipp (Storm), Evan Peters (Quicksilver), and Kodi Smit-McPhee (Nightcrawler) — were on hand to roll out some 17 minutes of the movie.
**SPOILER WARNING! Light spoilers below, but if you want to go into Dark Phoenix fresh, avert thine eyes!**
We've actually seen bits of the footage in the trailers that are already available, but tonight we saw it all buttoned up into two key scenes from the movie. In the first, the X-Men assemble and fly the Blackbird into the cosmos to rescue the crew of a space shuttle damaged by the Phoenix Force. At first all goes well, but Jean accidentally gets left behind to absorb the Phoenix Force into her body, and we all know how that turns out.
In the second sequence, two teams of mutants — one led by Xavier and one by Magneto (Michael Fassbender) — assemble outside an apartment building on New York's Central Park, where Jean Grey is holed up inside with the enigmatic alien character played by Jessica Chastain. The two sides clash, wreaking havoc in Manhattan.
(Interestingly, this footage may have been completed in reshoots — some of the dialogue can be heard in the trailers but in different-looking footage entirely.)
Two things were apparent from the scenes we saw: The X-Men work almost seamlessly as a team now, often working in pairs to complement each other's powers, something we've only seen sporadically in the movies before. And second, that team spirit will be sorely put to the test by Jean Grey's transformation into the Dark Phoenix, with Kinberg calling the movie "emotional and intense and intimate."
We'll find out on June 7, but the 17 minutes screened today left a lot of fans at WonderCon, uh, X-static, judging by the hearty audience response to the footage.
As for the rest of the panel: Kinberg explained that writing the ending of 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past, in which the entire X-universe was reset, immediately gave him the inspiration to tell the Dark Phoenix story after it had been whiffed in X-Men: The Last Stand eight years earlier.
We also found out that Kinberg used practical effects as much as possible, even utilizing a massive subway car that came to a halt less than a foot from the head of Michael Fassbender on the day of filming.
Sophie Turner politely declined to answer when asked by moderator Grae Drake how Game of Thrones ends (as if), but she did say that she did "kind of the same preparation" to play both Jean and her more dangerous alter ego Dark Phoenix.
We also learned that Jessica Chastain was the biggest prankster on the set, at one point having McAvoy dance the Macarena while dangling from wires during one setup (hopefully that will turn up on a gag reel somewhere).
Dark Phoenix — likely the last X-Men movie to feature this cast and continuity — opens on June 7.
Video of X-Men's Chris Claremont on Documentary, Dark Phoenix and Killing Jean Grey | SYFY WIRE
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O. BRUTON SMITH, GOSSAGE STATEMENTS ON SMI EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN'S INDUCTION INTO 2016 NASCAR HALL OF FAME CLASS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (May 20, 2015) – The following is a statement from Speedway Motorsports, Inc. Executive Chairman O. Bruton Smith regarding Wednesday’s announcement that he will be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2016:
>“When I found out that I was nominated, I realized how much this meant to my family and the 15,000 employees that work for my companies. Now I realize how much it means to me. It will truly be an honor to be remembered at the Hall of Fame along with people like Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty, Glen Wood, Junior Johnson, Darrell Waltrip and so many others who helped build this sport. That’s what I’ve tried to do my entire life. I’m a frustrated builder who had a knack for promoting races, and it’s been fun to always try to push the sport to greater heights for the fans. From the first World 600, I’ve always wanted the fans to leave with something spectacular to remember about their experience. Even if they don’t remember who won the race, I want them to remember the pre-race show and having the time of their lives. I want fans to know we’re always working to build the best facilities for them and that’s who I really owe this recognition to. The millions of fans who’ve attended our race tracks all of these years are the ones who really deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. They’ve built the sport right along with us, and I want to sincerely say thank you to them and the voting committee.”
Statement from Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage regarding Wednesday’s announcement that Speedway Motorsports, Inc. Executive Chairman O. Bruton Smith has been named to the NASCAR Hall of Fame as part of the 2016 induction class:
"Home sweet home. Bruton Smith is a contemporary of every individual in the story of NASCAR. He was promoting races before NASCAR was formed. He set the standard for all speedways in the world, always putting fans first. He brought VIP luxury suites, condominiums, Speedway Clubs and his latest fan amenity - mega big screens so massive no other sport has even considered utilizing them. From NASCAR's first winner, Red Byron, to Curtis Turner to Richard Petty to David Pearson to Dale Earnhardt to Jeff Gordon to Jimmie Johnson to Kevin Harvick, Bruton helped lead the sport through them all."
Smith is considered the preeminent speedway promoter and entrepreneur who revolutionized motorsports entertainment over the course of seven decades. Smith’s first major speedway endeavor began when he partnered with racing star Curtis Turner to open Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., in 1960 and held the first World 600 that year.
His racing empire of motorsports facilities has grown immensely under Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI), which currently owns and operates Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Sonoma Raceway and Texas Motor Speedway.
The speedway group plays host to 13 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events, the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, 11 NASCAR XFINITY and eight Camping World Truck Series races and other high-profile motorsports events.
Smith took Speedway Motorsports public in 1995 and in the process became the first motorsports company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. He also was the first in the sport to transform speedways into modern, first-class sports venues, which included the additions of condominiums, private clubs and a proliferation of luxury suites.
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About Speedway Motorsports, Inc.: Speedway Motorsports, Inc. is a leading marketer, promoter and sponsor of motorsports entertainment in the United States. The Company, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates the following premier facilities: Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Sonoma Raceway and Texas Motor Speedway. The company provides souvenir merchandising services through its SMI Properties subsidiaries; manufactures and distributes smaller-scale, modified racing cars and parts through its U.S. Legends Cars International subsidiary; and produces and broadcasts syndicated motorsports programming to radio stations nationwide through its Performance Racing Network subsidiary. For more information about the company, please visit www.speedwaymotorsports.com.
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Don Johnson Jr. retiring from family-owned jewelry business operating in Thompson since 1962
Ian Graham / Thompson Citizen
After more than 35 years as the owner of Don Johnson Jewellers, which he bought from his father in the early 1980s, Don Johnson Jr. is getting ready to sell his business and retire.
Photograph By Kyle Darbyson
As a young man, Don Johnson Jr. didn’t think he would follow in his father’s footsteps as a jewelry store owner.
“I spent time in Europe, I lived in Indonesia, the States, all over Canada, travelled the world because there’s bigger and better out there,” says the owner of Don Johnson Jewellers in the City Centre Mall, who announced at the end of November that he will soon be retiring and selling the business, which has operated continuously in Thompson for more than 55 years.
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But all that exploring led him to realize something closer to home as well.
“What I discovered, in fact, is that Thompson is an amazing place to live,” Johnson says. “The air is clean, the people are just the salt of the Earth. There’s amazing people in Thompson, always has been.”
So when Don Johnson Sr. retired in 1983, his son bought the business with a partner who used to work at the store, whom he eventually bought out 14 years later, a few years before moving the business to the City Centre Mall. An instrumental partner in his business for the last several years has been his wife, classically trained soprano singer Maria Luz Alvarez, whom he met in Spain.
“One week turned into a year which turned into a career so here we are,” said Johnson, who has lived in Thompson since his parents brought him and his sisters north in 1962, figuring that they would only be in town for two to five years. Johnson Sr. was a Rotarian in Thompson for nearly 50 years and Johnson Jr. a Kinsman for 12 years, and both volunteered for and contributed to numerous other organizations and causes.
“Now I’m at an age where I need to retire and so I need to divest myself of the business so I will be eventually selling Don Johnson Jewellers but in the meantime we’re going to have a massive liquidation, get our inventory down to where it’s financially affordable to an individual,” he said.
Though times are currently tough in Thompson, Johnson Jr. says financial considerations aren’t the motivation behind his decision to sell the store.
“We’ve managed to outlive one competitor for 20 years and another competitor for 25 years and they were both national chains and here we are, the little northern jeweller still standing,” he said. “As a matter of fact, we had our best year in the history of the store in 2017. Thompson is alive and well. Unfortunately the calendar tells me that it’s time to go. I was wanting out two years ago, two-and-a-half years ago, you know, the whole Freedom 55 thing. Then it was Freedom 56. Now it’s Freedom 59.”
Don Johnson Jewellers never distinguished itself by holding big sales with prices marked down from levels they had been previously jacked up to. Instead, the focus was on keeping customers happy so that they would be back again and again.
“We can only be part of a relationship between a customer and a merchant,” Johnson Jr. says. “We’ve had plenty of people come in to buy an engagement ring and mentioned that both my dad and my grandfather bought their engagement rings and wedding bands from Don Johnson Jewellers. If you can have that kind of a reputation, it didn’t come by accident. We made mistakes but we also made a lot of people happy over the years. It doesn’t matter the price tag of what they bought, they need to be happy when they leave.”
Johnson Jr. has seen a lot change over his his time in Thompson, both good times and bad.
“We’ve seen it before the streets were paved, we’ve seen it when there’s been strikes,” he said. “I couldn’t imagine a different place to grow up and live, to have a place like Paint Lake as your playground growing up if you’re an outdoors person. Snowmobiling you can go as far as you can with a tank of gas through the bush, down hydro lines and it’s all Crown land. Summertime, the fishing is world class. People come in from all over the world to come fishing in Northern Manitoba and we get it for free because we live here. Our water is clean right out of the tap. The air is fresh and clean. It’s a beautiful place to live.”
That doesn’t mean he won’t spend some of his retirement elsewhere, however.
“It’s a big world. We’ll have to see,” he says. “When you’re retired, you’ve got all the time in the world but actually you don’t know how much time you have so it’s just best to enjoy every day.”
No matter what, a reminder of his family will remain in their adopted home.
“I designed and built the J.F. Thompson clock in front of City Hall so a little bit of a legacy,” he says.
One thing Johnson Jr. says he won’t be doing is selling his business to anyone who can’t maintain the service standard he and his father have been known for.
“We have a reputation,” he said. “The last three owners have had a set of standards so either the new folks will agree to conform to those standards or I will not sell my name.”
When the day comes to leave the jewelry business behind, there is one thing Johnson Jr. says he won’t miss.
“I won’t be changing watch batteries anymore.”
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Melissa Khasbagan, USA, 17
Project: 1000 Books
Basic Human Needs: Education
Melissa traveled to visit family in rural inner Mongolia in 2017. Since learning English is considered an invaluable skill, she was shocked at the lack of resources that were available for students attempting to learn the language. Upon her return to the United States, Melissa collected 1,000 English books to send back to schools in Mongolia. To continue her work long term, Melissa then officially established 1000 Books in 2018 as a 501(c)3 organization. The organization sends books and entrepreneurship materials to rural areas across Mongolia, China, USA, Russia (Siberia), Liberia, Mexico, India, Venezuela and Australia. 1000 Books has continued to develop their English learning resources by producing an audio curriculum, building libraries and training teachers. Melissa also introduces entrepreneurship to students by conducting workshops and webinars. While her work has already impacted over 35,000 students and 400 teachers, in the near future she plans to expand to include 9 additional countries in Africa, focusing first on Liberia. By 2020, she hopes to establish a youth entrepreneurship summit in West Africa. Melissa firmly believes that education and entrepreneurship can provide equal opportunity and that young adults can come together to change the world.
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RBC Bearings (ROLL) Given Outperform Rating at William Blair
Posted by Max Byerly on May 27th, 2019
William Blair reiterated their outperform rating on shares of RBC Bearings (NASDAQ:ROLL) in a research report sent to investors on Friday morning, RTT News reports. William Blair also issued estimates for RBC Bearings’ Q1 2020 earnings at $1.22 EPS, Q2 2020 earnings at $1.22 EPS, Q3 2020 earnings at $1.40 EPS and Q4 2020 earnings at $1.60 EPS.
Other equities analysts have also recently issued research reports about the stock. BidaskClub cut shares of RBC Bearings from a sell rating to a strong sell rating in a research note on Saturday, March 30th. ValuEngine upgraded shares of RBC Bearings from a hold rating to a buy rating in a research note on Monday, April 29th. Finally, Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of RBC Bearings from a sell rating to a hold rating in a research note on Wednesday, April 10th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have issued a hold rating and two have assigned a buy rating to the stock. The stock has a consensus rating of Hold and a consensus price target of $161.33.
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ROLL opened at $147.25 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 6.44, a quick ratio of 2.50 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.12. The stock has a market cap of $3.65 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.05, a P/E/G ratio of 4.53 and a beta of 1.35. RBC Bearings has a 52-week low of $114.03 and a 52-week high of $169.84.
RBC Bearings (NASDAQ:ROLL) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, May 23rd. The industrial products company reported $1.33 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $1.22 by $0.11. The business had revenue of $182.20 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $180.76 million. RBC Bearings had a net margin of 14.34% and a return on equity of 12.77%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 1.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.08 EPS. As a group, analysts expect that RBC Bearings will post 4.72 EPS for the current year.
In other news, Director Amir Faghri sold 2,500 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, March 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $127.35, for a total value of $318,375.00. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. 3.10% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
Several large investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Clearbridge Investments LLC increased its holdings in RBC Bearings by 66.4% in the 1st quarter. Clearbridge Investments LLC now owns 196,398 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $24,976,000 after acquiring an additional 78,378 shares in the last quarter. GYL Financial Synergies LLC purchased a new stake in RBC Bearings in the 1st quarter worth approximately $895,000. Advisory Services Network LLC increased its holdings in RBC Bearings by 20.8% in the 1st quarter. Advisory Services Network LLC now owns 697 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $89,000 after acquiring an additional 120 shares in the last quarter. Covenant Partners LLC purchased a new stake in RBC Bearings in the 1st quarter worth approximately $248,000. Finally, Jane Street Group LLC increased its holdings in RBC Bearings by 16.6% in the 1st quarter. Jane Street Group LLC now owns 2,979 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $379,000 after acquiring an additional 424 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.16% of the company’s stock.
RBC Bearings Company Profile
RBC Bearings Incorporated manufactures and markets engineered precision bearings and components in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. It operates in four segments: Plain Bearings, Roller Bearings, Ball Bearings, and Engineered Products. The Plain Bearings segment produces plain bearings with self-lubricating or metal-to-metal designs, including rod end bearings, spherical plain bearings, and journal bearings that are primarily used to rectify inevitable misalignments in various mechanical components, such as aircraft controls, helicopter rotors, or in heavy mining and construction equipment.
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Photo courtesy Fédération Française de Football
Portland Thorns FC sign midfielder Amandine Henry
March 16, 201610:00AM PDT
Thorns FC CommunicationsPortlandThornsFC.com
PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland Thorns FC have signed French international midfielder Amandine Henry, it was announced today. She will be added to the roster pending the receipt of her P-1 visa and International Transfer Certificate (ITC). Per league and club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“Amandine is a proven, world-class player with demonstrated success at both the club and international level in France,” said Gavin Wilkinson, GM/president of soccer for Thorns FC. “Her accomplishments speak for themselves, and we are very pleased to add a player of her caliber to an already talented Thorns club and to the NWSL.”
READ: Game-changing midfielder is no ordinary signing
The winner of the Silver Ball at the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup, Henry, 26, helped guide France to the quarterfinal round of the tournament. She appeared in five matches (all starts), scoring one goal for France at the World Cup, earning recognition on the FIFA All-Star Team. A nominee for FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year and a finalist for the UEFA Best Women’s Player in Europe Award in 2015, Henry was recently selected to the FIFPro Women’s World XI. Henry made her debut for the France Women’s National Team in 2009 and has earned 48 caps, tallying six goals for Les Bleues.
“Amandine is one of the very best in the world, and I am delighted she is joining us in Portland in her prime,” said Thorns FC head coach Mark Parsons. “Her ability to control the game in the center of midfield helps everyone else do their job better. She has exceptional passing range, is very intelligent on and off the ball and can score special goals, as she proved in the World Cup last year. Amandine brings a winning mentality to a talented group and I believe she will play an important role in supporting our team chemistry and culture, on the field and in the locker room.”
In nine seasons with Division I Féminine side Lyon, Henry helped lead the club to back-to-back UEFA Women’s Champions League titles in 2010-11 and 2011-12, starting and playing all 90 minutes in the championship match both years. In addition, she also helped Lyon win eight league titles and the Women’s French Cup four times.
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Henry signed with Lyon ahead of the 2007-08 season and, during her tenure there she has appeared in 198 matches across all competitions, tallying 44 goals. In Champions League play, Henry has made 49 appearances as she has helped lead Lyon to the quarterfinal final round of the 2015-16 edition of the tournament.
Henry will arrive in Portland upon conclusion of her contract with Lyon.
Pronunciation: A-MAHN-dean on-REE
Born: Sept. 28, 1989
Hometown: Lille, France
Last Club: Lyon (France)
College: n/a
Citizenship: France
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Israel set to adjust tax policies to counter Trump reform, tax chief says
Also, multinational companies with a physical presence in Israel will soon get their first tax bill
By Shoshanna Solomon 1 February 2018, 2:07 pm 0 Edit
Moshe Asher, Israel Tax Authority chief (Courtesy)
Israel will need to amend its corporate tax policies to counter the effects of US President Donald Trump’s tax reform, the head of Israel’s Tax Authority head acknowledged — but only slightly.
“There will need to be some adjustments to our taxation,” Moshe Asher said. “But because Israel’s taxation policy was updated just last year, it is very competitive compared to that of other countries, so the adjustments we will need to make will be minor.”
Any adjustments made to Israel’s taxation policies would be implemented this year or in 2019, he added.
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Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which passed last month, aims to overhaul the US tax code by cutting the number of personal income brackets and limiting or doing away with a selection of popular tax breaks. It also slashes the corporate tax rate to 21 percent from the previous 35%, effective this year, making it one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the world.
The US tax reform will make it more attractive for Israeli firms to set up businesses or acquire companies in the US market, international tax attorneys have said. The lower US tax rate could also spur an outflow of Israeli startups to US shores, impacting Israeli tax revenues, tax attorneys have warned.
US President Donald Trump holds up a copy of legislation before signing the tax reform bill into law in the Oval Office December 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month set up a panel to study the implications of the recently passed US tax reform on Israeli and US firms operating in Israel. He instructed the head of Israel’s National Economic Council, Avi Simhon, to have the team come up with recommendations within 30 days.
“Some of the US reform’s components are not relevant to Israel and we don’t know yet what the guidelines for their implementation will be,” said Asher. “But we are monitoring the situation by consulting Israeli tech firms and tax consultants, who are giving us their interpretations of developments.”
“We will submit our proposals in the coming weeks,” Asher, who is a member of the panel, said. “And I hope that any amendments that we think are necessary will be implemented already this year or in 2019.”
Until now, the US tax rate was higher than Israel’s — an average of 35% compared to the Israeli rate of up to 25%. But with the US rate dropping to 21%, the incentives for setting up a business in the US have grown.
In comparison, Israeli corporate tax rate dropped to 23% in 2018 from 24% in 2017. In addition, the Encouragement of Capital Investments Law offers added tax incentives with the aim of attracting capital to Israel and encouraging investments by foreign and local investors. Companies that benefit from the capital investments law — many of them high-tech companies or companies that export their products — are called preferred enterprises, and they pay a corporate tax rate of 5% to 16%.
Tax attorneys have speculated that whatever changes Israel will propose, they will likely apply to those companies that are entitled to the benefits under the Law for Encouragement of Capital Investments. Israel may cut the maximum corporate tax for these companies from 16% to 12%, for example, they said, and/or soften the terms set out by the law so that a greater number of companies can be eligible for rebates.
Asher added that Israel is also eager to upgrade the tax treaty Israel has with the US regarding double taxation, which was signed between the countries in the 1970s and entered into force in 1995. “The treaty we have is very old,” he said.
“We have asked to adjust it, and make it similar to the OECD model, which is the standard accepted globally today. I hope we will be able to do this. The treaty regulates how much money we need to keep as withholding tax. An upgrade of the treaty will help boost trade for both sides, while reducing tax surpluses that have been collected.
Taxing multinational internet giants
The tax authority is also looking to tax global multinational internet giants operating in Israel, an issue many countries are contending with.
This photo taken on December 28, 2016 in Vertou, western France, shows logos of US multinational technology company Google. (AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE)
The idea, Asher said, is to tax only companies from countries we have tax treaties with and that have a physical presence in Israel, whether in the form of an office, a management team or a local branch. And even then, the corporate tax rate would be applied only on the profits that are generated from their local activities.
“This process will generate hundreds of millions of shekels a year,” he said. “We are already in dialogue with international companies about this and our tax assessments will be presented to them this year.”
Taxation of internet multinationals is an issue that is vexing many nations. In Europe, for example, clashing interests are hindering efforts to form a unified policy, the AFP news agency reported in November.
France has led a major push to increase taxes in the European Union on mega tech firms such as Google and Facebook, which are accused of booking huge profits at the expense of state coffers. But smaller EU member states that serve as low-tax headquarters for the giants insisted that the EU should only approach the issue on a far broader international level.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, is due to present proposals for taxing tech giants such as Google and Apple this year.
Members of the 35-country OECD, the policy club of industrialized nations, are meanwhile negotiating their own approach to taxing digital companies with hopes of a formal proposal sometime this year, AFP said.
Current tax conventions that are in place today allow countries to tax foreign corporations operating within its borders if they are defined as having a “permanent establishment” locally, Asher explained.
“In the old economy there was no problem — you could see the buildings, the workers, the physical presence on the ground,” Asher said. “It was easy.”
However, in a digital world the reality is different: All of the activity can be done online.
“In that case, we identify the correct combination of physical and digital presence, in order to determine that there is a ‘permanent establishment,'” Asher said. “After determining that, we can tax only the proportion of profits generated from the local activities.”
The Tax Authority set out its tax guidelines for multinational internet companies in April 2016. Implementation of this policy has started only now, though, and the authority is currently holding discussions with the firms. The first tax assessments will be issued shortly, he said.
If there is a dispute, and there may be, he said, “the courts will decide.”
Asher was not concerned the new taxation policies will see the giants take their business elsewhere.
“It will not dissuade foreign companies from operating in Israel,” he said. “We set out our guidelines a year and a half ago, and all of these companies are still here.”
New Bitcoin draft guidelines set out
The tax authority has also recently issued draft guidelines regarding the taxation of income generated through the issue of initial coin offerings – a phenomenon that is taking place in the tech industry in Israel and abroad.
Bitcoin (AFP Photo/Karen Bleier)
Last year, 10 Israeli high-tech companies, including Sirin Advanced Technologies and Bancor Protocol Foundation, raised $480 million through initial coin offerings, meaning the funds were raised in return for cryptocurrencies they issued. This amount is separate from the $5.24 billion figure raised by Israeli startups in 2017, IVC said in a report earlier this month. 2017 was the first year IVC tracked the funds raised through ICOs.
Tech firms use ICOs to raise money, promising those who buy the tokens future assets or services, Asher said.
“In draft guidelines that we set out earlier this month, which are now out for public comments, we determined that these companies should be taxed on the money raised only once they supply the product or the service,” he said. This is because the tax authority sees the money raised as an obligation the company has to the person from which it has raised the money, he said.
“When you deliver the product or service you now have the legal right to keep the money. Until then, the money they have received will be defined as obligation or advanced income, and that amount will not be taxed,” he said.
“Once the comments are in, the final guidelines will be issued,” he said.
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Charles W. 'Chuck' Lang Formerly of Aliquippa Charles W. 'Chuck' Lang, 75, of Mercer, formerly of Aliquippa, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, June 20, 2019, after a brief illness. A son of the late Fred and Grace (Shaffer) Lang of Aliquippa and a graduate of Aliquippa High School, Chuck furthered his education with a Bachelor's Degree in Business from Waynesburg College and a Master's Degree in banking from the University of Virginia. This led to a lifelong career in banking and a corporate position with PNC Bank in the downtown Pittsburgh office. A Vietnam veteran and a very patriotic individual, Chuck served in the U.S. Air Force as a sergeant stationed at Andrews Air Force Base assigned to the Presidential Side Band for Air Force One and Air Force Two. He was an avid hunter, fisherman and especially loved muzzle loading season and held membership with the Aliquippa Hunting and Fishing Club and the Jackson Field and Stream Sportsman's Club. He was a longtime member of the Prince of Peace Anglican Church, Hopewell Township where he and his wife, Cynthia enjoyed serving as greeters and was a former vestry member. He will be sadly missed by his wife of 54 years, Cynthia (Speer) Lang; his children, Christine (Joseph) Bradley of Monaca and Edward T. (Christine) Lang, a retired Lt. Colonial of the U.S. Marine Corps of Holly Springs, North Carolina; Five grandchildren, Katie and Jonathan Lang, Joseph, Brooke and Haley Bradley; a sister, Sue (Melvin) Corless of Baden and many loving nieces and nephews both locally and in Oklahoma. He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Edward and Fritz (Betty) Lang. Friends will be received on Friday, June 28, 2019, from 4 to 8 p.m. in the SIMPSON FUNERAL & CREMATION SERVICES, 1119 Washington Ave., Monaca (724-728-4000). A memorial service will be held on Saturday at 12 p.m. in the Prince of Peace Anglican Church, 1314 Gringo Road, Aliquippa with his pastor the Reverend John Heidenbren officiating. Memorial contributions may be made in his memory to the Prince of Peace Anglican Church. To share online condolences, get directions and other information, please visit simpsonfuneral home.com.
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https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Vietnam-Korea-wars-a-focus-13436889.php
Vietnam, Korea wars a focus
Published 5:05 pm EST, Saturday, December 1, 2018
This watercolor by Marine Steve Jordan, from Ballston Spa depicting combat in Korea is part of a new exhibit at the New York State Military Museum. (NYS Military Museum)
A new permanent exhibit at the New York State Military Museum highlights the history of the Cold War and the hot wars in Korea and Vietnam.
Pictures, oral history videos and artifacts tell the story of New Yorkers in combat from 1950 to 1973, the Cold War here at home, and the civil strife in the U.S. prompted by the Vietnam War caused, according to the museum.
Existing permanent exhibits relate the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World Wars I and II and the New York Militia and National Guard in the 19th century.
Artifacts used to illustrate the history of the Korean War (1950-53) include an M 1911A 1 .45 caliber pistol, the A-frame pack Korean porters used to transport supplies, water purification tablets and a 155 artillery shell like those fired in combat by the New York Army National Guard's 955th Field Artillery Battalion.
The history of the Cold War section of the exhibit includes a Civil Defense sanitation kit for bomb shelter use, a radiation detector which would have been used after an atomic bomb attack and survival ration crackers.
For the Vietnam War, the museum exhibit will include U.S. military script used at the Post Exchange instead of cash, a soldier's load-carrying equipment, a tropical combat coat, and a combat helmet.
The museum, at 61 Lake Ave., is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Admission is free.
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Tucker, do you have any heroes left?
October 09, 2011 by Sean Harley [Tucker] in My Story
In May of 1990 I was 18. Just over half a year out of high school and on my way into the world as an adult. This was the month Jim Henson died. The Muppet Show had shaped part of who I was creatively. I still have visions of Leo Sayer dancing with the enormous bird. The Mummenschanz pulling each other's paper faces and the guy who did the pick-a-sausage-any-sausage with Sam The Eagle. I loved it. Funny, creative, silly. I slowly over time discovered who Jim Henson was and how it was his vision that guided the show and the everything Muppets. Then he died. It was the first time I'd felt a loss for someone I didn't know. For someone I'd never met. But someone who had influenced me immensely.
Later that year I discovered a band called Jellyfish. They were like nothing around in the '90s. Sunny happy pop-rock album called Bellybutton. It had an album cover that was a naked woman covered in Aim toothpaste with the tiny band members playing the in the plastic flowers around her navel. I loved the hell out of that album. A couple years later they came out with Spilt Milk. I bought the album and went directly home, put on a pair of headphones and listened to the album 3 times in a row (It was easy 'cause my tape deck had an auto flip feature so I didn't have to get up to turn the cassette over). Spilt milk starts with a lullaby, spikes the punch at an elementary school, has a Greek dinner in the middle and ends with a big parade. Then they broke up and never made another song together. These two albums shaped my appreciation for music for the next couple of decades and inspired me to write my own music. But once again a feeling of loss for people I never knew. For people I'd never met.
That was my kid years, teen years and twenties. Then, in my thirties I bought an iPod. Then a Mac Mini. Then an iPod touch. Then a Macbook Pro. Then an iPhone. Then an iPhone 4. Then and Apple TV. They all worked together seamlessly. It seemed like everything I wanted to do ... these devices just did for me. I didn't have to troll sites for shareware or fuss with a registry to get my printer to work. I could share family photos and home movies on the TV in my living room. I could connect with and share photos with my friends through my phone and it all just felt right.
I had slowly learned who Steve Jobs was over all these purchases. I learned what he meant to the creativity and vision behind all the devices that were allowing me to create music demos and edit home movies. He was an enigma and each story about him seemed to speak to a man who had a vision and a plan about how to make a dent in the universe. Then he died and I never met him and I never knew him. But he affected the way I look at things and how they could be if I just, do it.
I still love the Muppet Show and I often listen to the Jellyfish albums and I'll get an iPhone 5 when it's announced. But Kermit don't sound quite right anymore and the solo stuff by the Jellyfish members never really hit the spot. So, I'm a little scared that eventually my Mac will still be great but it will have a new voice that doesn't quite sound right.
I guess it's time to take everything my heroes have taught me and seriously put them to work in my own creative projects.
October 09, 2011 /Sean Harley [Tucker]
Apple, Creativity, Heroes, Jellyfish Albums, Steve Jobs
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Supplier for Mercedes announces expansion
By Patrick RupinskiStaff Writer
BLG Logistics, which provides logistical supply services to the nearby Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, has expanded its local operations by adding the former Syncreon warehouse in the Legacy Industrial Park to its operations
BLG Logistics, which provides logistical supply services to the nearby Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, has expanded its local operations by adding the former Syncreon warehouse in the Legacy Industrial Park to its operations.
BLG also hired the vast majority of Syncreon's more than 300 workers when it took over the facility in mid-January, according to Steve Markham, president of BLG's U.S. operations.
He said he could not comment further on the transaction between the two companies.
BLG and Syncreon plants in Vance were next to each other, and the companies handled getting automotive components to Mercedes' assembly lines.
Syncreon, which was formed in 2007, reported in 2010 that it had received a logistics and management supply contract to serve Mercedes' Vance operations.
On Jan. 6, Syncreon filed a notice of a possible plant closing with the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Development under the federal Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification Act.
The act requires companies that might close plants or have major layoffs to notify their states in advance. ADECA officials said Tuesday, however, that when the filing was made, they were told there was a strong likelihood that the plant would be taken over by another company and that there would be no disruption in the work force.
