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Google's Crazy Modular Smartphone Is Officially On Its Way
Project Ara is finally coming to market. Developers get it in late 2016, consumers in 2017.
By Brendan Klinkenberg
Brendan Klinkenberg BuzzFeed Staff
Posted on May 20, 2016, at 7:39 p.m. ET
This is Project Ara.
It's Google's crazy modular smartphone, and the company is finally preparing to ship it after delays last year.
It has a ton of parts.
That's the point: Ara is a phone that can be rebuilt in many different ways, and reassembled easily. It's kind of like a smartphone made out of Legos.
It's a radically different way to think about how we use our phones. Instead of buying a phone based on specs, Google wants you to configure Ara according to what you want to do with it. That could mean switching in better camera when you're heading to a wedding, or loading up a bigger battery in preparation for a business trip.
Ara was developed by Google's Advanced Technologies & Projects division (ATAP), which works on some of the craziest ideas at the company — like Project Jacquard's touch-sensitive fabric.
Later this year, we'll start seeing Ara in the wild.
Right now, about 30 people within Google are using the Project Ara phones. But the company is gearing up to give the device a soft release: A developer version of Ara will ship before the end of the year, with a consumer version to follow in 2017.
Google is dedicating a new division of the company to Ara.
Since it was first announced well over a year ago, Project Ara has been an experimental project. Now, it's becoming it's own division within Google, a graduation of sorts from ATAP. This was a long time coming — the phone was scheduled to be tested in Puerto Rico in 2015. But that pilot program was put on hold because, according to Google, there were "lots of iterations... more than we thought."
When Ara ships, it will be a little scaled back from the original concept Google showed off last year.
Last year at Google I/O, a project Ara presenter basically built a phone in front of a crowd. Now, the finished product is going to be a smartphone that works right out of the box — it just comes with tons of possible customizations. Google also created standards for all of device's ports, so developers can build third party additions.
Brendan Klinkenberg is a tech reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in San Francisco.
Contact Brendan Klinkenberg at brendan.klinkenberg@buzzfeed.com.
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Avida breaks ground for Verge
AVIDA TOWERS Verge is located along Reliance Street corner Mayflower Street, Mandaluyong City. — AVIDA LAND CORP.
AYALA LAND, Inc. (ALI) has started construction of its P7.4-billion residential condominium in Mandaluyong City, following the strong sales seen from its first project in the area.
In a statement posted on its website, the listed property developer said that its midrange brand, Avida Land Corp., has broken ground for Avida Towers Verge earlier this month. The three-tower project will stand along Reliance Street corner Mayflower Street, Mandaluyong City.
The first tower will consist of 34 floors housing a total of 1,020 residential units, ranging from junior one-bedroom and one-bedroom layouts. The units span 22-24 square meters (sq.m.) and 34-36 sq.m priced at P4.2-4.4 million and P6.7-7.7 million, respectively.
Avida Land is targeting young professionals working in Makati, Bonifacio Global City, and Ortigas for the Verge project.
Aside from residential units, Verge will also offer seven commercial units for lease.
Avida Land is currently turning over units for its first project in the area, Avida Towers Centera. The company said it has almost sold out all 2,526 residential units in the four-tower project,
“Most of them are end-users, of which 54% are 35 years old and below. They were from Mandaluyong and all over Metro Manila. The market is composed mainly of young working millennials looking for units closer to their places of work,” Avida Land Vice-President for Project and Strategic Management Group Apollo B. Tanco said in a statement.
Mr. Tanco noted that prices of Centera units have risen by 40% since its launch, commanding rates of P139,000 per sq.m. by the time it closed sales for the fourth tower.
“Mandaluyong is a prime real estate hotspot…While prices of condo units significantly rise in the area over time, it continues to be at a mid-level price range compared to other cities in the country,” Mr. Tanco said, citing a Colliers International study saying that Mandaluyong is the top condominium market in terms of unit take-up in the past two years.
The company has also leased out more than 70% of the 32 retail units located on the first and second floors.
ALI plans to launch P130 billion worth of projects this year, including two estates in Tarlac and Batangas. It has also committed to spend P130 billion in capital expenditures to support the rollout of residential, office, commercial, and retail developments this year.
The company will be issuing P8 billion in fixed rate bonds to finance its aggressive spending plan, in addition to bank debts and internally generated funds.
ALI’s net income climbed 16% to P29.2 billion in 2018, as revenues also surged 17% to P166.25 billion.
Shares in ALI jumped 1.48% or 65 centavos to close at P44.50 each at the stock exchange on Tuesday. — Arra B. Francia
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Gabriel Byrne at the Movies
Nov 23, 2011 By Stella 9 comments
Gabriel Byrne has five, yes, five films in the pipeline at this time:
In production:
I, Anna (2012)
All Things to All Men (2012)
Le Capital (2013)
At Swim-Two-Birds (2013)
And now for tidbits about each and every one of them!
I, Anna (2012) In post-production
News on the I, Anna front is scarce. What we know for certain is that the film, which co-stars Charlotte Rampling, is in post-production and has a reported release date in Europe of November, 2012.
However, Ms. Rampling has a film out now: a documentary about her life entitled Charlotte Rampling: The Look. The film played at DOC NYC, New York’s Documentary Festival on November 3 and here are some pictures of Ms. Rampling with our usual suspect:
Our thanks to DOC NYC for posting these pics in Flickr and to Det. Logan for finding them for us!
The trailer for Charlotte Rampling: The Look
Perhaps Mr. Byrne and Ms. Rampling would consider a double feature sometime: her film The Look and his film Stories From Home? Then they could sit on stage and handle the torrent of questions that would come their way! Ok. Perhaps not…
We do look forward to seeing them together in I, Anna!
All Things to All Men (2012) — filming
BritFlicks has some news [This article is no longer available on the Internet, but it seems I grabbed the entire thing anyway, so we are lucky!]:
Principal photography is underway on location in London on “All Things To All Men” the exciting directorial debut of BAFTA-nominee George Isaac, who swaps his usual producing role (Kidulthood, Adulthood) to helm this crime thriller starring Golden Globe award-winner Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment, The Usual Suspects), Rufus Sewell (The Tourist, A Knight’s Tale, Zen) and Toby Stephens (Die Another Day, Jane Eyre). From an original screenplay by Isaac, “All Things To All Men” is being produced by actor Pierre Mascolo and George Isaac through Cipher Films, the production/finance venture they formed in 2003 to finance and produce the award-winning and commercially successful Kidulthood/Adulthood.
The strong supporting cast of “All Things To All Men” includes current Hollywood hot property Elsa Pataky (Fast & Furious 5, Snakes on a Plane), Pierre Mascolo (Kidulthood, Adulthood), Leo Gregory (Wild Bill, Tristan & Isolde, Stoned), Terence Maynard (Revolver, Chasing Liberty, Primeval), James Frain (Boiler Room, Count of Monte Cristo, Tron Legacy) David Schofield (Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, Valkyrie) and Julian Sands (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Leaving Las Vegas).
Set in contemporary London, “All Things To All Men” is the tale of Riley (Toby Stephens) a high line professional heistmeister hired to pull off the ultimate sting. Caught between Parker (Rufus Sewell) head of a maverick police unit and Joseph Corso (Gabriel Byrne) a renowned and feared crime lord, Riley is unwittingly drawn into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
The creative talent on board includes cinematographer Howard Atherton BSC (Indecent Proposal, Fatal Attraction, Bad Boys), production designer Matthew Button (The Arbor, Cockneys Vs Zombies) editor Eddie Hamilton (X-Men: First Class) and composer Ilan Eshkeri (Kick Ass, Stardust).
“All Things To All Men” is a Cipher Films production of a George Isaac film, written by George Isaac, produced by Pierre Mascolo and George Isaac, line produced by Andy Chapman and fully financed by Cipher Films.
All Things to All Men
Le Capital (2013)–pre-production
Most of the news that is out there for this film is in, you guessed it, French. So, here is something in English from BleedingCool.com (be sure to watch the “Villains Laughing Maniacally” video while you are there!):
Some French people made a French film and some French guy is going to be in it. Whatever. –Hannah
Brendon’s note: What Hannah meant to say was that Gad Elmaleh is going to be in Costa-Gavras’ film Le Capital, a financial thriller based upon the book by Stephan Osmont. Natacha Regnier and Gabriel Byrne will also have roles. It starts shooting in January [Note from Stella: that is not far away, folks!]. And she also meant to show excitement for a new Costa-Gavras film, then praise the French for their all-round solid levels of cine-literacy…
Intrepid translator Ara tells us that Vincent Cassell (Black Swan, Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method) and Mathieu Kassovitz (Munich, Birthday Girl, Amelie) are no longer attached to this film (if indeed they ever were, officially-speaking) and Gad Elmaleh (he can be seen in The Adventures of Tintin next month) has joined the cast now.
The AV Club interviewed Costa-Gavras in 2009 [This interview is no longer available at the AV Club website].
At the very end, he is asked about the future:
AVC: What are you working on next?
CG: I’m trying to see if I can speak about our society today, but I cannot speak about the theme, because it’s a bit difficult. I’m just starting to work on that. Because we live in a kind of world which has drastically changed in the last years. We speak about globalization, and how it’s become the reason for everything. It has a kind of deep meaning. To be everywhere and to be nowhere at the same time. You think to globalize, you think, the Earth, it’s your country. No, it’s not your country. It’s not easy to catch it in a cinema. It’s too huge.
Do you recall that Gabriel Byrne made another film with Costa-Gavras? How cool that they are working together again!
Shooting will start January 9, 2012 in Paris and London.
Crooked House (2013)–pre-production
No news here. Interesting to note that Christie always acknowledged this novel as one of her favorites. If you want to learn more about her, you can start at the Agatha Christie official website.
And there is this tidbit from Word & Film that makes me believe this film will be good:
Crooked House‘s narrative unfolds around the murder of a powerful Greek patriarch, who is poisoned by his eye medication. When his bereaved daughter refuses to marry her fiance until the murder is solved, her intended, the novel’s protagonist and first-person narrator, takes it upon himself to crack the case. The ensuing whodunit casts suspicion on various family members, each of whom stands to gain, financially or otherwise, from the paterfamilias’ death. However, in typical Christie fashion, the perpetrator is far from the top of the list of suspects, and is motivated by much more mundane and casually cruel motives. In other words, it’s a nihilistic amorality tale that seems tailor made for LaBute’s dark-hearted sensibility. Lately he’s been slumming in the genre trenches, churning out programmatic crime flicks like the hate-crime thriller “Lakeview Terrace,” and last year’s literally titled “Death at a Funeral.” So Crooked House could be a return to the promise he showed early on with his adaptation of A.S. Byatt’s mystery-romance, Possession.
I loved Possession. The only LaBute film I have ever really cared about. I’ve seen it multiple times and it always stands up. His other films? Not so much. So if Crooked House and Possession are similar, we are in luck!!!
At Swim-Two-Birds (2013) In development
A great overview of the book can be found in Salon’s article from 2008: Why Flann O’Brien Is So Funny, by Nathaniel Rich.
O’Brien’s lack of readership is particularly surprising since of the holy Irish trinity [Note from Stella: Joyce and Beckett being the other two], he is by far the funniest. His masterpiece, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), has the singular distinction of being consistently laugh-out-loud funny, even on a second or third read, even 70 years after its publication. Many readers today regard Ulysses or the Molloy trilogy in a daze of stultification or with mild terror at the novels’ calculated efforts to frustrate narrative convention. Yet it would take a reader of calcified heart to read O’Brien’s best work without laughing his face off.
It’s not a throwaway line—the notion of coherence speaks to one of the crucial qualities of O’Brien’s work. Where Joyce’s late narratives fracture and any semblance of plot dissolves in Beckett, O’Brien is the drunk at the end of the bar with a long tale for every comer. His juxtapositions and digressions are not capricious. Instead they create a sense of rooted familiarity, a whimsical landscape in which the most absurd things happen—but always, it seems, for a reason.
From an August interview in The Playlist, director and writer Brendan Gleeson notes that Michael Fassbender has been added to the cast (including Gabriel Byrne, Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy and Gleeson himself) and hopes filming will begin in April, 2012:
“That happened about a year ago really,” he said of Fassbender’s addition to the cast. “People never picked up on it, maybe because Michael wasn’t really quite the massive name he is now. But we were trying to tell people for ages, ‘By the way, listen: we have the coolest thing on two feet coming in.’ I haven’t asked any [actor] who said they wouldn’t do it. At this point I’ve been fretting about it to the extent that I don’t fret it anymore, I don’t sweat it at all anymore. I know that I’ll know what to do once we get out there. And it looks like next spring is going to be when it’s going to happen.”
One assumes that means financing is in place and the film will be ready to roll come April of 2012, but Gleeson is not counting his chickens before they hatch, understanding full well the mercurial nature of film budgets and financiers. “It’s looking good, but I don’t believe anything now, anything ever,” he said. “I can tell you as long as the day is long, ‘Oh definitely, it’s going to happen,’ and all that, but until I’m actually there, I don’t believe it. But at the moment it’s happening, I can feel it. It’s all looking good.”
We cannot wait!
So, that is all the movie news for now. Which film are you most eager to see?
All Things to All MenAt Swim-Two-BirdsBrendan GleesonCharlotte RamplingCosta-GavrasCrooked HousefilmFlann O'BrienI AnnaLe CapitalNeil LabuteThe Deadly Game
Kim Serrahn
Nov 23, 2011 at 4:38 PM · Reply
So much to see. So much to stop breathing at. And so much to laugh and talk about. Hoping HE gets something good for all this hard work.
All of them!!!!
Aragarna
Nov 24, 2011 at 5:48 AM · Reply
About Le Capital, the French link says that Gad Elmaleh will replace Kassovitz and Cassel who were both approached before but aren’t part of the project anymore. But most importantly, it says filming will start on January the 9th, in Paris and London! :D
Nov 24, 2011 at 12:21 PM · Reply
Oh no! Well, thanks for the translation, Ara. I need to correct the posting!
So many interesting movies to look forward too!
Wish all the hard working directors and artists good luck with their projects!
Dec 4, 2011 at 1:58 PM · Reply
Nora, yes–lots to look forward to! I can’t wait to see Gabriel Byrne on the big screen again. And these films all seem so different. Very exciting!
Dec 2, 2011 at 11:48 PM · Reply
I LOVE your new look, sorry I haven’t been around lately. I’m thrilled to see GB’s upcoming films, I didn’t know he’ll be in ‘At Swim-Two-Birds’ too, wahoo!!
I hope he won’t mind filming in Dublin again for my fantasy film, ha..ha..
Ruth! Love your fantasy movie. Once GB is done with these current films he’s got on his plate, I’m sure he’ll be thrilled to head off to Dublin and wear a fedora for you!
Glad you like the site. We continue to grow and do stuff. Kind of amazing. Almost 4 years now!
And thanks for watching all those Gregory Peck films. I am so glad you are enjoying his work. I’ve always loved him.
Jan 5, 2013 at 12:57 AM · Reply
Looking forward to At-Swim Two Birds, for the entire cast. Great lot of talent to bounce off each other…
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Veteran AFL superstar Gary Ablett's long-touted rest appears to be on hold for another week as Geelong sweat on the availability of hobbled Brownlow Medal winner Patrick Dangerfield. Doubt remains over Dangerfield's availability for Saturday night's clash with Gold Coast at Metricon Stadium after he sustained an ankle injury in last week's win over the Western Bulldogs. Cats coach Chris Scott couldn't offer much of an update on Wednesday other than to tell reporters that he remains hopeful the injury won't rule Dangerfield out. The ladder leaders have been mulling when to give Ablett, who turned 35 last week, a rest but Scott said it was unlikely the veteran would miss the match against his old side if Dangerfield is unfit to make the trip north. "Not at this stage, but there's a lot of inputs that go into the decision-making around whether we manage players or not," Scott replied when asked if it was Ablett's turn to take a break. "Part of that is the team that you're capable of putting out in any given week. "I don't want to make it about Gary and Pat necessarily but it has to factor into your decision-making ... if Pat doesn't come up then it's unlikely we'd be proactive (and rest) Gary." If the Cats are unable to make a final decision on Dangerfield's availability on Thursday he will be named in the team and will travel to Queensland, leaving the final call to be made on match day. Scott, who will coach his 200th AFL match, dismissed the idea his side's lofty ladder position compared to that of the 16th-placed Suns allowed him greater latitude in selecting his line-up. "I just don't subscribe to the theory that we're in ripping form and we can go and play anyone and beat them," he said. "Gold Coast have had so many close games this year and they certainly haven't been blown away up there. "It doesn't take much more than a cursory glance at their results to realise that to beat them you actually need to take the game away from them, they won't roll over and give us anything at all." Australian Associated Press
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Cats mull superstar dilemma against Suns
Jason Phelan
Gary Ablett's break will be postponed if Patrick Dangerfield is not fit to face the Suns.
Veteran AFL superstar Gary Ablett's long-touted rest appears to be on hold for another week as Geelong sweat on the availability of hobbled Brownlow Medal winner Patrick Dangerfield.
Doubt remains over Dangerfield's availability for Saturday night's clash with Gold Coast at Metricon Stadium after he sustained an ankle injury in last week's win over the Western Bulldogs.
Cats coach Chris Scott couldn't offer much of an update on Wednesday other than to tell reporters that he remains hopeful the injury won't rule Dangerfield out.
The ladder leaders have been mulling when to give Ablett, who turned 35 last week, a rest but Scott said it was unlikely the veteran would miss the match against his old side if Dangerfield is unfit to make the trip north.
"Not at this stage, but there's a lot of inputs that go into the decision-making around whether we manage players or not," Scott replied when asked if it was Ablett's turn to take a break.
"Part of that is the team that you're capable of putting out in any given week.
"I don't want to make it about Gary and Pat necessarily but it has to factor into your decision-making ... if Pat doesn't come up then it's unlikely we'd be proactive (and rest) Gary."
If the Cats are unable to make a final decision on Dangerfield's availability on Thursday he will be named in the team and will travel to Queensland, leaving the final call to be made on match day.
Scott, who will coach his 200th AFL match, dismissed the idea his side's lofty ladder position compared to that of the 16th-placed Suns allowed him greater latitude in selecting his line-up.
"I just don't subscribe to the theory that we're in ripping form and we can go and play anyone and beat them," he said.
"Gold Coast have had so many close games this year and they certainly haven't been blown away up there.
"It doesn't take much more than a cursory glance at their results to realise that to beat them you actually need to take the game away from them, they won't roll over and give us anything at all."
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'Our Lost Son': Migrant Boy Still Separated From Parents
BUDA, TEXAS - A judge will rule on whether a 9-year-old Guatemalan boy who was separated from his father at the border can stay in this country, and whether his father will be allowed to return to the United States.
After spending nearly a year in federal facilities, Byron Xol (Shol) has been living with a Texas family in recent months. His father, David, was deported to Guatemala.
He says he and his son left that country because they had been threatened by gangsters. He is an evangelical Christian, and says he refused to join the gang because his faith forbids violence.
David is one of 21 parents included in an American Civil Liberties Union motion that they be allowed to re-enter the country and seek asylum.
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D.B. Knox: The Authority of the Bible
January 26, 2017 by D. Broughton Knox
From a lecture to the Evangelical Union, Sydney University, as appeared in The Australian Church Record, November 18, 1948.
The Bible is very much a modern book. Its annual sales and circulation easily outrivals its nearest competitor —not only the books in English literature, but, I suppose, the books of any foreign nation. It is a book that is in many ways remarkable. If only for its English style it deserves study. Sir Arthur Quillier Couch, late professor of English literature at Cambridge and editor of the Oxford book of English verse once described the prose style of the English Bible as a “miracle” and asked his students this question: Does it not strike you as queer that the people who set you courses of study in English literature never include the Authorised Version which not only intrinsically but historically is out and away the greatest book of English prose? Perhaps they pay you the silent compliment of supposing that you are perfectly acquainted with it . . .I wonder?
The Bible is remarkable for the length of time it was coming into being. Sixteen hundred years elapsed between the writing of the first book of our Bible and the completion of the last. Sixteen hundred years is a long time. Cast your minds back through the events and epochs which made up English history and sixteen hundred years will bring you the Roman occupation of Britain. Such was the time during which the sixty-six books which go to make up the Bible, were written.
38 authors contributed. They include men of very varied outlook, some were kings, some generals, some priests and clerics, some shepherds and some fishermen. Some of them were men of the highest educational attainments, others were men of the soil, taken from following the plow.
We can imagine how variegated would be the outlook of men from such different levels of society, and from historical epochs of which the mental climate changed with the flux of sixteen hundred years, yet it is a remarkable fact that the Bible has a uniform voice throughout its pages. All its authors hear constant witness to a God of love and righteousness.
The great commandments: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart end with all thy soul and with all thy might,” and “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” are taken from the oldest book of the Bible, while the book written nearest to our own time, the Gospel of St. John, contains such wonderful verses as “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life,” or again, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
Many other passages could be adduced to support the conclusion that the message of the Bible is unchanging from the first page which speaks of man’s Creation, to the last which speaks of the future judgment.
The Bible is remarkable in the estimation in which it is held. As you know the Christian Church is divided into several denominations, and these unfortunate divisions obscure the fact that the Church is united on its fundamental doctrines, especially it is united in its attitude to the Bible. All the Christian Churches agree in acknowledging that the Bible is the word of God and that it contains the truth on what we are to believe and how we are to act. And Further, the experience of individuals throughout the centuries unites in acknowledging the Bible as the source of spiritual strength —this is true not just of English Christians, or of European Christians, but of Christians in every race in mankind.
The Bible is indeed a book for humanity. In view then of its remarkable character and its remarkable influence, you and I need look for no other excuse for devoting time examining the Bible.
The subject I have chosen is the authority of the Bible, and I propose to deal:
Content of Authority.
The reasons for giving the Bible that authority.
The first part can be dealt with in a sentence or two. As the Presbyterian Confession of Faith has it: “The Bible is given by inspiration of God to be the rule of faith and life,” or as the Church of England puts it in her Articles “Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary for Salvation,” or as Thomas Acquinas, the Roman Catholic theologian, says when he describes the authority of Scripture as incontestible proof in doctrine: “Our faith rests on revelation made to the Apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books.” (Sumna Theologa Question. I , Act 8. Reply obj. 2.) You will have noted that it is a common element of these three statements about Scripture to speak of its authority in terms of faith and life, of Salvation and of sacred doctrine. In this sphere its authority is supreme; for it was given for the purpose of being an infallible guide in matters of religion. If we read the Bible with this intention, the Holy Spirit, Who is its author, will apply its truth to our minds and conscience. If we neglect to read — and read regularly—this God-given Book, we need not expect God to speak to us.
Turning now to our second question, what are the reasons for this belief through which we give the Bible this authority ? But first we must deal with an objection which is Frequently heard.
Objectors point out that 2000 years have passed since the Bible was written. For the greater part of this time printing was unknown; manuscript had to be copied from manuscript, and this gave opportunity for all sorts of errors and corrections to creep in. The test, they say. has been added to, changed and altered with the passage of time, and there is no guarantee that we have got the Bible as it was originally written.
This objection is easily disposed of. Our English Bible is translated from the Greek and Hebrew. Anyone who will be at the pains of learning there languages can verify the fact for himself that the translation is accurate. Most of us are willing to take this on trust.
But, it may be asked, can we know that the Greek text, for example, from which our New Testament has been translated, is the same Greek text which was written by the original authors? The answer, as the politicians say, is in the affirmative, and it is based on the science of textual criticism.
The textual critic of the Bible is in the fortunate position of possessing over 3000 manuscripts of the text. Some of these are very ancient. The famous Codex Sinaiticus in the British Museum was copied round about the year 350. It contains all the New Testament and large sections of the Old. The Vatican manuscript at Rome is a little earlier. These two manuscripts are written on parchment but recent archaeological excavations in Egypt have brought to light papyri manuscripts of the New Testament (preserved from decay by the dry sands of the desert), which date back to the second century.
Thus, only a hundred years elapsed from the writings of the books till the time when the oldest copies which we now possess were made. This does not give much time for corruption, and even this short gap can he bridged with certainty with scientific methods of criticism.
These methods of criticism follow three lines of evidence. First comes the sorting of the extant manuscripts into families. Because one manuscript has to be copied from another it is possible to arrange the manuscripts into genaeological tables, and so arranged the three thousand manuscripts are seen to belong to five or six families of manuscript traditions. And these families can be identified as belonging each to one of the great centres of the Church in the second and third centuries, such as Antioch, Alexandria, Caesarea, Rome. And when these widely separated centres are seen to agree in the tent which they have preserved, it is good evidence that this text is the original one.
Another line of evidence is the Ancient Versions. The New Testament was translated into Syrian, Latin and Egyptian in 2nd century, that is- at an earlier date than the earliest Greek manuscript that has survived. Each version is evidence of what the Greek text was at the date when the version was translated.
The third line or evidence is the quotations of the Bible in the Fathers, some of whose writings go back to within 20 years of the composition of the New Testament itself.
The conclusion is that there is no shadow of doubt that in our English Bible we are able to read what the original authors wrote. Most variations are merely verbal, such as the order of the Greek words. No doctrine is affected.
But this raises the question, granted we have what the authors wrote, can we trust their reliability?
Again the answer is yes, and for three reasons:-
The writers were honest men. The personality of a writer is reflected is his writings and it is not difficult to see that the authors of the New Tenement books are ingenuous and sincere And this conclusion is borne out by their lives. Most of them suffered for their convictions, many of them being martyred.
The writers were eye-witnesses of the events which they narrated: or else, like St. Mark, were the companions of eye-witnesses; and were in a position to know the facts; furthermore they wrote for the perusal of men and women who were themselves eyewitnesses, and who would have immediately detected inaccuracies it the narratives.
The writers were conscious of the need of care in their reporting.
Thus St. Luke tells his readers that what he writes has the authority of those who were eye-witnesses from the beginning (Luke 1:2) and that the incidents he relates are “surely believed” as the result of infallible proofs. He is conscious that the normal man would ask what were the proofs of the extraordinary events which he describes. In the same way St John assures his readers that he is writing of things which he has seen and heard (1 John 1:1), which he has looked upon, and which his hands have handled.. There are other passages which reflect a consciousness of the value of first-hand evidence. These are: Hebrews 2:3, 1 Cor 15:3, John 21:26. II Peter 1:16.
We conclude that the authors of the New Testament were honest men who were in a position to know the facts, and who were conscious of the value of eye witnesses’ testimony; that is, they were reliable historians who wrote responsibly.
Thus treated simply as a book of history and considered apart from its divine inspiration the New Testament can be relied upon to give a true account of the events with which it deals.
(To be concluded).
Written by D. Broughton Knox
D.B. Knox (1916-1994) was on the faculty of Moore Theological College for 38 years, serving as Principal for 26 of them. His life and writings have been a great source of inspiration for Anglicanism within Sydney and around the world.
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University of Memphis runs the most segregated elementary school in the city. Will its middle school be more diverse?
By Laura Faith Kebede - November 7, 2018
PHOTO: Stan Carroll/The Commercial Appeal
In this 2016 photo, students play tubanos during music class at the University of Memphis Campus School. The university wants to add a middle school.
The University of Memphis is proposing to operate a middle school along with its existing elementary school while boosting student diversity in its programs.
The university’s elementary, Campus School, has the highest percentage of white students in the city, at 66 percent in 2017, and the lowest percentage of students living in poverty, 8 percent the same year. By comparison, about 8 percent of students in Shelby County Schools are white, and 59 percent live in poverty.
That especially matters in Memphis, where schools are more segregated than they were in 1971, when a judge used the racial makeup of schools to order desegregation. A growing body of research shows that segregated schools especially disadvantage students of color.
Remy Debes, a member of the middle school’s steering committee and a philosophy professor, presented the university’s plans for a new middle school to Shelby County Schools board members on Tuesday.
“My wife is Indian and we have biracial children and we have lots of concerns about the diversity inside Campus School. It’s not that it’s horrendous, but it’s not representative of Memphis,” Debes said. “So, the goal here has been from the get-go: How do we create a school that looks more like Memphis?”
PHOTO: Caroline Bauman
The University of Memphis campus.
But the university’s strategies to diversify its proposed middle school have not been tried at the elementary school, prompting questions from some school board members, who have the final say if the Shelby County Schools will contract with the university.
“I understand what your intent is behind the model, but it’s hard for me to understand that if that’s not currently reflected in how Campus School is,” said board chair Shante Avant. “It’d be interesting for me to learn from your committee what your plan is for that. Because if you don’t currently have a student body that is reflective of what you’re saying you want the school to be, how would you get there?”
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“Campus Elementary was much more diverse when I was there in the 70s and 80s than it is now,” added school board member Michelle Robinson McKissack. “Be intentional. At that time, that first wave post-integration, they were intentionally trying to make sure they would do that.”
The university announced in March it would explore opening a middle school to build off the successes of Campus School, which often ranks among Memphis’ highest-performing on state tests. The school would be housed in the former St. Anne Catholic School near Highland Street and Spottswood Avenue.
So far, the university plans for a third of students to be children of faculty and staff, a third would come from the neighborhoods in a two-mile radius from the East Memphis school, and a third come be from the rest of the county.
The proposed middle school would give priority to students living in a two-mile radius of the campus and use the university’s existing bus service shown by the blue line. Source: University of Memphis
Until recently, Campus School was the only school with a contract in Shelby County Compared to charter schools, contract schools have more say in how they choose students. That allows University of Memphis to give priority to children of faculty and staff. But federal law prohibits explicit race quotas for student enrollment.
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Still, other schools, like the recently opened charter school Crosstown High, have attracted applicants who vary in academic standing, race, and class through community outreach campaigns.
Although Campus School is also open to university service staff who don’t make as much money as faculty, Debes said there’s room to grow in advertising the opportunity to them.
“And that’s one of the things we will work to try to disseminate information about the school — not just to the community and the county but the university faculty and staff,” he said.
“I hope that you will be very targeted in making those families aware that this is out there as an option for them,” McKissack said.
To attend the proposed middle school, students would have to meet three requirements:
Satisfactory behavior
Fewer than 15 unexcused absences, tardies, or early dismissals
On or above grade level scores on the state’s TNReady test or MAPS, a national test on student growth.
Some school board members took issue with some of the admission requirements, saying they are too narrow to attract the diverse student body they are seeking. Debes said that’s why the school would accept teacher recommendations to explain why a student doesn’t meet one of the requirements.
“We recognize that there are lots of brilliant children out there who are looking like they’re falling below grade level precisely because their learning styles are different,” he said. “We have to make sure the parents and families understand that just because you don’t meet those three criteria on official record, doesn’t mean there’s not a chance for your kid to get into that school.”
“I don’t know if a teacher is going to give a letter for a child who has (a poor grade) in conduct,” said board member Stephanie Love.
Debes said the university would look to Shelby County Schools for advice on reaching out to families in the area. But he also doesn’t want nearby schools — such as the sought-after Maxine Smith STEAM Academy — to think the university is poaching their smartest students.
Other details about the makeup of the school include a “project-based learning” curriculum focused on science, technology, engineering, and math where students take fewer tests and do more group work based on solving real-world problems. Funding for the school would be based on Shelby County Schools’ “student-based budgeting” model that is based on student need rather than a fixed amount for every student.
A contract is expected to be discussed during the board’s Nov. 27 work session, with a vote scheduled for Dec. 4.
By Laura Faith Kebede @kebedefaith lkebede@chalkbeat.org
In this story: Campus School, Michelle Robinson McKissack, Remy Debes, school segregation, Shante Avant, Shelby County Schools, University of Memphis
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A Grim Almanac of Nottinghamshire
Kevin Turton
The History Press
A Grim Almanac of Nottinghamshire is a collection of stories from the country's past, some bizarre, some fascinating, some macabre - all absorbing.
In 1826 'resurrection men' stole thirty bodies from the graveyard of St Mary's Church in Nottingham to sell to unscrupulous medical establishments in London. It emerged they had been shipping their cargo to the capital in wicker baskets booked aboard stagecoaches, but they were never caught.
In 1908 Mansfield tattoist Arthur Scott attacked a customer who refused to pay his bill. Scott tracked his quarry down after two days and attempted to shoot him. He failed, but it didn't take the police long to find Scott - the only tattooist in Mansfield.
On 7 June 1865 Thomas Whittaker left the bar of a Newark pub to visit the toilet in the backyard. As he returned he slipped from the top of a flight of wooden stairs and fell head first into a water butt. He drowned. When Retford eccentric John Clifton died in 1816 he left a deadly legacy. He had a life-long fascination for fireworks and made them for his friends. While sorting through John's things his sister found a tin of black powder, which she thought was worthless, and threw it on the fire. The resulting explosion killed her and demolished the house.
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ZELL READYTO END HIS MIDWAY FLIGHT;BUYOUT FUND LIKELY TO SELL AIRLINE STAKE
Judith Crown
After taking a flier on Midway Airlines, investor Sam Zell is ready to get off the plane.
Mr. Zell put the upstart North Carolina-based carrier in play in the spring by seeking new investors to help fund Midway's expansion and improve profitability.
As a result, a handful of investors have told Midway they're interested in buying all or part of the airline. Among the interested parties are a Durham, N.C., real estate developer and People $8 million in expansion. Several months after the deal closed, the fund moved Midway's hub to Raleigh-Durham from Chicago.
The Chicago vulture fund had purchased other troubled or debt-burdened companies, including bedding maker Sealy Corp. and Schwinn Bicycle Co.
After the fund invested money to relocate the carrier, lease new planes and open new markets, Midway still required capital. But under its agreement with investors, Zell-Chilmark is precluded from investing substantial additional sums in its companies, a spokeswoman says.
That there is more than one potential buyer may mean Zell-Chilmark could recoup its investment or realize a modest profit. The fund's overall return has been unspectacular-pegged in the mid-to-high teens, set back by a loss on the sale of Broadway Stores Inc. in California.
The fund spokeswoman points out that the airline is Zell-Chilmark's smallest investment, accounting for 3% of the $1-billion portfolio.
Says Will Wrightson, an airline analyst at Alex. Brown & Sons Inc. in Baltimore: "They were willing to take a gamble that Midway would work in Raleigh-Durham. If so, they could reap a significant reward. It hasn't worked so far, but that doesn't mean they won't recoup their investment."
Last year, Zell-Chilmark partner David Schulte acknowledged in an interview that Midway was the fund's riskiest investment because its jets are leased. "If we broke a rule in having an investment not protected by underlying assets, it's Midway."
Mr. Schulte recently launched a new vulture fund and is no longer managing operations of the Zell-Chilmark companies. He couldn't be reached last week.
Joanne Smith, Midway's senior vice-president of marketing, says that although Midway lost money when it was in Chicago, the carrier became profitable after it moved 18 months ago. It leased five planes, boosting its fleet to 13, and added service to East Coast cities.
With a 28% marketshare, Midway is the largest carrier in Raleigh-Durham, serving 15 cities with 38 daily departures. Sales are expected to climb 30% this year to $170 million.
But the carrier suffered a setback last winter, when bad weather forced the cancellation 11% of its flights over a 30-day period, resulting in a loss of about $6 million.
New capital is needed to fund Midway's expansion. Ms. Smith says the carrier over the past 18 months has invested $20 million, which came from profits, the sale of slots in Washington, D.C., and from Zell-Chilmark.
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NSA's big data efforts need transparency, privacy advocates say
The growing use of big data by government agencies and private companies should spark a new debate about data collection, advocates say
Grant Gross (IDG News Service) 10 September, 2013 20:19
Recent revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency's massive data collection programs illustrates the need for a new privacy debate about the implications of big data, some privacy advocates said Tuesday.
The increasing uses of big data in all kinds of organizations, particularly surveillance agencies, should prompt a debate about legitimate data collection and practices, said several speakers at a Washington, D.C., big data and privacy forum hosted by the Future of Privacy Forum and the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society.
Participants in the forum raised concerns about pervasive data collection by private companies, with some privacy advocates calling for new regulations to govern how companies collect and use the data. But collection by the U.S. agencies is more concerning, because the government has power to disrupt people's lives in the way private companies do not, said Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union.
With surveillance agencies sharing information indicating evidence of crimes with law enforcement agencies, the NSA's data collection goes beyond preventing terrorism, added Susan Freiwald, a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. With the ability of the government to audit individuals or investigate them, the potential harm to people gives government "a power that's not replicated in the private sector," she said.
Freiwald and other speakers on a panel about government use of big data called for more transparency about what information surveillance agencies are collecting and new independent oversight of the collection practices. Panelists disagreed about whether the NSA should be able to engage in the bulk collection of phone records or Internet communications, with Freiwald calling the collection a violation of the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches.
But Paul Ohm, a professor at the University of Colorado Law School and a former computer crimes prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, said it may be difficult to convince the U.S. Congress to significantly scale back the NSA's collection capabilities. It may be easier, he said, to implement more restrictions on the NSA's use of the data after the agency collects it.
Freiwald agreed that it may be difficult to convince Congress to cut the amount of surveillance, although she called the sharing of other criminal activities with law enforcement agencies an unfair use of the NSA data. "Can you walk away from data that might prevent a terrorist attack?" she said.
With more companies and agencies collecting and analyzing data, the current legal framework governing fair uses of information is "going to be ineffective," she added.
In recently released orders by the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, judges make the NSA present evidence a search of the collected data was necessary before analysts were allowed to do so, noted Bryan Cunningham, a former CIA officer and deputy legal adviser at the U.S. National Security Council. It was encouraging that the orders showed some checks in place for the NSA's use of the data, he said.
But too often, the court didn't question the NSA when the agency told judges it needed to engage in mass collection of data for technical reasons, Cunningham added. He called on Congress to allow the surveillance court to hire technology experts to check the NSA's claims.
The ACLU's Stanley called for independent oversight of the surveillance process, with other panelists calling for more disclosure from the NSA about the reasons for collecting data and the effectiveness of the surveillance programs in preventing terrorism.
While many speakers at the conference raised privacy concerns related to the use of big data, not everyone agreed that there were major privacy problems. During a panel about commercial uses of big data, many speakers seemed to project their critiques of capitalism into the debate, said Berin Szoka, president of TechFreedom, a free market think tank.
When panelists suggested some consumers may be coerced into making choices based on their shopping preferences being shared online, Szoka suggested that most people aren't as easily manipulated as some big data critics might suggest.
Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service. Follow Grant on Twitter at GrantGross. Grant's e-mail address is grant_gross@idg.com.
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Modernizing Federal Cybersecurity
By: Tony Scott
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Strengthening the cybersecurity of Federal networks, systems, and data is one of the most important challenges we face as a Nation. Every day, public and private sector leaders – my team included – are directing significant resources to address this ever-growing problem. Yet as cyber threats increase in severity, so does the pace of this Administration’s efforts. Since 2009, the U.S. Government has implemented a wide range of policies, both domestic and international, to improve our cyber defenses, enhance our response capabilities, and upgrade our incident management tools by: Directing a comprehensive Cyberspace Policy Review in order to assess U.S. policies and structures for cybersecurity; Making cybersecurity one of the Administration’s first cross-agency priority management goals; Spurring information sharing through the President’s executive order to encourage the development of Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations (ISAOs) to serve as the hubs for sharing critical cybersecurity information and promoting collaboration for analyzing this information both within and across industry sectors; Leveraging cutting edge tools like the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) EINSTEIN and Continuous Diagnostics & Mitigation (CDM) program; and, Proposing targeted investments across a range of Federal departments and agencies that improve cybersecurity and protect government networks from cyber-threats.
Earlier this year, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) launched a 30-day Cybersecurity Sprint, building upon the Administration’s whole-of-government strategy, to assess and improve the health of all Federal information technology (IT) assets and networks, both civilian and military. As part of the Sprint, OMB directed agencies to immediately patch critical vulnerabilities, identify high-value assets, review and tightly limit the number of privileged users with access to authorized systems, and dramatically accelerate the use of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards or an alternative form of strong authentication for accessing networks and systems. We saw significant progress in these areas. During the course of the Sprint, Federal Civilian agencies increased their use of strong authentication for all users from 42 percent to 72 percent – an increase of 30 percent. And today, agencies have increased their use of strong authentication to over 80%.
While these statistics demonstrate marked improvement in identifying and closing the gaps in the Federal cyber infrastructure, we still have more work to do. We must acknowledge the modern reality that the work of addressing cyber risks is never finished and is ever changing.
Agencies have increased their use of strong authentication to 80% – an increase of nearly 40% this year.
As part of the Sprint, a team of over 100 experts from across the government and private industry led a comprehensive review of the Federal Government’s cybersecurity policies, procedures, and practices. The team’s review made clear that we must continue to double down on this Administration’s broad strategy to enhance Federal cybersecurity and fundamentally overhaul information security practices, policies, and governance. That is why we recently proposed for the first time in 15 years revisions to the Federal Government’s governing document establishing policies for the management of Federal information resources, and specifically, guidance on how agencies should take a coordinated approach to information security and privacy when protecting Federal information resources. And that’s why we issued for public feedback proposed guidance to agencies implementing strengthened cybersecurity protections in Federal acquisitions to ensure the government’s systems and networks are modern and can adapt to rapid industry changes and emerging technologies. These policies, along with future policies and guidance, are written to complement each other as we lock in the progress.
Today, as part of the Sprint team’s recommendations, and building upon the Administration’s broader efforts to bolster Federal cybersecurity, we are directing a series of actions to further secure Federal information systems through the Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (CSIP) for Federal Civilian agencies.
The CSIP focuses on strengthening Federal civilian cybersecurity through the following five objectives: 1.Prioritized Identification and Protection of high-value assets and information; 2.Timely Detection of and Rapid Response to cyber incidents; 3.Rapid Recovery from incidents when they occur and Accelerated Adoption of lessons learned from the Sprint assessment; 4.Recruitment and Retention of the most highly-qualified Cybersecurity Workforce talent the Federal Government can bring to bear; and 5.Efficient and Effective Acquisition and Deployment of Existing and Emerging Technology.
Across the Federal Government, a broad surface area of legacy systems with thousands of different hardware and software configurations contains vulnerabilities and opportunities for exploitation. Additionally, each Federal agency is responsible for managing its own IT systems, which, due to varying levels of cybersecurity expertise and capacity, generates inconsistencies in capability across government.
CSIP acknowledges the current landscape of Federal cybersecurity by emphasizing the need for a defense in depth approach that relies on the layering of people, processes, technologies, and operations to achieve more secure Federal information systems.
CSIP directs a series of actions to improve capabilities for identifying and detecting vulnerabilities and threats, enhance protections of government assets and information, and further develop robust response and recovery capabilities to ensure readiness and resilience when incidents inevitably occur.
Today, the state of Federal cybersecurity is stronger than ever before. Agencies are utilizing significant resources to protect our Nation’s critical infrastructure and to improve performance in this critical area. However, there are no one-shot silver bullets. Cyber threats cannot be eliminated entirely, but they can be managed much more effectively. CSIP helps get our current Federal house in order, but it does not re-architect the house. Alongside today’s CSIP release, we are also issuing guidance to agencies on Fiscal Year 2015 – 2016 Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) and Privacy Management. Since 2002, FISMA has required OMB to report to Congress on agency compliance with, and implementation of, information security policies and procedures. With Congress support through the passage of FISMA 2014 legislation, my team was helped greatly in our continued work with agencies to implement increasingly resilient information technology security and privacy management programs. Among annual reporting requirements, this year’s FISMA guidance for the first time defines a “major incident” and directs agencies to report incidents designated as “major” to Congress within seven (7) days. Additionally, OMB will be meeting with Federal agencies to conduct evidence-based reviews of the agencies’ privacy programs to ensure compliance with privacy requirements and assist agencies in developing targeted plans for improving their privacy program management.
As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated and persistent, so must our actions to tackle them. From the public sector to private industry, we can best do this by properly funding cybersecurity investments, strengthening processes for developing, implementing and institutionalizing best practices; developing and retaining the cybersecurity workforce; and collaborating between public and private sector research and development communities to leverage the best of existing, new, and emerging technology and talent to enhance Federal cybersecurity.
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South Street Seaport Museum announces New Tours of Wavertree's Cargo Hold
06/19/19 through 10/01/19
South Street Seaport Museum
12 Fulton St, New York, NY 10038 Map
19-06-2019 12:00:00 01-10-2019 12:00:00 America/New_York South Street Seaport Museum announces New Tours of Wavertree's Cargo Hold South Street Seaport Museum announces New Tours of Wavertree's Cargo Hold The South Street Seaport Museum announces access to the hull of Wavertree for tours. Wavertree tickets are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/957100. Museum tickets are $20 ($14 for seniors and students, children under 8 NOW FREE) and can be purchased at www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org. The South Street Seaport Museum is located at 12 Fulton Street, NYC, 10038. NEW: Visit the Cargo Hold of Wavertree Included in the price of admission, the South Street Seaport Museum now offers a new level of acesss to Wavertree, a 130-year-old ship built of riveted wrought iron and the iconic centerpiece of the "Street of Ships" at South Street. For the first time, visitors can take a tour into the belly of the ship to view the breathtaking main cargo area. Tours will be conducted into the massive lower hold space to a viewing platform. Maritime Song Sessions Aboard Wavertree Join for maritime singing sessions each first Sunday from May to September aboard Wavertree. Purchase of admission required. Click here for tickets to the next session. The 1885 ship Wavertree has a well-documented and fascinating history. Built in Southampton, Great Britain, she circled the globe four times in her career, carrying a wide variety of cargoes. The ship called on New York in 1896, no doubt one of hundreds like her berthed in the city. In 1910, after thirty-five years of sailing, she was caught in a Cape Horn storm that tore down her masts and ended her career as a cargo ship. She was salvaged and used as a floating warehouse and then a sand barge in South America, where the waterfront workers referred to her as "el gran Valero," the great sailing ship, because even without her masts she was obviously a great windjammer. She was saved by the Seaport Museum in 1968 and towed to New York to become the iconic centerpiece of the "Street of Ships" at South Street. The 130-year-old Wavertree, built of riveted wrought iron, is an archetype of the sailing cargo ships of the latter half of the 19th century that, during the "age of sail," lined South Street by the dozens, creating a forest of masts from the Battery to the Brooklyn Bridge. The 2019 Summer Season at the South Street Seaport Museum also features: New Exhibition: The Printed Port The Printed Port illuminates an industry central to the development of New York City: job printing. Printers were a mammoth force in the 19th-century Port of New York; they produced all manner of printed materials for the businesses flourishing on South Street, including those in the maritime trades. The South Street Seaport Museum's printing office, Bowne & Co., was one of hundreds of shops that made up New York's first neighborhood. The exhibition features original and reproduced artifacts from the South Street Seaport Museum's collection, including working printing presses. A survey of printed ephemera presents the tools and techniques involved in their production. The museum's working collection artifacts are activated daily, where the professional printing staff at Bowne & Co. host live demonstrations and workshops. NEW: Cruise on W.O. Decker Take a 45-minute ride on New York's last working New-York-built wooden tugboat W.O. Decker and see the lower Manhattan skyline like never before. Decker will cruise the tip of lower Manhattan, giving its riders stunning views of the skyline, Battery Park, Castle Clinton National Monument and river views of One World Trade Center. For the first time, Decker will be available for public sails on Saturdays and Sundays beginning May 25. Tours can be booked in advance, $35 with pre-paid museum admission ($29 for seniors and students, $15 for children.) Tickets are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1011575. Pioneer Sailing Season 2019 Sail the New York Harbor aboard the 1885 Schooner Pioneer, an award-winning sail training vessel teaching volunteers of all kinds, traditional maritime skills, and the art of tall ship sailing. Visitors can board Pioneer for 2-hour or 3-hour day and evening cruises as she sails New York Harbor May through October. Pioneer offers special sails and programs and is available for private charter throughout her season. Trips must be booked in advance, $42 for a 2-hour sail or $55 or a 3-hour sail with pre-paid museum admission. ($32 for 2-hour sail or $45 for 3-hour sail without museum admission.) Tickets are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/986323/prm/BookEarly2019. On-Going Exhibition: Millions: Migrants and Millionaires aboard the Great Liners, 1900-1914, familiarizes viewers with passenger life aboard ocean liners, the defining differences between travel for wealthy Americans in First Class and future Americans immigrating to the United States in Third Class, and the continuing importance that immigration plays in American history. Millions is one of the first exhibitions to examine, side-by-side, the dichotomy between First Class and Third-Class passengers aboard ocean liners in the early 20th century. From 1900 to 1914, nearly 13 million immigrants traveling in Third Class arrived in the United States. During this same period, America's wealthiest citizens, totaling no more than a hundred thousand passengers each year, traveled to Europe in First Class, spending over $11.5 billion (2017) on luxury vacations. Even though First Class and Third Class sailed on the same ships, their journeys were worlds apart. This exhibition will feature both original and reproduced artifacts from the South Street Seaport Museum's permanent collection including ocean liner memorabilia and ephemera, ceramics, and luggage trunks from both immigrants and First-Class passengers. The exhibition will highlight a few ship models of New York Harbor working vessels that played critical roles in immigration, including a model of the Museum's lightship Ambrose (LV-87). Night at the Museums Spend the evening visiting museums and historic sites in lower Manhattan, where New York's history and culture begin! On Tuesday, June 25 from 4-8pm, Bowne & Co., located at 209-211 Water Street, will highlight selected examples that show the breadth and brilliance of 19th-century letterpress printing, as well as demonstrate with equipment not regularly on public view.Night at the Museums is produced by the Downtown Cultural Association and is part of the River to River Festival 2019, featuring free arts events from June 18 to 29, 2019 throughout Lower Manhattan. Bowne & Co., Stationers, New York's oldest operating business under the same name. Bowne & Co. was established by Robert Bowne in 1775 and grew as a financial printer throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1975, Bowne & Co. Inc. partnered with the Seaport Museum to open a 19th-century-style print shop at 211 Water Street in the South Street Seaport Historic District. ABOUT SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM The South Street Seaport Museum, located in the heart of the historic seaport district in New York City, preserves and interprets the history of New York as a great port city. Founded in 1967, and designated by Congress as America's National Maritime Museum, the Museum houses an extensive collection of works of art and artifacts, a maritime reference library, exhibition galleries and education spaces, working nineteenth century print shops, and an active fleet of historic vessels that all work to tell the story of "Where New York Begins." http://www.cityguideny.com/eventinfo.cfm?id=385620 South Street Seaport Museum South Street Seaport Museum
The South Street Seaport Museum announces access to the hull of Wavertree for tours. Wavertree tickets are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/957100. Museum tickets are $20 ($14 for seniors and students, children under 8 NOW FREE) and can be purchased at www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org. The South Street Seaport Museum is located at 12 Fulton Street, NYC, 10038.
NEW: Visit the Cargo Hold of Wavertree Included in the price of admission, the South Street Seaport Museum now offers a new level of acesss to Wavertree, a 130-year-old ship built of riveted wrought iron and the iconic centerpiece of the "Street of Ships" at South Street. For the first time, visitors can take a tour into the belly of the ship to view the breathtaking main cargo area. Tours will be conducted into the massive lower hold space to a viewing platform.
Maritime Song Sessions Aboard Wavertree Join for maritime singing sessions each first Sunday from May to September aboard Wavertree. Purchase of admission required. Click here for tickets to the next session.
The 1885 ship Wavertree has a well-documented and fascinating history. Built in Southampton, Great Britain, she circled the globe four times in her career, carrying a wide variety of cargoes. The ship called on New York in 1896, no doubt one of hundreds like her berthed in the city. In 1910, after thirty-five years of sailing, she was caught in a Cape Horn storm that tore down her masts and ended her career as a cargo ship. She was salvaged and used as a floating warehouse and then a sand barge in South America, where the waterfront workers referred to her as "el gran Valero," the great sailing ship, because even without her masts she was obviously a great windjammer. She was saved by the Seaport Museum in 1968 and towed to New York to become the iconic centerpiece of the "Street of Ships" at South Street. The 130-year-old Wavertree, built of riveted wrought iron, is an archetype of the sailing cargo ships of the latter half of the 19th century that, during the "age of sail," lined South Street by the dozens, creating a forest of masts from the Battery to the Brooklyn Bridge.
The 2019 Summer Season at the South Street Seaport Museum also features:
New Exhibition: The Printed Port The Printed Port illuminates an industry central to the development of New York City: job printing. Printers were a mammoth force in the 19th-century Port of New York; they produced all manner of printed materials for the businesses flourishing on South Street, including those in the maritime trades. The South Street Seaport Museum's printing office, Bowne & Co., was one of hundreds of shops that made up New York's first neighborhood. The exhibition features original and reproduced artifacts from the South Street Seaport Museum's collection, including working printing presses. A survey of printed ephemera presents the tools and techniques involved in their production. The museum's working collection artifacts are activated daily, where the professional printing staff at Bowne & Co. host live demonstrations and workshops.
