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BSA >> Media Centre >> Press Releases >> 2018 >> December >> Snobbery today ‘more likely to be about Christmas decorations and other cultural tastes’, says book
Snobbery today ‘more likely to be about Christmas decorations and other cultural tastes’, says book
Snobbery has changed over the centuries and is today dominated by different tastes in house decoration, food and wine, a new book says.
In Snobbery, published today [12 December 2018], Professor David Morgan charts a change in snobbery from the 19th century onwards, when people looked down upon others simply because they were in a lower class, to today, where it is the cultural tastes of people which are disdained.
“The possibilities of snobberies based upon position declined in the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries,” he writes. This was because class became more complex, as industrialisation meant a different class of people could become rich and acquire land.
Instead, a new snobbery took over, one based on people’s education and tastes. “While established hierarchies based upon positions may be waning (but never completely disappearing), new distinctions based upon the possession of economic, cultural and social capitals have emerged and become increasingly significant.”
This means that people who are not well educated, and lack the ‘right’ taste in house decoration, food and wines, are now at risk of encountering snobbery, says Professor Morgan, an expert on family life and personal relationships.
One example of this snobbery is displays of Christmas lights. “Some houses in districts identified as working class are a riot of lights around the Christmas period. The lights may be flashing or depicting Santa and his reindeer or any other familiar festive themes. They may be seen as examples of ‘chav bling’ and of the excess and lack of subtlety that are the object of other expressions of disapproval.”
Also, “Food and eating constitute prominent features in the contemporary snobscape. Within this broad area, wine snobbery constitutes a particularly prominent peak.”
“Education, with the conventional and often lazy associations with themes of intelligence and meritocracy, is a great divider, not simply between classes but also between generations. An education that seeks to teach an appreciation of the finer things in life can also have the consequences, unintended or otherwise, of creating in its recipients a sense of being the finer sorts of people.
“Modern snobberies are based upon possessions (economic and cultural) rather than upon positions. Further, this tends to mean that when we use the word ‘snob’ today we are more likely to use it to refer to a looking-down on somebody rather than, as was more frequently the case in the past, a looking-up to or a desire to be associated with those higher in the social order.”
This snobbery of tastes ultimately “derives from the complexities of social class relationships – just as class continues to be important, so too does snobbery. It would therefore seem unlikely that we could eliminate snobbery...without first eliminating the divisions that give rise to it.”
He says that understanding snobbery is important as it is “felt as a hurt because of its association with shame and pride and the denial of a recognition that the recipient feels is due. Snobbery matters because of the numbers of people who can recall being ‘put down’, directly or indirectly, in some social encounter or another. It refers to the cuts, the snubs, the put-downs and the sense of exclusion felt by those who are on the receiving end of snobbery.
“To give a small personal example, I can still recall the discomfort I felt when being told that ‘almost anybody’ could get into Hull University [in the 1950s], which happened to be the university I was about to go to.”
Tony Trueman
Email: tony.trueman@britsoc.org.uk
Review copies are available from Kathryn King at Policy Press.
David Morgan is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. The Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life at Manchester was established in his name in 2005.
Snobbery by David Morgan: Paperback ISBN 978-1447340348, price £10.39. It can be ordered from the Policy Press website: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/snobbery
Snobbery is published by the British Sociological Association and Policy Press and as part of their joint ‘21st Century Standpoints’ book series, which brings important sociological work to non-specialist and academic audiences. The next books in the series will be What's Wrong with Work? by Lynne Pettinger and Money by Mary Mellor. The series editors are Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London, Professor Pamela Cox, University of Essex, and Professor Nasar Meer, University of Edinburgh.
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Tim Minchin and a bit of Shaun Micallef
I remember seeing Kitty Flanagan at the Harold Park Hotel in the inner city Sydney suburb of Glebe nearly a decade ago, when Stand & Deliver! was a photocopied zine whose copies barely outnumbered issues (Richard Neville speaks of being able to afford to travel back to England after selling issues of Oz along the Rue St Germaine; I occasionally had busfair home to North Manly after selling issues at the Harold Park Hotel!)
Kitty was back on the stand-up circuit after having been a castmember of Full Frontal, the sketch comedy show into which Fast Forward evolved after some cast changes. Then, as now, Kitty was hilarious on stage, and down-to-earth and approachable off, and so the opportunity to feature her as a ‘co-host’ was a pleasure, so much so that it turned into quite a yack-fest; there probably should be one more bit of comedy somewhere in the last fifteen minutes. But Kitty, her work and her attitude to it are all entertaining enough – and besides, you should be going out and seeing live comedy, rather than merely downloading it and enjoying it in the confines of your own headphones.