BLG Logistics, which is based in Bremen, Germany, has served Mercedes in Vance since 2004.
The plant receives automotive components from manufacturers in the U.S. and abroad, packages components and makes sure they are delivered to Mercedes as needed.
Mercedes uses just-in-time manufacturing, which requires packaged components to come to its assembly plant in the sequence in which they are needed.
Last November, BLG announced a $4.9 million expansion and investment in new equipment at its Vance operations to accommodate the expected increase in vehicle production at Mercedes over the next several years.
Mercedes is slated to add C-Class sedans to its production lines in 2014 and a new mystery vehicle in 2015. The plant currently makes three other Mercedes models, the M-Class and GL-Class sport utility vehicles and the R-Class crossover vehicle.
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'Outcast,' A Bernstein Centennial and Tab Hunter Tribute on TCM, Kids Choice Sports
Matt Roush July 20, 2018 7:00 am
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A critical checklist of notable Friday TV:
Outcast (10/9c, Cinemax): If the devil truly is in the details, then he’s made a bit of a mess of the second season of this dark and disturbing possession thriller, based on the Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) comics. The exorcisms still pack a powerfully violent punch, but it’s as if all of the best and most shocking ideas were exhausted the first time around, leaving our glum heroes exorcising in place. “Doing this thing one at a time isn’t working,” mopes Kyle Barnes (a severely understated Patrick Fugit) of his door-to-door approach to expunging demons from the population of Rome, West Virginia. His partner, disgraced Rev. John Anderson (Philip Glenister) also seems to have given up the Holy Ghost after his latest setback. Only the late Reg E. Cathay as the embattled local police chief seems to be enjoying the fight.
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West Side Story (8/7c, TCM): A weekend-long tribute to Leonard Bernstein, the fabled composer who was born 100 years ago this August, literally kicks off with 1961’s rousing musical adaptation of the Broadway hit, winning Oscars for supporting players Rita Moreno and George Chakiris. (Their rooftop rendition of “America” is still thrilling.) Followed by another high-stepping musical, 1949’s On the Town, starring Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Jules Munshin as the sailors on leave in New York City. The Bernstein celebration continues in prime time Saturday with replays of his legendary New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts and Sunday with a marathon of episodes from his 1961 Omnibus series. (Earlier Friday, TCM remembers the late Tab Hunter, who died July 8 at 86, with an eight-film tribute starting at 6 am/5c with the 1953 war movie The Steel Lady.)
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Inside Streaming: Streaming highlights include a new season of Netflix’s Last Chance U, a real-life Friday Night Lights docu-series about the junior college football program of the Pirates of Independence (Kansas) Community College… Also on Netflix: Dark Tourist, a different sort of travelogue. The eight-part series, hosted by New Zealand journalist David Farrier, chronicles a new trend of people choosing to explore more unsettling corners of the world, including “narco-tourism” in Columbia and nuclear tourism in Japan… Hulu’s Ballet Now documentary, from Steven Cantor, features New York City Ballet prima ballerina Tiler Peck creating a three-night mash-up dance extravaganza in Los Angeles, blurring the words of ballet, hip-hop and tap. Someone should put her to work on the next season of Pose… Hulu also imports the first two seasons of the BAFTA Award-winning U.K. comedy This Country, following the misadventures of two young people in a village in the Cotswolds.
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The Firm Behind Wall Street's "Fearless Girl" Statue Will Pay $5 Million for Reportedly Underpaying Women and African-Americans
The U.S. Department of Labor began investigating the Boston-based State Street Corporation in 2012.
The financial services firm responsible for the "Fearless Girl" statue on Wall Street has agreed to pay $5 million to settle federal allegations that it paid female and black executives less than their white male counterparts.
Thursday's agreement came after a probe by the U.S. Department of Labor into the Boston-based State Street Corporation, which installed the statue on the eve of National Women's Day in March as part of a campaign to encourage companies to add more women to their boards.
State Street Has Only 3 Women on its Board
Town & Country reported in March that State Street had only three women on its 11-person board of directors and five women on its 28-member leadership team, and investigators determined that the corporation had paid female executives less in base pay, bonus pay, and total compensation than similarly situated males in the same positions.
The official filing, first reported by Adweek, shows that the the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs began auditing the firm in late 2012 based on data from the years 2010 and 2011. The audit concluded that, since “at least December 1, 2010, and continuing thereafter,” the company had discriminated against 305 women in senior-level roles by paying them lower base salaries, bonus pay, and total compensation than their male colleagues. Fifteen black employees at the vice president level were similarly paid less than their white counterparts, the analysis found.
A spokeswoman for the company told the Associated Press Thursday that State Street disagrees with the analysis but opted to bring the six-year-old matter to a resolution and move forward.
In a statement the company said it is "committed to equal pay practices and evaluates on an ongoing basis our internal processes to be sure our compensation, hiring and promotions programs are nondiscriminatory."
Artist Kristen Visbal's "Fearless Girl" statue of a girl with her hands on her hips was commissioned by State Street Global Advisors, a division of State Street Corporation, and placed on a traffic island facing Wall Street's "Charging Bull" statue on March 7.
The work was embraced by tourists and others as a symbol of female empowerment, though some critics have questioned the motives of State Street, which has said the statue was intended "to celebrate the power of women in leadership and to urge greater gender diversity on corporate boards."
With reporting from the Associated Press
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Erik Jones / No. 20 Sport Clips Toyota Camry Preview The Advance Auto Parts Clash at Daytona International Speedway
(Feb. 6, 2019)
· JONES AT DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY – The Clash: Erik Jones returns to Daytona International Speedway as the most recent race winner having won the July 2018 Coke Zero Sugar 400. The win marked Jones first-career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win. This will be Jones second Advance Auto Parts Clash. In his lone start at the historical track in the pre-season Clash, Jones started from the fourth position and secured an eighth-place finish.
· JGR AT DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY: Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) has 131 total starts at Daytona International Speedway in Cup Series competition between the Daytona 500 and July Cup Series race. In those starts, the team has earned six wins, 29 top-five finishes, 41 top-10 finishes and four pole starting positions. The team has led 1,599 laps, completed 20,753 of 23,274 attempted laps (89.2%) and earned an average start of 15.6 and an average finish of 20.2. Denny Hamlin (2016) and Dale Jarrett (1993) both scored Daytona 500 wins for the team and Kyle Busch (2008), Tony Stewart (2005 and 2006) and Jones (2018) have all visited victory lane during the July race weekend. For the Advance Auto Parts Clash, JGR teammates Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin have both earned wins, most recently with Hamlin winning the 2016 event.
· DAYTONA 500 QUALIFYING: Prior to Sunday’s Advanced Auto Parts Clash, teams will qualify for the 61st running of the Daytona 500. The qualifying session will set the front row for the Daytona 500 with the remainder of the field being set on Thursday, February 14, when the field competes in two 60-lap races.
· THIS WEEK ON THE NO. 20 CAMRY: For the first time in their 11-year partnership with JGR, Sport Clips will serve as the primary partner on one of the team’s four Camry’s, specifically Jones and the No. 20 team. Sport Clips started their partnership with Jones in 2015, sponsoring Jones and the No. 20 Xfinity team at Talladega Superspeedway. Since then, Sport Clips has continued to sponsor Jones throughout his Xfinity career and now in the Cup Series. Sport Clips will be in the No. 20 Camry for The Clash and the Daytona 500, as well as five more races this season.
Jones Career NASCAR Cup Series Stats at Daytona International Speedway – The Clash:
Jones Career NASCAR Cup Series Stats at Daytona International Speedway:
From the Driver’s Seat:
Erik Jones: “I’m looking forward to The Clash. It’s always fun to get back to Daytona and get things rolling again. It’s always fun to be in The Clash. I was in my first one last year and to have another shot to go out and run this year is going to be a lot of fun. It kind of gets you back in the racing mode and back in the right mindset. Looking forward to having a shot to try and go out and start the year with a win.”
From the Pit Box:
Chris Gayle: “I can’t wait to get the race season started, and get a short tune up this weekend in the non-points Clash race. It’s been since October since anyone has done any superspeedway racing, so it’ll give Erik and the team a chance to knock the rust off and get back in full form before the 150’s and the 500 the following week. There are also a few small rules changes, and the Clash will give us a shot to work thru some of the new rules and how they’ll affect the handling of the car. So, we can treat it like an extra practice session for the 500.”
· RACE INFO: The Advance Auto Parts Clash at Daytona International Speedway is scheduled for Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. ET. Watch and listen live on Fox Sports 1, Sirius XM Channel 90 and MRN Radio.
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TV/Specials
Who Will Be the 2017 TIME Magazine Person of the Year?
Updated Tuesday 28th November 2017, 12:49 PM
Every year, TIME magazine selects someone to be its ‘Person of the Year’ and features that individual on its cover. This person is someone who is said to have had the greatest influence on world events in the past year, and the roster of past winners includes Mahatma Ghandi, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth II, Bill Clinton and Vladimir Putin. The 2016 Person of the Year was Donald Trump, and the President of the USA is one of the front-runners to receive the title again this year, but there are plenty of others in contention, so let’s take a look at some of the favourites.
The Main Contenders
Emmanuel Macron became the President of France in May of this year. Macron was one of the most popular French presidential candidates for years, and after almost six months in the job that popularity doesn’t seem to have waned. His policies have been heralded as being as good for business as they are for public services, and his pro-EU stance has helped put France centre-stage as the UK negotiates its withdrawal from the union.
Colin Kaepernick is an American football player who has become a household name worldwide after kneeling during the national anthem as a way of protesting against oppression of ‘black people and people of colour’ in the country. His kneeling protest didn’t go down well with Donald Trump, but that only encouraged other players to follow his example in games across the US.
Donald Trump was named 2016 Person of the Year thanks to his remarkable rise to the very top of American politics despite having absolutely no political background. His first year as 45th President of the USA has been just as controversial as his journey to that position, which makes him a contender for this year’s title too. Several other presidents have been TIME magazine’s Person of the Year on more than one occasion, but none so far have received that title two years running.
Angela Merkel was Person of the Year in 2015 thanks to her role in coping with the debt crisis in Greece and the way she handled the European refugee emergency. Merkel is widely viewed as being the unofficial leader of the European Union, and as someone who is helping to stabilise and steer it as Britain negotiates its exit.
Kim Jong-Un has been even more vocal than usual in the last year, issuing several nuclear-themed threats against South Korea, Japan, the USA and anyone else who speaks out against the North Korean regime. Donald Trump’s equally infantile bravado hasn’t helped to ease the situation, and their ongoing war of words has brought the threat of nuclear conflict back to the forefront of global politics.
Elon Musk has been described as a ‘real-life Iron Man’, due to the fact that he, like the Tony Stark character in the Iron Man comics from Marvel, is a multi-billionaire who also happens to be a technological visionary and inventor. In the last year he has been particularly outspoken about the dangers of artificial intelligence, opposing the pro-AI views of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who incidentally was TIME’s Person of the Year in 2010.
The TIME magazine Person of the Year title goes to the individual who is said to have had the greatest influence on the world in the past year, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a positive influence. Donald Trump is therefore an obvious contender once again, but we can’t imagine him receiving that accolade two years running.
Of the remaining contenders, we think that Colin Kaepernick would be a popular choice. His personal protest against oppression has inspired other players to follow his lead, and whether or not people agree with his position, it has certainly brought the topic of racism back into the public eye worldwide. We will therefore cautiously side with Kaepernick to be named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year for 2017.
Written By Ian Bruce
Published: Wednesday, 1 November 2017 10:40:29+00:00
Last Updated: Tuesday, 28 November 2017 12:49:47+00:00
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What’s That Smell? Constitutionally Protected Free Speech
For Banned Books Week, a perfume company is selling scents tied to landmark events in censorship, both of which involved prominent Jewish figures
It’s Banned Books Week! Every year at this time, the American Library Association publishes its list of the previous year’s most frequently banned and challenged books. Last year, I noted with dismay that only one of the ten most objectionable books was written by a Jew. This was disappointing because, in the past, our people ruled this list. Judy Blume, Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, Alvin Schwartz, Lesléa Newman, and Nadine Gordimer used to regularly cause pearl-clutching patrons and parents to have conniptions, so I worried that we Jews were losing our edge. This year, however, we have reason for optimism: Two books on the list— that would be double last year’s number—have Jewish authors. Thanks for representin’ for the People of the Book, David Levithan and Susan Kuklin!
But what really marks a red-letter day for First Amendment-loving Jews is the fact that my fave goth perfume company, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab (known to the cognoscenti as BPAL), is selling two new scents as a Banned Books Week fundraiser.
First, an introduction: BPAL (sold online and in a few small boutiques, with a cult of devoted fans trading tiny vials via social media) offers up deliciously overwritten, Lovecraftian descriptions of its dark and loony scents. My own fave (I’m wearing it now!) is Cthulhu, “a creeping, wet, slithering scent, dripping with seaweed, oceanic plants, and dark, unfathomable waters.” I’m also a fan of Wilde, described as “just the slightest taint of patchouli’s passion, tonka bean’s decadence, the philanthropy of bergamot, moss’s cynicism, the sharp wit of lavender, and the hopeless romantic longing of jasmine and thyme.” Makes no sense! But who cares! And I adore Schrodinger’s Cat (“a paradoxical scent experiment!—tangerine, sugared lime, pink grapefruit, oakmoss, lavender, zdravetz, and chocolate peppermint,” and no, I don’t know what zdravetz is either).
Every year during Banned Books Week, BPAL throws its black-clad, heavily tattooed support behind the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which provides legal aid, education and advocacy to comic book creators, publishers, and sellers, as well as to librarians and readers whose First Amendment rights are threatened. In past years, BPAL has sold Neil-Gaiman-themed fragrances as a CBLDF fundraiser. Gaiman, a Brit with Eastern European Jewish origins, has written about his cousin who survived the Warsaw Ghetto, reading aloud to other prisoners in defiance of the Nazis. But this year, BPAL is selling two comic-book-themed fragrances, and both have Jewish antecedents.
First we have Cohen v. California, a scent based on a landmark First Amendment case. In 1968, a 19-year-old man named Paul Robert Cohen was arrested for wearing a jacket that said “Fuck the Draft” on it. Cohen was convicted of disturbing the peace and sentenced to 30 days in jail. He appealed, saying his jacket constituted protected speech. The Supreme Court ultimately voted 5-4 that the “simple public display of this single four-letter word” was, indeed, not a criminal offense. BPAL’s interpretation of the ruling (accompanied by a phrase from Judge John Marshall Harlan’s majority opinion, “one man’s vulgarity is another man’s lyric”) is “black tea, apricot, honey, saffron, apple blossom, tolu balsam, ginger grass, white ginger root, and vetiver.” I bought it, sight unsmelled.
The other CBLDF-supporting scent is Sordid and Unusual Activities. That’s a phrase from the Comics Code of 1954, which basically censored comic books. Justification for the code came from the work of psychologist Fredric Wertham, an assimilated Jewish psychiatrist originally from Germany. In Seduction of the Innocent, Wertham wrote about how comics damaged youthful minds. (His research has since been largely discredited.) Ah, well. But one of the Comics Code rules said, “If crime is depicted it shall be as a sordid and unpleasant activity.” So in tribute, BPAL created a scent described as “degenerate, squalid, and utterly wretched: bleached white cedar and bourbon vetiver with poplar, smoked cumin, oak-barrel whiskey, and a dribble of spiced rum absolute.” Yeah, I don’t understand it either. But I bought it. I am as powerless before BPAL’s semi-coherent absinthe-drenched flow of words as Namu the Lion before the heaving barely-clad bosom of Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. I tell myself I’m supporting the fight against censorship and the good work of Banned Books Week while also smelling divine. Win-win.
Previous: Where Are the Jews on the Banned Books List?
Marjorie Ingall is a columnist for Tablet Magazine, and author of Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise Successful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent Children.
Cohen V. California
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Andy Baio On The New Prohibition Created By Copyright
from the chilling-effects dept
Tue, Apr 16th 2013 10:12am — Mike Masnick
Andy Baio has an absolutely fantastic video presentation that he did recently for Creative Mornings/Portland on what he's calling The New Prohibition. It's half an hour long, but absolutely worth watching. Some of the discussion covers ground that you're probably familiar with -- such as discussing how much culture is really infringing by nature (an awful lot of it). From there, it shifts to Baio's unfortunate experience with Kind of Bloop, a story we covered a couple years ago. If you don't recall, Baio, who is quite knowledgeable about copyright law, produced a chiptunes 8-bit version of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue album, which he called Kind of Bloop. He knew that, for cover songs, he needed to pay compulsories, which he did. He then funded the hiring of artists via Kickstarter (he was Kickstarter's original CTO and helped launch the site). It was one of Kickstarter's first success stories. Baio made no money off of it. He produced the album, hired the musicians, made the CDs, and any leftover money went to the artists as well.
But the photographer who took the photo on the cover of Kind of Blue sent his lawyers after Baio. Even though Baio had had someone create a very carefully done 8-bit version of the Miles Davis photo (i.e., he didn't just apply a Photoshop filter...), and believed strongly that it was fair use (it was transformative, non-commercial, had no negative impact on the market for the original, etc.), the threat of the lawsuit, and the years of fighting the lawsuit, including significant expenses (even with pro bono legal help), made him decide to settle for $32,500 of his own cash to the photographer Jay Maisel (an incredibly successful photographer who literally lives in the largest single family residence in New York City).
We wrote about this at the time, horrified at this kind of result. The one good thing in all of this was that Baio fought for, and won, the right to write a single blog post about the experience -- rather than be silenced via a typical gag order that is all too common in legal disputes like this. The story got widespread attention (and there was significant backlash against Maisel, which Baio, himself, tried to quash).
However, since then, Baio hasn't said much (publicly) about the experience. This video lets him talk a bit about the aftermath -- to explain the true chilling effects of the threat and the eventual settlement. Baio is a creator. It's in his blood. It's what he's always done, but after this he was afraid to create. Being threatened with a lawsuit, even if you believe you're right, is a scary and possibly life-altering moment. Lots of people who have not been in those shoes think it's nothing and that they could handle it. You don't know.
As he notes in the talk, copyright law is probably the most violated law in the US after speeding and jaywalking (and I'm not even sure copyright infringement is really in third place in that list). But getting rung up for one of those gives you a "bad day" situation, not a ruined life. Copyright, on the other hand, can ruin your life. And chill your speech and creativity.
And this is the worst part: so many people, especially kids, are at risk. Baio also famously highlighted the prevalence of the phrase "no copyright intended" on YouTube. Tons of kids uploading videos use clips of music and videos with a phrase like that. Or with statements about fair use. Or with copyright law quotes. All, as he notes, to try to find that magic voodoo that wards off a possible lawsuit. Most of those people aren't being sued.
But they could be.
Baio points out that he used to find all those "no copyright intended" messages humorous. And now, he fears for all of them. Just as copyright trolls have sued hundreds of thousands of people as a part of a business model to shake down people, he notes it is not out of the realm of possibility that others will start copyright trolling on YouTube. In fact, while he doesn't mention it, we've actually seen the beginnings of just that kind of thing.
And, as he notes, this is terrifying. This is the new prohibition. People are creating amazing and wonderful new things, inspired by and building off the works of others -- just as has happened throughout human history. This is how culture works. And rather than celebrate and encourage that... we've made it illegal.
And, not just illegal, but illegal in such a way that you can be threatened with life-destroying financial damages. And it's happening all the time and likely to happen even more.
Baio notes that this requires true reform. Fair use is not enough. Fair use is barely worth anything in this setup, as he himself discovered. Baio argues for making non-commercial use non-infringing, which is a step in the right direction, but still leads to trouble in figuring out what really is commercial or non-commercial on today's internet. Still, the crux of the message is vital for people to understand in learning why our copyright system isn't just broken, but seriously damaging to speech, creativity and culture.
We've seen some copyright system supporters in our comments insist that if we don't like copyright, that's fine, "just don't use it" and leave them to use it how they see fit. And that would be great if copyright law didn't get in the way of what most people feel is a perfectly natural way of expressing themselves. But it does. And it does so in a way that stifles true cultural creativity, the exact opposite of what we should be seeking under the clause in the Constitution that is supposed to "promote the progress." Baio's speech is worth watching, just so people can understand what's at stake here. This isn't about "piracy" or people wanting stuff for free. This is about speech and culture and the ability to stifle it completely and destroy people's lives. These are the reasons why so many of us speak out about the way copyright law is used today.
Filed Under: andy baio, copyright, fair use, prohibition, statutory damages
Ninja (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 9:35am
I think this also highlights a problem with the judicial system. If you don't have the financial muscle to endure the process of defending against some accusation it doesn't matter it it's unfounded. You'll end up ruined.
There are ways to try to prevent this such as not allowing ideas to be copyrighted (ie: the music itself is not copyrightable only the execution), much shorter copyright terms, well defined exemptions with mandatory updates every few years to accommodate new technologies and behaviors etc.
All of them go through a broad copyright reform. And all of them will face the financial might of MAFIAA lobbying. Unfortunately.
Bengie, 16 Apr 2013 @ 11:30am
Maybe we need some sort of way of capping time and money spent on Civil law-suits.
And maybe we need to break civil law-suits into two categories, Commercial and Non-Commercial. I don't see why a corp should be allowed to sue a person for Commercial Reasons against Non-Commercial actions. eg: non-profit P2P
Anonymous Coward, 16 Apr 2013 @ 11:59am
The MAFIAA won't accept this proposal, as the are using the law against selected target to try and intimidate everyone else into only trusting copyrighted material that they buy from shops.
John Fenderson (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 10:27am
Needs to be repeated
Being threatened with a lawsuit, even if you believe you're right, is a scary and possibly life-altering moment.
And often, win or lose, a life-ruining moment.
I am constantly amazed at how many people, particularly lawyers, don't understand the fact that being threatened with a lawsuit is, all by itself, punitive in its effects.
It's a huge fault with our justice system. When combined with the fact that the winner is almost always the party with the biggest warchest, thus rendering the court system all but useless for ordinary people, we have a justice system that is all but incapable of actually dispensing justice.
A justice system that cannot dispense justice is a justice system that dispenses injustice.
Argonel (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 10:39am
Has anyone bothered to do the calculus to compare how badly your life will be ruined defending against a copyright suit vs defending assault or murder charges for attacking the RIAA/MPAA lawyers? Once it happens a few times the cost to hire a layer to press charges will go up to cover the perceived risk to the lawyer. At that point the business model will be forced to change away from a sue em all model.
Rikuo (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 10:45am
Well for what it's worth, I remember that Michael Jackson's doctor got less years for, ya know, killing the man, than if he'd pirated his discography.
out_of_the_blue, 16 Apr 2013 @ 10:46am
Mike stop conflating the two things
Prohibition is no longer a "thing" Mikey boy and since you're such a hairy-chested pirate, you don't know nuthin about...robot...prostitutes...prostate ...thunder pants
UUh, sorry about that, I just got a vision from Lord Xenu.
Chosen Reject (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 10:54am
Copyright law should honestly just be abolished. There is no purpose to it beyond creating a business model, and one that is particularly dangerous to creativity. When I want to express myself, even if it's a simple reply to someone, I do it by using the expressions I have learned from others, whether those others are my parents, siblings, friends, or people in my neighborhood, or movies, tv shows, songs, books, poems, etc. It's all the better when it's a shared experience.
I could dismiss someone who has clearly lost an argument with a "you lose", or I could do it by showing a video.
If I own a gym, I could get my customers pumped up by giving my own speech, or I could play a song.
Any of those options are valid, and ought to be valid choices, but copyright says that you should only be allowed to express yourself in ways that are really old (70 years + life of author), paying for it, or creating a new way of expression. There's a lot of validity to new creation, and that creation will happen, but no one creates new things in a vacuum. We are all products of our culture, our shared experiences, etc. Being allowed to express ourselves using the expressions of those around us is a necessity. It's how we are.
Copyright goes against all that. At one point I thought it could be reformed. I'm leaning towards that being an impossibility. I'm not sure copyright could ever be squared with how humans express themselves. I welcome anyone to prove me wrong, but the more I think about it, I don't think it's possible. Sure copyright gives us certain business models, but then you'd have to prove that those business models are worth it, and I don't think they are.
As I've said, "transformative" is the key problem:
"Even though Baio had had someone create a very carefully done 8-bit version of the Miles Davis photo (i.e., he didn't just apply a Photoshop filter...), and believed strongly that it was fair use (it was transformative, non-commercial, had no negative impact on the market for the original, etc.)," -- Yes, I see you try to defend in advance, but it's THE key point why this Baio is in trouble: first copying tunes, then copying the cover. And guess what copyright is? The right to control copies. Therefore, while you can quote or use snippets, you can't reasonably use someone else's work as the central part of yours! I'm not het up about this particular one, but just recognize the principle and you should be okay.
Now, I'd like to hope that no more fools like Rikuo can't grasp that my valuable screen name is being copied, but I'll again point out that it is.
Take a loopy tour of Techdirt.com! You always end up same place!
http://techdirt.com/
Where the fanboys troll the site with vulgar ad hom, and call anyone disagreeing "trolls"!
07:01:24[i- 2-6]
Re: As I've said, "transformative" is the key problem:
....your screen name is valuable? To who? If you value it, why don't you create an account? Simplest way to protect it, since then anyone isn't logged in on your account but uses the name anyway we can dismiss as not being you.
Anonymous Coward, 16 Apr 2013 @ 6:47pm
Re: Re: As I've said, "transformative" is the key problem:
"Just because you're needed doesn't mean you're important." - Ashleigh Brilliant
The shills clearly don't grasp this corporate maxim very well.
. . .you can't reasonably use someone else's work as the central part of yours!
Unless it's a parody or satire on the work you're critiquing for educational purposes. Or, is that illegal too now?
Can not artists use art to make art? You know, this totally old form of art-making? Or, is that illegal too now?
If you want to make art, you have to know how the law works, duh. But if you want to make law, you don't have to know shit about how art works.
Beautiful system, I'm sure it doesn't cause any problems whatsoever. Certainly not enough problems to actually discuss this stuff, am I right?
Beech, 16 Apr 2013 @ 11:12am
Re: As I've said,
Sure you can! See the case of the guy who did a Buffy/ twilight mashup, and was called out as a prime example of fair use by the library of congress!
If by "valuable", you mean generic and self-serving than yes, it is being copied.
Reality Check (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 11:49am
A whiny guy once said 'you can't reasonably use someone else's work as the central part of yours!'.
Fail. From the beginning of known history, people always use ideas and concepts from other people and build upon them. That is a reasonable, logical and beneficial system.
People who feel that the government should grant monopolies to the one who does something first, and lock those ideas and concepts down, are promoting an unreasonable, illogical and malignant system. That system does not advance anything but greed, enrich lawyers and discourage new artists.
Of course, since you are paid by the beneficiaries of the malignant system, it will never be in your best interest to consider this.
Gwiz (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 12:06pm
Therefore, while you can quote or use snippets, you can't reasonably use someone else's work as the central part of yours! I'm not het up about this particular one, but just recognize the principle and you should be okay.
Maybe if you'd recognize the flaws of a principle like this you'd be okay. It goes against how culture and human advancement has been achieved since the dawning of mankind.
Personally, I couldn't care less what your misguided opinions are about this. I'm fighting for my grandchildren and their children on this one. It's my desire that they too have the ability to stand on the shoulders of the giants who went before them, so the future of humankind can advance without having to reinvent everything from the past.
Some of the best works I've seen were created despite copyright.
And if copyirght is getting in the way if creativity then there's no point to have it at that scope.
n_mailer, 16 Apr 2013 @ 5:59pm
"herefore, while you can quote or use snippets, you can't reasonably use someone else's work as the central part of yours!"
Of course you can, if your work has meaning that is independent from the original. This is really basic art history stuff. A portrait is not a photograph. Shakespeare retold commonly known stories of his day. The Brothers Grimm wrote their fairy tales even though they heard them elsewhere. Warhol soup cans. And so on, ad nauseum.
Of course, the law disagrees with both of us. It forbids quotes and snippets without permission in many contents.
People call you a troll because you are a troll. They attack you with vulgar ad hom because you beg for it with your own vulgar ad hom.
it's THE key point why this Baio is in trouble: first copying tunes
What?!?!? Did you miss the part where Baio paid the original artists, just like the maximalists ask?
So - he's in trouble because he legally reimbursed the copyright holders and did everything he was legally required to do?
How dare you imply he's in trouble because he obeyed the law and fairly compensated artists, you slimy, psychopathic fucktard!
I feel for Baio. Like I explained, numerous times in the EFF on Isohunt article, I'm not the only one playing by the rules and getting shafted and called a thief as a result.
Blue...I want you to try something you've never done before. Read carefully what I've written, think on it, then try and counter what I say. Problem there is...I've left you NOTHING to use against me, to try and paint me as a criminal. I've put up proof that I pay for content and play by the rules (and horror of horrors, actually THINK when deciding what is good value for money! Why is it I'm not allowed decide that?)
mmrtnt (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 11:38am
Great Coincidence
Zachary Adam Green has this post up at Falkvinge:
Let�s Reform Copyright. With A Sledgehammer. Into Smithereens.
jameshogg (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 11:57am
And people don't believe me when I say that deviantArt is a potential target.
Blah blah blah wha wha wha.
If you aren't talented and original enough to come up with something that isn't blatantly ripping off someone else, tough shit.
Deal with it loser.
Rikuo (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 12:22pm
Want to tell that to Tolkien? He blatantly ripped of Beowulf when he wrote The Hobbit, what with the dragon going apeshit over a theft of a single piece of treasure.
Want to tell that to George Lucas? He blatantly ripped off Flash Gordon and movies about samurai to remix them into a story about Samurai in Space.
Want to tell that to Terry Goodkind, who blatantly ripped off his order of magic-wielding mysterious nuns from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, who himself lifted that wholesale from Frank Herbert's Dune?
Each one of them is a massively successful artist, who have earned millions for their work and the majority of their work was taken from others.
jameshogg (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 12:25pm
Careful, he might stay consistent and say that Tolkien, Lucas and Goodkind didn't have the right to do those things. :)
Re: Re: Re:
Tolkein is safe, Beowulf is public domain. However if Tolkein had no right to do this, neither did Disney for most of his works.
Forest_GS (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 12:39pm
At the very least, the rules for fair use should be much better explained. There should be no reason to spend thousands just to find out if what you are doing is actually fair use.
jupiterkansas (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 1:13pm
The rules are very well explained. Only a judge can make the final determination. The copyright holder can't. The person making the copy can't. The only fix is to change the rules.
Anonymous Coward, 16 Apr 2013 @ 12:40pm
We need an International Download-Like-A-Pirate Day to promote the ridiculousness of Copyright law and the public's complete lack of respect for it.