NEW: Cruise on W.O. Decker Take a 45-minute ride on New York's last working New-York-built wooden tugboat W.O. Decker and see the lower Manhattan skyline like never before. Decker will cruise the tip of lower Manhattan, giving its riders stunning views of the skyline, Battery Park, Castle Clinton National Monument and river views of One World Trade Center. For the first time, Decker will be available for public sails on Saturdays and Sundays beginning May 25. Tours can be booked in advance, $35 with pre-paid museum admission ($29 for seniors and students, $15 for children.) Tickets are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1011575.
Pioneer Sailing Season 2019 Sail the New York Harbor aboard the 1885 Schooner Pioneer, an award-winning sail training vessel teaching volunteers of all kinds, traditional maritime skills, and the art of tall ship sailing. Visitors can board Pioneer for 2-hour or 3-hour day and evening cruises as she sails New York Harbor May through October. Pioneer offers special sails and programs and is available for private charter throughout her season. Trips must be booked in advance, $42 for a 2-hour sail or $55 or a 3-hour sail with pre-paid museum admission. ($32 for 2-hour sail or $45 for 3-hour sail without museum admission.) Tickets are available at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/986323/prm/BookEarly2019.
On-Going Exhibition: Millions: Migrants and Millionaires aboard the Great Liners, 1900-1914, familiarizes viewers with passenger life aboard ocean liners, the defining differences between travel for wealthy Americans in First Class and future Americans immigrating to the United States in Third Class, and the continuing importance that immigration plays in American history. Millions is one of the first exhibitions to examine, side-by-side, the dichotomy between First Class and Third-Class passengers aboard ocean liners in the early 20th century. From 1900 to 1914, nearly 13 million immigrants traveling in Third Class arrived in the United States. During this same period, America's wealthiest citizens, totaling no more than a hundred thousand passengers each year, traveled to Europe in First Class, spending over $11.5 billion (2017) on luxury vacations. Even though First Class and Third Class sailed on the same ships, their journeys were worlds apart. This exhibition will feature both original and reproduced artifacts from the South Street Seaport Museum's permanent collection including ocean liner memorabilia and ephemera, ceramics, and luggage trunks from both immigrants and First-Class passengers. The exhibition will highlight a few ship models of New York Harbor working vessels that played critical roles in immigration, including a model of the Museum's lightship Ambrose (LV-87).
Night at the Museums Spend the evening visiting museums and historic sites in lower Manhattan, where New York's history and culture begin! On Tuesday, June 25 from 4-8pm, Bowne & Co., located at 209-211 Water Street, will highlight selected examples that show the breadth and brilliance of 19th-century letterpress printing, as well as demonstrate with equipment not regularly on public view.Night at the Museums is produced by the Downtown Cultural Association and is part of the River to River Festival 2019, featuring free arts events from June 18 to 29, 2019 throughout Lower Manhattan.
Bowne & Co., Stationers, New York's oldest operating business under the same name. Bowne & Co. was established by Robert Bowne in 1775 and grew as a financial printer throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1975, Bowne & Co. Inc. partnered with the Seaport Museum to open a 19th-century-style print shop at 211 Water Street in the South Street Seaport Historic District.
ABOUT SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM The South Street Seaport Museum, located in the heart of the historic seaport district in New York City, preserves and interprets the history of New York as a great port city. Founded in 1967, and designated by Congress as America's National Maritime Museum, the Museum houses an extensive collection of works of art and artifacts, a maritime reference library, exhibition galleries and education spaces, working nineteenth century print shops, and an active fleet of historic vessels that all work to tell the story of "Where New York Begins."
Upcoming Events at South Street Seaport Museum
South Street Seaport Museum announces PIONEER SAILING SEASON 2019 - 05/25/19 - 09/08/19
South Street Seaport Museum Public Sails on W.O. Decker Now Available - 06/07/19 - 09/07/19
South Street Seaport Museum announces new exhibition The Printed Port - 06/20/19 - 10/01/19
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Fr. Frank S. Donio, S.A.C., D.Min.
Email: director@catholicapostolatecenter.org
Fr. Frank S. Donio, S.A.C., D.Min. is Director of the Catholic Apostolate Center. He is former Provincial Rector of the Immaculate Conception Province of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottine Fathers and Brothers). Fr. Frank holds additional provincial, national and international leadership positions in administration, formation, development, and finance in the Society of the Catholic Apostolate and in the Union of Catholic Apostolate (UAC), an international public association of the faithful founded by St. Vincent Pallotti in 1835. Some of his prior assignments include Provincial Director of Formation, Pastoral Director of St. Jude Shrine in Baltimore, MD and Chaplain of Bishop Eustace Preparatory School in Pennsauken, NJ.
Fr. Frank is a Consultant to the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He also collaborated with the Conference on the development of Living as Missionary Disciples: A Resource for Evangelization and on the Convocation of Catholic Leaders. Fr. Frank has served as Consultant to the Archdiocese of Baltimore for pastoral planning and assisted in the development of its Be Missionary Disciples planning process. He has made presentations on evangelization, co-responsibility and collaboration in ministry and apostolate, pastoral planning, Church leadership and management, and Pallottine spirituality at various universities, schools of Theology, dioceses, and national and international conferences, including the University of Notre Dame, Australian Catholic University, The Catholic University of America, Catholic Theological Union, the Archdioceses of Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dubuque, Hartford, and Washington, the Mid-Atlantic Congress for Catholic Leaders, the Leadership Roundtable, the National Association for Lay Ministry, the Catholic Campus Ministry Association, the Catholic Mission Congress, the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership, and the JS Paluch Vocation Seminar. Fr. Frank and the Center received the Gaudium et Spes Award from the National Association for Lay Ministry. The award is its highest honor and recognizes an outstanding individual or organization for promoting understanding of the Church in the world according to the vision of Vatican II.
Fr. Frank is an Adjunct Professor at St. Joseph's College of Maine in the online Theology program and at Fordham University in the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education. He is also a Lecturer in the undergraduate Theology program in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America. He teaches in the areas of Catholic mission, pastoral ministry, spirituality, ecclesiology, and Church management and leadership. Fr. Frank has an extensive background in young adult ministry, particularly at the collegiate level, and has assisted pastorally at various universities in Maryland and the District of Columbia over the last twenty-one years. Currently, he assists the Office of Campus Ministry at The Catholic University of America.
Fr. Frank serves on several boards, including the National Board of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men of the United States. He is past President of The Catholic University of America Alumni Association, former Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Washington Theological Union, and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Bishop Eustace Preparatory School. While in Baltimore, he served as a chaplain of the Baltimore City Fire Department. Fr. Frank is also significantly involved in chaplaincy with the Knights of Columbus, including three terms as State Chaplain of the District of Columbia. For the past eleven years, he has served as Chaplain of The Catholic University of America Council 9542.
Fr. Frank holds a Doctor of Ministry in Adult Spiritual Formation from The Catholic University of America (CUA), as well as a Bachelor of Arts in History (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and a Master of Arts in Church History from CUA. He also holds a Master of Divinity from Washington Theological Union and a Master of Science in Church Management from Villanova University School of Business.
Born in 1966, Fr. Frank is originally from Hammonton, New Jersey, the oldest of four sons of Frank (deceased) and Angela Donio. He made his first consecration as a Pallottine in 1986 and his ordination to the priesthood was in 1994.
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Differentiating Between Language Acquisition and Learning Disabilities with English Language Learners
The following is an excerpt from English Language Learners: Differentiating Between Language Acquisition and Learning Disabilities, by Janette Klingner and Amy M. Eppolito (CEC, March 2014)
In its Blueprint for Reform (U.S. Department of Education, 2010), the Obama Administration stated that an important goal for the United States as a nation is to produce high school graduates who are fully bilingual, multicultural and ready to compete in the global economy.
If that is the case, then we should regard students who begin school already knowing another language besides English as having a head start over their peers. If we nurture their bilingualism and capitalize on their linguistic, cultural, and experiential strengths—helping them to feel “smart” rather than “at risk” —then we will enrich their school experiences as well as our own (Klingner, Vaughn, & Boardman, in press).
We can do this by making sure English Language Learners (ELLs) have every opportunity to interact with peers and use academic language, engage in higher-level thinking, and contribute in their classrooms and schools in meaningful ways.
As delineated by the CEC and Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) position statement on instruction for ELLs with learning disabilities (LD), everyone who works with ELLs should know how best to support their language acquisition as well as their academic and social development.
However, many teachers and support personnel are not adequately prepared to meet their ELLs’ literacy and language needs (Zehler et al., 2003). Teachers described feeling “challenged to help these children reach the level of proficiency required for learning sophisticated academic content through English” (Dixon et al., 2012, p. 6). Now that the Common Core State Standards have been adopted by many states, their emphasis on increasingly complex texts can make these challenges seem even more overwhelming.
ELLs With LD
About 7.6% of the ELLs in the U.S. are believed to have a disability (National Center for Education Statistics, 2009; Peña, Bedore, & Gillam, 2011). However, percentages vary greatly by state, from highs of 28.36% in California, 20.50% in New Mexico, 16.70% in Nevada, and 15.45% in Texas to a low of 0.35% in Virginia. Identification rates also vary within and across districts (Artiles, Rueda, Salazar, & Higareda, 2005; Sullivan, 2011). The majority (about 55%) of those ELLs identified with a disability are thought to have LD (Peña et al., 2011).
Yet determining whether an ELL actually has LD can be quite difficult; the multidisciplinary team must be able to establish that the ELL’s learning difficulties are not primarily the result of language acquisition (Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, IDEA, 2006).
To be able to distinguish language acquisition from LD, educators must understand the second language acquisition process, recognize characteristics associated with LD, and be able to assess the quality of instruction in students’ classrooms. Have these students truly received an adequate opportunity to learn?
Struggles with English language acquisition, on the surface, can seem to mirror characteristics of LD. Digging deeper and trying to understand the reasons for certain behaviors is essential to identifying the underlying causes.
We recommend using a hypothesis-driven approach to determining whether an ELL has LD, including:
Beginning the referral and evaluation process by exploring the hypothesis that the causes of the student’s learning difficulties are primarily external factors (rather than internal to the child).
Conducting the assessment with the notion that there is nothing wrong with the individual and that systemic, ecological, or environmental factors are the primary reason for learning problems.
Maintaining this hypothesis until data suggest otherwise and all plausible external factors have been ruled out. The point is not to look for whom or what to blame for a child’s struggles, but rather to understand the multiple complex factors that are affecting the child’s learning and performance.
The team also must determine that the student has received an adequate opportunity to learn through research-based instructional and intervention practices that have been validated with other ELLs, although it can be difficult to make judgment calls such as these (Klingner, Artiles, & Méndez Barletta, 2006). One way is to look at class data sets to see how ELLs in general are doing in comparison to “true” peers (i.e., same-language, same-age peers with similar background experiences).
There are many reasons why an ELL may not respond to a particular instructional approach in the way we intend (Klingner & Edwards, 2006). It is possible that the instruction or intervention is not as effective for this child as for others, and a different method would yield better results. It could be that the student needs more language support, or that the level of instruction is not a good match for the child. Another possibility is that the environment is not conducive to learning. Before referring a student for an evaluation, consider the classroom environment, observe instruction, and recommend different approaches.
ELLs with LD are usually taught by special educators who have received inadequate preparation in how to meet ELLs’ language and literacy needs (Barker & Grassi, 2011). In fact, when they are placed into special education, many ELLs lose access to specialized language instruction, such as through English Language Development (ELD), English as a Second Language (ESL), or Structured English Immersion (SEI) programs (Zehler et al., 2003).
There seems to be a mistaken belief that special education and ESL services should be thought of as “either/or”—that once ELLs qualify for special education, they no longer qualify for language support services. An important principle to keep in mind is that ELLs with LD are entitled to a full range of seamless services designed to meet their individual language and learning needs.
Classroom example: Michele teaches first grade at Garvey Elementary School. She has been teaching there for 14 years and has seen the community change from almost all White middle class families to mostly Latino working class families who work at the new plant nearby. More than half of Michele’s students speak Spanish in their homes, and about 36% are in the process of acquiring English—or, in other words, are ELLs.
Michele has a Master’s degree in Elementary Education and her principal considers her to be an effective teacher, although she personally feels that she has “the wrong master’s” for the school’s changing demographics. Because the school district selected Garvey Elementary to be a pilot response-to-intervention (RTI) school, Michele recently attended district-sponsored professional development workshops on progress monitoring and other components of RTI. Like many schools around the country, her district is pushing the use of evidence-based practices as “what works.”
Yet, Michele has not taken any coursework or received any professional development in teaching ELLs how to read. She does not know about second language acquisition or understand much about LD. She supposes that the evidence-based reading practices touted on the What Works Clearinghouse web site are appropriate for all students. She ponders, “Isn’t good teaching just good teaching?”
The problem with this thinking is that the answer to that question is a resounding “No!” If your belief is that you can teach your ELLs in the same way, with the same materials, you have been using in the past with students from different demographics, then you are bound to experience some challenges.
It is common for teachers to misunderstand ELLs’ lack of progress and blame it on the students (Orosco & Klingner, 2010). Being an effective teacher with one demographic group is not the same as being an effective teacher with all students. A typical scenario is that a principal or a language arts director in the school district advises using a specific instructional or intervention approach, stressing that it is research-based. The principal might even emphasize that the method has been “proven” to work.
When this happens, teachers assume that, because they are using an evidence-based practice, when their ELLs do not progress, it must be because the students are somehow deficient. Yet students do not all learn in the same way. What works with some students is not the same as asking what works with whom, in what settings, under what conditions, with which outcomes, and when taught by whom.
The vast majority of referrals for an evaluation for possible special education placement are made by classroom teachers (Ysseldyke, 2005). If teachers can improve their understanding of the reasons for ELLs’ struggles, they will be less likely to judge them as lacking.
However, some ELLs truly do have LD and would benefit from the extra support they would receive in special education. Teachers should not wait until ELLs are fully proficient in English before deliberating whether they might have LD. The temptation is strong to delay concentrating on the possibility that ELLs are struggling with reading due to language acquisition or learning disabilities (Francis et al., 2006). It is understandable that, because the characteristics common to language acquisition can appear to mirror those of LD, school personnel may have a habit of waiting, to avoid the possibility of incorrectly placing an ELL in special education. Wanting to wait could actually be a sign that school personnel have some knowledge about the confusing aspects of language acquisition and LD.
Just as it is a predicament to identify ELLs as having a disability when they do not, it is also a problem to delay providing interventions to ELLs who really need them. Following the guidelines outlined in this book can help improve instruction for all ELLs and result in fewer inappropriate referrals. The few ELLs who are still experiencing difficulties at that point will benefit from explicit, intensive interventions in addition to the instruction they are receiving in their general education classrooms.
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Veteran Affairs Canada announces new initiatives for Veterans and family members
Miranda Brumwell May 7, 2018
Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) announced on April 1, 2018, they have enhanced and added some programs and resources available to veterans and their families.
Transitioning into life following service can provide new opportunities and challenges for veterans and their families. For that reason, the Government of Canada has created programs and resources to help smooth the transition and focus on the veteran’s well-being.
“All of these benefits have the intention to position a veteran for success as he or she re-establishes into a civilian society, giving them a new purpose. That’s really the overarching objective here, to facilitate that success as they translate to their new civilian world and the new civilian world of work,” said Paul Thomson, VAC representative.
The new programs and service Theses include:
1. Education & Training Benefit
A veteran who has been released after 2006 and served at least six years is eligible for funding to go back to school. If they’ve served six to 12 years, they’re eligible to receive up to $40,000 and up to $80,000 if they’ve served more than 12 years.
“There are opportunities for long programs, like university programs and post-grad program, but there are also opportunities for short courses. Within those parameters, you can be granted up to $5,000 for a one-off course if you will. Like a first aid course for example,” said Thomson.
After tuition has been paid, the veteran is free to choose how the remaining funds will be spent. Veterans will also have access to a career counsellor through this benefit.
This benefit is open to veterans only, and there is a time limit on this service. The veteran has up to 10 years from their release date.
2. Career Transition Services Program
Through this program, veterans will be provided with support throughout their entire transitional period. Veterans will be supported with their job search, placement, career counselling, career coaching, and resume and interview preparation.
The program provides veterans and their spouse with a qualified counsellor who understands the transition process. The best part is, there’s no time limit as to when a veteran can access the service. They can get assistance or advice anytime they’re ready to do so.
Thomson said the old program wasn’t working, so it’s been completely revamped to be more user-friendly.
“We are already seeing the number of applications and approvals are almost to 300 already. Early indications are that it’s working really well and there’s significant take on the benefit,” he added.
3. Veteran & Family Well-Being Fund
VAC is investing $12 million over the next four years for research in advanced technology, innovative projects and new initiatives that will continue to help veterans and their families.
From time to time, VAC will put out a call for proposals, and anyone can fill out an application to fund their project that benefits veterans and their families.
“We would get approached by a lot of organizations, public, private and otherwise, that had innovative ideas and wanted to do some research to improve the lives of veterans and their families. We had no funding mechanism for that,” said Thomson.
Thomson added, they are allowed to allocate up to $3 million annually to fund these ideas and projects.
4. Caregiver Recognition Benefit
There are three big changes being made to this benefit to further help veterans. First, a $1,000 tax-free payment will be made every month; Second, the benefit will be paid directly to the caregiver, eliminating an extra step; Third, there’s no need to renew annually anymore. Veterans fill out a one-time application.
“It recognizes that we call them the ‘informal caregiver,’ plays a really important role in providing care to a veteran,” said Thomason. “That informal caregiver can be a spouse, a child, or anyone that provides that care to a veteran.”
5. Veterans Emergency Fund
The emergency fund provides veterans with short-term financial whose well-being was at risk due to an urgent or unexpected situation. The fund will provide up to $2,500 as a short-term fix for an emergency, while the veteran works alongside VAC to come up with a long-term solution.
VAC promises the application process is quick and easy. A veteran could have their emergency funding within 24 to 48 hours.
6. Centre of Excellence on PTSD and other related mental health conditions
Together, Veterans Affairs Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces, have created an online hub for active members and veterans to access when they are seeking further information on PTSD and other mental health-related issues.
“We want it to be the research hub, the virtual hub of all mental health research going forward,” said Thomson.
The Centre of Excellence hasn’t been launched as of right now, but Thomson said to keep an eye out because it will soon be coming to a computer near you.
To access your benefits
For more information on the changes made to these benefits and how to access your own benefits, VAC encourages you to visit their website, http://www.veterans.gc.ca, and sign up for a ‘My VAC Account.’ Thomson said for faster results, it is best to apply for these benefits online.
Miranda Brumwell
Miranda attended Niagara College in 2014, completing the two-year Journalism program. She currently resides in London, ON with her boyfriend and baby boy. In her spare time, Miranda enjoys reading, cooking, photography, watercolour painting and spending time with family and friends.
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Computer Associates ekes past 3Q forecasts
Computer Associates (NYSE: CA) topped analysts' estimates by a penny a share in its third quarter Wednesday, earning $425 million, or 76 cents a share, on sales of $1.81 billion.
Its shares closed off 1/8 to 74 9/16 ahead of the earnings report.
First Call consensus expected it to earn 75 cents a share in the quarter.
The $1.81 billion in sales marks a 33 percent improvement versus the year-ago quarter when it earned $354.6 million, or 64 cents a share, on sales of $1.36 billion.
"The explosion of Internet computing by both the 'dot coms' and established companies, is driving global demand for highly scalable and stable IT solutions that power eBusiness," said CEO Charles Wang in a prepared release. "Organizations around the world continue to turn to CA in record numbers to make their eBusiness infrastructure safe, secure, and available."
In the quarter, distributed systems revenue increased 45 percent from last year to $898 million, while OS/390 revenue increased 19 percent to $776 million. Revenue from distributed systems accounted for 49 percent of total revenue.
Geographically, sales from North America totaled $1.23 billion, an increase of 41 percent from the prior year while international revenue was $617 million, excluding the $37 million negative foreign exchange impact, an increase of 27 percent.
Last quarter, Computer Associates met Street estimates, earning $334.5 million, or 75 cents a share, on sales of $1.6 billion.
Separately, the company inked a distribution pact with Red Hat Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT.
Red Hat has agreed to distribute Computer Associate's network management software with its Linux operating system. In addition to software distribution, the deal encompasses marketing and support.
CA shares moved up to a 52-week high of 77 earlier this month after falling to a low of 32 1/8 in March.
First Call consensus expects it to earn $2.72 a share in the fiscal year.
Discuss: Computer Associates ekes past 3Q forecasts
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Ben Parker: Bitcoin Has Potential in Fragile States
Updated Nov 12, 2015 at 16:37 UTC
Most of us are familiar with the argument that bitcoin could help the unbanked, but Ben Parker, co-founder and former director of humanitarian news service IRIN, has seen firsthand how the digital currency could play a crucial role in fragile states.
In 2013, Parker was director of communications for the United Nations (UN) in Somalia, and in 2012, he led the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Syria in Damascus. Parker was also posted in Sudan as a UN communications officer from 2003 to 2006 and was closely involved with raising the alarm about the war in the Darfur region.
Having worked in humanitarian affairs and on the ground in conflict zones for the last 20 years, Parker provides a unique perspective on how bitcoin could succeed where it’s perhaps needed most – in struggling developing nations.
Parker told CoinDesk:
“I’ve seen how countries struggle when they don’t have formal banking systems and I’ve seen also the huge growth of the M-Pesa mobile money system in Kenya. Most recently, I was working in Somalia, which actually has been cut off from formal banking in many ways for 20 years.”
Somalia provides an interesting case study for bitcoin.
Having been caught up in state of civil war – of varying intensity – since 1991, the East African nation was heavily hit by anti-money laundering (AML) regulation in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
To add injury, in May 2013, Barclays, the last major bank to provide remittance services to the country, announced plans to shut down approximately 250 money transfer businesses.
Somalis have been using Hawalas – an informal value transfer system run by brokers – to remit funds home, but they too came under scrutiny. In April this year, Kenya’s government shut down 13 Somali money transfer businesses – or Hawalas – after the al-Shabaab militant group claimed responsibility for the attack on Garissa University which resulted in the deaths of approximately 150 people.
Although the hawalas are still operating – with bank accounts in Dubai and Australia – it is fair to say that the Somali remittance market is suffering the consequences of lost relationships overseas, primarily in the UK and the US – both of which have relatively big Somali communities.
“They [Somalis] have a huge diaspora community. They are very connected to home and send a lot of money in remittances […] the remittance market is bigger than aid,” Parker said.
According to the UK government, remittances to Somalia are estimated at around $1.2bn a year, accounting for 50% of gross national income and supporting 40% of the country’s population of approximately 10.5 million.
Despite this, Parker said things were changing in Somalia.
“The first MasterCard operation has just started there, with one of the commercial banks in Mogadishu,” he noted, adding “I think you could argue that the commercial banks have now seen that it [Somalia] is a frontier market that they need to play.”
Bitcoin in Somalia
But, is there room for bitcoin?
In Parker’s opinion, the digital currency could co-exist with traditional banking, but Somalia, he thinks, should prioritise gaining legitimacy and re-instating formal banking relationships.
“As someone who has tried to work for Somalia’s stability, and looking at it more in a political way, and in an international image way, my argument is that Somalia does not need to be put in a special category. Just like anywhere else, assuming bitcoin doesn’t go up in smoke, some kind of cryptocurrency will co-exist with traditional fiat and other mobile solutions.”
Legitimacy, he said, is necessary because people often associate the country with war, famine and chaos. “It’s a huge stereotype.”
Having said this, Parker urged the relevant authorities to consider bitcoin regulation, noting how this should be a priority for developing countries where, perhaps, the digital currency is needed the most.
He went on to note that some of his colleagues, working on various UK-based remittance-focused projects had said that the digital currency’s potential for remittances “had not come up” in discussions.
“Does that mean that it [bitcoin] won’t happen? Or does it mean it’ll happen and then people will be scrambling for a policy response?”
Bitcoin vs mobile money
For bitcoin to really take off in Somalia, Parker said people would need to have access to modern mobile phones and these would have to reach wider adoption in rural areas.”Internet connectivity is not great, Internet penetration is not very high.”
As of December 2013, 1.5% of Somalia’s population (156,420 people) used the Internet. According to 2012 data, the country’s mobile penetration rate stood at 16.3%.
Somalia represents an interesting contrast to neighbouring Kenya – where mobile penetration is alleged to have reached 80% – and mobile money system M-Pesa, powered by SMS technology, has achieved relatively impressive adoption. By 2012, approximately 17 million people had registered with M-Pesa in Kenya.
The System allows people who own a mobile phone, but do not have or have only limited access to a bank account, to send and receive money, top-up airtime and pay their bills.
“There’s one problem with M-Pesa”, said Parker, “some would say that it has become a forceful quasi monopoly on the part of [moble network operator] Safaricom. If you want to send or receive money you need to be on Safaricom.”
Speaking about bitcoin’s potential, Parker noted:
“It’s easy to make the jump and say, well, actually bitcoin achieves the same thing, with less friction, and less dependence on a particular mobile phone operator, and as far as I know, less transactional cost.”
“Bitcoin is more frictionless, its cross-border and its not hooking you to a particular telephone company,” he concluded.
Bitcoin in Syria
Unlike Somalia, Parker said, Syria had a resilient banking infrastructure.
“What was interesting about Syria was that the frontline was so fluid, the many public services continued to operate.”
Parker noted:
“Is it [Syria] specially needy in terms of money transfers? I think yes […] I assume now the banks are more or less closed, they weren’t at the earlier stages of the conflict […] in the case of Syria, the paranoia from donors about not sending money to the wrong people would make it unlikely that they would do any significant cash or cash equivalent inside Syria.”
He commented how there is a growing trend within the aid industry to send cash to those in need, rather than procuring other form of aid. Like bitcoin, cash presents a relative challenge to law enforcement agencies, who may be unable to trace the transferral of funds.
The fear of diversion of funds would make Syria a bad experiment [with bitcoin] at this point, said Parker. “Is ISIL using bitcoin? I have no idea.”
Parker explained that in Somalia, Al-Shabaab, the extremist group, made all their money inside the country, by taxing people viciously.
“Al-Shabaab would tax you at the checkpoint, tax business men, they would knock on the door of the shopkeeper and take the 10% and they’d call it ‘zakat’, which is charity, it wasn’t charity, it’s mafia racket.”
He also posed the argument that the terrorist group may have other avenues to raise cash. “I don’t think ISIL needs bitcoin,” adding:
“There are some scenarios, I think were cashless anonymous value is scary and dangerous and as I say, I think’t that’s law enforcement problem.”
Blockchain for diamonds
Although Parker said that the blockchain would warrant a completely different conversation, he also spoke about one of its most “intriguing” use cases; the traceability of diamonds and illegal exports from the African continent, specifically from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
On the topic of blood diamonds – a term used to describe diamonds mined in war zones and sold to fund insurgent movements –, Parker said this was “quite a hot issue in Botswana”.
Although he claimed that he was not knowledgeable enough about blockchain technology, Parker outlined the distributed ledger’s benefits for smart contracts:
“I think if blockchain could be used for traceability that could be quite a good thing.”
Ben Parker is speaking at Consensus 2015 in New York. Join him at the TimesCenter on 10th September. A list of the event speakers can be found here.
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George Groves: Hitting Back at the Critics Ahead of Badou Jack Fight
Olly Campbell - September 4, 2015
Ahead of his crunch challenge to WBC super-middleweight champion Badou Jack, that takes place on September 12th’s Mayweather/Berto undercard, Britain’s “St.” George Groves has spoken out to dispel any myths regarding his 12 round fitness, as well as to counter those people seeking to attribute any perceived dip in form to his hook-up with trainer Paddy Fitzpatrick.
Groves, a former student of noted tactician Adam Booth, whom he left shortly before the 1st Carl Froch fight, is training up at Abel Sanchez’s “Summit” Facility in Big Bear, California – basecamp of Kazakh middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin – to prepare properly for the fight with Jack, and rejects outright any notion his fitness is a problem.
“I can use it (criticism) to my advantage,” the Hammersmith man said.
“You’re never going to be as fresh in the first round as you are in the last. But at the same time, I always finish strong. I’ve been 12 rounds before in high-intensity fights, fights which I’ve won, in which I haven’t faltered.
“It’s nice that a few people in the media, usually with an agenda, will say something, and then it catches fire and everyone jumps on it.
“Anyone who wants to base a game plan around me, around stamina, hoping that I’m going to fade and get tired… I’d never do that for any fight, because one day that guy ain’t going to get tired, and I certainly ain’t going to get tired.
“I’m going to be full-steam ahead, from the first second to the last, and I’m really looking forward to it.”
There is a belief among some that the pre-Froch Groves is a different fighter to the one we see today, and that the 2x world title challenger simply hasn’t looked the fast, sharp and busy fighter of old in recent bouts, against Frenchman Christopher Rebrasse (w/UD) and American “Momma’s Boy” Denis Doughlin (w/TKO 7) – the two fights that followed his second loss to Froch in 2013.
This has been attributed by some to his split from the highly-regarded Booth, who masterminded the rise of David Haye, although this is also a notion Groves seeks to dispel, claiming that the win on Sep 12th will see the working relationship with current cornerman, Paddy Fitzpatrick, entirely vindicated.
“This might be the fight when people actually pay real attention to the good work we’ve put in,” he said.
“Myself and Paddy have come under criticism since we’ve been working together. Against Christopher Rebrasse, he’d never been stopped, because I didn’t stop him I come under criticism. I threw 1,000 shots in that fight and then I got criticised for having no stamina. I won every round.
“And then I fight Denis Douglin, I knocked him out, had a bit of a slow start but knocked him out. It’s easy to criticise because we haven’t won a world title yet, and it’ll probably be easy to praise us once we do.
“We know we’ve done good work, we know we’ve improved, we know that in the gym we’re seeing what we need to see. As long as I go out and perform as I intend to, on fight night, I’m sure Paddy, and myself, will get a little bit more respect. But we don’t really fight for that anymore.
“Winning over the hearts and minds of fight fans is a difficult task, you’re only as good as your last interview these days. I’m not too fussed about the general perception. As long as we’re winning, which we are, we’re going to go out and perform and become world champion.”
Should Groves emerge victorious against Jack, the a big unification showdown with IBF champ and old, bitter rival, James DeGale awaits, in what will be a rematch of their 2011 encounter – a fight Groves took by close MD.
Failing that, another man keen on a fight with Groves is former 3x 160 lb world title challenger Martin Murray, who has been staying extremely active since making the move to 168 lbs, in hope of securing a 4th world title shot.
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Whenever Boys Town learns of situations where children are in chaotic or life-threatening environments, it mobilizes resources, directly and indirectly, so those children stay safe and find support. Depending on the circumstances, Boys Town provides direct care and shelter or coordinates services with other agencies and groups so the immediate and long-term needs of the children are met. It is this broadly inclusive and collaborative approach to care that saved the lives of two brothers.
Zachary and his younger brother Brian were cold and in the dark. It was February in the Midwest. Their mother, overwhelmed by financial burdens and alcohol addiction, packed up and left to live in another state. The two boys had no money to pay the rent or the utilities. They were threatened with eviction, the electricity was shut off, and they had no way to heat the house or even cook a meal. Both brothers were attending school. In desperation, they turned to their teachers for help, asking for blankets and food. Their teachers did what they could to help with their immediate needs. Then they called Boys Town.
Boys Town welcomed Zachary and Brian to its nearby short-term residential facility, where they would be safe and warm while staff members worked on finding a more permanent living arrangement. Eventually, a local family took in Brian. But because Zachary had turned 18, it was difficult to find a home for him. With graduation approaching, Zachary had no permanent place to live and no plan for the future. Putting the teen’s well-being and safety first, Boys Town decided to have Zachary remain at the residential facility while he finished school and continued his extracurricular activities. Boys Town also helped the teen get into a job-training program where he could begin learning a trade.
After graduating high school, Zachary stayed in touch with the Boys Town staff and has come back to visit. He completed his job training and now has a good job with a local business. Zachary stays in close touch with Brian, who is doing well in school and enjoys living with his foster family. With Boys Town’s guidance, two brothers found a way out of the darkness.
Maria was battling chronic alcohol abuse and could no longer care for her two little girls.
Maria Mathews was referred to Boys Town due to chronic alcohol abuse. For Maria, the mother of 8-year-old Emma and 5-year-old Katie, it was not the first time she was involved with the Department of Human Services. A few years ago, her alcohol use forced authorities to remove Emma and Katie from their home. However, Maria was able to pull her life together and stay sober so that Emma and Katie could return.
Maria attributed her relapse to the news that a family member had sexually abused Emma. Devastated, she couldn’t cope and slipped back into alcohol abuse to keep from feeling the pain and anger in her heart. As a result, Emma and Katie were again removed from the home.
When a Boys Town Family Consultant first began working with the Mathews family, Maria was very obstinate. She refused to talk about her alcohol abuse or the issues that caused her to relapse. She was convinced there she would never get her children back and decided she deserved whatever happened.
The Family Consultant immediately began working with Maria, Emma and Katie one-on-one to try to establish a rapport. After several intense sessions, the Family Consultant began teaching Maria healthy coping skills. Soon after, she agreed that the only way to truly beat her alcohol addiction was to enter substance abuse treatment.
The day Maria started her outpatient addiction treatment; there was a notable change in her attitude toward sobriety. She began interacting more during visits and even began to thank the Family Consultant for her patience and willingness to help her family.
After three months of Boys Town In-Home Family Services ® paired with substance abuse treatment, Maria was consistently demonstrating an ability to cope with the traumatic events involving her children without feeling she needed to use alcohol. She consistently reported feeling hopeful and remained committed to remaining alcohol-free.
A few months later, visits between Maria and her children had progressed from fully supervised to semi-supervised visits to unsupervised. A short time later, Emma and Katie were reunited with their mother. They are now looking forward to the promise of a bright future, a future that not long ago simply didn’t exist.
Maria still remains in contact with her Family Consultant. As services were coming to an end, she would regularly hug the Family Consultant and thank her for her patience and dedication to helping the Mathews “get their family back.”
When Stevie was young, he bounced from one foster care home to another.
Stevie was a child nobody wanted. When he was small, his parents gave him up, and he started bouncing from one foster care home to another. As a teen, he ran away many times. He lived on the streets, scavenging for food, sleeping in alleys and stealing or panhandling. He never went to school, so he couldn’t read or write. Stevie depended solely on his street smarts for survival. For a long time, no one paid much attention to him.
When Stevie came to Boys Town, he finally found a caring home and family where he felt he belonged. He’s trying hard to catch up in school, and he’s making progress. He’s hoping to graduate from high school in the next few years, and Boys Town will be there to help him make plans for his future.
At Stevie’s first Christmas with us – his first in many years not spent on the streets – he received and gave presents, went to church, ate a turkey dinner, and got a hug from Santa Claus – all the things he had missed as a child without a nurturing home.
With no family or place to call home, Tanya let her anger get the best of her.
Nothing was going right in Tanya’s life before she came to Boys Town. Her mom was in and out of her life when she was young, and for several years, Tanya was moved from placement to placement. She skipped school and ran with a crowd that always found trouble.
"Boys Town means a lot to me, but most of all, it means help."
Tanya often let her anger get the best of her. She did what she felt like doing, and anyone who tried to stop her became the enemy. She never really learned to control her emotions, and that usually led to bigger and worse problems. Tanya didn’t think anyone cared about her, and she’d given up hope that anyone ever would.
When Tanya was first admitted to Boys Town, her old habits made life rough for her and everyone she lived with. But her Family-Teachers ® never gave up. Behind Tanya’s anger and despair, they saw goodness and a promising future. They knew she had to learn how to live life differently, with hope and encouragement. Gradually, Tanya came to understand that she was being welcomed into a caring family where she had a chance to change.
Today, Tanya is an excellent Boys Town student with a list of achievements and awards. She plays sports and is involved in other school activities. She is hoping to someday reunite with her mother. Most importantly, she has learned to respect others and herself, and to make good decisions about what she wants to do with her life.
With three little boys at home, Jane couldn’t cope and eventually attempted suicide.
Jane Jones' responsibilities were too much. With three little boys at home, Jane felt she couldn’t adequately provide the care they needed. First she turned to alcohol and drugs and eventually attempted suicide to try and escape.
The boys were immediately sent to their grandparents and a Family Consultant became involved. The Consultant not only got Jane the support she needed, but also provided parenting skills to both mom and grandma.
Throughout services, the Family Consultant showed the women how to consistently parent the children, be united in their approaches to limit confusion in the different households, and most importantly, keeping the children safe.
Jane received mental health treatment, as well as substance abuse treatment, and reframed it back to her being able to care for herself and her children. By actively participating in substance abuse treatment and mental health treatment, Jane achieved 7 months of sobriety and earned a full-time job. Most importantly, her children were able to come home for a trial visit. Jane was mentally stable and she was able to use the Common Sense Parenting ® skills to set clear expectations for her children and issue age appropriate rewards/consequences.
Even with all of Jane’s progress, the Family Consultant knew that she would need a support system to stay sober. The Consultant helped to build system of individuals who can identify signs when Jane is struggling and offer support and assistance.
Currently, Jane has been sober for over a year and she continues to work to keep her family together. If it weren’t for Boys Town, Jane would have never believed in herself enough to take on the responsibilities of being a mother.
Read heartfelt messages of hope from children and families.
Before I came to Boys Town, I was in jail and I stopped caring about how my life would turn out. But when I came to Boys Town, I learned I could start over and make my family proud of me by doing good in school and sports. I see my Boys Town family has love for me and wants to see me do good in life, to give me that push until I get it right. You have given me a home, somewhere to be safe and feel safe, a place I call my second home. You have helped me with college and now I am smart enough to succeed. Thank you Boys Town.
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Before I came to Boys Town, I was a manipulative person who always thought about myself. I did not have a father in my life. I started to smoke, drink, make bad decisions, skip school with negative people, get into fights and steal things. I had a bad relationship with my mom because I wouldn’t listen to her. When I came to Boys Town, I was willing to try to make it work because I was tired of letting down my mom and other people. I was sick of not being able to accomplish things. Boys Town has changed me into a more mature, spiritual man. I thank you for giving me this opportunity to change my life.
— Daytwon
Before I came here, I was pretty mad at the world for dealing me a bad hand. It was everybody else’s fault. I took responsibility. I knew no remorse. I believed the world revolved around me and I thought I knew it all. What happened when I came was I realized I was not mad at the world. I was mad at myself. I had to forgive myself for walking the path of destruction. I began by understanding my failures. I started to appreciate what I have. I have a family back home and a family right here. I now have the energy inside of me to make myself proud. Thank you Boys Town. You gave me a chance.
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Before I came to Boys Town, I was selfish. All I cared about was drugs and alcohol. I hurt my family, put my friends first. I was heartless. When I came to Boys Town, I hated it at first. I was mad at my mom for putting me here. I went through cycles of hating it here and loving it here. I knew it was for the best. You helped me control my anger so I could become closer to my family. You gave me strength to believe in myself and know I am not a failure. Thank you Boys Town.
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When I came to Boys Town, I was disrespectful, ungrateful and selfish. I quit everything that was hard. I wanted the easy way. But when I came to Boys Town, I knew if I wanted to change I would have to sacrifice to achieve my sense of accomplishment. You gave me structure, support and the encouragement I needed. I participated in football, wrestling and soccer, joined the student council and took part in all kinds of activities. Thank you Boys Town.
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After Years of Struggle, This Family Is Whole Again.
It was early morning, and Bethany Nelson was supposed to be getting ready for school. But the 13-year-old didn’t want to go to class. Despite the prompts, pleas and pestering from her parents, she was defiant.
This battle of wills became a full-blown war when Bethany screamed, hurled objects and physically attacked her mother. It was such a volatile scene, the police were called.
The events that morning led to Bethany being placed in a group home. Eventually, at 15, she came to the Boys Town Family Home ProgramSM. For the next two years, she learned life skills that empowered her to manage her emotions, communicate her feelings and heal her emotional wounds.
While it took much patience and skill teaching from her Family-Teachers®, the married couple who provided care for Bethany and several other girls in the Family Home, Bethany’s behavior and attitude changed for the better. She became a role model and mentor to her “sisters” in the home and, after living apart from her parents for several years, was ready to be reunited with her family.
Before the Nelsons could come together as a family, however, they needed support and guidance.
A Family Consultant from Boys Town’s In-Home Family Services® met with Bethany’s parents, Julie and James. The couple was anxious, even hesitant, about their daughter’s return. Life was going well for Bethany, and they didn’t want to jeopardize her success. Bethany, too, was nervous – yet hopeful.
To dispel their doubts and anxieties, the Consultant had monthly meetings with Bethany and her parents to discuss their goals and expectations. The Consultant also reviewed social skills and role-played situations with Bethany to reinforce the staying-calm strategies she had learned. With Mom and Dad, the Consultant provided coaching in Boys Town’s Common Sense Parenting® techniques and showed them how to use family meetings to address problems and improve communication.
All their preparation paid off when the family successfully reunited. Still, the Consultant continued meeting regularly with the Nelsons as their focus turned toward maintaining success and family harmony. Services ended only when family members were comfortable using their skills and strategies to de-escalate situations and resolve issues on their own.
In a years-long journey marked by turmoil and triumphs, regrets and resilience, the Nelsons never lost hope. Now, they’re doing “awesome” and reaping the rewards of a home filled with more understanding and unconditional love.
The stories provided about the children and families in our care are real. In some cases, names may be changed and details altered to protect their privacy and therapeutic interests.
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Deputy Public Defender Helps Latin American Countries Transform Legal Systems
By Yvette Urrea Moe, County of San Diego Communications Office May 5, 2016 | 9:00 AM May. 10, 2016 | 9:58 AM
Like other San Diego County Deputy Public Defenders, Jesus Romero regularly challenges other attorneys in court and makes objections as he defends his clients against criminal charges that may involve drugs, gangs and even murder.
After more than 26 years as a public defender, these skills are almost second nature to him, but in some Latin American countries, these tactics are not common or in practice. So Romero frequently travels to Latin America countries including Argentina, Chile and Mexico to provide his expertise as they transform their penal systems. He advises lawyers, judges and magistrates as they fundamentally change their systems from a guilty until proven innocent model where lawyers present their cases via paper only, to what’s known as an adversarial legal system like in the United States.
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“We are proud of the important work that Jesus Romero is doing in Latin America to help in the transformation of their legal system to one similar to the one we use here. The legal system should be fair and uniform on a global level,” said Primary Public Defender Chief Deputy Randy Mize. “He is truly making an impact globally.”
Previously in these countries, judges would review cases, conduct their own independent investigations and rule from their chambers without ever seeing a single witness. The new systems are dramatically different, and require a lot of training and expert consultation.
“I’m sort of known in Latin America for understanding the Argentinean, Chilean and Mexican legal systems,” Romero said. “I’m considered an expert in adversarial law.”
Most recently in March, he traveled to Chihuahua, a state in Mexico, and the month before to Chile to consult with state and federal judges in each country. All the trips have been paid for by the inviting agency.
“There are not many Americans who are invited into the inner sanctum of the Chilean Court of Appeal, they are very guarded,” said Romero. “But they’ve known me for many years and they know I’m more friend than foe, and they really want to do the best for the Chilean people.”
While Chile adopted the adversarial system 16 years ago, lately challenges and objections are being introduced more frequently in courts as attorneys in Chile are studying criminal procedure in the United States and trying to implement these practices. In addition to the new procedures, lawyers there are also citing U.S. law precedents in their arguments because there are none as yet in the law books of their country, he said.
Romero said he is sympathetic to the judges who are adjusting to a completely new way of doing things. Some of the new procedural methods such as objecting to an opposing attorney’s statement or challenging a court decision would have been considered disrespectful to the judges under the previous system. These are procedures which are very common in the United States court of law, but Latin American judges struggle with how to rule on these kinds of motions, said Romero.
Romero spent five days in Valparaiso, Chile in February, meeting with the judges, magistrates, court staff, and the chief prosecutor and chief public defender. The next month he met for three days with federal judges in Chihuahua, where the adversarial law system is only a few years old. Romero said he spoke about such topics as the standard of proof, the weight of evidence, objections, and court decorum. Previously, he noted, under the old systems, proof simply came in the form of a written affidavit. Now, witnesses appear in court and can be cross-examined to determine if their testimonies are credible.
“There is a benefit to all Latin American people that the adversarial penal system is in place. It is fairer to all,” said Romero.
And his efforts are appreciated. The president of the Chilean Court of Appeals, Mario Repetto Garcia, sent a letter to the San Diego County Public Defender’s Office about the value of Romero’s expertise.
“Experts like Mr. Romero are of great assistance to all our judges and other participants,” said Garcia. “The (San Diego County) Office of the Public Defender has brought the opportunity of judicial transparency, efficiency and equal justice one step closer to Chile. It is very difficult to find U.S. trained lawyers who can effectively teach, in Spanish legalese, our participants trial skills, persuasion skills and techniques which are new and foreign to us.”
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Romero is also helping provide oral argument and adversarial law training for Mexican attorneys as part of Binational Agreement he helped author with the Governor of Baja California in 2015. In return, the governor has instructed the Baja California Public Defender’s Office to assist attorneys with the San Diego County Public Defender, Alternate Public Defender and the Multiple Conflicts Office in obtaining documents and accessing witnesses in Mexico. The Binational Agreement has since been used at least 15 times to help with cases in the past year, and has been extended for another two years by San Diego County Public Defender Henry Coker.
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Yvette Urrea Moe is a communications specialist with the County of San Diego Communications Office. Contact
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Pauline Doris (Gaucher) Ahern passed away peacefully on February 25, 2019, surrounded by her loving family. Pauline was born on October 20, 1934 at St Francis Hospital in Hartford to the late Yvonne and Charles Gaucher. She was raised in Hartford and graduated from Weaver High School in 1952. Pauline always aspired to be a nurse. She proudly graduated from St. Francis School of Nursing, Class of 1955. Pauline soon met her husband, William Ahern. They married in 1959, and moved first to Rocky Hill. In 1970 they settled in Avon, where they raised their family. Pauline was a dedicated nurse at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford for 35 years.Throughout her life Pauline enjoyed cooking, having a cup of tea with her friends, playing dominoes, entertaining for holidays and special occasions, vacationing in Cape Cod and Bermuda and spending time with family and friends, especially her four grandchildren. Pauline had a clever nickname for everyone, an infectious laugh and always a compliment to give. She was fun loving and always gave time of her heart. Pauline was always surrounded by love which she mirrored back to all each and every day.Pauline was predeceased by her beloved husband, William Ahern and Robert Gaucher, a brother who she adored. She is survived by her loving and devoted children: Kevin Ahern of Avon, Maureen Costa and her husband Gary of Burlington, Sheila Butwill and her husband Christopher, also of Burlington, as well as by four cherished grandchildren: Erin and Natalie Costa, Katherine and Alex Butwill. In addition, she is survived by her sister-in-law Patricia Gaucher, brother-in-law Jack Ahern and sister-in-law Karen Ahern, her dear friend and classmate Anna Pallerberg, special nieces and nephews, thoughtful cousins, and countless friends.Friends may call at The Ahern Funeral Home, 111 Main St., Rt. 4, Unionville on Sunday (March 3) from 4:00-7:00. Funeral procession from The Ahern Funeral Home will be Monday (March 4) at 10:15am followed by the Funeral Liturgy at the Church of St Ann's, Avon at 11:00am. Burial will be in the family plot at Mount St. Benedict Cemetery, Bloomfield. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the St Francis School of Nursing Alumni Scholarship Fund, 95 Woodland Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06015. To send online condolences to the family, please visit www.ahernfuneralhome.com. Ahern Funeral Home - Unionville 111 Main St., Rt. 4 Unionville 06085 (860) 673-2601 Website
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Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco makes 'significant' donation to University of Delaware athletics
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco and his wife, Dana, have made a "significant gift" to the future of UD Athletics.
Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco makes 'significant' donation to University of Delaware athletics Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco and his wife, Dana, have made a "significant gift" to the future of UD Athletics. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/education/2018/03/15/ravens-quarterback-joe-flacco-makes-significant-donation-university-delaware-athletics/428562002/
Jessica Bies, The News Journal Published 1:14 p.m. ET March 15, 2018 | Updated 7:48 p.m. ET March 15, 2018
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University of Delaware quarterback Joe Flacco looks for a receiver in the third quarter of Delaware's 38-9 win against Rhode Island at Delaware Stadium on Sept. 15, 2007.(Photo: WILLIAM BRETZGER/THE NEWS JOURNAL)Buy Photo
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco and his wife, Dana, have made a "significant gift" to the future of UD Athletics – the largest from a UD football alumnus in the NFL.
The exact amount was not disclosed.
“Football and family,” Flacco said when asked what matters most in his life. In fact, it was the Flaccos’ four children that inspired the couple to give back to Joe’s alma mater, according to a press release.
“We are at a point in our lives where we are raising our kids and thinking about their education," Flacco said in a statement. "It has allowed me to think about how important UD was for me in my development. I am thrilled to be a part of making the University even better for future generations."
As part of Delaware First, UD's $750 million fundraising campaign, the Flaccos’ gift will directly support UD Athletics’ Building Our Home initiative, including the construction of the Whitney Athletic Center and the renovation of Delaware Stadium.
Former Delaware quarterback Joe Flacco poses for a selfie with field hockey team members at halftime of the Blue Hens' 20-6 win at Delaware Stadium Saturday. (Photo: William Bretzger, The News Journal)
“Joe Flacco embodies UD’s team spirit and our constant drive for excellence, which are qualities we seek to instill in every one of our students,” said UD President Dennis Assanis in a statement. “A strong UD community depends on a strong athletics program with great facilities for our student-athletes and fans. Through this wonderful gift to the Delaware First campaign, Joe and Dana are helping us enhance every facet of student success.”
Super Bowl champion Flacco said he understands all too well the importance that facilities play in the recruitment and success of student-athletes.
“When you look around college football, the facilities are such a recruiting tool. I’ve experienced how the best facilities can help you to perform at the highest level. I want UD to have the best chance to compete and continue its tradition of success,” Flacco said.
Flacco enjoyed a record-breaking two-year tenure at quarterback for the Blue Hens in 2006 and 2007 and began an even more impressive career in the National Football League in 2008. He did not have to travel far from Newark to begin that career, as he was as a first-round NFL draft pick (18th overall) by Baltimore in 2008 — the highest pick ever for a Delaware player.
He led the Ravens to the AFC playoffs six times and to the Super Bowl XLVII title in 2012, when he was named the game’s Most Valuable Player. Flacco will continue to lead the Ravens through 2021 after signing a contract extension in 2016.
A New Jersey native, Flacco transferred at the end of his sophomore year to the University of Delaware, where he quickly found success and was embraced by the Delaware community.
<b>JOE FLACCO</b>, University of Delaware, Baltimore Ravens, Super Bowl XLVII (won) (Photo: Christian Petersen, Getty Images)
“I was immediately drawn to the feeling of community at UD. It was so easy to make the transition. The University is filled with great people that you never get a chance to hear about. The Delaware football family is a very special one with a storied past. There have been so many great figures for guys like me to look up to. It means a lot to forever be a part of that, both through my UD career and this gift,” he said.
The University and Flacco hope this significant gift will inspire others to see the University as a worthy investment.
“Joe is setting a terrific example for our student-athletes and alumni. Our team looks up to Joe and knowing that he is giving back to help them, to advance their college careers, means so much to these young men,” said Delaware Football Coach Danny Rocco in a statement. “We are so grateful for the generosity of the Flacco Family.”
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UNITED NATIONS LAPDOG SENDS PROPAGANDA TO LEGISLATORS
In a blatantly coercive tone the Executive Director of the UN's lapdog organization United Nations Association-USA (made up of ex-diplomats, employees, and cheerleaders for the UN) has sent out this piece of propaganda to legislators in 9 states saying 'Move along, folks, nothing to see here.' If you live in any of the following states (or even if you don't), send a letter to your elected officials setting them straight. This letter reads like a threat--don't let it stand.
Open Letter to State Legislators
Patrick Madden, UNA-USA Executive Director
This letter is directed to state legislators in Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Washington.
Dear State Elected Official:
I’m writing to express my great concern for a pending piece of legislation and my need for your help in defeating it.
The state legislature may soon be wasting valuable time taking up a bill that takes on a nonexistent threat. Specifically, this bill concerns itself with Agenda 21, a two decade-old nonbinding United Nations document. Haven’t heard of Agenda 21? I’m not surprised, most citizens and even legislators wouldn’t know the difference between Agenda 21, Forever 21, or Century 21.