In addition to Kitty Flanagan, there are just too many quality Aussie comics who have decide to expatriate themselves to the UK, many of whom we don’t see enough of back home. At least Hillsy and Tim Minchin return often enough to make their inclusion in this episode a popular choice, as well as an easy one.
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OPENING THEME [1]
Announcer: And now for something somewhat derivative.
Soundbite: The ‘Theme to Radio Ha Ha’ plays ever-so-briefly before the stylus of the record is brought across the vinyl, bringing it to an abrupt end in time for:
Announcer: Stand and deliver!
Song: ‘Theme to No Wucken Forries’ (edited version)
Dom: Hello and welcome to what will be Episode 2 of Stand & Deliver! I consider this ‘The Expat Aussie Comics in London who Come Home for Christmas Episode’, because my co-host is Kitty Flanagan who is back in Sydney for a short time, at the end of year, back from her London existance.
Kitty Flanagan: Yes, I’m home for the summer.
Dom: How are you, Kitty?
Kitty Flanagan: I’m very well, thank you, Dom
Dom: Are you happy to be home for the summer?
Kitty Flanagan: I love it. I’m in love with manly at the moment. I’m living with my parents and I'm having the best time. It’s quite odd. It’s like being eighteen again, except I like my parents this time round. It’s great. I just stay at home and hang around with them. Eat dinner, they let me borrow the car, it’s terrific. I'm such a dag. It’s great. And I can’t get home early enough. I love getting home and hanging out with them, going, ‘let’s have another glass of wine,’ got good food… it’s unreal. Hang out with you’re parents more. That’s my message to the kids.
Dom: Well, we’ll talk about…
Kitty Flanagan: Your parents are good peeps! C’mon!
Look at me speaking the language of the kids.
Dom: We will talk about parents and kids in this episode, as we listen to some of your comedy, Kitty, but…
Kitty Flanagan:Yes.
Dom: We’re also going to hear from Tim Minchin, who is also an expat Aussie currently in the UK, but first, another expat Aussie comic in London who is back for the summer is Adam Hills.
Kitty Flanagan:Oh, Adam Hills? Who’s ever heard of him?!
I’m kidding! He’s so massive.
Dom: Here’s a bit of Adam Hills from his Live in the Suburbs DVD that’s out now through Roadshow.
LIVE STAND-UP
Soundbite: Adam Hills performs a routine dealing with the way we stereotypically sum up the speech patterns of people of other cultures; taken from his DVD Live in the Suburbs as released by ABC/Roadshow.
Station ID: Stand… stand… stand and deliver! [2]
Dom: That was Adam Hills from his DVD Adam Hills Live in the Suburbs, and he’s in one of the outer suburbs of Melbourne. [3] And that DVD is available now through Roadshow. Adam Hills is one of several favourite expat comics in London who come back for the summer.
Dom: Another favourite is Kitty Flanagan, who is sitting opposite me.
Kitty Flanagan: Yes.
Dom: … Welcome once again.
Kitty Flanagan: Thank you.
Dom: How is it when you come back? Do you go straight into gigs? Or do you need to ‘acclimatise’?
Kitty Flanagan: No, I love it. I love coming home because I’m ‘flavour of the month’ on so many levels. All my friends like seeing me, I get all the good gigs, I get a few extra bits and pieces, and then, just as everyone’s getting sick of me, I leave again. So it’s just the perfect crime to come home for one or two months a year, everyone loves you, and then you get out before everyone hates you again. Before they remember, “Oh yeah, I don’t really like her that much!” So it’s great. I love it!
Dom: So that’s your little scheme!
Kitty Flanagan: Yep.
Dom: That’s how it works!
Look, I saw you the other night at the Comedy Store.
Kitty Flanagan: I had a great week at the Comedy Store. As in, ‘I really enjoyed it’, not, ‘I was great’. Rather than sitting here trying to talk myself up, sitting here going, “Yeah, I was fantastic at the Comedy Store! Thank you!”
Dom: That’ll be my job. “Kitty was fantastic at the Comedy Store!”
Now, one of the bits that you did pretty early in your set on the night I was there was about the Sydney Tunnel. Not the Cross City Tunnel, the original Harbour Tunnel.
Kitty Flanagan: Well it wouldn’t be the Cross City Tunnel, because no one uses the Cross City Tunnel; that’s just sitting there empty.
Dom: I assume you can adapt material like ‘The Tunnel’ to where ever you are in the world that has a tunnel, which has got to be everywhere, these days.