Isn't that every day?
Not for all of us. A lot of people simply do without.
On the other hand, if shills continue insisting that everyone is a filthy pirate who doesn't do without, and insists on demanding laws that treat people as such, they might start to reconsider.
jupiterkansas (profile), 17 Apr 2013 @ 8:18am
If someone sends you a funny picture or story, and you forward it to a friend, that's copyright infringement.
It's not just about downloading the big Hollywood blockbusters. It's uploading or downloading or copy and pasting any creative content - photographs, comics, cartoons, articles, poems, song lyrics, or even just a paragraph from a book. Copyright doesn't recognize the scale of infringement, and fair use can only be determined by a judge.
It's pretty hard to use a computer in any social capacity without infringing copyright, and lots of people do it on a daily basis and would never call themselves pirates. I'm positive even the bobs and blues of TechDirt are guilty.
ECA (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 1:10pm
Something to remember..
I could build a device that uses USB external drives, and records TV channels, for around $100..
any computer formats
Would play Anything from computer formats, CD/DVD/BR and have networking/USB abilities and output 1080p
FOR MY PERSONAL USE, I would not be sued.
IF I sold such devices, I WOULD be sued into the DIRT..
This video is the best illustration of the problems with Fair Use that I have ever seen.
Copyright law was never intended for the general public. It's always been about how businesses operate, and now that everyone has the tools and ability to infringe without giving it a second thought, the laws are no longer valid or useful.
Reform is long overdue!
one of the main reasons that copyright is as bad as it is, is abused as much as it is, is because when there is a legitimate case that goes to court, the judges have no clue what to rule on or how to rule! hence, you get damages that are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars at least.
another reason is that lawyers can charge phenomenal amounts for their services, so it is in their interests to get cases won with huge damages, sending significant percentages to their accounts.
one other reason is the amount of lobbying that is done in order to get Congress to make the laws how certain industries want them rather than how they should be, using the words of the Constitution as a guide. (if we are not careful, the Constitution isn't going to be worth the paper it's written on, to coin a phrase, in a very short space of time!)
Nick (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 2:54pm
A little story about patents
I started work interning for a software company, who makes programs designed to help a central force (IT) manage up to thousands of computers. It can send software updates, or re-image computers entirely from backups, including all kinds of alterations to the hard drive structure. Specifically, I worked on the imaging part of the program.
On that program, you can choose to image an entire drive, or image a specific partition. You can then re-deliver the image to that computer (or any other, for that matter) by, say, taking a single partition of a couple on a drive and making it the ONLY partition on the drive. One such use of this would be to remove the 5GB recovery partition some pre-built computers come with (or add it back in).
The way the company does this is it essentially copies every single file off into a single folder-type file (.img), wipes the drive of its contents, then rebuilds the partition table to have the right number and then copies it back in.
This massive waste of space (having up to the entirety of the old drive minus the small partition) copied to another computer while you wipe it seemed like a waste to me. I asked the developer of the program if it was possible to simply go into the small part of the drive where it says the partition 1 goes from, say, block 0 to block 65000 and partition 2 goes from block 65000 to 69000 and just make part 1 go all the way across. You can leave the data as it is, just change where you are allowed to store files.
No, he said. Someone already patented it. A big corporation has the patent on being able to rewrite the partition table to delete or add partitions at will, so no other company can develop it themselves. I, not even a programmer, had figured out the simple steps to do it, yet if we were to implement said technique, we'd get sued because we couldn't PROVE we independently developed such technology. We couldn't PROVE that we didn't just copy their code. We couldn't PROVE that we weren't "inspired" by their hard work and the patent they made.
And so, we have to do 2+ hours of work for a single computer, tied up gigabytes of information, just because I didn't think of the idea first. I didn't KNOW I wasn't first, or that someone else did it, or how they did it, but that doesn't matter. Just like in copyright, even though YOU can do all the work yourself (making a remix isn't as simple as copying someone's mp3 and posting it on the internet), you are not allowed to profit from the work you did on something.
Anonymous Coward, 17 Apr 2013 @ 2:46am
Re: A little story about patents
A major point, independent invention is NOT a defence against patent infringement.
Spaceman Spiff (profile), 16 Apr 2013 @ 10:52pm
Most excellent presentation! A number of members of my family are artists, actors, writers, musicians. I will send a link to this video to all of them! :-) Thanks!
special-interesting (profile), 17 Apr 2013 @ 5:25am
The 'new' copyright is worse than Prohibition. It criminalizes the very nature of culture and how strong culture builds upon sharing knowledge in various formats. Building upon the works of others is a healthy way sharing culture develops a strong society. Its the way we progress as a cohesive culture.
Copyright is a direct tax on the culture of knowledge and even on learning itself. The core idea of copyright is flawed. Forcing content creators to be educated lawyers just to produce a song or book is the same thing as prohibiting it. Its an Air tax.
The statutory fines for criminal copyright infringement are life destroying events. Its like throwing kids into the gutter to starve to death. (For real. Think I'm kidding?) In exchange for this tax/fine/fee on sharing culture we get walnut tables for the lawyers and corporate special interest groups. The artist has and never see a dime of this kind of blood money. (and sometimes might not want to either)
Where is the worn out rally cry �for the kids� when it comes to saving them from copyright law? Copyright is like toxic waste being slipped into every book, video, song on radio, TV broadcast, etc. (etcetera dose not seem to cover all the potential ways this invades our lives, culture and society.)
It poisons the very ability to record important events (be it a video of a child's first step,a TV news broadcast on a show exhibiting what we think is wisdom or knowledge or humor) in our lives let alone sharing them with others.
The vultures of law are circling and they smell cash settlements without any judge or jury. A bureaucratic lawyer's dream. It even seems that copyright law is being waged as a tax collected by lawyers. Its so profitable that it would be normal to expect criminal organized crime to set up a honey pot to pry money off any that even look.
If drugs can be sold for profit on the street then lawyer baited honey pots will exist. Copyright is like a monetary drug for lawyers with a 100% addiction rate and sometimes legal suicide. (and the big heavy Prendaa question is... did they do it?) 'Zombie Lawyers' seems to convey the idea nicely.
Just wrote a comparison on copyright law to the recent manly $25 fine Judge Raymond Voet gave to himself. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130415/17310922715/judge-finds-himself-contempt-court-when-his-n ew-smartphone-interrupts-closing-arguments.shtml#c593
There are probably more reasons to get rid of copyright altogether than for keeping it. The laws wrapped around its corrupt central ideas are just to much to revise individually. The phrase eternal copyright is apt and justified since none of us will live long enough to use any of what we see/read/watch (learn?) in our lives.
An direct tax on the culture of knowledge and learning itself. The core idea that copyright is flawed. Forcing content creators to be educated lawyers just to produce a song or book is the same thing as prohibiting it.
Reactionary;
There are other problems like when courts are used by rich corporations as weapons to intimidate. It would not bother anyone if a few law firms closed because of better written legislation (including tax law).
Sheogorath (profile), 25 Apr 2013 @ 7:32pm
Regarding Kind of Bloop...
An excellent analysis of the case can be found at www.copyhype.com/2011/07/kind-of-bamboozled-why-kind-of-bloop-is-not-a-fair-use/
I'm neither a maximalist or a shill, but I have to agree with the above article, which goes very in-depth for something that covers just one page.
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Death at Dawson: Why Is Texas’ Worst State Jail Still Open?
Wendy King never saw a doctor.
“Everybody in my family has some kind of uterine problem,” King told me. “My mom and three sisters have all had hysterectomies.” So when King started bleeding continuously while serving a one-year sentence at Dawson State Jail for a parole violation, she asked to see a doctor.
“I bled for nine months,” she says. “I’m sorry, I know this is gross, but I’d step in those metal showers and you could hear blood clots fall out as big as my hand.”
King says that at Dawson, prisoners must first fill out a form asking for medical care and wait five to eight days for it to be processed. “Then they schedule you for a doctor if they think you actually need to see a doctor,” she said. Getting an appointment can take another week.
The physicians’ assistants who saw King didn’t think she needed to see a doctor. They also didn’t give her an exam. “They gave me antibiotics,” she says, “They said it was something going around, a venereal disease.” With a week’s worth of antibiotics and a menstrual pad, King was sent her back to her cell.
King’s experience at the troubled Dawson State Jail, a privately run, 2,200-bed lockup for nonviolent offenders, isn’t unusual. Several inmates at the facility have complained of poor conditions and lack of access to medical care that, in a few cases, led to deaths. Dawson has come to exemplify the once unutterable, now bipartisan, cause of closing some Texas prisons.
Yesterday, two advocacy groups, The Sentencing Project and Grassroots Leadership, released a report summarizing the case for closing Dawson—primarily that it could save the state $24 million a year. That’s not counting how much the state could make by selling the property on which Dawson sits, a riverside plot in downtown Dallas that the city has been clamoring to develop for years.
Nearly every stakeholder wants Dawson closed, except, of course, for Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which operates the jail; its contract is up for renewal in August. State lawmakers, including Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat and chair of the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice, want Dawson closed because Texas’ inmate population continues to drop and the state can save money by consolidating prisons. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the union that represents prison guards, wants Dawson closed because chronic understaffing makes the facility an extremely stressful and dangerous workplace. Human-rights groups want Dawson closed because of documented, systemic failures in its health care services and the horrifying deaths of several inmates, allegedly due to medical negligence.
Compared to the seven inmates who have died at Dawson since 2004, Wendy King was lucky.
Back in her cell, she continued to bleed. “I lost so much blood, it’s amazing I could walk,” she says. Finally another inmate told a guard about King’s condition, and the guard escorted her down to the clinic personally. The physician’s assistants still didn’t allow King to see a doctor, nor, she says, did they give her an exam or run any tests. But they did give her two shots of Depo Provera within the space of a few weeks. Depo Provera is a powerful birth control hormone intended to be given only once every three months. The shots slowed King’s bleeding, and she lived with it for the next seven months, until her release in September 2011.
King never saw a doctor at Dawson. Once she was released, she sought help and her condition turned out to be non-lethal: endometriosis and a retroverted uterus. Endometriosis happens when the uterine lining grows outside the uterus, and can cause heavy bleeding and scar tissue, sometimes enough to tilt, or retrovert, the uterus. Though the condition required surgery and rehab, it could have been worse. King’s sister died in October 2011, a month after King was released, of an aggressive uterine cancer.
Unfortunately, King’s is among the least disturbing stories of medical horror at Dawson. In 2012, the Dallas news station CBS 11 ran a four-part exposé highlighting alleged medical negligence at the jail and detailing three cases:
• In 2008, a 30-year-old woman named Ashleigh Parks died of pneumonia six weeks before her release date. Her family says she was denied medication until it was too late, a claim supported by letters from other inmates who knew Parks.
Pamela Weatherby
• In 2010, Pamela Weatherby, 45, died while serving a year for drug possession. The lawsuit filed by Weatherby’s family against CCA details how she was taken off her prescribed insulin injections and given cheaper oral insulin, resulting in diabetic comas. Repeatedly, Weatherby was medically stabilized elsewhere and returned to Dawson, where she would again be denied her insulin injections and suffer another coma. Weatherby arrived at Dawson in May. She was dead by July. An autopsy revealed that she died from diabetes complications.
CBS 11 obtained internal documents from CCA showing that the chief of security reported that Dawson staff “didn’t follow proper procedures in that they did not call a medical professional” the night of Weatherby’s death and recommended termination of shift supervisors. But a week later, Senior Warden Raymond Byrd determined, “The actions by employees were consistent with TDCJ policy and procedure. No training needs have been identified at this time.”
• Parks and Weatherby aren’t alive to tell their stories, but Autumn Miller is. Miller didn’t know she was a few weeks pregnant when she arrived at Dawson in January 2012 to serve a year for violating her probation. But by May, she knew something was wrong. She’d been missing periods and felt sick. A mother of three, Miller recognized pregnancy. Miller is still at Dawson, but her mother, Jean Burr, told Miller’s story to CBS 11 after seeing its coverage of Weatherby’s death. Burr says that in May, Autumn Miller requested a pap smear and pregnancy test but never got them. Three weeks later, she started bleeding and cramping, feeling pressure and pain. The staff brought her to the medical unit on a stretcher, and Burr says a doctor was on a video screen—Dawson is one of many facilities that use telemedicine to save money—but that an assistant told the doctor he wasn’t needed and turned off the screen. A guard suggested, “You probably need to go poo,” gave Miller a menstrual pad and locked her in a holding cell. “The pressure was so bad that she went to the toilet,” Burr told CBS 11. Then, “the baby came out and went into the toilet and started screaming.” The baby girl, named Gracie, was just 26 weeks along. She died four days later. Miller had a tubal ligation and was allowed to stay in the hospital until Gracie passed away in her arms. Half an hour later, Miller was shipped back to Dawson, where they placed her in solitary confinement for two days, because, they said, she was on “suicide watch.”
• Shebaa Green, 50, suffered from diarrhea and difficulty breathing for three days before she was allowed to go to the medical unit at Dawson last August, according to records obtained by CBS 11. She lay there unexamined for three hours before anyone arrived to look at her. Seven hours later, a doctor called an ambulance as Green struggled for breath. She died the next day of complications due to pneumonia.
CBS 11 reported that 15 women talked to the station about mistreatment they witnessed or experienced at Dawson; two said they had extremely high fevers and were left in segregation for days or weeks without ever seeing a doctor. Another, Lorraine Brown, said that, like Weatherby, she was diabetic and never received her insulin at set times. She also said she watched a woman have a stroke, become paralyzed, and be left for other inmates to bathe and care for.
Other former inmates echo these stories on Topix.com, in an online forum about Dawson State Jail conditions, though the details of their stories haven’t been confirmed.
But the case against Dawson’s medical care isn’t just anecdotal. A January 2012 audit of Dawson health services by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice found multiple systemic failures: noncompliance more than half the time in areas of preventative, gynecological, dental, HIV and elder care. They even failed the basics: conducting inspections, having enough first aid kits, providing medically appropriate diets to sick prisoners, and keeping adequate records.
CCA has issued statements in response to the CBS 11 reports, saying that its “dedicated, professional corrections staff is firmly committed to the health and safety of the inmates entrusted to our care.” They point out that CCA is not the health care provider—the state contracts with the University of Texas Medical Branch for care—but in each case of alleged mistreatment, the problem was not bad treatment but a denial of access to treatment. CCA staff at Dawson, the ones whom Senior Warden Byrd said had no training needs, are the gatekeepers. CCA says it can’t comment on the Weatherby case because of the ongoing lawsuit, and “As for the other allegations, there are no complaints on record from those inmates about their access to quality health care.”
Perhaps the most amazing part is that Dawson’s closure still isn’t a sure thing. Despite financial, practical and moral reasons for closing Dawson, the state may renew CCA’s contract for the facility in August. The simple reason is that CCA, the largest private prison company in the world, is a powerful lobbyist.
Sen. Whitmire has been trying to close Dawson since 2008. In December, Robert Wilonsky of the Dallas Morning News asked Whitmire about the chances of successfully closing Dawson this time.
Whitmire laughed, paused for a long time, and then said, “Better than 50-50.”
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At the Gates of Brussels
If Recep Tayyip Erdogan gets his way, Turkey will be more Islamic and Europe will be more Turkish. Both would be good news
Who says empires are bad? The multi-ethnic Ottoman Turkish Empire, like the coeval multi-ethnic Hapsburg Austrian one, was more hospitable to minorities than the uni-ethnic democratic states that immediately succeeded it. The Ottoman caliphate welcomed Turkish, Kurdish, and other Muslims with open arms, and tolerated Christian Armenians and Jews. The secular-minded, modernizing "Young Turk" politicians who brought down the empire did not. They used Kurds as subcontractors in a full-scale assault on Armenians, which scholars now argue about calling genocide. Ottoman toleration was built on territorial indifference. Because the same loosely administered imperial rule extended from the Balkans to Mesopotamia, and as far south as Yemen, minorities could live anywhere within this space without provoking issues of sovereignty. Violent discussions over what group got to control which territory emerged only when the empire came to an end, after World War I.
The collapse of the Ottoman sultanate continues to haunt geopolitics: it gave birth to questions about the territorial status of Christians in Lebanon and of Jews in Palestine, and about whether Kurds north of Baghdad should live in the same polity as Mesopotamian Arabs to the south. Moreover, it changed the direction of Muslim thought. For 850 years—from 1071, when the Seljuks defeated the Byzantines at Manzikert, in eastern Anatolia, to the end of World War I—the House of Islam had drawn its spiritual direction from Turkey, not from Arabia or Iran. But with the official abolition of the Constantinople-based caliphate, in 1924, there was no longer any universally accepted authority for the interpretation of Muslim law. In the competition for doctrinal legitimacy that has followed, the most radical interpretations have won out.
Within Asia Minor itself, anarchy and invasion following the Great War led to the emergence of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's fiercely secularist regime, which delivered stability and a pro-Western orientation, but at a significant cost. The cost was a militarized state and the suppression of Islam—under which the Anatolian peasantry and working class increasingly chafed. Democracy developed late and anemically, leading to ineffectual minority governments. Because Turkish politicians assumed that the military would always rescue them in the lurch, at a subliminal level they never felt the need to act responsibly—and so they didn't.
The first break in this dreary chronicle was the election of Turgut Ozal to the prime ministership, in 1983. Ozal was a wily politician from the heartland of Asia Minor who shared the deep religiosity and crass nouveau riche tastes of many Turks. He loved to read the Koran and watch soap operas, to bang his head against the carpet in a Sufi mosque and go to Texas barbecues. He restored religion to Turkey's political space without threatening the country's pro-Western orientation or its tendency toward tolerance. He gradually wrested control over foreign policy away from the military—a healthy thing for an elected politician to do. By the early 1990s he was veering toward a neo-Ottomanism that would have effected a grand compromise with the Kurds, based on the Islamic faith that Turks and Kurds had in common. But Ozal died suddenly of a heart attack in 1993. It was said that he ate himself to death, just as Atatürk had drunk himself to death.
Because Turkey, like Tunisia, is a real state and not (like so many other places in the Middle East, Iraq included) just a geographical figure of speech, things don't collapse there; they simply go lugubriously downhill. The corruption and irresponsibility of lackluster, forgettable politicians became so extreme in the late 1990s that the military re-emerged in the guise of a National Security Council, which engineered, in stages, what became known as a soft coup. One analyst told me at the time, speaking of the council's meetings, "The generals bring thick dossiers from which to lecture, and the civilian cabinet ministers come as tourists to listen."
At the same time, something began to happen within Turkey's Islamic movement. A group of disciples parted ways with Necmettin Erbakan, their longtime mentor and the grand old man of Turkish Islam. Erbakan's movement had been involved in the hurly-burly of party politics for decades, and was thus intrinsically more Westernized than its counterparts in the Arab world. Nevertheless, Erbakan's visits to Libya and Iran, and his support for a religious school system that would have churned out Muslim firebrands, alienated him from the mass of middle-class voters. And so in 2001 the Justice and Development Party came into being. Its leader was one Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a politician in his forties who grew up poor in Kasimpasha, one of Istanbul's most notoriously crime-infested districts. Erdogan spoke no foreign languages. His wife wore a headscarf. He was hopelessly unsophisticated by the standards of Turkey's Europeanized ruling class. Yet he was a skilled politician, armed with a management degree, who had been a popular mayor of Istanbul in the mid-1990s, adroit at improving utilities, cleaning the streets, and making municipal authorities more accessible through telephone hotlines.
By 2002, when the United States had conquered Afghanistan and was in the early stages of planning to invade Iraq, Erdogan, a devout Muslim, had emerged as not just the most popular politician in Turkey but also—so fed up were Turkish voters with the whiskey-sipping secular nonentities who had led their country to political and economic ruin—the only popular politician in Turkey.
In breaking away from his powerful mentor Erbakan (after whom he had named a son), Tayyip Erdogan was able to emphasize his reformist credentials and reach beyond the Islamist base. He was seen as sincere and authentic. He wasn't just another Turkish politician on the make but, rather, a competent manager who made things happen. By the late summer of 2002 opinion polls showed that in the coming November election his party would win by a landslide, without the need for coalition partners. The Justice and Development Party achieved its overwhelming popularity even though Erdogan himself had recently been technically barred from running for Parliament, as part of a last-gasp attempt by the Turkish military to keep an Islamist party, however moderate, from assuming power. The Bush Administration should have been talking with Erdogan before the election, through back channels, to find out his terms regarding support for an invasion of Iraq. But Washington was so locked into an old-fashioned paradigm about Turkey—based on the idea that it could always rely on the military there—that it did not even pressure the military authorities to lift the ban on Erdogan's political activity. Of course the Justice and Development Party won handily—and it owed the Bush Administration nothing when it did so. Because the ban on Erdogan had to be rescinded before he could become Prime Minister, for a few months the job went to his colleague Abdullah Gul.
One of Erdogan's enduring traits as a politician is his lack of small-mindedness. Thus, despite the cold shoulder he initially got from Washington, he worked arduously behind the scenes to get parliamentary approval for U.S. troops to pass through Turkey en route to Iraq. He failed by only a whisker, and not just because of recalcitrant Islamists in his own party but also because the secular opposition in Parliament—the Republican People's Party—gave no support to the United States. Erdogan's lobbying effort came immediately after his party, which had no previous governing experience, assumed power. The job wasn't made any easier by the fact that legally he wasn't yet the Prime Minister, or even a member of Parliament.
Erdogan's moderate, reformist Islam now offers the single best hope for reconciling Muslims—from Morocco to Indonesia—with twenty-first-century social and political realities. The Bush Administration understood this too late to save itself from the fiasco of March 2003, when Turkey failed to authorize the passage of U.S. troops. But what about the Europeans?
This December a hesitant European Union will decide whether to open negotiations for Turkey to join. Its hesitancy has legitimate and illegitimate reasons. The legitimate ones center on the difficulty of digesting a country of 70 million people—one that is far poorer and more populous than many of the Central and Eastern European nations recently admitted to the EU. The illegitimate ones center on the fact that—well, Turkey is Muslim. Does Europe want that many Muslims within its community?
The answer should be that Europe has no choice. It is becoming Muslim anyway, in a demographic equivalent of the Islamic conquest of the early Middle Ages, when the Ottoman Empire reached the gates of Vienna. More to the point, Turkey is not only contiguous to Europe but also is already economically intertwined with it. The only issue that remains is whether Europe will encourage Islamic moderation through economic development in Turkey. Though American troops are fighting and dying in Iraq, ultimately the Europeans, because of geography and their own demographic patterns, have more at stake in the stabilization of the region. And the surest way to advance that stabilization is to make Turkey part of Europe.
Never before has the West been so lucky in Turkey as now. The re-Islamization of Turkey through the rejuvenation of the country's Ottoman roots was going to happen anyway; Atatürk's republican-minded secularization had simply gone too far. The only question was whether this retrenchment from Kemalism would take a radical or a moderate path. Erdogan's political leanings suggest the latter. Europe should seize the opportunity.
Robert D. Kaplan is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and the author of In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond. He is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
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Somme 100 film screening
Over 60 people came to the Witham in Barnard Castle on the evening of Wednesday 5th July to see the digitally-remastered film of the Battle of the Somme. The original film was shown in cinemas throughout the UK in 1916 and 1917. The remastered version, accompanied by Laura Rossi’s newly-commissioned music, was made freely available until the end of July 2017 as part of the commemoration of the centenary of the Battle of the Somme through the First World War Centenary organisation led by the Imperial War Museums, supported by Faber Music and arts Council England.
A brief introduction reminded us that the film was originally screened from September 1916, not that long after the horrendous first few months of the battle and before it officially ended in late 1916. The cinematographers were at the front line and generally did not use staged scenes, although there might have been some encouragement to get the men to cheer when on the march? The famous scene of men going over the top of the trenches was recreated but the whole scene lasts only 70 seconds in film running over an hour.
Another famous scene – it comes up in nearly every TV documentary about the First World War – shows a man coming along a trench towards us, carrying a wounded soldier on his back. What the voice-over told us – and I don’t remember having heard this before – was that the wounded soldier died half an hour after the film was shot. And for the first time in film, dead men and animals were shown. That must have been a huge shock to audiences.
The scenes were introduced by cards showing short written information, and I suddenly realised that this information was on screen for quite a long time, long enough to allow people in the audience who were not used to reading to understand. The music replaced the range of sounds we are used to in modern TV and films. No clip-clop when horses appeared, no background rustle of trees and grass, no grunts of effort as soldiers man-handled huge pieces of artillery. But I really noticed that lack of sound.
I could almost feel the emotion that family members and communities must have experienced when the name of familiar regiment or French/Belgian place was mentioned. It was heart-rending to look at all those men – so different, so individual – and wonder how many survived, not just the Battle of the Somme but the whole war. It was a very intense experience, watching this film more than a 100 years since it was first seen and making a connection with the men in it and also with the audiences who saw it first.
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Man denied resentencing in Salinas 1991 deadly home invasion
At one point, Richardson put a gun into the husband's mouth, but they were repeatedly told there was no safe.
Man denied resentencing in Salinas 1991 deadly home invasion At one point, Richardson put a gun into the husband's mouth, but they were repeatedly told there was no safe. Check out this story on thecalifornian.com: https://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/2019/05/17/man-denied-resentencing-in-deadly-home-invasion/3709463002/
Chelcey Adami, Salinas Californian Published 4:52 p.m. PT May 17, 2019 | Updated 3:58 p.m. PT May 22, 2019
John Drayton (Photo: PROVIDED/CDCR)
Monterey County Superior Court has denied re-sentencing a man who took part in a 1991 Salinas home invasion that involved the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl as well as the murder of her father.
John Lewis Drayton, 47, had petitioned the court for re-sentencing based on a new state law passed last year changing the definition of murder.
Under the new law, a defendant cannot be convicted of a felony murder unless the accused was the actual killer, was a major participant in the crime or acted with reckless indifference to human life, according to the Monterey County District Attorney's Office.
If approved, Drayton would have been re-sentenced under one of the underlying felonies, which would have a much lesser sentence than murder, Deputy District Attorney Glenn Pensenhofer said.
A horrific crime
In June 1991, Drayton planned a home robbery with Eugene Ballance, Annette Durr, Lester Polk, and Patrick Richardson, according to prosecutors.
The four males entered a home at 2 a.m.
Drayton, Polk and Richardson were armed.
Polk and Richardson ran into the home's master bedroom where Polk announced to the husband and wife that this was a robbery.
They held guns to the couple's heads and demanded to know where a safe was, according to the Monterey County District Attorney's Office.
Drayton and Richardson then found the couple's 17-year-old daughter in her bedroom and took her at gunpoint into the master bedroom.
Drayton pinned the wife to the floor by putting his foot on her back, and they continued demanding to know where the safe, which didn't exist, was located.
Polk then made the 17-year-old to take off her clothes and sexually assaulted her with a shotgun.
Then Polk told the couple he would force them to watch as he raped their daughter, according to the DA's office.
A deadly struggle
When Polk moved toward the girl, her father began struggling with Richardson.
Polk came to help Richardson and his shotgun discharged. Richardson then shot the father in the back, severing his spine.
Drayton ordered the daughter and wife not to move for 15 minutes, and the four men fled. The father bled to death in minutes.
The Salinas Californian doesn't name victims of sexual assault and is withholding the name of the father since identifying the him would identify the sexual assault victim.
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Drayton was initially charged with murder and three special circumstances, making him eligible for the death penalty.
Before trial, he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and a firearm enhancement. He was sentenced to 29 years to life in prison, prosecutors said.
Drayton had petitioned the court for re-sentencing, but Monterey County Superior Court Judge Pamela Butler ruled that Drayton was a major participant in the burglary and robbery and acted with reckless indifference to human life, prosecutors said.
“That was the argument that we made to the court, that Mr. Drayton was ineligible, and we’re pleased that the court agreed with us,” Pesenhofer said.
Polk and Richardson have filed petitions for resentencing and those petitions remain pending.
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Cats Get Their Own 'Street View' Because Cats
By Solon Kelleher
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Try looking at the world from someone else's perspective, such as a cat walking on a street.
Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan is making that goal much easier with the launch of its new online project: Cat Street View.
Website visitors are immediately welcomed with a beautiful video of local cats, scored by a gentle piano accompaniment, which one can only imagine is being played by the most delicate of furry paws.
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From there, it's cats galore.
With a paw in lieu of a cursor, you can lead yourself around the streets of this Japanese prefecture, better-known for its capital city of the same name. From there, you'll find plenty of cats on ground level.
There are even a few cats hidden inside local shops.
The cats bring a new perspective to potential tourists and residents of the area. "We were seeking to introduce a different way to look at our cities and offer a view of the streets that wasn't available before," a Hiroshima tourism official told The Wall Street Journal.
See each cat's bio and more pictures by clicking the cat icon above their heads.
You would probably get a lot more out of the website if you read Japanese, but even if you don't, you'll likely still enjoy exploring the full site. After all, the language of cat is universal.
If the site's goal was to help people see the world in a new way, then well done, Hiroshima tourism. Well done, indeed.
Click here to visit Hiroshima Prefecture's Cat Street View.
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Home›Policy & Reform›How Did We Get Here? Part VII: A Nation of Public School Students at Risk
How Did We Get Here? Part VII: A Nation of Public School Students at Risk
This is one of a multi-part series on the progression of education policies in the U.S. from its founding. Click here to see a list of all the posts in this series.
During the 1980s, American educators and the public first became concerned in a sweeping way about the quality of education in tax-funded schools. In 1981, the National Commission on Excellence in Education was formed and the group released A Nation at Risk, an in-depth report that warned against the future dangers that could result from mere mediocrity in U.S. public schools. With the help of the national media who sunk its teeth into the story, the report seemed to awaken concern from sea to shining sea – in every school room and around every dining room table. Though the concern should have been purely based on the learning aspect of American students, there were even larger worries that loomed, mainly the future economy. It marked the first time in the history of public schools in America that citizens began to compare students to those in other developed countries like Japan, China and even England. The assumption that America the Beautiful was also the best at everything, including educating its kids, was turned on its head. People started to worry, really worry, about where the youth of the nation would guide them in coming years.
Reform started to take place but on local levels. Schools took it upon themselves to correct the problem of incompetent and uncaring students by adding graduation requirements, and raising teacher salaries. Universities jumped in by heightening the requirements for young educators to earn their degrees in an attempt to give K-12 students an advantage through the resource of stronger teachers. Books written by reformers like Allan Bloom emphasized the need for stronger curriculum that emphasized the ideas behind things, not just the facts. Simply teaching what was on a page was clearly not working when it came to teaching the whole student and getting young Americans prepared for the workforce and citizenship.