Agenda 21 is non-binding document on sustainable development. It is not a treaty and it is not legally binding. Federal, state, and local governments are under no obligation to adopt any of the document’s strategies or methods. Anti-agenda 21 legislation are essentially anti-UN bills that restrict state governments, municipal governments, and in some cases nonprofits from funding and working on issues like combating poverty, reducing pollution, health and education, to name just a few. What citizens and elected officials in any state would want to restrict our options for handling these issues?
You should be aware that a recent poll demonstrated that more than 80% of Americans (of all political stripes) support the United States’ engagement with the United Nations. Given such broad support for the UN’s work and impact our state and others around the country, why is our state legislature quarreling over such an old document that has no legal bearing on our state constitution, state or local government bodies, or the U.S. Constitution? I’m flummoxed by why state legislature leadership or committees would waste precious time, especially given how short the legislative session is, with such a conspiracy theorist bill being pushed by a paranoid few.
Several other states have already defeated similar measures. In Arizona, the business community spoke up to turn back a bill that it deemed would hurt economic development. In Tennessee, the legislature passed an anti-Agenda 21 resolution, but the governor didn’t sign it because of his reservations.
You should speak out about how this bill misrepresents the intent and the truth about the UN and Agenda 21. Most aren’t familiar with Agenda 21 or perhaps even the UN, but I am, and I support the UN. I am a member of the UN Association of the USA, and I vote.
This is worse than the emperor has no clothes. The emperor is wearing a tin foil hat. I implore you to speak out against this bill and vote against passage if it comes to the floor for consideration. Don’t allow a fringe political voice drive our state legislature’s work.
Let’s get back to the business of advancing our state’s future — not chasing nonexistent threats from the past.
Patrick Madden
Executive Director, UNA-USA
CITIZENS FIGHTING BACK: PLUMAS COUNTY CALIFORNIA
Although the following article from the Plumas County News could be better, it's not as bad as most mainstream press reports. Read it to see what your fellow citizens are doing to block UN Agenda 21 in their town.
Group fears general plan conspiracy - Wants county to start over
Fearing that Plumas County’s new general plan could lead to a loss of private property rights, a group of concerned citizens wants to trash the document and begin again.
With the Plumas County supervisors just weeks away from approving the updated general plan, the Indian Valley Citizens for Private Property Rights appeared before the Planning Commission on Jan. 17 and laid out their arguments.
About 60 people packed the small conference room at the planning department with most standing, and some spilling into the hallway.
Their spokeswoman, Carol Viscarra, gave a PowerPoint presentation outlining the group’s concerns and highlighting why the new general plan is Agenda 21 in disguise.
Agenda 21 is a 300-page document adopted in 1992 at United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The document is designed to be a blueprint of how jurisdictions worldwide should move toward sustainable economic growth that simultaneously protects and renews environmental resources.
Explaining that she was not a political activist, but rather an emergency room nurse and third-generation rancher, Viscarra was nervous. But “I believe it’s my civic duty” to come forward, she said.
After several months of page-by-page review, she said it’s her conclusion that the general plan “seems to mirror almost verbatim Agenda 21.”
There has been a growing theory that Agenda 21 is a conspiracy to take away individual property rights and move people off the land to urban centers.
During her presentation, Viscarra presented a map that showed vast expanses of California as off-limits to the public, wide swaths that were treated as buffer zones to be heavily regulated, with only zones around San Francisco, Los Angeles and Fresno that remained unrestricted. “Eighty-six percent of the land will be set aside as wildlife corridors,” Viscarra said.
Because 71 percent of Plumas County’s land mass is already in the public domain, Viscarra said Plumas County is an ideal locale for Agenda 21 to take root. “Be informed. Be courageous. Read about Agenda 21 and study it for yourselves,” Viscarra told those gathered. “The stealth of this organization is upon us in Plumas County.”
She said that the local planning commission members and supervisors “emphatically deny” any relationship with Agenda 21, and she believes them. She attributes the inclusion of Agenda 21 language in the general plan to the consultants that help jurisdictions write planning documents and organizations that provide grants.
She said the words “Agenda 21” never appear in such documents, but words such as “sustainability,” “open space,” “mixed-use housing” and “sustainable development,” which she describes as the “most egregious,” are all indicators of its influence.
“They will never, ever call it Agenda 21,” she said.
Viscarra said that the process began in Plumas County back in 2002 as local leaders embarked upon Vision 2020, with the aid of outside grants. There were meetings and scoping sessions and language terms such as sustained growth and development became more common.
She said that in the county’s general plan update, the words “open space” are used 121 times, “sustainable” 77 times and “the county shall” is used 430 times. She said that the general plan also has “a lot of references to climate change” another popular theme in Agenda 21.
Viscarra said that timber regulations, which restrict forestry practices in the county, are a good example of how Agenda 21 is already being implemented without people being aware.
Addressing the ranchers in the room, she said, “If you’re not worried, it’s because you’re not paying attention.”
She added, “I looked at the general plan through the prism of a rancher, but this should be a concern to all businesses.”
Applause greeted the conclusion of her presentation.
B.J. Pearson, a former county supervisor and developer in the eastern portion of the county, said, “This is one of the best presentations I have ever seen,” and suggested that she should make the presentation in each district.
Sheriff Greg Hagwood agreed and described the presentation as “one of the most succinct and accurate” that he had seen.
“I thought I would spend the bulk of my time protecting people against burglars,” Hagwood said. Instead, he said he found himself protecting people “from their own government. I encourage the Board of Supervisors to put strong language in the general plan regarding private property rights.”
Many in the audience echoed Viscarra’s concerns about private property rights and the new general plan.
“My understanding is that this plan doesn’t need to be approved until 2015,” Sheila Groethe said. “I ask you to trash this and write a new general plan appropriate to Plumas County.”
As some of the comments began to degenerate and one man said implementing Agenda 21 to was tantamount to treason, County Counsel Craig Settlemire, who had attended the meeting, stepped in.
“Everyone here is working to uphold our oaths and the Constitution,” he said.
Senior Planner Becky Herrin, who represented the planning department at the meeting, thanked everyone for attending, but added that she wished they had been “here for the last seven years.”
The planning department had held multiple meetings throughout the process including meetings in each community. She said that when the meeting was held in Indian Valley no members of the public attended.
Her department is now in the process of writing responses to all of the comments that have been submitted for the environmental document associated with the general plan. She said many accuse the general plan of going too far, while others believe that it isn’t restrictive enough. When the document is complete, a hearing will be scheduled before the Board of Supervisors.
How this latest protest impacts the process is unclear. The deadline for filing comments has passed, but during the Jan. 17 meeting, Planning Commission Chairwoman Betsy Schramel invited those present to put their concerns in writing.
POLICE TO CITE SMART METER INSTALLERS WITH MISDEMEANORS
In Sebastopol, California, the City Council has just passed an emergency ordinance that classifies the installation of Smart Meters as a misdemeanor offense punishable by a fine of $500. Yes, the INSTALLER would pay the fine! The Police Chief has announced that if called to the scene of an installation he will enforce the new ordinance.
The California Public Utilities Commission is in the process of deciding whether it will permit whole municipalities to opt out of the installation of the meters. According to Sebastopol's City Manager, about 50 cities in California have adopted similar ordinances, including Berkeley and Santa Monica.
AUSTRALIA: STAND STRONG AGAINST UN AGENDA 21
The Honorable Ann Bressington, Australia, gives a brilliant speech educating her nation on UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development. Watch and share.
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Category: Family Medicine | Internal Medicine | Psychiatry | Journal
Two-Hour Weekly Dose of Nature May Aid Health, Well-Being
Spending at least two hours a week in nature may promote health and well-being, according to a study published online June 13 in Scientific Reports.
120-minute weekly exposure could be achieved in a single visit or during several shorter visits
FRIDAY, June 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Spending at least two hours a week in nature may promote health and well-being, according to a study published online June 13 in Scientific Reports.
Mathew P. White, Ph.D., from the University of Exeter Medical School in the United Kingdom, and colleagues examined associations between recreational nature contact in the last seven days and self-reported health and well-being among 19,806 participants in the Monitor of Engagement with the Natural Environment Survey (2014-2015 to 2015-2016).
The researchers found that when controlling for residential greenspace and other neighborhood and individual factors, the likelihood of reporting good health or high well-being was significantly greater with ≥120 minutes of contact with nature (e.g., 120 to 179 minutes, odds ratios, 1.59 and 1.23 for health and well-being, respectively) compared with no nature contact in the previous week. These positive associations peaked with 200 to 300 minutes of contact per week, with no further gain seen above this range. Findings were similar for older adults and those with long-term health issues. The investigators note that it did not matter if the 120 minutes of weekly nature contact were achieved in one long dose or several shorter visits per week.
"Prospective longitudinal and intervention studies are a critical next step in developing possible weekly nature exposure guidelines comparable to those for physical activity," the authors write.
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NOAA Installs Real-time Oceanographic Equipment at Port Everglades
Real-time tides, currents, water levels and other metrological information at Port Everglades is now live online or by phone thanks to an advanced sensor device developed and installed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to a statement.
The newly installed Port Everglades Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS) is available on the Port’s website at porteverglades.net or via phone at 866-213-5269.
“Boaters and commercial mariners will be able to make safer choices based on the data from this equipment because it gives real-time information and forecasts,” said Port Everglades Deputy Port Director Glenn Wiltshire. “Before this equipment went into service, mariners had to rely on data for Lake Worth in Palm Beach County, or from Virginia Key in Miami to estimate conditions here.”
“Having real-time tides, water levels and other meteorological information all online or via a toll-free phone number is truly an asset that we can all enjoy,” said Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca. ”Moreover, this equipment is collecting data about our natural resources that we can apply to preparations for storms, climate changes and sea level rise.”
“Port Everglades PORTS will give vessel operators the real-time tide and weather information they need to help them navigate these waters more safely and efficiently," said Rich Edwing, director of NOAA's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services. "This is a win for the port, the surrounding communities, and every business and industry that depends upon these cruise and cargo ships."
PORTS is a decision support tool that improves the safety and efficiency of maritime commerce and coastal resource management through the integration of real-time environmental observations, forecasts and other geospatial information. PORTS measures and disseminates observations and predictions of water levels, currents, and meteorological parameters (e.g., winds, atmospheric pressure, air and water temperatures) that mariners need to navigate safely, according to a statement.
The installation includes a Micro-Wave water level sensor (MWWL) that is a non-contact highly accurate sensor used to measure distance and can be used to monitor long-term sea level changes. The back-up water level sensor is a pressure-based sensor that measures water-level. The meteorological station has been located on the roof of the Port’s Harbormaster Tower and is outfitted with primary back-up wind sensors that provide wind speed and direction.
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Mikhail Atallah
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy)
PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1982)
MS, The Johns Hopkins University, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1980)
BE, American University in Beirut, Electrical Engineering (1975)
Professor Atallah's research interests are in information security and algorithms. His work on key management received the 2015 CCS Test of Time Award. He was the 2017 recipient of the Purdue Arden L. Bement Jr. Award, the most prestigious award the university bestows in pure and applied science and engineering. He was the 2016 recipient of the Purdue Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award, and the 2013 recipient of the Purdue Outstanding Commercialization Award. He is Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE, and was a speaker nine times in the Distinguished Lecture Series of top Computer Science Departments. He was keynote and invited speaker at many national and international meetings, and has served on the editorial boards of top journals and on the program committees of top conferences and workshops. He was selected in 1999 as one of the best teachers in the history of Purdue University and included in Purdue's Book of Great Teachers, a permanent wall display of Purdue's best teachers past and present. In 2001 he co-founded Arxan Technologies Inc, to commercialize a software protection technology developed jointly with his doctoral student Hoi Chang (in October 2015, Arxan reported that applications secured by it were running on over 500 million devices). He was CTO of Arxan Technologies and Chief Scientist for its defense subsidiary, Arxan Defense Systems. Arxan Defense Systems was acquired in 2010 by Microsemi Corporation, and Arxan Technologies was acquired in 2013 by private equity firm TA Associates.
Marina Blanton, Mikhail J. Atallah, Keith B. Frikken, Qutaibah M. Malluhi, "Secure and Efficient Outsourcing of Sequence Comparisons", Proc. 17th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2012), Pisa, Italy, September 2012, pp. 505-522.
Hao Yuan, Mikhail J. Atallah, "Running Max/Min Filters Using 1+o(1) Comparisons per Sample", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 33, No. 12, 2011, pp. 2544-2548.
Hao Yuan, Mikhail J. Atallah, "Data Structures for Range Minimum Queries in Multidimensional Arrays", Proc. of Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2010), Austin, Texas, 2010, pp. 150-160.
Mikhail J. Atallah, Marina Blanton, Nelly Fazio, and Keith B. Frikken, "Dynamic and Efficient Key Management for Access Hierarchies", ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Vol. 12, 2009.
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Re-thinking Public Innovation
The public sector should seek to transform not just itself but society’s broader capacity to generate new solutions for the common good.
Jocelyn Bourgon
Issue 17, 14 Jun 2017
The situation faced by public servants and public sector leaders today may not be more challenging in absolute terms than in previous generations, but it is certainly different. The problems societies face today stem from a world characterised by increasing complexity, hyperconnectivity and a high level of uncertainty. In this context, the public sector’s role in developing innovative solutions is critical.
Despite the need for public innovation, public servants (when asked to discuss the challenges they face in New Synthesis1 labs and workshops) tend to present a narrow perspective, rarely going beyond the boundary of their respective units. While recent public sector reforms have encouraged a drive for efficiency and productivity, they have also generated a narrow and sometimes distorted view of the scale of the role of government in society.
Ideas and principles matter. The way one thinks has a direct impact on the solutions that will be found and the results that will be achieved. Innovation in government has received much attention over the years. For the most part, the focus has been introspective, giving special attention to the modernisation of public sector systems and practices as well as the service delivery functions of government. The focus of attention in these conversations is on innovation in government and as a result may have missed the most important contributions of government to public innovation.
A typical narrative is that innovation in a public sector setting is inherently more difficult than in a private sector one because it is operating under a heavier burden of constraints and controls.2 The political environment is described as generally hostile to public innovation due to short political cycles and the need to respond to political pressures.3 As a result, the culture of the public service is inherently risk averse and risk-avoiding.4 The literature tends to focus on finding ways to remove barriers to the introduction of innovative practices.5 In every narrative, there are elements of truth. Here, the story misses the point: it is public innovation that matters. A focus on innovation in government is unlikely to help government keep pace with the increasing complexity of society or yield solutions to issues ranging from climate change, increasing income and employment inequalities or the impact of an aging population.6 A conversation framed around innovation in government suffers from too narrow a focus to reveal the significance of public innovation. It underestimates the importance of the role of government in building an innovative society and in inventing solutions to emerging issues with unknown consequences.
Public Innovation
Governments innovate: this is the starting point for a broader conversation on public innovation. To reframe the conversation about innovation from a public sector perspective is to position it in the broader context of the role of the State and the contribution of government to society. Public innovation is a core mission of government — that is, to invent solutions to the challenges faced by society that cannot be solved without some form of government intervention. The capacity of governments to guide society through an ongoing process of change depends on this critical role.
A focus on innovation in government is unlikely to help government keep pace with the increasing complexity of society. It underestimates the importance of the role of government in building an innovative society and in inventing solutions to emerging issues with unknown consequences.
The public sector is responsible for many of the innovations that have given shape to our modern societies. Public organisations have funded and built infrastructure necessary for a modern society to function.7 Government investments underlie the radical technological innovations that have fuelled the “New Economy” and are currently being used in unprecedented ways to stimulate the world economy. Government interventions constantly mediate and redraw the boundaries between the private and public spheres of life in society.8
In an earlier work, I defined public innovation as “innovative solutions serving a public purpose that require the use of public means”.9 What distinguishes public innovation from social innovation is the intimate link to government actions and the use of instruments of the State.10 From this perspective, far from being risk averse, the State is the ultimate risk taker in society. Government takes risks on a scale that no other sector or agent in society could take on and intervenes in areas where the forces of the market or the capacity of civil society would be unable to go.
This broader perspective reveals some of the distinctive characteristics of public innovation.
Distinctive Characteristics of Public Innovation
Public innovation has distinctive characteristics that make it irreplaceable. These characteristics are linked to the authority of the State and the legitimacy of government to intervene in the public sphere to change the course of events in a manner judged preferable for society. They distinguish public innovation from innovations in any other sector.
The State is the ultimate risk taker in society, taking risks on a scale that no other sector or agent in society could take on and intervening in areas where the forces of market of the capacity of city society would be unable to go.
A Macro-scale of Interventions:
Unlike in the private, academic or civic spheres, public innovations often take place at the largest scale. They apply to the whole territory under the jurisdiction of the governing entity and to everyone under the authority of the State. New laws apply to all. New programmes and services define the entitlements of eligible citizens and create new rights enjoyed by all citizens in similar circumstances. The law is a necessary enabler to act in this manner and on this scale. No other actor in society can intervene in such a way and on such a scale.
Macro-scale interventions create particular difficulties for government. Companies will generally test innovative ideas on a small scale before scaling them up. This reduces risks and improves the likelihood of a successful launch of a new product or service. Governments face the opposite challenge; they must find ways to scale down an initiative in order to learn more before launching it on a national scale. This is more difficult than it seems at first glance. For instance, scaling down an initiative to a geographical area or a smaller group of people may give rise to ethical dilemmas or to legal challenges if an initiative benefits some citizens and not others. The equal treatment of all citizens is an important consideration for government. In some countries, legal constraints may even limit the use of pilot projects. In other cases, testing ideas on a smaller scale could lead to speculative behaviours and unfair competition. As a result, governments have a tendency to deploy new initiatives on a national scale and thus with the highest level of risk. Governments are inherently risk takers when it comes to initiating new policies, programmes and services.
Every intervention entails the promise of generating better outcomes as well as the risk of producing unknown, unintended or unwanted consequences. The challenge is to discover how to improve the likelihood of successful government intervention while reducing the risks of generating unintended effects.
Imperfect knowledge and unknown impact:
Government intervenes with imperfect knowledge. There may be efforts to encourage evidence-based decision making, using data analytics to extract meaning and detect patterns and other techniques to improve decisions — but ultimately governments must make decisions with the knowledge available to them at the time.
Policy decisions, new programmes and services are not definitive answers, but the beginning of long chains of interrelated actions intended to influence behaviours in a given direction. From that perspective, success may not depend so much on what was known at the time the decision was made, but on the ability of public organisations to capture new insights of what is happening in practice in order to adjust the initial design to achieve the desired impact over time.
Governments intervene to create a better future from a place of incomplete and imperfect knowledge. In most cases, the full impact of a government intervention is unknown at its inception and will only become known over many years. Public organisations with a strong inventive capacity must be able to monitor results over long periods of time to recalibrate the initial intervention as circumstances change and new knowledge becomes available. Government interventions are experiments in progress.
Success may not depend so much on what was known at the time the decision was made, but on the ability of public organisations to capture new insights of what is happening in practice.
Enabled by law and politics:
Public innovation does not happen in spite of politics and the law but is enabled by them. Government interventions derive their legitimacy from a mix of democratic principles, political leadership and the rule of law. Government possesses the legitimacy to intervene on behalf of society.
Public innovation takes place at the intersection: of a reliance on the law, which encourages predictability, and of experimentation, which can reveal new and better ways of achieving results of value to society. A particular difficulty for government is balancing the need for continuity and stability with the need for change to meet the challenges ahead. Important interventions can also be potentially disruptive. Public innovation is a process of constructive deconstruction that must be calibrated with care to engender the necessary public support.
In summary, reframing the conversation about public innovation opens up a broader perspective: it highlights the importance of government interventions in addressing problems that cannot be solved and in producing results that would not exist without making use of the levers of the State.
Public Innovation through Public Intervention
Every action and decision taken by government is deliberately designed to transform some aspects of society. Government interventions are intended to modify behaviours or transform the interactions between the public, private and civic spheres. At times, these actions are a response to pressing challenges, in other cases, they are proactive measures aimed at securing a better future. In either case, the impact of government interventions can be felt across vast systems and at times well beyond the country of origin.
At their core, public innovation and government intervention are related concepts. Government intervenes in the current state of affairs to invent a new reality distinct in some ways from the one that existed previously. This is a process of change and innovation. Jesper Christiansen, in The Irrealities of Public Administration, reminds us that it is through government intervention that innovations “come in” the public sphere and “come between” various actors in society.11
Public organisations are mandated to shape the environment and to steer society through a change process to achieve desirable public outcomes. Such interventions may require regulatory support or make use of the spending power of the State. Public means can be used to guide collective actions, encourage collaboration or prevent behaviours detrimental to society through coercive measures. Public innovation is both the goal and the process of generating public solutions that frequently exceed what government can do on its own, but could not be achieved without the use of the levers of the State.
Some initiatives will achieve their desired outcomes; some will work reasonably well for a time but require periodic adjustments; others will fail. In some cases, the reasons for failure may rest with government. This is the case when the lack of progress is due to a poor understanding of the issue, an inadequate selection of instruments or a poorly designed intervention. In other cases, the lack of progress is due to a lack of synergy between public, private and civic actions. Innovation benefits from an ecosystem where the State plays a key role in building dynamic linkages among multiple organisations and across sectors.
Reframing the conversation on innovation means focusing on societal results and exploring how the authority of the State can be put to optimal use to lever a collective effort that encourages the sharing of responsibilities and rewards for contributing to a common desirable outcome. It raises questions about the potential for the State to create a symbiotic system in which both society and the private sector benefit. It also raises further questions about the potential for government to intervene and bear risks beyond the market’s tolerance in order to promote the public good or for government to explore how to leverage social agents to build an innovative economy and society.12
The perspective on innovation found in the New Synthesis Initiative repositions public innovation in the broader context of the role of the State. The task of re-thinking the role of government in public innovation is in no way limited to the questions mentioned above. Thinking through the role of government in public innovation is an opportunity to re-articulate its public purpose in a changing context and to examine the system of relationships between public, private and civic spheres that produce societal results.
An international expert in governance and public sector reforms, the Honourable Jocelyne Bourgon is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Civil Service College Singapore, President of Public Governance International (PGI), President Emeritus of the Canada School of Public Service, project leader of the New Synthesis Initiative and author of A New Synthesis of Public Administration: Serving in the 21st Century.
This article was adapted from a fuller chapter of the second book of the New Synthesis Initiative, to be published in August 2017: Jocelyne Bourgon, The New Synthesis of Public Administration Fieldbook (Dansk Psykologisk Forlag, 2017).
The New Synthesis of Public Administration Fieldbook
The book (and e-book) will be available for purchase through Amazon worldwide on 1 August 2017.
The latest book from the NS Initiative offers a systematic process for exploring and re-thinking past assumptions that may limit future practice. It brings a societal and citizen perspective to assessing government choices.
The book aims to reconnect public servants with their fundamental public purpose to promote and serve the collective interests of society. It also provides a structured, exploratory approach to collective problem solving.
Publisher: Dansk Psykologisk Forlag, Publication Date: 1 August 2017, Cover image: Hellen Jensen
The New Synthesis Initiative is an international collaboration aimed at giving public service practitioners a conceptual framework of public administration that can guide their actions and decisions, and invent solutions fit for the times. It results from years of research and practical application, and has been used by more than 1000 practitioners from countries including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Malaysia, Singapore and some EU member states. More information can be found at http://www.pgionline.com.
For examples, see Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing, “Enhancing Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector,” Administration & Society 43 (2011): 842–68; P. Pierson, “Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics,” American Political Science Review 94 (2000): 251–67.
Christopher Pollitt, Time, Policy, Management: Governing with the Past (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Steven Kelman, “The ‘Kennedy School’ of Research on Innovation in Government,” in Innovations in Government: Research, Recognition, and Replication, ed. Sandford Borins (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute Press, 2008), 29 & 37; OECD, Innovating the Public Sector: From Ideas to Impact (Paris: OECD, 2014),19; Pierson, “Increasing Returns”, 251–67; Luc Bernier and Taïeb Hafsi, “The Changing Nature of Public Entrepreneurship,” Public Administration Review 67(2007): 488–503.
Jocelyne Bourgon, Public Innovation and Public Purpose (Ottawa: Public Governance International, 2015), 4.
Council for Science and Technology, Improving Innovation in the Water Industry: 21st Century Challenges and Opportunities (London: Council for Science and Technology, 2009); Christian Bason, “Design-Led Innovation in Government,” Stanford Social Innovation Review 10th Anniversary Essays, Spring (2013): 15–7.
Bourgon, Public Innovation and Public Purpose, 5–6.
Timothy Mitchell, “The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approach and their Critics,” The American Political Science Review 85 (1991): 77–96.
Bourgon, Public Innovation and Public Purpose, 6.
For work on social innovation, see Geoff Mulgan, Innovation in the Public sector: How Can Public Organizations Better Create, Improve and Adapt (UK: Nesta, 2014), and Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, European Commission, Guide to Social Innovation (Brussels: European Commission, 2013).
Jesper Christiansen, The Irrealities of Public Administration (Denmark: Mindlab, 2013), 19, 34 & 58–71.
For further discussion, see William Lazonick and Mariana Mazzucato, “The Risk-Reward Nexus in the Innovation-Inequality Relationship,” Industrial and Corporate Change 22 (2013): 1096–7; and Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (London: Anthem Press, 2014).
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Published June 25, 2019 at 05:45PM
Timber salvage sale to be advertised
The Oregon Department of Forestry and U.S. Forest Service plan to re-advertise a timber sale that earlier received no bidders.
The Prairie II timber salvage sale will be advertised Thursday in the Medford Mail Tribune on June 27, 2019 according to a press release from ODF. The sale is for 1.327 million board feet (MBF) of timber at a price of $21.83/MBF for a total sale price of approximately $30,000.
It is the 13th sale of timber damaged by the Chetco Bar Fire in 2017. The Prairie sale was advertised previously, but there were no bidders. To date, approximately 1 percent (1,800 acres) of the Chetco Bar Fire footprint has been offered as salvage for a total of eight timber sales totaling 30 million board feet.
Shortly after the Chetco Bar Fire, a team of natural resource specialists were brought in from a number of forests across the Pacific Northwest region to provide salvage sale opportunities to benefit local economies, the release said. The Forest Service partnered with the Oregon Department of Forestry under the Good Neighbor Authority to offer a timber sale of the Chetco Bar Area salvage.
A small percentage of the total fire area was offered due to various considerations, such as rapidly decreasing timber values, a limited number of burned areas within the fire footprint where salvage was economically feasible, and a variety of land management allocations, including designated wilderness within the fire area that does not allow for timber harvest.
”We’re doing our part, wherever we can, to recapture the economics of salvage timber to benefit local communities. We appreciate all of the hard work that our forest employees as well as employees who came to the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest from other forests accomplished to help us offer these economic opportunities,” said District Ranger Wade McMaster.
A portion of the proceeds of the sale will be utilized for forest restoration work.
For more information, contact Gold Beach Ranger Wade McMaster at 541-247-3601 or wade.mcmaster@usda.gov
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Important changes ! New rule on 183 days of tax residence in China
April 30, 2019 admin快讯
On March 14, 2019, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation jointly issued the Notice No. 34 of the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation 2019, on the Judgment Standards for Individuals’ Living Time without Residency in China (hereinafter referred to as the “Announcement”). The Announcement is effective retroactively from January 1, 2019. The main contents are as follows:
If a non-domiciled individual resides in China for 183 days or more in a tax year, and in each of the preceding 6 years without being absent from China for more than 30 days, his income sourced from and outside China in that tax year shall be subject to individual income tax. If the accumulated days in China in any of the preceding 6 years is less than 183 days or a single departure is more than 30 days, his income sourced outside China is exempt from individual income tax.
The first preceding 6 years refers to the six consecutive years ending on year 2018.
The days in China of a non-domiciled individual residence within one tax year shall be calculated based on the number of days an individual has accumulated in China. If the stay in China is exactly 24 hours a day, it will be counted as 1 day. Any stay less than 24 hours will not be counted.
What impact does the Announcement have on foreigners after its implementation?
Changes in the conditions for foreigners to enjoy tax exemption for overseas income
The new individual income tax law will adjust the time criteria for individual residents from one year of domestic residence to 183 days. In order to attract foreign investment and encourage foreigners to work in China, the new Individual Income Tax Law Implementation Regulations continue to retain the original regulations for overseas payment. The overseas income is exempt from the taxation system which further relaxes the tax exemption conditions:
Firstly, the tax exemption conditions will be relaxed from less than five years to six consecutive years;
Secondly, as long as there is one departure more than 30 days in any year, the continuous residence period is recalculated; and
Thirdly, the management method which is changed from the competent tax authority to the record, simplifies the process of tax reporting.
The Announcement also clarifies that the day of stay in the territory less than 24 hours is excluded from the number of days of residence in the country; the period of continuous residence “full six years” is calculated from January 1, 2019, and the period before 2019 is no longer included.
Calculation of the number of days in which foreigners (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan residents) live in the territory
According to the Announcement, a residency day is counted only if an individual stayed in China for exactly 24 hours a day, otherwise, the days staying in China is not counted.
For example, Miss Zhou is a Hong Kong resident who works in Shenzhen. She comes to work in Shenzhen every Monday morning and returns to Hong Kong on Friday night. On Mondays and Fridays, the stay is less than 24 hours, so the number of days in the country is not counted. Thus, the day of stay per week can only be counted as 3 days. Calculated in 52 weeks, Miss Zhou’s domestic residence in the whole year is 156 days, which is less than 183 days. It does not constitute a resident individual. All overseas income obtained by Miss Zhou is exempt from personal income tax.
Foreigners (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan residents) continue to live in the country for “full six years”
According to the Announcement, the “continuous six-year” period in which the domestic residence has accumulated for 183 days starts from the year 2019 (inclusive), and the year in which it has been inhabited before 2018 (including) is cleared. According to this regulation, before 2024 (inclusive), all non-residential individuals have lived in the country for less than six years, and their overseas income obtained from overseas payment can enjoy tax-free concessions. In addition, if there is a single departure for more than 30 days in any year from 2019, the previous consecutive years are “cleared” and recalculated.
For example, Miss Li is a Hong Kong resident. She came to work in Shenzhen on January 1, 2013 and returned to work in Hong Kong on August 30, 2026. During this period, she returned to Hong Kong temporarily from February 1 to March 15, 2025. In addition to handling official duties, the rest of the time was in Shenzhen.
Miss Li lived in China for a total of 183 days. If her residency is calculated starting from 2013, she would have completed six years tax residency in China. However, the period before 2019 is “cleared” according to the Announcement. Therefore, from 2019 to 2024, Miss Li lived in China for a total of 183 days in a row less than six years, and her overseas income obtained from overseas payments for the said period should be exempted from individual income tax.
In 2025, Miss Li had been living in the territory for 183 days in a row for six consecutive years (2019-2024), without a single departure more than 30 days. In this case, Miss Li should pay individual income tax in 2025 on income, no matter onshore and offshore China.
In 2026, due to the fact that Miss Li had a single departure in 2025 for more than 30 days (February 1 to March 15, 2025), her continuous residence in the Mainland for 183 days was cleared, and day of stay is recounted in 2026. As a result, her foreign income from overseas payments for the year 2026, should be exempted from individual income tax.
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Catching Up With Jade Wilcoxson, Road Race National Champion and Cyclocrosser
molly — June 5, 2013
Here, Jade Wilcoxson had the cyclocross race of her life, catching and outsprinting Nicole Duke for second at the 2013 National Championships © Meg McMahon
by Molly Hurford
Some racers we talk to have been taking some down time after a long cyclocross season: a road race here, a mountain bike stage there, but ultimately, they’re taking it easy. And then there are the racers who manage to pull off great results during cyclocross season, even though it isn’t their main focus, and are already back in full-time racing mode starting in March. Jade Wilcoxson, with her second place at Nationals and mid-pack finish at Worlds in her first real year of cyclocross racing, is one of those racers, and instead of taking some downtime after Worlds, she got right back on the saddle (pun emphatically intended) and started on her road racing campaign.
So far this season, she took fourth in the Tour of California Women’s Time Trial, fifth in the time trial at road nationals, and the win in the nationals road race that same weekend. For anyone who may have questioned Wilcoxson’s talent as a multi-discipline cyclist, the answer is clear. The only worry now is, will Wilcoxson be back to the knobby tires in the fall? I finally managed to get on the phone to chat about her season so far, what’s next, cyclocross, and our dream vacations.
“I had a great weekend, it couldn’t have gone better!” she told me as I congratulated her on her win at US Road Nationals. “I’m still pretty shocked. I keep replaying things in my head and can’t believe how everything turned out.”
She went on to explain a bit about the race and how it played out. “We were hitting it hard from the gun, there were attacks going off from all sides. It made the race really animated and really fun to watch. I was really happy it ended up that way, I’ve had so many people comment on how exciting it was to watch a women’s race, and I was like, ‘Yeah, it’s exciting every time. That’s just how we race but you never get to see it.'”
“Our plan was to cover attacks, the team did a great job with that. And when we hit the climb, Jenelle, Lauren and I were together with a group of 8-10 riders and it was all blowing up behind us. We came back into town, and we all just turned ourselves inside out. We ended up with about eight riders and kept that; Janelle worked the group pretty hard while I sat on and waited for the climb. We hit the climb again and just climbed steady, and the hard hitters like Kristen McGrath and Carmen Small were all there, and after the climb, Lauren was still with us and we knew it would come down to a sprint. We decided Lauren should sit on and I should work for her. Back in town, we had three circuits to do and I started working for Lauren. There was a two-person attack and I tried to reel it back in, and then I was on the front and no one was doing any work. I decided instead of reeling them in, I would attack and bridge up to her. I was 10 seconds off when she had a mechanical, and I went straight by her and then I was off the front by myself. After a lap, McGrath bridged up to me and we started working together, taking pulls. At one point we had about a minute on the peloton and that time was coming back down. With one lap to go, I didn’t hear this but my director said we were down to only six seconds. We hit a couple corners pretty hard, stretched it to 15 seconds, but with half a lap, it was down to 10 seconds with three kilometers left. So I decided to attack, and fortunately she couldn’t hold my wheel. I just put it all out there. I figured Lauren was in the group and had the best sprint, so if I give it all up and blow up, Lauren will take the win, and if I didn’t, I would take the win. And it worked out for me this time.”
With that win in the books, it’s time for Wilcoxson to turn her attention to the rest of the summer, which has already almost completely filled up.
“I still haven’t really had a break. I was supposed to take one after Nature Valley, but I got the invite from the National team, to ride the women’s Giro. So instead of a break, I’ll be racing the hardest stage race of my life in Italy!”
She laughed. “Since the end of road season last year, my coach plans things out, like my fall rest period, but I was like, ‘No, can I do ’cross?’ and she said it wasn’t ideal but we could make it work. Then I did that, and then asked if I could do Worlds, and she said it would be really hard to stretch it out but you can’t pass up that opportunity, so we did Worlds. Then after Worlds, it was like, ‘Can I race the Spring Classics,’ and she was like, ‘Ahh, you’re killing me!'”
“She told me I had to take a break after Nature Valley, that I couldn’t keep going. And then the Giro came up and she’s like, ‘Dammit!'”
Wilcoxson doesn’t slow down after the Giro though, she heads to Cascade Classic, her “local race.” And after that, she says, “the sage continues.” So the first week in August is set to be Wilcoxson’s first real break in 20 months.
When I ask if taking a break will be hard though, Wilcoxson is the first to admit that she has a laid-back attitude on vacation, despite her obvious desire to stay racing. “I might be the best person I know at not touching my bike. There are so many other things in this world that I’d love to do that when I actually get a break, I don’t want to look at my bike or think about my bike. When my breaks are over, I always want to stretch it out. It’s kind of funny that the season keeps dragging out, because I’m so not that person who’s addicted to cycling. I’m terrible at training! I hate training, I just do it so I can race.”
And as for the topic of vacation, Wilcoxson adds, “It always sounds like a good idea to travel with athletes, but then you get somewhere and they always want to do stuff! They want to go on hikes, rent bikes, and I’m like, ‘No! I’m just going to sit here. I’m not leaving this towel for the rest of the week.'”
So what about cyclocross? “We’re still working out the details. Ultimately it’ll depend on how I feel at the end of this season, if I’m burned out and hitting the wall …”
That said, Wilcoxson doesn’t imagine slowing down anytime soon. She told me about her conversations with her other teammates: “We talk about this all the time. This is such a fun time in our lives, how are we ever going to be able to walk away from it and go back to a normal life?”
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Built between the years 1886 and 1888, the old "Immigrant Brás Inn" was one of the largest centers for the reception of foreigners already in Brazil. For its dependencies, spent more than two million people between the years 1887 and 1978. The information presented here record the most significant part of this migration, and the transcript of records from this guest registration books for the years 1887 to 1958. Additionally, there is also the bank records of the old Inn of the Good Retreat (predecessor of the Inn of Brás) covering the years from 1882 to 1886.
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Mueller's focus falls on meeting in Seychelles
By Devlin Barrett, Sari Horwitz, Rosalind S. Helderman – The Washington Post
Eric Thayer
Special Counsel Robert Mueller leaves a meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on June 21, 2017. Bloomberg photo by Eric Thayer.
WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Mueller has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before the inauguration of Donald Trump was an effort to establish a back channel between the incoming administration and the Kremlin - apparently contradicting statements made to lawmakers by one of its participants, according to people familiar with the matter.
In January 2017, Erik Prince, the founder of the private security company Blackwater, met with a Russian official close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and later described the meeting to congressional investigators as a chance encounter that was not a planned discussion of U.S.-Russia relations.
A witness cooperating with Mueller has told investigators the meeting was set up in advance so that a representative of the Trump transition could meet with an emissary from Moscow to discuss future relations between the countries, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
George Nader, a Lebanese American businessman who helped organize and attended the Seychelles meeting, has testified on the matter before a grand jury gathering evidence about discussions between the Trump transition team and emissaries of the Kremlin, as part of Mueller's investigation into Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election.
Nader began cooperating with Mueller after he arrived at Dulles Airport in mid-January and was stopped, served with a subpoena and questioned by the FBI, these people said. He has met numerous times with investigators.
Last year, Prince told lawmakers - and the news media - that his Seychelles meeting with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of a Russian government-controlled wealth fund, was an unplanned, unimportant encounter that came about by chance because he happened to be at a luxury hotel in the Indian Ocean island nation with officials from the United Arab Emirates.
In his statements, Prince has specifically denied reporting by The Washington Post that said the Seychelles meeting, which took place about a week before Trump's inauguration, was described by U.S., European and Arab officials as part of an effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and the incoming administration.
Prince told lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee that he did not plan to meet Dmitriev in the Seychelles but that once he was there discussing possible business deals with UAE officials, they unexpectedly suggested that he visit the hotel bar and meet Dmitriev.
"At the end, one of the entourage says, 'Hey, by the way, there's this Russian guy that we've dealt with in the past. He's here also to see someone from the Emirati delegation. And you should meet him, he'd be an interesting guy for you to know, since you're doing a lot in the oil and gas and mineral space,' " Prince told lawmakers.
The two men, he said, spoke for no more than 30 minutes, or about the time it took him to drink a beer.
"We chatted on topics ranging from oil and commodity prices to how much his country wished for resumption of normal trade relations with the USA," Prince told lawmakers. "I remember telling him that if Franklin Roosevelt could work with Josef Stalin to defeat Nazi fascism, then certainly Donald Trump could work with Vladimir Putin to defeat Islamic fascism."
Prince said he went to the Seychelles as a private businessman, not as an official or unofficial emissary of the Trump transition team. During the congressional interview, which became testy at times as Democratic lawmakers pressed him to be more specific in his answers, Prince repeatedly complained that he had reason to believe U.S. intelligence agencies were leaking information about his activities.
Asked to comment on assertions that new evidence appears to contradict Prince's description of the Seychelles meeting, a spokesman for Prince referred to his previous statements to the committee and declined further comment.
A spokesman for the special counsel declined to comment.
Prince has known Nader for years and once hired him to try to generate business from the Iraqi government in the years after the U.S. invasion of that country. That effort was not successful, according to Prince's statements in a subsequent deposition.
Nader, according to current and former officials, was known to Trump transition and administration officials as someone with political connections in the Middle East who could help navigate the tricky diplomacy of the region.
Nader had also attended a December 2016 meeting in New York between senior Trump advisers and the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, according to a person familiar with the matter.
While Mueller is probing the circumstances of the Seychelles meeting, he is also more broadly examining apparent efforts by the Trump transition team to create a back channel for secret talks between the new administration and the Kremlin. Mueller was appointed special counsel to investigate possible Russian interference in the 2016 election, whether any Americans assisted in such efforts, and any other matters that arise in the course of his probe.
Investigators now suspect that the Seychelles meeting may have been one of the first efforts to establish such a line of communications between the two governments, these people said. Nader's account is considered key evidence - but not the only evidence - about what transpired in the Seychelles, according to people familiar with the matter.
Nader has long served as an adviser to the UAE leadership, and in that role he met more than once with Trump officials, including Steve Bannon and the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to people familiar with the matter. After the Seychelles meeting, Nader visited the White House several times, and met at least once there with Bannon and Kushner, these people said.
Nader could not be reached for comment, and his lawyer declined to comment.
Nader - and the Seychelles meeting - are also of interest to Mueller's team as it examines whether any foreign money or assistance fueled the Trump campaign, and how Trump officials during the transition and early days of the administration communicated with foreign officials, particularly Russians.
Nader's cooperation with the special counsel was first reported by the New York Times.
The UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective, according to U.S. European and Arab officials. Such a concession by Moscow would have been likely to require the easing of U.S. sanctions on Russia, which were imposed for Russia's intervention in Ukraine in 2014, those officials said.
Prince had no formal role with the Trump campaign or transition. However, according to people familiar with the Seychelles meeting, he presented himself as an unofficial envoy for Trump to high-ranking Emiratis involved in setting up his discussion with the Russian official.
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Exclusive Interview: Ace Von Johnson on Juggling 'L.A, Guns' and 'Faster Pussycat' While Striving for a Balanced Life
Photo: Toxic Love Photography
I think in many ways, Ace Von Johnson has to be one of the busiest guys currently on the rock scene. Aside from playing with a handful of rock and punk bands, you'll also find him currently splitting his guitar duties between two legendary bands, L.A. Guns, and Faster Pussycat. I caught up with him recently, as L.A. Guns swung across the east coast playing dates to promote their new release, "The Devil You Know". I encountered a clever man that is most definitely in charge of his current life and future destiny. What follows is an excerpt from my interview with Ace. The full podcast will be available on DailyBOOM and Boom Radio soon.
Photo: Anabel DFlux
Ace on L.A. Guns new album, "The Devil You Know":
Ace: "The Devil You Know" is doing really great. When they were recording that about a year ago, it was sort of the first time that they had approached me about joining the band. Scheduling-wise and for a multitude of other reasons it just wasn't going to work then. I'm not on the album performance-wise but Tracii Guns has led me to believe that on all the albums, even when Mick Cripps was in the band, he kind of did nearly all of the tracking. I think that's kind of common for him to not have the other guitar player play the stuff that he has written. As a show of good faith, they did put my picture on the album anyway to solidify me in the band, rather than just having me look like another plug in and play guy. It shows that I'm a real member and that's nice. It was a show of good faith and it's a bit of an honor to be considered a band member rather than, 'oh we needed a guitar player and this guy was available for the next four months so,'. I'm honored ya' know, it's a legendary band and so I'm happy to be playing with them. It's nice to be treated like one of the guys (laughing) and it's kind of flattering as well."
Ace on how L.A. Guns is a different kind of gig for him:
Ace: "There is definitely a level of professionalism in L.A. Guns that other bands that I've played with just don't have. There are rules within the band and with the crew and entourage that Faster Pussycat doesn't have and I don't think that's any secret. I've been with them for almost ten years now and Pussycat travels pretty light as far as crew goes. They're just two different gigs, it's like trying to compare an ex to another ex, one doesn't make the other less special. L.A. Guns in all forms tends to put out albums every 2-4 years whereas Faster Pussycat hasn't put out an album of new material in about fourteen years."
Photo: James Papaconstantine
Ace on the possibility of Faster Pussycat putting out a new album:
Ace: "I kind of get a little irked with being asked when Faster will put out another record because the only person that knows that is Taime (Downe). If someone asks me when L.A. Guns is going to put out a new record, even though we just dropped one, I'd be inclined to say two years. I've already seen Tracii write stuff and we've jammed on some riffs so I would imagine that you'll see another L.A. Guns record before Taime will put one out. I would love to see him do it and I've been trying to help facilitate that for several years now. I'm not really sure how interested he really is. I sense he is happy just getting out there and rolling with the legacy factor and there's nothing wrong with that. I will say this though, for me, being in a band for ten years and not having an album out is very frustrating for me. As an artist and as a guitar player I haven't done as much these last few years because I've been so focused on Pussycat, but in the years before Pussycat, I've probably been twice as productive in terms of putting out music. The band has just kept me so busy that I couldn't focus on other things and I'm not blaming Taime because it is a choice that I've made."
Ace on how L.A. Guns is inspiring him:
Ace: "Having a band like L.A. Guns, where the guys are really anxious to get out there and perform music or to put out new music and deliver a quality product, is really inspiring. It's nice to be around guys that are excited about having a new album out and maybe equally as driven as I am. The act of just getting on stage and being able to jump around and play some rock and roll is inspiring and cathartic as well."
Photo: Evil Robb
Ace on taking control of his career and how he brands himself:
Ace: "Well, this is my career so I have to be driven and smart with it. I learned a long time ago about branding and social media and interaction. It's not about capitalizing on those things per se, but you have to know how to sell yourself well enough to provide for yourself. I've tried to make the best of the opportunities that I've had. It's not like it used to be with bands being given thousands of dollars to do everything. In some ways, much of it is now self-funded, not that L.A. Guns doesn't have a great record label, but the money aspect isn't like it used to be. This is what I do for a living and so I feel like I have to help myself in any way possible. There are countless social media platforms and so I try to keep up with many of them. I think interacting with the fans who buy the albums and come to the shows is important and I think in the end it goes a long way in showing support to them as well.
I'm always checking out new products and testing out what might work for me. I recently posted about flasks that I saw and there were enough likes on that post for me to go ahead and start marketing those on my social media. I think that fans really appreciate unique merch and so I'm always on the lookout for ideas."
Ace on juggling both bands and the importance of balance in his life:
Ace: "I think there's a lot of speculation about whether I'll stay in both bands, or leave one or the other. I don't really have an answer for that but for now, I'm in both bands. I don't need to decide things now and I don't have any real conflicts. I already talked to both bands about subbing me out and it's nice to know that I'm sort of prioritized. I also had a conversation with both bands about not prioritizing my life by a tour schedule. I've been on the road since I was eighteen, for half of my life so I've already done that. There are relationships and family, weddings and births and deaths that are at least equally important. I've just kind of put my foot down, whether it's for my sanity or for creative purposes or whatever. I have to do other things whether it's playing on another album or doing some different live shows, or just turning my phone off for a week and going to the Bahamas.
Hopefully, everybody on all sides understands that there's going to be stuff that I can't do. It has nothing to do with the bands, it's all about me just trying to do what's best for me now. I've spent most of my adult life traveling in a van or a bus or a rickshaw (laughing) or whatever. It's tiring and it has cost me relationships and it has affected my health and that's just what we do as musicians. I would never change what I do but as I get older, I see things differently. I'm in a really healthy relationship at the moment and I don't want my stage persona or schedule jeopardize my personal life, so if I've got to bring her out on tour for a week then that's how it's going to be. Life can't just be about servicing a band; we all eventually need more than that and I think it's great when we realize that fact."
Follow Ace Von Johnson on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Also, check out tour dates on L.A. Guns and Faster Pussycat's official sites.
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Students shocked as US high school assembly descends into homophobic rant against Sir Elton John and Lady Gaga
By Lyle Brennan for the Daily Mail
Published: 08:43 EDT, 14 March 2012 | Updated: 12:01 EDT, 14 March 2012
Kicking off with a hard rock performance, it was clear this was not to be your average assembly.
At first students at Dunkerton High School, Iowa, seemed grateful for this musical break from the norm - albeit with Christian-themed lyrics denouncing the evils of drugs, alcohol and violence.
But things took a turn for the worse when the event veered into an impassioned and unfocused rant against homosexuality, abortion and sex before marriage.
Captive audience: A still from a video in which preacher Bradlee Dean gives Iowa students a lecture attacking popular culture for promoting homosexuality
After his band Junkyard Prophet left the stage, drummer and preacher Bradlee Dean took the microphone, separating the crowd into boys, girls and teachers.
Mr Dean is the president of the ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, which is listed by civil rights organisation the Southern Poverty Law Center as an active anti-gay hate group.
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The clip below - a segment on homosexuality - shows him launching attacks on the influence of the media and pop culture, taking aim mainly at Sir Elton John and Lady Gaga.
Lecture: Preacher and Christian rocker Bradlee Dean, whose band Junkyard Prophet opened the controversial assembly
Before a packed school hall he projects a photograph of Sir Elton next to a quotation that reads: 'There's nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. I just think people should be very free with sex... They should draw the line at goats.'
Mr Dean demands of his young audience: 'Is that a good moral standard? Would you allow your son or daughter to spend the night at Elton's house?'
Target: Sir Elton John, who was one of the subjects of preacher Bradlee Dean's intolerant lecture on homosexuality
He then picks apart Lady Gaga hits such as The Fame and Born This Way, taking exception to her placing the lyrics 'No matter black, white or beige' side by side with 'No matter gay, straight or bi'.
He says: 'What she's saying is if you're black it's the same thing as being gay. Sexual deviancy is the same thing.
'You're born as a product of your parents. But your actions - listen to this - you do have control over it.'
And after an embittered rant in which Mr Dean claims music videos give a false impression of what love is, he asks: 'Did you know the average age death of a homosexual male is 42 years old?
'Yeah, his actions literally kill him and he lives about half his life out.'
He adds: 'Up until 1961 [homosexuality] was illegal in all 50 states. We protected that institution.
'In 1998 if you were busted in Rhode Island you'd go to prison for 20 years; in 1973 they thought it was a mental illness.
'Now what are they teaching you?'
Junkyard Prophet had previously visited the school without incident and staff were expecting them to return last week with a talk on bullying and making the right choices.
But instead, students found themselves faced with graphic images of aborted foetuses, while girls were instructed to obey their husbands.
Idol: Lady Gaga, seen here at a rally against the 'Don't ask, Don't tell' policy on gays in the U.S. military, came under fire for her lyrics
Parent Jennifer Littlefield told the LaCrosse Tribune: 'They told my daughter, the girls, that they were going to have mud on their wedding dresses if they weren't virgins.'
Her 16-year-old daughter Alivia was distraught when she called her after the event and was one of several to have left in tears.
Appalled parents complained to the school, which has since accepted responsibility. The district authority is trying to recover the fee paid to Junkyard Prophet, who are said to command a rate of $1,500 (£955) per show.
Members of the group have since returned to the area to explain their performance, addressing 75 people at a nearby church.
According to local network KWWL, Mr Dean, who was met by a small group of protesters, took to the stage to hit out at 'offensive' accusations and negative media coverage.
He said: 'When I left, there was nothing wrong with anything. I get home and it's an anti-gay ministry.
'I'm tired of that. It wasn't brought up at all.'
Students shocked as US high school assembly descends into homophobic rant
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Ex-Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa says his country KNEW WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was interfering in the 2016 US presidential election from the safety of his country's embassy in London
Google chief denies it manipulates search results as Senators led by Ted Cruz say that internet firms that don't remain politically neutral should have protection from lawsuits removed
ICE raids to 'deport 2,000 immigrants' will be begin on SUNDAY: Trump-backed operation will be carried out over multiple days in 10 major cities, Homeland Security officials warn
Immigration Customs and Border Patrol officers will start conducting raids all over the country on Sunday in a bid to arrest thousands of immigrants
The controversial raids will conducted over a number of days commencing the morning of July 14, including 'collateral arrests' of nearby illegal immigrants
Officers have been instructed to detain immigrants who happen to be in the vicinity of the raid, even if they weren’t the intended target of it, officials said
The aim of the raids is to deport the families from the US as quickly as possible
ICE are believed to be targeting 2,000 immigrants across 10 major cities who’re residing in the country illegally after ignoring deportation orders
By Luke Kenton For Dailymail.com
Immigration Customs and Border Patrol officers will start conducting raids all over the country on Sunday in a bid to arrest thousands of members of undocumented families, officials have announced, having previously had the scheme halted by President Trump.