Kitty Flanagan: Yeah, you can, to a point, but ordinarily I wouldn’t. I did that bit purely because it happened to me on the way over. I’d completely forgotten about it. I mean, obviously, everybody’s got ‘bits’, but I had actually forgotten that bit because I never actually do it in the UK because it’s quite specific to Sydney, but I was in the tunnel and it actually happened again and I went, “oh, that’s right, this happens in the tunnel…”. I’m now leading into my own bit to tell you “what happened in the tunnel”.
Dom: Let’s bring on the bit.
This is Kitty Flanagan recorded live at Sydney’s Original Comedy Store.
Soundbite: Kitty Flanagan performs her bit about the Sydney Harbour Tunnel, as recorded live at the Comedy Store.
Station ID: Stand… stand… stand and deliver!
Dom: You’re listening to Stand & Deliver! and that was Kitty Flanagan, recorded live at Sydney’s Original Comedy Store. And Kitty Flanagan’s appearing live opposite me as we record this episode of Stand & Deliver.
Kitty Flanagan: I am. I’m so live.
Dom: You are so live!
Kitty, I’m going to do something contentious.
Kitty Flanagan: Okay.
Dom: Are you ready?
“I don’t like women comics apart from Kitty Flanagan and Sarah Kendall and Fiona O’Loughlin ’cause they’re not really funny!”
Kitty Flanagan: Well that’s not contentious because at least you put me in there. It would have been rude if you’d said, “I don’t like women comics except Sarah Kendall and Fiona O’Louglin”. That would have been contentious with me being here live in the studio. I woud have said, “well that’s just plain rude, Dom, to not include me, even out of politeness.”
Dom: I am speaking the truth – people have said that to me. I don’t agree with it…
Kitty Flanagan: Yeah, I think people say it all the time. Not with the, “… except for …”, but I get that a lot after gigs. People come up to me, and they’re saying it as a compliment, but it is a very ‘back-handed’ compliment, to the point of being a slap in the face and then a compliment. They do always say, “Aah, you know, I saw you walk out and I just went, ‘Oh no, a woman!’ But you were funny.” And you just go, “Oh…”. Okay, well that’s nice, they’re telling me that I’m funny, but they’re also saying that, yeah, women comics do have a harder time of it because you come on with that preconception of, “Oh, it’s going to be rubbish; it’s a woman!” So you have to work hard in that opening five minutes to convince them that you’re not rubbish.
Soundbite: Kitty Flanagan performs her opening gambit – addressing the unspoken fears of a typical comedy-going audience regarding their common reaction to women comics, as recorded live at the Comedy Store.
Dom: So does the opinion that you just shouldn’t be as funny as you are – does that just come from people who don’t see enough comedy and don’t know any better?
Kitty Flanagan: I think people are always very passionate about comedy anyway. Whether it’s a sitcom or whether it’s a film, people have such strong opinions when it comes to comedy. They’ll always say, “That’s not funny!” Whereas, if you’re watching a drama or a romance, people don’t say, “That’s not dramatic!” or “That’s not romantic!” When it’s comedy, everybody’s got the opinion. Everyone knows what they think is funny and what isn’t and, in general, I think people have this presumption that women aren’t going to be funny. It can work to your advantage, because then you surprise them, and you pleasantly surprise them…
The other thing is, people don’t remember. If they see a woman comic – I think this is the most important bit: – if they see a woman comic and she’s not funny, they immediately go, “Tchoh! I knew it! Women aren’t funny!” Whereas they will sit through a dozen men not being funny and not at any point will they think, “oh, mean aren’t funny”. That never crosses their mind. But if they see one unfunny woman, it all of a sudden becomes, “Oh! Women aren’t funny!” and they get so, “Tsk! I told you women weren’t funny!”
Dom: I still think that comes down to, if you see enough comedy, you don’t think that way when you see one bad comic.
Kitty Flanagan: Well the other thing is, there’s not as many of us doing it. It is down to numbers as well. I don’t know if these statistics are right, so obviously, I’m pulling them out of the filing cabinet in my arse, but say for example, Dom, there are a hundred comics. Of those hundred comics, only ten will be women.
Sorry, this probably isn’t good radio because I need some charts.
Ten are women; there’ll be ninety men. Now if ten percent of comics are funny, that means that one out of the ten women will be funny, however you’ve got ninety male comics, and ten percent of that is nine. So for every one funny female you’ve got nine funny men.
Dom: And so people will naturally assume, because they see a lot more funny men, that women [are not as funny].
Kitty Flanagan: Yeah. I think so. Or, basically, we should just it back in my arse, where those statistics belong. I think that might be a better place for that.