One big push of the late 1980s when it came to reform, as pointed out by reformer and educator Diane Ravitch in a piece about the decade in public education, was the elimination of multiple choice tests as forms of assessments. Free response items and short-essay options were beginning to gain favor with educators across the country as true indicators of what students had really comprehended. While multiple choice options started to fade from routine school exams, it is interesting to note that they are still the main way state assessments are delivered today. As a matter of efficiency, these easily scanned answer sheets make the most sense. As a way to truly assess what students do and do not know, they are lacking.
Ravitch also points out in her essay that “one of the most promising developments” of public education in the 1980s was the recognition from the business community that the schools needed its help. Businesses provided funding to schools, set up scholarship programs and looked for other opportunities to give students the help they needed to feel encouraged in their educational pursuits.
That momentum carried over into the 1990s but instead of a renewed dedication to the goals of public education, the American public and reformers looked outside for answers. The phrase “school choice” began to resonate throughout the country, with people wondering what could be done to funnel public dollars to alternatives to public schools. Funding for schools with a religious theme had actually been discussed in the past, over 100 years earlier when it was first suggested that parochial schools receive a government stipend to help with expenses. Fearing the rising Irish Catholic population, state lawmakers put the kibosh on any such plans, citing separation of church and state. As parents began to question the value of the public school education provided to their kids, they began to feel entitled to different choices for their kids when the provided tax-funded school performed under par.
A new ideology began to take shape in the form of charter schools – publicly funded, non-religious schools that were given freedoms to innovate outside the constraints of public school regulations. To some, it seemed like a smart way to provide more educational options while fueling the fire under public schools which up until then, had faced no real competition. To critics, the plan to use taxpayer dollars to fund new schools only focused the money away from the place where it was really needed: actual public schools.
The school choice debate still rages on today, with a renewed call for vouchers for religious schools thrown in the mix. Some states, like Texas and Florida, allow wide-ranging options in school choice while others like Mississippi have virtually none. The effectiveness of all this “choice” is also difficult to determine. According to a Stanford University document, there were 6,000 charter schools in 42 states and the District of Columbia that served 2.3 million students in 2013– a number that rose 80 percent from 2009. Yet the unaccountability that charter schools are afforded, in comparison with traditional public schools, can cause them to be pretty unreliable too. During 2013, 17 charter schools closed in Columbus, Ohio alone. Nine of those schools only hung around for a few months before being forced to shut down. Students who left their own public schools, and even private ones, to give the shiny new charter schools a chance were forced to go back to their original spots.
The closing of 17 public schools in one city is completely unheard of and for good reason. Public schools are investments in more than just the students who attend. They represent the communities where they are established, and even if they have a rough year or two, they continue to strive for excellence for their students. It’s not that charter and other schools of choice do not share this passion for their students, but with the freedom to wander any direction they choose, these schools can be very volatile.
The 1990s also ushered in a new age of accountability in public schools, triggered by the quality concerns in the 1980s. The roots for the No Child Left Behind Act that was established in 2002 were planted in 90s educational reform movements. NCLB was a reenactment of the very outdated Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Both acts focused on ways to bring higher levels of equality to public education but NCLB also had a strong focus on bolstering student test scores and making teachers liable. In ways that were completely groundbreaking, NCLB put pressure on every educator from top education policy-makers to teachers in the classroom to heighten achievement.
While the basic tenets of NCLB have been scrutinized, and questioned at every turn, the truth remains that they are still a very large part of the educational system in today’s public school classrooms. The release and adoption of Common Core Standards in 2013 took the ideology of NCLB to a new level. Though voluntary based on state, these new accountability measures strike eerily similar to the federally mandated ones of NCLB. Instead of getting away from empty assessments that often take the shape of multiple choice questions it seems that public school systems are simply adding to the void. It’s not a pretty picture but the reality of what educators are facing right now, and it will certainly impact this generation of K-12 students. Follow my series on the progress of the U.S. educational system to learn more about where we’ve been, and where we need to go, as collective educators.
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Rebecca Sanders 22 December, 2016 at 18:49 Reply
This is such an interesting read! It is great that school reforms took place in 1980’s that changed the education landscape. Public schools contribute a whole lot of professionals that tap into the economy directly. It was prudent that such steps were taken to safeguard the institutions.
I hope you will continue to research and write more of these articles.
Mark Holtz 24 December, 2016 at 15:11 Reply
Your article on public education and the transformation it has gone through over the years was very enlightening. Accountability and quality of education should be promoted in these institutions to allow for prosperity and better performance of students.
I appreciate your further success in the industry, keep on doing a great job.
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Bentley Continental GT: ‘A masterpiece to be approached with awe’
As Bentley celebrates its centenary, the new Continental GT shows that the great marque is showing no signs of its age or of slowing down
Martin Love
Sun 5 May 2019 00.59 EDT
Sure thing: more than 70,000 Bentley Continental’s have been sold, making it one of the bestselling performance luxury cars of all time. Photograph: Mark Bean
0-62mph 3.7 seconds
Top speed 207mph
MPG 23.2
CO2 278g/km
It’s a sharp spring day and we’re inching through the traffic in one of the less spiritually uplifting towns of Kent’s Medway. The car I’m driving is the pulchritudinous (thank you online thesaurus) Bentley Continental GT – known to all who reverentially whisper its name as the Conti. Its vast engine is chortling happily. It weighs more than 2 tonnes, yet it is so light on its feet that it can surge from 0-62mph in under 4 seconds, before topping out at a scarcely believable, and utterly pointless, 207mph. We slow at a junction and a shirtless man puts down his pint and walks purposefully into the middle of the road. He points at the Conti and fixes me with a menacing stare. “Oh no,” mumbles my wife nervously, “what’s he going to do?” There’s a long pause. People stare. Then the man bellows as if all England will hear: “This. Is. A. Bloooooody. Car!” He grins wildly, gives me a big thumbs-up and waves us on our way… The Conti does this sort of thing to people – and I totally get how that guy feels.
It’s going to be big year for Bentley. On 10 July, the legendary brand will celebrate its centenary. When Walter Owen Bentley created his first prototype in a London mews back in 1919, he could never have guessed that 100 years later the exquisitely crafted cars bearing his name would be objects of unfettered desire the world over. When he first set up shop his plan was to: “Build a fast car, a good car, the best in its class.” And that, pretty much, is what Bentley still does. Today, every model is built in Crewe by a team of more than 4,000 skilled men and women.
Inside story: the lavish interior of the Continental GT. Photograph: Mark Bean
Bentley owners feel a sense of reverence for their highly engineered works of art. People approach the cars with a sense of timeless awe. A great example of this can be found in the limited-edition model that is being built to mark the centenary. Only 100 will be made – one for each year of the century – and each will feature a series of interior and exterior tributes to one of the most famous cars in Bentley’s history – the No 9 Blower. The original was famed for breaking records and wowing spectators in the 1920s and 1930s. Ian Fleming was so taken with the Blower he made it the original Bond car in his first book, Casino Royale. Each of the 100 new cars will contain a piece of the racing seat from Sir Tim Birkin’s iconic 1930 No 9 Le Mans race A mast*car sealed in a glass case on the dashboard. It looks like a religious relic from an ancient church.
The Conti is crucial for the ongoing success of Bentley. Almost 70,000 have been sold since it first launched in 2003, making it one of the most successful luxury performance cars of all time. This newest model is lighter and more efficient than the one that went before – not that an MPG of 23.2mpg and CO2 emissions of 278g/km are anything to write home about. It has a mesmerisingly smooth eight-speed gearbox and the 626bhp 12-cylinder engine is one of the engineering wonders of the automotive world.
Despite its stand-and-deliver looks, the real gasps are saved for the interior. It is exquisite. Every stitch, button and swathe of leather exudes tactile indulgence. Everything is drizzled with chrome – from the air vents to the indicator stalks. Technology is sophisticated and all encompassing, but in keeping with this level of opulence it is understated – the infotainment screen rotates and tucks itself away when not in use. There are four seats (the rear two are tricky to get into, but quite roomy once you are seated) and the boot is far bigger than you’d expect.
There’s no point in pretending many of us will ever own a car like this. But that doesn’t mean we can’t look, wonder and dream… Sitting up front, the limitless potential of the W12 engine hovering beneath your toe, is a truly wonderful place to be. As the man said: “This. Is. A. Bloooooody. Car!”
Email Martin at martin.love@observer.co.uk or follow him on Twitter@MartinLove166
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Igor Presnyakov (Russian: Игорь Пресняков) is a Russian guitarist who became popular on YouTube in 2007, for his unique song covers and virtuoso playing style. Born in Moscow, Russia, Igor Presnyakov studied classical music at a nearby academy and would eventually graduate as both a guitarist and a conductor for ensembles. He relocated to the Netherlands to further his career, which has now spanned over 35 years. His unique acoustic guitar-style is influenced by various musical genres from Reggae, Rock and Roll, R&B, Country-western, Jazz and Heavy Metal.
His most noticeable attribute is his creative style of “beating” the percussion of the song, onto the body of his acoustic guitar while playing. This replicates the sound of multiple musicians, while only Igor is playing. He also rarely sings any of the lyrics to any kind of song that he covers, and instead translates them into a guitar melody, having his instrument sing the words.
Igor’s popularity has risen since he debuted on YouTube in 2007. Currently the videos uploaded by him have over 300 million total views, in addition to over 850,000 subscribers. He is officially endorsed by both Takamine guitars and Fender Amplification. Igor’s first concert was on 5 April 2013 in Moscow, “B2” club.
One of my personal favorites is his cover of “Beat It“.
“Hotel California”: https://open.spotify.com/track/6pNzGxg4PnlDLGyHUDv6Yv
“Humoresque”: https://open.spotify.com/track/18uTaMRf7az1Dv36cgfj7i
Website: https://www.igorpresnyakov.com/
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Church Notes
All Saints Catholic Church, 310 S. Ninth St., Keokuk, will host a farewell reception for the Rev. Robert Lathrop after 10 a.m. Mass June 2 at St. Vincent School.
Asbury United Methodist Church, 2128 S. Main St., will hear the Rev. Elizabeth Bell’s sermon at the 10:30 a.m. communion service Sunday.
Bethany Lutheran Church, 2515 Madison Ave., will hear Sunday’s message, “Trusting the Not Always Knowable Plan of God.”
Burlington Baptist Church, 1225 Hagemann Ave., will hear Kendall Adams deliver the sermon, “Philippians 4:1-3” at the 10:15 a.m. service Sunday, and his message, “Summer Lovin’; The Book of Ruth,” at 6 p.m. Sunday.
Calvary Baptist Church, 2710 West Ave., will hear the Rev. Simeon Counterman preach using text from the Gospel of Luke in the morning service Sunday and the Rev. Andy Counterman will speak in the 5 p.m. service.
Community of Christ Church, 901 S. 12th St., will hear Doug Howell speak on, “Put Love in Action,” referencing John 21:1-19 at the 10:30 a.m. service Sunday.
Divine Mercy Catholic Parish, Burlington and West Burlington, will host the Lourdes Pilgrimage Virtual Experience at 1 p.m. Sunday at SS. Mary and Patrick Church. A light lunch will be in the parish hall after the 10:30 a.m. Mass. To learn more, call the parish office at (319) 752-6733.
Faith Lutheran Church, 3109 Sunnyside Ave., will hear the Rev. Ryan Cosgrove’s sermon, “Faith Is Living Life Out of Control,” at the 10 a.m. service Sunday and the 5:30 p.m. service Saturday.
First Christian Church, 1221 Park Ave., will hear the Rev. David Yonker bring the message, “Daniel and Simba,” in his “Super Hero Series” at the 8:45 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. services Sunday. He will be using Daniel 6:16-23.
First Church of the Nazarene, 1015 S. Roosevelt Ave., will hear the Rev. Jeff Alexander speak on “Moses; Israelites Enslaved,” at the 10:45 a.m. service Sunday, referencing Exodus 1:6-22. This will be the beginning of an eight-week series on Moses.
First Congregational Church, 313 N. Fourth St., will hear the Rev. Jim Francisco’s sermon, “Being a Leader,” in his new mini-series on the Book of Titus at the 10:15 a.m. service Sunday.
First Presbyterian Church, 321 N. Fifth St., will hear the sermon, “And God Made Trees,” by Ed Whitmore, church elder, at the 10 a.m. service Sunday. Coffee hour will follow.
First United Church of Christ, 611 Columbia St., will hear the Rev. JudyAnn Morse’s sermon, “A Sound and Light Show,” using Acts 9 at the 10:30 a.m. service Sunday. Lunch at the Top is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday.
First United Methodist Church, 421 Washington St., will have a reading of Philippians 2:12-18, and the Puppets of Praise will perform at the 9 a.m. service Sunday.
Fort Madison United Methodist Church, 510 Ninth St., will hear Terry Petersen’s message, “The Road to Damascus,” at the 10:45 a.m. service Sunday.
Foursquare Gospel Church, 200 Curran St., will hear the Rev. Sam Fratt speak on “Repentance,” referencing Nehemiah 9 in the 10 a.m. service Sunday. This is Communion Sunday.
Grace United Methodist Church, 1100 Angular St., will hear the Rev. David Bracht-Wagner preach at the 10:30 a.m. communion service Sunday. The readings will be Revelation 5:11-14 and John 21:1-19.
Holy Family Catholic Parish, Fort Madison, will host the Altar and Rosary parish-wide chicken dinner from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at McAleer Hall, with carry-outs available. Youth Group freewill donation car wash is 9 a.m. to noon before and after the 10:30 a.m. Mass May 19 at SS. Mary and Joseph Church, raising funds to attend NCYC.
Lamrim Kadampa Buddhist Center meets from 6 to 7 p.m. each second and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Art Center of Burlington, 301 Jefferson St. Joe Gauthier leads guided meditation classes and teachings in the New Kadampa tradition.
Messiah Lutheran Church, 2411 West Ave., will hear the Rev. Susanne Smith's sermon, “Lord, You Know I Love You,” at the 8 and 10:30 a.m. services Sunday.
New Hope Community Church, 2900 Summer St., will hear the Rev. Craig Holmes' sermon, “Joshua; Incredible Leadership,” in his series, “God’s Incredibles,” at the 10 a.m. communion service Sunday. A brief business meeting will follow the worship service, and members will vote.
New London Presbyterian Church, 400 N. Elm St., will participate in the New London citywide garage sales from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Rummage sale items will be available, along with homemade rolls, sandwiches, chips and pie. All items are 50 cents unless specifically marked.
Oak Street Baptist Church, 1303 Oak St., will hear the Rev. Ralph Wingate give the message, “The Omnipresence of God,” at the 9 a.m. service Sunday. Coffee fellowship is 8:30 a.m.
Parkside First Baptist Church, 300 Potter Drive, will hear the Rev. Simon McBride share his message, “Cuz I Don’t Need No Preacher Telling’ Me Who to Hate,” at the 10:15 a.m. service Sunday. Fellowship Cafe is 9:40 a.m.
Quaker Worship Group will meet at 8:30 a.m. Sunday at Burlington Art Center, 301 Jefferson St., with Quaker Prayer for Worship, “May everyone improve their talents,” from George Fox, 1657.
St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, 607 S. Jackson St., Mount Pleasant, will host the Ladies for Charity Rummage Sale 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. Prayer vigil is 4 p.m. Sunday.
St. Luke United Church of Christ, 1403 South St., will have Deborah Blaufuss share pictures from her El Salvador trip at the 10:30 a.m. service Sunday. The reading will be Matthew 25:31-46. Kaffee Klatsch celebrating May birthdays will be 9:45 a.m.
St. Paul United Church of Christ, 303 W. Mount Pleasant St., West Burlington, will hear the Rev. Mark Schowalter’s sermon, “Right Before Our Very Eyes,” at the 10:30 a.m. communion service Sunday, with music by Libby and Carl Snipes and Richard Webb. Note the new worship time.
Spring Grove United Methodist Church, 4502 Summer St., will hear the Rev. Jan Garza’s message, “Do You Love Me? Feed My Sheep,” at the 9 a.m. service Sunday. The readings will include John 21:1-19.
Sunnyside Independent Baptist Church, 3415 Sunnyside Ave., will have a guest minister at the 10:45 a.m. service Sunday. The Rev. Steven Parker will give the message, “God Is Faithful Always.” Scripture is Lamentations 3:22-33.
Unitarian Universalist Church, 625 N. Sixth St., will celebrate their annual Flower Communion at the 10:30 a.m. service Sunday. Karla Mundt will lead the service. Bring a flower to share.
West Burlington United Methodist Church, 308 Broadway St., will hear the Rev. Elizabeth Bell’s sermon at the 9 a.m. communion service Sunday. Special Charge Conference is 5 p.m. Sunday in the Fellowship Hall.
West Hill United Methodist Church, 540 Leebrick St., will hear the Rev. David Bracht-Wagner preach at the 9 a.m. communion service Sunday. The readings will be Revelation 5:11-14 and John 21:1-19.
Zion United Church of Christ, 412 N. Fifth St., will hear the Rev. Brice Hughes’ sermon, “Scales Fell From Their Eyes,” at the 10 a.m. service Sunday, followed by coffee hour.
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River Rescue
The stories behind the people who search for bodies: 'We started after a young boy died when he slipped into the water'
“People are only out there because they want to be out there, there’s great camaraderie and we keep each other going in a search.”
By Cliodhna Russell Monday 30 Nov 2015, 8:00 AM
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THE SEARCH FOR a missing person usually starts out in hope – with family, neighbours and professionals searching all relevant areas.
It’s a difficult job for the people who belong to organisations – many of them who are volunteers – tasked with helping in searches.
Certain groups like the RNLI or the volunteer rescue crews around the country are called upon if a person has been last spotted near water.
Other groups, like the Civil Defence, are called out to head up land searches.
The work is difficult and draining, and at times it can be incredibly upsetting – especially when bodies are found.
So why do they do it? What keeps them going?
For many, it’s about a sense of duty – and about the satisfaction of knowing you’ve helped bring closure to the loved ones of a person who has gone missing.
“I searched for 31 nights in a row”
Mick O’Sullivan is a volunteer with Dublin Civil Defence. He tells TheJournal.ie that he got involved after seeing the organisation on the news one Christmas:
“It was the time of the big snow and I saw them digging on the roads and at the entrance to hospitals and I thought that I could help doing work like that.
It’s to go out and help and do something.
O’Sullivan is also a dog handler and takes care of Max, the dog donated to the Dublin Civil Defence by the Peggy Mangan Foundation.
I was a dog handler with Customs so I was asked to take on the dog.
Gardaí near the scene of the discovery of the body of Peggy Mangan in Ballymun. Hundreds were involved in the search for the Terenure woman - who suffered from Alzheimer’s - after she went missing while walking her dog in 2013. Source: Laura Hutton via RollingNews.ie
Thomas Kennedy search
The search for pensioner Thomas Kennedy was one of the first that Max was involved with.
The 81-year-old Dublin man disappeared when putting out the bins at his home in Finglas.
“I would arrive on the scene with the dog and we would search a different area every evening, ” says O’Sullivan. “We were out for nearly a month solid.”
“The dog can search an area in ten minutes. That could take a team of six people up to an hour.
We were out most nights, I think it was 31 nights in a row that I carried out searches with the dog, we were hitting an area every evening.
“From a personal point of view, I won’t say I switch off – but I’m purely concentrating on the dog and looking for a reaction from the dog.
Mick O'Sullivan and Max.
“I was keen for a result, you’re meeting with the family and you’re seeing what they are going through and it’s a case of wanting to help them as well as everything else.”
The body of Thomas Kennedy was eventually recovered in Blackpool, seven months after he went missing. What exactly happened to the pensioner remains a mystery.
O’Sullivan was “very much relieved” when the body was found.
It’s a grief-ridden relief, it’s closure. I don’t like using the term, but otherwise there’s always a shadow of doubt.
Speaking about his fellow volunteers, O’Sullivan says:
Gavin Chaney, right, and Declan Pigott who joined volunteers in the Tolka Valley Park during the search for Thomas Kennedy. Source: Mark Stedman via RollingNews.ie
O’Sullivan was also involved in the search for Breda Delaney who went missing from her home in Blackrock in Dublin in July.
There were similarities to the earlier case in Finglas: the body of the 72-year-old was recovered off the coast of Scotland in October, almost three months after she was reported missing.
“We covered areas across the strand,” in south Dublin, O’Sullivan explains.
“Unfortunately, we had nothing to show but I can hold my hand over my heart and say those areas were well covered.
You could let your spirits drop, but even for the family to see you out doing this work, it’s a boost for them.
Finding bodies
O’Sullivan has been involved in several searches.
In some cases, no body was found by the team of volunteers. On other occasions, however, searchers have discovered remains.
It’s always tough, he says.
“When you’re out searching you’re in a mode for searching and when there is a recovery the Civil Defence offer great services for people who are affected.
The best thing to do is to talk to somebody about it and not to let it build up but people do deal with it in their own way.
Mick O'Sullivan
“I’m a bit numb to it at this stage after 29 years but it can be very hard.”
From the opposite side of the country, Tony Cusack, a founding member of Limerick Marine Search and Rescue, explains how he felt compelled to start the organisation after a young boy fell into the water.
“I was a sports diver for 12 years and did a little bit of river rescue work.
One day we got a call to find a young 15-year-old. He was playing football and he slipped into the water. It took 26 days to find him.
“After that we decided to form a unit that would get properly trained.
We were the first organisation to start a permanent river rescue in Limerick.
“We have received 47 rescue calls this year alone. Eight bodies were recovered, the others were rescued.”
One of those calls was the case where two men died after the support cage they were working in fell into the River Shannon in August.
Source: RTE News via screengrab
Three men were carrying out work on the bridge when their support cage fell into the water. Only one survived.
Regarding the tragedy, Cusack says it was particularly hard search for him and his fellow volunteers.
Recovering a body is always difficult to deal with.
“I’m a bit numb to it at this stage after 29 years – but it can be very hard.
Guys can tend to keep it to themselves but luckily we’re open with each other here.
“His body came to the surface just before Christmas”
Further north, in Galway, Mike Swan has been volunteering as lifeboat operations manager for the RNLI for almost 20 years.
He has worked on hundreds of search and rescue missions. Operations can range from “talking down” people attempting to take their own lives, to rescuing people from the water to “searches for people two or three weeks later”.
Mike Swan
Swan explains how when a call comes in, “We have a plan we put into action depending on weather conditions, we then locate where they might be with the information we have.
The follow up to that is search and recovery and basically you’re looking for a body – it’s a different kind of search. We would be working with the gardaí there.
“We continue the search until we can locate the person.
“Neighbours and the community often come out to help do a shoreline search.
“A lot of the time, if someone is missing for two or three weeks. It’s just not nice, we often would have uncles or someone in the family helping out in the search to identify the person.
They are in shock – nobody likes to do it.
What happens when the search for a missing person turns into a murder investigation? More from our ‘Missing’ series tomorrow morning on TheJournal.ie
The national Missing Persons Helpline can be reached on 1890 442 552 or through this website.
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Cliodhna Russell
cliodhna@thejournal.ie
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Construction Pain for UC Student Athletes
Mina Orlic, Editor-in-Chief
The last couple of months of the 2017-2018 school year at UC High left the school with a multitude of confused students, disgruntled office workers, and a construction crew. The new gym and locker room renovations were expected to be finished by the time school started in August; yet it is now October and the construction is still not done. However impressive these new upgrades may be when they’re finally finished, this ongoing construction has made life harder on UC High’s student-athletes.
Due to construction, the UC High gym was not available to sports teams until the first week of school. This proved to be a challenge for some fall sports teams because their seasons started in early August. Teams were forced to find gym time at other schools. Girls Varsity Volleyball Head Coach Amanda Wiggins explained that the construction company paid for the team to play at The Salvation Army because they were not yet finished; however, the team had to pay, using their own money, to use Mission Bay High’s gym for a camp they held before school started.
Seeing as the locker rooms are off limits during construction, students are scrambling to find alternative storage for their athletic gear. Sophomore Kaliya Shoemaker said, “There are a lot of us that have to find somewhere to put our bags, because we don’t have cars. Teacher’s classrooms are turning into locker rooms.” Junior Hunter Harrison added, “Football is using bins instead of lockers and there’s a risk that our stuff will get stolen. Luckily, we haven’t had that problem, but with the bins everywhere there’s hardly any room to walk or change.”
As a result of the locker rooms being closed, students have packed the bathrooms right after school, attempting to get ready for practice. Junior Melina Walker commented, “It’s annoying, for sports, that we have to change and get ready somewhere else.” Shoemaker said, “My practices start at 2:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. and right after school, every bathroom on campus is full of players from all different sports trying to change and get ready for practice. This makes it difficult because there’s not a lot of space.”
In addition to the renovations on the gym and locker rooms, the school is also redoing the trainer’s room. Currently, Athletic Trainer Cassie Farnsworth has been relocated to a storage room past the snack bar at the football stadium. This makes it more challenging for athletes to receive treatment. With little or no time before the start of practice, athletes now have to walk up towards the football field, then wait for their turn to receive aid from Farnsworth.
While the renovations are currently causing multiple problems for student-athletes, they do realize that in the end, everyone will benefit from these changes. Junior Nicole Muttera said, “I think the renovations are going to be really cool when they’re done, but right now it’s just annoying.” There’s no doubt that the improvements will have a positive impact on the UC High sports program; however, all this construction is creating new challenges for student-athletes that could have been avoided if the construction was finished on time.
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Quebec City's Ile d'Orlean & Sainte Anne on the Trans-Canada Highway
Ile d'Orlean & Sainte Anne
Bureau D'accueil Touristique De L'île-D'orléans
490 côte du Pont, Saint-Pierre-de-L'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada, G0A 4E0
(418) 828-9411 toll-free: (866) 941-9411 (Canada, USA)
Ile d'Orléans, only 15 minutes from downtown Quebec City, is an island in the St Lawerence 34 km length by 8 km wide with some great river views. In 1535, Jacques Cartier saw this green island and named it " island of Bacchus " for the wild vines growing there. The algonquin natives called the island " Windigo " which means " bewitched corner ", likely due to the presence of will-o'-the-wisps in the evening. Its final name, Island of Orleans, comes from the ocassion in 1536, when Jacques Cartier baptized it the island the honor of the Duke of Orleans, a relative of François I, the King de France.
The original colonists of the island came from Normandy and Poitou, and in the census of 1685 numbered 1,205 islanders with 917 heads of cattle. The island is the ancestral ground of 317 great Québécois families. Today, the Island of Orleans has 7,000 residents in 6 parishes connected to the mainland community of Beauport by one bridge, and to each other by one principal road, the Royal Way , which serves all the towns of the island. Before the current bridge was opened in 1935, residents had to travel across the water by boat and had to cross the dangerous ice in winter. The Taschereau Bridge was named in the honor of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, then Prime Minister for Quebec and deputy of Montmorency; though today the official name is Pont of the Island of Orleans.
The Island is a historical treasure trove with more than 600 heritage buildings. Historical structures include the oldest church of News-France, some bakeries from the 1680s and 1800s, though the many flour mills, tanneries, shoe manufactures and saddleries on the island no longer exist. From 1908 to 1967 the Island built 300-400 ships a year, from the Island's timber.
Country roads to the Royal Way
Before the 1680s, the roads were small dirt tracks which ran house to house or towards the mill or the church. The Royal Way (today route #368) circled the island in 1744 with a 67 km panoramic view of the river, at a poit where it begins to widen dramatically.
Canyon Sainte-Anne
206, Route 138
Beaupré, QC G0A 1E0
(418) 827-4057, Fax: (418) 827-2492
A 243 ft notch was eroded into the 900 million year old glacier-scoured rock of the Canadian Shield by the Saint Anne River. Take an easily accessible footpath and cross on one of the 3 suspension bridges, the highest being 180 ft above the gorge. Admission: adult: $7.50; student: $3.45; 12 and under: $2.50; 5 and under: free. Taxes, parking and shuttle included.
Chocolaterie de l'Île d'Orléans
196, chemin Royal
Sainte-Pétronille, QC G0A 4C0
The Chocolaterie de l'Île d'Orléans makes high quality chocolate using ingredients imported from Belgium and France. Production is diversified and from November to May, the Chocolaterie acts as a wholesaler for food stores in the province, and in the summer, the Chocolaterie offers ice cream and home-made sherbets. The retail outlet is located in a 200-year-old ancestral house. Boutique hours: October to May from 9 am to 5 pm; June to October from 9 am to 9 pm.
Centre d'Interprétation de la Côte-de-Beaupré (Interpretive Centre)
7976, avenue Royale, C. P. 40
Château-Richer, QC G0A 1N0
The Centre d'interprétation de la Côte-de-Beaupré (CICB) is located in an old, fully renovated convent. Relive the early days of Côte-de-Beaupré with period-costumed interpreters, images, stories and notable figures of the Côte-de-Beaupré area. Discover the architecture, rich religious heritage and splendid natural sites of the Beaupré seigneury. The remains of a 1655 windmill, and the foundations of Beaupré's first two convents, built in 1694 and in 1830, may be viewed from two glassed-in observation areas. Admission fee.
Domaine de la source à Marguerite (pick-your-own fruit farm)
3788, chemin Royal
Sainte-Famille, QC G0A 3P0
Orchard with 4,000 apple trees growing34 varieties along the St. Lawrence River, with a breathtaking view of the Laurentian mountains. U-pick apples, picnic tables, family and country-style atmosphere. Or you can buy produce and products from an old-fashioned fruit stand, including hard ciders, ciders, apples, apple juice, berries, jams, maple syrup products. Groups welcome.
Forge à Pique Assaut - Économusée de la forge
Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, QC G0A 3Z0
See a selection of art works created by Guy Bel, using traditional blacksmithing techniques. The Interpretation Centre bears witness to this craft, now in danger of extinction.
Site patrimonial et historique Maison de nos Aïeux
3907, chemin Royal (Île d'Orléans)
The Parc des Ancêtres de l'Île d'Orléans in Sainte-Famille commemorates the island's founding families. O The Maison de nos Aïeux (House of Our Ancestors), a century-old home that was once a prebystery, can be open to public. Open: June to mid-October daily; rest of the year Monday to Friday. Stop at nearby "Maison Drouin" (Drouin House at 4680 chemin Royal), which is the oldest home on the island, which has been conserved in its original form, and dates back to the French Regime. Free parking for cars and motorcoaches.
Maison Girardin
600, avenue Royale
C. P. 57033
Beauport, QC G1E 7G3
The Maison Girardin is the focal point of Beauport's historic district and this restored stone dwelling dates back to the 1680s and is managed by the Société d'Art et d'Histoire de Beauport. Permanent exhibit on the historical district of Beauport, its architectural heritage and Beauport's first families. Open year round Tues - Sun from 10 am to 5 pm. Guided tours. Reservation required for groups. Free admission.