As first reported by the New York Times, the controversial raids will conducted over a number of days commencing the morning of July 14, which will include ‘collateral’ deportations according to two anonymous ICE officials.
Officers have been instructed to detain immigrants who happen to be in the vicinity of the raid, even if they weren’t the intended target of it, the officials said.
Family members who are arrested together will be held in family detention centers in Texas and Pennsylvania, but space limitations mean that some will be held up in hotels until proper travel documents can be prepared.
Immigration Customs and Border Patrol officers will start conducting raids all over the country on Sunday in a bid to arrest thousands of members of undocumented families
The aim of the raids is to deport the families as quickly as possible, the sources told the outlet.
ICE are believed to be targeting 2,000 immigrants across 10 major cities who’re residing in the country illegally after ignoring deportation orders.
The targeted family are believed to be those who crossed the US-Mexico border as recently as last fall.
ICE issued the families notice to report to their nearest immigration office and leave the United States, according to the sources.
The immigration outfit have thus far refused to comment on the specific details of the operation to ensure the safety of agency personnel.
Trump’s Administration is homing the scheme harsh display of force will deter other migrant families from attempting to cross of the US-Mexico divide
The slated raids have sparked fearsome debate inside the Department of Homeland security, outraged politicians across the bi-partisan divide and has rattled immigrant communities over the past few weeks.
Trump’s Administration is homing the scheme harsh display of force will deter other migrant families from attempting to cross of the US-Mexico divide.
Agents of the government body are said to have expressed concerns to their superiors about arresting babies and other young children.
They’re also said to be apprehensive about how effective the tactic might be, considering now that tips on how to avoid arrest have already spread to various immigrant communities.
For instance, ICE agents are not allowed to force entry into someone’s home, so if they don’t answer, they won’t be confronted.
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Over the last few months the raids have been touted several times, with ICE’s former director Mark Morgan signalling that agents were gearing up to round up illegal families.
The claim was made days before the then-secret scheme was set to begin, however a tweet from the President announcing plan blind-sided Morgan, forcing him to call it off.
He said he believed the safety of his border agents would’ve been compromised had he continued with the plans.
Acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan, then told Morgan in June to call off the operation entirely.
He said he didn’t support the raids, citing concerns over undocumented parents being separated from the children who are legal American citizens.
Officials from Homeland Security also said they feared that many of the families that ICE had hoped to detain may have actually left their listed address after Trump’s tweet, which could lead to false arrests.
The aim of the raids is to deport the families from the US as quickly as possible (pictured: An immigrant family is detained by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials after crossing illegally into the United States on July 9)
Branding the proposed operation ‘heartless’, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Trump urging him to cease the plans.
Trump later tweeted that he would delay the efforts, but also threatened to resume with mass deportations if Democrats refused to acquiesce with Republican lawmakers to work out a solution form ‘asylum and loophole’ reform at the Southern Border.
'The Democrats it seems to me they want to have open borders,' Trump said at the time.
‘Unless we do something pretty miraculous [in striking a deal]... we will be removing large numbers of people starting in a week after, you know, sometime after July 4,' he added.
In the days that followed the Senate passed a $4.6 billion humanitarian bill to provide aid to the border.
Trump expressed his gratitude to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for helping to pass the bill.
She backed down from an effort to alter the legislation, saying instead that the House would ‘reluctantly’ take up the Senate bill ‘to get resources to the children fastest.’
‘We did get in a very bipartisan way, and I appreciate Speaker Pelosi because she really worked with us. It was humanitarian money,’ Trump said in praise.
Migrant crossings have seen a sharp decline since May, a month that saw a 13-year-high in attempted crossing, with more than 144,000 migrants taken into custody.
However, the president added that the bill’s signing didn’t make the raids any less likely.
‘I say they came in illegally, and we’re bringing them out legally,’ Trump declared.
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England Women to face USA, Germany and France in inaugural SheBelieves Cup
England Women will participate in new tournament against the world's best
They will play FIFA's top three ranked teams, USA, Germany and France
The inaugral SheBelieves Cup will take place in America in March
Mark Sampson's side will not take part in annual Cyprus Cup competition
By Press Association
Published: 15:01 EDT, 12 January 2016 | Updated: 18:17 EDT, 12 January 2016
England Women will travel to America in March to participate in a new tournament against the world's best teams.
The Lionesses will play USA, Germany and France - the top three FIFA ranked teams - in the inaugural SheBelieves Cup.
Head coach Mark Sampson told thefa.com: 'We have been working hard now for a number of months to add more matches against top-tier nations so I am very pleased we are taking part in this tournament.
'The opportunity to compete against the three best teams in the world is a crucial step in providing more opportunities for the team to develop.
England Women will travel to America in March to participate in a new tournament against the world's best
Coach Mark Sampson, who was nominated for Women's coach of the year, will take his team to the USA
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'Women's soccer in the USA is on a real high since their World Cup success and we are excited to feel that sense of enthusiasm for the game in some wonderful football stadiums.
'We are thankful to the USA for their work in setting up the event which I am sure in years to come will grow into a stand-out tournament in the women's football calendar.'
England, ranked fifth in the world, will face hosts and World Cup winners USA in their opening game on March 4, European champions Germany on March 6 and France on March 10.
Their involvement means Sampson's side will not take part in the annual Cyprus Cup competition, of which they are the holders after winning the competition last year, which takes place at the same time.
England will have to overcome the best teams in the world, including World Champions USA
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Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill could shake up starting line-up once again as he prepares for crucial clash against Germany
Michael O'Neill's changes paid dividends when Northern Ireland beat Ukraine
O'Neill has to decide to keep Conor Washington or bring back Kyle Lafferty
Northern Ireland face Germany as they bid to make it to knockout stages
By Chris Wheeler for The Mail on Sunday
Over the course of the next 48 hours, Michael O’Neill will sit down with his backroom team and settle on a starting line-up for Northern Ireland’s biggest game in three decades.
A win or probably even a draw against world champions Germany in Paris on Tuesday, and O’Neill’s men can look forward to being in the last 16 at their first ever European Championships. Lose, and they are in danger of going home.
Having taken a big gamble by dropping five players from the opening Group C defeat against Poland for the stirring victory over Ukraine, O’Neill must now decide whether to keep a winning team.
Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill has some more big decisions to make as he prepares for Germany
Conor Washington impressed for his country during their famous victory over Ukraine on Thursday
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Above all, he must decide whether to stick with Conor Washington, a striker who was playing non-league football for St Ives while working as a postman when Euro 2012 took place four years ago, and leave Kyle Lafferty, Northern Ireland’s talisman and seven-goal leading scorer in qualifying, on the bench again.
Even Lafferty believes Washington deserves to start against Germany. O’Neill, on the other hand, insisted that Lafferty was rested, not dropped, because it would have been asking too much to play two big games in five days after a season of limited opportunity at Norwich City.
Either way, O’Neill has demonstrated that he is not afraid to make big calls. He will consult his staff over the next couple of days, and then take the final decision himself.
‘If Jose Mourinho or Roy Hodgson had made that many changes they would have been hailed a magician,’ said striker Josh Magennis at the team’s training base outside Lyon yesterday (sat).
Nearby, O’Neill’s assistant coach Jimmy Nicholl described the process that led to O’Neill going for broke against Ukraine.
O'Neill has shown that he is not afraid to make big decisions and will consult his staff before Tuesday
‘We had sat and discussed it for a couple of days,’ said Nicholl.
‘We were all sitting around the table – the coaching team have all got some input – and in my experience there’s a certain tone that can suddenly be struck and, bang, the manager will say “‘I’m going to play him and him in that way”. Once he says it like that, that’s it. It’s done. Nobody else says anything.
‘I thought: “That’s it, stick with that. We’ve all been asked for our opinions but I can hear it in your voice, you believe in that. Stick with it. Let’s concentrate on those players and we’ll worry about the ones who aren’t playing after the game”.
‘It was emphatic decision-making from Michael but that’s what I like. You can discuss things for as long as you want, but you’ve got to have total conviction in the team you want to play. He’s got balls.
‘He’s just proved to everyone – tactically and personnel wise – that you can’t take anything for granted. If you think you’re going to play every game, forget it, it’s not going to happen.
Lafferty is happy to put the team before himself and said that Washington should start against Germany
‘In my day it was 4-4-2. The players now don’t know what Michael is going to do. He says “this is what’s required to win, and this is the team that’s required to do it”.
‘Some players might not like it but Michael can handle situations. When it comes to being unhappy with an individual or the collective, you can see it in him. That’s when you get the benefit of temper. You see it in the players. It has to have an impact.’
Nicholl was part of the Northern Ireland squad that beat West Germany home and away in qualifying for Euro ’84, narrowly losing out to the European champions for a place in the finals when they were last held in France.
O’Neill’s side face an equally daunting challenge at the Parc des Princes, but Nicholl believes a group he describes as ‘a bunch of warriors’ have it in them to shock the Germans again.
‘These things don’t happen to the Germans,’ he said, recalling those two 1-0 wins. ‘I’d be surprised if any of them spoke to us. It was an affront to them.
Northern Ireland face a huge task on Tuesday against the World Cup winners but Jimmy Nicholl is positive
‘But this can happen. If they disrespect you, or are over-confident, then you have chance of winning. Their manager will know after 10 minutes. You can sense disrespect when you’re on the park and you can take advantage of that. You might get into a position they can’t come back from.’
If Northern Ireland beat Germany this time, the celebration will be a little different to how Billy Bingham’s boys enjoyed their win at Windsor Park in November 1982.
‘You had to go back to the Culloden Hotel for soup and sandwiches with Billy Bingham and watch the highlights of the game, win, lose or draw,’ said Nicholl.
‘After that, straight back into Belfast. There was a nightclub at the top of the Europa Hotel called the Copacabana. Then you’d come back to the hotel and big Pat (Jennings), Gerry (Armstrong) and Martin (O’Neill) would get the fiddles out. Big Pat has a massive family and they all play fiddle or guitar. And they’re singers. Brilliant.
‘The team spirit is stronger now, but in a different way. The game has changed in the sense that players are just a lot quieter these days. It’s a different society. They certainly don’t go to the Copacabana!’
FIXTURES & RESULTS GROUP TABLE KNOCKOUT STAGE
PPts
Stade Felix Bollaert-Delelis
Matmut Atlantique
Stade Vélodrome
Allianz Riviera
Stade Pierre-Mauroy
Stadium Municipal, Toulouse
Parc OL
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard
1 (4) -
Winner plays:
Group APPts
1. France 3 7
2. Switzerland 3 5
3. Albania 3 3
4. Romania 3 1
Group BPPts
1. Wales 3 6
2. England 3 5
3. Slovakia 3 4
4. Russia 3 1
Group CPPts
1. Germany 3 7
2. Poland 3 7
3. Northern Ireland 3 3
4. Ukraine 3 0
Group DPPts
1. Croatia 3 7
2. Spain 3 6
3. Turkey 3 3
4. Czech Republic 3 1
Group EPPts
1. Italy 3 6
2. Belgium 3 6
3. Republic of Ireland 3 4
4. Sweden 3 1
Group FPPts
1. Hungary 3 5
2. Iceland 3 5
3. Portugal 3 3
4. Austria 3 1
SEMI FINAL
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Understanding Controlled Substances And Drug Schedules
Schedule I Controlled Drugs
Common Schedule 1 Substances
1. Heroin
2. LSD
3. Marijuana
4. Mescaline
5. Ecstasy
6. GHB (Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate)
7. Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin)
8. Synthetic Marijuana (K2 or Spice)
9. Quaaludes
What Is A Schedule 1 Substance?
The Food and Drug Administration (commonly abbreviated as the FDA) has been testing and overseeing a variety of substances - particularly those that come with mind-altering and intoxicating effects - in the United States since before the 20th century.
Under the CSA (or the Controlled Substances Act), the administration released different classifications for drugs. Today, these classifications are known as drug schedules.
They are designed to organized substances into a variety of groups. These schedules are based on the risk of harm or abuse that these drugs come with. In particular, the most harmful and risky drugs are classified as Schedule I drugs. These substances also tend to have no counterbalancing benefits. As such, they are banned from being used for medical purposes.
The FDA classifies drugs and any other substance that is considered a controlled drug under the CSA. It also divides these drugs into 5 schedules. The administration also publishes the more recent list of its schedules of drugs under Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations (or the CFR).
The drugs are placed in specific schedules that are based on the ability of these drugs to be used for medical purposes and in treatments across the United States. These schedules also depend on the likelihood of these drugs to lead to addiction when overused, abused, or misused, as well as their relative potential for abuse. Each schedule contains a variety of drugs.
According to the FDA, drugs that are considered Schedule 1 substances do not have any medical use that is currently accepted in the United States. As such, they are not considered safe for use - even under medical supervision. Additionally, they come with a relatively high potential for misuse, overuse, and abuse.
Some of the drugs that are substance 1 substances include:
Bath Salts (MDPV or 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone)
GHB (or gamma-hydroxybutyric acid), except the formulations of this chemical that are produced in FDA-approved drugs and the sodium oxybate (or Xyrem) product that is a Schedule III substance
Heroin (or diacetylmorphine)
Khat (or Cathinone)
LSD (or Lysergic acid diethylamide)
Lysergic acid diethylamide (or LSD)
Marijuana (also known as cannabis)
Marijuana (THC or cannabis)
MDMA (ecstasy or 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine)
Mescaline (or Peyote)
Methaqualone (or Quaalude)
Psilocybin
Synthetic marijuana and its analogs (K2 or Spice)
Under the CSA, drugs and any other substance that is considered to be a controlled drug are divided up into 5 schedules. These drugs are placed in different schedules based on their accepted medical uses, their potential for abuse, as well as their likelihood to cause addiction and dependence in people who misuse them.
But what is a schedule 1 substance? Essentially, drugs under this schedule are those that come with some characteristics as defined by the DEA (abbreviation for the Drug Enforcement Agency):
It is unsafe for use even under medical monitoring and supervision
The substance comes with a high potential for misuse, abuse, or overuse
The substance does not have any currently accepted use in medical treatment within the United States
According to US federal law, therefore, doctors are not allowed to write prescriptions for Schedule 1 drugs. As such, these substances are not available for any medical or clinical use.
Even so, a substance doesn't need to be classified as a controlled drug by the Drug Enforcement Administration or as a schedule 1 substance for you to be criminally prosecuted by a court of law.
To this end, even controlled substance analogues like designer drugs can get you jail time and other punitive measures if you are apprehended using, distributing, or in possession of it.
In particular, designer drugs include substances that are pharmacologically or structurally similar to Schedule I substances. These drugs also include those that are similar to Schedule II substances. They are popularly consumed by drug users even though they have no approved medical applications in the United States.
Additionally, the DEA has classified the THC (or tetrahydrocannabinol) found in marijuana as a schedule 1 substance. This is even though some states have legalized its use for medical, recreational, and personal reasons.
To better understand the answer to the "what is a schedule 1 substance?" question, you might want to learn a little about the different types of drugs that are classified under this schedule of substances. Read on to find out more:
Also known as diacetylmorphine, heroin is typically derived from a morphine alkaloid that is found in opium. This drug, however, is roughly 2 to 3 times as potent as regular opium/morphine.
Heroin is also highly addictive and it exhibits rush (euphoric), analgesic, and anxiolytic properties on the CNS (or the central nervous system). Today, it is classified as a Schedule 1 drug under the controlled substances act passed by the federal government in 1970. Due to this classification, heroin does not have any acceptable medical purpose in the United States.
In terms of appearance, pure heroin comes in the form of a white powder that has a bitter taste. However, most of the illegal forms of this drug are sold in the form of a brownish or white powder. The drug is also cut using other substances and drugs, including quinine, powdered milk, starch, and sugar. Some heroin producers also cut heroin with poisonous substances like strychnine.
Most of the people who abuse heroin are not aware of the actual potency (or strength) of the substance or what it contains. As such, they are at high risk of suffering an overdose or sudden death.
There is also another form of this drug known as black tar heroin. It comes in the form of a sticky substance that is similar to roofing tar. However, it is also sold as a hard substance that is similar in appearance to coal. The color of black tar heroin varies from black to dark brown.
Mode of Heroin Use
Most people who abuse heroin tend to inject the drug. However, others might vaporize this schedule 1 substance for smoking. It can also be snorted, ingested orally, or used in the form of a suppository.
Sniffing or smoking heroin will not produce its rush or pleasurable effects as intensely or as quickly as taking the drug intravenous (by injection). Similarly, consuming the drug orally might not create a rush. However, if you use it in suppository form, it may create intensely euphoric and mind-altering effects. Either way, you can be sure that heroin is highly addictive irrespective of the mode of administration.
Another schedule 1 substance, LSD is also known as by its generic name, Lysergic acid diethylamide. It also comes with more than 80 different street names, including but not limited to trips, dots, doses, cid, blotter, or acid. In some instances, people refer to it by names designed to reflect the design of the blotter paper sheets that contain this drug, including purple dragon.
LSD was first synthesized in a laboratory in 1938. Today, it is classified as an extremely potent and dangerous hallucinogenic drug. Made from lysergic acid - a common ingredient in ergot (a fungus that grows naturally on grains like rye), the drug is now a schedule 1 substance.
In many cases, LSD is manufactured in its crystalline form before being mixed with other excipients. However, it can also be diluted into its liquid form so that the manufacturer can create ingestible products from it.
That said, this drug is often colorless and odorless but with a relatively bitter taste. It is also sold in the form of:
As blotter paper (or sheets of highly absorbent paper that are impregnated with or soaked in LSD); these papers are covered with colorful artwork and designs and may be perforated into ? inches squares with individual dosage units
In thin gelatin squares (known as Window Panes)
On sugar cubes
Tablets (typically as small pills known as microdots)
Effects of LSD Abuse
But what happens when you use or abuse LSD? Essentially, the effects of abusing this drug are currently unpredictable. In many cases, however, you are likely to experience the first pleasurable effects of using LSD anywhere between half a hour and 90 minutes after you take it. During this period, you may experience:
Different emotions at the same time
Emotional swings
Extreme changes in mood
On the other hand, if you take it in large enough doses, LSD may produce visual hallucinations and delusions. Apart from these effects, this schedule 1 substance is also linked to physical effects like:
Higher body temperature
Increased blood sugar
Additionally, using LSD may cause you to suffer impaired time perception and depth. The drug also leads to distorted perceptions of the shape and size of objects, touch, sound, color, movements, and body image.
These sensations - as well as others - might seem to cross over. This means that you may get the feeling of seeing sounds and hearing colors. As you can well expect, all of these changes tend to be quite frightening to most people, and they may cause you to panic - especially if you are not used to them. Other users might also experience a fear of losing control, going insane, and dying, as well as other terrifying severe feelings and thoughts.
Irrespective of the effects of LSD use, the experience is often known as a trip. If the reactions are adverse and acute, the condition is referred to as a bad trip. In many cases, these experiences tend to be long-lasting - and may continue for up to 10 or 12 hours.
The botanical name for marijuana is Cannabis sativa. However, the drug is also known by more than 200 other names, including:
It comes in the form of a gray, brown, or green mixture of dried and shredded flowers, seeds, stems, and leaves of Cannabis sativa - a hemp plant. The drug is commonly used as a mind-altering or psychoactive recreational substances. However, it might also have applications in the treatment of certain medical ailments as well as for spiritual and religious purposes.
Stronger forms of Cannabis sativa include hash oil (a sticky black liquid), hashish or hash (the resinous form of the drug), and Sinsemilla.
NIDA (or the National Institute on Drug Abuse) reports that marijuana is among the most commonly abused of all drugs - its classification as a schedule 1 substance notwithstanding - in the United States.
Today, many states have legalized this drug for recreational and medical use. However, federal law still considers the use and possession of the substance as illegal - especially in the setting of approved research facilities and applications.
A hallucinogenic drug, mescaline is derived from the small and spineless Peyote (or Lophophora williamsi) cactus plant. It is also produced from certain members of the bean family (Fabaceae). This drug was used by the natives of Southwestern US and Northern Mexico from the earliest periods for religious rites and ceremonies.
To create the drug, the top of the plant that appears above ground (also known as the crown) is cut up from the roots before being dried. The crown often consists of buttons that are disc-shaped. After that, the buttons are either soaked in water (to produce a highly intoxicating and mind-altering liquid) or chewed in their natural form.
The typical hallucinogenic dose for this drug is about 0.3 to 0.5 grams (which is equal to about 5 grams of the dried peyote plant). If you take this amount, it will create hallucinogenic effects that can last for up to 12 hours.
Although mescaline produces richly visual hallucinations that were important for the native peyote cults that relied on these effects, the drug can also produce a full spectrum of other effects that could chemically induce mental illness.
Today, the drug is primarily used for recreational purposes as well as for psychedelic therapy and as a supplement for various types of medications. In the United States, however, it is classified as a schedule 1 substance - meaning that it is highly addictive and potent, and it does not come with any approved medical uses.
Mescaline Effects
Those who abuse mescaline often do so to experience the visual hallucinations it causes. However, the drug also creates radically altered states of full consciousness - which some people think are illuminating and pleasurable. However, using this schedule 1 substance can also create other effects, including:
A dream-like state
Feelings of anxiety
Psychedelic experiences
Revulsion
Visualization with both closed and open eyes
Ecstasy is known by a variety of street names, including but not limited to:
Hug Drug
Love Drug
But what is ecstasy and why is it classified as a schedule 1 substance? Also known as MDMA or 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine, ecstasy is a synthetic psychoactive substance. In terms of its chemical structure, it is similar to mescaline (a hallucinogen) and methamphetamine (a stimulant drug).
Due to its schedule 1 classification, ecstasy is an illicit drug. It also acts as both a psychedelic and a stimulant. In the process, it produces energizing effects, as well as distorted perceptions of time. Additionally, the drug can enhance the enjoyment that you may derive from tactile experiences.
Ecstasy usually exerts its effects on the neurons of the brain that use serotonin in communicating with other neurons. This serotonin system is useful in regulating sensitivity to pain, sleep, sexual activity, aggression, and mood.
According to research in animal, ecstasy is also highly neurotoxic. Whether the same is true or untrue for human beings is currently under intense investigation. However, researchers now know that the drug is a health hazard and can sometimes prove lethal - albeit on rare occasions.
Dangers of Ecstasy Use
In many cases, ecstasy is a highly addictive drug. According to a recent survey involving adolescents and young adults who use the drug, it was discovered that 43% of these people met the diagnostic criteria used to measure drug dependence. This came in the form of continued use of the substance in spite of the fact that most of these people knew that such use caused tolerance, psychological and physical harm, and withdrawal effects.
34% of those who participated in the study also experienced intense withdrawal symptoms when they stop taking the drug - or the dose they took was significantly less than their bodies had become accustomed to. These withdrawal symptoms included:
Depressed feelings
Another schedule 1 substance, Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate or GHB is known by a variety of street names, including but not limited to:
Gamma-oh
Georgia home boy
Grievous bodily harm
Liquid ecstasy
Liquid G
Liquid X
Its chemical formula is C4H8O3, and the drug is classified as a CNS (or central nervous system) depressant. It is commonly known as a date rape or club drug. In particular, young adults and teens use it at raves (or dance parties that run all night), clubs, parties, and bars for its effects. At times, it is also placed inside alcoholic beverages.
Some of the reported positive side effects of abusing this drug include tranquility, increased sex drive, and euphoria. However, the substance also causes a variety of other negative effects, including but not limited to:
The FDA approved sodium oxybate (or Xyrem) in 2002 for use in the treatment of a sleep disorder known as narcolepsy. This condition causes recurring sleep attacks and excessive sleepiness during the daytime in sufferers. The drug, on the other hand, is a sodium salt of GHB. As such, this medication is highly regulated in the United States and it is classified as a Schedule III substance. To take it, the patient has to enroll in a restricted drug access program.
Even so GHB also occurs in the form of a natural metabolite in the GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) inhibitory neurotransmitter found in the human brain. However, this metabolite is present in relatively low concentrations than those found in the schedule 1 equivalent.
Natural GHB can also be found in some wines and beers but in relatively small and insignificant quantities. This is due to the fermentation process used to produce these alcoholic beverages.
But how do people abuse GHB? Today, this drug is available in the form of an odorless and colorless substance that some people combine with alcohol before giving it to their unsuspecting victims before sexually assaulting them. In many cases, the drug has a salty and soapy taste.
Due to this mode of use, the drug is now known as a date rape substance. When you take it, you may become incapacitated because GHB causes sedative effects. As a direct result, it might make it easier for you to be unable to resist any form of assault.
The drug also induces amnesia in some people. Its additional intoxicating effects have made it particularly popular at rave parties among college and high school students.
In the same way, GHB is thought to come with anabolic effects as a result of protein synthesis. As a direct result, some bodybuilders use it to reduce body fat and build muscle.
Users often buy this drug over the internet or on the street. It appears in the form of a white powder or a liquid. Most people take it orally or combine it with alcohol for illegal reasons, such as before rape.
Most of this schedule 1 substance is manufactured in illegal drugs. As such, it might be adulterated with dangerous contaminants that may make it even more toxic than it already is.
In particular, some manufacturers often use drain cleaner and lye combined with GBL - a substance that is chemically similar to GHB. GBL is an industrial solvent that is commonly used for stripping floors.
The FDA first issued an advisory in 1990 to declare GHB illegal and unsafe except under physician-supervised and FDA-approved protocols. In 2000, it was classified as a schedule 1 substance under the CSA.
Some of the common street names for psilocybin include:
Little Smoke
Sacred Mushroom
Shrooms
Also known by its chemical formula (4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine) Psilocybin is similar to psilocin in the same that both of them contain chemical compounds that are found in different types of fresh and dried hallucinogenic mushrooms that grow naturally in the United States, Central America, and Mexico.
All of these compounds are similar in chemical structure to LSD (or lysergic acid diethylamide). As a direct result, they are abused because of their euphoric and hallucinogenic effects. The hallucinogenic effects, in particular, might be due to how the drug affects the serotonin (or 5-HT) receptors of the central nervous system.
Currently, there are more than 180 known mushroom species that contain psilocin and psilocybin. These hallucinogenic mushrooms are the same as peyote in the sense that there have been used for centuries in native sacred and religious ceremonies and rites.
Both psilocin and psilocybin are also produced synthetically. Due to this fact, there have been many reports that the psilocybin that is sold on the street might be another mushroom species that has been laced with LSD.
Modes of Administrations
Those who abuse Psilocybin often ingest it orally. However, they can also brew it into a tea for drinking or mix it with other foods. Either way, these mushrooms may be taken in their dry or fresh forms - both of which come with a bitter and unpalatable taste.
Magic mushrooms have long and slender stems that appear grey or white in color. They are also topped with caps that have dark gills (on the underside). Dried versions of this drug often have a reddish rush brown color and separate off-white parts.
Synthetic marijuana is also known as Black Mamba, Zohai, Moon Rocks, Skunk, Genie, Yucatan Fire, Fake Weed, Incense, Spice, and K2 on the street. A designer drug, synthetic marijuana is produced when leafy materials, herbs, and incense are sprayed with liquid chemicals. These chemicals are synthesized in a lab to mimic some of the effects of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) - the main psychoactive ingredient found in the natural cannabis sativa (marijuana) plant.
Spice first became widely available in the United States in 2008. At the time, it was typically marketed in the form of an incense in brightly colored 3-ounce pouches that were labelled as being unsafe for human consumption.
Over time, the drugs gained popularity among young adults and high school teens. This is because users could legally obtain it from the internet as well as in smoke shops and convenience stores. However, a national ban was passed in July 2012 to stop the sale of this synthetic cannabinoid in the country.
Even so, some people still commonly believe that synthetic marijuana is a safe and non-toxic version of regular marijuana that elicits similar mind-altering or psychoactive effects.
However, surveys and case reports have identified some serious toxicities that might occur when you use synthetic marijuana. This is clearly evidenced by the rising number of visits to emergency rooms all across the country.
Additionally, the chemicals that are synthesized to produce synthetic marijuana tend to be more potent than the THC component that occurs naturally in marijuana. Most of these chemicals also come with adverse side effects that cannot be compared to naturally occurring THC.
However, researchers are yet to uncover the true pharmacological profile of all the chemicals used to manufacture synthetic marijuana or their resultant by-products. As such, there is no telling what might happen when you use or abuse this schedule 1 substance.
The most commonly known brand name for Quaaludes is Sopor. However, it is known by other formal names, such as:
Tuazole
Triador
Toquilone Compositum
Somnafac
Renoval
Parest
Optimil
Mozambin
Methadorm
Mequin
Mequelone
Melsedin
Melsed
Isonox
Hyminal
Dormutil
Cateudil
On the street, this schedule 1 substance is also known as:
Vitamin Q
Sporos
Soaper
Randy Mandies
Quaaludes
Mandies
Lennons
Lemmon 714
Genuines
Ewings
Blou Bulle
Beiruts
But what are Quaaludes and why are they classified as schedule 1 substances? Essentially, this drug is a synthetic CNS depressant that is similar to barbiturates. It is also a sedative-hypnotic and anxiolytic substance.
Methaqualone was first introduced into the market as a safe substitute for barbiturates. However, years of research showed that the drug caused withdrawal symptoms and addiction in much the same way as barbiturates.
Uses of Quaaludes
If you take Quaaludes in the prescribed dose, it can promote sleepiness, relaxation, and a feeling of euphoria. It also reduces blood pressure and can slow down your pulse rate. It is due to these properties that the drug was first thought to be useful as an anxiolytic and sedative.
Apart from the drugs listed above, there are others that fall within the same classification. These include Khat and Bath Salts (or PABS), among many other substances.
In conclusion, therefore, understanding the answers to the "what is a schedule 1 substance?" can help you have a better idea behind the thinking of the Drug and Food Administration when it classified these drugs under this schedule. This understanding might also be useful in getting you to seek help from an addiction treatment and rehabilitation center if you have been abusing any schedule 1 substance before you suffer any adverse effects.
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10 Strange Facts about Astronomy and Space
Skywatching for Artificial Satellites
Making Heads and Tails of a Comet’s Structure
Photographing Meteors and Meteor Showers
Viewing Meteor Showers
Astronomy For Dummies, 4th Edition
By Stephen P. Maran
Here are some favorite facts about astronomy and, in particular, Earth and its solar system. With the following information under your belt, you may be ready to handle the astronomy questions on television quiz shows and inquiries from friends and family.
You Have Tiny Meteorites in Your Hair
Micrometeorites, tiny particles from space visible only through microscopes, are constantly raining down on Earth. Some fall on you whenever you go outdoors. But without the most advanced laboratory equipment and analysis techniques, you can’t detect them. They get lost in the great mass of pollen, smog particles, household dust, and dandruff that resides on the top of your head.
A Comet’s Tail Often Leads the Way
A comet tail isn’t like a horse tail, which always trails behind as the horse gallops ahead. A comet tail always points away from the Sun. When a comet approaches the Sun, its tail, or tails, stream behind it; when the comet heads back out into the solar system, the tail leads the way.
Earth Is Made of Rare and Unusual Matter
The great majority of all the matter in the universe is so-called dark matter, invisible stuff that astronomers haven’t yet identified. And most ordinary or visible matter is in the form of plasma (hot, electrified gas that makes up normal stars such as the Sun) or degenerate matter (in which atoms or even the nuclei within the atoms are crushed together to unimaginable density, as found in white dwarfs and neutron stars). You don’t find dark matter, degenerate matter, or much plasma on Earth. Compared to the great bulk of the universe, Earth and earthlings are the aliens.
High Tide Comes on Both Sides of Earth at the Same Time
Ocean tides on the side of Earth that faces the Moon aren’t appreciably higher than tides on the opposite side of Earth at the same time. This may defy common sense, but not physics and mathematical analysis. (The same goes for the smaller ocean tides raised by the Sun.)
© Shutterstock/AstroStar
On Venus, the Rain Never Falls on the Plain
In fact, the constant rain on Venus never falls on anything. It evaporates before it hits the ground, and the rain is pure acid. (The common name for evaporating rain is virga.)
Rocks from Mars Dot Earth
People have found about 100 meteorites on Earth that come from the crust of Mars, blasted from that planet by the impacts of much larger objects — perhaps from the asteroid belt. Statistically, many more undiscovered Mars rocks must have fallen into the ocean or landed in out-of-the-way places where they haven’t been spotted.
Pluto Was Discovered from the Predictions of a False Theory
Percival Lowell predicted the existence and approximate location of the object that we now call Pluto. When Clyde Tombaugh surveyed the designated region, he discovered Pluto. But now scientists know that Lowell’s theory, which inferred the existence of Pluto from its gravitational effects on the motion of Uranus, was wrong. In fact, Pluto’s mass is much too small to produce the “observed” effects. Furthermore, the “gravitational effects” were just errors in measuring the motion of Uranus. (Not enough information was available about Neptune’s motion to study it for clues.) The discovery of Pluto took hard work, but as it happened, it was just plain luck. And although Lowell predicted the existence of a planet, as Pluto was first termed, the International Astronomical Union has since downgraded it to dwarf planet.
Sunspots Aren’t Dark
Almost everyone “knows” that sunspots are “dark” spots on the Sun. But in reality, sunspots are simply places where the hot solar gas is slightly cooler than its surroundings. The spots look dark compared to their hotter surroundings, but if all you can see is the sunspot, it looks bright.
A Star in Plain View May Have Exploded, but No One Knows
Eta Carinae is one of the most massive, fiercely shining stars in our galaxy, and astronomers expect it to produce a powerful supernova explosion at any time, if it hasn’t already. But because light takes about 8,000 years to travel from Eta Carinae to Earth, an explosion that occurred less than that many years ago isn’t visible to us yet.
You May Have Seen the Big Bang on an Old Television
The Big Bang Theory premiered in 2007, but the real Big Bang may have made its TV debut even before that. Some of the snow — a pattern of interference that looks like little white spots or streaks on old black-and-white television sets — was actually radio waves the TV antenna received from the cosmic microwave background, a glow from the early universe in the aftermath of the Big Bang. When this radiation was actually discovered at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, scientists studied many possible causes of the unexpected “noise” in the radio receiver. They even investigated pigeon droppings, or “white dielectric material” in science speak, as a possible cause but later dropped that suggestion.
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December 20, 2016 General
Winners of Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award honoured
ABU DHABI, The 22 winners of the 15th cycle of the Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award, SKEA, were honoured by H.H. Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, at a ceremony held today at Emirates Palace Hotel under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.
Dubai's Road and Transport Authority and port operator DP World won the prestigious SKEA Diamond category.
Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects, Al Rostamani International Exchange, Imdaad and Borouge, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Austria-based Borealis, were awarded the Gold category in recognition of their outstanding performances and commitment to excellence throughout their operations.
The silver winners in the SKEA healthcare category included Gulf Diagnostic Center, LLH Hospital Musaffah and Nightingale Home Health Care.
Other winners of the award included Delma Mall, Tamani Marina Hotel, Nikai Electronics and AlTorath International.
About 2000 companies and organisations participated in this year's edition of the SKEA competition. The increase is attributed to the fact that businesses in the UAE take a great interest applying for the SKEA because of its very high standards, Abdul Jalil Al Fahim, Chairman of SKEA Higher Committee, said in a statement to WAM during the high-profile award ceremony attended by VIPs, dignitaries, senior officials and foreign diplomats.
Al Fahim thanked President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for sponsoring the award and H.H. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for extending unlimited support to excellence.
Emiratis now account for more than 70 per cent of the entries.
The UAE has become a model of corporate excellence surpassing even global models previously set by the United States and Europe, Al Fahim said.
Other winners include Delma Mall, TAMANI Marina Hotel and Hotel Apartments, Nikai Electronics and AlTorath International.
Named after President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and awarded by the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, SKEA was launched in 1999 as a blueprint, a roadmap and a methodology to drive continuous improvement of the country's business community.
Adopting the European Foundation for Quality Management, EFQM, the SKEA seeks to encourage and empower individuals and organisations in Abu Dhabi and the wider UAE to enhance their performance and competitiveness, and enable them to achieve world-class stature for the business community at large.
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Eames Office›Blog›In The News›Pacific Standard Time: New Getty Initiative
The Need for Orange
Pacific Standard Time: New Getty Initiative Posted November 3, 2010 by Daniel Ostroff
The Getty Institute announces a major new, Southern California initiative, and uses Ray Eames textile and a Charles Eames quote to represent the era.
We picked up this postcard at Pacific Standard Time gathering. It’s the first promotional postcard for The Getty’s PACIFIC STANDARD TIME and they used a Ray Eames textile and a Charles Eames quote to represent the era.
Art in L.A. 1945–1980
One era. A million moments of impact.
There will be many Eames exhibitions, including this Getty exhibition curated by Daniel Ostroff
Los Angeles is the birthplace of many of the most influential art movements of the second half of the 20th century, yet much of this history is not well known. Pacific Standard Time, a partnership between the Getty Foundation and the Getty Research Institute, is an effort that aims to tell the story of this important moment through an unprecedented collaboration of more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California.
From October of 2011 through March 2012, exhibitions and programs across the region will highlight the artistic production of Southern California, ranging from hard-edge painting to assemblage sculpture, from the Light and Space movement to film and video art, from Pop Art to feminist art, and from performance art to modern design.
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by Ingrid Nova | May 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
ROTARY CLUB OF EAST LANSING AWARDS $ 12,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS TO EAST LANSING HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
The Rotary Club of East Lansing through its Foundation, awarded “Joe Gross Memorial Scholarships” to seven graduating seniors at the East Lansing High School Awards Convocation held on Friday, May 24, 2019.
The scholarships, totaling $12,000, were presented to the following college-bound seniors: Madison Foley, Shiangi Lin, Allison Supanich- Goldner, Julia Chenault, Marrien Hanuscak, Logan Ann Jackson and Eleanor Carr. East Lansing Rotarians Laura Hosey and Bob Davis presented the awards on behalf of the Foundation at the Convocation.
These scholarships are awarded upon meeting several criteria items that include: the student applicant’s involvement in the community and related service activities; academic accomplishments; and financial need. Individual scholarship amounts vary and can range between $1,000 and $3,000.
Scholarship funds are raised through the East Lansing Rotary Foundation which holds an annual golf outing in September known as the “Scramble for Scholarships.” Last September’s (2018) golf outing marked the 31 st year for the event. Over this period, the Rotary Club of East Lansing and its Foundation have awarded nearly $150,000 in scholarships to assist graduating East Lansing High School seniors with their college expenses. The scholarships are named for Joseph Gross who was a Rotary Club of East Lansing President and Governor of Rotary District 6360 who cared deeply about young people and their futures.
by Ingrid Nova | Mar 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
Rotary Club of East Lansing Honored to have the family of Douglas J. Weaver at East Lansing Rotary Club and to learn from the family what Doug Weaver’s keys to success were….including respect and building relationships.
The stateside team of Nyaka Aids Orphan Project were all in attendance to honor Kurt Guter on the occasion of receiving a Vocational Excellence Award by East Lansing Rotary Club.
Laurie Baumer of the Community Foundation recently received a Vocational Award at the East Lansing Rotary Club. She was singled out for her successful years of leadership and fund development at Ele’s Place, and for her new focus as Executive Vice President of the Community Foundation. Her leadership and innovation for building capacity and greater impact for local nonprofits is providing huge benefits to the community. Congratulations Laurie! A well-deserved recognition!
by Ingrid Nova | Jan 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Nathan Triplett, past President of the East Lansing Rotary Club and current Assistant Governor of Area 13 (Delta/Waverly, East Lansing, Haslett/Okemos, Lansing, Williamston and MSU Rotaract Club), is excited to serve the District as Governor in 2020-2021.
Nathan joined the Rotary Club of East Lansing in 2009 and served as 2012-2013 Club President. He is a Paul Harris Fellow and a Charter Member of the Rotary District 6360 Paul Harris Society. Nathan currently serves as Assistant Governor, a Rotary Leadership Institute facilitator, and District 6360 Rotary Foundation Committee Chair.
Nathan served as a member of the East Lansing City Council from 2007-2015 and, at 30, was elected as the youngest Mayor in the community’s history in 2013. Nathan served on the Michigan Municipal League’s (MML) Board of Trustees and was elected Vice President and President of the Board. Today, Triplett serves on the Board of Directors of the Capital Area Transportation Authority (CATA), the MSU James Madison College Alumni Association, the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, the MML Foundation, and the ACLU of Michigan. Nathan is an Eagle Scout who volunteers as an Assistant Scoutmaster and District Chairman for the Chief Okemos District of the Boy Scouts of America. He is a member of the City of East Lansing’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee.
Nathan graduated from Michigan State University’s James Madison College in 2006 with degrees in Political Theory, Constitutional Democracy and Social Relations. He holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor from the Michigan State University College of Law. Nathan is an attorney and works as Political Director for Equality Michigan. He lives in East Lansing with his wife, Sarah, and son, Teddy.
Nathan’s nomination information has been sent to RI and the District electors will confirm his election at the Annual Meeting in April. CONGRATULATIONS, NATHAN!
Lansing Business News Features EL Rotary Work with Weekend Survival Kits
by Ingrid Nova | Dec 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to the East Lansing Rotary Club for its work with the Weekend Survival Kits! Click here to view a great article from the Lansing Business News!
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Establishment of ECCC
Établissement de ECCC
European Union announces funds of almost Euro 995,100 (approximately $1,2 million) to help cover the Cambodian share of the Khmer Rouge trials budget, to be spent on the salaries of the Cambodian judges prosecutors and legal support staff serving at the T
European Union announces funds of almost Euro 995,100 (approximately $1,2 million) to help cover the Cambodian share of the Khmer Rouge trials budget, to be spent on the salaries of the Cambodian judges prosecutors and legal support staff serving at the Trial and Appeals Chambers of the Extraordinary Chambers.
Human Rights Day. Australian Government announces a grant of AUD48,306 to the Secretariat of the Task Force to launch Regional Outreach Forums in provincial capitals throughout the country. This grant was awarded as part of the Human Rights Small Grants S
Human Rights Day. Australian Government announces a grant of AUD48,306 to the Secretariat of the Task Force to launch Regional Outreach Forums in provincial capitals throughout the country. This grant was awarded as part of the Human Rights Small Grants Scheme 2005-06, and is additional to a grant of USD19,960 awarded in October under the Australian Embassy's Human Rights and Governance Fund for reprinting and distribution to each school classroom in Cambodia of the Secretariat's highly regarded information booklet An introduction to the Khmer Rouge Trials, published in 2004 with assistance from AusAID.
Ms Michelle Lee headed a seven-member UN Startup Assessment Mission to Cambodia to meet and work with a Cambodian delegation headed by Sean Visoth. The purpose of the Mission is to advance preparations towards the establishment of the Extraordinary Chambe
Ms Michelle Lee headed a seven-member UN Startup Assessment Mission to Cambodia to meet and work with a Cambodian delegation headed by Sean Visoth. The purpose of the Mission is to advance preparations towards the establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers over the coming months.
Total contributions to the United Nations side of the Extraordinary Chambers budget increase, with recent pledges by Armenia ($1,000), Namibia ($500) and Ireland ($300,000).
His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni signed a Royal Decree appointing His Excellency Sean Visoth as Director of the Office of Administration of the Extraordinary Chambers and His Excellency Tony Kranh as Reserve Director.
His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni signed a Royal Decree assigning Ms Michelle Lee to the position of Deputy Director, to which she was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 14 October.
India announces contribution of USD1 million for the Extraordinary Chambers for Cambodian share. India is the first country to support the Cambodian share of the budget.
The United Nations announces publicly that Ms. Michelle Lee of China will coordinate UN assistance for Khmer Rouge Trials. This will be effective from 1 September 2005 and she will serve as the international deputy director of the Office of Administration
The United Nations announces publicly that Ms. Michelle Lee of China will coordinate UN assistance for Khmer Rouge Trials. This will be effective from 1 September 2005 and she will serve as the international deputy director of the Office of Administration.
Letter from H.E. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister, to Warren Sach, Assistant Secretary-General, Controller, confirming the above three points requested by the United Nations side. He advised that Cambodian side will be in position to commence this work when
9 aoû 2005
Letter from H.E. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister, to Warren Sach, Assistant Secretary-General, Controller, confirming the above three points requested by the United Nations side. He advised that Cambodian side will be in position to commence this work when the funds required for the Cambodian column of the budget are completed.
Second Training Course for 38 lawyers held at Imperial Garden Hotel in cooperation with Secretariat of the Task Force for Khmer Rouge Trials, the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and UNDP.
New Zealand announces its contribution of USD500,000 f
Second Training Course for 38 lawyers held at Imperial Garden Hotel in cooperation with Secretariat of the Task Force for Khmer Rouge Trials, the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and UNDP. New Zealand announces its contribution of USD500,000 for the Extraor-dinary Chambers.
Letter from Warren Sach, Assistant Secretary-General, Controller, to H.E. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister, informing that the United Nations and the Group of Interested States have led to the conclusion that it is now possible to concur with the selection o
Letter from Warren Sach, Assistant Secretary-General, Controller, to H.E. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister, informing that the United Nations and the Group of Interested States have led to the conclusion that it is now possible to concur with the selection of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces High Command Headquarters as the premises for the co-investigating judges, the Prosecutors' Office, The Extraordinary Chambers, the Pre-Trial Chamber and the Office of Administration. The United Nations proposes to the Royal Government of Cambodia to confirm the agreement with 3 points regarding premises: (i) theses premises are totally enclosed and fenced off from the active military facility, (ii) separate and direct access is provided to the premises for the Extraordinary Chambers and their related institutions, and (iii) adequate arrangements are made by the Cambodian Government for public transportation between the centre of Phnom Penh and the site in order to ensure the widest attendance at the trials.
Letter from Nicolas Michel, Under-Secretary-General of Legal Affairs, the Legal Counsel to H.E. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister, informing Cambodian government that the United Nations sends a letter on 30 June 2005 to all Member States and Non-Member States
Letter from Nicolas Michel, Under-Secretary-General of Legal Affairs, the Legal Counsel to H.E. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister, informing Cambodian government that the United Nations sends a letter on 30 June 2005 to all Member States and Non-Member States requesting suggestions of names for international judges and prosecutors for the Extraordinary Chambers. The United Nations asks Member States to propose names to the United Nations before the 29 of August 2005 for nomination by the Secretary General for international judges, co-prosecutor, co-investigation judge, and judges of the Pre-Trial Chamber. The letter provided criteria for selection of international candidates.
Germany announces funds of EURO 1.5 million (or USD1,981,506) for the Extraordinary Chambers for 2nd and 3rd Year as additional funds to its previous pledge funds of USD1 million on 28 Mar 2005, bringing the German total pledge to USD2,981,506 million.
Diplomatic corps and representatives from 13 embassies in Phnom Penh join a visit to the proposed Extraordinary Chambers site at Kambol.
Follow up meeting between the Group of Interested States, ASEAN countries and the Royal Government's Task Force in Phnom Penh discussing the budget for the Cambodian share and the Cambodian appeal for bilateral assistance. Singapore, India and Thailand an
Follow up meeting between the Group of Interested States, ASEAN countries and the Royal Government's Task Force in Phnom Penh discussing the budget for the Cambodian share and the Cambodian appeal for bilateral assistance. Singapore, India and Thailand announce that they intend to assist in kind.
Second Training Course for 30 judges and prosecutors held at the Royal School of Judges and Prosecutors in cooperation with Secretariat of the Task Force for Khmer Rouge Trials, the Royal School of Judges and Prosecutors, and UNDP.
Letter from Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister, to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, stating: "A generation has passed since these crimes were committed. We cannot afford to lose any more time. I can assure you that we will do our utmost t
Letter from Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister, to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, stating: "A generation has passed since these crimes were committed. We cannot afford to lose any more time. I can assure you that we will do our utmost to ensure the Extraordinary Chambers may begin to function as soon as possible, and that they attain the level of international standards that we have both agreed on and that are needed to address the needs for justice of the Cambodian people and all humanity".
Entry into force of the Agreement between the United Nations and the Royal Government of Cambodia concerning the Prosecution under Cambodian Law of Crimes Committed during the period of Democratic Kampuchea.
Letter from Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations to Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister, informing that in accordance with Article 32 of the Agreement, he hereby notifies that the legal requirements on the United Nations' side for entry into fo
Letter from Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations to Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister, informing that in accordance with Article 32 of the Agreement, he hereby notifies that the legal requirements on the United Nations' side for entry into force of the Agreement have been complied with.
Belgium announces its funds of USD198,151 for the Extraordinary Chambers, bringing the total pledged to USD38,675,184.
European Union announces its contribution of 1 million Euro (USD1.3 million) for the Extraordinary Chambers.
Pledging conference for the Extraordinary Chambers for the Khmer Rouge Trials at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. The Cambodian delegation consisted of H.E. Sean Visoth, Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Royal Government's Task Forc
Pledging conference for the Extraordinary Chambers for the Khmer Rouge Trials at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. The Cambodian delegation consisted of H.E. Sean Visoth, Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Royal Government's Task Force, H.E. Kranh Tony (Legal Secretary), H.E. Dr. Helen Jarvis (Advisor). Thirteen countries pledge contributions to the Extraordinary Chambers in grand total of USD38,477,033, namely: Japan (USD21.6m), France (USD4.8m), Australia (USD2,351,097), Canada (USD1,612,903), Germany (USD1m), Holland (USD1,981,506), Denmark (USD531,914), Luxembourg (USD66,050), Austria (USD360,000), Sweden (USD150,000), United Kingdom (USD2,873,563), Norway (USD1m), and Republic of Korea (USD150,000).
Follow up meeting between the Group of Interested States, ASEAN countries and the Royal Government's Task Force in Phnom Penh regarding the budget for the Extraordinary Chambers.
Canada announces its contribution of CAN$ 2 million (USD1,612,903) for the Extraordinary Chambers.
Eighth meeting between the Group of Interested States and UNAKRT (in New York). Japanese Mission urges support from GIS for the Cambodian share which needs USD13.3 million.
Les Co-juges d'instruction tiennent une conférence de presse concernant l'Ordonnance de clôture dans le Dossier 002 le 16 septembre 2010, au lendemain de la signature de celle-ci. Sur cette photo : Le Co-juge d'instruction international M. Marcel Lemonde.
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Christianity in Beowulf
A 6 page research paper/essay that discusses Christian symbols in the epic poem Beowulf. This poem has its origins in pagan culture, but it was recorded by a Christian scribe (Saupe 97). Therefore there are “overlays” that color the narrative with Christian religious meaning (Saupe 97). This examination of the Christian overlay of meaning in Beowulf attempts to discern if this Christian influence changes in the descriptions of Beowulf’s three quests, or remains uniform throughout. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Title: "Christianity in Beowulf"
Filename: D0_khchbeo.rtf
A Discussion of Christian Elements in the Epic Poem Beowulf, and in the Character of Beowulf Himself
the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...
The Un-Human Enemies of Beowulf
The writer discusses the fact that in Beowulf, which is the oldest poem in English, many of Beowulf's enemies are non-humans. Thes...
has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...
Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
The Court of King Hrothgar in Beowulf
The writer uses a close reading of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and in particular the events at King Hrothgar's court, to ex...
Beowulf Digressions
If our theory is accurate, the digressions serve as portals of time, and remind the listener that he is able to move about in all ...
The Way in Which Sundiata and Beowulf Present Heroism
The writer compares and contrasts the Old English poem Beowulf with Sundiata, which is an African epic. The writer argues that whi...
Rap and the Rap Culture
The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...
Gender in Beowulf
readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...
(VII). In this he is telling Beowulf that he had many apparently noble men claiming they would get rid of the beast but they drank...
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HOME: Our work > Legislation > The National Administration Guidelines (NAGs)
The revised National Administration Guidelines (NAGs) were updated on 14 December 2017. The NAGs are due to be repealed on commencement of the new strategic planning and reporting framework on 1 January 2023.
Each board of trustees is required to foster student achievement by providing teaching and learning programmes which incorporate The National Curriculum, as expressed in The New Zealand Curriculum 2007 or Te Marautanga o Aotearoa.
Each board, through the principal and staff, is required to:
develop and implement teaching and learning programmes:
to provide all students in years 1–10 with opportunities to progress and achieve for success in all areas of The National Curriculum;
giving priority to student progress and achievement in literacy and numeracy and/or te reo matatini and pāngarau, especially in years 1–8;
giving priority to regular quality physical activity that develops movement skills for all students, especially in years 1–6;
through the analysis of good quality assessment information*, evaluate the progress and achievement of students, giving priority first to:
student progress and achievement in literacy and numeracy and/or te re matatini and pāngarau, especially in years 1–8; and then to:
breadth and depth of learning related to the needs, abilities and interests of students, the nature of the school’s curriculum, and the scope of The National Curriculum, as expressed in The New Zealand Curriculum 2007 or Te Marautanga o Aotearoa;
through the analysis of good quality assessment information*, identify students and groups of students:
who are not progressing and/or achieving;
who are at risk of not progressing and/or achieving;
who have special needs (including gifted and talented students); and
aspects of the curriculum which require particular attention;
develop and implement teaching and learning strategies to address the needs of students and aspects of the curriculum identified in (c) above;
in consultation with the school’s Māori community, develop and make known to the school’s community policies, plans and targets for improving the progress and achievement of Māori students; and
provide appropriate career education and guidance for all students in year 7 and above, with a particular emphasis on specific career guidance for those students who have been identified by the school as being at risk of leaving school unprepared for the transition to the workplace or further education/training.