Dom: I think the final thing is, people ought to see more comedy and get a broader view of things.
Kitty Flanagan: Yeah. And maybe just sit there with an open mind when a woman comes on, and go, “Aaah, well this could be funny!” instead of going, “Tsoh! It’s a woman!” which is what most people do.
Soundbite: Kitty Flanagan talks about her UK success as proven by her ownership of stuff she bought herself as opposed to affording on welfare as a single mum, as recorded live at the Comedy Store.
Dom: You talk a lot about children at the moment.
Kitty Flanagan: I don’t know that I do. If you watched me do a forty minute set, there’d be maybe – I don’t know – five to seven minutes on kids.
Dom: You’re right. And that statistic isn’t a lot.
Kitty Flanagan: No, it’s not really. That’s not a massive bit. I probably talk more about travelling than I do about kids. That would be a larger part because that’s what I do. I don’t want people to get the idea that I get up there and bang on about kids, because, for a start, I don’t have any so I’m hardly a great authority on children.
Dom: I think that’s what makes the bit particularly funny.
Kitty Flanagan: Yeah. So when you say I’m talking about children, it’s not like I’m up there talking about my own children. I’m merely talking about those really irritating women that bring their kids into a café where I’m trying to enjoy a coffee. “Get out of my café, ladies! You’ve got the joy of children, let me me have the joy of coffee in peace, please.”
Dom: Let’s listen to a bit, because you also talk about teen mums, which, again…
Kitty Flanagan: Teen mums rock! I’m all for them.
Dom: Again, for someone who’s not a teen mum, you’re an awefully good authority from a comedic point of view.
Soundbite: Kitty Flanagan on motherhood as a young woman’s pass time, as recorded live at the Comedy Store.
Dom: Kitty Flanagan, again, recorded live at the Comedy Store, talking about teen mums.
Kitty, where do you get your information about teen mums? What inspires that bit of comedy?
Kitty Flanagan: Ummmmm… Going to the Central Coast and doing gigs at Mingara, maybe…
Dom: Can I just slip in a quick plug for your your website, there is a postcard from Mingara.
Kitty Flanagan: There is a postcard from Mingara, and I promise to anyone who looks at my website, if you do go there, I am going to start updating it, because I recently got this thing where you can see if people look at it, and it turns out that people actually do look at my website, whereas, I didn’t think they did, so I never bothered updating it. But now that I know there are people looking at it, I am going to address the fact that the same postcard from Mingara has been on there for over a year. Sorry about that.
Dom: www.kittyflanagan.com.
Kitty Flanagan: That’s it.
Dom: Now Kitty, on top of the…
Kitty Flanagan: Oh, can I tell you something really funny about the postcard from Mingara?
Dom: Please.
Kitty Flanagan: Now, with this new thing that I’ve got where you can look at stats and see who’s been looking at your website, you can also see what people googled to get your website up, and somebody – get this! – somebody was googling “nude teenagers” and up came my website because, in the postcard from Mingara, there is a reference about nude teenagers copulating in the sea. I’m just imagining this poor man’s disappointment: he’s got his pants off, he’s googling ‘nude teenagers’, he gets ‘Kitty Flanagan Gallery – nude teenagers copulating in the sea’, he thinks he’s going to be hittin’ on the jackpot of all these nude kids in the sea, and up comes my face going, “Hi! I’m doing gigs at all these venues and I’ve got my clothes on, and I’m thirty-eight; I’m not a teenager!” That man must have been so disappointed.
I know you’re out there, you pervert. Get off my website. And put your pants on!
Dom: In addition to… I’m sorry, I’m just going to laugh at that a bit longer…
Soundbite: ‘From Beginning To End’, by Psychedelic Spew.
Dom: Now in addition to your Central Coast experience, you’ve also got some insights about the mid-30s mothers.
Kitty Flanagan: Yeah, or, basically, all my friends.
Dom: Will they still be your friends when they listen to this?
Kitty Flanagan: Oh, probably not, but it doesn’t matter. I don’t want to be their friend anyway, now that they’ve got noisy kids screaming in my ear.
It’s not true. I love kids. My sister has three of them, and I adore them. I’m going to babysit them after this.
Soundbite: Kitty Flanagan on mature mums, recorded live at the Comedy Store.
Dom: Now Kitty, I’d just like to interrupt with a kind of an ad…
Kitty Flanagan: Yes
Dom: Registration has opened for Raw Comedy, a national competition that’s run by the Comedy Festival in conjunction with Triple J, that unearths new comedy. Young comics… or up-and-coming comics – ‘young’ is the wrong word; they can be of all ages! But they’re fresh comics…
Dom: Now, you never came through with a Raw Comedy, did you.