Parc de la Chute-Montmorency (Montmorency Falls Park)
2490, avenue Royale
Beauport, QC G1C 1S1
East of Québec, in a wonderful natural setting overlooking the St. Lawrence River, Île d'Orléans, the Parc de la Chute-Montmorency features an 83-metre (272 feet) high waterfalls, one-and-a-half time the height of Niagara Falls. You can ride the cablecar to the top of the falls, and walk the promenade to two bridges and scenic terrace. On the western cliff is the 1871 Manoir Montmorency, built originally as a private residence, but used later as a hospital, a monastery and a hotel. The former manor had some well-known visitors and residents including the Duke of Kent, the Queen of England's father, from 1791 to 1794. The present manor houses an interpretation centre, a restaurant and a terrace with a panoramic view, boutiques and reception rooms for up to 500 persons. On the east side of the falls a stairway takes you back to ground level and to your starting point. There is a summer theatre (La Dame Blanche) near the Manoir. There is a summer theatre (La Dame Blanche) near the Manoir, and in the wintertime, at the foot of the falls, observe a strange natural phenomenon called "sugar loaf" by locals (made famous by a Conelius Krieghoff painting.)
Village of Sainte-Pétronille
Ranked one of the most beautiful villages in Quebec, Sainte-Pétronille was once known as Bout-de-l'Île (the island tip) and is the site of the island's first settlement "Beaulieu" in 1648. It was later home for the Hurons before they emigrated to Loretteville, and then General Wolfe who set up camp up here during the English siege of Quebec City in 1759 before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Facing Quebec City and Levis, Sainte-Pétronille attracted many upper class Quebecers as a vacationing spot and the Victorian hotel called La Goëliche was built on the water's edge, close to the ferry docks. With its white wooden houses, Sainte-Pétronille always contrasts with the green leaves of summer and the red and golden colours of autumn (September 15 - October 15). With the arrival of the winter season, admire the holiday lights and decorations, and listen as the ice crackles with the coming and going of the tides.
Coming from Vieux Quebec (Old Quebec) take highway Dufferin-Montmorency (440) to reach the island. Coming from Montreal or the southern banks, take highway 40 east (sometimes called Boulevard de la Capitale)towards Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, onto the Île d'Orléans bridge over the river, and just after entering the island, turn right at the traffic lights at the top of the hill. Park at the community centre close to City Hall (corner of Rue de l'Église), and tour the village on foot. Follow the interpretation walking tour signs.
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Pavilions Receives $1M Grant; County Reiterates Facility Not For Sale
By Beth Milligan | Feb. 7, 2019
The Grand Traverse Pavilions Foundation has been awarded a $1 million grant toward a Pavilions project to renovate the former Grand Traverse County Health Department building located on Garfield Road to house a new Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). County commissioners also passed a unanimous resolution Wednesday reiterating the Pavilions are not for sale after a potential buyer expressed interest in the facility.
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation bestowed the $1 million grant toward the PACE project, which aims to create a one-stop senior services center for individuals 55 and older in Garfield Township. The program is designed to meet the medical, social, nutritional, and supportive service needs of aging adults and is billed as a cost-effective alternative to nursing home placement. PACE provides the entire continuum of medical care and supportive services to seniors with chronic care needs, while allowing them to maintain their independence in their homes for as long as possible.
“This phenomenal commitment will help finalize the renovations to the now aptly named The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg-PACE Center and allow us to move toward the final approval process in bringing the PACE program to our region,” says Kory Hansen, Grand Traverse Pavilions Administrator/CEO.
The grant brings the fundraising total for the project to over $3 million, with board members personally contributing more than $500,000. “The sustainability of PACE makes it unique to other community funding requests in that the PACE model is endorsed by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with monthly capitated allocations provided to manage the care of this high-risk population,” a Pavilions release states. The local PACE program, which is intended to open in mid-2019, will have the capacity to serve more than 140 participants.
Grand Traverse County commissioners also reiterated their commitment to not selling the Pavilions Wednesday after an unsolicited buyer contacted administrators with interest in acquiring the facility. Citing legal opinions that the county could not sell the Pavilions even if it wanted to until at least 2030, when the facility's bond debt will be resolved, several commissioners also called the Pavilions a “treasure” and said they did not want to see clients and community members upset every time an unsolicited offer was sent to the county. The board voted unanimously to pass a resolution stating the Pavilions are not for sale.
By Beth Milligan
Two drivers were injured in a traffic accident in Cleveland Township Tuesday. Leelanau County Sheriff's Office deputies and Cedar Area Fire and Rescue and Leland Fire and ...
By Ross Boissoneau
Zillow, the online real estate giant, believes it knows Traverse City. The brainchild of a couple former Microsoft execs, the real estate database aims to be the ...
Traverse City commissioners Monday rejected a proposal that would have cut down on the number of parking spaces for slip holders at the Duncan L. Clinch Marina. Commissioner ...
Grand Traverse Pavilions has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation. The grant, which will be presented to the Pavilions ...
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Chamber Forum recap - new OKC City Council members
By David McCollum / Inside OKC / May 10, 2019
At a recent Chamber Forum event, more than 140 OKC business leaders heard from newly elected James Cooper, JoBeth Hammond and Nikki Nice. The three newest members of the Oklahoma City Council shared ideas on a variety of topics with the group, ranging from why they ran for office to what they most like about OKC to their vision for the city’s future.
JoBeth Hamon, 28, is the new councilwoman for Ward 6. She works for the Mental Health Association of Oklahoma and has a long volunteer history with service agencies, particularly helping the homeless and those in need.
Ward 2 councilman James Cooper is 36 years old, a public school teacher.
Nikki Nice, 38, was elected in November to represent Ward 7. Both councilmembers Cooper and Nice are African American, making this the first time in Oklahoma City history to have two black council members at the same time.
The three took very different paths to City Council but they share a passion for the community that they call home.
“I was born and raised in Ward 7 and I grew up in Millwood Public Schools,” said Nice. “I graduated from Northeast High School and went on to further my education at Langston University. Being in the community, being civically minded and engaged, that started in high school with civics and that exposed me to some wonderful people that were doing some wonderful things. And that just got me thinking about what's happening in Oklahoma City and how I can be a part of that as a young person, how I can leave my mark as a young person, even for generations to come. So when the opportunity arose, because I had been involved and engaged in the community came the opportunity to say, okay I'm going to do this or I'm not. And obviously, when I decided to do this, seven other people decided too, but we made it to the finish line. I'm very grateful for that.”
Cooper is also from the local area, attending elementary and junior high school in Nicoma Park before graduating from Choctaw High School. A graduate of Oklahoma State, Cooper says he decided to stand for election because of sidewalks.
During his walks. Cooper noticed the transformation OKC was undergoing, with economic development projects and the building of the MAPS 3 streetcar.
“I don't know what the heck they're doing there at the State Capitol but I know here in the city we're doing something right, he said. “We're moving in the right direction and that's where I got the idea to run for City Council.”
“I'm maybe one of those people that our Renaissance has attracted to Oklahoma City,” said Hammond. “I didn't grow up here, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and found my way back here through going to college at Oklahoma Baptist in Shawnee.”
Hammond works for the Mental Health Association of Oklahoma and has a long volunteer history with service agencies, particularly helping the homeless and those in need. When she moved into downtown, she regularly encountered on the streets those she was working to assist.
“I just saw this great disconnect between the Oklahoma City that I was really attracted to, and in kind of what I saw on a day-to-day basis,” she said. “I lobbied my elected officials and got varying results. I would go to people who had no education or sort of context about how important mental health services are and I would have to be educating them and it always felt like an uphill battle. So it just kind of occurred to me that, maybe if we had people who have the education already sitting in those seats we can maybe start at a different place and have a more balanced conversation around how we grow as a city. So, that was really what inspired me to run and so I threw my hat in the ring.”
When asked how to engage younger voters, the three echoed each other – with slight variations on the theme.
“Knock their doors. You have to knock their doors,” said Cooper. “As a candidate you have to go out there and knock their doors. I have to say this a thousand times; we cannot keep knocking the doors of the same voters over and over and over and over again because we'll get the same results. Number two, I would say that the candidate running matters and the message matters.”
“Part of me was inspired to run by Commissioner Carrie Blumert,” Hammond said. “If anyone knows anything about Commissioner Blumert’s campaign was that she knocked tens of thousands of doors. Because knocking doors, talking to people where they are and talking about issues that matter are all things that I think would engage. I think making sure that we're speaking to the issues that matter and not shying away from the really hard parts of the conversations. Things like gentrification, like this systemic disinvestment in parts of our city. Just being honest about our history and about where we been to make sure that we're not repeating those mistakes is, I think, a way to catch people who before have just said well that's not for me because it's just the same old, same old.”
“We have to meet the young people where they are, so we have to be active as far as educating them on why it's important to vote in the first place,” said Nice. “Even in some of our African-American communities, we have to educate them on the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, all of those things. And even women. We're celebrating a hundred years of women gaining the right to vote, so we have to educate, we have to again meet people where they are and let them know why it's important to be engaged.”
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Falsehoods that Built America
We at the Unpaid Labor Project have asked ourselves some questions:
• What does Unpaid Labor mean to me?
• What do we think the Unpaid Labor Project will do for the first 12 generations of Americans of African descent?
• What do we think the Unpaid Labor Project will do for their descendants and for every American alive today?
• What must happen to change the system of racial superiority and inferiority that is hundreds of years old and still in place in America today?
Our answers to these questions have informed our efforts from the beginning.
America is the most successful nation in modern history. She stands on the foundation of the Contribution of the first 12 generations of Americans of African descent who lived between 1607 and 1865. That Contribution involves 12.5 million lifetimes of unpaid labor over the course of 250 years.
Between the years 1870 and 1900, the United States economy became the biggest in the world. It continued to be the biggest for more than 100 consecutive years. The economic strength of the world’s biggest economy made the development of the nation’s social, political, judicial, economic, educational, and military systems possible.
The forced labor system of racial slavery that was put in place 169 years before the United States became a nation required the following:
1. The creation of the false concept of race. The idea that people are fundamentally more or less human based upon their skin color and other physical characteristics.
2. Dehumanizing people imported from Africa to America for their labor. That allows for the people that imported them to twist their thinking in such a way as to allow those imported to be treated as animals or living tools. The forced compliance to the twisted thinking of the majority perverted the thinking of the Unpaid Laborers as well.
3. Using force to maintain the social order based upon this false concept of race.
By now, my reader will recognize that this whole system was built on falsehoods. What may not be so clear is that the thinking that supports this system has never changed. It lives on today in the false ideas of race and racial superiority and inferiority. What’s more these falsehoods support the idea that ending legal slavery has eliminated the thinking that made it possible. It has not. That thinking has kept the system of racial superiority and inferiority in place to this very moment.
The benefits of citizenship that everyone enjoys in America today have their foundation in Unpaid Labor Contribution. The racial disparities in our nation that express themselves in broken Black communities in every area in the United States have their foundation in the false system of race. The thousands upon thousands of “healthy” White communities in every area of the United States are the outgrowth of that same false system. The sick thinking that burdens blacks and whites alike is the inheritance of these same falsehoods.
Instead of seeking another compromise for the purpose of moving on by keeping these falsehoods in place it is time for a change. Racial slavery in the United States has been abolished. Now it’s time to abolish the false thinking that made it possible and that continues to plague us today. The Unpaid Labor Project is committed to that end.
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Black HistoryClifton Berry July 3, 2017 4th of July, all men are created equal, black history, Great Britian, racial reconcilation, slavery, The American Experience, Thomas Jefferson, We The People
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The Two John Browns
No two people represent the conflict and tension that surrounded Unpaid Labor (1607-1865) better than the two John Browns. No two represent the fact that Unpaid Labor was at the very core of every aspect of economic, military, political, geographic, religious, and social life in America better than the two John Browns. Their lives covered the period of time between 1736 and 1859. It was a time of always trying to figure out what to do about slavery. The country failed at this again and again.
The first John Brown was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1736. He died in 1803. History knows him as an American merchant, slave trader, and statesman. He helped to start Brown University. He was the university’s treasurer for 21 years. He started Providence Bank and became its first president in 1791. There’s more but let’s stop there. He was well respected and fabulously rich because of Unpaid Labor. The contribution of Unpaid Labor made his political and business and military and banking careers all possible.
Shortly before the first John Brown died the second John Brown was born in 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut. He was executed on December 2, 1859. He was an American abolitionist. He believed that armed insurrection was the only way to stop slavery in the United States. An abolitionist is someone that wants something they believe to be wrong to stop. In this case the something was slavery. That’s what the second John Brown fought for and he was hanged for it.
Two men born at different times with the same name could not have been more different. One sent around the world to enslave people for money. One went to the far away Kansas territory to free people because he believed that it was morally wrong to enslave people. The lives of both men were tied to Unpaid Labor.
During his lifetime the first John Brown was building a respectable life and becoming rich from the beginning of our country because of slavery. During his lifetime the second John Brown was opposing slavery. The country would try again and again to solve the slavery problem by compromising but too many people were making too much money to stop enslaving other people. To compromise means “I’ll let you do this, if you let me do that.” For an issue as big as slavery a compromise won’t do.
The country would have to reward one and hang the other. It would have to keep slavery or stop it. Because it didn’t do the right thing the bloodiest war in the nation’s history would be fought over slavery—and still no answer. And still no answer!
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Nov. 15, 2018 / 3:00 AM
Famous birthdays for Nov. 15: Jimmy Choo, Shailene Woodley
UPI Staff
Malaysian shoedesigner Jimmy Choo attends the world premiere of "Basic instinct 2: Risk Addiction" at Vue, Leicester Square in London on March 15, 2006. He turns 70 on November 15. File Photo by Rune Hellestad/UPI | License Photo
Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio.
-- British astronomer William Herschel, discoverer of the planet Uranus, in 1738
-- Artist Georgia O'Keeffe in 1887
-- World War II German Gen. Erwin Rommel in 1891
-- TV personality/retired Judge Joseph Wapner in 1919
-- Actor Edward Asner in 1929 (age 89)
-- Pop singer Petula Clark in 1932 (age 86)
-- Actor Yaphet Kotto in 1939 (age 79)
-- Actor Sam Waterston in 1940 (age 78)
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-- Conductor Daniel Barenboim in 1942 (age 76)
-- Fashion designer Jimmy Choo in 1948 (age 70)
-- Actor Beverly D'Angelo in 1951 (age 67)
-- Wrestler Randy Savage in 1952
-- Musician Kevin Eubanks in 1957 (age 61)
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-- Actor Jonny Lee Miller in 1972 (age 46)
-- Rock musician Chad Kroeger in 1974 (age 44)
-- Actor Sean Murray in 1977 (age 41)
-- Golf champion Lorena Ochoa in 1981 (age 37)
-- Actor Shailene Woodley in 1991 (age 27)
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Jonny Lee Miller, Bertie Carvel to star in 'Ink' on Broadway
Beyonce, Donald Glover attend 'The Lion King' premiere
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Exceptional service is our #1 priority
Get to know the Urban staff, dedicated to helping families honor a life lived well. We provide peace of mind and are available 24/7 for your convenience. The Urban Funeral Home is a selected and invited member of the International Order of the Golden Rule and is held to the highest service standards. www.ogr.org/ethical-standards
Peter “Skip” Urban
Skip is President and supervisor of the Anton B. Urban Funeral Home in Ambler. He is a second generation Urban Funeral Director whose business started in Philadelphia and moved to Ambler in 1964.
Licensed by the Pennsylvania State Board of funeral directors in 1981, Skip is a member of the National Funeral Directors Association, the PA Funeral Director’s Association, a past president of the Montgomery County Funeral Directors Association, and a member of the International Order of the Golden Rule (OGR). OGR is an organization of independently owned and operated funeral homes where Skip serves on the executive board, and the Independent Advocacy and Education Committees.
Skip is a member of the Board of Trustees of Ambler Savings Bank where he serves as chairman of the property committee, St. Alphonsus Church in Maple Glen where he serves as a lector and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Ambler Area YMCA.
He joined the Wissahickon Fire Company in Ambler in 1975 and has served as Fire Chief and a firefighting officer since 1980. He has served as Treasurer, Chairman of the Trustees and served on numerous committees. He shared his firefighting vocation with his youngest son Andrew. Skip is a member of the International Fire Chief’s Association, a life member of the Montgomery County Fire Chiefs Aid Association and serves as a coordinator for Montgomery County on the South Eastern PA Regional Firefighting Task Force.
Skip Joined the Ambler Rotary club in 1995 and served on the board of Directors before being elected President for the 2003-2004 term. Skip and his family has hosted Rotary Exchange students from Italy, Sweden, and Japan.
Skip married his wife, Dolores in 1982 and raised three wonderful children Jacalyn, Peter, and Andrew.
Skip believes his father Anton B. Urban would be proud today of the business that he started in 1950 and moved to Ambler. Skip has continued to expand the quality of service started by his father helping families honor a life lived.
Peter A. Urban, Jr.
Peter A. Urban Jr. is a lifetime resident of Ambler and a third generation licensed funeral director in the Urban family. He has been working at Anton B. Urban Funeral Home since 2001.
Peter is a graduate of Lansdale Catholic High School Class of 2004. During his high school years, Peter began helping his father with odd jobs around the funeral home, ultimately assisting with visitations and funeral services.
After high school graduation he pursued his passion for funeral service by attending a cooperative program between Gannon University in Erie, PA and Northampton County Community College in Bethlehem, PA. He achieved his education goal in 2009 receiving both a bachelor’s degree and an associate’s degree in Mortuary Service. This accomplishment entitled him to serve a yearlong internship during which he completed National and State Boards earning him his PA State Funeral Directors License in January 2011. While in college he was an active member of Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) Fraternity where he served on several Executive Positions including Vice President. He organized several fundraisers for the Children’s Miracle Network. He was also a member of Sigma Phi Sigma a National Fraternity of Funeral Directors.
Currently, Peter is still active with ZBT on a national and local level. He is an active parishioner of St. Alphonsus Church in Maple Glen, International Order of the Golden Rule, and the PA Funeral Directors and National Funeral Directors Associations. He is also a member of the Bucks County Fish and Game Association.
Peter’s goals are to bring new ideas and technology to the funeral profession that will better serve families at their time of need. He believes that the tradition of funerals is an important ritual in managing one’s grief after the loss of a loved one. He looks forward to earning the respect of his community.
Gertrude A. Urban
Retired Funeral Director
Gertrude A. “Trudy” Urban was born and raised in Philadelphia. She was the daughter of the late Anthony and Magdalena Matje. Her father worked as a barber and her mother in her family’s photography studio.
Trudy was a graduate of John W. Hallahan High School Class of 1949 and Drexel University Class of 1953 where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree as a Dietitian.
In 1953, she married her beloved Anton B. Urban. She also worked at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in the dietary department and shortly thereafter, raised two sons Anton P. “Sonny” Urban and Peter A. “Skip” Urban. Trudy returned to school when her sons entered grade school. She attended and graduated from Eckels College of Mortuary Science in Philadelphia. In 1963 she completed the requirements to be licensed as a Funeral Director.
Trudy and Anton worked together owning a Funeral Home in Philadelphia until 1980, as well as establishing our current location in Ambler in 1964. After the death of her husband Anton in 1988, Trudy worked diligently to continue the legacy of the Anton B. Urban Funeral Home with her son Skip. Trudy has continued to be active in the area churches and community. Her past activities have included the board of the Community Ambulance Association of Ambler, VFW Auxiliary of Ambler, the Colony Club of Ambler, Lioness of Ambler, Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of Columbus, as well as the Treasure of St. Anthony’s Ladies Guild.
Today, Trudy attends daily Mass and remains active in the daily activities of the Funeral Home. She continues an active social life as the past President of St. Alphonsus Senior Citizen’s Group and chairperson of the St. Anthony’s Bridge & Pinochle Marathons. She loves to cook, iron and travel.
Dolores A. Urban
Dolores (Loftus) Urban grew up in Maple Glen the oldest of the six siblings. She is a graduate of Upper Dublin High School and De Sales University where she earned her bachelor degree in Nursing.
Dolores began her nursing career at Chestnut Hill Hospital and married Skip Urban in 1982. Together they raised three children. Jacalyn, an MBA graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, is employed in NYC; Peter Jr., our 3rd generation funeral director has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mortuary Science from Gannon University and an Associate’s Degree in Funeral Service from Northampton Community College. Peter resides in Ambler and works in the family funeral home. Andrew, our youngest was a Criminal Justice graduate from the University of Scranton and is currently serving in the United States Coast Guard.
Dolores worked in multiple areas of nursing prior to joining her husband in the family business in 2007 and maintains her RN credentials. She considers it an honor to work beside her husband, mother-in-law, and son. Her compassionate care skills are now shared with the families they are honored to serve. Dolores manages the funeral home’s office.
Dolores is an active member of St. Alphonsus Church where she is presently chairman of the Hospitality and Aid for Friends Committees and an Ambler YMCA Board member. She is also an active member of the International Order of the Golden Rule. She was a past member of the Ambler Community Ambulance Association, St. Alphonsus Home & School Association and Parish Council, as well as, past member of Ambler Catholic Home & School Association. Dolores also enjoys family gatherings, spending time with friends, and swimming.
Dolores hopes she can bring comfort to your family during the difficult days after the loss of a loved one.
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Vice President Joe Biden to guest star on 'Law & Order: SVU'
Biden, who's been leading charge against campus sexual assaults, will appear Wednesday.
Vice President Joe Biden to guest star on 'Law & Order: SVU' Biden, who's been leading charge against campus sexual assaults, will appear Wednesday. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2dzGdGW
Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY Published 11:00 a.m. ET Sept. 27, 2016 | Updated 4:24 p.m. ET Sept. 28, 2016
Vice President Joe Biden will make a special appearance on 'Law & Order: SVU' Wednesday.(Photo: Michael Parmelee, NBC)
VPOTUS is visiting the L&O: SVU squad room.
Vice President Joe Biden, who's spent much of the last year representing It's On Us, the White House's campaign for the prevention of sexual assault, will appear on Wednesday's episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, 9 ET/PT).
Lady Gaga, Joe Biden calling for end of rape culture wins the Oscars
In an interview posted to NBC's press site, Biden said he reached out to star Mariska Hargitay several years back hoping to spread the word about the backlog of untested rape kits. He got in touch with her once again after the inception of It's On Us. "She has been enormously helpful," he added.
The vice president added, "When I wrote the Violence Against Women Act over 20 years ago, I stated at the outset that my goal was to change the culture. No man has a right to raise his hand to a woman for any reason whatsoever other than self-defense. Period."
In addition to increasing funding to investigate and prosecute cases and creating greater public awareness, the 1994 law strengthened penalties for repeat sex offenders, mandating that women would not have to pay for their own rape tests and creating a "rape shield law" to deter victims' past sexual conduct from being used against them.
Biden credited the long-running crime procedural for bringing about a shift in the nation's attitude towards sexual assault at the law-enforcement level. "When SVU started (in 1999), a significant number of police departments didn't have sexual violence units. It began to change the whole culture of policing."
As for his time onscreen, he harbors no illusions about his talents as a dramatic actor, and that he let his passion about the subject drive his performance. "This one, I didn't have to act about," he said. "This one is just right from the gut."
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Florence marches into South Carolina, having killed at least 5 people despite dramatic rescues
Among the deaths: A mother and infant died when a tree fell on their house in Wilmington, N.C.
Florence marches into South Carolina, having killed at least 5 people despite dramatic rescues Among the deaths: A mother and infant died when a tree fell on their house in Wilmington, N.C. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2N8v1Dn
Doug Stanglin, Daniel J. Gross and Nikie Mayo, USA TODAY Published 5:26 a.m. ET Sept. 14, 2018 | Updated 7:00 a.m. ET Sept. 15, 2018
The Weather Channel implemented new studio graphics to show how severe flooding can be, and they are incredible. USA TODAY
Volunteers from the Civilian Crisis Response Team help rescue three children from their flooded home in James City, North Carolina on Sept 14, 2018.(Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images)
SWAN QUARTER, N.C. — Florence showed no sign of letting up Saturday, taking its torrential rain, powerful winds and storm surges deep into South Carolina before an expected northerly turn that could head it toward the Ohio Valley, the National Hurricane Center reported.
Since marching ashore Friday near Wilmington, North Carolina, as a hurricane, Florence had claimed five lives, caused widespread flooding and knocked out power to nearly 900,000 homes.
Now, as a tropical storm, it is expected to produce more flash floods as it drops up to another 25 inches of rain in some areas. Also possible are storm surges of up to 7 feet and possible tornadoes.
At 2 a.m. EST Saturday, the center of the storm was about 35 miles from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with maximum sustained winds at 50 mph. It was moving at a paltry 5 mph.
In the first report of storm-related fatalities, a mother and infant died after a tree fell on a house in Wilmington, North Carolina, according to local police. The father was hospitalized with injuries.
In addition, a woman in Hampstead suffered a heart attack Friday morning, but emergency crews hampered by downed trees in the road could not reach her before she died, ABC News reports.