* Good quality assessment information draws on a range of evidence to evaluate the progress and achievement of students and build a comprehensive picture of student learning across the curriculum.
Each board of trustees, with the principal and teaching staff, is required to:
develop a strategic plan which documents how they are giving effect to the National Education Guidelines through their policies, plans and programmes, including those for curriculum, aromatawai and/or assessment, and staff professional development;
maintain an on-going programme of self-review in relation to the above policies, plans and programmes, including evaluation of good quality assessment information* on student progress and achievement;
on the basis of good quality assessment information* report to students and their parents on progress and achievement of individual students:
in plain language, in writing, and at least twice a year; and
across The National Curriculum, as expressed in The New Zealand Curriculum 2007 or Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, including in mathematics and literacy, and/or te reo matatini and pāngarau;
on the basis of good quality assessment information*, report to the school’s community on the progress and achievement of students as a whole and of groups (identified through National Administration Guideline 1(c) above) including the progress and achievement of Māori students against the plans and targets referred to in National Administration Guideline 1(e) above.
According to the legislation on employment and personnel matters, each board of trustees is required in particular to:
develop and implement personnel and industrial policies, within policy and procedural frameworks set by the Government from time to time, which promote high levels of staff performance, use educational resources effectively and recognise the needs of students; and
be a good employer as defined in the State Sector Act 1988 and comply with the conditions contained in employment contracts applying to teaching and non-teaching staff.
According to legislation on financial and property matters, each board of trustees is also required in particular to:
allocate funds to reflect the school’s priorities as stated in the charter;
monitor and control school expenditure, and ensure that annual accounts are prepared and audited as required by the Public Finance Act 1989 and the Education Act 1989; and
comply with the negotiated conditions of any current asset management agreement, and implement a maintenance programme to ensure that the school’s buildings and facilities provide a safe, healthy learning environment for students.
Each board of trustees is also required to:
provide a safe physical and emotional environment for students;
promote healthy food and nutrition for all students; and
comply in full with any legislation currently in force or that may be developed to ensure the safety of students and employees.
Each board of trustees is also expected to comply with all general legislation concerning requirements such as attendance, the length of the school day, and the length of the school year.
Each board of trustees is required to complete an annual update of the school charter for each school it administers, and provide the Secretary for Education with a copy of the updated school charter before 1 March of the relevant year.
Each board of trustees is required to provide a statement providing an analysis of any variance between the school’s performance and the relevant aims, objectives, directions, priorities, or targets set out in the school charter at the same time as the updated school charter provided to the Secretary for Education under National Administration Guideline 7.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education > K-12 > ESSA > Supporting All Students
Supporting All Students
Pennsylvania’s public education system serves more than 1.7 million students in early childhood and K-12 education, who live and learn in diverse communities. Whether in rural, urban, or suburban settings, public schools must provide each student with a high-quality education that helps them prepare for meaningful engagement in postsecondary education, in workforce training, in career pathways, and as responsible, involved community members.
Pennsylvania has developed a number of resources and initiatives focused on promoting smooth transitions during critical points in a student’s pre-K to postsecondary education and career – such as the transition from early childhood to elementary school, middle to high school, and high school to postsecondary. The Department has also invested in programs that enhance the capacity of LEAs and schools to identify and assist at-risk students through academic, social, behavioral, emotional, and other interventions and supports. Finally, PDE has developed resources and technical assistance to help promote a safe, inclusive, and positive school climate.
Pennsylvania believes that all students deserve equitable access to a well-rounded, rigorous, and personalized education that sparks curiosity, builds confidence, and helps them prepare for long-term success.
As part of its broader efforts to promote equitable access to a high-quality, well-rounded education for all students in Pennsylvania, the Department intends to prioritize existing state and federal funding sources, such as Title IV, Part A, Title I, Part A, Title IV, Part B (21st Century Community Learning Centers), and Title IV, Part F funds (Promise Neighborhoods and Full-Service Community School Programs), to support the following four priorities:
Ensuring Well-Rounded, Rigorous, and Personalized Learning Experiences for All Students
Increasing Participation in Advanced Coursework for All Students
Promoting Equitable Access to STEM Education
Supporting Meaningful College and Career Pathways
Addressing the Needs of Students through School-based Supports and Community Partnerships
Promoting Successful Transitions in Early Childhood through Postsecondary Education
Promoting Positive School Climate and Social-Emotional Learning
Revisions to the final proposed plan:
Clarified the meaning of well-rounded education opportunities and emphasized well-rounded opportunities as a priority especially for the use of Title IV, Part A funding
Added text noting that the use of chronic absenteeism as an ESSA accountability indicator and in the Future Ready PA Index emphasizes the importance of student and parent/family engagement to improve attendance and learning outcomes
Added descriptions of initiatives that support students and communities including the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs and the role of public libraries
Added language describing the Department’s strategies to emphasize students reading on grade level by third grade
Added description of the Department’s Office of Safe Schools and its work to identify and address disproportionate and exclusionary discipline practices
Clarified language regarding the manner in which the Department will award Title IV, Part A, Subpart 1 funds
Added language describing the Department’s support for LEAs regarding progress of English Learners and how the Department monitors progress of English Learners in schools
Read more about Supporting All Students in Section 6 of the Pennsylvania ESSA Consolidated State Plan.
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Home » Blogs » SAT Should Now Be Called SAD
SAT Should Now Be Called SAD
Jun 25, 2019 by Big Jolly Times
The politically correct educated idiots in charge of SAT will now add adversity points to the test scores of disadvantaged students
by Howie Katz –
The College Board, which administers the SAT tests, will be adding what it calls ‘adversity scores’ to the test scores of disadvantaged students wanting to go to college. The official educatorese name of this gift is: Environmental Context Dashboard.
Extra points will be added based on the crime and poverty rates of a student’s neighborhood, whether the student has a single parent, their parents’ income level, the availability of Advanced Placement (AP) classes at their schools, and the percentage of students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch.
Points are not added for the race of the student, but it is obvious that the adversity scores are designed to get more black and Latino students enrolled in the nation’s better colleges.
The adversity score will fall on a scale between 1 and 100, with an average score of 50 — anything above 50 would show hardship.
Many colleges and universities have been embroiled in lawsuits challenging their affirmative action practices. The Environmental Context Dashboard must be the College Board’s way of assuring that those affirmative action practices continue.
Since there are only so many enrollment openings at the nation’s elite colleges, the new SAT scoring system will keep a goodly number of white students out who are more educationally qualified than the disadvantaged students.
Colleges may accept or choose not to accept the added score. Only the colleges to which a student applies will know that the adversity scores were added. The students will not know.
The College Board has already made a test run of the adversity score program at 50 colleges. The program will be officially expanded to an additional 150 schools by the end of this year with more schools to be added in 2020.
David Coleman, CEO of the College Board, defended the program by saying, “There is talent and potential waiting to be discovered in every community – the children of poor rural families, kids navigating the challenges of life in the inner city, and military dependents who face the daily difficulties of low income and frequent deployments as part of their family’s service to our country. No single test score should ever be examined without paying attention to this critical context.”
Coleman obviously threw in the kids of military families in a thinly disguised attempt to gain wide acceptance of the new SAT program.
I was always under the impression that the SATs were supposed to weed out students who would probably flunk out of school the first semester. But that is no longer politically correct.
The educated idiots on the College Board apparently do not see the similarity between the Environmental Context Dashboard and the recent college admission cheating scandals. In this case, the adversity scores take the place of bribes paid by wealthy parents to get their kids into college.
Whatever happened to the concept that one of the purposes of community colleges was to prepare educationally disadvantaged students for a successful last two years at a four-year college? Now elite schools like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Caltech and Stanford may have to start offering remedial English and remedial math courses to some incoming students. And some white students who would otherwise be accepted by Harvard, Yale, MIT, Caltech and Stanford may now have to attend a community college instead.
From now on we should say students will be taking the SAD test instead of the SAT.
Source: SAT Should Now Be Called SAD – Big Jolly Times
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Happy birthday Emmerdale
by ISOBEL FOX, femail.co.uk
Get set for an explosive ride in Emmerdale as the much-loved soap prepares to celebrate a landmark anniversary.
Programme bosses have pulled out all the stops for the Yorkshire drama's 30th birthday edition tonight when wedding bells beckon for Tricia and Marlon. But will the couple make it down the aisle?
The racy storyline is just one of many that differentiate the soap from the pedestrian tale of country folk it started out as 30 years ago. And eeh by gum how things have changed during that time.
Click on the link in the blue box below to see clips of the soap over the last three decades and discover ten things you didn't know about one of Britain's most popular dramas.
Created by former actor and playwright Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale Farm was first transmitted on October 16, 1972, as a twice-weekly lunchtime experiment with a run of 13 weeks.
It soon proved its popularity amongst viewers - not least because of its engrossing storylines, which have never shied away from the dramatic and controversial.
Who could ever forget one of the most talked about storylines in soap - the 1994 air disaster episode when a plane crashed on Beckindale wiping out virtually the entire village?
More recently, scriptwriters have got to grips with issues such as schizophrenia and under-age pregnancy and fans can rest assured that crimes of passions and affairs of the heart figure highly in forthcoming episodes.
Watch Emmerdale on ITV 1, Tues to Thursday at 7pm, with two half-hour episodes on Thursday.
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You’re promoting Oblivion, not Top Gun! Tom Cruise sports familiar Maverick-inspired look as he's mobbed on arrival in Japan
He played Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in Top Gun back in 1986 but it seems to have left a lasting impression on him.
Tom Cruise was spotted arriving in Japan to promote his latest film Oblivion on Monday dressed in a leather jacket and aviator-style sunglasses just like his one-time character.
And it seems the look, which helped him reach heartthrob status back in the eighties, worked wonders once again as he was greeted by a mob of excited fans.
Fans: Tom Cruise was greeted by numerous fans when he arrived in Japan on Monday ahead of the premiere of Oblivion
Looking just as cool as he did back in the day, the 50-year-old grinned with delight at the sight of his fans.
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He teamed his leather coat with a pair of simple jeans and a navy T-shirt showing that the classic Maverick look is still a good one.
Known for being generous with his time the actor stopped to sign pictures and have his photo taken.
Familiar: Tom seemed to be taking inspiration from his Top Gun character Maverick in his shades and leather jacket
Happy: The actor was more than happy to stop for pictures with his fans after his flight
Tom has been seen flying all over the world in recent months promoting Oblivion which is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film starring Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough and Morgan Freeman.
It tells the story of a veteran who is assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources but begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.
While the film has so far received rather mixed reviews from the critics, it has been hugely successful at the box office.
Similar: Tom didn't look too dissimilar to how he did in the 1986 film Top Gun
Generous: Tom is known for happily stopping to sign things and on Sunday it was no different
Not so shady: Tom took off his shades when it came to spending time with his fans showing off his youthful complexion
In North America alone it earned $37.1 million during the course of its opening weekend, including $5.5 million derived of IMAX screenings from 323 theaters.
These staggering numbers mean its Tom’s best North American opening outside of the Mission: Impossible film series and War of the Worlds.
Next up Tom will be starring in Guy Ritchie’s film The Man From U.N.C.L.E alongside Armie Hammer.
Hi: Despite the fact he has attended numerous premieres for Oblivion Tom still seemed excited about the latest one
Busy: While he has been working on promoting his latest film he has already started work on a new one
A source from the set exclusively told the MailOnline that the star, who was married to Katie Holmes, has been making numerous phone calls to the British director regarding various aspects of the film.
The film is based on a TV series which followed agents Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement agency called U.N.C.L.E.
George Clooney was originally thought to be playing Solo, but Cruise took over, as the film which has been on the back burner for some time, is finally in pre-production.
Casual: Tom teamed his leather coat with jeans, T-shirt and a pair of worn looking boots
Far from jet-lagged: Tom's co-star Olga Kurylenko looked fresh-faced as she arrived in Narita airport
Premiere: Tom will joined for the premiere by his co-star Olga Kurylenko
Tom Cruise sports familiar Maverick-inspired look as he's mobbed on arrival in Japan
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Grumpy Old Women in Llandudno
OK, let’s try to forget battling the ageing process, counting calories and busy family lives for a moment.
OK, let’s try to forget battling the ageing process, counting calories and busy family lives for a moment. The message from three ladies on the Grumpy Old Women show is: Chin Up Britain!
It’s coming to Llandudno with original Grump Jenny Eclair joined by newcomers Susie Blake from The Victoria Wood Show and Coronation Street, and Wendi Peters from Bad Girls and Coronation Street too.
The new show is currently on a massive 56-date tour round Britain.
Wendi, sipping tea at a London community centre during a rehearsal, reckons “Chin Up Britain!” works so well because it strikes a universal chord.
She says: “We talk about very universal experiences. None of us, for instance, are taught to welcome old age. And whichever country you’re in, women of a certain age are struggling with precisely the same problems: trying to juggle kids, husband, job and ageing parents.”
“The show is about being allowed to laugh. It’s taking the fourth wall away and just enjoying it with the audience. It’s only then that you realise that it’s really, really funny. Sometimes you wish you could be in the audience laughing your head off with them.”
Jenny stresses it’s all new material.
She says: “It’s very important to let people know that this is a brand-new show. We don’t want anyone thinking we’re just churning out the same old stuff.“
‘Chin Up Britain!’ has an entirely fresh message. The country’s going to rack and ruin, and what are we going to do about it? It’s a call to arms for all of us girls to get together and sort out the mess. We’re going to lead the fight-back. The Grumpy Old Women are here to save the world!”
But the issues are serious.
Says Jenny: “We’re stuck in the middle worrying about both our children and our parents, as well as our weight and the fact that the backs of our legs have suddenly turned into eiderdowns.”
Yes, Jenny, Wendi and Susie form a formidable triptych of crotchetiness.
The show, which has just been performed in Finland and Iceland and enjoyed a sell-out season in Australia, is that rarity: a hit with audiences and critics.
As for Susie, she insists it’s not an anti-men show.
She says: “There is a lot of ‘oh blokes, bless! Can you believe they do that?’ But we love them anyway.’ Without men, what have we got? Sudoku?”
She adds: “I’m enjoying this show more than anything else I’ve ever done. You’re just hit by this wall of laughter after every funny line. My agent came and said it was like being in the kitchen with your best mates.”
Released as a DVD last year, the original show enjoyed a massively popular West End run seen by more than 180,000 people.
The Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain show is at Venue Cymru, Llandudno on Saturday, November 28, 8pm. Ring 01492 872000 to buy £20 tickets
Love IslandLove Island star Anton taken out of the villaThe Scottish heart-throb was taken out of the villa and will be missing from tonight's episode
TourismThe 21 parks and green spaces so beautiful they've been given the Green Flag Award for 2019Another 28 sites across the region have been given the Green Flag Community Award
RhuddlanThe church where you can get your dog, rabbit or even chickens blessed by a vicarSt Mary's in Rhuddlan hosts special services where you can bring your pet along
CaernarfonWelsh music legend Meic Stevens sparks race row over 'Muslims' comment at Caernarfon concertThe singer-songwriter, 77, denies any racist intent saying his words were misinterpreted
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Indonesian rescuers struggle against heavy rain to reach tsunami-hit villages
A woman and child are seen next to debris after a tsunami in Sumur, Banten province, Indonesia December 26, 2018. REUTERS/Jorge Silva -
JORGE SILVA(Reuters)
By Fergus Jensen
SUMUR, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian rescue teams on Wednesday struggled to reach remote areas on the western coast of Java amid an "extreme weather" rain warning after a tsunami killed more than 400 people last week.
Heavy rain lashed fishing villages along the coast, muddying roads and holding up convoys delivering heavy machinery and aid to isolated areas while authorities urged residents to stay away from the shore in case of further waves.
Clouds of ash spewed from the nearby Anak Krakatau, or child of Krakatau, almost obscuring the volcanic island where a crater collapse at high tide on Saturday sent waves up to 5 metres (16 feet) high smashing into the coast on the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra islands.
Indonesia's meteorology agency (BMKG) said the rough weather could make the volcano's crater more fragile.
"We have developed a monitoring system focussed specifically on the volcanic tremors at Anak Krakatau so that we can issue early warnings," said BMKG head Dwikorita Karnawati, adding that a two-kilometre exclusion zone had been imposed.
The confirmed death toll is 430, with at least 159 people missing. Nearly 1,500 people were injured and over 21,000 people have evacuated to higher ground.
For a graphic on Indonesia tsunami disaster zone, see - https://tmsnrt.rs/2RdjsMd
A state of emergency has been declared until Jan. 4, which authorities hope will make it easier to deploy assistance, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the national disaster mitigation agency.
Search and rescue teams were focussed on the town of Sumur near the southwest tip of Java, but "the roads are damaged and clogged" and helicopters had to be deployed to carry out assessments and evacuations, he added.
Volunteers were having to piece together makeshift bridges out of concrete blocks after the waves washed away infrastructure along the coast.
Indonesia is a vast archipelago that sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire". This year, the country has suffered its worst annual death toll from disasters in more than a decade.
The latest disaster, coming during the Christmas season, evoked memories of the Indian Ocean tsunami triggered by an earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004, which killed 226,000 people in 14 countries, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.
The Saturday evening tsunami followed the collapse of an area of the volcano island of about 64 hectares (222 acres), or about 90 soccer pitches.
The waves engulfed fishing villages and holiday resorts, leaving a coast littered with the matchwood of homes, crushed vehicles and fallen trees. Children's toys and rides at a seaside carnival in Sumur were left scattered along a swampy beach.
The surge of seawater also left dozens of turtles, weighing several kilograms, stranded on land, and some volunteer rescuers worked to carry them back to the sea.
On Sebesi Island in the middle of the Sunda Strait, helicopters had been dispatched to evacuate residents.
Along the coast, thousands of people are staying in tents and temporary shelters like mosques or schools, with dozens sleeping on the floor or in crowded public facilities. Rice and instant noodles have been delivered to many shelters, but clean water, wet weather gear, fresh clothes, and blankets are in short supply, some evacuees said.
Ade Hasanah, 45, staying in an emergency centre with her children, said people were being told not to return to their homes.
"It's safe here," she said. "We hope if the children are safe and the situation is stable, we can go home quickly. We're restless."
In 1883, the volcano then known as Krakatoa erupted in one of the biggest blasts in recorded history, killing more than 36,000 people in a series of tsunamis and lowering the global surface temperature by one degree Celsius with its ash.
Anak Krakatau is the island that emerged from the area in 1927 and has been growing ever since.
(Additional reporting by Bernadette Christina Munthe, Tabita Diela, Fanny Potkin, Nilufar Rizki, Wilda Asmarini in JAKARTA; Writing by Kanupriya Kapoor,; Editing by Robert Birsel and Nick Macfie)
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St Kitts Touts Citizenship By Investment Scheme Perks
By ExpatBriefing.com Editorial 01 May, 2014
St Kitts and Nevis's Citizenship by Investment Program has advanced considerably since it was introduced in 1984, Richard Skerritt, the Federation's Minister of Minister of International Trade and Industry, told attendees at IBC's recent Citizenship by Investment forum in Dubai.
Skerritt explained why the Government had sought to enhance the incentive, stating: "In 2005 our economy was faced with the vagaries of a rapidly changing global trading environment, and our Government had become increasingly mindful that our 300-year reliance on sugar exports had no chance of underwriting the development vision that we had for our people. We therefore decided that the time had come to re-assess and refine the Citizenship by Investment Program that had been first implemented some 21 years earlier."
"Our objectives for change were clear: we wanted an investment program that would first and foremost, advance the social and economic well-being of the people of St. Kitts and Nevis; be managed in the most efficient and transparent manner; and be structured so as to attract only investors of sound character and reputation who are interested in attaining dual citizenship but are also capable of easily meeting the minimum investment requirement," he continued.
He expressed his view that some eight years after the restructuring of the program, and thirty years after its initial introduction, St. Kitts and Nevis has the longest lasting program of its kind in the world. "Fortunately, not only is ours the longest lasting, but it is also one of the most reputable. As a result, demand for the St. Kitts and Nevis Programme has grown and is now consistently high," he said.
Discussing the advantages of St Kitts and Nevis's program, he said: "Unlike some others, there is no requirement for a tax return or any other tax consequence of becoming a citizen of St. Kitts and Nevis. Indeed St. Kitts and Nevis has never imposed income tax on worldwide income. You should also know that personal income tax was abolished in St. Kitts and Nevis some 34 years ago, four years before the citizenship by investment program commenced. This means that the income tax exemption enjoyed by citizens of St. Kitts and Nevis is not based on any recent legislation that is likely to be subject to legal challenge. In addition, after citizenship is granted, there are no residential requirements to maintain citizenship, and there is no onerous provisions placed on citizens seeking to have their expired passports renewed."
"In addition, after citizenship is granted, there are no residential requirements to maintain citizenship, and there is no onerous provisions placed on citizens seeking to have their expired passports renewed. We operate on the fundamental principle enunciated in our Constitution that all citizens enjoy equal rights and any undue discrimination is illegal."
"Hence there is no uncertainty in relation to its system, and the risk of certificates or other instruments of citizenship being invalidated because of some unprecedented legal interpretation, is virtually non-existent in our Federation," concluded Skerritt.
The Citizenship by Investment forum, held on April 28-29, 2014, saw presentations on other similar incentives on offer in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Canada, USA, Middle East, the United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and the UK.
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NSW Budget: New Unit To Improve Service Delivery
Dominic Perrottet
The NSW Government will establish a new Commissioning and Contestability Unit (CCU) to improve government services by exploring delivery models that include a mix of government, NGO and private sector providers, Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Finance Dominic Perrottet announced today.
Delivering on the Government’s State Priority to improve services, the unit will put government service delivery under the microscope to identify innovative opportunities to improve quality, efficiency and value for citizens and is backed by a $2.9 million investment, to be included in the June 21 NSW Budget.
Drawing on world’s best practice, the CCU will work with Government agencies to test the efficiency and effectiveness of current and proposed government programs, exploring delivery models that include a mix of government, private and not-for-profit service providers to improve competition and value for money, while delivering better services.
“Our principle in Government has always been to deliver quality services to the people of NSW, no matter who is providing the service,” Ms Berejiklian said. “The CCU will look for innovative ways of providing better services for our customers, right across government.”
The CCU will offer expertise for Government agencies to draw on at each stage of a project, from scoping to execution, building on the example of similar initiatives overseas, such as in the UK where the government has adopted a widespread and successful commissioning market for a range of government services.
Mr Perrottet said the CCU would take the same approach the Government had taken in a range of recent reforms, applying those principles across government to deliver quality services and make better use of public funds.
“NSW citizens want quality services delivered at an efficient cost, regardless of who is providing them,” Mr Perrottet said. “A great example of the Government re-imagining services around what customers want is Service NSW, and that is the kind of transformative innovation the CCU will deliver,” he said.
“What matters is that citizens are put at the centre, and whether that means government providing its services better, or partnering with the best of the private sector, the CCU will be a powerful tool to make that happen”.
The CCU sits within NSW Treasury, reporting to the Treasurer and the Minister for Finance.
MEDIA: Ehssan Veiszadeh | Treasurer | 0418 986 206
Tim Cannon | Minister | 0439 707 543
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Removal of US tariffs on Chinese exports should be part of any trade deal: China
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Published: July 4, 2019 7:53:59 PM
Trump is also insisting China to workout verifiable measures for the protection of the intellectual property rights (IPR), technology transfer and providing more access to American goods to the huge Chinese markets.
Following the Trump-Xi meeting in Osaka, both the countries agreed to resume trade talks which broke down in May this year after the 11 rounds. (Reuters photo)
China on Thursday said the removal of tariffs by the US on over USD 250 billion Chinese exports should be part of any trade deal between the two countries, as the world’s two largest economies plan to resume talks to end the bruising trade war. US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met in Osaka in Japan on the side-lines of the G20 summit on June 29 during which they agreed to resume the negotiations to finalize a trade deal.
Beijing earlier welcomed Trump’s decision not to impose tariffs on the remaining about USD 300 billion dollars of Chinese exports. Trump, who earlier banned the use of Chinese telecom giant Huawei products in the US networks, has said that American firms could sell their products to Huawei “where there is no great national emergency problem with it”.
Following the Trump-Xi meeting in Osaka, both the countries agreed to resume trade talks which broke down in May this year after the 11 rounds. Trump kicked off a trade war last year demanding China to the reduce massive trade deficit, which climbed to over USD 539 billion. Trump is also insisting China to workout verifiable measures for the protection of the intellectual property rights (IPR), technology transfer and providing more access to American goods to the huge Chinese markets.
Both the countries have imposed additional tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of their exports to each other. The US has already imposed 25 per cent duties on more than USD 250 billions of imports from China. Commenting for the first time on the resumption of the stalled trade talks, Gao Feng, spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Commerce on Thursday, called for lifting of the existing tariffs on Chinese products by the US.
“Sino-US trade tensions resulted from the imposition of tariffs on Chinese products by Washington. If China and the US were to eventually reach a trade deal, the existing US tariffs should all be lifted, and the agreement must be mutually beneficial, bidirectional and balanced, in which China’s core concerns must be met. China’s attitude is specific and consistent,” Gao said.
China apparently apprehend that Trump may still retain some of the tariffs on Chinese exports even after a trade deal as he said on March 21 that he wanted some tariffs to remain in place for a “substantial period of time”, even extending beyond any trade deal. Gao said the Chinese and US teams are in close contact for resuming trade talks but gave no time-frame.
“China hopes the two sides can avoid escalating trade tensions by maintaining equality and mutual respect, which is in line with the agreements reached between the two countries’ leaders on the side-lines of the G20 Osaka Summit last week,” Gao told reporters here. He also urged the US to fulfil its promise that “US companies can sell their equipment to Huawei,” the state-run CGTN quoted him as saying.
After a ban by Trump, Google has said it would not use its services to phones made by Huawei in future. Google’s move to curtail access to its Android operating system means that the Shenzhen-based company will no longer be able to run Google’s popular apps and services such as Gmail, YouTube or its Google Play app store, on future Huawei devices.
Huawei has said it may lose about USD 30 billion revenue in the next two years as a result of US ban and Washington’s campaign among allied and friendly countries on a ban on use of the products of the Chinese telecpm giant on security grounds.
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Looking Forward – Top Subjects to Study in New Zealand
Thousands of students from around the world flock to New Zealand each year to take part in its world-class education system. Studying at one of the country’s schools, many of which are rated among the top in the world, can further student’s resumes, help their degrees, and broaden their perspective sof the world.
New Zealand might be geographically small, but it has proven to be ready to compete with the big guys like the US, Australia, and China when it comes to educational quality and breadth of course offerings. With so many opportunities begging to be explored, how can a student decide what to study in the country?
Here are some of the most popular fields of study for international students in New Zealand:
New Zealand is witnessing a growth in its economy that is inspiring an expansion of businesses in the country and, if they aren’t established there already, into the country. As opportunities in business continue to broaden and experience rapid growth, more and more students choose to attend universities that can offer them the best business programs the country – and, in many cases, the world – has to offer.
A Bachelor’s degree in business administration does not only open up opportunities for employment in one of the most stable industries in the country – it also prepares students to enroll in one of the most popular graduate programs in the world: Master’s of Business Administration. New Zealand is also widely known for the quality of its Master’s programs in this field. So, whether you’re seeking a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, New Zealand will have a high-quality program at a world-renowned university fit perfectly for you.
New Zealand universities known for their programs in business include the University of Aukland and Massey University [link to Findcourse Massey profile when available].
With the continued and increasing globalization of businesses, the responsibilities of accountants have witnessed a massive expansion, from merely preparing financial reports to becoming a much more dynamic and overarching professional field that includes the roles like business consultant or advisor. With a few significant overlaps with those studying business, accounting students will also be looking at high-paying, very stable positions post-graduation – this, of course, lends to the degree’s popularity.
Some of the most popular career paths and opportunities for students who graduate with a degree in accounting include Chartered Accountant, Tax Specialist, Business Consultant, and Management Accountant. New Zealand, with its wealth of world-class universities and its constantly growing business world, is a great attraction for international students looking to study and begin careers in accounting.
New Zealand universities known for their programs in accounting include WINTEC and University of Otago [link to Findcourse Otago profile when available].
Another field of study commonly included in the list of top areas of study in international settings is engineering. In New Zealand, we find its popularity makes it fall within the top three degree paths, as well. The appeals of engineering has failed to dissipate, and the course of study remains a favorite among students. One of the many reasons might be that specializations like Software Engineering frequently top the list of highest paid professions.
In addition to high pay, engineers can rest easy in the knowledge that their career path is viewed as incredibly stable, meaning that high pay will likely keep coming consistently. There are many universities across the world offering courses across multiple areas within engineering, but New Zealand’s internationally recognized, state-of-the-art research facilities, and tuition fees structure is epping up to challenge the system. Smaller class size is another feature of engineering courses in the country.
New Zealand universities known for their programs in engineering include the University of Waikato and Victoria University of Wellington [link to Findcourse Victoria University profile when available].
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Out Of The BLUE - Catching Up With Sustainable Fishing
by Jo Lamiri - Wednesday November 28, 2018 8:11 am
When we’re buying fish, we know we should be looking out for sustainable labels. But in a restaurant, it’s much harder: how does your average diner know where the fish came from?
Borough Market-based British restaurant Roast has teamed up with Lyme Bay Fisheries and Conservation Reserve, and marine conservation charity Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE), in a bid to support sustainable fishing.
Its Reserve Seafood brand, launched in 2015, markets 29 species of premium, provenance-assured seafood caught in Lyme Bay.
With the world’s oceans increasingly depleted of everything except for plastic, it seems, it’s good to see a leading chef taking a stance to promote sustainability – all too often a buzzword without much substance.
But it’s nothing new. Roast’s ethos has long meant championing local suppliers and sustainable ingredients, with Executive Chef Paul Shearing travelling the breadth of the country to form personal relationships with suppliers, farmers and producers.
It’s a great personal mission for Paul. “I’m extremely proud to be partnering with such a respected organisation as BLUE.
"This topic is one I am deeply passionate about, borne from my upbringing in Dorset paired with my career as a chef. I’m looking forward to educating and hopefully igniting that same passion in others”.
How does BLUE work? Dedicated to creating marine reserves and establishing sustainable models of fishing, the charity focuses its work on combating over-fishing and the destruction of biodiversity.
This is arguably the largest problem faced by the world’s oceans. To do this, it offers practical conservation solutions, including the creation of large-scale marine reserves.
And how. Established in 2010 by some of the team behind the award-winning documentary, The End of the Line, BLUE has so far helped to place nearly four million square kilometres of ocean under protection, including a no-take zone nearly the size of the UK around Ascension Island.
Its mission is the active and effective protection of 10% of the world’s oceans by 2020 and 30% by 2030.
Persuading fishermen, conservationists, scientists and regulators to work collaboratively under a voluntary code of conduct, BLUE has proved that there is a sweet spot between fishing and conservation where you can fish less but catch more and guarantee consistent quality of the fish.
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Land Of The Free Speakers
Elisabeth Eaves Contributor
Salman Rushdie was our canary in the coal mine: He first felt the effects of suffocating gasses that would start to envelope us all.
Rushdie's fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, published in late 1988 when he was living in Britain, was seen as blasphemous by some Muslims. Feb. 14 will mark 20 years since Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini sent the author a bloody Valentine, issuing a religious decree calling for his death.
Rushdie was forced to live in hiding and under guard for many years and eventually moved to New York.
In 1989, I was struck by the singular strangeness of the whole story. Riot-inciting thought police? In England? In the modern era? Two decades later I'm struck by how encroaching this story has become.
Rushdie, now 61, shared the 92nd Street Y stage on Sunday with Irshad Manji, a 40-year-old Canadian born in Idi Amin's Uganda.
Manji, a devout but controversially reformist Muslim, is the author of The Trouble With Islam Today; she also does things like post an imam's defense of interfaith marriage on her Web site in multiple languages, so that forlorn Romeos and Juliets may show it, as she says, to "conservative parents and bigoted clerics." She, too, is the subject of death threats.
Neither Rushdie nor Manji are refugees; both come from places where they enjoyed the protection of the law and both chose to live in New York for the reasons so many of us do--work, pleasure, lifestyle. But their conversation got me thinking about the unique protections accorded to free speech in the U.S.
Consider Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It. Israeli-born and resident in New York, Ehrenfeld has made a career of following money trails to their murkiest sources and been threatened and sued multiple times for her efforts.
Most recently she became a victim of so-called libel tourism. In Funding Evil, she wrote that a wealthy Saudi Arabian, Khalid bin Mahfouz, had financed terrorist activities. Under U.S. law her well-documented accusation doesn't qualify as libel, so bin Mahfouz sued her in Great Britain.
The book had never been published in Britain or sold in book stores there, but a few copies had been obtained via online sellers. A British judge imposed a fine on Ehrenfeld and said her book should be destroyed.
Through cases like these, U.K. laws, which have a chilling effect on the country's own publishers, are affecting foreign publishers and writers, too. Recently the government came close to clamping down on free speech even further.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a sop to Muslim constituents upset about his support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, urged the criminalizing of "religious incitement"; the law failed by just one vote. In one of the great crucibles of democracy, this is where free speech is heading.
Then there is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch parliamentarian, author of Infidel, and one of Europe's most vocal critics of militant Islam. She wrote a movie script critical of Islam; its director, Theo van Gogh, was subsequently stabbed to death.
Hirsi Ali, an elected member of the Dutch parliament, lived under high security in the Netherlands for years before an immigration minister from her own party effectively hounded her out of the country, accusing her of lying about her name, age and refugee status when she first came to Holland, and threatening to strip Hirsi Ali of her passport.
That didn't happen, but Hirsi Ali resigned her seat in parliament and now resides in Washington, D.C., where she is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. (This is just as well for her. Another Dutch member of parliament, Geert Wilders, was ordered by an appeals court on Thursday to stand trial for "insulting Islam" and will face jail time if found guilty. Maybe another American think-tank will offer him a perch if he's acquitted and wants to take a breather from the Netherlands.)
I find it remarkable that it's not just regimes we know to be despotic that are stifling free speech, but also Western democracies. Canada is now embroiled in a debate over its so-called anti-hate laws, under which the Canadian Human Rights Commission is responsible for ferreting out and stopping acts of hatred, among them insults to religion.
The absurdity of these speech-curtailing laws emerged when the Commission summoned Maclean's magazine and writer Mark Steyn to defend themselves against accusations of Islamophobia.
But now that Canadians are finally talking about doing away with the laws, it's Jewish groups that want to keep them on the books. Here's a good litmus test for whether a law makes any sense: If the "crime" in question can only be described using the word for an emotion, like "hate" or "phobia," then we have wandered into thought-police territory.
Finally, there's the United Nations, which admittedly isn't much of a democracy, but which claims to uphold the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. The declaration, though, says that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression."
The U.N. General Assembly, on the other hand, has passed resolutions, most recently last November, banning "defamation of religion."
Are we who live in the U.S. so safe? Our politicians and judges haven't lost their heads, but self-censorship can be chilling, too. Last year, Random House was planning to publish The Jewel of Medina by Sherry Jones, a fictionalized version of the life of one of Mohammed's wives.
After the company received some cautionary advice about the controversy the book might cause, it shelved the project. Random House can do whatever it wants, of course, and another imprint, Beaufort Books, went on to publish the book without incident. But the decision to abandon the project suggests that an unhealthy fear has crept onto these shores. When those canaries in the coal mines went quiet, it was time to pay attention.
Elisabeth Eaves is a deputy editor at Forbes, where she also writes a weekly column.
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Elisabeth Eaves is Opinions Editor at Forbes, where she also writes an occasional column. She holds a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University...
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» Amphibians
Cladistics
Last Updated on Sun, 29 Jul 2012 | Amphibians
Cladistic analysis of morphological characters is the main technique used for studies of the relationships of living and fossil vertebrates. The result of a cladistic analysis is a cladogram, such as those in Figure 1.7. A cladogram is a branching diagram that links all the species, living and fossil, that are under investigation, and the branching points, or nodes, mark points at which shared characters arose. A cladogram is not an evolutionary tree because there is no absolute time-scale, although the relative order of nodes is shown. The cladogram shows the closeness of relationship, or recency of a common ancestor shared by two species, by the arrangement of the groups—the closer they are to each other, and the shorter the linking lines, the closer is the postulated relationship.
A cladogram is constructed after an assessment of characters. It is important to find shared derived characters (synapomorphies), features that are shared by two or more species, but nothing else. Synapomorphies are distinguished from primitive characters, which may be widespread outside the group under study. When Jefferies (1986,1997) and Peterson (1995) were trying to sort out relationships within the Deuterostomia (Figure 1.7), they looked for features that would support particular pairings of groups. Jefferies (1986, 1997), for example, argued that most of the calcichor-dates and the chordates shared a tail, a feature not seen in other groups. Peterson (1995), on the other hand, noted that hemichordates and chordates share gill slits, a unique character of these phyla.
The key to distinguishing synapomorphies, characters that are potentially useful in cladistic analysis, from primitive characters is outgroup comparison.The out-group consists of everything that lies outside the group under study (the 'ingroup'). In the analyses of deuterostome relationships, the outgroup consists of all non-deuterostomes, anything from banana trees to clams, worms to viruses. For practical purposes, the outgroup is usually selected as organisms that are closely related to the ingroup, so that meaningful comparisons can be made. The tail and the notochord are synapomorphies within Deuterostomia,because other animals lack these characters. Other features shared by all deuterostomes, such as a gut and a nervous system, are useless in reconstructing their phylogeny as members of the outgroup (e.g. worms, arthropods, molluscs) also have these characters.
Character discovery and analysis is a complex and time-consuming business. The cladist studies the anatomy of all the organisms of interest in detail, identifying unique and shared characters. There are no objective rules about what is and is not a character. In looking at theropod dinosaurs and basal birds, some specimens have feathers and others do not. Does one code a single character—feathers (present, absent) — or look into the anatomy in much more detail, and identify several kinds of feathers, from full flight feathers to wispy down 'hairs', and several detailed aspects of the anatomy of the feathers under the microscope? Character states are generally coded 0,1, 2 ..., and listed in a data matrix, a table of species/specimens versus characters. Well-established computer programs, such as PAUP, hennig86, NONA, MacClade, and others, are used to process the data matrices and extract patterns of relationships that are expressed as trees.
Derived characters indicate whether a group is monophyletic, that is, it arose from a single ancestor and includes all living and fossil descendants of that ancestor (Figure 2.9(a)). Most familiar named groups of animals are monophyletic groups (also termed clades): examples are the Phylum Chordata, the Subphylum Vertebrata, the Family Canidae (dogs), and so on (see Box 2.3). All members of the clade share at least one derived character.
monophyletic group paraphyletic group monophyletic group paraphyletic group
rA (b) VA
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Fig. 2.9 Cladograms showing (a) a monophyletic group, (b) a paraphyletic group, and (c) a polyphyletic group, and the presence and absence ofhypothetical characters A and A' (character A' is convergent on [very similar to] character A). In the monophyletic group (a), all species have character A, a synapomorphy of the clade. In the paraphyletic group (b), some species have lost the synapomorphy A by transformation (e.g. the keratinous scales of reptiles are transformed into feathers or hair). In the polyphyletic group (c), the apparent shared characters (A, A') are convergences and the ultimate common ancestor of the two clades lacks that feature.
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Mazen Darwish
Mazen Darwish Laureate Freedom of Speech Award 2016
The award for Mr. Darwish is motivated by his courageous efforts to promote human rights and the freedom of speech in Syria. In the most dangerous and difficult circumstances he published details of arbitrary arrests and violations by police and security forces. As the director of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression he and his fellow journalists played a key role in getting out information about developments in Syria as foreign journalists were virtually banned from the country. He is one of the founders of syriaview.net, an independent news site that was banned by the Syrian authorities. In 2011 he established Media Club, the first Syrian magazine about media affairs. Through his efforts he has become a symbol of the battle for human rights in Syria.
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MarketplaceHalloween
Freeform releases its '31 Nights of Halloween' schedule
By: Josh Frigerio
Disney/ABC
It is barely a week into September but it appears everyone has their sights set on October. And Halloween. And Pumpkin Spice Lattes .
And with good reason. Halloween brings candy, haunted houses, scary movies (and not-so-scary movies), pumpkin carving, hayrides, and cider and doughnuts. What's not to like?
It also calls for a Hocus Pocus marathon. This week Freeform , the network formerly known as ABC Family, released the lineup for its " 31 Nights of Halloween ," an upped month-long series of Halloween-themed movies and programming.
In fact, Hocus Pocus will air a total of 28 times throughout October culminating with a marathon on Halloween. Other movies include "The Nightmare Before Christmas", "Monsters University", "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", "The Addams Family", and "Maleficent."
View the complete schedule below. Times listed are for Eastern Standard Time so make sure to check your local TV guide.
We’ve expanded to 31 Nights! Check out the lineup for #31NightsOfHalloween on @FreeformTV .
Get the FULL SCHEDULE here: https://t.co/oY4KV8I0m4 pic.twitter.com/HRlKWyrwtC
— 31 Nights (@31Nights) September 4, 2018
Monday, October 1
5 p.m. - ParaNorman
7:10 p.m. - The Nightmare Before Christmas
8:50 p.m. - Hocus Pocus
12 a.m. - ParaNorman
5 p.m. - The Nightmare Before Christmas"
8:30 p.m. - Disney•Pixar's Monsters University
12 a.m. - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
4 p.m. - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
9 p.m. - Monster House
12 a.m. - The Final Girls
9 p.m. - The Addams Family (1991)
12 a.m. - Teen Spirit
12:30 p.m. - The Parent Trap (1998)
3:30 p.m. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
6:10 p.m. - The Addams Family (1991)
8:20 p.m. - The Goonies
12 a.m. - The Breakfast Club
7 a.m. - The Parent Trap (1998)
10:10 a.m. - Monster House
12:20 p.m. - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
2:50 p.m. - The Haunted Mansion (2003)
9:45 p.m. - Maleficent (Freeform premiere)
11:50 p.m. - Warm Bodies (Freeform premiere)
7 a.m. - Monster House
9:10 a.m. - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
11:40 a.m. - The Haunted Mansion (2003)
1:50 p.m. - Alice in Wonderland (2010)
6:35 p.m. - Maleficent
8:40 p.m. - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) (Freeform premiere)
11:20 p.m. - Dark Shadows (2012)
4 p.m. - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
6:30 p.m. - Dark Shadows (2012)
12 a.m. - Clue (1985)
3 p.m. - Jurassic Park (1993)
8 p.m. - Mrs. Doubtfire
12 a.m. - Warm Bodies
3 p.m. - The Lost World: Jurassic Park
9 p.m. - Hocus Pocus
4:30 p.m. - ParaNorman
8:50 p.m. - Despicable Me
12 a.m. - The Boxtrolls
2 p.m. - The Boxtrolls
4:10 p.m. - Disney's Bolt
8:30 p.m. - Disney's Frozen
12 a.m. - Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7 a.m. - ParaNorman
9:05 a.m. - Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame
11:10 a.m. - Disney's Bolt
5 p.m. - Disney's Frozen
7:25 p.m. - Disney•Pixar's Monsters, Inc.
12 a.m. - The Addams Family (1991)
7 a.m. - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
9:30 a.m. - The Nightmare Before Christmas
11:10 a.m. - The Addams Family (1991)
8 p.m. - Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic (Freeform premiere)
9 p.m. - Hotel Transylvania (Freeform premiere)
11 p.m. - The Parent Trap (1998)
6 p.m. - Hotel Transylvania
8 p.m. - The Parent Trap (1998)
12 a.m. - Monster House
3:30 p.m. - Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic
4:30 p.m. - Monster House
6:30 p.m. - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
12 a.m. - Disney's Mulan
4:30 p.m. - Disney's Mulan
8:30 p.m. - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
12 a.m. - Maggie (Freeform premiere)
8:50 p.m. - Hotel Transylvania
9:05 a.m. - ParaNorman
11:10 a.m. - Hocus Pocus
4 p.m. - The Nightmare Before Christmas
11:55 p.m. - The Haunted Mansion (2003)
9 a.m. - Spooky Buddies
11:20 p.m. - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
4 p.m. - Maleficent
8:20 p.m. - The Witches of Eastwick (Freeform premiere)
6:10 p.m. - The Witches of Eastwick
4 p.m. - Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic
12 a.m. - Spooky Buddies
9 p.m. - The Haunted Mansion (2003)
12:30 p.m. - Jurassic Park (1993)
3:35 p.m. - The Lost World: Jurassic Park
7 a.m. - Dark Shadows (2012)
9:40 a.m. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
12:20 p.m. - The Addams Family (1991)
9:20 p.m - Hotel Transylvania
11:25 p.m. - Disney•Pixar's Toy Story of TERROR!
11:55 p.m. - ParaNorman
7 a.m. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
9:40 a.m. - The Addams Family
2 p.m. - Disney•Pixar's Toy Story of TERROR!
11:20 p.m. - The Goonies
7:10 p.m. - Disney's Big Hero 6
8:25 p.m. - Disney•Pixar's Toy Story of TERROR!
7:30 a.m. - Hocus Pocus
11 a.m. - Disney•Pixar's Toy Story of TERROR!
11:30 a.m. - Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic
Hocus Pocus Marathon
12:30 p.m. - Hocus Pocus
12 a.m. - Hocus Pocus
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Report: FTC approves roughly $5B fine for Facebook
That’s pocket change for Facebook
The fine would be the largest the FTC has levied on a tech company. But it won't make much of a dent for Facebook, which had nearly $56 billion in revenue last year. (Source: Pexels)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The FTC has voted to approve a fine of about $5 billion for Facebook over privacy violations, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The report cited an unnamed person familiar with the matter.
Facebook and the FTC declined to comment. The Journal said the 3-2 vote broke along party lines, with Republicans in support and Democrats in opposition to the settlement.
In most cases the Justice Department's civil division will review settlements by the FTC, and it is unclear how long the process would take. A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment on the Facebook matter.
The fine would be the largest the FTC has levied on a tech company. But it won't make much of a dent for Facebook, which had nearly $56 billion in revenue last year. Facebook has earmarked $3 billion for a potential fine and said in April it was anticipating having to pay up to $5 billion.
The report did not say what else the settlement includes beyond the fine, though it is expected to include limits on how Facebook treats user privacy. Some have called on the FTC to hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally liable for the privacy violations in some way, but based on the party line vote breakdown experts said this is not likely.
Marc Rotenberg, president of the nonprofit online privacy advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center, said he was "confused" as to why the Democratic commissioners didn't support the settlement and said he suspects, without having seen the actual settlement, that this was due to the Zuckerberg liability question.
"But I thought that was misguided," he said, adding that EPIC instead supports more wholesale limits on how Facebook handles user privacy.
Since the Cambridge Analytica debacle erupted more than a year ago and prompted the FTC investigation, Facebook has vowed to do a better job corralling its users' data. That scandal revealed that a data mining firm affiliated with President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign improperly accessed private information from as many as 87 million Facebook users through a quiz app.
Other leaky controls have also since come to light. Facebook acknowledged giving big tech companies like Amazon and Yahoo extensive access to users' personal data, in effect exempting them from its usual privacy rules. And it collected call and text logs from phones running Google's Android system in 2015.
Wall Street appeared unfazed at the prospect of the fine. Facebook's shares closed at $204.87 on Friday and added 24 cents after hours. The stock is up more than 50 percent since the beginning of the year.
"This closes a dark chapter and puts it in the rearview mirror with Cambridge Analytica," said Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives. "Investors still had lingering worries that the fine might not be approved. Now, the Street can breathe a little easier."
Rep. David Cicilline, a Democrat from Rhode Island, said in a statement that the fine gives Facebook "a Christmas present five months early. It's very disappointing that such an enormously powerful company that engaged in such serious misconduct is getting a slap on the wrist. This fine is a fraction of Facebook's annual revenue."
Cicilline leads the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, which is pursuing a bipartisan investigation of the big tech companies’ market dominance.
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The NYSE: As American as Baseball and ... Wiener Schnitzel?
By Ray Hennessey Published February 15, 2011 FOXBusiness
Executives of the NYSE Euronext (NYSE:NYX) have gone out of their way to dampen talk that the acquisition of the New York Stock Exchange by the Deutsche Boerse represents a foreign takeover of an iconic American institution.
After all, they say, when the deal is complete, 55% of the combined company will be owned by U.S. investors.
The American accent of the deal is lost on whomever wrote the press release announcing the deal, however.
Rather than listing financial terms for the acquisition in dollars, they are first listed in euros. The time for the conference call is listed first in Central European Time. Even the so-called Safe Harbor statement in the release -- boilerplate language that gives issuers of securities some legal protections -- uses the European “harbour” spelling.
The very terms of the deal make it clear that, rather than a merger, this is a full-fledged acquisition of the NYSE. Nine of the 15 directors are chosen by the Deutsche Boerse. Deutsche Boerse shareholders will own 60% of the combined company. (It is because Deutsche Boerse itself has some U.S. investment that executives claim 55% of the company will be American owned. But the German entity has majority control.) The company will have main offices in Frankfurt, Germany, and New York, but it will be incorporated in the Netherlands.
Leading up to the deal, there was criticism that the proposed name of DB NYSE made it too clear that Germans were in charge. To ease some of that criticism, the two companies have not yet announced a name for the combined entity.
In the meantime, they have chosen an operating name that’s as American as apple pie: Alpha Beta Netherlands Holding Nammloze Vennootschap.
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Griffins goalie helps Admirals player get home in time for birth of baby
A Grand Rapids Griffins hockey player stepped in to make sure a Milwaukee Admirals player made it home in time for the birth of his baby.
Griffins goalie helps Admirals player get home in time for birth of baby A Grand Rapids Griffins hockey player stepped in to make sure a Milwaukee Admirals player made it home in time for the birth of his baby. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2CImkd3
Dave Kallmann and WZZM, Detroit Free Press Published 7:49 a.m. ET Jan. 6, 2018 | Updated 12:58 p.m. ET Jan. 6, 2018
Milwaukee Admirals player Pierre-Cedric Labrie and Jana Pieuze-Roy pose with their baby, Lionel.(Photo: Courtesy of Pierre-Cedric Labrie)
Pierre-Cedric Labrie and Jana Pieuze-Roy expected a baby in the new year.
Instead they got a story about a snowstorm bad enough to scare a Canadian, and an act of kindness that would turn a hockey bruiser into a 6-foot-3, 228-pound teddy bear.
And they got Lionel.
Although the littlest Labrie got an early start on the party, he waited just long enough.
“We played here on Friday, left for Grand Rapids on Saturday and she texted me. In the bus. Half way,” said Labrie, who plays left wing for the Milwaukee Admirals.
“She’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m having some cramps.’ I’m like, ‘Tell me right now. I’ll stop the bus and get a ride from here.’ She said, ‘No, I’m going to be fine.’ ”
So Labrie and the Admirals completed their 4 1/2-hour bus ride around the southern tip of Lake Michigan, hoping to carry the high from a home-ice victory over Chicago into an evening game against the Grand Rapids Griffins.
“I went to bed around midnight, and at 2 a.m. the phone rings,” Labrie said after practice Thursday at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena.
“Water broke.”
The first flight out of Grand Rapids to anywhere close would have got Labrie to Chicago at 6:30 in the morning, and he’d still have had a 90-minute drive to Milwaukee.
“Her mom, for two kids, (labor was) less than six hours,” Labrie said. “I knew I had really a small gap.”
Other options were getting him nowhere, and time was wasting.
His last thought was to wake up Admirals teammate Mark Zengerle, who spent two seasons as a Griffin. It couldn’t hurt to ask him for ideas, right?
AHL veteran Pierre-Cedric Labrie, a newcomer to the Milwaukee Admirals this season, participates in practice Thursday, October 5, 2017, at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena. (Photo: Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
“I was like, ‘Zenger, you played in GR (Grand Rapids) a couple years ago,’ ” Labrie said. “‘Do you know anybody that would let me borrow a car?’ Because I called taxi drivers, there’s a bad storm, no one wants to take me to Milwaukee. With the New Year’s Eve parties, all the chauffeurs for the private cars are reserved.