Kitty Flanagan: What are you saying? I wasn’t enough?
No, I’m just old. There was no competition – no Raw Comedy – when I started. There used to be a fantastic venue in Sydney that you would remember called the Harold Park Hotel.
Dom: I remember it well.
Kitty Flanagan: I don’t know how people start anymore without the benefit of the Harold Park Hotel, which was on a Monday night, and you could get up and do your open mic stuff there. I think the Friend in Hand has probably taken that role. And it seems to be working, because this is the first trip that I’ve had back – I come back every year, and this is the first time I’ve come back – and seen so many good, really promising, new comics, doing the most original and unique material. It’s fantastic. Because it’s been a while: there have been so many young guys just standing up, telling us how they do their girl from behind, or how they love to wank, or blah, blah, blah… all the same old, same old, and this time back there have been so many good new comics, it’s fantastic. Especially coming out of Sydney, which is really good.
Dom: Okay, so back to your early days: Harold Park…
Kitty Flanagan: Speaking of, yes, wanking and taking your girlfriend from behind, back to my early material, yes, I did a lot of that.
Dom: Maybe he was just closing the filing cabinet, Kitty.
Sorry, that was uncalled for.
Kitty Flanagan: I’ve gone all shy!
My early days: yes, I started at the Harold Park. There was actually a competition the first night I started. I didn’t know that when I signed up to do it. I tried to bail, and said, “this is my time and I don’t want to do it,” and they said, “please, please come down, because we don’t ever get any women,” so I went down. And, yeah, I was lucky. It went all right. Because had it not gone well, I probably would never have done it again.
I think that’s the difference with women as well, we take it a lot more personally and we get out of it rather than stick with it and persevere. I think men are much better at persevering. You can see a man who’s unfunny for two years, and then all of a sudden, it clicks over and he’s funny, and he’s stuck with it, and he’s really good. Whereas I think women tend to go, “I’m so humiliated, I’m never doing this again.” We take things so personally.
Dom: That is a pity that that’s the case.
Kitty Flanagan: We don’t have as thick a skin as a lot of men.
Dom: In that case, I’m glad you were really good from day one.
Kitty Flanagan: I wasn’t ‘really good’, I just got lucky. And also, I went over to my sister’s house because I wasn’t going to tell anyone that I was doing it, and I thought, “I’d better just run this material by my sister.” So I performed it to my sister, in the living room, just her. And let me tell you, that is harder than actually doing it in front of an audience. Performing what you think is stand-up, when you’ve never done it before, to one person who just sits there going, “ummmmm… mm-hmm… mm-hmm…” She wasn’t exactly pissing her pants, let me tell you. So that was good, in a way, because I just kept adding bits until she finally laughed. What I’d actually written never made it to the stage at the Harold Park.
Dom: You must have had some spark of brilliance, because, from memory, you made it to television pretty quickly, too.
Kitty Flanagan: Yeah, but then again, that’s the advantage of being a woman. I come on stage and people go, “Tsoh, it’s going to be a woman!” but then there’s the other advantage: there’s not as many of us, so you do get picked up a lot faster. There’s not as many of us competing for the jobs… It can be a good thing and a bad thing. That was the bad thing for me, because I only really had a ten minute act and I got to be on television and I wasn’t able to take advantage of being on television by going to do a live tour because who wants to tour Australia with, “Woo! Who wants to come and see my ten minutes? It’s brilliant! It’s me off the telly, and I’ve got ten minutes of GOLD stand-up!” So, yeah. That was the problem. I did two years of television and then went back to stand-up and went, “Oh… I’ve only got a ten-minute act. I’d better start working on that.”
Dom: Of course, in addition to the Full Frontal stuff you did, Kitty, you were also on Shaun Micallef’s Program, or Pogram, or Programme with… [two m’s and an e].
Kitty Flanagan: Yes. Shaun Micallef, one of my faaaavourite performers. He should be back on television here. Start a petition. He’s the funniest man on television. Well, he’s not on television anymore. But he should be!
Soundbite: Sketch from The Micallef P(r)ogram(me) featuring Kitty Flanagan as a psychic called ‘Clair’, from the Granada DVD The Micallef P(r)ogram(me) Series Un distributed by Shock.
Dom: That was Kitty Flanagan on The Shaun Micallef P(r)ogram(me) that’s available now, released by Granada in Australia and distributed by Shock.
I’ve spoken to you just after things have been released on DVD, and you’ve kind of been, “Oh, I was just in a shop and I was on the screen, and I don’t know if I felt good about that”. How do you feel now? Can you look at the old stuff?