Florence unleashes havoc on Carolinas
Two people use a neighborhood street as a boat ramp in floodwaters from the Waccamaw River caused by Hurricane Florence on Sept. 26, 2018 in Bucksport, S. C. Nearly two weeks after making landfall in North Carolina, river flooding continues after Florence in northeastern South Carolina. Sean Rayford, Getty Images
An antique car is inundated by floodwaters from the Waccamaw River caused by Hurricane Florence on Sept. 26, 2018 in Bucksport, S. C. Sean Rayford, Getty Images
Workers uses farm machinery to navigate floodwaters from the Waccamaw River caused by Hurricane Florence on Sept. 26, 2018 in Bucksport, S. C. Sean Rayford, Getty Images
A dog stands in floodwaters from the Waccamaw River caused by Hurricane Florence on Sept. 26, 2018 in Bucksport, S.C. Sean Rayford, Getty Images
Brian Morris looks at the debris from his home in the Stoney Creek Plantation neighborhood Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, in Leland, N.C. Many of the homes here were flooded through their bottom floors due to rains from Hurricane Florence. Ken Blevins, The Star-News via AP
A basketball net barely sticks up above the flood waters at Lee's Landing in Conway, S.C., Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. Predictions for the final communities in the path of Hurricane Florence's flooding aren't as dire as they once were. Officials originally expected flooding in the worst areas of Georgetown County to be from 5 to 10 feet. But the latest forecast lowered that estimate and the Waccamaw River in Conway has been at the same level for nearly a day. Jason Lee, The Sun News via AP
Taylor James paddles a boat in floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence in front of Trinity United Methodist Church near the Crabtree Swamp on Sept. 26, 2018 in Conway, S.C. SEAN RAYFORD, Getty Images
Laura Totten helps to clean out debris from a home in the Stoney Creek Plantation neighborhood on Sept. 26, 2018, in Leland, N.C. KEN BLEVINS, The Star-News via AP
Ian Smythe clears out wet sheet rock from a home in the Stoney Creek Plantation neighborhood on Sept. 26, 2018, in Leland, N.C. KEN BLEVINS, The Star-News via AP
A home is inundated by floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence near the Crabtree Swamp on Sept. 26, 2018 in Conway, S.C. SEAN RAYFORD, Getty Images
Brittany Lewis helps to clean out debris from a home in the Stoney Creek Plantation neighborhood on Sept. 26, 2018, in Leland, N.C. KEN BLEVINS, The Star-News via AP
Volunteers from the Samaritan's Purse walk along the streets in the Stoney Creek Plantation neighborhood in Leland, N.C. on Sept. 26, 2018. KEN BLEVINS, The Star-News via AP
Trinity United Methodist Church is inundated by floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence near the Crabtree Swamp on Sept. 26, 2018 in Conway, S.C. SEAN RAYFORD, Getty Images
Dead fish litter the streets of Aberdeen Golf Club as floodwaters recede following Hurricane Florence, in Longs, S.C. Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. Jason Lee, The Sun News via AP
The Polo Farms neighborhood off S.C. Highway 905 is largely underwater, on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, in Longs, S.C., due to Hurricane Florence's deluge. Jason Lee, The Sun News via AP
In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2018 photo, a truck travels through flood waters from the Northeast Cape Fear River near Burgaw N.C., a week after Hurricane Florence. Ken Blevins, The Star-News via AP
The Polo Farms neighborhood off S.C. Highway 905 is largely underwater, on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, in Longs, S.C. Jason Lee, The Sun News, via AP
Lee Bertrand paddles through flooded equipment in his front lawn, Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, in the Red Bluff community, in Longs, S.C. Jason Lee, The Sun News, via AP
The bridge over Simpson's Creek is the only dry spot for more than a mile on S.C. Highway 905 in the Red Bluff Community in Longs, S.C. Jason Lee, The Sun News, via AP
Shawn Lowrimore wades into the water near The Fellowship With Jesus Ministries church in Yauhannah, S.C., on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. The church is on the bank of the Waccamaw River which has already risen above its record crest and is expected to keep rising for several days, forcing thousands of evacuations in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. Jeffrey S. Collins, AP
This Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018 photo provided by the North Carolina Department of Transportation shows fish left on Interstate 40 in Pender County in eastern North Carolina after floodwaters receded. Thousands of coastal residents remained on edge Sunday, told they may need to leave their homes because rivers are still rising more than a week after Hurricane Florence slammed into the Carolinas. Jeff Garrett, North Carolina Department of Transportation AP
Kayaks are paddled up Long Avenue past flooded sections of the Sherwood Drive community of Conway, S.C., Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018 as homes were submerged deeper than ever in flood waters that have already set historic records. Jason Lee, The Sun News via AP
David Covington moves floating floor boards out of his path inside his flooded Conway, S.C. home on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. Jason Lee, The Sun News via AP
Maura Walbourne sits in the front of a canoe looking in at her flooded Long Avenue home as David Covington wades through the wreckage in Conway, S.C. Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018. Jason Lee, The Sun News via AP
Floyd Boyd is reflected in floodwaters as he measures the water in his car port and finds it inches from entering his home on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018 in Conway, S.C. Jason Lee, The Sun News via AP
Coast Guardsmen and Conway Police help Denise Fulmer from her flooded Busbee Street home on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018, where she would be relocated to a shelter at Conway Recreation Center. Jason Lee, The Sun News via AP
People navigate floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence near the Waccamaw River on Sept. 23, 2018 in Conway, S.C. . Floodwaters are expected to continue to rise in Conway over the next two days. Sean Rayford, Getty Images
Jason Johnson, left, and homeowner Archie Sanders work to build a temporary levee to hold back floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence near the Waccamaw River on Sept. 23, 2018 in Conway, S.C. Sean Rayford, Getty Images
A duck flaps its wings in front of a home inundated with floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence near the Waccamaw River on Sept. 23, 2018 in Conway, S.C. Sean Rayford, Getty Images
People use boats to rescue valuables from a home inundated by floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence near the Waccamaw River on Sept. 23, 2018 in Conway, S.C. Sean Rayford, Getty Images
A woman documents floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence near the Waccamaw River on Sept. 23, 2018 in Conway, S.C. Floodwaters are expected to continue to rise in Conway over the next two days. Sean Rayford, Getty Images
The Williams family rapidly removes their belongings trying to keep their mattresses dry, on Sept. 21, 2018 in Longs, S.C.. With muddy river water still washing over entire communities on Friday, eight days after Hurricane Florence slammed into land with nearly 3 feet of rain, new evacuation orders forced residents to flee to higher ground amid a sprawling disaster that's beginning to feel like it will never end. Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP
The Waccamaw River overflows it's banks at Highway 9, Friday, in Conway, S.C. Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP
T.J. Williams, age 12, helps remove chairs from his family home on Collins street where his family were removing their belongings ahead of rising waters, Friday, in Longs, S.C. Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP
Luis Gomez rescues baby chicks from floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence near the Todd Swamp in Longs, S.C.. Floodwaters are expected to rise in the area in through the weekend. Sean Rayford/Getty Images
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper talks with Joyce Davis at an event feeding victims of Hurricane Florence at the Bright Hopewell Baptist Church, Friday, in Laurinburg, N.C.. Gov. Roy Cooper said the damage in his state is in the billions of dollars, but there was no way to make a more accurate estimate while flooding continues. Scott Sharpe/The News & Observer via AP
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, right, surveys the heavily damaged cotton field of farmer Bryan Hagler during a tour of agricultural areas hit hard by Hurricane Florence, Friday, in Laurinburg, N.C. Scott Sharpe/The News & Observer via AP
A portion of a tobacco field near Faison, N.C. flooded by water from Hurricane Florence is seen from a N.C. National Guard Blackhawk helicopter as Governor Roy Cooper tours agricultural areas of eastern N.C. hit hard by the storm. Scott Sharpe, Scott Sharpe/The News & Observer via AP
Shane Clark carries his son Caleb over flood waters at Lee's Landing Circle as he evacuates his family from their river home, Friday, in Conway, S.C. Jason Lee/The Sun News via AP
Rows of mailbox protrude through floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Nichols, S.C., Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. Virtually the entire town is flooded and inaccessible except by boat, just two years after it was flooded by Hurricane Matthew. GERALD HERBERT/AP
Professional disaster recovery services work to cleanup storm damages at the New Bern Grande Marina Yacht Club in New Bern, N.C., Sept. 21, 2018. Hurricane Florence brought destructive flooding to areas in the waterfront business district. GRAY WHITLEY/AP
Cleanup crews work to remove storm damaged belongings, spoiled food and soaked furniture at Trent Court Apartments in New Bern, N.C., . Friday. Hurricane Florence brought storm surge which overflowed from the Trent River and forced many residents of Trent Court to evacuate. GRAY WHITLEY/SUN JOURNAL VIA AP
A submerged car sits in floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Nichols, S.C., Friday. GERALD HERBERT/AP
Department of Natural Resources agent James Mills Cody patrols through floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Nichols, S.C. GERALD HERBERT/AP
Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan, right, loads boxes with goods for Hurricane Florence victims as he makes an appearance Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, at Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina in Charlotte, N.C. The Hornets NBA basketball team packed food boxes as part of hurricane relief efforts. DIEDRA LAIRD/AP
Volunteer Johnnie Evans brings a wagon of water, Friday, to cleanup crews helping with the grisly task of removing storm damaged belongings, spoiled food and soaked furniture at Trent Court Apartments in New Bern, N.C. GRAY WHITLEY/AP
A sign commemorating the rebuilding of the town of Nichols, which was flooded two years earlier from Hurricane Matthew, stands in floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Nichols, S.C., Friday. Virtually the entire town is once again flooded and inaccessible except by boat. GERALD HERBERT/AP
Phil Clough carries gear out of his garage in the Cedar Creek neighborhood in Fayetteville, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. This is the second time the house has flooded in two years. Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel-USA TODAY NETWORK
Mike Dougal and Jasmine Brown clean out their flooded freezer and refrigerator outside their garage in the Cedar Creek neighborhood of Fayetteville, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. This is the second time the house has flooded in two years. They plan to move out of the neighborhood, but fear the house's chance for resale may be ruined. Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel-USA TODAY NETWORK
Billy Hardee removes valuables from his home as floodwater caused by Hurricane Florence rises at Aberdeen Country Club on Sept. 20, 2018, in Longs, S.C. Floodwaters are expected to rise through the weekend in the area. SEAN RAYFORD, Getty Images
James Spencer helps a friend remove valuables from their home as floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence rise at Aberdeen Country Club on Sept. 20, 2018, in Longs, S.C. Floodwaters are expected to rise through the weekend in the area. SEAN RAYFORD, Getty Images
Storm damaged items and debris are piled in front of homes in the historic district in New Bern, N.C. on Sept. 20, 2018. GRAY WHITLEY, Sun Journal via AP
Technicians and repair services are working to restore residential utilities in the historic district of New Bern, N.C. on Sept. 20, 2018. GRAY WHITLEY, Sun Journal via AP
Rosemary Acevedo-Gonzalez retrieves clothing from her daughter's bathroom as she returns to their home for the first time since it was flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. "This is the only thing I can get," said Acevedo-Gonzalez of what was salvageable. "That's it. I'm done." David Goldman, AP
The wall to a room at the Starlite Motel is washed away in the flooding aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. ( David Goldman, AP
Part of the Starlite Motel is washed away in the aftermath of flooding from Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. David Goldman, AP
Lt. Keith Ramsey with the Pender County Sheriff's Office walks out to a boat while taking part in rescue operations in Burgaw, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. A large area east of Burgaw is experiencing severe flooding from the Northeast Cape Fear River due to the rains from Hurricane Florence. Matt Born, The Star-News via AP
Jovani Quintano, left, and Carlos Gomez walk through a flooded neighborhood after heavy rains brought on by Hurricane Florence on September 19, 2018 in Lumberton, North Carolina. The death toll from the storm stands at 37 in three states, including 27 fatalities in North Carolina, according to published reports. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
Laura Burgos pulls up carpet at Evolution Athletics East, which was flooded by the Little River after Florence, in Spring Lake N.C.,Sept. 19, 2018. Caitie McMekin, USA TODAY NETWORK
Ronnie Mayes scratches his head as he looks at the church he's attended his entire life, the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, where he is an elder, in Spring Lake, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. The church was damaged from the Little River which flooded from Florence. Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel, via USA TODAY Network
Ronnie Mayes stands outside the sanctuary of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, as a visible line on the door marks where the water level was yesterday from the flooded Little River, in Spring Lake, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel, via USA TODAY Network
Hailey Maynard rolls a medicine ball while helping clean out Evolution Athletics East, which was flooded by the Little River after Florence, in Spring Lake N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel, via USA TODAY Network
The North Carolina State Forest Services Office is flooded from the Northeast Cape Fear River in Burgaw, N.C., on Sept. 19, 2018. MATT BORN, The Star-News via AP
Area residents ride down N.C. Highway 53 that is flooded from the Northeast Cape Fear River in Burgaw, N.C. on Sept. 19, 2018. MATT BORN, The Star-News via AP
Area residents ride around neighborhoods flooded from the Northeast Cape Fear River in Burgaw, N.C. on Sept. 19, 2018. MATT BORN, The Star-News via AP
The dam and roadway at Alton Lennon Drive in Boiling Spring Lakes, N.C. is washed away Wednesday Sept. 19, 2018 after water from Hurricane Florence overran it earlier this week. Ken Blevins, The Star-News, via AP
President Donald Trump gestures to first responders as he visits the Horry County Emergency Management center in the area impacted by Hurricane Florence, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018, in Conway, S.C. Evan Vucci, AP
Teresa Nance is licked by her dog as she returns to dry land after checking on her home flooded by Hurricane Florence on Sept. 19, 2018, in Lumberton, N.C. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
Ronnie Mayes stands in the Sunday school building of the church he's attended his entire life, the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, in Spring Lake, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel, via USA TODAY Network
Flood waters isolate homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence Sept. 19, 2018, in Lumberton, N.C. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
Jovani Quintano walks through a flooded neighborhood after heavy rains brought on by Hurricane Florence on Sept. 19, 2018, in Lumberton, N.C. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
The Cape Fear River is seen well above flood levels in Fayetteville, N.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in the aftermath of Florence. Jeremiah Wilson/Xavier Mascareñas, USA TODAY Network
Homes on the Wood family's property are seen severely flooded Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, in the aftermath of Florence in Linden, N.C. Dale Wood, who has lived on the property about 47 years, and his wife, Angie Wood, said their home was also flooded by the nearby Little River after Matthew, but not nearly to the same levels. Xavier Mascareñas/Jeremiah Wilson, USA TODAY Network
The scene of flood damage where the road was washed away on Williams Road in Duplin County on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. Shelley Mays, The Tennessean-USA TODAY Network
Wendy Rhodes takes photographs of her flood damaged home on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018 in Hallsville, N.C. A mounted deer head fell off the wall during the storm where Rhode said two feet of water came into her home. Shelley Mays, The Tennessean-USA TODAY Network
Mary and Phil Pongonis look at the damaged roadway from Hurricane Florence in Boiling Spring Lakes, N.C. Tuesday Sept. 18, 2018. Ken Blevins, The Star-News via AP
A flag marks where the Cape Fear River rose to during Hurricane Matthew in 2016, outside of Deep Creek Outfitters in Fayetteville, N.C. Tuesday, Sept.18, 2018. Tuesday morning the river stands inches below 60 feet. The flood stage for the river is 35 feet. Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel-USA TODAY Network
Spring Lake resident Patrick Wolvin wades through water from the flooded Little River, to buy his wife and neighbors cigarettes, in Spring Lake on the outskirts of Fayetteville, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Residents wait in line as the sun rises over Wrightsville Beach, N.C. Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. Residents are allowed to return to the island today to check on their homes after Hurricane Florence. Chuck Burton, AP
A person takes photos of debris that is stopped by a train trestle in the Cape Fear River in Fayetteville, N.C. Tuesday, Sept.18, 2018. Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Signs peak above the flooded Cape Fear River outside in Fayetteville, N.C. Tuesday, Sept.18, 2018. Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Ashley Miller looks at photos she has taken of the fallen tree across Rolanda Drive after an apparent tornado touched down in Henrico County, Va., Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. ALEXA WELCH EDLUND, Richmond Times-Dispatch, via AP
Utility crews move across a bridge on the opposite side of the Cape Fear River from Wilmington, NC Monday evening, Sept. 17, 2018. The Cape Fear River is expected to crest on Tuesday, September 18. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY NETWORK
The sun sets along the Cape Fear River in downtown Wilmington with the USS North Carolina battleship seen in the distance on Monday evening, Sept. 17, 2018. The Cape Fear River is expected to crest on Tuesday, September 18. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY NETWORK
People search out locations for fuel Monday evening, Sept. 17, 2018. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY NETWORK
A message outside a razed home along the Neuse River in New Bern, N.C. on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Near the flooded-out town of New Bern , where about 455 people had to be rescued from the swirling floodwaters, water completely surrounded churches, businesses and homes. In the neighboring town of Trenton, downtown streets were turned to creeks full of brown water. Gary D Robertson, AP
People check out the flooding as the Rockfish creek overflows a roadway on Sept. 17, 2018 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Flood waters from the cresting rivers inundated the area after the passing of Hurricane Florence. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
A pedestrian stands on a train trestle over the Cape Fear River near Person Street Bridge in Fayetteville, N.C., Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. The flood stage for the Cape Fear River is 35 feet, and after Florence the river stands at over 50 feet. It is predicted to peak at 61.8 feet according to the National Weather Service. Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel-USA TODAY NETWORK
D.J. Grimsley of Fayetteville kisses his wife Sabrina on the head as she prays for victims of the flood, while looking toward the rising Cape Fear River on Person Street Bridge in Fayetteville, N.C., Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel-USA TODAY NETWORK
Cross Creek overflows into Festival Park and nearby roadways, as seen in a drone photo Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, in the aftermath of Florence in Fayetteville, N.C. Jeremiah Wilson/Xavier Mascareñas, USA TODAY NETWORK
Bob Richling carries Iris Darden as water from the Little River starts to seep into her home on Sept. 17, 2018 in Spring Lake, North Carolina. Flood waters from the cresting rivers inundated the area after the passing of Hurricane Florence. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
What appears to be a small levy breached due to storm waters from hurricane Florence in Rocky Point , NC., Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Steve Helber, AP
Jacob McPherson, 23, from Whiteville rides through the flooded intersection of Red HIll Road and Green Elkins Road completely cut off by flooding of the Red Hill Swamp near Whiteville, NC. on Sept. 17, 2018 Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
An abandoned truck sits washed off the roadway from floodwaters overtopping the road outside in Dillon, S.C., Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Gerald Herbert, AP
People stand in long lines in downtown Wilmington, N.C. as they waiting to buy ice from The Rose Ice and Coal Company, Sept. 17, 2018. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Cross Creek overflows into Festival Park and nearby roadways, in Fayetteville, N.C. Sept. 17, 2018, in the aftermath of Florence. Drone photo by JEREMIAH WILSON and XAVIER MASCAREÑAS/ USA TODAY NETWORK
Ethan Edwards from Whiteville, N.C., rides along flooded Red HIll Road completely cut off by flooding of the Red Hill Swamp near Whiteville, N.c, Sept. 17, 2018. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Lee Duncan of Clarkton, NC checks the road on foot finding it unfit to drive through with his truck. Duncan was unable to find a way home to Clarkton due to flooded roads across Slades Swamp which submerged Rico and Baldwin Roads at the Bladen and Columbus County Line just 2 miles south of Clarkton. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Members of the North Carolina Task Force urban search and rescue team wade through a flooded neighborhood looking for residents who stayed behind as Florence continues to dump heavy rain in Fayetteville, N.C. on Sept. 16, 2018. DAVID GOLDMAN, AP
Members of the North Carolina Task Force urban search and rescue team check cars in a flooded neighborhood looking for residents who stayed behind as Florence continues to dump heavy rain in Fayetteville, N.C. on Sept. 16, 2018. DAVID GOLDMAN, AP
A worker from Asplundh Tree Expert Company cuts tree limbs from a power line after a huge tree fell on Sept. 16, 2018, in Morganton, N.C. KATHY KMONICEK, AP
A South Carolina Army National Guardsman directs trucks full of sand along U.S. 501 South outside of Conway, S.C. in preparation of rising water levels on the Waccamaw River on Sept. 16, 2018. JOSH MORGAN, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Rick Parker fills up gas cans for his generator at a filling station in Bridgeton, N.C. Sept. 16, 2018. TARIQ ZEHAWI, NorthJersey.com via USA TODAY NETWORK
An Engineering unit from the South Carolina Army National Guard lay down sand bags along U.S. 501 just outside of Conway, S.C. in preparation of rising water levels on the Waccamaw River Sept. 16, 2018. JOSH MORGAN, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Clean up begins in Wilmington, N.C. on Sept. 16, 2018. JACK GRUBER, USA TODAY
Dan Thompson, a contractor from Florida, assesses power line damage from a downed tree in Wilmington, N.C. on Sept. 16, 2018. JACK GRUBER, USA TODAY
Kevin Heifferson helps load sandbags for Temika Bernard in Kinston, N.C., on Sept. 16, 2018. SHELLEY MAYS, The Tennessean via USA TODAY NETWORK
Cynthia Downes walks through her flooded home in New Bern, N.C. on Sept. 16, 2018. SHELLEY MAYS, The Tennessean via USA TODAY NETWORK
Damaged boats in a marina in New Bern, N.C. on Sept. 16, 2018. SHELLEY MAYS, The Tennessean via USA TODAY NETWORK
A yacht sits between two homes in the historic downtown neighborhood in New Bern, N.C. on Sunday morning on Sept. 16, 2018. A homeowner said the yacht drifted from across the river in Bridgeton. Tariq Zehawi and John Meore, USA TODAY NETWORK
The rain continued in southeastern North Carolina Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, in Rocky Point, N.C. as customers waiting in line at the local grocery store get pelted during a deluge from Tropical Storm Florence. Chuck Liddy, The News & Observer via AP
Cross Creek Linear Park begins to flood Sunday in downtown Fayetteville, N.C. as Tropical Depression Florence continues to linger over southeastern North Carolina, bringing with it continuous rain and potentially devastating flooding for areas such as Cumberland County. Jeremiah Wilson, USA TODAY NETWORK
"It flooded out with Matthew. We stayed here but that night they did have to rescue us in a boat. That's how high the water was here," said Iris Engle Jones of Fayetteville about her experience with Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Engle Jones and her partner, Damon Jones, have decided to stay in their home in Fayetteville, at the intersection of Nimocks Avenue and South Cool Spring Street, despite a mandatory evacuation in place for residences near the Cape Fear River. Jeremiah Wilson, USA TODAY NETWORK
Damaged mobile homes from hurricane Florence which moved through the area in Jacksonville, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Steve Helber, AP
Erick Martinez grills chicken on his front porch while his mother Yanet looks on as floodwaters from Hurricane Florence rise around their home in the Magnolia Mobile Home Park north of Lumberton, N.C. on Sept. 16, 2018. The Cape Fear River Valley, like many other river systems in eastern North Carolina, are expected to flood at record levels. Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA-EFE
Jay Singleton 46, of New Bern N.C. takes a break after removing all the insulation from the basement in his home that was built in 1810 in the historic neighborhood of New Bern, N.C. on Sunday afternoon on Sept. 16, 2018. Flood waters filled his basement and brought in one foot of water into the first floor. Hurricane Florence brought heavy rain and winds causing flooding in North and South Carolinas. Tariq Zehawi, USA TODAY NETWORK
Floodwaters from Hurricane Florence encroach on homes in Marion, S.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Gerald Herbert, AP
The Persimmons Waterfront Restaurant suffered storm damage from Hurricane Florence in downtown New Bern, N.C. on Sunday morning on Sept. 16, 2018. Tariq Zehawi and John Meore, USA TODAY NETWORK
James Register rides his bike on flooded roads after Hurricane Florence hit Emerald Isle N.C.,Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Tom Copeland, AP
Chris Lishka works to remove a tree from his roof after Hurricane Florence hit Emerald Isle N.C.,Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Tom Copeland, AP
The damaged Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier after Hurricane Florence hit Emerald Isle N.C.,Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Tom Copeland, AP
Doug Erickson begins the task of cleaning the large fallen pecan tree which fell during Hurricane Florence in front of the CW Worth House in historic Wilmington, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Coast Guardsman Tyler Elliott, from Louisville, Ky., helps rescue one of 14 dogs, including 10 beagles, from a flooded home in Columbus County, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Andrew Nelles, The Tennessean, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Naiya Willis, left, and Candice Willis walk to an evacuation bus as they leave their home ahead of possible flooding after Hurricane Florence passed through the area on Sept. 16, 2018 in Fayetteville, N.C. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
Manuel Osirio, 12, of Moorehead City, N.C., plays a piano among the pile of water soaked items being thrown out at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in New Bern, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Tariq Zehawi, NorthJersey.com, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Chicken farm buildings are inundated with floodwater from Hurricane Florence near Trenton, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Steve Helber, AP
Coast Guardsman Tyler Elliott, from Louisville, Ky., surveys a flooded neighborhood in Columbus County, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Andrew Nelles, The Tennessean, via USA TODAY NETWORK
A yacht rests on the side of a downtown hotel in New Bern, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Hurricane Florence brought heavy rains and winds to the area. Tariq Zehawi, NorthJersey.com, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Engineering units of the South Carolina Army National Guard lay down sand bags along U.S. 501 South just outside of Conway, S.C. on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, in preparation of rising water levels on the Waccamaw River due to Florence. Josh Morgan, The Greenville News, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Mackenna Munson, 21, attempts to get to her flooded car on Rankin Street in Wilmington, N.C, on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Her family stayed through Hurricane Florence and weathered the storm minus electric service but woke up on Sunday morning to find their street flooded with cars in the water. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
George Bloomberg fills gas cans at a gas station in Bridgeton, N.C. on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. John Meore, The Journal News, via USA TODAY NETWORK
A man peers from his flooded home in Lumberton, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. Gerry Broome, AP
A driver plows through a flooded neighborhood along Market Street in Wilmington, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Robert Dolman walks past a car that has a large tree limb on it, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 in Wilmington, N.C. Mark Wilson, Getty Images
Keri Stocks, right, and David Thumser both of Wilmington, N.C., and without power in their home for the past 48 hours, look over the Cape Fear River on Water Street in downtown Wilmington, N.C., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Members of the Nebraska Task Force 1 urban search and rescue team help load an elderly resident onto a bus as they evacuate an assisted living facility to a church as a precaution against potential flooding the city could see from tropical storm Florence in Fayetteville, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. David Goldman, AP
A Waffle House outside of downtown Wilmington, N.C. is open for limited business during storm Florence, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Command Sgt. Maj. Sid Baker, left, and 1st Sgt. Christopher Jones of the North Carolina National Guard speaks with residents who declined to evacuate from a flooded neighborhood as rain from tropical storm Florence continues to fall on Lumberton, N.C., on Sept. 15, 2018. ANDREW NELLES, The Tennessean-USA TODAY NETWORK
Command Sgt. Maj. Sid Baker, left, and 1st Sgt. Christopher Jones of the North Carolina National Guard patrol a flooded neighborhood as rain from tropical storm Florence continues to fall on Lumberton, N.C., on Sept. 15, 2018. ANDREW NELLES, The Tennessean-USA TODAY NETWORK
Command Sgt. Maj. Sid Baker, right, of the North Carolina National Guard, speaks with the driver of a National Guard truck carrying evacuees from a flooded neighborhood as rain from tropical storm Florence continues to fall on Lumberton, N.C. on Sept. 15, 2018. ANDREW NELLES, The Tennessean-USA TODAY NETWORK
First Sgt. Christopher Jones, left, and Command Sgt. Maj. Sid Baker, right, of the North Carolina National Guard patrol a flooded neighborhood as rain from tropical storm Florence continues to fall on Lumberton, N.C. on Sept. 15, 2018. ANDREW NELLES, The Tennessean-USA TODAY NETWORK
An abandoned SUV sits in a flooded neighborhood as rain from tropical storm Florence continues to fall on Lumberton, N.C., on Sept. 15, 2018. ANDREW NELLES, The Tennessean-USA TODAY NETWORK
Command Sgt. Maj. Sid Baker of the North Carolina National Guard patrols a flooded neighborhood as rain from tropical storm Florence continues to fall on Lumberton, N.C., on Sept. 15, 2018. ANDREW NELLES, The Tennessean-USA TODAY NETWORK
A drone photo shows flooded streets in Belhaven, N.C. on Sept. 15, 2018. JOHN MEORE & TARIQ ZEHARI, The Journal News-USA TODAY NETWO
Power crews work to restore power after tropical storm Florence hit Newport N.C., on Sept. 15, 2018. TOM COPELAND, AP
A drone photo shows River Forest Boatyard in the middle of flooded neighborhoods in Belhaven, N.C on Sept. 15, 2018 JOHN MEORE & TARIQ ZEHAWI -USA TODAY NETWO
Homes sit over the water as waves from tropical storm Florence continue to pound the coast in Nags Head N.C. on Sept. 15, 2018. STEVE HELBER, AP
Debris from hurricane Florence litters Rt. 17 near Wilmington, N.C. on Sept. 15, 2018. JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE
A woman speaks into a cellphone asking for help at her flooded residence in Lumberton, N.C., on Sept.15, 2018 in the wake of Hurricane Florence. Members of the Cajun Navy came to her rescue. Besides federal and state emergency crews, rescuers were being helped by volunteers from the "Cajun Navy", civilians equipped with light boats, canoes and air mattresses, who also turned up in Houston during Hurricane Harvey to carry out water rescues. Alex Edelman, AFP/Getty Images
The Cajun Navy resue team patrols flood waters in Lumberton, N.C., on Sept. 15, 2018 in the wake of Hurricane Florence. Alex Edelman, AFP/Getty Images
People wait in line to fill up their gas cans at a gas station that was damaged when Hurricane Florence hit the area, on Sept. 15, 2018 in Wilmington, N.C.. Mark Wilson, Getty Images
A resident walks down a flooded street in Belhaven, N.C., on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. John Meore, The Journal News-USA TODAY NETWO
A yacht sits on the Neuse river bank next to a hotel after hurricane Florence passed through the area in New Bern, NC., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Steve Helber, AP
Bystanders help a stranded motorist after floodwaters from Hurricane Florence flooded his car along Route 17 near Holly Ridge, N.C Sept. 15, 2018. Storm surge and heavy flooding from the hurricane has inundated much of Eastern North Carolina. Florence has been downgraded to a tropical storm but is still expected to bring a storm surge with heavy flooding to the Carolinas. JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE
A homes was destroyed along the Neuse River after hurricane Florence came through the area in New Bern, NC., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Steve Helber, AP
A drone photo shows flooding in Belhaven, N.C. on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm. John Meore & Tariq Zehawi, - USA TODAY NETWORK
A convoy of utility trucks heading east to assist with damage caused by tropical storm Florence makes its way through a water covered stretch of U.S. Hwy. 70 east of Kinston, N.C., on Saturday Sept. 15, 2018. The road was closed to the public. Chris Seward, AP
North Myrtle Beach, S.C. residents swarm Boulineau's Corner, one of the first gas stations to open since Hurricane Florence swept through the area, on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Josh Morgan, Greenville News-USA TODAY NETWORK
A pickup truck drives on a flooded road past a farm house that is surrounded by flooded fields from tropical storm Florence in Hyde County, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Steve Helber, AP
Jessie Lawrence and her daughter Kinsley Spaid make their way home after Hurricane Florence hit Davis N.C.,Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Davis was said to have 4 1/2 feet of storm surge. Tom Copeland, AP
A Drone photo shows flooding in Belhaven, N.C. on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. John Meore & Tariq Zehawi, The Journal News- USA TODAY NETWORK
Jeff Pyron, left, and Daniel Lilly cover Lilly's roof after Hurricane Florence hit Davis N.C.,Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Lilly said, "I had my house raised for Irene cause I got flooded from the bottom, now i'm getting flooded from the top". Tom Copeland, AP
A boat sits at the end of a driveway after a four-foot storm surge produced by Hurricane Florence ripped through the this historic neighborhood along the Nuese River Sept. 15, 2018 in New Bern, N.C.. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
North Myrtle Beach, S.C. residents check out the beach as high tide begins to come in on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Josh Morgan, Greenville News-USA TODAY NETWOR
Jerry King uses a dustpan to scrape mud off of his floors after a four-foot storm surge produced by Hurricane Florence ripped through the Queen's Point condos along the Nuese River Sept. 15, 2018 in New Bern, N.C.. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Members of a swift water rescue team check a flooded street caused by the tropical storm Florence in New Bern, N.C., on Saturday Sept. 15, 2018. Chris Seward, AP
Mike Pollack searches for a drain in the yard of his flooded waterfront home a day after Hurricane Florence hit the area, on Sept. 15, 2018 in Wilmington, N.C.. Mark Wilson, Getty Images
Liz Miller attempts to put on garbage bags before going to the beach to check out the high tide in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Josh Morgan, Greenville News-USA TODAY NETWOR
Hundreds line up as a Harris Teeter Supermarket opens it's doors Saturday, Sept.15, 2018 following Florence, now a tropical storm, in Wilmington, N.C. Chuck Liddy, The News & Observer via AP
Floodwaters overtake US Route 17 and a car outside of Jacksonville, N.C., on Sept. 15, 2018, during Tropical Storm Florence. The governor of North Carolina on Saturday warned residents displaced by a killer storm against returning home because of the dangers posed by rising floodwaters. "Know that water is rising fast everywhere, even in places that don't typically flood," said Governor Roy Cooper. "This system is unloading epic amounts of rainfall: in some places, measured in feet, not inches." Logan Cyrus, AFP/Getty Images
Tropical Storm Florence continues to unleash massive amount of rain on Lumberton, N.C. on Sept.15, 2018 causing downed trees and power lines and minor flooding in areas. Jeremiah Wilson, USA TODAY NETWORK
Flood water reaches the home of William and Mittie Wooten as rain from Tropical Storm Florence continues to fall on Lumberton, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Andrew Nelles, The Tennessean-USA TODAY NETWORK
Public Works Department worker Noah Clark uses a pitch fork to remove debris from East Second St. in Washington, N.C. on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. John Meore, The Journal News-USA TODAY NETWORK
The courtyard at Queen's Point condos is filled with residents' belongings after the storm surge from Hurricane Florence tore open the lower floors with a four-foot high storm surge Sept. 15, 2018 in New Bern, N.C. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm Friday and at least five deaths have been attributed to the storm, which continues to produce heavy rain and strong winds extending out nearly 200 miles. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
A boat lays smashed against a car garage, deposited there by the high winds and storm surge from Hurricane Florence along the Neuse River Sept. 15, 2018 in New Bern, N.C. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
High winds from Hurricane Florence uprooted a tree, crushing a car and toppling a wall surrounding a baseball field September 15, 2018 in New Bern, N.C. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
A car passes under a fallen tree as rain from Tropical Storm Florence continues to fall in Lumberton, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Andrew Nelles, The Tennessean-USA TODAY NETWORK
A downed tree sits in front of a home in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Josh Morgan, The Greenville News-USA TODAY NETWORK
Rescue personnel use a small boat as they go house to house checking for flood victims from Florence, in New Bern, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Steve Helber, AP
Boats are stacked up on each other in a marina as a result from Florence in New Bern, NC., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Steve Helber, AP
Rick Sitzman takes a selfie with the statue of a bear, the city's symbol, that was dropped in the middle of the street by storm surge produced by Hurricane Florence Sept. 15, 2018 in New Bern, N.C. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Bill Wheeler makes a video recording of the damage to his store, Nautical Wheelers, after the storm surge from Hurricane Florence filled it with four feet of water on Sept. 15, 2018 in New Bern, N.C. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Lumberton, N.C., resident Floyd Locklear tries to keep the drains clear in his neighborhood near North Chestnut and East 15th streets Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, to prevent flooding from the storm that began as Hurricane Florence. Xavier Mascareñas, USA TODAY NETWORK
People walk on a beach in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Sept. 2018. Hundreds of South Carolina's residents have decided to stay in their homes, ignoring the mandatory evacuation order. Cristobal Herrera, EPA-EFE
The yard of a home is flooded in the Cherry Grove neighborhood in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Josh Morgan, The Greenville News-USA TODAY NETWORK
A section of the Highway 17 exit ramp remains closed a day after Hurricane Florence's storm surge washed it out Sept. 15, 2018 in New Bern, N.C. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
A sail boat lifted by the storm surge leans against a building at the destroyed Bridgepointe Marina a day after Hurricane Florence made landfall Sept. 15, 2018 in New Bern, N.C. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Volunteers from all over North Carolina help rescue residents and their pets from their flooded homes during Hurricane Florence Sept. 14, 2018 in New Bern, N.C. Chip Somodevilla,
Jeff Winecoff, Facility Maintenance Administrator surveys damage from Florence, around The Davis Community nursing home Wilmington, N.C., on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. KEN RUINARD/USA TODAY NETWORK
Jeff Winecoff, Facility Maintenance Administrator for The Davis Community, surveys damage from Florence around a generator which went down for 15 hours. KEN RUINARD/USA TODAY NETWORK
Sep. 15, 2018; Lumberton, NC, USA; Tropical Storm Florence continues to unleash massive amount of rain on Lumberton, North Carolina Saturday causing downed trees and power lines and minor flooding in areas. JEREMIAH WILSON/USA TODAY NETWORK