“He’s like, ‘There’s a guy on the other team. He’s a really good guy.’ ”
The Griffins were headed back from a night game in Cleveland when Zengerle’s text message popped up on backup goaltender Tom McCollum’s phone. McCollum was watching a movie. He can’t sleep on the bus.
Detroit Red Wings goalie Tom McCollum (38) makes a save against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sept. 20, 2017, during the second period at the preseason game at PPG PAINTS Arena in Pittsburgh. (Photo: Charles LeClaire/USA TODAY Sports)
“It was kind of funny the way he said it,” McCollum said in a telephone interview Thursday. “He was like, ‘Hey, I’ve got a question; it’s totally cool if you say no,’ and just kind of explained the situation of what happened.”
Although the team wouldn’t be back to Grand Rapids for another 90 minutes, McCollum lives virtually across the street from the Admirals’ hotel. His girlfriend was at home. McCollum wasn’t going to need his Ford F-150 for a couple of days anyway, and the Griffins were headed to Milwaukee two days later.
McCollum didn’t think twice about helping out someone he'd only run into on the ice.
“I’ve never actually met PC, but I played against him a bunch when he was in Rockford,” McCollum said. “He’s one of those ... you can just tell he’s an honest hockey player.
“Especially the tough guys, they always seem to be the nicest guys off the ice. Again, knowing that he’s been around for a few years and knowing he’s an older guy, those are the kind of guys you trust.”
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Although McCollum doesn’t have children, he’s seen the effect fatherhood has had on teammates. He had a good idea of what getting home would mean to Labrie.
“If he didn’t let me, I would have been panicking,” Labrie said. “I would have been walking the street, like, ‘Hey, you. How much you want, you drive me to Milwaukee right now?’ I was, like, panicking. I need to get there.”
Before 3 a.m. local time, Labrie was on his way. And before long the lake-effect snow picked up to a near whiteout.
“Good thing I had the big truck of the guy,” Labrie said, showing a video from along the way. “It got worse.
“(It’s) so nerve-wracking, driving through. Soon as I passed that, my eyes start getting (strained). I have to stop, like, 15-20 minutes, and just lay there.”
Then he pressed on.
“Got to the hospital at 6:15,” Labrie said. “And deliver the baby at 6:54.
“I was there for only 40 minutes, the last, final pushes. Here we go. I missed all the contractions earlier, the toughest part, when she doesn’t have the — what do you call it? — the epidural.
“She was with her mom. Thank God she was here or I don’t know. Everything turned out good.”
Lionel weighed in at 5 pounds, 15 ounces.
“Just like me,” Labrie said, “tiny.”
Labrie was being serious, too; he knows he was a small baby although he'd have had to ask his mother for the specifics.
McCollum and Labrie actually met for the first time Wednesday, after the Griffins beat the Admirals, 4-2. They had time for little more than hello and a handshake. Labrie returned McCollum’s keys, and McCollum followed his bus back to Michigan.
“He offered to pay me for (using the truck),” McCollum said. “I just asked him to fill it up with gas, and he was nice enough he washed it for me before he gave it back. That’s all I need honestly.
“I was happy to be able to facilitate the situation. I was more than thrilled when he texted me that he made it in time.
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Final Fantasy XV Content Roadmap Extends To 2019
by Imran Khan on Feb 22, 2018 at 06:01 PM
According to an interview from Dengeki Online, Final Fantasy XV's roadmap of DLC episodes will continue until at least 2019.
In the interview, director Hajime Tabata and game designer Takefumi Terada discuss the current three-episode plan for the remainder of 2018, starting with the announced Episode Ardyn. While working on that, Tabata realized they wanted to do more content for the game, and added a fourth episode to the docket.
That means that all four episodes spread out will go through 2018 and into 2019. As for future content beyond that, it's undecided.
Final Fantasy XV's previous DLC episodes – Episode Gladiolus, Episode Prompto, and Episode Ignis – have been released as part of the game's season pass, while the next four episodes should be part of the second season pass, though they have yet to be extensively detailed.
Final Fantasy XV is re-releasing as Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition, containing the first game's DLC and multiplayer expansion, on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and for the first time on PC on March 6. Square-Enix revealed today that Steam pre-orders and early purchases for the game will receive a Gordon Freeman skin for Noctis. There will also be a free PC demo on February 26.
[Source: Dengeki Online]
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Corporate Giant Demands Crackdown on Independent and Alternative Internet Content, Call for Online Censorship
By Will Morrow
Global Research, February 15, 2018
World Socialist Web Site 14 February 2018
The drive to censor the Internet took another step this week with a public statement by Keith Weed, the chief marketing officer for the London-based multinational Unilever, threatening to withdraw advertising from social media platforms if they fail to suppress “toxic content.”
Weed reportedly told an annual leadership meeting of the Interactive Advertising Bureau in Palm Desert, California that the company “will not invest in platforms or environments” that “create divisions in society, and promote anger or hate.” He added,
“We will prioritize investing only in responsible platforms that are committed to creating a positive impact in society.”
Excerpts of Weed’s remarks—the most explicit of their kind from a major corporate executive—were leaked to several media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian. They were immediately featured on NBC News and other major American news outlets on Sunday. The Journal’s report was accompanied by an interview with Weed.
The coordinated release was designed to escalate the propaganda offensive by the Democratic Party and US intelligence agencies, together with the corporate media, for Internet censorship. The fraudulent premise for this assault on freedom of speech, both in the US and across Europe, is the claim that political opposition and social tensions are the product not of poverty, inequality and policies of austerity and militarism, but of “fake news” spread by Russia through social media.
Weed’s statements preceded yesterday’s US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, which witnessed a series of hysterical denunciations of Russia by politicians and intelligence agents. The Democratic vice-chairman of the committee, Mark Warner of Virginia, declared that Russia “utilized our social media platforms to push and spread misinformation at an unprecedented scale.”
Facebook responded to Weed’s threats by declaring,
“[W]e fully support Unilever’s commitments and are working closely with them.”
The Journal stated that Unilever “has already held discussions” with Facebook, Google, Twitter, Snap and Amazon “to share ideas about what each can do to improve.”
Weed absurdly framed his demand for censorship, made on behalf of a multibillion-dollar global corporation, as the expression of popular anger over the supposed spread of “fake news.” He referred to research showing a decline in trust in social media and a “perceived lack of focus” in the form of “illegal, unethical and extremist behavior and material on” social media platforms. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, he claimed to be articulating the concerns of consumers over “fake news” and “Russians influencing the US election.”
Image on the right is Keith Weed
In reality, the intervention by Unilever—a consumer products behemoth with a market capitalization of $157 billion and annual revenues of $65 billion, more than the gross domestic product of many countries—only highlights the economic and political forces driving the censorship campaign: an alliance of the military/intelligence apparatus, giant technology firms and the corporate-financial oligarchy.
Unilever’s annual marketing outlays of nearly $9 billion place it in the top five companies in that category globally. It owns dozens of brands used by some 2.5 billion people around the world, including Dove soap, Rexona deodorant and food products Cornetto, Magnum and Lipton. Weed’s statements amount to a declaration that Unilever will use this economic power to filter what the world’s population can and cannot read online.
This is in line with a long and reactionary tradition. Large advertisers played a significant role in enforcing the McCarthyite witch hunt of socialist and left-wing figures in the US during the late 1940s and 1950s. General Motors, DuPont, Reynolds Tobacco and other major companies were backers of the notorious anticommunist periodical Counterattack, which published names of suspected communist sympathizers and forced the removal of targeted performers and critical content from programs they sponsored.
In one of many such cases, the blacklisted Jean Muir was dropped from the television show “The Aldrich Family” after General Foods, the program’s sponsor, told NBC it would not sponsor programs featuring “controversial persons.”
In another development, Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube (owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet), told a Code Media conference in Los Angeles that Facebook “should get back to baby pictures and sharing.” The statement is a reference to Facebook’s announcement last month that it is deprioritizing news content on its News Feed in favor of “personal moments.” The change is one of a number of recent measures to prevent Facebook users from accessing news and analysis outside of officially sanctioned corporate outlets.
UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd on Tuesday released a government-developed application that uses machine-learning algorithms to automatically detect ISIS-related content in videos so that it can be censored.
The BBC wrote that the tool was seen by the government as a way to demonstrate that its “demand for a clampdown on extremist activity was not unreasonable.” Rudd stated, “The technology is there. There are tools out there that can do exactly what we’re asking for,” i.e., identifying and censoring video content. The new application will be provided free of charge to smaller video hosting companies, and the government will consider making its use legally mandatory.
The Washington Post, which along with the New York Times has been at the forefront of the censorship campaign, linked the UK government’s announcement to the intervention of Unilever, writing that it came “amid mounting pressure on social media companies to do more to remove extremist content from their platforms.”
The original source of this article is World Socialist Web Site
Copyright © Will Morrow, World Socialist Web Site, 2018
Articles by: Will Morrow
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The Palestinian Arab In/Outsiders – Media and Conflict in Israel
Review of Book by Mustafa Kabha and Dan Caspi
By Jim Miles
Global Research, January 17, 2012
Palestine Chronicle 17 January 2012
In-depth Report: PALESTINE
A Review of The Palestinian Arab In/Outsiders – Media and Conflict in Israel. by Mustafa Kabha and Dan Caspi. Vallentine Mitchell, London/Portland, 2011.
“The Palestinian Arab In/Outsiders” is an apparently comprehensive text book on the newspapers and journals published in Palestine, and more specifically after the nakba, within the Israeli green line. It provides extensive references to the many papers and journals, daily, weeklies, successful and not so successful, that have played a role in Palestine/Israel.
It recognizes difficulties of publishing efforts within a country that accepts the ideal of democracy, but that at the same time, controls to varying degrees the contents of the news. It also recognizes the important difference between works published ‘for’ the Arab population used to ‘normalize’ their actions and thoughts, and works published ‘by’ the Arab population which contained more emphasis on problems with the Palestinian people. The latter also contained an element of ‘normalization’, as the Arab papers increased their circulation by publishing more than political news but also sections on sports, fashion, and other entertainment items.
Part of the story is management of the minority Arabs. For the early state, the “establishment…recognized the significance of the media in Arab society,” serving as a mediator “between the political elite and the population and could help enlist the masses in support of vital national goals, as typical of any young state.” Recognized at the same time was “the fact that Israeli national goals were irrelevant as far as the Arab minority was concerned.”
Initially the Arab minority was seen as a “security concern,” and it “still is the essential attitude of the Jewish majority in Israel toward the Arab minority. It has not seen any radical transformation…since it was first formed.” While claiming democracy as its ethos, “the suspicious and hostile relationship between the two communities made it difficult for the majority to respect the rights of the minority from the very beginning.”
While outlining the various publications and the people associated with them, the authors identify problems with Arab publications. Along with Israeli censorship came ‘self censorship,’ assuming a guarded approach to ideas and language in order not to be directly censored. As the population had been largely disrupted during the nakba, many of the educational skills needed for strong journalism were not available. A related problem was the Arab preference at times for the Hebrew publications which were considered more reliable and professional. Money was another obvious factor limiting the success of the work, and as mentioned above, by normalizing their content with entertainment news, the papers were able to attract more advertising money. The distribution of the papers presented problems as transportation and ability for widespread readership was limited by access to smaller outside communities.
Changes in the context of the publications occurred as Palestinian nationalism increased, with noticeable differences between Israeli Arabic publications and those of the occupied territories. A very few advocated for peaceful coexistence, but the majority discussed problems with integration/non-integration, land sales, land confiscations, ideology, and the ever present racism.
In their conclusions the authors say, that for the Israeli controlled Arab press, “A careful assessment indicates that if the official policy was, and remains, to neutralize the Arab minority in Israel from the Arab world and to shape public opinion through the two dailies [al-Anba and al-Yawm] – these attempts proved unsuccessful.” At the same time the Arab press acts in a manner similar to the Arab residents of Israel, as it “exists modestly and conducts itself cautiously, overshadowed by the continuous regional conflict.”
One of the intentions of the “The Palestinian Arab In/Outsiders” is that “by following the development of Arabic media it is possible to assess the situation of the Palestinian minority in Israel and their tension-laden relationship with the Jewish majority.” Certainly they have achieved that goal but for a general reader there is little analysis and comparison of the papers contents and arguments – that is, while the papers are enumerated and categorized with brief descriptions of their political leanings, only rarely do the authors compare the language and lexicon of what one paper argues as compared to another within a specific historical incident.
What I have in mind here is the work of Chomsky and Herman and their work “Manufacturing Consent,” which looks at the language used and its context within specific historical events and how that has been used to change readers perceptions and support elitist beliefs. Similarly Marda Dunsky’s work “Pens and Swords” discusses the shaping of ideology within specific historical contexts and their reporting. “Israel-Palestine on Record” by Friel and Falk examines how the New York Times “Misreports” on Middle East issues.
Hopefully the authors, now that they have enumerated and discussed in general the Arab press in Israel, would be able to compare and analyse the reporting in that area as compared to what is said by the Israeli Hebrew press (in particular Ha‘aretz and Yedioth Ahronoth), which at times is much more outspoken towards its own elites than outside press. Similarly, a comparison to the outside press, western/orientalist interpretations and other Arabic reporting and interpretations, how the language is modified or changed, how the perceptions are changed through that reporting, would be – hopefully – of more interest to the general reader, and certainly for anyone interested in seeing the different perspectives of the Arab/Palestinian situation in the Middle East. Other issues that could be examined more deeply is the intimidation by various means of the journalists working within the state.
While one does get an overview of the problems and abilities of the Arab press in Israel, its lengthy listing and enumerating of the many papers and journals that came and went is not the kind of reading to encourage much general discussion. Its list price, in the range I associate with a university text, also makes the work prohibitive for the general reader.
Jim Miles is a Canadian educator and a regular contributor/columnist of opinion pieces and book reviews for The Palestine Chronicle. Miles’ work is also presented globally through other alternative websites and news
The original source of this article is Palestine Chronicle
Copyright © Jim Miles, Palestine Chronicle, 2012
Articles by: Jim Miles
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Could There Ever Be Another World War?
Why do nations fight in wars?
Would you ever sign up to join the military to defend your country?
Is the world now more peaceful and stable than ever? Why or why not?
Can a conflict ever be justified?
It is time for conflict?
War is frequently referred to as a situation or a period of fighting between two factions or countries. During a war, a nation enforces its rights by using strength. This generally involves a military organisation, the use of weapons, and soldiers. But not every armed conflict is a war. A fight between individuals, gangs, drug cartels, etc. is not considered a war. Nonetheless, most wars are called armed conflicts.
Individual states or political parties have gained sovereignty over regions by means of war from the earliest times. The winners of said conflict frequently end up with the new land. And more land ownership represents increased resources for a country’s population and more space for profitable development. For this reason, some people are of the view that, regardless of its tragedies, war has lots of benefits; it particularly allows a country to gain new lands or to protect its lands or interests from possible invaders.
International Humanitarian Law (IHL), jus in bello, also known as the laws of war or the law of armed conflict, is the legal framework applicable to situations of armed conflict. It regulates the conduct of forces when engaged in war or armed conflict. International Humanitarian Law serious violations are called war crimes. The International
Humanitarian Law recognises two kinds of wars:
• “International armed conflicts” between two or more states.
• “Non-international armed conflicts” between a government and a non-government group or one that is between two said groups.
World War II was the most destructive conflict in history. Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany’s Nazi Party, was one of the most powerful and notorious dictators of the 20th century. Hitler viewed the Jewish race as a menial race of people that were below the pure bread German Aryan. He tried to exterminate the Jewish race in what became known as the Holocaust. It is estimated that 1.5 million children died during the Holocaust. Approximately 1.2 million of them were Jewish. The word Holocaust derives from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned)”.
Also, the First Atomic Bomb ever made was created by the Americans during World War II and was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb shattered 90% of the city and killed 80,000 people in a matter of seconds. Three days later, another Atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki killing another 40,000.
1. Military logistics service providers also serve government customers. Are governments deliberately leading to war to earn valuable extra revenue?
2. The perpetuation of wars and global enemies is essential to sustaining military equipment corporations. Is this billionaire enterprise will ever go bankrupt?
3. An indirect advantage of war is that it contributes to patriotism. Do developed nations use patriotism as a veiled form of racial intolerance or xenophobia?
Match the vocab on the left with the correct definitions on the right.
Vocabulary Definitions
1. War a. a way of dealing with something.
2. Threat b. a weapon that is self-propelled or directed by remote control, carrying a conventional or nuclear explosive.
3. Conflict c. a person who gives advice, typically someone who is an expert in a particular field.
4. Advisor d. a prolonged armed struggle.
5. Battle e. a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.
6. GCHQ f. a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state.
7. Range g. a sustained fight between large organized armed forces.
8. Missile h. s an intelligence and security organisation in the UK, similar to the NSA (United States)
9. Approach i. the maximum distance to which a gun will shoot or over which a missile will travel
10. Weapon j. a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage.
Video: Could there be a World War Three?
Newsnight is a BBC 2 production which provides in-depth analysis into topical subjects. Here they are discussing the possibility of another global conflict and its implications.
1. Who is Patricia Lewis?
2. Does Patricia see the possibility of a big war between major powers in the world in the next 20 or 30 years?
3. How is conflict prevented?
4. Who is James Jeffrey?
5. Why haven’t we seen a return to the first half of the 20th century?
6. What are Russia, China, and Iran doing right now?
7. Are those people organising with a mind to weakening the West?
8. Who is Brian Lord?
9. Does Brian think a big war is a possibility?
10. What are we looking at right now?
11. Does North Korea represent a threat?
1. She is the Research Director for International Security at Chatham House.
2. Yes, she does. She sees it as a possibility if we do not learn the lessons of history.
3. We know almost everything we need to prevent conflict; it is a question of having the political will to do it.
4. He was U.S. Ambassador to Iraq from 2010 to 2012 and former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor.
5. The reason we have not seen a return to the first half of the awful 20th century is that during and after World War Two, the United States and European partners created a global collective security system with financial trade, rule of law, and other aspects.
6. They want to challenge that security system and, to some degree, are cooperating with regional actors such as North Korea.
7. There is no overall battle plan that Beijing and Moscow have agreed on; they have a commonality of interest in undercutting this American security system because it stands in the way of their alternative system.
8. He is former GCHQ Deputy Director for Intelligence and Cyber Operations.
9. He thinks a big war is highly unlikely.
10. We are seeing a challenge of traditional Western approach, but we are also living in a world where the rigidity of borders has been broken down by technology, trade, communication, and the uncontrolled availability of information.
11. Yes, it does. North Korea is a country that is enabled by China. Its long-range missiles are now mobile which is very threatening because they are on Chinese trucks; those trucks are not something they had thirty years ago, they are recent additions; the Chinese are enabling in many different ways the North Koreans basically to use them as a chess piece against the United States and the Western Pacific.
The advantages of large wars/conflicts
Freedom from an occupying power: War can remove a corrupt government and replace it with a better alternative.
Economic growth: War can strengthen an economy by providing jobs. Also, war allows manufacturing to thrive, especially weapons and ammo manufacturing.
Technology boost: Competition and conflict tend to lead to nations trying to develop better technology than their opponents.
History is made: History is written when conflict happens, and those who participate in wars play a role in shaping the course of history.
The disadvantages of large wars/conflicts
Death and Injury: As a prime example, about 55 million died in WWII alone. Moreover, many more millions of people were injured than killed and a vast majority were civilians.
Humanitarian Crisis: War generally results in waves of refugees and displaced persons; it can also end up in the kidnapping and training of child soldiers. Mental illnesses may be caused, sustained or worsened by traumatic experiences during war. War typically engenders general disease and famine.
Unjustified Destruction: War devastates the economy and infrastructure of a region. War is often used to justify hatred and discrimination against certain groups.
Environmental Damages: War also affects the environment of the area negatively as most of the weapons used during an armed conflict are extremely harmful for the environment.
Wars are very useful in the long term. They help cleanse the conflicted regions of poor and unwanted people.
Wars are worthless and add nothing positive. Ethnic cleansing has been the horror of the 20th century.
The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of cohabitation, but also conflict and religious wars. Religious wars destroy the very core of a country.
Religious wars are holly and should be respected as such. If religious wars are required, victims are then unavoidable and an irrelevant issue.
Every person has the right to the freedom of religion as well as the right to manifest, spread and observe the rights of his or her religion or faith −peacefully or unpeacefully.
All persons must embrace peace in all places of worship in order to free our world of religious wars so that people are no longer victims of acts of terrorism based on religion.
Even though the perception of war has changed during the last decades, the hindrances attached with any armed conflict still remain. A country may eventually recover from the economic and environmental damages of war, but it will take decades to recover from its social and psychological effects.
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Home Business intu unveils exciting vision for Essex community living
intu unveils exciting vision for Essex community living
intu, owner of some of the UK’s largest and most popular retail destinations, today unveiled its vision to create a new community on the doorstep of intu Lakeside.
Located at the south end of the centre, this new development will bring a mix of over 1,000 modern homes to rent, catering for individuals, couples and families alike, creating high quality, community living in the heart of Essex and just 30 minutes from Fenchurch Street.
Early designs for the development also include public and private open spaces, dedicated lifestyle facilities, lakeside views, and a range of attractive landscaping and design features integrated with the existing centre, ensuring residents can benefit from everything that intu Lakeside has to offer.
Martin Breeden, development director at intu, comments: “This new community will be the next phase of major development of our flagship locations and is something we announced in our annual results earlier this year. Our aim is to create something very special, that will sit alongside an established and thriving destination where we have already invested £72m in a fantastic new leisure development. Our long-term vision is to create a vibrant new community right on the doorstep of one of the UK’s best retail and leisure destinations.”
He added: “What we are sharing is an early view of an exciting opportunity for individuals, friends, couples and families to rent modern homes that suit their lives and lifestyles, including excellent connectivity to public transport. For us, it’s a vision to build a place for people to live, play, shop and work.”
Plans will be on display at an initial public consultation, which will take place at the central atrium on level one at intu Lakeside on Friday 12 July, between 12.00pm and 7.00pm, where members of the team will be on-hand to discuss early designs and listen to people’s initial feedback.
Development proposals and full public consultation will then follow in the coming months.
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Metropolises & Hierarchs/
Hierarchs/
His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey
His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos was born in New York City on September 20, 1961 to John and Magdalene Kourounis, the Most Reverend Evangelos (Kourounis) attended the Greek-American parochial schools of St. Eleftherios and St. Spyridon in New York City. Upon graduation from Immaculata H.S. in N.Y.C., he enrolled in Hellenic College, in Brookline, MA from which he graduated in 1983 and then continued his studies at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology graduating in 1986 with a Masters of Divinity Degree.
In 1987-88 he attended the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey of the University of Geneva, Switzerland from which he received a Certificate of Ecumenical Studies.
He was ordained to the Holy Diaconate February 1st, 1987 at the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Eleftherios in Manhattan and to the Holy Priesthood on July 30th, 1989 at St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church in New York City by His Grace, Bishop Philotheos of Meloa.
His Eminence Archbishop Iakovos of North and South America elevated him [ordination] to the rank of Archimandrite on March 30th, 1991 at Sts. Catherine and George Greek Orthodox Church in Astoria, New York. He served as Deacon to the Orthodox Center of Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambesy, Geneva in 1987-1988, as Deacon to Archbishop Iakovos and Assistant Director of Archives of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in 1988-1989. From August 1989 until September 1993 he served as assistant to the Dean of St. Demetrios Cathedral in Astoria, New York.
Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, Metropolitan Evangelos served as Chancellor of the Diocese of New Jersey from 1993-1999. He also served as Director of the Department of Registry of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese from 1996 to 2001, and as President of the Spiritual Court for the Archdiocesan District from 1996 until April 2003.
From October 2001 until his election to the Episcopacy, he served as Dean of the Hellenic Orthodox Community of Astoria "St. Demetrios Cathedral".
On April 12th, 2003, upon the recommendation of and nomination by the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople under the Presidency of His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, unanimously elected Metropolitan Evangelos as Metropolitan and Spiritual Leader of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey.
The "Mega Minima" (Official announcement and declaration of the Election) of His Eminence, Metropolitan Evangelos was read on May 9th, 2003 at the Archdiocesan Chapel of St. Paul the Apostle.
On Saturday, May 10th, 2003 His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios together with His Eminence, Archbishop Iakovos, His Eminence, Metropolitan Methodios of Boston, His Eminence, Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta and several other Hierarchs, ordained the Very Reverend Archimandrite Evangelos Kourounis to the Episcopacy at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.
The Enthronement of His Eminence, Metropolitan Evangelos as the Spiritual Leader of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey took place on Sunday, May 11th, 2003 at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Theologian in Tenafly, New Jersey.
H. E. Metropolitan Evangelos succeeds Metropolitan Silas and Bishop George of New Jersey. With the new Charter granted to the Archdiocese by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2003, the Diocese of New Jersey, which was established in 1977, was elevated to a Metropolis. Therefore, Metropolitan Evangelos is the first Hierarch enthroned as Metropolitan of New Jersey.
Upon his election Archbishop Demetrios stated: "I am sure that by the Grace and strength from God, the new Metropolitan of New Jersey will prove to be a true imitator of our Good Shepherd Jesus Christ and will lead the devoted flock of his God-saved Metropolis to 'springs of living water" (Rev. 7:17)
The Metropolis is comprised of fifty-five parishes in New Jersey, the Greater Philadelphia area, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
Metropolis of New Jersey Website: http://www.nj.goarch.org/
Name day: March 25
Members of the Holy Eparchial Synod Members of the Holy Eparchial Synod
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America
Consecration date: March 01, 2011
His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios of Boston
Metropolis of Boston
Consecration date: April 08, 1984
Name day: June 14
His Eminence Metropolitan Isaiah of Denver
Metropolis of Denver
Consecration date: May 25, 1986
Name day: May 9
His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta
His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas of Detroit
Metropolis of Detroit
Name day: December 6
His Eminence Metropolitan Savas of Pittsburgh
Metropolis of Pittsburgh
Consecration date: February 02, 2002
His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco
Metropolis of San Francisco
Name day: October 20
Metropolis of New Jersey
His Eminence Metropolitan Nathanael of Chicago
Metropolis of Chicago
Retired Metropolitans and Bishops of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Retired Metropolitans and Bishops of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios
Consecration date: September 17, 1967
His Eminence Metropolitan Maximos
Consecration date: June 18, 1978
Name day: January 21
His Eminence Metropolitan Spyridon
Name day: December 12
His Grace Bishop Dimitrios of Xanthos
Auxiliary Bishops of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Auxiliary Bishops of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
His Grace Bishop Andonios of Phasiane
His Grace Bishop Demetrios of Mokissos
Consecration date: December 09, 2006
His Grace Bishop Sevastianos of Zela
His Grace Bishop Apostolos of Medeia
Hierarchs
Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
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Westshore Rebels linebacker Jordan Andrews
New-look Rebels ready to get after it Sunday in Langford
Westshore junior football club looks for fast start to BCFC season
Don Descoteau
After enduring three consecutive 2-8 seasons and watching the B.C. Football Conference playoffs unfold from the sidelines, the Westshore Rebels are primed to make a return to respectability.
With a talented recruiting class that the coaching staff believe rivals any in Canadian junior football, and more depth at virtually every position than they’ve enjoyed in years, the Rebels can’t wait to open their 2016 season this Sunday (July 24, 4 p.m.) against Langley at Westhills Stadium.
Jake Hall, a towering 6’11, 315-pound offensive lineman in his fourth year with the club, admitted suffering through losing seasons has been a tough pill to swallow. But he sees momentum being built from within.
“We’re excited, we’re ready to go and I think it’s going to be a lot different than last year,” he said before practice last week.
“Last year we started to show improvements that I didn’t see the first two years. We lost a couple games at home by (two points or less), but we started building as a team which is an important thing. We started believing in each other, believing in the program and believing in our coaches.”
The hard work began last year
Recruiting for this year started pretty much as soon as the 2015 campaign ended. Showing their determination to get better, dozens of players have been putting in long hours in the gym and doing on-field workouts for months now.
The addition of a top-notch training facility off West Shore Parkway, and the signing of legendary strength trainer and football mind Shane Beattie as associate head coach – he guided the Okanagan Sun to the BCFC title last fall – has taken the Rebels to another level, says head coach J.C. Boice.
“We’ve been getting 50 to 60 kids consistently five to six days a week. We’ve got more kids working out now than were on the roster last year,” he said. “It’s a great testament to how awesome these kids are.”
In his second full season at the helm, Boice has slowly, but surely crafted a football operation to rival the BCFC’s big guns like the Sun and Vancouver Island Raiders.
“We’ve brought in some very, very talented players and very high quality young men. We’re ready,” he said. “I think everybody believes we’re on the verge of something great. Now, we don’t know how that’s going to shake down or how far we’re going to go, but everybody genuinely believes we’re heading for some really good things.”
With Boice overseeing the offence and the ultra high-energy Beattie co-ordinating defence, the coaching staff have been working on execution and building toughness in their players, Boice said.
“These guys are going to continue to work and grind … we’re going to come into that opening game against Langley battle hardened. We’re going to push them.”
Expectations are high in camp
The reality of turning a 2-8 team into a national contender might seem like a pipe dream, but this group is willing to suspend their disbelief long enough and work hard enough to reach for the stars.
Like Hall, fourth-year safety Brody Uddenberg has seen the club turned upside down.
“The difference from my first year here to what I’ve seen when J.C. got here, the whole program took a facelift, everything changed, the intensity went up the level of everything went up,” he said. “And then Beattie got here and everything doubled again. Everybody’s gotten so much better over this off season because of what those two have been able to do together. Everybody’s stronger, faster and hits a little harder now, you know, so fans are going to get quite a show this year.”
Second-year offensive lineman Aarmin Purewal, one of a number of Rebels already recruited by college or university football teams, likes what the dozens of newcomers are bringing to the team.
“We’ve got an excellent recruiting class, with a lot of university players, a lot of skilled kids coming out of high school and they’ve been pushing everybody,” he said. “That’s what we need, that’s how you build a national championship team, by internally having guys on the team competing.”
Not only are the players playing for each other and themselves, he said, they’re going to be playing for their city.
Lerenzo Ihanza, a highly touted, 6-2, 200-pound wide receiver and kick return specialist who played for the University of Manitoba Bisons last fall, likes what he sees around the community, but is clearly here to do a job.
“From what I’ve seen, this team is a bunch of ballers,” he said. “We’ve got a great coaching staff, great support, the facilities are awesome for a junior program. This is a team that’s built to win, anything less than a national championship would be a failure.”
For more about the Rebels team and the full 2016 schedule, visit westshorerebels.ca.
editor@goldstreamgazette.com
BC SUMMER GAMES: Not all diamonds sparkle
Intermediate ’Rocks ready to defend title
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Home » Events & News » Golf Pride Announces Opening of New State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Facility
SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. … Golf Pride, a division of diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton, announced today that it recently moved its 28-year-old Golf Pride Manufacturing Operations in Taiwan to a new state-of-the-art facility in Guan Miao, Taiwan. The move was successfully completed without interruptions to customer delivery times. To celebrate the move and showcase the capabilities of the new facility, Golf Pride held a plant opening ceremony, hosting customers and suppliers from around the world.
The new facility is the result of a four-year expansion project. The newly-expanded facility is considered to be the largest and most advanced grip manufacturing plant in the world. Along with manufacturing operations, the location is also home to research and development, sales and marketing and customer service teams.
“With this new facility, we saw an opportunity to bring suppliers and customers together in a positive way, allowing us to demonstrate why Golf Pride is the clear leader in golf grips,” said Jamie Ledford, Golf Pride’s general manager. “We used this occasion to talk about the power of Eaton that’s behind Golf Pride and the work we are doing to make sure we sustain our leadership position. The reception was quite positive.”
Eaton’s Golf Grip Division is the world’s largest manufacturer of golf grips, with manufacturing, sales and distribution facilities on five continents. The division’s Golf Pride brand is recognized globally as the number one choice in grips among tour and recreational players, competitive amateur golfers, club manufacturers and club repairmen. For more information, visit www.golfpride.com or visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/GolfPride.
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Goodwill® and Sony Pictures Announce Winner of DIY Spider-Man Suit Contest and Champion Social/Environmental Cause
Crafty DIY-er created her suit from donated goods and won a trip to the Spider-Man: Homecoming premiere
ROCKVILLE (July 7, 2017) — Super hero fans around the country had a chance to put their own Spidey senses to the test by creating original DIY suits inspired by Sony
Pictures’ new movie, “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” in theaters today, Friday, July 7 in the U.S. After narrowing the entries down to 10 semi-finalists and then five finalists, one especially crafty entrant won a trip to the world premiere screening of “Spider-Man: Homecoming” on Wednesday, June 28, 2017.
Tiffany Mink (@tiffmink) turned a red dress found at her local Goodwill store into a full-fledged, head-to-toe super hero outfit. Her video showing how she created the suit, along with the submissions from the other finalists, can be viewed at spidermandiy.com. Entrants were encouraged to put their super hero love to work alongside their senses of style, and to act as community heroes by sourcing materials for their suits from Goodwill, where the sale of donated goods creates job preparation, skills training, education assistance and support services for people who face challenges to finding employment. Tiff’s purchases equates to 40 minutes of job search training for a Goodwill participant.
“Tiffany’s crafty sense of style and creative approach set her apart from the crowd,” said Jim Gibbons, president and CEO at Goodwill Industries International. “She captivated our attention by combining the can-do attitude that makes Spider-Man a longtime fan favorite with the DIY aesthetic Goodwill shoppers have cultivated for more than a century.”
Goodwill, Sony Pictures and Marvel share a commitment to social responsibility and the environment, and will continue to remind the public that they can be heroes in their communities through an ongoing campaign featuring Spider-Man. By collecting and selling donated goods, Goodwill diverts more than 3 billion pounds of clothing and textiles from landfills each year and repurposes clothing donations to change people’s lives. Spider-Man fans can do their part in this social and environmental effort by shopping at Goodwill. By aligning Spider-Man with Goodwill, Sony Pictures and Marvel are demonstrating their commitment to these critical social issues.
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Ruger 10/22 Review: A Perfect Rifle For Beginners & Experts, Young and Old
The Ruger 10/22 is one of the most prolific rifles in the United States (outside of the M1 Garand), entering the market in 1964. The Ruger 10/22 is a semi-automatic, rimfire rifle they chambered in the 22 long rifle cartridge. Since it’s inception, the Ruger 10/22 has become the go-to rifle for beginners and experienced shooters.
The Ruger 10/22 has 14 different variations that span a wide variety of accessories and configurations. This includes models they chambered in 17 HMR, 22 WMR, and most commonly the 22LR. The 22LR variant is the only model still in production as of 2016.
Ruger built the Ruger 10/22 in many versions, including the traditional rifle variant and a pistol variant. Also, there is an integrally suppressed version and a takedown model. There are variants of the 10/22 platform to anything you may need from a rimfire rifle.
Why it’s Perfect for Beginners
The Wild Price Ranges
Reliability Standards
Rifle Accuracy
Aftermarket Accesories
Parting Shots
The Ruger 10/22 is a semi-automatic rifle, meaning you fire one shot per pull of the trigger. The weapon feeds from a unique rotary-style box magazine. And the magazine ranges from 10 to 25 rounds. This rotary magazine allows for a high capacity with a reliable feed system. However, the rimmed design of the Ruger 10/22 doesn’t lend itself well for magazines.
In fact, for some time, single stack magazines were the only magazines that reliably ran in rifles and handguns. But, the Ruger 10/22 rotary magazine proved to be reliable, easy to load and can remain loaded indefinitely. The layout of the Ruger 10/22 is traditional. Also, a variety of different barrel lengths are available.
Overall, the weapon tends to be extremely lightweight and have a short length of pull. The charging handle is on the right side of the weapon. And the rifle uses a unique magazine release. Also, the ergonomics of the rifle are easy to understand and use. They lend themselves well to shooters of all sizes, including young shooters. The Ruger 10/22 includes simple open sights. Lastly, they also designed the 10/22 to make it easy to attach an optic, too.
The Ruger 10/22 is one of the best beginner’s rifles out there. Because they mass-produce it, the Ruger 10/22 rifle is widely available, too. Also, it’s an affordable rifle with new models running at approximately $200. And the Ruger 10/22 design is perfect for beginners. The mass popularity makes it easy and affordable to find accessories like magazines, scopes and slings.
The Ruger 10/22 features a rimfire 22 cartridge. The 22 LR round is affordable with the ability to purchase a brick of 500 rounds for less than $30 on average. This allows a beginner to purchase a substantial amount of ammunition without breaking the bank.
Also, the 22 LR ammunition is notoriously anemic when it comes to recoil. They designed the 22 LR largely for target shooting and hunting game like squirrels and rabbits. The recoil of the round is low, so the smallest of shooters can utilize it without flinching or fearing recoil. The Ruger 10/22 is easy to control because it has absolutely zero muzzle rise.
And when you fire 25 round mag dumps as fast as possible, you can still stay on target. So, even beginners will shoot better from the start. The Ruger’s semi-automatic action makes it possible to just dump lead into a target safely. Just dumping lead isn’t good for anything other than making noise, but it is undeniably fun.
When beginners catch onto the fun aspect of firearms, they’ll want to shoot more. And more practice helps them develop their skill-based shooting skills. The Ruger 10/22 is lightweight, which makes it easier for shooters of smaller stature to control the rifle accurately and confidently. The 10/22 rifle is the perfect size for shooters both big and small. Ruger makes some great beginner handguns too, like the Ruger SR 22.
The Ruger 10/22 is one of the most affordable rimfire rifles, as well as one of the most expensive rimfire rifles at the same time. Because of the difference in variations, the price is quite variable. For example, an integrally suppressed model with a match grade barrel, that is also a takedown rifle can cost upwards of a $1,000. But a base model can cost around $250.
Also, the takedown variant, which breaks into two pieces for easy carry, is also around $250. Custom built sports models for precision shooting can the most expensive Ruger 10/22s of all. However, the base model Ruger 10/22 can do about 98 percent of what any shooter will ever need a 22 to do. And the base model, carbine and some takedown models are quite affordable and easy to find.
When they originally designed rimfire rounds, it was a time when the revolver and manual action rifle ruled the day. So, they didn’t build them as rapid firing, semi-automatic weapons. This often leads to unreliable semi-automatic 22s without certain ammunition. This issue was especially true in 1964 when they presented the Ruger 10/22.
However, since then 22 LR rifles have noticeably become much, much better. The reason they’ve had to become to better is that the Ruger 10/22 found a method to make it work. Ruger implemented one of the first reliable semi-automatic rimfire rifles, so everyone else had to struggle to compete. In the time of mass production when the big gun companies were slipping in quality, the Ruger has remained the go-to rifle.
The 10/22 can handle any standard ammunition and is outstanding in accuracy, ejection, extraction and feeding from magazines. The Ruger rifle can also handle more power than average rounds like the CCI mini mags and Federal automatch rounds. The Ruger can even digest subsonic ammunition and cycle without issue.
The only ammo that doesn’t function reliably with the Ruger is the oddball 22 LR rounds that don’t hold powder. However, these types of rounds are boutique and not useful. One of the keys to the 10/22’s reliability is the rotary magazine system. The rotary magazine is bulky but functions well. It’s one of the few systems that can hold more than 10 rounds and reliably function.
The Ruger 10/22’s accuracy varies widely between the different models of the 10/22. The Bull barrel that’s match grade is more accurate than the standard barrel. However, this is only critical for people who measure shot groups in a hundredth of an inch. The standard barrel profile is accurate enough for most new shooters. This is especially true for new shooters.
The rifle features a crisp trigger that’s comfortable, yet light and short. This trigger of the 10/22 lends itself well to accuracy. The shorter a trigger pull is, the less of a chance you have of throwing a shot. The light nature of the trigger makes it comfortable to shoot repeatedly for long periods of time while maintaining accuracy.
The simple sights are effective for shooting small targets at under 50 yards. It’s easy enough to pick off soda cans at 50 yards in the prone position. Out to 25 yards it in a standing position it is easy to keep a tin can dancing as you rapidly fire at it.
Tossing an optic on your rifle will leave you with an accurate rifle out to a hundred yards. The Ruger 10/22 is well suited for informal competitions, but you can tune it to be a competitive precision rifle.
The Ruger 10/22 has a massive accessory market. With all the available accessories, you can fundamentally change your rifle. In fact, you can customize the Ruger 10/22 so extensively, all you may have left is the original receiver. You can swap stocks, barrels, scopes and much more.
Some Ruger 10/22 owners have transformed their rifles into the exact models they wanted. You can even take the stock standard configuration Ruger rifle and turn it into a bullpup configuration just by swapping stocks.
Many people consider the Ruger 10/22 as the American rimfire rifle. It is an icon that families pass from one generation to the next. New shooters looking for their first rifle will be well served by the Ruger 10/22.
Even after a beginner shooter becomes experienced, the Ruger 10/22 will serve them well as a rimfire rifle. Lastly, be sure to follow the basic gun safety rules closely, so you’ll enjoy your rifle with care.
By Chris Frenchak
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iciHaiti - Politic : The Senate votes a bill on the Konpa !
iciHaiti - Digicel : Launch of the summer promotion «Kado Sou Kado»
iciHaiti - Basket 3X3 : Copa Hispaniola 2019, Haiti finished 4th
iciHaiti - Health : Start of the national vaccination campaign
iciHaiti - NOTICE : BRH intervention on the foreign exchange market
Haiti - News : Zapping...
Haiti - Cholera : A study recommends to the UN to adopt measures of assistance for the victims
Haiti - Culture : D-4, 7th Edition of the Eco-Mountain Tourism Festival in Vallue
Haiti - NOTICE : Scholarships for young people with disabilities, call for applications
Haiti - Football : Wilde Donald Guerrier no longer at FK Qarabag
Haiti - FLASH : Thousands of Haitians seek refuge in Mexico
Metelus Wilmer, the President of the Committee for the Defense of Naturalized and Afro-Mexicans, informed us that given the low possibility of obtaining asylum in the United States, 10,000 Haitians seek to legalize their stay in Mexico and request the Mexican Government to establish themselves in the country as refugees...
Recall that since September 22 last (memorandum of September 20 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18700-haiti-flash-usa-resumption-of-regular-deportations-to-haiti.html ), the administration of President Barack Obama has suspended the program of humanitarian visas for the Haitians and announced the resumption of the deportations of the Haitian citizens in an illegal situation present on the American territory https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-19178-haiti-flash-deportation-flights-of-haitians-from-usa-resumed.html
Metelus recalls that the arrival of the Haitians in Mexico began last April, entering by the South (Tapachula and Chiapas) before heading towards the northern border (USA). At present there would be near 4,800 Haitians in detention centers in the United States aiting for the majority of deportations to Haiti. On the Mexican side, near 6,500 additional Haitians are blocked at the border (Tijuana and Mexicali, Baja California) with no prospect of being admitted to the USA. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18659-haiti-flash-haitians-are-fleeing-in-large-numbers-brazil-for-usa.html
Every day between 200 and 300 new Haitian migrants arrive in Mexico and this flow will continue, because there is still at least 8,000 Haitians blocked in Panama, Nicaragua and Costa Rica who "dream" of being able to travel to the United States...
Metelus Wilmer requested the support of Mexican Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio to make a final attempt to manage the Haitian migrants with his American counterpart and to set up as soon as possible in Tijuana an office of the Mexican Commission for Refugees (COMAR).
In addition, he called for urgent action by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the International Organization for Migration, because the situation of Haitians in Mexico and the United Humanitarian crisis.
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-19178-haiti-flash-deportation-flights-of-haitians-from-usa-resumed.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18943-haiti-usa-deportations-of-haitians-congresswoman-wilson-continues-the-struggle.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18928-haiti-usa-deportations-of-haitians-the-secretary-jeh-johnson-specifies.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18905-haiti-flash-usa-temporary-suspension-of-deportations-of-haitians.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18873-haiti-usa-57-congress-members-against-the-deportations-of-haitian.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18752-haiti-usa-resumption-of-deportations-statement-of-the-congresswoman-clarke.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18722-haiti-usa-deportations-of-haitians-edmonde-s-beauzile-wrote-to-obama.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18712-haiti-flash-panama-welcomes-us-decision-to-deport-haitians.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18700-haiti-flash-usa-resumption-of-regular-deportations-to-haiti.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18659-haiti-flash-haitians-are-fleeing-in-large-numbers-brazil-for-usa.html
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Ghanaian soldiers reach out to South Sudanese Secondary School
Date: Jun 18 , 2019 , 08:51
BY: GNA
Category: General News
Students of the Aweil National Secondary School, in South Sudan are receiving free tuition from a Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC) team of the Ghana Independent Infantry Company 1 (GHANCOY 1).
The military team which formed part of a complete Ghana Armed Forces Unit deployed in Aweil for peacekeeping, is collaborating with the Relief, Rehabilitation and Protection (RRP) Department of United Nations Mission In South Sudan (UNMISS) Aweil Field Office in an outreach teaching programme at the only government secondary school in the area.
Aweil, which is the capital of the Aweil State in South Sudan, has a population of about 6000 with its people mainly involved in farming.
According to the Press and Information Officer (PIO) of GHANCOY 1, Captain Maxwell M. Asola-Fadola, the teaching programme was targeted at the form three and four students especially in English Language, Mathematics and Christian Religious Education
This is in line with CIMIC’s mission to impact the lives of South Sudanese as a way of winning their hearts and minds, Captain Asola-Fadola said.
He added that the team was tasked to undertake certain activities within its area of operations such as cleanup exercises, medical outreach to achieve the outmost goal of peacekeeping.
According to him, Lt Col Felix Kweku Mautsueni, Commander of GHANCOY 1, having realised the potentials of some of the Officers of his Company, factored teaching into his CIMIC agenda to help prepare the final year students especially, for their final examination to be held in December 2019.
Mr Philip Upathio, Headmaster of the School, stated that since its opening in 2010, the school had faced a lot of challenges especially food related, leading to donors such as the World Food Programme (WFP) coming to their aid.
The headmaster, he added, was intrigued about having soldiers from Ghana volunteering to offer free teaching to the students.
He also appealed for the presentation of text books, writing and learning materials, stationeries among others to aid teaching and learning.
The team led by Capt. Asola-Fadola with Capt. B Danquah, Lt. Abdul-Rahim Yamusah and Lt. H. D. Saani informed the headmaster of the released of funds for the provision reading books and other needed materials for the school as part of the teaching outreach programme.
South Sudan, Africa’s youngest nation, gained independence from Sudan after a long bitter war but has since descended into a civil war.
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University People
Press Changes
William P. Sisler
William P. Sisler, director of Harvard University Press since 1990, will retire at the end of the academic year. His tenure saw the publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty, an analysis of the dynamics driving the distribution of wealth in Europe and the United States, which has sold more copies than any book in the press’s history, as well as an expansion overseas and initiatives that included the digital Loeb Classical Library and the Murty Classical Library of India. For more about Sisler, see “The ‘Wild West’ of Academic Publishing” (January-February 2015, page 56).
Curator’s Homecoming
Makeda Best
Photograph by Unique Nicole
Makeda Best, Ph.D. ’10, most recently assistant professor in visual studies at the California College of the Arts, has been appointed Menschel curator of photography at the Harvard Art Museums. The appointment is both a homecoming and the source of a potentially fruitful collections-classroom collaboration: her doctoral adviser was Robin Kelsey, Burden professor of photography and dean of arts and humanities.
Schwarzman Scholars
Sophia Lugo
Courtesy of Sophia Lugo
Ten Harvard alumni and students have been awarded Schwarzman Scholarships for a year of master’s study at Tsinghua University, in Beijing—a recently created fellowship meant, in time, to carry the heft and prestige of the venerable Rhodes and Marshall scholarships.
Anatol Klass
Courtesy of Anatol Klass
The future leaders include: Kayla Chen ’16; Janet Eom ’14; Anatol Klass ’17; Quynh-Nhu Le ’17; Tonatiuh Liévano, S.B. ’14; Sophia Lugo ’17; Rhea Malik ’17; Jonathan Padilla ’12; Bo Seo ’17; and Bob Wu ’15.
Academic Alumni
G. Gabrielle Starr
Photograph by Jeff Hing/Pomona College
G. Gabrielle Starr, Ph.D. ’99, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at New York University, has been named president of Pomona College—the first woman and African American to hold that office. She succeeds long-time P0mona leader David W. Oxtoby ’72, who also presided over Harvard’s Board of Overseers during the 2013-2014 academic year.…Elizabeth Bradley ’84, a professor of public health and of global strategy at Yale, where she is also head of the Branford undergraduate residence, has been appointed president of Vassar.
Cumrun Vafa
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC
Andrew Strominger
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC
The 2017 Breakthrough Prizes, each worth $3 million, were conferred on Mendel professor of genetics and of medicine Stephen J. Elledge (for work on cell damage and cancer); and jointly on Andrew Strominger, York professor of physics, and Cumrun Vafa, Donner professor of science, with Joseph Polchinski of the University of California, Santa Barbara (for work on quantum field theory and string theory). Professor of physics Xi Yin received a $100,000 New Horizons prize for early-career work in physics.
Moving On from Mather
Mather House faculty deans Christie McDonald, Smith professor of French language and literature and of comparative literature, and Michael D. Rosengarten will step down at the end of June, concluding seven years of service. Their decision coincides with McDonald’s retirement from the faculty.
Title IX Exit
Mia Karvonides, Harvard’s Title IX officer and director of the office for dispute resolution—and thus the central figure in setting sexual-assault policy and hearing cases on campus—has departed to become enforcement director in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. She came to Harvard in March 2013.
Harvard Testing Tool for Curricular Exploration
Harvard Faculty Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
Harvard Sanctions Economist Roland Fryer
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August 19, 2016 Read Original Story
When worms are the clickbait: NPR story confuses more than informs
allergies, worms
Could worms in your gut cure your allergies?
Hookworms on intestines. Credit: CDC
This story ran as part of a series entitled “Worm Week.” The headline poses the question: “Could Worms in Your Gut Cure Your Allergies?” Or for that matter, could they cure other autoimmune diseases such as asthma, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease?
We have problems with headlines like this one and offer tips on how they can be improved.
The story states that “the worms do something amazing: They suppress the immune system.” And it explains that based on this, there’s a hypothesis that the worms also might work for specific autoimmune diseases.
But then we learn, actually no, they don’t seem to work based on disappointing clinical evidence. So, what about that hypothesis, then? The story doesn’t return to that, instead it just implies that there was something wrong with the research, not the hypothesis. And it never tells us some important facts about using worms in this way, such as that they’re illegal to use therapeutically in the U.S., and that if they are used, they carry very serious risks.
This left us wondering: What was the point of the story? As it’s written, the confusing hypothesis vs evidence set-up is more bewildering than informative, and readers are left in the dark on some important realities of using a risky, unproven treatment.
Growing rates of allergies and autoimmune diseases — disorders in which the immune system attacks its own body — have popularized the notion that our historic exposure to dirt and unsanitary conditions in childhood primed the immune system to protect against inflammatory diseases. Parasitic infections have emerged as a possible explanation for the low rate of these diseases in less developed countries. It’s hypothesized that worms might treat such chronic and incurable conditions as Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis, and asthma by inhibiting the body’s immune response, though there’s no solid evidence that parasites are safe and effective.
While the details of this story may creep out many people, a lack of effective treatments for autoimmune conditions and severe allergies may lead some patients to try anything, including ingesting worm eggs obtained in an unregulated market, to gain relief. The downsides of this must be thoroughly reported in news coverage, and the headlines must not veer into clickbait.
Costs aren’t mentioned. Parasites can costs thousands of dollars for a year’s supply, and worms must be replenished because they tend to die off. Since this is a non-approved and non-proven therapy, all costs would likely be out of pocket.
There don’t appear to be quantifiable benefits associated with this treatment because it hasn’t been well studied in humans, and we are told this much: “The controlled trials, thus far, in a variety of different diseases including childhood allergies and asthma have not been positive.” Also, the patient interviewed experienced a negative result. With no proof of benefit and plenty of risks to ingesting parasitic worms, we’re left to wonder why this story emerged and was run on NPR with a headline that hinted there was potential for this treatment.
The story says one person found that having worms in his body “wasn’t pleasant,” and he experienced diarrhea and cramps. But potential risks are not adequately addressed. According to a story in The New York Times Magazine, for example, severe whipworm infection can result in anemia, clubbed fingers and stunted growth in children.