Kitty Flanagan: Yeah, but the problem I have now, looking at the old stuff, is that I want another chance to do it again. Especially with Full Frontal. It was such a great time… When I was doing it, I was so new, and so raw, and I was always so nervous because I’d never done anything like that before. Everyone else was very experienced. I was always worried that I was gonna be busted and caught out and someone was going to point the finger and go, “Do you know what? I don’t think she knows what she’s doing!” So I was always really nervous. Whereas, now, I’ve got a lot more experience and a lot more confidence. I would love to go and do it again, and I would probably be horrendous because I would just over-act and I’d be way too confident. I would probably really annoy everyone. But I would like the opportunity to do that sort of thing again with the benefit of a bit more experience.
Dom: I would argue that you have been given that opportunity, and it’s called The Sketch Show.
Kitty Flanagan: Yes, that’s very true, and I certainly did enjoy that, but I simply mean, all those people on Full Frontal were such wonderful people to work with, and they all taught me so much – Glenn Butcher, Shaun Micallef – all those people – Eric Bana, obviously – and I would just love the opportunity to work with all those people and enjoy working with them. Because, if you forget to enjoy the experience… That’s what I’ve noticed about myself; I tend to do these things and I’m so uptight about mucking it up that I don’t actually enjoy the experience. But when I got to The Sketch Show, yes, I knew what I was doing, and I wrote a lot more of my material, which was great, but the way that show was made, it wasn’t as fun a way to work as Full Frontal was. Full Frontal was a very fun show. The people were very fun. Whereas The Sketch Show was far more business-like and is about the individuals, and not the team effort.
Dom: Okay. So just for people who aren’t as familiar, who will be soon, because Full Frontal has been issued on DVDom: and The Micallef… stuff that you were in has been issued on DVD…
Dom: … I don’t think we’ve got the second season of The Sketch Show, which is a British show, in this country…
Kitty Flanagan: No, it doesn’t exist on DVD, I don’t think…
Dom: … Which is a pity, because the best of the first season has been issued here…
Kitty Flanagan: Right.
Dom: … and that’s just before you were on the show.
Kitty Flanagan: Yeah. I was in… The first season of The Sketch Show starred Ronnie Ancona, who’s an English comic and a very good impressionist, and that series won a BAFTA, which is like an English Logie, and then I joined the second series when she left, and that series got axed! So, I’m not sure what changed, or why there was such a massive difference, but it has become quite the thing to point the finger at me and say that perhaps I was the reason.
Dom: There was no need for you to be so honest there, Kitty, and I don’t believe it for a minute, and the reason I don’t believe it is because the producers of The Sketch Show went on to produce your award winning short film…
Kitty Flanagan: They did.
Dom: … called Dating Ray Fenwick which you don’t seem to appear in. You wrote and directed it…
Kitty Flanagan: I wrote and directed it, and I also gave myself a cameo in it, but then, typical me, didn’t like my own performance so I cut myself out of my own short film.
Dom: Will you be in the director’s cut?
Kitty Flanagan: Well that’s the thing… it is already the director’s cut, and I didn’t make it to my own director’s cut. I’ll be in the extras when I release the extras of the twelve-minute short film.
Dom: I can’t wait to see you bitching about the director who cut your one and only seen!
Now we haven’t seen Dating Ray Fenwick in this country.
Kitty Flanagan: I know. But that’s fine, you know. I don’t mind, because it’s appeared in film festivals around the world. It’s debut screening was in London, which was really exciting. That’s a really big film festival so that was absolutely thrilling to get it on there. It also was on in New York, at the NYC Shorts Festival, where it won a couple of awards, and it’s been on in Canada at a few festivals. It’s quite popular in Canada. Quite a few festivals have picked it up there. It’s been on in LA…
But I’ve submitted it to all the festivals here in Australia and I don’t mind that they rejected it, that’s fine, because I have been rejected by film festivals around the world; that’s just the nature of the business. But do you know what? Australian film festivals don’t even e-mail you back to say, “I’m sorry, we had a lot of entries, and you haven’t been accepted”. Not one of them sends you a rejection letter.
I’ve got piles of rejection letters from much bigger festivals than the Australian ones, and they at least have the courtesy to write to you and go, “Oh, sorry, we enjoyed your film…” – what a lie, they probably didn’t watch it but at least they lie to you and make it pleasant; they go – “sorry, we enjoyed your film, but we’ve got a lot of entries and it didn’t quite fit…” In Australia, nothing! You don’t hear anything. I think they’re rude.