Homes are flooded after a storm surge from Hurricane Florence flooded the Neuse River on Sept.14, 2018 in New Bern, N.C.. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1. However, The storm has since been downgraded to a tropical storm. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Waves crash into the Second Avenue Pier as Hurricane Florence makes landfall late on Friday. in Myrtle Beach, S.C. ALEX EDELMAN, AFP/Getty Images
Social Service workers help an evacuee with her medications at a storm shelter at Ridge View High School, Friday. Sean Rayford, AP
Beach goers walk the shoreline as winds from Hurricane Florence increase near Folly Beach Fishing Pier in Charleston, S.C. on Friday. Jeremiah Wilson, USA TODAY NETWORK
With use of a generator Ed and Nancy Schueren make dinner as they cope with no power and water after high winds and water from Hurricane Florence hit Swansboro, N.C., Friday. Tom Copeland, AP
A man moves a large tree limb that downed power lines as the hurricane-turned-tropical storm Florence hit the Cherry Grove community in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., Friday. Andrew Knapp, AP
Eric Edwards Jr., left, and Elliott Farmer Jr. look at their phones from a blow up mattress at a storm shelter at Washington Street United Methodist Church as Florence slowly moved across the East Coast Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, in Columbia, S.C. Sean Rayford, AP
Debris from Hurricane Florence covers a street in downtown New Bern, N.C., on Friday. Chris Seward, AP
Members of the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 4 from Oakland, California, search a flooded neighborhood for evacuees during Hurricane Florence, Friday, in Fairfield Harbour, N.C., Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm and flooding from the heavy rain is forcing hundreds of people to call for emergency rescues in the communities around New Bern, N.C., which sits at the confluence of the Neuse and Trent rivers. CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES
A home sits in high water on W 6th St after Hurricane Florence brought heavy rains to Washington, N.C. on Friday afternoon on Sept. 14, 2018. TARIQ ZEHAWI/USA TODAY NETWORK
Jacob Fernandez plays around on the tree that fell near his home as Hurricane Florence passed through the area on Sept. 14, 2018, in Bolivia, N.C. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
Workers try to fix their truck after driving through high water in Washington, N.C. on Friday afternoon. TARIQ ZEHAWI/USA TODAY NETWORK
Mason Moise, 18, from Charleston, S.C., carries a U.S. flag in the increasing winds on Isle of Palms Beach Friday afternoon prior to the arrival of Hurricane Florence. Jack Gruber/USA TODAY
The mast of a sunken boat sits at a dock at the Grand View Marina in New Bern, N.C., on Friday. Winds and rains from Hurricane Florence caused the Neuse River to swell, swamping the coastal city. ALLEN G. BREED/AP
Men from a tree cutting service help clear a blocked road near downtown Wilmington, N.C., Friday. KEN RUINARD/USA TODAY NETWORK
Cars sit in high water on W 6th St after Hurricane Florence brought heavy rains to Washington, N.C. on Friday. TARIQ ZEHAWI/USA TODAY NETWORK
Neighbors sit on the front porch of Curtis Parks', 72 years old, home to check in on him since he and his neighbors have been without electricity in Washington, N.C.. TARIQ ZEHAWI/USA TODAY NETWORK
Stephanie Lemke of Mt. Pleasant, SC, enjoys the increase in the winds on Isle of Palms Beach on Friday afternoon prior to the arrival of winds and rain from Hurricane Florence. Jack Gruber/USA TODAY
A speed boat sits wedged in bushes in the parking lot of a waterfront hotel in New Bern, N.C., on Frida. Winds and rains from Hurricane Florence caused the Neuse River to swell, swamping the coastal city. ALLEN G. BREED/AP
Dori Baumwart, from the American Red Cross Disaster Services, checks the emergency supplies at the hurricane shelter located in South Florence high school, Florence, S.C., Friday. CRISTOBAL HERRERA/EPA-EFE
Rescue team members from the North Carolina National Guard 1/120th battalion go door-to-door as they evacuate residents in an apartment complex threatened by rising floodwaters from Hurricane Florence. CHRIS SEWARD/AP
A rescue team from the North Carolina National Guard 1/120th battalion evacuates an elderly woman from her apartment as the rising floodwaters from Hurricane Florence threatens her home in New Bern, N.C., on Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. CHRIS SEWARD/AP
Rains from Hurricane Florence flooded park on the Pamlico River in downtown Washington, N.C. TARIQ ZEHAWI/USA TODAY NETWORK
High waters flood Market and Water Streets as Hurricane Florence comes ashore in Wilmington, N.C., Friday afternoon. Hurricane Florence has been downgraded to a tropical storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, though is still expected to bring a storm surge with heavy flooding to the Carolinas. JIM LO SCALZO/EPA-EFE
A tree that fell on a house, killing two people, is seen during Hurricane Florence in Wilmington, North Carolina on Sept. 14, 2018. A mother and her infant were killed when a tree fell on their house, the first reported fatalities from Hurricane Florence, police said Friday. Wilmington police tweeted that the father was transported to the hospital with unspecified injuries. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Hurricane Florence flooded many streets in Washington, N.C. on Friday afternoon. TARIQ ZEHAWI/USA TODAY NETWORK
A home for sale sits in high water on W 6th St after Hurricane Florence brought heavy rains to Washington, N.C. on Friday. TARIQ ZEHAWI/USA TODAY NETWORK
The rains from Hurricane Florence flooded playground on Willow St. in Washington, N.C. on Friday afternoon. TARIQ ZEHAWI/USA TODAY NETWORK
Local residents sit outside the Pawleys Island Supplies drinking beer as customers come and go at the only open store for miles around on Friday, in Pawleys Island, S.C. Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images
Families enjoy Isle of Palms Beach Friday afternoon prior to the arrival of Hurricane Florence. Jack Gruber/USA TODAY
Hurricane Florence brought enough rain to cover the cars parked on 6th St in Washington, N.C. up to the hood with water on Friday afternoon on Sept. 14, 2018. TARIQ ZEHAWI/USA TODAY NETWORK
Charles Carver of Wilmington, N.C., looks at damage, a tree on his home, as Hurricane Florence passes through on Friday. KEN RUINARD/USA TODAY NETWORK
Wind, rain, and rising tide at the marina near Wrightsville Beach in Wilmington, N.C., as Hurricane Florence just hit land on Friday, KEN RUINARD/USA TODAY NETWORK
The Weather Channel reporters stand near a split tree and fallen street sign at Chestnut Street and North Front Street in downtown Wilmington, N.J., as Hurricane Florence just hit land. KEN RUINARD/USA TODAY NETWORK
Chris Butcher, of Arborist Plus in Edgewood, Fla., talks with Mike Kiernan, right, about the damage to his home in Wilmington, N.C., after Hurricane Florence made landfall Friday. CHUCK BURTON/AP
Sitting next to a boarded up window, Grant Lefevre, 7 of Kitty Hawk, N.C., plays tic tac toe with his father Alex at Five Guys, which is one of the only restaurants open in the Outer Banks, Friday afternoon. The Lefevre family has been holed up in their home since Wednesday and this was their first meal outside of their home. Tariq Zehawi/USA TODAY NETWORK
A car is destroyed from falling bricks as Hurricane Florence passes over Wilmington, N.C., Friday. Florence smashed into the US East Coast Friday with howling winds, torrential rains and life-threatening storm surges as emergency crews scrambled to rescue hundreds of people stranded in their homes by flood waters. Forecasters warned of catastrophic flooding and other mayhem from the monster storm, which is only Category 1 but physically sprawling and dangerous. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Taylor Woolard, of Washington Park, N.C., walks though high water on River Rd after leaving his home which has about one foot of water on the first floor on Friday afternoon. Emergency crews in the background remove a downed tree after Hurricane Florence made its way through the area. TARIQ ZEHAWI/USA TODAY NETWORK
A woman holds a baby as she watches rising flood waters on the Cape Fear River during Hurricane Florence in Wilmington, N.C.. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS, AFP/Getty Images
The shelter of a gas station lies on the ground in Wilmington, N.C., after Hurricane Florence made landfall Friday. CHUCK BURTON/AP
A message left on the front door at the corner of East Water St. and South Academy St in Washington Park, North Carolina on Friday, September 14, 2018. (Via OlyDrop) John Meore/The Journal News
Firefighters work to remove a tree that fell on a house during Hurricane Florence in Wilmington, N.C., Friday. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images
Louise Cramer, 8, and Joy Vollmer, 8, right, both of Mt. Pleasant, SC, have been off school since Tuesday, enjoy Isle of Palms Beach on Friday afternoon prior to the arrival of winds and rain from Hurricane Florence. JACK GRUBER/USA
Sam Parks walks through flooded Water Street as Hurricane Florence comes ashore in Wilmington, N.C. JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE
Jay Baker (R) and Chris Floyd (L) attempt to clear debris from a storm drain as Hurricane Florence comes ashore in Wilmington, N.C.. JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE
A computer store boarded up its windows on the corner of Main St and Bridge St in Washington, N.C. on Friday morning. TARIQ ZEHAWI/USA TODAY NETWORK
A truck drices through a flooded River Rd. in Washington Park, N.C., on Friday JOHN MEORE/USA TODAY NETWORK
Lumberton resident Robert Chavis, 41, carries a filled sandbag as volunteers and the North Carolina National Guard reinforce a low-lying area as Hurricane Florence approaches Lumberton, N.C., Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. ANDREW NELLES/THE TENNESSEAN/USA TODAY NETWORK
Soldiers from the North Carolina National Guard reinforce a low-lying area with sandbags as Hurricane Florence approaches Lumberton, N.C., Friday. ANDREW NELLES/THE TENNESSEAN/USA TODAY NETWORK
Volunteers fills sandbags to reinforce a low-lying area as Hurricane Florence approaches Lumberton, N.C., Friday. ANDREW NELLES/THE TENNESSEAN/USA TODAY NETWORK
Volunteers Rivers Malcolm, left, 9, and Ben Miller, right, bump fists while filling sandbags to help reinforce a low-lying area in Lumberton, N.C.. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Soldiers from the North Carolina National Guard depart after reinforcing a low-lying area with sandbags as Hurricane Florence approaches Lumberton, N.C.. ANDREW NELLES/THE TENNESSEAN/USA TODAY NETWORK
A father and daughter learn that friends were injured in a house that a tree fell on during landfall of Hurricane Florence, in Wilmington, North Carolina on Sept.14, 2018. - Florence smashed into the US East Coast Friday with howling winds, torrential rains and life-threatening storm surges as emergency crews scrambled to rescue hundreds of people stranded in their homes by flood waters. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Rescue personnel remove a man from a home that a large tree fell on after Hurricane Florence hit the area, Friday. A mother and infant were killed inside the home. MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES
Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo talks about the first death of a resident from Hurricane Florence, Friday, during a press conference in Wilmington, N.C.. KEN RUINARD/USA TODAY NETWORK
Somebody's having fun. Deacon Etheridge, 14, surfs on a large puddle on Main Street in Swan Quarter, N.C., Friday, after Hurricane Florence made landfall. MATT BURKHARTT/USA TODAY NETWORK
Deacon Etheridge, 14, left and Fortino Beltran, also 14, surf on a large puddle on Main Street in Swan Quarter, N.C. MATT BURKHARTT/USA TODAY NETWORK
Ethan Hall, right, Michael Jenkins, center, and Nash Fralick, left, examine damage to Tidewater Brewing Co. in Wilmington, N.C., after Hurricane Florence made landfall Sept. 14, 2018. Chuck Burton, AP
Barry Shape attempts to clear debris from a storm drain as Hurricane Florence comes ashore in Wilmington, N.C. Sept. 14, 2018. JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE
Rescue workers pray after attempting to remove a giant tree that toppled onto a house and killed two people and injured a third when Hurricane Florence came ashore in Wilmington, N.C. Sept. 14, 2018. JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE
Jason Prevatte attempts to clear debris from a storm drain as Hurricane Florence comes ashore in Wilmington, N.C. Sept. 14, 2018. JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE
"Everybody's right to be cautious, but I think everything is going to be all right," said Andrew Jenkins of Charleston after walking down Vendue Range to Waterfront Park in Charleston, S.C. hours before Hurricane Florence makes landfall in North Carolina. Jeremiah Wilson, USA TODAY NETWORK
Amanda Daniels and her dog Dude on the beach in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina on Sept. 14, 2018. John Meore, USA TODAY NETWORK
Waves crash on shore in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. in theOuter Banks, Sept. 14, 2018. Tariq Zehawi, USA TODAY NETWORK
Russ Lewis covers his eyes from a gust of wind and a blast of sand as Hurricane Florence approaches Myrtle Beach, S.C. Sept. 14, 2018. David Goldman, AP
Russ Lewis looks for shells along the beach as Hurricane Florence approaches Myrtle Beach, S.C. Sept. 14, 2018. "We might get lucky we might not we'll find out," said Lewis of the storm. David Goldman, AP
Michael Henderson a professional skydiver, stands on the seventh floor of a parking garage in downtown Wilmington, N.C. as Hurricane Florence just hit land, Sept. 14, 2018. Ken Ruinard, USA TODAY NETWORK
Volunteers from the Civilian Crisis Response Team help rescue three children from their flooded home in James City, North Carolina on Sept 14, 2018. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Jeff Egyp carries a United States flag in windy conditions along the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, N.C. Ken Ruinard, USA TODAY NETWORK
Students Samantha Levine, Megan Boles, Aaron Newns, Dana Pawlowski and Isaiah Goham, of East Carolina University's Coastal Storms class, use anemometers to measure wind speeds at Union Point Park in New Bern, N.C. Sept. 13, 2018. Gray Whitley, AP
Jamie Thompson walks through flooded sections of East Front Street near Union Point Park in New Bern, N.C. Sept. 13, 2018. Gray Whitley, AP
Ronald Whitmer and Brenda Whitmer wait in an evacuation shelter setup at the Conway High School for the arrival of Hurricane Florence Sept. 13, 2018 in Conway, S.C. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
Michael Nelson floats in a boat made from a metal tub and fishing floats after the Neuse River went over its banks and flooded his street during Hurricane Florence Sept. 13, 2018 in New Bern, N.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
A North Myrtle Beach, S.C. public safety officer informs beachgoers of the 7 p.m. curfew due to Hurricane Florence on, Sept. 13, 2018. JOSH MORGAN, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Union Point Park is flooded with rising water from the Neuse and Trent Rivers in New Bern, N.C. Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Hurricane Florence already has inundated coastal streets with ocean water and left tens of thousands without power, and more is to come. Gray Whitley/Sun Journal via AP
People watch the sunset at Battery Seawall in Charleston, S.C. on a calm evening as Hurricane Florence nears the coast on Sept. 13, 2018, much further north in North Carolina. JACK GRUBER, USA TODAY
Karen Glass takes photos of the the shore at Cherry Grove Beach, S.C. after the first rain from an outer band of Hurricane Florence hits the area on Sept. 13, 2018. JOSH MORGAN, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
A North Myrtle Beach Public Safety officer drives down North Ocean Boulevard as the first rain from an outer band of Hurricane Florence hits the Cherry Grove Pier area of North Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Sept. 13, 2018. JOSH MORGAN, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Sue and Kevin York take a selfie along the beach in Oak Island in Southport, N.C., as Hurricane Florence approaches the North Carolina coastline on Sept. 13, 2018. KEN BLEVINS, The Star-News via AP
Josephine Mitchell, left, and Claudia Mitchell use clothing to cover their eyes as sand blows through the air at Buckroe Beach on Sept. 13, 2018. JONATHON GRUENKE, The Daily Press via AP
Portions of a boat dock and boardwalk are destroyed by powerful wind and waves as Hurricane Florence arrives Sept. 13, 2018, in Atlantic Beach, N.C. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Taliyah Wright-Crosby, 11, organizes Hurricane Florence supplies while watching her mother Arlean Wright-Crosby prepare dinner for her family in their home as they settle in to ride out Hurricane Florence along with other neighbors on Romney Street in Charleston before Hurricane Florence makes landfall along the East Coast. Jack Gruber, Jack Gruber-USA TODAY NETWORK
A motorist drives through a flooded area in the Swan Quarter harbor in Swan Quarter, N.C as Hurricane Florence makes landfall Sept. 13, 2018. Matt Burkhartt, Asheville Citizen Times via USA TODAY NETWORK
Fishermen launch a boat as they attempt to recover their haul-seine fishing net, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, in Virginia Beach, Va., as Hurricane Florence moves towards the eastern shore. Alex Brandon, AP
Blake Rothenberg, left, and Marc McLeod double park their kayaks on Cool Blow Street in Charleston, S.C. preparing for possible heavy flooding from Hurricane Florence. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
A spray painted message is left on a boarded up condominium as the outer bands of Hurricane Florence being to affect the coast Sept. 13, 2018 in Atlantic Beach, United States. Coastal cities in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia are under evacuation orders as the Category 2 hurricane approaches the United States. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Waves slam the Oceana Pier & Pier House Restaurant in Atlantic Beach, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018 as Hurricane Florence approaches the area. Travis Long, The News & Observer via AP
Special cots for patients and caregivers are available for residents with medical needs at I.C. Norcom High School in preparation of Hurricane Florence, in Portsmouth, Va., on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Kristen Zeis, The Virginian-Pilot via AP
Volunteer Chuck Cruthirds, left, and April Martin, with American Red Cross Disaster Cycle Services, help set up a cot in the gym at the Brainerd Youth and Family Development Center on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018 in Chattanooga, Tenn. The Hamilton County Office of Emergency Management, American Red Cross and other organizations are joining to open and operate a shelter at the Brainerd Youth & Family Development Center for coastal residents fleeing Hurricane Florence, according to a news release. C.B. Schmelter, Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP
Town of Emerald Isle Town Manager Frank Rush surveys the south end of the island as Hurricane Florence approaches Emerald Isle N.C., Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Tom Copeland, AP
Danny White, 52, left, and his son, Buddy, 20, of Elizabeth City, board up the Pit-Stop Mini Mart in preparation of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 13, 2018. Tariq Zehawi, NorthJersey.com via USA TODAY NETWOR
Amy Mead of Wilmington, N.C. ducks a windy gust at Wrightville Beach marina in Wilmington, North Carolina on Sept. 13, 2018. Ken Ruinard, Greenville News via USA Today Network
Daniel Harris sits on the bulkhead of Mariners' wharf Park in downtown Elizabeth City, N.C. on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Harris plans to ride out the storm in his near by home. John Meore, The Journal News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Bob Bowman, from Virginia Beach, Va., gets some air as he kiteboards, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, in Virginia Beach, Va., as Hurricane Florence moves towards the eastern shore. Alex Brandon, AP
City of Charleston workers continue to prepare for Hurricane Florence along Market Street before Hurricane Florence makes landfall along the East Coast. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Jason Morris takes down one of several American flags ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 13, 2018 in Myrtle Beach, United States. Hurricane Florence is expected to arrive on Friday possibly as a category 2 storm along the North Carolina and South Carolina coastline. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
Runners along the Battery seawall in Charleston before Hurricane Florence makes landfall along the East Coast. Jack Gruber, Jack Gruber-USA TODAY NETWORK
Police officers have the road leading to Emerald Isle blocked off to traffic as Hurricane Florence starts to hit Emerald Isle N.C., Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Tom Copeland, AP
Austin Emunson sits on sand bags in front of the garage to protect a chicken coop they moved inside prior to Hurricane Florence in Swansboro N.C., Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Tom Copeland, AP
Swan Quarter N.C fire chief Jefferey Stotesberry and his son J.T Stotesberry refuel generators and chainsaws at the fire department as they prepare for Hurricane Florence Sept. 13, 2018. Matt Burkhartt, USA TODAY NETWORK
Amy Neathery, left of Wilmington, N.C. gives a thumbs up to family watcher her get interviewed by Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel, before Hurricane Florence hit on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Ken Ruinard, Greenville News via USA Today Network
A pickup truck loaded with 24 cases of water is parked in front of the Fairfield Inn & Suites in Elizabeth City, N.C. Thursday morning as Hurricane Florence approaches on Sept. 13, 2018. Tariq Zehawi, USA TODAY NETWORK
Kida Lee reads a book as her brother Jude plays a game, as mother Jennifer Carty watches as they seek shelter at Burgaw Middle School ahead of Hurricane Florence in Burgaw, N.C. Sept. 12, 2018. EPA-EFE
Bobby Suggs, 69, checks his medications while waiting in a shelter for Hurricane Florence to pass after evacuating from his Myrtle Beach home, in Conway, S.C., Sept. 12, 2018. AP
Jason Moore, of Raleigh, N.C., packs to evacuate from Wrightsville Beach, N.C., on Sept. 12, 2018 as Hurricane Florence threatens the coast. CHUCK BURTON, AP
People evacuate ahead of the forecasted landfall of Hurricane Florence by seeking shelter at Burgaw Middle School in Burgaw, N.C. on Sept. 12, 2018. CAITLIN PENNA, EPA-EFE
A boy runs to the ocean at sunset on the Isle of Palms, S.C., as Hurricane Florence slightly weakens but remains a potentially catastrophic storm in the Atlantic ocean on Sept. 12, 2018. MIC SMITH, AP
People and pets evacuate ahead of the forecasted landfall of Hurricane Florence by seeking shelter at Burgaw Middle School in Burgaw, N.C. on Sept. 12, 2018. CAITLIN PENNA, EPA-EFE
A news crew pauses between segments at Wrightsville Beach in Wilmington N.C. on Sept. 12, 2018. KEN RUINARD, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Jennifer Wilson gives a hug to Andy Correll at The Liquid Room, a bar near the riverfront in Wilmington, N.C., Sept. 12, 2018, before the arrival of Hurricane Florence. Ken Ruinard, The Greenville News, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Henry Wright, 60, left, waits in downtown Charleston, S.C., Sept. 12, 2018, at a Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA) bus stop which serves as a Hurricane Evacuation Bus Stop picking up people needing to be transported to the Charleston County Government Complex to be evacuated on buses to locations further inland such as Columbia, S.C. prior to Hurricane Florence making landfall along the East Coast. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Yugonda Sample waits outside of her car as traffic backs up along Oyster Point Road as people attempt to pickup sandbags Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in Newport News, Va. The city was offering free sandbags to residents at the Public Works Operations Center as Hurricane Florence approaches. Police had to turn away residents because of traffic congestion. Jonathon Gruenke, The Daily Press, via AP
In this satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Hurricane Florence churns through the Atlantic Ocean toward the East Coast on Sept. 12, 2018. NOAA via Getty Images
A gas station sits empty with its fuel pumps wrapped in caution tape in Jacksonville, N.C., on Sept. 12, 2018, in advance of Hurricane Florence. LOGAN CYRUS, AFP/Getty Images
Phoebe Tesh covers her face as she talks about packing to evacuate from Wrightsville Beach, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 as Hurricane Florence threatens the coast. Chuck Burton, AP
Patio furniture is seen in the pool in an effort to keep it from flying away as people prepare ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 12, 2018 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
James Waters of Wilmington, N.C., finishes surfing and stopped by to see his friends boarding up Jerry Allen's Grill at Wrightsville Beach in Wilmington, N.C., Sept. 12, 2018. Ken Ruinard, The Greenville News, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Steve and Jamie Galloway bag sand Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., as Hurricane Florence approaches the east coast. Gerry Broome, AP
People walk by the boarded up front windows of Bourbon Street in preparation for Hurricane Florence in Wilmington, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. The effects of Hurricane Florence in Southeastern North Carolina are expected to begin Thursday. Matt Born, The Star-News via AP
Sand bags surround homes on North Topsail Beach, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, as Hurricane Florence threatens the coast. Chuck Burton, AP
Kay Torrens, middle, stands with her husband Leo Torrens before leaving him at the Trinity Grove Nursing Home in Wilmington on Sept. 12, 2018. Hurricane Florence is expected to reach Wilmington on Thursday night. Ken Ruinard, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Families board evacuation buses for a shelter in Raleigh, North Carolina less than two days before Hurricane Florence is expected to strike Wilmington, N.C. on Sept. 12, 2018. According to reports, hurricane Florence has weakened to a category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, with winds toping 125 miles per hour. Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA-EFE
Tim Avery pulls boards to the third story of a home as he prepares for Hurricane Florence at a home in Emerald Isle N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. Tom Copeland, AP
Kamil Korzec walks under the Second Avenue Pier in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Sept. 12, 2018 days before Hurricane Florence is expected to hit the coast of North and South Carolina. Josh Morgan, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Barbara Coates finishes up preparing her boat for Hurricane Florence at the Lightkeepers Marina in North Myrtle Beach on Sept. 12, 2018. Josh Morgan, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Karly Suggs takes a pillow, towels and other necessities to her car as she prepares to evacuate her North Myrtle Beach home, Sept. 12, 2018. Josh Morgan, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Dane Evans, a fisherman, 36, of Swan Quarter, works on his 31-year-old fishing boat, Captain Drew, named after his six-year-old son, in the Swan Quarter harbor Sept. 12, 2018. As Hurricane Florence moves in, a storm surge of about three to six feet is expected for Swan Quarter, N.C., and around six feet for Ocracoke Island with 12-20 inches of rainfall for the entire area. Hyde county as well as several surrounding counties are under mandatory evacuation. Evans will be traveling to Washington, N.C. to stay with his girlfriend during the hurricane. Matt Burkhartt, Asheville Citizen Times via USA TODAY NETWORK
Billy and Stacy Prince and their dog Pixie begin packing up their vehicles to evacuate their North Myrtle Beach home on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. Billy Prince, who grew up in the area, said he stayed for past hurricanes but didn't want to take the risk with Hurricane Florence. Josh Morgan, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
MRYTLE BEACH, SC. SEPTEMBER 12: Poolside furniture is placed in the pool of a hotel ahead of the approaching Hurricane Florence on September 12, 2018 in Mrytle Beach, South Carolina. Hurricane Florence is expected on Friday possibly as a category 4 storm along the Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina coastline. Mark Wilson, Getty Images
Michael Waldo, top, owner of Waldo the Framer Construction, and Robert McKeehan cover the storefront windows of Catherine's Plus Sizes with plywood on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, at Cobb Corners in Rocky Mount, N.C., in preparation for Hurricane Florence. Alan Campbell, Rocky Mount Telegram via AP
Mark Lewis, left, conservator, and Alisa Reynolds, associate registrar, secure the painting "The Shoppers" by William James Glackens at the Chrysler Museum of Art on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018 in Norfolk, Va. As category 4 Hurricane Florence approaches, staff members pull priceless paintings off the walls near windows and skylights on. Later on, the entrance to the museum will be sandbagged. The' N. Pham, The Virginian-Pilot via AP
A high definition camera outside the International Space Station captured a NASA view of Hurricane Florence at 7:50 a.m. EDT on Sept, 12, 2018, shown in this video still. Hurricane Florence churned across the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday packing winds of 130 miles per hour (215 kph) as an emergency management official warned the monster storm would deliver a "Mike Tyson punch" to the Carolina coast. President Donald Trump urged residents to heed orders to evacuate and said the federal government was "ready for the big one that is coming." NASA via AFP/Getty Images
Mike Moore, a homeowner, evacuates ahead of the forecasted landfall of Hurricane Florence in Carolina Beach, N.C., Sept. 12, 2018. CAITLIN PENNA, EPA-EFE
Workers take boats out of the water in Wanchese Harbor as Hurricane Florence approaches the coast of the Carolinas Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in Wanchese, N.C. Gerry Broome, AP
Kimberly Johnson works to board the windows and doors of Tommy Condon's Restaurant on Market Street in downtown Charleston, S.C. on Sept. 12, 2018 as residents prepare for Hurricane Florence to make landfall along the East Coast. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Bobby Vorn (top left) and Butch Beaudry (top right) prepare to attach wooden planks over the windows of an oceanfront home, less than two days before Hurricane Florence is expected to strike Wrightsville Beach, N.C. on Sept. 12, 2018. JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE
A lift operator at Casper's Marina works to move boats to higher ground in Swansboro, N.C. on Sept. 12, 2018, in advance of Hurricane Florence. LOGAN CYRUS, AFP/Getty Images
Marge Brown, 65, says goodbye to her father, George Brown, 90, before he is evacuated from a healthcare home in Morehead City, N.C., Sept. 12, 2018, as Hurricane Florence approaches the east coast. "I'd like to stay and see what happens. I'm 90 plus," said Brown, a WWII veteran who says he's survived a plane crash and severe burns from a laboratory fire where he once worked. David Goldman, AP
Workers prepare Charleston City Hall for the comin storm in Charleston, S.C. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Workers prepare Charleston City Hall. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
The high water mark from the 1989 Hurricane Hugo shown on the wall of Tommy Condon's Restaurant on Market Street in downtown Charleston, S.C.. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
A man takes photos of a sign on a boarded up vacation rentals office near Wrightsville beach, N.C. on Sept. 12, 2018. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS, AFP/Getty Images
A warning flag flies in the gusty wind near Nags Head, N.C., Sept. 12, 2018. Gerry Broome, AP
Johnny Mercer's Fishing Pier juts into the Atlantic Ocean at sunrise on Sept. 12, 2018, less than two days before Hurricane Florence is expected to strike Wrightsville Beach, N.C.. JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE
Lewis Patrick, left, and Shaun Long, right, of Wilmington, N.C. wait over an hour to check in the New Hanover County emergency shelter at Trask Middle School in Wilmington on Sept. 11, 2018. Ken Ruinard, Greenville News via USA Today Network
Jaime Waynick, an employee with New Hanover County, takes a dog for a walk at the county emergency shelter held at Trask Middle School in Wilmington, N.C. on Sept. 11, 2018. Ken Ruinard, Greenville News via USA Today Network
This US Navy photo released September 12, 2018 shows a Sailor as he heaves line during a heavy weather mooring evolution in preparation for Hurricane Florence on Sept. 11, 2018 in Norfolk, Va.. Some ships will not get underway due to maintenance and are taking extra precautions to avoid potential damage. Commanding officers have a number of options when staying in port. Some of these options include adding additional mooring and storm lines, dropping the anchor, and disconnecting shore power cables. JUSTIN WOLPERT, Navy Office of Information/AFP/Getty Images
Topher Snyder, 7, plays in leftover sand as his parents Jeremy, left, and Tobi, center, tie off sandbags on Sept 11, 2018, in Virginia Beach. The city dumped mounds of free sand in one of the parking lots at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex for residents to use ahead of Hurricane Florence. Vicki Cronis-Nohe, The Virginian-Pilot via AP
Cars drive slowly away from the coast on I-40 in Garner, N.C. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. Ken Ruinard, Greenville News, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Meredith Reddick, left, and her father Gordon Reddick, owner of Redix store, talk about debris flying through the air and the need for plywood boards covering his windows, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. Reddick has used the same boards since 1993, and wrote names for each storm ever since. Ken Ruinard, Greenville News, via USA TODAY NETWORK
A wood post exhibit created by Dylan Rosbrugh in 2017 shows past hurricanes in Wilmington, N.C., Tuesday, September 11, 2018. Ken Ruinard, Greenville News, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Jon Wright, 63, of Wilmington, N.C., drills screws in plywood to cover windows at the Causeway Cafe in Wilmington, N.C., on Tuesday, September 11, 2018. Hurricane Florence is expected to arrive in Wilmington late Thursday night through Friday morning. Ken Ruinard, Greenville News, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Plenty of tourists enjoyed the beach despite rough surf on Assateague Island, Va., on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. The island is part of the state's zone A evacuation that was issued in advance of Hurricane Florence, but local officials have not asked residents to leave yet. Jenna Miller, The Daily Times, via USA TODAY NETWORK
Angie Travis and her husband Jeff place large piece of plywood over a window on their vacation home in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Sept.11, 2018 as they prepare for Hurricane Florence. Josh Morgan, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
David Fries of North Myrtle Beach fills up his vehicle on Sept. 11, 2018, days before Hurricane Florence is expected to hit the coast of North and South Carolina. Fries said he will be staying at his home with his pets, but his wife and mother-in-law will be evacuating. Josh Morgan, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Veronica Gallardo, left, and Robert Kelly place a plastic tarp over the American Flag that hung in the cell of Jefferson Davis inside the Casemate Museum on Fort Monroe, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, in Hampton, Va. The staff is preparing for rising waters and other possible flooding due to Hurricane Florence. Jonathon Gruenke, The Daily Press via AP
An F-22 departs Langley Air Force Base, Va., Tuesday morning, Sept. 11, 2018, as Hurricane Florence approaches the Eastern Seaboard. Officials from Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton said the base's F-22 Raptors and T-38 Talon training jets, as a precaution, were headed for Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in central Ohio. Jonathon Gruenke, The Daily Press via AP
MYRTLE BEACH, SC - SEPTEMBER 11: A store's bread shelves are bare as people stock up on food ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence on September 11, 2018 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Florence, already packing 130 mph winds, is expected to make landfall by late Thursday at near Category 5 strength along the Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina coastline. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
PFC. Traequan Shaw of the South Carolina National Guard directs traffic onto US 501 as the South Carolina government ordered that traffic use all the lanes on the route leading away from the coast to facilitate the evacuation of people ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 11, 2018 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Don Ludemann boards up the windows of his second home in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Sept. 11, 2018 Josh Morgan, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
Workers board up a home on Sept. 11, 2018 in Wrightsville Beach, N.C.. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Clint McBride (R) cuts plywood to be put over a home's window on Sept. 11, 2018 in Wrightsville Beach, N.C.. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Preston Guiher carries a sheet of plywood as he prepares to board up a Wells Fargo bank in downtown Charleston, S.C., Sept. 11, 2018. Mic Smith, AP
Lee Dorton, owner of Infused Olive in North Myrtle Beach, cuts pieces of plywood before placing them over the windows of his business on Sept. 11, 2018. Josh Morgan, The Greenville News via USA TODAY NETWORK
A women walks past a local shopon Sept. 11, 2018 in Wrightsville Beach, N.C.. Mark Wilson/Getty Image
Michael Schwartz (L) and Jay Schwartz secure plywood over the windows of their business ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 11, 2018 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.. Florence is expected to make landfall by late Thursday to near Category 5 strength along the Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina coastline. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
An employee of the Wrightsville Beach Parking office, collects the electronic parts of the parking meters on North Lumina Avenue in Wrightsville Beach, removing the meters in anticipation of Hurricane Florence's high storm surge. More than a million people were under evacuation orders in the eastern United States Tuesday, where powerful Hurricane Florence threatened catastrophic damage to a region popular with vacationers and home to crucial government institutions. LOGAN CYRUS, AFP/Getty Images
Marcus Thurston and his wife Shenae Thurston cut short their vacation and evacuate the South Bay Inn and Suites hotel ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 11, 2018 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.. Joe Raedle, Getty Images
A man helps board up Aussie Island surf shop in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., in anticipation of Hurricane Florence's high storm surge. LOGAN CYRUS, AFP/Getty Images
Jacob Whitehead (L) and Matt Jones hit golf balls into the surf at Wrightsville Beach, N.C., as Hurricane Florence approaches on Sept. 11, 2018. Mark Wilson, Getty Images
Home Depot employee Jim Brown helps a customer load plywood into his truck as residents prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Florence on Sept.11, 2018 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.. Hurricane Florence is expected on Friday possibly as a category 4 storm along the Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina coastline. Getty Images
Roberts Grocery Store in Wrightsville Beach, N.C. boards up it's windows as they prepare for Hurricane Florence, Sept. 10, 2018. Ken Blevins /The Star-News via AP
Chris Brace, from Charleston, S.C. lowers hurricane shutters on a client's house in preparation for Hurricane Florence at Sullivan's Island, S.C., Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. Brace said that after S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster ordered an evacuation the property owner asked for the house to be boarded up. Mic Smith, AP
A handout photo made available by the Navy Office of Information shows The guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul (DDG 74) departing in Norfolk, Va., Sept. 10, 2018. There are nearly 30 ships preparing to get underway from Naval Station Norfolk and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek as Hurricane Florence is forecasted to bring high winds and rain to the Mid-Atlantic coast. Ships will be directed to areas of the Atlantic where they can best avoid the storm. Caledon Rabbipal, U.S. Navy, via EPA-EFE
Walker Townsend, left, from the Isle of Palms, S.C., fills a sand bag while Dalton Trout holds the bag at the Isle of Palms municipal lot where the city was giving away free sand in preparation for Hurricane Florence at the Isle of Palms S.C., Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. Mic Smith, AP
Kevin Orth loads sandbags into cars on Milford Street as he helps residents prepare for Hurricane Florence, Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, in Charleston, S.C. Grace Beahm Alford, The Post And Courier, via AP
Larry Pierson, from the Isle of Palms, S.C., purchases bottled water from the Harris Teeter grocery store on the Isle of Palms in preparation for Hurricane Florence at the Isle of Palms S.C., Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. Mic Smith, AP
Chris Rayner helps customers load their cars as they buy supplies at The Home Depot on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, in Wilmington, N.C. Hurricane Florence rapidly strengthened into a potentially catastrophic hurricane on Monday as it closed in on North and South Carolina, carrying winds and water that could wreak havoc over a wide stretch of the eastern United States later this week. Ken Blevins, The Star-News, via AP
This photo provided by NASA shows Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, as it threatens the U.S. East Coast. Forecasters said Florence could become an extremely dangerous major hurricane sometime Monday and remain that way for days. NASA via AP
People buy supplies at The Home Depot on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, in Wilmington, N.C. Ken Blevins, The Star-News, via AP
Alex Gilewicz buys supplies at The Home Depot on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, in Wilmington, N.C. Residents of Wilmington and Southeastern N.C. Ken Blevins, The Star-News, via AP
Jim Craig, David Burke and Chris Rayner load generators as people buy supplies at The Home Depot on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, in Wilmington, N.C. Ken Blevins, The Star-News, via AP
Mike Herring with Frank's Ice Company unloads another pallet of ice as people buy supplies at The Home Depot on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, in Wilmington, N.C. Ken Blevins, The Star-News, via AP
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Go Featured at London’s first-ever FestivalAsia
The British Go Association (BGA) will sharing its enthusiasm for the game of go at the debut of FestivalAsia, London’s largest indoor festival about all things Asian, which incorporates everything from food, fashion and music to yoga, martial arts and language lessons. The three-day spectacular at Tobacco Dock, which starts this Friday, May 15th and runs through Sunday, May 17th, boasts over 150 exhibitors and a main performance stage along with a cultural room, a spiritual room and children’s entertainment. FestivalAsia embraces the diversity of Asian arts and cultures from many of the 29 countries making up this intriguing continent.