The story could have done a better job of spelling out that better quality research is needed on the safety and efficacy of using parasites to fight autoimmune disease. It mentions trials using worms for Crohn’s disease, childhood allergies and asthma that “haven’t gone so well” and says it’s “unclear why the worms haven’t worked in these trials.”
Yet, before this, the story states intestinal worms “do something amazing” by suppressing the immune system and keeping it from “getting out of control and attacking the body,” assertions that are attributed to a researcher. Only later does the story mention that this is part of a hypothesis, a point that needed far more emphasis, especially since the trial evidence so far doesn’t indicate anything amazing.
For the most part, the story heavily leans on the personal experience of writer Moises Velasquez-Manoff, who wrote a recent article published in The New York Times Magazine about an underground network of patients who are self-treating with parasites. In the NPR story, Velasquez-Manoff describes temporary relief from his own hay fever and alopecia, which causes hair loss, after he ingested hookworm larvae obtained in Mexico. He tried the worms after talking to many people who gave parasites “rave reviews.” Indeed, some people say parasites relieve their symptoms. But that’s not clinical evidence.
The conditions listed are all real disorders, so the story doesn’t disease monger. However, we did want to point out that some of the conditions listed have effective treatments, yet it was implied that they are untreatable.
The story uses several sources with various points of view, and we couldn’t find any outright conflicts of interest.
The story does not mention how parasites compare to existing treatments for autoimmune diseases in terms of safety, efficacy or cost.
The story mentions that one person obtained worms in Mexico. Otherwise, there’s no information about their availability. In fact, selling worms for therapeutic use is illegal in the U.S.–this should have been mentioned.
The story establishes novelty by letting us know that studies go back a few years, so it’s not a new concept.
There’s no evidence that the story relied on a news release.
Scientist's quest to fight cancer: Captivating story from NPR overlooked limitations
NPR suggests experimental concussion ‘spit test’ can improve care, but that's not what researchers looked at
Benefits of walking for older adults: NPR story missed a cautionary detail
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Esq Labor Reps INT'L Real Estate
AMC to Open Saudi Arabia's First Movie Theater in Two Weeks
9:30 AM PDT 4/4/2018 by Alex Ritman
Noam Galai/Getty Images
The country recently announced it was lifting a 35-year ban on cinemas.
AMC Theatres looks set to win the race to open the first cinema in Saudi Arabia.
In an announcement made Wednesday, the company revealed that it had won the country's first license to operate cinemas alongside its local partner, the Development and Investment Entertainment Company, and would be opening Saudi Arabia's first movie theater in Riyadh's King Abdullah Financial District on April 18.
In a conference call following the announcement, AMC CEO Adam Aron revealed some details about the cinema, saying that it was a standalone symphony concert hall that was in the process of being converted. "This will be the prettiest movie theater in the world," he said, adding that it had a "dramatic" exterior, and a beautiful interior, including marble bathrooms.
The news puts AMC ahead of a pack comprising several international cinema operators who have recently announced plans to invest in the Middle East kingdom, and comes less than four months after the country revealed it would be lifting a 35-year ban on public cinemas as part of a major reform drive being spearheaded by its de facto ruler and Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman.
European operator Vue and luxury chain iPic have also unveiled their intentions to open in Saudi Arabia, while regional chains Cinescape and Vox are planning their moves. AMC, however, was first off the block when the ban-lifting was first announced by the minister of culture and information on Dec 11, announcing the very same day that it had signed an agreement to explore building cinemas in a country with an untapped market valued at around $1 billion.
The timing suggests that not only had AMC been working on its Saudi expansion long before Dec. 11, but also may have been developing its site in Riyadh. At the time, sources revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that several cinemas had actually been built within new shopping mall developments and were simply waiting for "someone to turn the lights on."
As part of Wednesday's announcement, AMC also said it expected to open up to 40 cinemas in 15 Saudi Arabian cities within five years and up to 100 in 25 cities by 2030, part of a goal to achieve "approximately a 50 percent market share of the Saudi Arabian movie theater industry."
Regarding issues of segregation, which have long played a major part of Saudi society, Aron said that the rules of operation were currently in formation, but he expected the theaters to be "not segregated," possibly with the exception of particular showtimes that may be "reserved for one sex or the other."
As for the films likely to be shown, Aron pointed to the huge appetite for major Hollywood titles elsewhere across the region and said he expected all major release that are "appropriate for the Middle East," to be shown. But he also hoped that the nascent Saudi movie industry might be able to provide local language films.
AMC's news comes just as Mohammad bin Salman — commonly known as MBS — is on a whirlwind three-week tour of the U.S. to firm up business ties and promote his liberalization drive. On Monday he dropped into Hollywood, where he met with Endeavor (Saudi's Public Investment Fund is acquiring a 5 to 10 percent stake in WME's holding company for $400 million) and was the special guest at a party thrown by Rupert Murdoch, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bob Iger, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Morgan Freeman and James Cameron.
"Where else are you going to find a move market that literally doesn’t exist today that could be $1 billion in size in five years or so?" concluded Aron. "If you can open 100 cinemas in country where there’s literally no capacity today, I think there will be staggering levels of pent-up demand. Were going to sell a lot of ticket."
Motion Picture Association of America chairman-CEO Charles Rivkin and National Association of Theater Owners president John Fithian agreed with Aron's assessment during a press call later on Wednesday discussing the MPAA's annual report.
He said the AMC announcement is just the beginning, and that there are four or five other NATO members who are prepared to build cinemas in Saudi Arabia. “We think there is a huge market. Some have estimated that it will hit $1 billion in a few years.”
Fithian said women and men may have to sit apart, but he's not aware of any final decision. He said that as the culture “evolves,” so will the seating.
“Certainly, not all the movies that play in the U.S. will play in Saudi Arabia. A lot will. Some will be censored,” Fithian said. “We are trying to be respectful of a very different culture.”
April 4, 12:30 p.m. Updated with Fithian's comments.
Alex Ritman
alex.ritman@thr.com @alexritman
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New Ideas for Planning Transitions to the Adult World
The transition from school to work and adult life requires sound preparation in the secondary school, adequate support at the point of school leaving, and secure
opportunities and
services, if needed, in adult situations.
Madeline Will, 1984, U.S. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
School-to-Life
Conducting a staff development workshop or teaching a university course on transition?
The Council for Exceptional Children distributes the following staff development materials created by Paula Kohler, Jim Martin, and colleagues:
Transition from School to Life: A Workshop Series for Educators and Transition Service
Transition from School to Life: A Complete Course for Special Educators
How Research Is Informing Practice
The special education field has come a long way since 1984. Today, transition is seen as more than providing service routes in the individual's movement from high school to employment is seen as a comprehensive approach to educational program development consisting of an alignment of student goals with educational experiences and services. Since the early 1980s, federal law has underscored the need for comprehensive transition planning and broadened its focus. The 1997 Reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) defines transition services as a coordinated set of activities for a student with a disability that:
Is designed within an outcome-oriented process, which promotes movement from school to post-school activities, including post-secondary education, vocational training, integrated employment (including supported employment), continuing and adult education, adult services, independent living, or community participation.
Is based upon the individual student's needs, taking into account the student's preferences and interests.
Includes instruction, related services, community experiences, the development of employment and other post-school adult living objectives, and when appropriate, acquisition of daily living skills and functional vocational evaluation.
IDEA also states that transition planning must be part of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) and begin at age 14. By age16, the IEP should contain a statement of needed transition services for the child, including, when appropriate, a statement of inter-agency responsibilities or any needed linkages. Further, students must be invited to attend their IEP meetings if the purpose of the meeting will be to consider the student's transition service needs.
These new requirements reflect a body of research of it supported by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) describes what constitutes quality transition programs for students with disabilities. OSEP's investment for over two decades has been key in providing practitioners with a sound basis for planning transition programs. But as practitioners implement models and embrace new requirements, they are finding new issues that must be addressed.
A Framework for Implementing Transition Programs
"The most frequently asked questions about transition planning focus on the what, who, and how of delivering transition-related instruction and services," explains Paula Kohler, researcher at Western Michigan University and the Transition Research Institute at the University of Illinois. To answer these questions, Kohler and her colleagues developed a taxonomy of transition practices for students with disabilities. After reviewing the literature, model projects, and exemplary programs, they organized the findings into five categories that are relevant for organizing schools and instruction to facilitate transition. The categories are
Student-focused planning. The IEP is the planning vehicle for implementing the transition requirements specified in IDEA. Student participation in the process is essential, and self-determination skills are considered to be fundamental for participation. The IEP should include identification of valued and attainable postschool goals.
Student development. Research indicates that work quality, attitude, social skills, and academic skills are related to postschool employment. On-the-job training that includes work-based and school-based learning enhances employment rates.
Interagency and interdisciplinary collaboration. IDEA requires collaboration on both the individual planning and community planning levels. Interagency collaboration focuses on programs, systems, and service delivery. Interagency coordinating bodies should include all stakeholders, including consumers, family members, service providers, and employers.
Family involvement. Research indicates that parents and family members should be involved in transition planning. Because many families are involved in transition activities, practitioners should capitalize on their strengths and abilities.
Program structure and attributes. To implement transition programs that reflect the above categories, schools and programs should be organized accordingly. Educational programs must be based upon postschool goals and a variety of curricular options must be available to students.
For Kohler, the question of who carries out these practices is just as important. "In a national implementation survey, we confirmed that it takes more than a special education teacher or a transition specialist to implement these practices takes the entire school community." According to Kohler, many researchers are concentrating their attention on addressing issues related to how elements of the taxonomy may be implemented.
In the next section, we'll take a look at how researchers are framing some of the current transition issues and informing practice.
Next: Promising Approaches in Planning for Transition
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Home » Mountaineering » The first ever winter ascent of Gasherbrum – II
The first ever winter ascent of Gasherbrum – II
Gasherbrum II/K4 (Photo Wikipedia)
Italy has always taken leads in making “first time” expeditions and adventures in Pakistan’s mountaineering history, specially when it comes to the five of the 14 eight thousands of the world that are located in Pakistan. In 1954 the Italian expeditions scaled K-2, the second highest peak and eight thousander after the Mt. Everest. Now on 2nd February 2011, another expedition led by Simon Moro of Italy, with two fellow mountaineers, Denis Urubko from Kazakshtan and Cory Richards from the United States, scaled the Gasherbrum – II for the first time scaling of an eight thousander in winters.
Gasherbrum–II, an 8,035 high peak in the Karakoram mountain range is among the five eight thousanders located in Pakistan. The trio achieved the honour in severe winter temperature of -60 degrees Celsius. It may be added that all such previous attempts were abandoned dut to severity of the weather and the temperature.
The team ran into a hazardous avalanche on their way back and two of the
mountaineers were buried under the snow near camp-II. But were luckily survived and dug out safe and alive. One of the climers, Denis Urubko from Kazakhstan is among the 15 mountaineers in the world who has ascended all eight thousanders.
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Clipse Biography
The world of hip-hop is made up of foundations represented by stylistically regional hip-hop genres - East Coast, West Coast, the Mid-West, and the Dirty South. Every few years however, a hip-hop act emerges to interrupt the shine of conventional hip-hop. This year Malice and Pusha T a.k.a. Clipse have arrived to introduce the Virginia streets to the hip-hop world. The past few years have been full of contribution for the quiet state of Virginia. Almost overnight, VA has become an innovative ground for hip-hop culture. While noteworthy talent such as Missy Elliot, Timbaland and Teddy Riley have proudly represented Virginia on the radio and in the clubs, Clipse will bring the uncharted aspect of Virginia streets to the forefront with their Star Trak/Arista debut, Lord Willin'. The creation of Clipse is the culmination of events that began in the late 1980's. Both Malice (Gene Thornton) and Pusha T (Terrence Thornton) were born in the heart of hip-hop's birthplace, the Bronx, New York; home to hip-hop giants like KRS-1, and the late Big Pun. Residing in the Gunhill Road section of the Bronx, a young Malice and Pusha T migrated to Virginia in the early 1980's. First to move was the older brother, Malice who quickly developed a reputation as a lyrical wordsmith. Three years later, Pusha T joined his brother and the duo began to combine their Kool G. Rap, Juice Crew, Eric B & Rakim and Large Professor influences with the unique sounds of Virginia. It was during a cipher that Malice caught the attention of an unknown producer named Pharrell Williams. Impressed by what he heard, Williams promised to work with Malice and Pusha T to produce a demo tape. As Malice and Pusha T began to develop their craft and recognize their potential to have an effect on the hip-hop world, they began to formally be known as Clipse. Meanwhile, Pharrell along with his classmate, Chad Hugo, began to take the hip-hop world by storm and establish themselves as one of the brightest production teams in hip-hop. Once established, Pharrell and Chad, known as the Neptunes, helped the Clipse land a deal on Elektra in 1999, where they released the buzz-single The Funeral. The single struck a cord with street heads and garnered Clipse some well-deserved attention, making them two to watch for the new millennium. Although the streets wanted more of Clipse, their album was pushed back and eventually shelved indefinitely by their former label. As MCs first, and entertainers second, Malice and Pusha T continued to stay busy after their initial setback by enhancing other people's tracks with their distinct lyrical delivery. 2000 found Clipse working with a host of No Limit Artists including Master P, 504 Boyz and Silk Da Shocker. In 2001, the duo appeared on releases from The Backstreet Boys, Jermaine Dupri, and Grammy award winning Nelly Furtado. Most recently, for Star Trak Entertainment, Clipse have laced several tracks including Am I High, Truth Or Dare, and Lap Dance, all off the Neptunes' debut album, N.E.R.D.: In Search Of... On the R&B end they found time to bless songstress Kelis for her anticipated sophomore release, Wanderland. In 2002, they have even tested their commercial appeal by performing in a Reebok campaign for Allen Iverson's "Answer 5" basketball shoe. "After the whole album ordeal, we did a total 360." says Malice. "Thinking we was coming from the streets and into the music business, ready to drop an album only to make a U-turn and go back." "We ain't mad though." reflects Pusha T. "Can't be, cause I can look back and say that this one is ready," he continues, "the situations in our lives took this album where it went." Where this album went was on a one way trip to the outskirts of inner city Virginia... With their debut album, Lord Willin', Clipse tap into their past experience on the streets of VA to project pictures that will at times evoke a smile as well as provoke thought. Additionally, the Neptunes dig deep into their eclectic chamber of sounds to create a backdrop that brilliantly compliments Clipse various subjects. "The album runs like a movie about Virginia," says Pharrell of the Neptunes. "These cats have been quietly waiting for a long time and now the timing is right for their unique, Virginian perspective to be heard," he continues. On the diary-esque, I'm not you, both Malice and Pusha T go into confessional mode as if seeking validation for the sins of man. "It's our way of life." attests Malice. "I can't sit here and tell you that we've made great decisions in life and we think rational about the shit we do. It's just life. It'll make you think about the shit you do and for every shit you do there are consequences. I think you can learn from it." The track is a hard-nosed testimony that features verses from Jadakiss, Styles, and Roscoe P. Coldchain. Another track gem that displays likely to be a favorite among listeners is Ma, I don't love her. "Average nigga shit." says Pusha T in regards to the song that speaks on behalf of all men who've fought an accusation of adultery once every so often. The angelic vocals of Bad Boy's first lady, Faith Evans, caress the chorus. With Ma, I don't love her Clipse have proven their ability to create a radio-aimed single however it is evident that their darker side will earn them recognition as one of VA's most distinctive acts. On Virginia, Clipse take it to the streets over an eerie chime-n-drum sequence, one of the most sinister Neptunes beats to date. "Pusha T had wrote his lyrics first," explains Malice. "I had heard it, and heard where he went with it and knew immediately I had to step up," he continues. On a lighter note, listeners will find the laid back vibe of Gangsta Lean to be one of the smoothest songs on Lord Willin'. The song features the Mayfield-inspired vocals of Pharrell as the Clipse pay homage to herbal pleasures. Other highlights include the first street single Grindin'. And the high energy radio single When The Last Time.... "I'm not gonna say we that much different than the next man, or that we that much better than the next man." contests Malice. "But what we have is a perspective you don't hear. It's a Virginia perspective. It's lingo you don't hear, it's Virginia lingo...you've never heard it. I don't think Virginia's ever been exposed like this." Book Clipse for shows and concerts at Heavy Rotation booking agency. Worldwide Bookings with HR Booking. Clipse Booking, Book Clipse. Book artists like Clipse, Clipse booking agent, contact Clipse email, Clipse manager, Clipse management for concerts, bookings, biography, pictures, videos. Clipse may be available for your club shows, private party, festivals or other events.
Clipse - Grindin' - YouTube
Clipse - Mr. Me Too (Main Version - Semi-Clean) ft. Pharrell Williams - YouTube
Clipse - When The Last Time (Video) - YouTube
Clipse - Wamp Wamp (What It Do) ft. Slim Thug - YouTube
Clipse - Popular Demand (Popeyes) (featuring Cam'ron) - YouTube
Clipse - Hot Damn (Video) ft. Ab-Liva, Pharrell, Rosco P. Coldchain - YouTube
Clipse - I'm Good (Feat. Pharrell) - YouTube
Clipse Virginia (Full Track) - YouTube
Clipse - I m Not You feat. Jadakiss Styles P Rosco P. Coldchain (album cut) - YouTube
Clipse - Ma, I Don't Love Her (Video) ft. Faith Evans - YouTube
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Juvenile Biography
New Orleans has a reputation as a breeding ground for raw, unbridled rap music and the city's artistic offspring make for intriguing and awe-inspiring players in the rap game. But of all of New Orleans' native sons none is more formidable than Juvenile. From the early 90's as a member of 3Grand and the release of an underground solo project, to his signing with the infamous (then underground) label Cash Money Records as a member of The Hot Boys (along with group members B.G., Lil Wayne and Turk), Juvenile's role as a pioneering southern rapper cannot be underestimated. The fact that he has helped New Orleans claim major prominence in the annals of hip-hop history cannot be overlooked. Born Terius Gray, the rapper known as Juvenile first came to national prominence with The Hot Boys 1997 debut Get It How U Live, followed by 1999's platinum certified, Guerilla Warfare and 2003's Let 'Em Burn. But it has been his solo performances - most notably, his third CD, 1998's 4x platinum 400 Degreez, which spawned the hits, "Ha" and "Back That Thang Up" -- that catapulted Juve to mega-star status. The CD also garnered him many awards and accolades including a Soul Train Award (2000), Billboard Award (1999), Source Award (1999) and an American Music Award nomination (1999). Juvenile's no-holds-barred rap lyrics and rough-around-the-edges persona made him an icon to young hip-hop heads enamored with rappers who 'keep it real.' And, says the 28-year-old rapper, he's done it all without really trying. "I don't think about it," he says. "When I do an album I don't worry about what the people are gonna think. I just do an album. I don't have a format to the way I do songs, I just do 'em." That's the approach he's taken with his previous five CDs: Being Myself on Warlock Records (1995) to his Cash Money releases; gold certified, Solja Rags (1997), 4x platinum certified, 400 Degreez, platinum certified, G Code (1999), and the critically acclaimed gold certified, Project English (2001). And it's the same approach he took with his current release, Juve The Great. "This CD let's the people hear the different styles and tones and different ideas that run through Juve's head within a day's time." If "Ha" and "Back That Thang Up" set new standards for dirty south hip-hop, then the songs on Juve The Great will raise the bar even higher for those trying to appeal to hip- hop fans who like their music unsweetened and not watered down. Case in point, in the CD's lead single, "In My Life," Juve dishes out an unabashed tribute to his ballin' lifestyle. "I'm just talking on there," he laughs. "It's just got that Juve vibe." And that "Juve vibe" runs throughout Juve The Great, which, as expected, features production by Cash Money's resident hitmaker Mannie Fresh. From the old-school-flavored "Bounce Back" -- featuring 'millionaire' Baby -- to the dirty anthem, "Down South Posted" with Wacko & Skip, Juve The Great shows Juvenile at the top of his game. One of the CD's most personal entries is the track, "It Ain't Mines," and the set is rounded out by the intriguing, "Numb Numb" with its inviting talk-sing hook. While Juvenile doesn't set out to appeal to anyone in particular with his music, he does set goals for himself. "To reach everyone with my music," he exclaims. And given his vast fan base, his goals are realistic. "I travel so much and meet so many people. People walk up to me - different races, religions and different sizes saying they like my music and they're buying it." Juvenile was a mere "eight or nine" years old when he decided to be a rapper. "I made my decision early," he recalls. "I didn't wanna do nothing else but rap. I've been making music since I was 14 years old." And he never doubted he would succeed. "Everything that has happened for me I'm happy about and the Lord has blessed me in many ways, but, I can't stop now. I dream big." And once he has achieved his goal of touching everyone with his music, Juve says he'll be content to just be a regular guy. "I just wanna be the father that I didn't have. Once my kids graduate college, I'm good. I'm gon' lay back...." He'll let his legacy do the talking. "I just wanna be remembered as a young black entrepreneur that had faith in God. That's all I want to be remembered as." Juvenile, a legend in his own time. Book Juvenile for shows and concerts at Heavy Rotation booking agency. Worldwide Bookings with HR Booking. Juvenile Booking, Book Juvenile. Book artists like Juvenile, Juvenile booking agent, contact Juvenile email, Juvenile manager, Juvenile management for concerts, bookings, biography, pictures, videos. Juvenile may be available for your club shows, private party, festivals or other events.
Juvenile - Back That Ass Up - YouTube
Slow Motion - Juvenile - YouTube
Juvenile - 400 Degreez - YouTube
Juvenile - Ha (Official Video) - YouTube
Birdman, Juvenile - Just Another Gangsta - YouTube
Juvenile - In My Life ft. Mannie Fresh - YouTube
Juvenile -02- Set If Off - Project English - YouTube
Juvenile - Rodeo (Official Video) - YouTube
Birdman, Juvenile - Broke - YouTube
Hot boys- Rich Niggaz - YouTube
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Home Resources The Upside of Downsizing with Sara Hart
The Upside of Downsizing with Sara Hart
A Terraces at Los Altos resident and author shares how the difficult task of downsizing has helped her live a fuller life.
By Jaclyn Moriarty
Downsizing can be a painful and yet liberating experience. Things you haven’t touched in ages—even things you once loved—take up a lot of physical and emotional space. Cleaning out the clutter helps make room in your life for something new.
This is the perspective Terraces at Los Altos resident Sara Hart, PhD, shares in her new book, “The Upside of Downsizing: Getting to Enough.” Released in June 2018, the book describes the emotional journey that helped her learn to let go.
Getting to enough
For Hart, “getting to enough” means understanding when you have what you need to live sufficiently and happily. It’s a topic she’s explored through a personal project called “The Sign of Enough” since the mid-1990s.
“Each of us has a sign that says, ‘Okay, that’s enough,’” Hart says. “We need to be alert for that, because if we don’t cop to it, then I think the outcome isn’t necessarily good for us.”
Hart’s sign came after determining she wanted to downsize and move before getting older. She watched her own mother have a difficult transition after waiting too long to begin the process.
“I’m 73. I don’t know that I would’ve wanted to be a lot older and go through what I went through,” Hart says. “I think the younger you are when you [downsize], the easier it is. Start thinking about it and planning now.”
Preparing for the move
A San Francisco Bay-area resident for more than 20 years, Hart wasn’t interested in leaving familiar faces and places. Fortunately, Hart found that the nearby Terraces at Los Altos, a HumanGood community, fit her needs perfectly. Her one-bedroom apartment has plenty of space for her and her cat, but she had to leave a lot of the other stuff behind.
Here are a few of the tips that helped her get the job done:
Ask friends for help. Be prepared with specific tasks for them such as clearing out a closet or packing up dishes.
Hire a professional organizer or downsizer. Experts can help sort items into donate, sell and trash piles.
Tackle one room or area at a time. Spreading yourself too thin can make the process overwhelming.
Adjusting after downsizing
Hart has called the Terraces at Los Altos home for more than a year now. Since downsizing, Hart says she’s missed only two things: An apple corer when making applesauce last fall and her red fuzzy pajamas on Christmas.
While Hart misses her old house’s garden and large yard, she loves being free of the maintenance burden. Now, it’s much easier for her to travel and explore.
“I don’t have to run around and do all the stuff you have to do if you’re leaving a big house and a big yard to travel. There are a lot of pluses about it,” Hart says.
The transition took time, but now she’s able to go back to her old neighborhood and see old friends while also enjoying her new home and the new friendships she’s made. Hart continues to work as a consultant, speaker, coach and radio host.
“I love my apartment. It is bright and light. My windows look out on the Santa Cruz Mountains,” Hart says. “I am able to live my life exactly the way I was living it before. I still work. I come to my office every day. I see all my friends. Everything is so much easier.”
According to Hart, downsizing is like owning a home—the work is never done. She set rules for herself to help keep her horde under control. For example, if she wants to buy a new clothing item, an old one has to go.
The good news: It’s a simpler process once you make it a way of life. “I can get rid of stuff much easier,” Hart says. “It has helped me in not buying—because I don’t need it. It feels really good.”
“The Upside of Downsizing: Getting to Enough” is available for purchase on Amazon.
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UltraTech Cement gets green nod for Rs 2,500 cr project in AP
New Delhi: UltraTech Cement has got environment ministry's nod for a Rs 2,500 crore project in Andhra Pradesh, as per an official document.
Under the project, the company will set up an integrated cement plant at Petnikote village in Kurnool district with a clinker capacity of 4 million tonne per annum (MTPA), 6 MTPA of cement, 60 mega watt of captive power plant and 15 mega watt of waste heat recovery-based power unit.
In a letter issued to the company, the ministry said it has given environment clearance to UltraTech Cement's proposed greenfield project in Andhra Pradesh with certain conditions.
A greenfield project is built from scratch. There is no existing building or infrastructure in a greenfield project.
The company has already acquired 431.92 hectare land for the project, which is estimated to cost Rs 2,500 crore and generate employment for 900 persons, the document showed.
The company will have to get 'consent to establish and operate' from the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board.
UltraTech Cement, an Aditya Birla Group firm, is the largest cement producer in India with production capacity of 68 MTPA. Its business is spread over five countries.
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Motor plans: read the fine print
Guides / 12 November 2018, 11:30am / Georgina Grouth
CAPE TOWN - Do you understand what cover is provided by your motor or service plan? If not, you’re probably one of many who don’t know the details of their policies, or haven’t read the fine print.
Adhered to correctly, maintenance plans assure motorists that their vehicles will be serviced on time, at little cost, which keeps them in optimal condition and preserves the resale value.
New vehicles come standard with a manufacturer’s warranty and out-of-warranty second-hand vehicles are covered for at least six months by the Consumer Protection Act.
Most new vehicles are also covered by a service plan, for a set period or distance, eg, three years or 90000km. These plans cover the replacement of serviceable parts - such as oil, fuel filters and even cambelts.
Then there are maintenance warranties, which cover both services and other maintenance components. Some policies cover only the cost of the parts, not the labour.
Extended warranties, though, are specific to mechanical breakdown claims so if your engine packs up, you are covered.
Not so fast, warns Crystal Slabbert, the co-author of Eff You Very Much: how you are screwed by dealerships and banks when buying a car, which exposes illegal practices in the motoring industry. She warns if your car breaks down and if the tow is not authorised by your insurance, dealerships don’t have to repair. And if you’ve gone over mileage, they often don’t want to do the work.
“You automatically think that you’re covered, but you’re hardly ever going to be able to claim because they’ll find a reason to repudiate,” she says.
Motoring plans aren’t free, and the costs are often built in and not declared, which is in violation of the National Credit Act and the CPA, Slabbert says.
Motorists are “locked in” by these contracts and risk voiding their warranties if they go to unapproved workshops - and it’s not only for the major work. And even if the work is not covered by your policy, it still needs to be carried out at that approved shop.
Warranties on parts or accessories are currently dependent on the part being fitted by the dealership. Access codes, that are required for the functioning of certain components, are not being made available to the consumer or his service provider of choice.
This is an unnecessary cost to consumers, which the Right to Repair (R2R) campaign wants to change. In September, the Competition Commission published the final draft code of the industry’s code of conduct. Once published, stakeholders will have three months to respond on how they’ll implement the code.
R2R SA chairman Gunther Schmitz said the basic principle is about giving consumers choice. It’s saying if independent operators fulfil reasonable criteria, why shouldn’t they be able to service vehicles under warranty?
The draft code allows for the usage of non-original spare parts. Motor plans may not be automatically included in the price and may only be offered as an add-on. Tools, parts, training and technical information must be made available to the independent aftermarket.
This will ensure a more fair allocation of work by insurance companies, Schmitz says. “More competition is proven to reduce prices and increase quality for the consumer.”
He says the R2R code was implemented in the US and the EU decades ago with positive results, “so much so that in the US the R2R campaign is now spreading to other industries”.
There is no technical justification for not giving competent mechanics access to tools or technical information so they can do the work.
“Why should brake pads void the warranty of your engine or your airbag? In terms of existing law the independent service provider fitting the brake pads and the supplier of the brake pads will take responsibility for this work and give a warranty,” Schmitz says.
Slabbert disagrees. She points out that dealerships pay millions in set-up costs and staff need to be trained properly, which is also expensive. Opening up the market to potentially backstreet mechanics is a huge risk to consumers and the industry.
“When motorists take their vehicles to accredited repairers, all the work will be on the vehicle’s profile and there’s a record. So if there’s a recall, the dealership will issue notices to all customers and do the repairs. The smaller guys will not get that recall notice and the customer will have to pay for the parts and work.
“We don’t go to a doctor that isn’t accredited. Why should we go to a backstreet mechanic, who has probably been kicked out because he didn’t cut it?
Her issue, though, is with maintenance plans. “People are approaching us to ask us to check contracts before they buy. So I’ve negotiated with sales managers about on-the-road fees and brought those down for consumers. We’ve started offering the service - for a small fee - and we’ve saved consumers thousands on their contracts.”
Slabbert says salespeople are not declaring that they’re getting commission on the maintenance plans. “These are not free - every car, even a second-hand car, has a six-month warranty. If you charge extended warranties, for the first six months they should carry the warranty.”
The short-term insurance ombudsman has previously warned about mechanical warranty policies, usually sold by second-hand dealers, because consumers aren’t given precise details of cover, including the trip-up exclusions, waiting periods, penalties, excesses or restrictions.
Schmitz says they’ve witnessed similar issues. “Most of the extended warranties only cover certain components and limit the cover to a set amount. So, when it comes to a failure, the consumer is suddenly faced with a problem where the insurance only covers a fraction of an expensive repair.”
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What Dietz & Watson is trying to do with its ‘jawn’ tote bags and ‘body by bacon’ swimsuits
by Ellie Silverman, Updated: May 10, 2019
Britni Stowell lifted the folded white shirt and read the text on the front to her friend: “Classy in the streets.”
Then she turned it around to see the back. “But a freak with the meats,” she said.
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The two 27-year-old students laughed.
“I don’t think my mom would approve of me wearing it,” said her friend, Kelly Baxter.
“I don’t know if my grandmother would know what it means,” Stowell responded.
The two were drawn into the Dietz & Watson “Delishop,” a 3,000-square-foot pop-up at Fifth and South Streets on Wednesday by the gear they saw in the windows. Once inside, they saw the “body by bacon” one-piece bathing suit, a “jawn” tote bag, an “i <3 wieners” T-shirt, and a “little ham” onesie. One small section features cotton shirts, fanny packs, boxers, and baseball caps, all with the saying “Dietz Nuts."
This pop-up is part of the company’s bid to attract younger consumers and stand out in a crowded marketplace. Arby’s released a $25 subscription box in January that gives customers one package a month for six months full of branded merchandise. Chobani rolled out a children’s clothing line in March to promote its Greek yogurt kids’ snacks. And Auntie Anne’s website promotes its “pretzel swag,” with pretzel-themed leggings, tote bags, sweatshirts, and T-shirts, with all proceeds going to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.
“Fashion and food is always a good mix,” said Nioka Wyatt, a fashion merchandising and management assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson University. “It makes people smile -- at least for me it does. Given the hustle and bustle in the world that we live in, to add a smile on customers’ faces makes a big difference.”
Executives have seen how the business has changed. Two decades ago, Dietz’s most popular items were sliced deli items. Now, protein snacks are surging, including such items as organic beef jerky, meat and cheese snack packs, and Dietz Nuts, which debuted during the Super Bowl in February.
Lauren Eni also isn’t sure her grandmother, Ruth “Momma” Dietz Eni, would understand all the jokes at the family company’s pop-up store.
Momma Dietz did know about “Dietz Nuts," though, and all the success her Philadelphia-based company saw after its risky Super Bowl commercial full of references to “nuts,” inspired by the meme “Deez Nuts.”
Stowell said she thought of the commercial when she saw the Dietz & Watson sign by the entrance.
Say hello to Dietz Nuts. They’re protein-packed, savory sausage bites. We like to think of them as the world’s first meat nuts. Grab a handful for the big game. #DietzNuts https://t.co/dgnxu32IHN pic.twitter.com/iHm0qcriUO
— Dietz & Watson (@DietzandWatson) January 28, 2019
The Dietz family celebrated Momma Dietz’s 94th birthday a couple weeks before she died in February, and she told Lauren Eni that “we have to do something different,” Eni said. “And in my head I’m thinking, ‘Well, OK.’”
Eni, who is vice president of brand strategy, had been working on this concept for months. The store is full of meat innuendos on apparel, Philadelphia-themed products such as a “Gritty” sriracha aioli and a “wooder” water bottle, and, of course, deli meats, snacks, and other food items.
The items are also for sale online. Prices range from around $10 for a bacon bottle opener, hoagie keychain, tote bag, and boxers to $30 to $40 for hot dog leggings and sweatshirts. Most shirts are about $20.
“She was very progressive,” Eni said of her grandmother. "She was always, I think, willing to try something new and fun and was very into getting the next generation to enjoy our products.”
Dietz & Watson
Ruth "Momma" Dietz Eni became the face of the deli meat and cheese maker's advertising about a decade ago. She died in February at the age of 94.
The core customer is usually a middle-aged couple with at least two kids. This store is designed as a photo opportunity, encouraging visitors to take pictures in the chair covered in upholstery with a hot dog design, a mini booth with a light-up Dietz & Watson sign, mannequins posed to be grilling hot dogs, and a section to play “meat & cheesy” cornhole.
“People are doing whatever they can to break out of the clutter,” said Barbara Kahn, a marketing professor at the Wharton School. To compete with Amazon, Walmart, Costco, or other big-name retailers, “you’ve got to create some emotional connection and recognition for that brand name.”
If pop-up visitors don’t buy anything, Kahn said, it can still be an entertaining experience and leave people with good feelings about the brand. Even if someone just takes a picture of the store or buys a funny shirt and sends it to a friend, it helps the company.
Dietz & Watson is celebrating its 80th birthday, so the company set up this shop relatively close to its original store, at Second and Vine Streets. Eni hopes this pop-up introduces the younger generation to the brand. So far, the company has seen a roughly equal split in sales between the accessories and apparel and the food.
Eni said she views the Dietz & Watson brand as fun and wants customers to see it that way, too. People grill with hot dogs and create memories around food. Customers are already giving Dietz & Watson feedback, including a desire for more Philadelphia-specific gear.
Eni declined to share information about the private company’s sales, but said Dietz & Watson has more than 1,500 employees.
The store is open May 1 to July 28 from noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays.
Gritty stopped by May 4 for the store’s opening weekend. There’s a charcuterie party planned for Mother’s Day, and free rainbow hot dogs and T-shirts for the first 50 people from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. during Pride Weekend (June 7 to 9).
Visitors can sample hoagies every other Wednesday starting this week from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; pair meat, cheese, and beer every other Thursday starting next week from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.; and enjoy kids’ snackables, “wooder ice,” face painting, a magician, and giveaways every other Tuesday starting next week from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Lauren Eni, fourth generation of the family and vice president of Brand Strategy, at the Dietz & Watson pop-up store at Fifth and South Streets in Philadelphia.
Even though Stowell and Baxter, both graduate students at the Drexel University College of Medicine, walked out of the store empty-handed, they seemed to enjoy the humor.
“If I had more money, I would totally buy some of this,” Stowell said.
“I need to have an income again," Baxter said, “and then I can buy funny, witty ... T-shirts."
Posted: May 10, 2019 - 7:03 AM
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David Harbour Builds a House
By Billy Crudup
Photography wenjun liang
ABOVE: DAVID HARBOUR AT THE JAMES HOTEL IN NEW YORK, JULY 2014. PHOTOS: WENJUN LIANG. STYLING: SAVANNAH WHITE. GROOMING: LAURA DE LEON FOR JOE MANAGEMENT USING CHANEL. SPECIAL THANKS: DAVID BURKE KITCHEN AT THE JAMES HOTEL.
Ask actors David Harbour and Billy Crudup how they met, and they’ll launch into a string of jokes: “OKCupid!” “Tinder!” In reality, the New York-based theater veterans first crossed paths at the opening of Tom Stoppard’s play The Invention of Love on Broadway, or “something like that.” They became friends several years later while working on another Stoppard play, The Coast of Utopia, at Lincoln Center and have since acted together in the film Thin Ice. “My experience of you was just jealous, envious rage that you were so good at that play, and so much better than me,” jokes Harbour. “I remember trying to undermine you at every turn. Trying to kill laughs with coughs! It didn’t work…”
September is a busy month for the 40-year-old Harbour: On Sunday, his television series Manhattan will conclude its first season on on WGN. Last week, his film A Walk Among the Tombstones came out in cinemas. This Friday, he’ll release Equalizer, another thriller in which he co-stars with Denzel Washington and Chloë Grace Moretz. In both Tombstones and Equalizer, Harbour plays the villain—a role at which the Dartmouth grad is particularly skilled.
Here, Harbour discusses his upcoming projects with his good friend Crudup.
BILLY CRUDUP: I’ve got a number of questions.
DAVID HARBOUR: You have questions? No you don’t.
CRUDUP: I only have about 30 seconds of questions. And that does not leave room for answers. [laughs] Oh boy.
HARBOUR: I knew it was a good idea to get you to do this.
CRUDUP: First question!
HARBOUR: Lay it on me. I can’t wait.
CRUDUP: This is for the film Walk Among the Tombstones, right?
HARBOUR: [laughs] Yeah, it’s also for Equalizer, but basically.
CRUDUP: Okay, first question.
HARBOUR: Let me give you a little backstory on me before you interview me. I’m doing this movie Walk Among the Tombstones and then next week this movie Equalizer, with Denzel Washington. Two action movies; one is more crime-thriller-y New York-y and the other is more blockbuster-y. The Denzel one is more blockbuster.
CRUDUP: Gotcha.
HARBOUR: Sorry I interrupted.
CRUDUP: I lost my train of thought there for a second. I have it right here. Okay, first question. I saw the poster for Walk Among the Tombstones. You look different. The question is did you put on height for the role?
HARBOUR: I had plastic surgery where they crack your shins and they extend the bone.
CRUDUP: Is there anything you won’t do to transform for a part?
HARBOUR: Yeah, I won’t get in shape for a part. I refuse. I’ll only get fatter and fatter as my career progresses.
CRUDUP: Mike Carlsen saw the movie the other night and said you were out-fucking-standing.
HARBOUR: Thank you Mike Carlsen.
CRUDUP: That’s not a question, just a compliment. You and I have worked together both on stage and in film, so I’m familiar with your process from the perspective of a colleague, somebody who works with you, watches the way you go about your work and then ultimately have to act with you. I experience you as a very intelligent, clearly focused, dedicated actor who’s also really available in the moment. But my question for you is, how do you experience yourself as an actor in those two different mediums?
HARBOUR: That’s a good question!
CRUDUP: Thanks. Then I’m going to end it right there.
HARBOUR: I think I’m very hard on myself, I think I’ve always been very hard on myself since I was a kid. I heard Ellen Burstyn say something about this divine dissatisfaction of the artist years ago when I was growing up; I think it was an interview for Inside the Actors Studio. She talked about how you get to a certain point but you can build a box, you say, “Ooh, I built a box.” But then your first thought is what would it be like to build a house? And you constantly putting extra pressure on yourself and thinking, “I can do that better, I can do that better.” I’m constantly very hard on myself about stuff like that. But I’ve sort of come to, over the years, accept my process. I was very resistant to my intellectualism for a while. I do start with an intellectual idea for a character. A lot of the times it’ll be the opposite of what I feel like is on the page, or it’ll be just an idea that I read in a psychology textbook or in a philosophy book. I’ll apply something to it that I can start to tinker with. For a while in my life I’ve been very derogatory, saying, “I want to be more visceral, I want things to come from my body, more organically.” Over the years, I’ve [realized] this is a good place to start. You can start anywhere, I think, in a character. You can start intellectually, you can start from the body and hopefully arrive at the same place, which is a well-rounded performance.
CRUDUP: I think that’s an excellent point that you make. For the creative process, ultimately what makes the currency that each of us have is—hopefully in addition to some craft—is our individuality. And if you don’t begin to apply that in some way, whether it’s the choices you make moment to moment or the choices you make in your process, then you’re not going to be reaching the full potential of what you really have to offer. For you, you could start a character from an intellectual place based on something you’ve read recently or it doesn’t matter; what you’re doing is you’re applying your own individual creative take, which ultimately from the moment you’re involved makes that character yours. I’ve definitely experienced your ability to internalize a novel voice, something that really only you could do. You said this dissatisfaction that you have, is there a correlation, for you, between that and feeling, “Listen I’ve been successful in my career, so how can I stop this process of beating myself up?”
HARBOUR: That’s a personal journey that I’ve been on for a long time. I think it reflects the choice of being an actor from a very young age. There’s something deep inside of me—this is very grandiose and philosophical—but that struggles with the idea of being human in some sense. Part of it is the struggle of when you’re starting out and auditioning and being rejected a lot—there’s a constant rejection that you incorporate into yourself. It’s like a moth to a flame. I think my fundamental neuroses and this profession causes me to constantly seek what is inside of myself—constantly self-reflecting and self-evaluating.
CRUDUP: Do you see a point where you get past the breakers? You’re going out of the inlet, you get past the breakers and then there’s some calm ocean out there? Or is this part of what’s going to be a lifelong process that you have to deal with? I do see actors sometimes who are seemingly pretty satisfied with the way things are going and that’s an unfamiliar feeling to me as well. I’m interested in what you imagine could be the point at which there’s some smooth sailing for David Harbour. Oh Harbour! Hey, look at that!
HARBOUR: [laughs] You brought it around.
CRUDUP: [laughs] I should have started with that. Dammit. So give it me, what’s smooth sailing for David Harbour?
HARBOUR: What happens is that opposed to looking for calm water—how about this for a metaphor—you get better at swimming. You’ve got to get stronger, being able to swim in the breaks. Because naturally, I’m drawn to some form of struggle and some form of experiencing life in a deep way. I do, of course, like to relax and chill out, but I don’t necessarily know if that’s my natural state. My natural state is a state of an explorer—a performer, but someone who wants to explore their experience and reflect on their experience more than just lie on the beach. Even when I go on vacations, I get stressed out if I’m at the beach for like two days. I’m like “Can’t we do something? I can’t just sit there.”
CRUDUP: [laughs] That’s horrifying. We need to get you to a spa.
HARBOUR: Yeah, me and you in a spa would be horrible. We’d both be freaking out, peeling the facials off. I think most of it is about self-acceptance. You start to realize that there’s actually no escaping yourself—that boy that I was when I was young, there’s definitely a large percentage of him in the man I am today. At that point, you start to say, how am I going to swim in this particular batch of ocean that I’ve chosen to be in?
CRUDUP: As actors, we are in a unique position to observe ourselves because we spend too much time trying to understand other people. We have to use our body, we have to use our mind, we have to use our character, so you want to know the instrument that you’re using as well as you can. It can also can get you stuck. People can become self-obsessed. And it’s obviously not hard to do that at all, but you pointed to one of the things that I think creates a lot of tension for actors and that’s this idea of rejection. I was trying to explain to somebody the other day who doesn’t quite understand what actors do, what the experience of going about trying to get a part is, and hoping that you do your best and maybe not being in an environment that helps you be your best and then the movie comes out, or maybe it doesn’t come out. Or it comes out and it sucks. Or it comes out and the critics hate it or the box office does really terrible. There are so many different stages of rejection. Is there something in film that you’ve experienced as a particular kind of heartbreak? Perhaps you had given a performance that you thought was successful in one way and when you saw it, it wasn’t?
HARBOUR: [laughs], I was just talking to someone about this yesterday. What I have in this movie [A Walk Among the Tombstones] is the opposite for that experience. I’ve had so many of those experiences that you’re talking about, [but] Tombstones was the opposite of that. To see if Liam [Neeson] was going to decide to do the movie, we all got together in a hotel room. I don’t know if you’ve done these before, but I’m sure you have.
CRUDUP: I’ve been to a hotel.
HARBOUR: [laughs] The stars decide whether they want to do it or not and they have five actors come and read all the parts with the star. The casting director is there, the producers are there, and the director is there. The director was Scott Frank, and I’d never met him before, but we went to this hotel room and I had like eight parts that I was reading, one of which was like “Deli Owner Number Three.” And one of the parts was this character Ray that I play and who’s the killer. And Ray, as described in the script, is very, very different from me. He was supposed to be short and rotund and his partner was supposed to be tall and Frankenstein-ish. We sat down and did this read-through and I connected with a part really quickly and I felt really great about what I did. But I’ve had so many of those experiences where I will do this in a hotel room or at a reading or something, you feel like you did a really great job, you shake hands with the director and then they tell you that they’re not even going to see you for the part—”We’ve already cast Chris Pine or Billy Crudup and we’re not even going to let you read.”
CRUDUP: Wait, I got a part?
HARBOUR: [laughs] When they decided to make this film, Scott came to me and was so embracing of what I did at that read-through, and just let me take the character and didn’t even want to give me notes—just wanted me to run with it. It was such a different experience than what I’ve had when I’ve tried to audition for other villains in the past and I’ve gotten a lot of notes saying, “Can you be more evil? Can you relish it more?” All of these notes that to me feel not very on-the-nose, not what I want to do. When I play a villain I generally tend to play the opposite, I try to make a caring individual or a questionable character, something that’s not evil. I’ve gone to so many auditions where they’ve said, “He’s just not evil enough.” And I expected to walk out that room and never hear from these guys again and then have it offered out to a star. And this guy really took a shot. Scott Frank really took a stand for me and it was so, so gratifying.
CRUDUP: And that experience persisted through the making of it and you felt like there was evidence of that when you saw the movie?
HARBOUR: Yeah, it was this great collaboration. He’s someone who gets me and gets my process, and you come across those people once in a while in your career. Anytime there’d be an argument—and all of the departments were terrific, but I had specific things that I wanted, like I wanted him to be in sneakers, and the specifics behind that were just that he might have to run, he might have to like take off. He has to be prepared.
CRUDUP: I love little situations like that.
HARBOUR: It’s little turns like that, that are never explained and that are never part of the movie, but, when I walk around the set, I know that this is going on. Scott was always so gracious to me. He’d be like, “I defer to David. He knows this character better than any of us.” That’s so rare of a thing. The whole making of that movie was just really really fun because of that.
CRUDUP: That’s killer. And what about the Equalizer? Tell me about that experience?
HARBOUR: It was cool. I like those guys a lot. Antoine Fuqua, have you ever worked with that guy?
CRUDUP: I have not, no.
HARBOUR: He’s really, really smart. He’s like the boxer; he’s big and jacked and scary and has a boxing thing outside of his trailer so he beats the shit out of it at lunch. It’s really intense. And then he goes on set and he’s a sweet dude; he has such a big heart. He’s such a complex guy. Like the Equalizer, it’s a big blockbuster action movie, but I cried. There’s this relationship between Chloë Grace Moretz and Washington where they just have this fatherly relationship and he does the action stuff so well, but he also has the heart to let scenes play in a really rich beautiful way. It was fun because we got to do a lot of improv on it too, which I don’t find that I get to do a lot of in movies.
CRUDUP: Is that something that interests you?
HARBOUR: I love it, man. Do you like it?
CRUDUP: I like it at the times that I don’t suck at it. And then I don’t like it when I suck. [laughs] I get so uncomfortable.
HARBOUR: [laughs] You get so uncomfortable just talking about it?
CRUDUP: Well look at what you’re saying about it. Sometimes you have an innate connection to a character that you probably can’t even explain. Some characters, I’m sure I can improvise easily in any context and other characters, not a freaking clue.
HARBOUR: Yeah, it’s true. Usually it depends on whether or not I’ve read the whole script.
CRUDUP: [laughs] Sometimes they’re so long.
HARBOUR: 120 pages, are you kidding me? I feel you. When it’s bad it’s bad. I like it because it’s scary. Like you fuck up and you do a really bad take. Not like a kinda bad take where everyone goes, “Okay, we’re just going to move on.” A take where it’s completely unusable. Oh, you’re just awful.
CRUDUP: Check the camera, you might have broken it.
HARBOUR: Exactly! It’s nice to feel like you’re really on the high wire that way and you can really fall. Denzel and I had this big scene at the end of my arc in the movie where we improv like a three-page scene. We started out and I didn’t know what the hell I was doing, but slowly it grew and Antoine had the courage and the clout to take the time for that type of work. It’s my favorite part of the movie.
CRUDUP: I know we talked when we were working in Minnesota [on Thin Ice] about things we are interested in doing. What are the things that you are interested in pursuing? Do you have any roles that you’re chomping at the bit for?
HARBOUR: Yeah. I have one that I’m dying to do, which I want to talk to some people this summer about. I don’t know if I should tell you about it. [laughs]
CRUDUP: Yeah, don’t tell me exactly because then I’ll try to steal it.
HARBOUR: [laughs] There’s a very small supporting role for you in it though, that I like.
CRUDUP: I’m not available.
HARBOUR: It’s got a really sweet couple’s scene…
CRUDUP: Not available.
HARBOUR: But I really want to do a play again. If I can sit down and finally finish these couple things that I’m working on writing, I’d really like to start make some of my own small movies. The more I work in the film business the more I see that those guys, the directors, have the most fun on set.
CRUDUP: Can you explain to people, because I have been unsuccessful in trying to explain to people that when I say, “I want to do a play,” I’m not just kidding around—”This might be fun.” Or “I need a break from the Hollywood scene.” I’m actually interested in the craft of theater. It’s not a novelty.
HARBOUR: I’ve had a different experience than you though, because you were, in my mind, a big movie star coming out of the gates. You had a very successful film career. And I’ve existed in this place where I’ve had to do theater to pay the bills for a long time and I haven’t had the opportunity in film that you have. But two years ago when more films started happening for me, more television started happening for me, I hit this place where I had that moment: “I really like to do plays.” And making movies is hard work and not that fun to be honest. But the finished product is exciting as hell. When you go and see it all cut together and you sit in the theater with you popcorn and your Coke. That is exciting as hell for me, but that, in my mind, is the best part of the process. Whereas theater, people think that the best part of the process is the applause in the end, [but] it’s almost like a football team—we get to go play football. People go, “Don’t you like it when people cheer in the stands?” Yeah, but what I really like is watching a great play. Like when I throw a ball to that dude and he caught it and slammed it down on the ground and scored a touchdown, that feeling, the rush that you get. I never really get that in movies; I only get that feeling when I’m on stage in front of a live audience doing a great play with people that I love.
CRUDUP: Two things: A, I think you said it very well. And B, I can’t think of anything that people would like to read more than two actors talk about sports.
HARBOUR: [laughs] What’s football? Is that the one with the stick where they hit the ball?
CRUDUP: [laughs] It’s the one with the hard feelings and the yelling.
THE FINAL EPISODE OF MANHATTAN AIRS THIS SUNDAY ON WGN. WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES IS CURRENTLY IN THEATERS. EQUALIZER COMES OUT THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26.
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BLACK ROMANTIC
MAY 22 – JULY 3, 2008
VIDEO | EXHIBITIONS | ARTIST PAGE
Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Black Romantic, Kerry James Marshall's first solo show at the gallery in several years. Marshall sums up the exhibition by stating "It's all about love!". Embracing sentimentality and notions of romance and love in black popular art he gives in to representational impulses that rarely satisfy perceived critical weaknesses in the genre.
Taking his show title from Thelma Golden's 2002 exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in which Golden explored populist notions of "Black Art" and the uncritical realm of image making, Marshall uses Black Romantic as a point of departure to continue his exploration of representation of the black figure in pictorial space. Employing numerous genres of painting, ranging from seascapes to classical artist self-portraits, and referencing the frivolity, sentimentality, and excesses emblematic of the Rococo, Marshall investigates the critical pretentions of the fine art establishment in which he participates. As Golden's exhibition posited, there is a sense that artworks produced by “Black Artists” fall outside of this domain.