Dom: They are rude.
Kitty Flanagan: So I’m having my own screening.
Dom: When are you screening it?!
Kitty Flanagan: I might reject myself. I might write back to myself and go, “I’m sorry, you’re rejected”.
I’m screening it at my show at the Vanguard in Newtown on 19th December. The one and only Australian screening.
Dom: Is this the ‘Festival of You’?
Kitty Flanagan: It’s ‘A Festival of Me’, Dom, so obviously, if you’re not a big fan of me, it’s not a show that you’re going to enjoy.
Dom: What makes it a ‘festival’?
Kitty Flanagan: Well, it’s pretty much everything I like doing. This is going to be my first one-woman show ever in Sydney. I’ve done a one-woman show in Edinburgh, I’ve done a one-woman show in Melbourne; I didn’t particularly like either of them, and this show – I like all the stuff that’s going in it. I like my short film, I like the stand-up I’ll be doing. And I also like the fact that my support act, in my one-woman show – I’m going to have two women in my one-woman show – my support act will be my sister, who will be doing a few numbers. My sister Penny Flanagan, who was a singer-songwriter; she still is. But she had a bit of success in the 90s, wouldn’t you say…
Dom: I would!
Kitty Flanagan: … in a band called Club Hoy.
Dom: I remember when she was in Club Hoy and I remember when she went solo.
Kitty Flanagan: Well yeah, she’s going to do a few numbers and we’re going to do a big number together at the end which will be entertaining on so many levels, because I’ll be singing.
Dom: I must say, I can’t remember hearing you sing.
Kitty Flanagan: That’s because I haven’t. Ever. Although I did the other night. My sister and I tried out my musical finale at the Comedy Store the other night. We went down and did an impromptu five minutes, so I sang for the first time on stage the other night.
Dom: How’d it go?
Kitty Flanagan: It was terrifying. I had a lot more wine than I would usually have before I appear on stage, but it was great fun. I was so much fun being on stage with someone, and especially with my sister, cos she’s fun, and she’s funny.
Dom: You know what, Kitty? This is the perfect cue to play that song!
Kitty Flanagan: I know, but I don’t have a copy of it because we’ve only played it once.
Dom: So I’m not going to play it. Instead…
Kitty Flanagan: I’m sorry about that. It did feel like a build up: “And now, throw to the song, Dom. Oh, sorry, I haven’t got one.”
Dom: That’s okay, I have Plan B.
Kitty Flanagan: Good.
Dom: I have Tim Minchin.
Kitty Flanagan: Yes. Tim Minchin. A professional funny song man. That’s a much better idea. Play him. Don’t play my amateur efforts that don’t exist on recording anywhere. That is such a much better idea.
Dom: Now I’m going to do something a bit dodgy here. When he appeared on Spicks and Specks, he appeared a song called ‘The Adam Hillsong’. It’s all over the internet…
Kitty Flanagan: Who is Adam Hills? You keep mentioning him. I’ve never heard of the man…
Dom: Like Tim Minchin currently and like you quite often, he’s another expat Aussie comic who spends a lot of time in the UK… Tim Minchin wrote a love song for Adam Hills and performed it on the show. It’s all over the internet. You can find the clip of it on Tim Minchin’s webpage, timminchin.com. Here it is.
Soundbite: ‘The Adam Hillsong’ as performed by Tim Minchin on Spicks & Specks, and found on YouTube and www.timminchin.com
Dom: That was Tim Minchin performing ‘The Adam Hillsong’ which you can see the clip of on www.timminchin.com…
Kitty Flanagan: You can also go to another fabulous site called whoisadamhills?neverheardofhim.com… That’s not true. We all know he’s massive…
Dom: And if you’re a massive fan of Spicks & Specks – a show which, Kitty Flanagan, you have been on…
Kitty Flanagan: I have, I got to be on it with Rich Hall, which was such a delight… he’s the funniest man in the world.
Dom: Excellent…
Kitty Flanagan: I also got to be on it with Angry Anderson, who isn’t the funniest man in the world, can I say…
Dom: You can say that.
Kitty Flanagan: He’s quite a creepy man.
Dom: There is a Christmas Special taking place with no Rich Hall, no Kitty Flanagan, no Angry Anderson…
Kitty Flanagan: That’s a good thing! The ‘Angry Anderson’, not the ‘Rich Hall’ thing.
Dom: Or the ‘Kitty Flanagan’. Being broadcast on Sunday 17th, and guests include Ross Noble, Frank Woodley, Deborah Byrne, and Dame Edna Everage!