The BGA, which represents all players in Britain, was formed in 1953 and is volunteer-led. At FestivalAsia the BGA will deliver a presentation on the place of go in Eastern culture and give a brief demonstration of the game. “The British Go Association is delighted to bring the Eastern martial art of the mind to the attention of a Western audience,” said BGA council member Roger Huyshe . At the BGA stand interested visitors can find out more and obtain a go starter pack.
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Vitamin D Benefits for your immune system
Among all vitamin D benefits, the most widespread is it's role in disease prevention. Vitamin D essentially acts as a tonic for the immune system: it assists immune system cells in doing their job, and reels in cells that are a little out of control. In this article, we'll explain what's going on here, but first let's get some facts about vitamin D and disease prevention.
Vitamin D Benefits: What the case studies say
We'll get to cancer in the next article, but for now, let's just consider autoimmune diseases like diabetes, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, high blood pressure, and inflammatory bowel disease. First, a number of studies showed hints of how the vitamin D benefits that come from living at sun-baked latitudes lowered a variety of disease risks (1,2). Those findings inspired greater scrutiny into the role of this sun-derived hormone in fighting disease.
In one of the larger studies, a collection of serum samples from US Military personnel was used to compare vitamin D levels with the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). Interestingly, low vitamin D levels strongly correlated with disease risk in white, but Hispanic or black patient populations did not experience these vitamin D benefits (3).
For diabetes, animal models show a strong connection between vitamin D levels and blood glucose and insulin levels (4). These finding are translated most clearly into human subjects in a study where Finnish children starting at 1 year old received 2000 IU/day of vitamin D benefits with reduced risk of getting type I diabetes by over 80% (5).
A similar story is repeated in the case of Crohn's disease and inflammatory bowel disease. In 1991, a study came out suggesting that these diseases were more common in the northern US and in urban areas than in the South (6). Over ten years later, a Norwegian study found a correlation between lower circulating 25-hydroxy vitamin D and Crohn's disease.
So in addition to helping with autoimmune diseases, Vitamin D has been noted for immune-system enhancing effects. Blood taken from TB patients was found to be resistant to bacterial infection after supplementation with vitamin D (7). Vitamin D deficiency and rickets was also found to an important risk factor for children developing pneumonia in Ethiopia (8).
The story in all of these diseases is a variation on the same theme: epidemiological studies show a geographical trend, then show that vitamin D is low in people with the disease. Later, more detailed studies come along to show why. Of course diabetes is different from inflammatory bowel disease and cancer. But these diseases are all largely associated with an over-active immune system, which is something that vitamin D appears to help prevent, as we will see in the next section.
Disease Prevention Vitamin D Benefits: How it works
The first clue that vitamin D was doing more than simply regulating calcium came as vitamin D receptors (VDRs) were discovered in many parts of the body beyond the intestinal tract (9). Widespread expression of vitamin D receptors and activating enzymes are also found in immune system cells (10). These findings established a role for vitamin D benefits outside the GI tract and paved the way for a series of later discoveries (11,12).
Most important among the new findings is that vitamin D functions as an immune modulator, not just suppressor or activator. At the molecular level, vitamin D upregulates expression of important immune system proteins that make immune cells more potent destroyers of invading bacteria. And on the level of immune cells, calcitriol also stimulates the conversion of monocytes into macrophages, the immune system's first line of defense against bacteria (12,14).
Recent research has shown an even more compelling link between vitamin D status and immunity. One important feature of the immune system is a group of tiny, positively charged proteins called AMPs, or antimicrobial peptides. These peptides are able to rapidly kill invading bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. Vitamin D metabolites have been shown to upregulate the production of AMPs, thereby strengthening the body's natural response to invading microorganisms (15,16).
Vitamin D Benefits: What it all means
These studies all point in a general direction of a high vitamin D level being an important asset to the immune system. The relationship is complex, but mostly because we are not just talking about enhancing the immune system's capacity to ward off infections. If, however, you remain skeptical about the disease-preventing vitamin D benefits, I would suggest that you turn to the next page for a less ambiguous way that vitamin D benefits your general health: cancer.
1. Grant, WB. "Epidemiology of disease risks in relation to vitamin D insufficiency." Prog Biophys Mol Biol. 92 (2006) 65-79.
2. Zimmerman, A. "Vitamin D in preventative medicine: are we ignoring the evidence?" Br J Nutr. 89 (2003) 552-72.
3. Munger, KL, Levin, LI, Hollis, BW, et al. "Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and risk of multiple sclerosis." JAMA. 296 (2006) 2832-8.
4. Mathieu, C, Waer, M, Laureys, J, et al. "Prevention of autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice by 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D3." Diabetologia. 37 (1994) 552-8.
5. Hypponen, E, Laara, E, Reunanen, A. et al. "Intake of vitamin D and risk of type I diabetes: a birth-cohort study." Lancet. 358 (2001) 1500-3.
6. Sonnenberg, A, McCarty, DJ, Jacobsen, SJ. "Geographic variation of inflammatory bowel disease within the United States." Gastroenterology. 100 (1992) 143-9.
7. Martineau, AR, Wilkinson, RJ, Wilkinson, KA, et al. "A single dose of vitamin D enhances immunity to mycobacteria." Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 176 (2007) 208-13.
8. Muhe, L, Lulseged, S, Mason, KE, Simoes, EA. "Case-control study of the role of nutritional rickets in the risk of developing pneumonia in Ethiopian children." Lancet. 349 (1997) 1801-4.
9. Stumpf, WE, Sar, M, Reid, FA, et al. "Target cells for 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in intestinal tract, stomach, kidney, skin, pituitary, and thyroid." Science. 206 (1979) 1188-90.
10. Dusso, AS, Brown, AJ, Slatopolsky, E. "Vitamin D." Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 289 (2005) F8-F28.11. Zimmerman, A. "Vitamin D in preventative medicine: are we ignoring the evidence?" Br J Nutr. 89 (2003) 552-72.
12. Holick, MF. "Vitamin D: importance in the prevention of cancers, type 1 diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis." Am J Clin Nutr. 79 (2004) 362-71.
13. Deluca, HF, Cantora, MT. "Vitamin D: it's role and uses in immunology." FASEB J. 15 (2001) 2579-85.
14. van Etten, E, Mathieu, C. "Immunoregulation by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3: Basic concepts." J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 97 (2005) 93-101.
15. Gombart, AF, Borregaard, N, Koeffler, HP. "Human cathelidin antimicrobial peptide (CAMP) gene is a direct target of the vitamin D receptor and is strongly up-regulated in myeloid cells by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3." FASEB J. 19 (2005) 1067-77.
16. Wang, TT, Nestel, FP, Bourdeau, V., et al. "Cutting edge: 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D3 is a direct inducer of antimicrobial peptide gene expression." J Immunol. 173 (2004) 2909-12.
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‘A Potential Death Sentence’
By Katrina vanden HeuvelTwitter
If the situation in Iraq is improving, as Bush and Cheney insist, why are US diplomats likening forced postings in Iraq to “a potential death sentence”? In a contentious hour-long “town hall meeting” last week, US diplomats faced off with State Department officials about a recent order that requires them to serve in the Baghad embassy and outlying areas.
“It’s one thing if someone believes in what’s going on over there and volunteers, but it’s another thing to send someone over there on a forced assignment,” Jack Croddy, a Foreign Service veteran of many postings and a former political advisor with NATO forces, said. “I’m sorry, but basically that’s a potential death sentence and you know it. Who will raise our children if we are dead or seriously wounded?” His remarks were greeted with loud and sustained applause from the 300 diplomats at the meeting. “Any other embassy in the world would be closed by now,” Croddy said.
As Juan Cole wrote the other day (“Informed Comment,” Nov. 1), “The US Embassy in Iraq should be closed. It is not safe for the personnel there…. Please write your congressional representatives and senators and demand that the US Embassy be closed and the forced deportation of US diplomats to Iraq be halted.” This may be one way to start ending the war–along with bringing home (and bringing to justice) security contractors/ mercenaries like Blackwater, which has served as the State Department’s security force in Baghdad. (Watch for Jeremy Scahill’s article about Congressperson Jan Schakowsky introducing legislation this week that would attempt to end mercenaries’ activities in Iraq. )
Katrina vanden HeuvelTwitterKatrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation, America’s leading source of progressive politics and culture. She served as editor of the magazine from 1995 to 2019
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HBO looks beyond ‘Game of Thrones,’ maybe back to a prequel
The finale is May 19
Apr. 15, 2019 11:27 a.m.
This photo released by HBO shows Kit Harington as Jon Snow, left, and Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in a scene from “Game of Thrones,” which premiered its eighth season on Sunday. (HBO via AP)
When the last drop — or gallon — of blood is shed and an exultant victor has ascended to the Iron Throne, viewers may be split over how HBO’s fantasy saga ended but they’ll be joined in deprivation.
“What do you do without ‘Game of Thrones?’” will be the lament heard after the May 19 finale, said media analyst Larry Gerbrandt. The question is even more critical to the pay-cable channel, which soared on dragon’s wings with its hugely popular, eight-season adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s novels.
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Keeping subscribers on board means more than another hit, even one as globally dazzling as “Game of Thrones” proved to be. But it’s where HBO can start to protect its brand and position, observers say, an effort both demanded and compounded by an increasingly congested small-screen landscape and the expectations of the channel’s corporate owner since 2016, AT&T.
“I think they need a prestige show on this level to remain HBO,” Bill Carter, a media analyst for CNN and former reporter for The New York Times. But “more than ever, it’s really hard to find a hit show and to break through in this marketplace.”
The channel is well into the hunt for a worthy successor, with one possibility an untitled prequel to “Game of Thrones” created by Martin and Jane Goldman and starring Naomi Watts. Set to begin shooting a pilot in June, it’s among several potential “Thrones” spinoffs being weighed, with discussions at HBO about “how many is too many,” said programming chief Casey Bloys.
“We have high hopes” for the pilot, he said. “But I want to be clear, nobody is going into this thinking that we’re going to do a prequel and all of a sudden everybody who automatically watched ‘Game of Thrones’ is going to watch this. … It’ll have a different feel and different rhythm. We’re not trying to do the same show again.”
That begs the question of what more HBO has to offer, he said. During a period in which “Game of Thrones” was off the air for scheduling reasons, series including “Westworld,” ”Sharp Objects” and “Barry” proved strong draws, Bloys said.
“I’m not going to argue that we won’t miss ‘Game of Thrones.’ It’s been a fantastic show for us, but life does go on,” he said. He points to a deep bench of returnees, including Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon’s “Big Little Lies,” and newcomers including the graphic novel-based “Watchmen” from “Lost” producer Damon Lindelof. One marquee series that’s also in its final season: the much-admired comedy “Veep,” with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
HBO, which launched in 1972 and whose cachet has long justified the boastful slogan, “It’s not TV. It’s HBO,” has reached this crossroads before. At the turn of the century, pop-culture sensations “The Sopranos” and “Sex and the City” boosted the channel’s visibility and subscribers and made it a serious player for prestige awards — including cable’s first-ever Emmys for best drama and comedy series. After the shows wrapped, the channel moved nimbly on with audience-pleasers including “Six Feet Under” and “True Blood.”
But that was then, and this is the time of streaming — or, in shorthand, Netflix, along with a growing host of others including Amazon and Hulu — and a shoulder-bumping rush for stars and showmakers to churn out more and more fare for outlets already awash in programming.
HBO, no longer a singular alternative to staid broadcast networks, also got new corporate ownership when AT&T bought its parent company, Time Warner. HBO recently saw the exit of its chief executive, Richard Plepler, who had been with the channel for nearly 30 years and guided it to “Game of Thrones” glory.
With AT&T’s resources, HBO has stepped up production and will see a 50% increase in the number of original program hours this year, Bloys said, arguing that volume doesn’t preclude high quality: “There’s nothing in 2019 that we’re putting on the air because we’re trying to hit an hour count. … We haven’t lowered any of our standards to reach a certain level of programming” and there is no pressure to do otherwise from WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey, he said.
Subscribers ultimately will decide whether they think the shows are what they want. But expanding the pipeline is unavoidable, said Tuna Amobi, a media and entertainment analyst with investment firm CFRA.
“It’s a very different competitive landscape for HBO than it was when they launched ‘Game of Thrones,’ and they realize that. That’s why you see them ratcheting up their investments in their programming,” Amobi said. Also key is how HBO’s online platform is integrated with planned WarnerMedia streaming offerings to reach the broadest audience possible and make full use of its content, he added.
HBO “cannot rely on the old ways of doing things and hope that being a premium channel will bail you out,” he said.
“Game of Thrones,” which debuted in 2011, has flourished despite the confounding number of small-screen choices. From its first-season average weekly tally of 9.3 million cumulative viewers, the series rose to a seventh-season high of 32.8 million across all HBO platforms, including the channel itself and streaming services HBO Go and HBO Now and over a period extending 30 days beyond the season’s end.
It benefited from the devoted following for Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” clutch of novels. It was richly and painstakingly produced, filmed in 10 countries including Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Morocco, Iceland and Canada. Its appealing cast became household names, and the female characters that grew in stature and strength as the drama unfolded are routinely namechecked as part of the female-empowerment zeitgeist.
“Game of Thrones” could boast of its Emmy dominance as well, with 47 trophies to date including three best drama series awards. Last year, it denied a second consecutive win to a worthy opponent, Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” but HBO itself lost valuable Emmy bragging rights: It was surpassed in total nominations for the first time in 17 years and by relative newcomer Netflix, and the streamer tied HBO in wins.
Analyst Gerbrandt, of Media Valuation Partners, isn’t counting the channel out. Many viewers still like so-called “curated” TV delivered to them, as opposed to searching online through dozens or hundreds of offerings, he said. There’s also the power of perception at work.
“If there’s a brand that survives strictly on name, it’s probably HBO,” he said.
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Current: Simone Moro
Simone Moro
Simone’s childhood passion for exploration has delivered him to the ice-encrusted summits of the highest mountains on Earth and his career achievements will light up the chronicles of climbing history for years to come. A tenacious master of the winter ascent and a technically gifted specialist in fast and light alpine climbing, he is one of the most respected climbers in the world and a source of inspiration to an entire generation of climbers.
Birthdate: October 27th, 1967
Hometown: Bergamo
Homebase: Bergamo and USA
Favourite Food: Pasta with pesto
Biggest Dream: To realize the Everest-Lhotse traverse without oxygen or one more winter 8000m peak.
Best advice ever received: To believe in my dream and not in what others think.
What inspires you: Never stop dreaming and attempting what is considered "impossible.”
Words to live by: Humility and happiness!
Ever since he began climbing with his father in the Bergamasque Alps and the Dolomites of Italy at the age of 13, mountains have become his playground. He climbs to a high technical standard - 8b+ on rock and M11 mixed, and an equivalent standard on ice – but it is his success as an expedition climber which has sculpted his legendary reputation.
A veteran of 15 winter expeditions, he is the only alpinist to have completed four 8,000m ascents in winter, on Shisha Pangma (8027m) in 2005, Makalu (8485m) in 2009, Gasherbrum II (8035m) in 2011 and Nanga Parbat (8126m) in 2016. He has also summited Everest (8848m) four times, including the first solo south-north traverse in 2006. In total he has completed more than 50 expeditions, conquering peaks in the Himalayas, Karakorum, Tien Shan, Pamir, Andes, Patagonia and Antarctica.
However, to focus purely on achievement is to ignore what makes Simone such a unique personality. This is a man whose ambitions have always been united with humility and bravery. During his 2001 attempt on the Everest-Lhotse traverse, he endured horrific conditions in darkness to save the life of a British climber. His many awards included a gold medal for civil courage from the Italian president. As the first European helicopter pilot qualified to fly in Nepal, he has also completed numerous rescue operations – including taking part in a long-line rescue at 7,800m on Everest in 2013.
Simone is a man in global demand. He attends over 30 ambassadorial, sponsorship and motivational events each year, has published five books, and has engaged in coaching and charity projects around the world. He believes climbing is a way of testing one’s strengths and weaknesses but also a means of discovering and respecting the people of the world.
The Italian continues to explore new challenges, most recently in his 2016 expedition alongside Tamara Lunger to complete the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat (8,126m). Climbers and fans may stare in awe at his achievements, but Simone knows there is plenty more to come.
The only alpinist to have reached four 8000m peaks completely in the winter season, after his ascents of Shisha Pangma in 2005, Makalu in 2009, Gasherbrum II in 2011 and Nanga Parbat in 2016.
His winter ascents of Makalu and Gasherbrum II earned him two nominations for the Piolet D’Or Asia in 2009 and 2011.
He has summited Everest four times, in 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2010. His 2006 expedition marked the first south-north traverse of Everest.
In 2013 he was involved in the highest ever helicopter mountain rescue of an injured climber, at 7800m on Everest.
In 2008 he made the first ever alpine ascent of Beka Brakai Chhok in Pakistan (with Hervé Barmasse).
In 2004 he completed the first ascent of the North Face of Khali Himal, also known as Baruntse North in Nepal.
He has twice received the Premio Paolo Consiglio (the mountaineering award of the Italian Alpine Club) in 2005 and 2009, as well as the Premio Dalla Longa in 2008 and 2009.
His rescue of a British climber on the Everest-Lhotse traverse of 2001 earned him the Pierre de Coubertin International Fair Play Trophy, the Italian Gold Medal for Civic Value and the David A. Sowles Memorial Award from the American Alpine Club.
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5 minutes with… Cherokee
In Latest News by pg-admin 9th December 2014 Comments
Re-contextualising the golden age of house music, Franco-Luxembourgish wunderkind Dorian M. AKA Cherokee is at the forefront of the latest French Touch wave.
Departing as a duo and continuing as a one-man act, Cherokee is writing music with a heritage far beyond its years. With the ‘American Spirit EP’ and hit-single ‘Don’t Matter’ tracking thousands of summer-romances, the young yet set-in-stone artist is your coolest friend’s favourite act. With the thousands of fans and the millions upon millions of plays, we’re entering the next chapter in the emblematic story that is French Touch, with Cherokee as it’s leading actor.
Hi there, how are you and what are you up to today?
Hello, I feel good, thank you. Glad to be featured on The Playground.
To those not familiar with you, how would you describe your sound?
It’s hard to describe a sound nowadays, in fact everybody tries to bring his own touch in the game but people easily tend to qualify you to a genre or style you maybe don’t to want to be associate with. Most people say the Cherokee sound is a reminiscence of the French Touch sound which really flatters me. I try to extend it in many different ways in this new EP.
How does it feel to be labeled as the forefront of the ‘French Touch’ wave?
As I told you, it flatters me. I grew up with this music when I was a kid. After school, I would eat my Kellogg’s in front of MTV, hoping to see the Music Sounds Better With You video clip. It always enlightened my day and I promised myself I would try to be like those 3 guys on that cloud waving to the kid.
What’s it like working with Roche Musique and the likes of Darius, Kartell & French Kiwi Juice?
Very natural. Before being a label, we were friends and were hanging out. I know Terence (Darius) and Thomas (Kartell) since a long time now, I played my very first gig back in 2010 with them and it’s funny because Jean (Cézaire) helped us out to set that gig up. He was working on a famous parisian blog called “Boule À Facettes.” Even before that, I was chatting on Skype every night with Terence, it was a sort of ritual and we would mostly talk about our lives and dreams all night long.
What are the 5 albums and artists that have influenced you the most?
It’s hard to pick up 5 albums. There are so many records that influence me on my work.
What other artists do you really like at the moment and why?
With this cold weather, I need music which warms me up you know, something soulful and really cosy. That’s why I listen to a lot of Kindness, mostly his album “World, You Need A Change Of Mind”, I love every single track on that album and amazed by the purity that emanates from this record. Also want to talk about Majid Jordan, which blew me away a couple of weeks ago. Everybody should tend an ear to their EP “A Place Like This” which came out in 2014.
You originally started as a duo. How was the transition from duo to solo artist? How have you adapted your sound?
In a way, it was hard to understand Terence’s choice: to stop Cherokee and to focus on his solo project. People thought we had an argument, but not at all, we discussed the situation in a very healthy way. That’s how life goes, sometimes you have to move on, fall to rise again and become a stronger version of yourself. Unconsciously, I needed that, it gave me a sort of pressure that now evolved into a strength. Moreover, making music as a duo was a very good experience as a human being, we learned a lot from each other, that’s the most important part to me.
You’ve previously remixed Amerie, Mika and most notably, Daft Punk. What’s been your favourite remix? Is there an artist you’re thinking of remixing next?
I have no preference to be honest and I don’t want to feel too proud of my music, making music must be a natural thing first and shouldn’t rise your ego. Each work has been made in a different period of my life and first of all means something to me, they are all forming a strong puzzle. I like to remix, but the original song has to be special to me, I need to feel that I can bring something new and refreshing, if I simply can’t, I will let it down.
FKJ has remixed your ‘Don’t Matter feat. Darianna Everett’. Can we hope for a collaboration between you two?
I was astonished by the remix he did of ‘Don’t Matter feat. Darianna Everett,’ he brought the song into a new space. That’s exactly what a remix should be to me.
About the collaboration, why not? We never spoke about it, it has to come naturally. We don’t push things and don’t make music to make music.
Do you have any information regarding upcoming releases, projects, DJ mixes or collaborations in the pipeline that you would like to tell us about?
I don’t go about making music in a pre-thought or formulaic way, I don’t like deadlines, I like to work with people who understand that. For the moment, I really hope to be able to offer more music in 2015.
Finally, if you weren’t a musician what would you be?
That’s a tricky question… Stuntman in Hollywood!
Written by Alex Lewis
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