Marshall also presents a mixed media sculptural installation adorned with hundreds of portrait medallions of black men and women. Some are recognizable personalities, but the majority of them are anonymous. Appearing to float as if adrift on a black sea, they exist as a network of relations, known and unknown, forgotten and ignored, a representation of the extended black ancestral family.
Kerry James Marshall has exhibited his works in many important group exhibitions, including the 2007 and 1997 editions of Documenta, the 2003 Venice Biennale, the 1999/2000 Carnegie International, and the 1997 Whitney Biennial. His solo exhibitions include shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Baltic, Newcastle on Tyne, UK; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Studio Museum of Harlem, New York; and the Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio. Among the many honors he has received are a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, and a Wexner Center Residency Award. Most recently he was awarded a Skowhegan Medal for Painting. Marshall’s work is represented in major private and museum collections throughout the world including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
KERRY JAMES MARSHALL / DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR / September 10 – October 12, 2013
KERRY JAMES MARSHALL / BLACK ROMANTIC / May 22 – July 3, 2008
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The Investiture of HRH The Prince of Wales to feature on Jersey stamps
Posted • 27 June 2019
Four stamps and a Miniature Sheet commemorating 50 years since the investiture of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales are to be issued by Jersey Post on 1 July 2019. Designed by Andrew Robinson, the stamps feature photographs taken during the Prince’s investiture ceremony in 1969.
The title Prince of Wales has been granted, since the 14th century, to the heir apparent. Prince Charles is the 21st Prince of Wales and the longest serving heir apparent in British history.
HRH Prince Charles was created the Prince of Wales on 26 July 1958, at the age of nine. However his mother, HM Queen Elizabeth II, decided Prince Charles should not be invested until he truly understood the weight of his responsibility as Prince of Wales. On 1 July 1969, at the age of 20, and after learning the Welsh language and studying Welsh culture, Prince Charles was invested at Caernarfon Castle. The investiture took place behind the medieval walls of the castle, with over 4,000 guests in attendance. Thousands more were in the dry moat outside the castle and millions around the world watched on television.
The four stamps show: Prince Charles arriving at Caernarfon Castle at the start of the investiture ceremony, HM Queen Elizabeth II placing the coronet on Prince Charles’ head, HM Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince of Wales standing at Queen Eleanor’s Gate, Caernarfon Castle and HM Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince of Wales walking together in the grounds of the castle. The Miniature Sheet features Prince Charles’ official investiture portrait, in which he is dressed in his investiture regalia. The sheet also features an extract of the speech he gave at the ceremony. Both the stamps and Miniature Sheet have been printed using a metallic gold ink.
Jersey Post’s The Investiture of HRH The Prince of Wales 1st July 1969 stamps will be available to buy from all branches of Jersey Post from 1 July 2019. Philatelic stamp products such as Miniature Sheets, First Day Covers and Presentation Packs will be available from the Jersey post offices at Broad Street, St Helier and Rue Des Pres, St Saviour on issue day and can be ordered now at www.jerseystamps.com Alternatively, you can email the Jersey Philatelic Bureau at stamps@jerseypost.com or telephone us on: +44(0) 1534 616717.
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John Jay Students Were Hard at Work During Winter Session
At a time when most were taking part in holiday festivities, a group of dedicated John Jay students were hitting the books over Winter Session. This year, 1,900 students were enrolled in a wide variety of courses, marking a 5% increase since last year.
Dalyz Aguilar, a senior majoring in English, enjoyed reading the romance novels of Marie de France and the works of Chrétien de Troyes in Professor Toy-Fung Tung’s course Topics in Medieval Literature. “The way Professor Tung explained the material gave me a different kind of context for approaching these works,” she said. “You can begin to understand them through the eyes of the people in that period.”
Aguilar, who aspires to teach English at the university level and who also works with the College’s nationally recognized literary magazine J Journal, has taken classes that span several genres and time periods, including one of her favorites on the Harlem Renaissance. “Classes like these help give you a full background of literature, and can help you in relation to other classes. As an English major, the more you take, the more you not only satisfy your own interest, but the more it gives you a window into other texts,” she said.
Dalyz Aguilar
Like Aguilar, Stephanie Calderon has been finding her coursework during Winter Session enriching. Calderon, a junior studying English and Latin American Studies, enrolled in Professor Adrian Bordoni’s class Latina/o Struggles, a course that allowed students to engage with important justice issues, both on campus and more broadly. “There were times we just asked each other questions and spoke openly about the political climate and the struggles that some of us as Latino students have gone through,” she said. “Professor Bordoni made it so that there was honesty between us.”
For the past couple of years, Calderon has been working with undocumented students and allies as a peer success coach with Adelante!, an initiative to support and develop the leadership skills of Latina/o students on campus. In addition to her activism on campus, Calderon increases awareness about immigration through her involvement with the John Jay Sentinel, a journalistic platform that allows students to partake in healthy debate. “At John Jay, there can be huge divisions between students,” she said. “But no matter what, people’s opinions are respected.”
Just like in the spring and fall semesters, courses were also offered online. In Professor Felice Shoot’s Gender and Work Life, students looked at how gender and other identities intersect with employment and expectations at work. Karina Aquino, a senior majoring in Forensic Psychology who has enjoyed taking Professor Shoot’s classes before, says that one of the benefits of taking an online course is the robust participation among students. “The online format gives students a variety of ways to express themselves and helps foster discussion,” she said. “People who might be too shy to speak up in person can post in the forum instead.”
Aquino, who provides counseling through the College’s Peer Counseling Program, says that helping John Jay students through academic and mental health issues has inspired her to one day operate her own private counseling practice.
For Aguilar, the fact that students from various fields of study were enrolled in Winter Session isn’t surprising. “In general, John Jay is so welcoming,” she said. “It’s inclusive for all.”
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All the Best Shows get Cancelled
I just finished watching season 3 of Dark Matter, and as the trend goes of late, it's been cancelled. I've enjoyed a lot of shows, especially sci-fi shows, that end up getting cancelled after two or three seasons. Beyond the irritation of having to hunt down a new series to get into, it's quite disheartening when you take into account the sort of tripe that gets 10-12 seasons these days.
Dark Matter was a fantastic sci-fi series; a group of scoundrels are forced to work together when they all wake up with amnesia. You could see the sources of inspiration from countless other sci-fi shows in this one, and it really paid off. But, just when the stakes couldn't get any higher...
Stargate Universe only got two seasons, and considering the fact that I've already written a rather long blog post about this series I won't got into it overly much. I'll just say that it's still my favorite series ever, it was the perfect amalgamation of a few different sci-fi shows. It may come back one day, but it's looking like the comics are where it's at for the foreseeable future.
Revolution was a great post apocalyptic series that only got 2 seasons before it was canned, it was all about electricity suddenly disappearing one day and the ramifications of that. I really don't know why it was cancelled; it had a young female lead, a great cast of supporting characters around her and it was always action packed. It seemingly had everything it needed, but still it was canned.
Jericho got two seasons before it was canned, but Jericho has a seriously dedicated fan base that pushed for two follow up seasons in the form of graphic novels. I really dug this series, despite how over the top all the Americana was - it had this "small town against the world" feel to it.
Dominion, again, two seasons before it was cancelled. Heaven invades earth and humanity is forced back to a few strongholds, and their only hope of survival is an archangel that sided with them and the Chosen One that walks among them. It had it's weak points in terms of story, and the special effects were always budget, but it was always interesting.
Jeremiah only got 2 seasons, but that was released so many years ago that it barely counts anymore. All the adults are killed and the remaining children grow to shape the world. The creators knew the end was coming so they managed to rush a proper ending in, which was good.
Dollhouse is another post apocalyptic series that saw the end coming, and thus managed to get in a half decent ending. This show had so goddamn much potential that I'm simply stupefied that some jackass decided to cancel it. Body hoping technology aside, this show explored some heavy issues and the cast was superb - this is legitimately a point of confusion for me.
Defiance got 3 seasons before it was cancelled. This show was about this zany earth where aliens invaded and terraformed the planet, so it's earth but just a little bit different... with alien monsters running around. It was pretty good and had a good selection of species that the cast were comprised of. It wasn't always top notch but it was always original.
Outcasts got a single season before it was cancelled, and this one is a damn shame. Earth is becoming uninhabitable and so humanity is colonizing this distant planet, but it's not as uninhabited as they first thought. A great setting and an interesting cast of characters played by some A-grade talent, I was keen to see where this show would go.
Zoo is another one that I've just found out got cancelled after three seasons. I wanted to avoid this one at first, it looked ridiculous, but a mate on Twitter talked me into it and it turned out to be a lot of fun. Just when it was getting good, boom. Just like with Revolution; Billy Burke and the post apocalypse don't mix.
This list goes on, and I could sit here all night going on about how many times I've been let down by a great series being cancelled... but I wont. At best you can take this list as a suggested watching list. While you're waiting for the next season of Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead or Westworld to start, hunt down a few of these and give them a watch. They may not last long, but they're always worth the effort.
Tagged: Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Television
Why Stargate Universe is still my Favorite Series
It may not be post apocalyptic, or even close to perfect, but Stargate Universe is my favorite television series. From all the sources it pulls from for inspiration, to the mere timing of it's release, SGU may have only lasted two seasons but it ended up being one of the most influential series that I've ever seen. Hold onto your butts, this will probably be a long one...
Whenever my dad was actually around, we used to watch the original Stargate series, SG-1, together. It ran from 1997 to 2007, so it had a pretty good lifespan as far as Sci-Fi shows go. The second series, Stargate Atlantis ran from 2004 to 2009, and it was as equally campy as the original series. I enjoyed both of these, but this was primarily because watching them was something that I got to do with my dad from time to time. Even when he wasn't around, I'd keep watching them so I could catch him up when he got back from whatever hellish corner of the world he was exploring.
Stargate Universe came out in 2009, and by this point my dad wasn't that interested in television anymore so I ended up watching it alone. The tone of SGU was very different from SG-1 and SGA, it was set in the same universe but it was much darker and a lot more serious. It borrowed a lot from Battlestar Galactica, which had run from 2004 to 2009, in that it portrayed space travel as less than a fun adventure and more of a harrowing journey into the unknown where friends and family can be killed at a moments notice. My dad died around the time I was watching SGU, so it'd be remiss of me if I didn't point out how that influenced my opinion of the show.
A tail view of the Destiny... it's a pretty big ship.
The basic premise of the show is that there is this Ancient ship, called The Destiny, that was launched from Earth thousands of years ago. It's mission was to set out into the universe, find suitable planets that could support life, seed them with stargates, and then just keep on travelling for as long as it could. The original intent was for it to be launched unmanned and preform the first leg of it's journey without a crew, who would use the stargate to board it later on. The issue here is that the Ancients figured out how to ascend beyond their physical forms before they were meant to board the Destiny, so the mission was abandoned and the ship continued to travel on it's own. It just traveled through the universe for thousands of years, on auto-pilot, collecting data and seeding planets with stargates.
Skip to the present day, and the humans of the stargate program manage to make a connection to the Destiny, but due to a list of random circumstances that include an exploding planet, they're forced to board it without the proper preparations. This is one of the key aspects of the series that I find appealing, the fact that the vast majority of the crew are not even meant to be there. There's a large military force, because it's still the stargate program, but there's also scientists and civilian personnel. They had to board the Destiny to escape certain death, but it's a ship of alien design that's thousands of years old and they've got no way to get back home.
Politicians, bureaucrats, nerds... totally wrong people for the job.
That's the appeal, they're the wrong people for the job and they're all stranded on this ship. The crew can't even control the ship for a large portion of both seasons, they're just passengers, or stowaways, and they're simply along for the ride. All these strangers are forced together and they have to learn how to get along and work as a team to survive. They clash, a lot, over various differences, but eventually they get their shit together and take control of the ship.
Bringing up the fact that my dad passed away while I was watching this series may have seemed a little left field, but there was a point to that. The series has a focus on characters who have had strained relationships with their fathers, and most of the characters have even lost their fathers. One ran away, another died in a car crash, one had PTSD and was abusive and another actually died within hours of boarding the Destiny. It's just random chance that my own father happened to die while I was watching a series that delved so heavily into the topic. It was definitely a factor that made the series resonate with me.
Now, as with everything else I watch, I watched SGU with a critical eye so I could learn how it worked. Combine this with the fact that I've watched this show at least ten times over, it should be obvious that I'm well aware of it's many flaws. There's a few aspects of the show that I don't like and a few scenes that just seem clunky and are there for false drama. My main issue with the show is that the crew have these devices that allow them to swap bodies with people back on Earth. It's a minor quibble but it's a way for them to stay in contact with Earth and it also allows the people of Earth to interfere with the crew of the Destiny. I get why they did it, it grounded the crew a little and let them have a broader cast to interact with, but I feel it would've been better if contact Earth was something that was held off for a season or two, to really ramp up the isolation. Beyond that, there's a few scenes where characters are just standing around info-dumping and giving blatant exposition.
The problems are few and far between, and even further from deal breakers, mind you. They're just minor aspects of a show that you tend to notice when you've watched it so many times. Besides these few points, the show had so much going for it that I was legitimately shocked that it was cancelled after two seasons. I get that the darker tone wasn't what Stargate fans were used to, but it was in no way a bad show.
Considering the set up of the show, with random people thrown together and forced to rely on one another to survive, it should come as no surprise that the series boasted some fantastic characters and that the interactions between them were superb. The thing that set SGU apart from its predecessors is that it's characters were all deeply flawed individuals that clash with one another on multiple occasions.
Colonel Everett Young
Colonel Everett Young is the leader of the Destiny. He tries to do the right thing and be an example to others, but he makes the wrong decisions sometimes and circumstances begin to take their toll on him. Colonel Young is often caught between two other characters, Rush and Wray.
Nicholas Rush
Nicholas Rush is the manipulative scientist who, while quite brilliant in various fields of science, is more known for his manipulation of people and situations. A pragmatist through and through, he seems to have cast aside most emotional influences in his decision making and goes with the most logical choices.
Camile Wray
Camile Wray is a human resources officer who wasn't meant to be aboard the Destiny, she brings a more humanistic element to the leadership trio. While Rush may be cold and calculating, Wray is empathetic and... calculating. Like a lot of the other crew members, she doesn't have an official purpose but she quickly establishes herself as a sort of civilian liaison and becomes a thorn in everyone's side.
There's this great dynamic going in with this trio, where Colonel Young is caught between the brain of Rush and the heart of Wray. Although they often clash, Rush and Wray often join forces and butt heads with Colonel Young about how the ship should be run, since he's military and they're both civilian.
Eli Wallace
The primary character for the audience's introduction to the situation is Eli Wallace, a 25 year old computer hacker who lives at home with his mother. An absolute slacker with a brilliant mind, he's only on the Destiny because he solved a puzzle and the stargate program kidnapped him. He was dealt a shit hand as a kid and was saddled with too much responsibility, he had to look after others and his own interests suffered as a result. He's unmotivated and juvenile at times, and he doesn't really know how to get what he wants. He grows a lot as a character over the two seasons though and he's the character that I identify with the most.
Mathew Scott
Mathew Scott is an lieutenant who is fresh out of the training program, so he's just as new to the situation as Eli is. These two hit it off pretty quickly as they each make up for the other's shortfalls. Scott is by no means dumb, it's just that he's focused on the combat and leadership roles, while Eli is really really smart. He's a bit of a ladies man, which causes a few issues with several of the other characters aboard the Destiny.
Chloe Armstrong
Chloe Armstrong is the daughter of a senator who died aboard the Destiny on the first day the crew arrived. She does her best to make herself useful throughout the series but she's largely a third wheel beyond her friendship with Eli and romantic relationship with Scott. At a certain point she gets abducted by aliens and she starts to mutate, she becomes super strong and freakishly intelligent. It seemed like the writers needed a way to make her character still relevant amid a roster of soldiers and scientists. It felt a little rushed, but overall it worked.
Tamara Johansen
Tamara Johansen is a medic that is forced into the role of ship's doctor, since she's the only one with any kind of medical training. Like Wray, she definitely brings a human element to the series and she's got one of the more heart wrenching story arcs. She's pretty upbeat in general but life just keeps slamming into her, over and over. I would have liked to have seen where she ended up if the series had continued.
Ronald Greer
Ronald Greer is the big strong guy of the series, he's a soldier through and through but he's also got a temper that gets him into trouble. He's not a douchebag with a temper though, it's more about him being overly protective and ready to sacrifice himself for others at a moments notice. There's a lot going on with Greer and it just sucks that we only got to see a bit of it before the show was cancelled.
Finally, my favorite character in the series, Varro. This guy was part of an invading force that tried to take the Destiny, but ended up turning on his side when things got out of hand. Despite his status as an enemy soldier, he eventually earns the trust of everyone aboard the Destiny and becomes an equal crew member. He's a warrior, like Greer, but he's less aggressive and more soft spoken and reflective.
Watching all these characters interact with one another across the two seasons was always interesting, they were thrown into some seriously shitty situations. Everyone has their own idea of what's best for the group, and people clash more often than not. Factions form and conspiracies to overthrow the military rule are put into play, it takes these people a long time to put their shit aside and learn how to work together. When they finally do manage to work together, things start to go a lot better.
It's all about the characters... and making the most out of a bad situation.
At a certain point, deep into season 2, the characters get the chance to return home but they end up turning it down. While they started out doing everything in their power to get back to earth, eventually they figure out that the original mission of the Destiny is that important that they chose to take it upon themselves to take it as far as they can. There's this moment where everyone is deciding if they'll stay or leave, and we see one of the side characters mulling it over in their head. You can see the realization on his face, the fact that nothing he could ever possibly do back on Earth could compare to the work he'd do on Destiny, and he decides to stay.
I think that's another part of the appeal of the series as well, as much as it's about the human interaction it's also about this universe spanning goal. They're aboard a ship that's seeking the answers to all of life's greatest questions about the universe and our place in it. The characters are dealing with petty politics, personal fears and relationship issues while also seeking out if some kind of god had a hand in the creation of the universe. It's that simultaneous exploration of the ordinary and extraordinary that make the series so interesting.
The creators knew that the show was going to be cancelled, so thanks to the freedom of narrative that science fiction allows, we were sort of given two endings. In one, an alternate version of the crew actually get sent back in time a few thousand years and establish a small colony of humans on a planet, the main crew get to help the descendants of this colony. We got to see the lives they all lived as they set about trying to build a civilization from scratch, it was probably the best ending the characters could have received.
The second ending, the ending of the series, is less optimistic but far more open ended and allowed for a continuation. The Destiny is about to cross a void between galaxies, and the crew all have to go into suspended animation for a few years so the ship can conserve enough power to make it all the way across. Eli is the only one left out of stasis as he's the only one who can fix the last remaining pod, the series closes with him looking out at the universe and smiling. He might not be able to fix the pod, he might very well die, but the fact that he's travelling through the stars means that it's all been worth it to him.
At the very least, it's one hell of a view...
I was definitely bummed when the series was cancelled, but I've heard that there is a comic series released now that has taken up where the show left off. I'm pretty sure Eli would have survived somehow, especially if the story has continued. I'm pretty keen to get my hands on a copy of the comic, but they're hard to come by in Australia so I'm going to have to get creative.
So that's it, sorry for the randomly long post about a sci-fi show that was cancelled six years ago and isn't post apocalyptic. Like I said, it means a lot to me simply because of the timing and context it was released into. I still hold out hope that the show will continue one day, but until then I've still got the first two seasons and those comics to track down.
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Top Ten Ways your Taxes pay for Endless War
contributors 07/26/2017
By William D. Hartung | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – –
You wouldn’t know it, based on the endless cries for more money coming from the military, politicians, and the president, but these are the best of times for the Pentagon. Spending on the Department of Defense alone is already well in excess of half a trillion dollars a year and counting. Adjusted for inflation, that means it’s higher than at the height of President Ronald Reagan’s massive buildup of the 1980s and is now nearing the post-World War II funding peak. And yet that’s barely half the story. There are hundreds of billions of dollars in “defense” spending that aren’t even counted in the Pentagon budget.
Under the circumstances, laying all this out in grisly detail — and believe me, when you dive into the figures, they couldn’t be grislier — is the only way to offer a better sense of the true costs of our wars past, present, and future, and of the funding that is the lifeblood of the national security state. When you do that, you end up with no less than 10 categories of national security spending (only one of which is the Pentagon budget). So steel yourself for a tour of our nation’s trillion-dollar-plus “national security” budget. Given the Pentagon’s penchant for wasting money and our government’s record of engaging in dangerously misguided wars without end, it’s clear that a large portion of this massive investment of taxpayer dollars isn’t making anyone any safer.
1) The Pentagon Budget: The Pentagon’s “base” or regular budget contains the costs of the peacetime training, arming, and operation of the U.S. military and of the massive civilian workforce that supports it — and if waste is your Eden, then you’re in paradise.
The department’s budget is awash in waste, as you might expect from the only major federal agency that has never passed an audit. For example, last year a report by the Defense Business Board, a Pentagon advisory panel, found that the Department of Defense could save $125 billion over five years just by trimming excess bureaucracy. And a new study by the Pentagon’s Inspector General indicates that the department has ignored hundreds of recommendations that could have saved it more than $33.6 billion.
The Pentagon can’t even get an accurate count of the number of private contractors it employs, but the figure is certainly in the range of 600,000 or higher, and many of them carry out tasks that might far better be handled by government employees. Cutting that enormous contractor work force by just 15%, only a start when it comes to eliminating the unnecessary duplication involved in hiring government employees and private contractors to do the same work, would save an easy $20 billion annually.
And the items mentioned so far are only the most obvious examples of misguided expenditures at the Department of Defense. Even larger savings could be realized by scaling back the Pentagon’s global ambitions, which have caused nothing but trouble in the last decade and a half as the U.S. military has waged devastating and counterproductive wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and elsewhere across the Greater Middle East and Africa. An analysis by Ben Friedman of the libertarian Cato Institute estimates that the Pentagon could reduce its projected spending by one trillion dollars over the next decade if Washington reined in its interventionary instincts and focused only on America’s core interests.
Donald Trump, of course, ran for president as a businessman who would clean house and institute unprecedented efficiencies in government. Instead, on entering the Oval Office, he’s done a superb job of ignoring chronic problems at the Pentagon, proposing instead to give that department a hefty raise: $575 billion next year. And yet his expansive military funding plans look relatively mild compared to the desires of the gung-ho members of the armed services committees in the House and Senate. Democrats and Republicans alike want to hike the Pentagon budget to at least $600 billion or more. The legislative fight over a final number will play out over the rest of this year. For now, let’s just use Trump’s number as a placeholder.
Pentagon Budget: $575 billion
2) The War Budget: The wars of this century, from Iraq to Afghanistan and beyond, have largely been paid for through a special account that lies outside the regular Pentagon budget. This war budget — known in the antiseptic language of the Pentagon as the “Overseas Contingency Operations” account, or OCO — peaked at more than $180 billion at the height of the Bush administration’s intervention in Iraq.
As troop numbers in that country and Afghanistan have plumetted from hundreds of thousands to about 15,000, the war budget, miraculously enough, hasn’t fallen at anywhere near the same pace. That’s because it’s not even subject to the modest caps on the Pentagon’s regular budget imposed by Congress back in 2011, as part of a deal to keep the government open.
In reality, over the past five years, the war budget has become a slush fund that pays for tens of billions of dollars in Pentagon expenses that have nothing to do with fighting wars. The Trump administration wants $64.6 billion for that boondoggle budget in fiscal year 2018. Some in Congress would like to hike it another $10 billion. For consistency, we’ll again use the Trump number as a baseline.
War Budget: $64.6 Billion
Running Total: $639.6 Billion
3) Nuclear Warheads (and more): You might think that the most powerful weapons in the U.S. arsenal — nuclear warheads — would be paid for out of the Pentagon budget. And you would, of course, be wrong. The cost of researching, developing, maintaining, and “modernizing” the American arsenal of 6,800 nuclear warheads falls to an obscure agency located inside the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA. It also works on naval nuclear reactors, pays for the environmental cleanup of nuclear weapons facilities, and funds the nation’s three nuclear weapons laboratories, at a total annual cost of more than $20 billion per year.
Department of Energy (nuclear): $20 Billion
4) “Other Defense”: This catchall category encompasses a number of flows of defense-related funding that go to agencies other than the Pentagon. It totals about $8 billion per year. In recent years, about two-thirds of this money has gone to pay for the homeland security activities of the FBI, accounting for more than half of that agency’s annual budget.
“Other Defense”: $8 Billion
The four categories above make up what the White House budget office considers total spending on “national defense.” But I’m sure you won’t be shocked to learn that their cumulative $677.6 billion represents far from the full story. So let’s keep right on going.
5) Homeland Security: After the 9/11 attacks, Congress created a mega-agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It absorbed 22 then-existing entities, all involved in internal security and border protection, creating the sprawling cabinet department that now has 240,000 employees. For those of you keeping score at home, the agencies and other entities currently under the umbrella of DHS include the Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, the Transportation Security Agency, the U.S. Secret Service, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), and the Office of Intelligence Analysis (the only one of America’s 17 intelligence agencies to fit under the department’s rubric).
How many of these agencies actually make us safer? That would be a debatable topic, if anyone were actually interested in such a debate. ICE — America’s deportation force — has, for instance, done far more to cause suffering than to protect us from criminals or terrorists. On the other hand, it’s reassuring to know that there is an office charged with determining whether there is a nuclear weapon or radioactive “dirty bomb” in our midst.
While it’s hard to outdo the Pentagon, DHS has its own record of dubious expenditures on items large and small. They range from $1,000 fees for employees to attend conferences at spas to the purchase of bagpipes for border protection personnel to the payment of scores of remarkably fat salaries to agency bureaucrats. On the occasion of its 10th anniversary in 2013, Congressman Jeff Duncan (R-SC) excoriated the department as “rife with waste,” among other things, pointing to a report by the DHS inspector general that it had misspent over $1 billion.
DHS was supposed to provide a better focus for efforts to protect the United States from internal threats. Its biggest problem, though, may be that it has become a magnet for increased funding for haphazard, misplaced, and often simply dangerous initiatives. These would, for instance, include its program to supply grants to local law enforcement agencies to help them buy military-grade equipment to be deployed not against terrorists, but against citizens protesting the injustices perpetrated by the very same agencies being armed by DHS.
The Trump administration has proposed spending $50 billion on DHS in FY 2018.
Homeland Security: $50 Billion
6) Military Aid: U.S. government-run military aid programs have proliferated rapidly in this century. The United States now has scores of arms and training programs serving more than 140 countries. They cost more than $18 billion per year, with about 40% of that total located in the State Department’s budget. While the Pentagon’s share has already been accounted for, the $7 billion at State — which can ill afford to pay for such programs with the Trump administration seeking to gut the rest of its budget — has not.
Military Aid at the State Department: $7 Billion
7) Intelligence: The United States government has 16 separate intelligence agencies: the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); the National Security Agency (NSA); the Defense Intelligence Agency; the FBI; the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research; the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence Analysis; the Drug Enforcement Administration Office of National Security Intelligence; the Treasury Department Office of Intelligence and Analysis; the Department of Energy Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence; the National Reconnaissance Office; the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency; Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance; Army Military Intelligence; the Office of Naval Intelligence; Marine Corps Intelligence; and Coast Guard Intelligence. Add to these the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which is supposed to coordinate this far-flung intelligence network, and you have a grand total of 17 agencies.
The U.S. will spend more than $70 billion on intelligence this year, spread across all these agencies. The bulk of this funding is contained in the Pentagon budget — including the budgets of the CIA and the NSA (believed to be hidden under obscure line items there). At most, a few billion dollars in additional expenditures on intelligence fall outside the Pentagon budget and since, given the secrecy involved, that figure can’t be determined, let’s not add anything further to our running tally.
Intelligence: $70 Billion (mostly contained inside the Pentagon budget)
8) Supporting Veterans: A steady uptick of veterans generated by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has dramatically increased the costs of supporting such vets once they come home, including the war wounded, some of whom will need medical care for life. For 2018, the Veterans Administration has requested over $186 billion for its budget, more than three times what it was before the 2001 intervention in Afghanistan.
Veterans: $186 billion
9) Military Retirement: The trust fund set up to cover pensions for military retirees and their survivors doesn’t have enough money to pay out all the benefits promised to these individuals. As a result, it is supplemented annually by an appropriation from the general revenues of the government. That supplement has by now reached roughly $80 billion per year.
Military Retirement: $80 Billion
10) Defense Share of Interest on the Debt: It’s no secret that the U.S. government regularly runs at a deficit and that the total national debt is growing. It may be more surprising to learn that the interest on that debt runs at roughly $500 billion per year. The Project on Government Oversight calculates the share of the interest on that debt generated by defense-related programs at more than $100 billion annually.
Defense Share of the Interest on the Debt: $100 billion
Grand Total: $1.09 Trillion
That final annual tally of nearly $1.1 trillion to pay for past wars, fund current wars, and prepare for possible future conflicts is roughly double the already staggering $575 billion the Trump administration has proposed as the Pentagon’s regular budget for 2018. Most taxpayers have no idea that more than a trillion dollars a year is going to what’s still called “defense,” but these days might equally be called national insecurity.
So the next time you hear the president, the secretary of defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or a hawkish lawmaker claim that the U.S. military is practically collapsing from a lack of funding, don’t believe it for a second. Donald Trump may finally have put plutocracy in the Oval Office, but a militarized version of it has long been ensconced in the Pentagon and the rest of the national security state. In government terms, make no mistake about it, the Pentagon & Co. are the 1%.
William D. Hartung, a TomDispatch regular, is the director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy and the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex.
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Copyright 2017 William D. Hartung
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Judicial Watch • Obamacare: Multi-Million Dollar Corruption Central
Obamacare: Multi-Million Dollar Corruption Central
In a frightening glimpse of the potential for corruption in Obamacare, the government is giving dozens of leftist organizations $67 million to help people “navigate” health insurance exchanges that haven’t even been fully established.
The “navigators” receiving the taxpayer dollars will help people shop for and enroll in plans that will eventually be available on the new federal government market places. The so-called navigators will perform their duties in a “culturally competent manner,” according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency doling out the cash.
The money will be divided between 105 mostly leftist groups (surprise, surprise) that will help the uninsured sign up for coverage and understand their options. Here are a few examples of the community organizations receiving navigator grants from the government; an Arizona nonprofit called “Campesinos Sin Fronteras” that provides services to farm workers and low-income Hispanics; a south Florida legal group that will provide navigators in “racially, ethnically, linguistically, culturally and socioeconomically diverse” communities; three Planned Parenthood branches—in Iowa, Montana and New Hampshire—got a combined $655,000 to serve as navigators.
Here are a few other grant recipients worth mentioning; the Arab Community Center in Michigan is getting nearly $300,000 to reach out to and engage uninsured community members through “multicultural” media. A Black Chamber of Commerce in South Carolina is receiving north of $230,000 to “provide outreach around new coverage options” and a Hispanic aging group in Texas will receive over $646,000 help members that are “socially isolated due to cultural and linguistic differences.”
It’s tough not to see that there is a huge racial component in the administration’s efforts. The government is spending big bucks targeting minorities in a seemingly desperate effort to salvage the president’s hostile takeover of the nation’ healthcare system. There is another factor in all of this; for Obama’s healthcare law to succeed millions of people must purchase insurance through the government’s new markets and it doesn’t appear like that’s going to happen.
That helps explain the frantic, multi-million-dollar outreach effort announced this month. HHS has already launched a 24-hour consumer call center in 150 languages. Additionally, the administration has recruited museums and libraries to help out with signing up people for healthcare and community health centers are sharing $150 million in federal grants to help enroll people. The $67 million navigator initiative is simply the latest investment.
“Navigators will be among the many resources available to help consumers understand their coverage options in the Marketplace,” says Obama HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “A network of volunteers on the ground in every state – health care providers, business leaders, faith leaders, community groups, advocates, and local elected officials – can help spread the word and encourage their neighbors to get enrolled.”
Also, this week HHS announced a contest that awards cash prizes—$30,000 in all—to those who create hip videos promoting Obamacare. The goal behind that brilliant idea is to inform young people about health insurance coverage under the new law. After all, Obamacare promises to make health care “more affordable and accessible for 19 million uninsured young adults across the country,” according to an HHS.
There seems to be no limit to the administration’s costly plan to make this disastrous healthcare law work. Just this week the president’s hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, blasted Obamacare in an editorial that referred to the measure as a “clumsy monstrosity.” The bottom line, according to the editorial: “Let’s delay and rewrite this ill-conceived law.”
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by LandonBuford April 27, 2019, 2:36 am 970 Views 1 Votes
Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images
After the Warriors beat and eliminate the Los Angeles Clippers in six games. Cameron Buford of the LA Observer asked Kevin Durant if he would be willing to lend his name to bring the Sonics back to Seattle? The city of Seattle has a meeting scheduled for May 13, by the city of Seattle and the Sonics will be one of the topics that will be discussed according to Cam Buford.
Durant replied, “Since we left, I’ve been screaming that a team needs to go there.”
It has been 11 years since Starbucks Founder and former CEO Howard Schultz sold the Seattle Supersonics to Oklahoma City businessman Clay Bennett. Schultz sold the team to Bennett on the condition that the Professional Basketball Club LLC (PBC) would execute a “good faith effort” to get a deal down for a new arena in the Seattle. To keep the Sonics in the city of Seattle. After the city of Seattle turn down a deal to pay for a $500 million dollar arena, Bennett notified the NBA that he would like to relocate the team to Oklahoma City. After Schultz tried to sue Bennett seeking to rescind the sale of the Sonics and transfer the ownership.
Unfortunately, the NBA stated that the sale was void because Schultz signed a release form that did not allow him to sue Bennett’s group, but he would later argue that the proposal would have broken league ownership rules. After being overruled Shultz would then drop the lawsuit. Clearing the way for Bennett to relocate the team to Oklahoma City and changed the name to from the Supersonics to Thunder.
Since the Sonics left the Emerald city prominent public figures such as Gary Payton, Spencer Haywood, Russell Wilson, Walter Jones, Rashard Lewis, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Durant, Nate Robinson, Jamal Crawford, Sue Bird, and Breanna Stewart have all voiced the need for the team to comeback to Seattle.
In 2013, the Hansen-Ballmer group, which consisted of hedge fund manager Chris Hansen, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and the Nordstrom family would agree to purchase 65 percent of the Sacramento Kings. However, The deal would fall through because the NBA allowed Sacramento Mayor at the time, Kevin Johnson, to put a financial group together to purchase the Kings from the NBA. The year after, the Hansen-Ballmer attempted to purchase the Milwaukee Bucks for $650 million and move the team to Seattle according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst. If the deal went through at the time, the group would have needed to pay an additional $150 million for the relocation fee. Instead, the team was sold to hedge fund billionaires Wesley Edens and Marc Lasry.
Fast Forward a couple of years, Ballmer is now the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers and Seattle is still looking for a team.
In 2016, Seattle Seahawks Quarterback Russell Wilson joined the Sodo arena group to bring NBA, and NHL to Seattle headed by Chris Hansen.
“I’m excited to announce I’ve partnered w/the Sonics Arena Group to help bring the @NBA and @NHL to the best fan base in the world. Seattle,’’ said Wilson.
“There is no place like the Emerald City. The positive impact sports has on our kids and many generations to come, and bringing different cultures and people together is what motivates and inspires me’’ said Wilson.
I’m excited to announce I’ve partnered w/ the Sonics Arena Group to help bring the @NBA & @NHL to the best fan base in the world.
Seattle.
— Russell Wilson (@DangeRussWilson) November 14, 2016
“We couldn’t be more thrilled that Russell is joining our partnership and continued efforts to bring the NBA and NHL back to Seattle, said Hansen.“
“As you are all aware, we have always kept our focus on doing this for the right reasons – Our love for the City, our love of basketball, and our belief that pro sports has the ability to positively influence our youth and bring communities together in a way very few things in this world can.“
“It is with this shared view that we welcome Russell, a young, smart and passionate entrepreneur, as our business partner. We know that his enthusiasm, positivity and ‘never give up’ attitude will make a huge difference in our effort.’’
Last year, I spoke with Hall of Famer and former Seattle Seahawk Walter Jones and asked him if he had any interest adding his name into the mix.
”If someone came and asked me to be a part of it, I would be interested. I know Dwyane Wade said something about it and once we get a Hockey team, it will become more of a reality of getting a basketball team. We must get an arena first, and a couple of years ago we thought it was going to happen with the Kings coming, but Seattle is my home now. I hope to still be around to see another NBA team come here,” Jones told me.
Jones also shared with me that he was approached about possibly joining the NHL ownership group to bring an NHL franchise to the Emerald City.
Former Seattle Seahawk and Founder of Will Ventures, Isaiah Kacyvenski is willing to be part of an investment group:
”I would absolutely love to be a part of an investment group that brings the Sonics back to Seattle. I was a huge fan of the Sonics when I played in Seattle and look at that as a great opportunity,” Kacyvenski told me.
During a visit to Seattle, last summer I presented the same question to future Hall of Famers Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart:
“If by hat you mean money, that is a different question, but being someone that was here when the Sonics were here. I love that people are talking about it not just Dwyane Wade, but other people throughout the NBA and even Russell Wilson in the NFL. People have been talking about wanting the Sonics back, and it has obviously been the topic of conversation since they left. I think for us anything we can do to help I do not think it would be a monetary thing or not.” Says Bird.
“I don’t think it is a monetary thing, so much, I feel enough people would invest in it. It’s just actually getting them here.” Said Stewart.
Bird would continue by stating that she thinks it will happen and “the fact that people are talking about it the process will happen sooner. ” I would love to be a part of anything and anyone that is trying to bring the Sonics here.”
Seattle native and three-time slam dunk champion Nate Robinson is someone that not only wants to purchase a share of the team, but he also wants to play for the Sonics:
”Would I? Of course, I would, but would not want just a percentage I want to play for Seattle. After I played, then I would like to own an interest in the team. I would like to show what I can offer as an owner and what we expect in our players while giving an opportunity for someone like myself that is hungry and wants to play hard. I want to be a part of building and developing a winning culture,” Robinson told me.
Kevin Durant, who was drafted second overall in the 2007 Draft by the Seattle Supersonics has been an advocate over the years. Keeping the conversation of having a team in Seattle alive share with me earlier this season that he would be interested in purchasing a piece of the Sonics after his career was over.
”Hell Yeah” I would love to, but it is way easier to say, yeah I want to part of than know how to do it,” Durant told me.
He added:” Hell Yeah, I would do that.” That would be so much fun to bring basketball back to Seattle and try to build a winning team. As someone that enjoys the business as well, but understands the pure game of basketball. Especially, in Seattle that would be sweet. That has always been a dream of mine to run an NBA franchise and help lead young players and young people as I get older that would be an amazing experience.”
”That would be a dream come true because all I really want to do with my time on earth is be around basketball. If I can’t play anymore that would be the next best option.”
Kevin Durant shares his thoughts on possibly owning a piece of the Seattle Supersonics one day, and his interest in putting together a winning team, while mentoring young players. #KevinDurant #SeattleSupersonics #Seattle pic.twitter.com/o4VOVhbMG9
— Landon Buford (@LandonBuford) November 23, 2018
Former Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck is interested in owning a piece of ever Seattle based franchises.
“Hundred percent! I would be interested in purchasing a piece of the Sonics, Sounders, Seahawks, The Mariners, the NHL team that is coming to Seattle, and don’t forget the Storm,“ Hasselbeck told me.
As for the Warriors, they will begin their second-round series against the Rockets on Sunday at Noon PM PST at Oracle Arena.
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India, Pakistan Narrow Down Differences on Kartarpur Corridor
World ANI Jul 14, 2019 05:19 PM IST
Representational image. (Photo Credits: ANI)
Wagah, July 14: India and Pakistan on Sunday were able to further narrow down their differences on Kartarpur corridor and said that they have agreed to the majority of modalities to be finalised for the operational of Sikh pilgrimage passage. The two countries also agreed to hold another meeting to formally conclude the agreement.
"We have been able to narrow down the differences since the first meeting held on March 14, 2019. Our technical teams will meet further to ensure seamless connectivity. Details will be further worked out," SCL Das, Joint Secretary, Internal Security, in India's Ministry of Home Affairs, told media persons. 1st India-Pakistan Meeting on Kartarpur Sahib Corridor ‘Constructive’, Says Pakistan Foreign Ministry.
Das, who led the Indian delegation during the second Joint Secretary-level talks with Pakistan in Wagah, Pakistan, said: "Both sides have agreed to maintain a channel of communication and work towards finalisation on the agreement of modalities. If required, our delegations could meet in India to formally concluding the agreement."
Mohammed Faisal, the spokesperson of Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign affairs, said that 80 per cent of the agreement has been finalised. "More than 80 per cent of the agreement has been agreed and one or so meeting will be required," added Faizal, who also led Pakistan delegation. The Kartarpur corridor along the India-Pakistan border is three kilometres away from Gurdaspur in Punjab, India. Once opened, this corridor will allow Sikh pilgrims direct access to the historic Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur in Pakistan, where Guru Nanak Dev passed away in 1539.
Sunday's meeting also reviewed the progress reached in the three rounds of a technical meeting held in March, April and May 2019. The two sides endorsed the crossing point or the 'zero point' coordinates that were agreed to at the technical level. Apart from Das, the Indian delegation was led by Deepak Mittal, Joint Secretary, PAI--Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, in the Ministry of External Affairs.Other officials included Rajeev Singh Thakur, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Parag Jain, Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Avi Prakash, Joint Director, IB, Hussan Lal, Secretary, Public Works Department, Punjab, and Maneesh Rastogi, Chief General Manager of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
During the meeting, India expressed its concern over possible flooding of Dera Baba Nanak and adjoining areas in India due to the earth filled embankment road."We conveyed concerns regarding possible flooding of Dera Baba Nanak and adjoining areas in India as result of earth filled embankment road or causeway proposed to be built by Pakistan on their side," said Das.
He also said that India has reiterated its request that 5,000 pilgrims should be allowed to visit the Gurdwara every day and at least 10,000 extra pilgrims are allowed to visit on special occasions. "There should be no restrictions on the pilgrims in terms of their faith. Not only Indian nationals but also the Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) holding OCI cards should be allowed to use the Kartarpur corridor facility," he said.
India has also urged that the movement should be visa-free and Pakistan should reconsider charging any fee or introducing any permit system.Das also asked Pakistan to remove Pro-Khalistani Gopal Singh Chawla from the Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. "We have sought confirmation that individuals like Gopal Singh Chawla have been removed from the bodies where we have an objection to," he said.Islamabad has also assured India that no "anti-India activity" will be allowed by them.
"This is a corridor for peace. We want to end differences," Faisal told reporters after the meeting. Pakistan has agreed in-principle to India's demand for the construction of a bridge on the zero lines of the Kartarpur corridor to tackle the threat of the possible flooding of Dera Baba Nanak."
Details of the bridge that India is building on its side were shared, and Pakistan side was urged to also build a bridge on their side. This would not only address the flooding related concerns but would also ensure smooth, hassle-free, an all-weather pilgrimage to the holy Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib, throughout the year," said Das.
"Pakistan side agreed, in principle, to build a bridge at the earliest. Pending the construction of a bridge over the old Ravi creek by Pakistan on their territory, India offered to make interim arrangements for making the corridor operational in November 2019, given the historic importance of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji," added Das.
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Dating & Relationships Our Lives
Dateland: Hell Froze Over
By Jennifer Parello January 24, 2013
Categories: Dating & Relationships, Our Lives
This morning, as we were sitting on the couch drinking coffee, my girlfriend turned to me and said, “Do you think it’s odd that we feel so calm after what’s happened over the past 24 hours?”I had no idea what she was talking about. But then, I often don’t. She’s the type of person who starts a conversation in her head and doesn’t begin to include me until she’s well into her internal dialogue. After having a silent debate with herself for 15 minutes, she’ll look at me meaningfully and ask, “Don’t you agree?” I usually say, “Absolutely not! Your reasoning is deeply flawed!” This generally starts an argument, even though I have no clue what I’ve just disagreed with, which typically ends in awesome makeup sex.But, back to this morning.
Since I was a bit hungover and didn’t feel up to arguing or makeup sex, I responded, “What the hell are you talking about?”
“Don’t you think it’s strange that we had friendly encounters with four of our exes over the past 24 hours?” she explained.
“Oh, that!” I exclaimed. “Yes, and it all took place on Dec. 21, 2012, the day the Mayans predicted the world would end.”
This column will appear in Lavender in January, but I’m writing it on Dec. 22, the day after the Mayans said the world would end. Here are the remarkable events that happened to me on that day:
• At 6 a.m., one of my exes, who once vowed to never speak my name or any other female name beginning with the letter “J”, sent me an email warning me of an impending crisis that threatened one of my large work contracts. I was able to prevent this disaster thanks to her communiqué. Even though she addressed me as “Ennifer,” clearly telegraphing that her boycott of the letter “J” was still in place, she signed the email with “xoxo.”
• At noon, I got a call from my girlfriend’s ex, who wanted to commiserate over their 12-year-old son’s new flirtation with teenaged sulkiness. My girlfriend had ended a long-term relationship with this woman shortly before we got together, and for years I was terrified that her ex blamed me for the breakup. But, now, we get along so well that my girlfriend fears that I’ll leave her for her ex.
• In late afternoon, I got a text from my most recent ex. We live across the street from each other, which had once created an East/West Berlin situation in our small town. Friends who wanted to visit me (the villain in the breakup) would have to do so under the cover of darkness so that gunman from my ex’s side of the street didn’t shoot them down for treason. But middle-aged malaise and new romantic dramas have established a fragile peace in the neighborhood. My ex wrote to alert me that my dogs had escaped my yard while I was at work, and that she had corralled them and returned them to my house.
• At 6 p.m., we met my girlfriend’s former mistress for dinner. She was so jealous when my girlfriend and I got together that she’d loudly broadcast angry messages from the answering machine demanding that we take our hands off each other and get out of bed. I refused to meet her for years. Now, we meet for dinner regularly and exchange gifts at Christmas.
Looking back on the events of Dec. 21, 2012, it’s clear to me that the interpretation of the Mayan prediction was wrong. They didn’t predict that the world would end. Rather, they said that it was the day that hell would freeze over. And they were right.
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In new book, Stern talks regret, and how therapy changed him
Photo: AP. Howard Stern
NEW YORK (AP) — Howard Stern has never been shy about pushing boundaries or offending anyone. Yet the self-proclaimed "King of All Media" wrestled with the idea of including his interview with Harvey Weinstein in his new book, "Howard Stern Comes Again."
The book is a collection of interviews from Stern's radio show interspersed with details about his own life.
He told The Associated Press that he worried his interview with Weinstein, accused of sexual assault, would traumatize alleged victims if it was reprinted in the book. But Stern ultimately saw value in including an excerpt from the 2014 interview on his SiriusXM show, in which he asks about the rumored "casting couch" and Weinstein eloquently denies it. To Stern, it was a perfect example of hypocrisy.
"He gives me such a beautiful answer on how that can't be in his world, how the films can't be that way, how people need to feel safe," Stern said. "In other words, he knew everything you should do and say. This is not a guy who didn't know better. But he couldn't control himself and like so many hypocrites ... He knew." (Weinstein has denied all allegations of sexual assault and has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges against him.)
Stern offers up plenty of other life lessons in his latest book, some from the many interviews he has conducted over a decades-long career and some from his past.
In a recent interview with The AP, Stern talked about what he's learned and what he regrets:
THE GIFT OF THERAPY
Stern credits psychoanalysis with helping him overcome some demons.
"I had some growing up to do," he said.
The process didn't begin well. Seems Stern forgot that therapy wasn't the same as hosting his radio show.
"I was literally sitting there trying to make him laugh and entertain him, and he caught on right away. He said 'What are you doing? I don't find any of this funny. I find some of it sad,'" he recalled.
"It was mind-blowing to me for the first time to be heard like that."
Those sessions also made him a better interviewer, he said.
"What ended up happening, not even through some sort of conscious effort — I would sit down with people and say gee, I would love to let them be heard."
THE MEAN SIDE OF HIS INTERVIEWS
Stern said insecurities early in his career kept him from feeling happy.
"When I was on K-Rock (in New York) and syndicated around the country, the programming guy said to me, 'One in every four cars on the Long Island Expressway is listening to you,'" Stern said. "Instead of being happy, I'd be depressed. I'd be like, what about the other three cars?"
His unreasonable expectations led him to treat some of his guests badly, he said.
AN APOLOGY NEVER HEARD
Regrets in the studio? His treatment of the late Robin Williams tops the list.
"Instead of him learning that I was a big fan of his, I would just club him with a question that was ridiculous, you know, like about his nanny. He married his nanny or something like that," Stern said.
"I literally was going to pick up the phone the week that he killed himself," Stern said. "I would have just said to him, you know, Robin, I want to apologize. I'm such a fan of yours and I was in such a deep hole in my life. ... Not trying to get him to come on the show again or anything like that but just to say, look, I didn't get it right. I was being an (expletive)."
HEALTH SCARE
Two years ago, Stern took a rare day off from work, and when he came back on the air, he joked about having the flu. But it was a little more serious.
He had a suspicious growth on his kidney and a low white blood cell count, which he feared was cancer. After a surgical procedure, the problem was revealed to be a small, benign cyst.
Still, it challenged his sense of invincibility.
"I was nervous to bring it up. It was a way of confronting my own mortality, and it brought me to this book," Stern said.
A PRE-PRESIDENTIAL FRIENDSHIP
Donald Trump was one of Stern's favorite guests before he assumed the presidency, and that's reflected in the book.
"I had to include Donald Trump because so much was made of my interviews with him," Stern said. During Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, excerpts from those interviews were often the topic of political shows.
"I tried to do little snapshots throughout the book — 'and now a word from our president' — because I was trying to show you a transition from great talk show guest to politician," Stern said.
Those wild conversations covered everything from mocking a presidential run to details of Trump's sex life. Stern says their relationship soured when Stern declined to endorse Trump.
"I really felt Hillary Clinton would have been the better choice because she was a career politician who had proven herself in many different areas," Stern said.
Trump is welcome to come back on the show, he said, but the line of questioning would not be as casual.
"It wouldn't be like the old days, that's for sure," he said. "I'd have to ask him some questions which probably wouldn't really be framed for my show."
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Pro-Abortion Obamacare Entirely as Unconstitutional
Steven Ertelt Dec 15, 2018 | 9:34AM Washington, DC
A federal judge in Texas has issued a ruling striking down the entirety of Obamacare, although whether the decision to strike down the pro-abortion government insurance program will last permanently is another question.
Several Republican state attorneys general argued in their lawsuit that the repeal of the tax penalty gutted the argument for Obamacare itself. According to news reports, the Trump administration tried to argue that the individual mandate alone should be struck down, but keep the rest of the law intact. That included Medicaid expansion, the employer mandates, the exchanges, and premium subsides for hospitals. But the judge ruled the mandate and the rest of the law couldn’t be separated.
But the ruling may not stand. As one conservative analyst writes:
Don’t fall in love with this ruling, as I’m seeing that it a) probably won’t survive an appeal, which is going to happen; and b) it’s not an injunction. In short, law Twitter is saying that the judge’s ruling merely treats the “motion for a preliminary injunction as a request for summary judgment.”
Here’s more on the ruling:
The ruling is certain to be appealed, and legal experts in both parties have said they ultimately expect the challenge to the health law will not succeed. ObamaCare will remain in effect while the case is appealed.
President Trump took to Twitter on Friday night to tout the judge’s ruling while calling on congressional leaders to work on a new law, despite the chances of Congress passing a replacement law that both parties can agree being essentially zero.
“Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions. Mitch and Nancy, get it done!” Trump tweeted, referring to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and expected incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
O’Connor, an appointee of President George W. Bush, acknowledged in his ruling that health care is a “politically charged affair — inflaming emotions and testing civility.”
But he added courts “are not tasked with, nor are they suited to, policymaking.” Instead, he said they must determine what the Constitution requires. In this, case O’Connor said the Constitution does not allow the mandate to stand.
The reasoning of the ruling states that in 2012, the Supreme Court upheld the mandate to have coverage because of Congress’s power to tax. But, last year, Congress removed the fine for failing to comply with the mandate, which, he argues, means the mandate is no longer a tax and therefore is unconstitutional.
In a controversial move, the judge added that because the mandate is “essential” to the rest of the law, without the mandate, the entire law is invalid.
The 2019 enrollment period started on November 1 and runs through December 15 in most states.
As LifeNews has reported, for the fifth year in a row, Family Research Council and the Charlotte Lozier Institute have joined forces to bring transparency to Obamacare by providing consumers with information about which plans on the 2019 exchanges cover elective abortion.
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