Kitty Flanagan: Oh, well they’ve amped that up a bit and pulled out the celebs, haven’t they. That’s good news.
Dom: That is good news.
Dom: Kitty.
Dom: We’ve nearly come to an end.
Kitty Flanagan: Have we? All right.
Dom: So I think I’d just better say again, the ‘Festival of You’…
Kitty Flanagan: ‘Kitty Flanagan: A Festival of Me’ is on December 19th at the Vanguard, which I’ve discovered is a lovely venue in Newtown, so I’ve very much looking forward to playing that… um… I’ll just plug it myself!
It’s going to have me; there’s going to be a film; there’s going to be me on the egg shaker, keeping rhythm, which is going to be so entertaining. Oh, and there’ll be some stand-up comedy as well, don’t forget that bit. That’s probably going to be the bulk of the show. There’s some highly amusing stand-up comedy from me.
Dom: Am I allowed to plug some other shows that you’re doing or would you prefer that I didn’t?
Kitty Flanagan: Yeah. I don’t think that I’m doing any, though, am I?
Dom: Well you’re going to be in Melbourne from 13th to 16th of December at the Crown Casino supporting Jason Alexander. Yes, that’s true. I’m doing a support for Jason Alexander. There’s a few of us on, actually. Akmal as well, and a couple of other people. Jason does a few numbers because he’s quite a broadway musical star. He’ll also do a Q&A about Seinfeld which will no doubt now be about, “Er, was Michael Richards a racist when you worked with him?” So that’s going to be a bit tedious I think, poor Jason Alexander having to answer questions about Michael Richards the whole time. But it should be a really fun show. Rebecca De Unamuno is going to be on, doing some improv as well…
Dom: Oh wow! And Tom Gleeson’s on, as well.
Kitty Flanagan: Yeah, and Tom Gleeson. So it’s a really big show.
Dom: Geez, I wish I could get to Melbourne!
Kitty?
Kitty Flanagan: Yes?
Dom: It’s been a pleasure!
Kitty Flanagan: Thank you so much.
Dom: Thank you.
CLOSING THEME
Kitty Flanagan: How outrageous: ‘nude teenagers’, he was googling. Isn’t that against the law? He didn’t write ‘nude teenagers over sixteen’. He didn’t do anything legal like that.
Dom: You’re right, it is against the law!
Kitty Flanagan: Yeah. It’s against the law.
Dom: I’ll make sure I word it better when I google.
For a breakdown of the elements of the Stand & Deliver! theme, read the first bunch of footnotes from Episode 1.
This Station ID was devised and recorded by gentleman country doctor and composer predominantly of songs of faith, Joe Romeo.
Recorded live at the Cardenia Cultural Centre, Packenham. A great DVD it is too.
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Gender education
Women's Economic Emancipation
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One of the main pillars of SWV is women’s awareness and empowerment. In order to fulfill this mission, SWV puts an emphasis on education. Since the foundation of the organization, numerous non-formal training sessions have been held for girls and women. The objectives of these training sessions are to raise awareness about gender equality and women's rights, to empower and strengthen the skills of young girls and women, to break the stereotypes, to increase knowledge about prevention and to overcome domestic and gender-based violence.
However, SWV does not limit itself to only non-formal education. SWV views gender education as a basis for domestic violence prevention and have taken measures to ensure gender education becomes a formal aspect of school curricula in the Republic of Armenia. Gender education includes subjects relating to gender equality. As a means of promoting this activity, SWV along with National Institute of Education, developed and published a theoretical and practical guide "Man and Woman, Different but Equal", which will be given to all schools in the Republic of Armenia.
SWV announces a call for experts in women and gender studies.
Society Without Violence NGO
Society Without Violence NGO (SWV) is a women’s rights defender organization founded in 2001. Since its establishment the organization is implementing projects focusing on women’s empowerment, awareness raising, promotion of social activism and leadership skills among women. Our mission is to contribute to women’s participation in the socio-economic and political life of Armenia.
Since 2004 SWV has been working with Kvinna Till Kvinna (KTK) Swedish Foundation that promotes women’s rights in more than 20 countries and during the recent years the partnership has been focused on contributing to the establishment of gender sensitive educational system in Armenia. The evaluation of the previous projects revealed that teachers and students do not fully succeed at internalizing gender knowledge within short training sessions. To tackle this gap SWV launches a new project “Enabling accessible and sustained gender education in Armenia(n)” with the financial support of KTK. The main objective of the project is to develop and construct gender education courses with the aim to create online academic platform on gender studies.
Within the framework of the above presented project, SWV announces a call for experts in women and gender studies.
Experts fulfilling the competence requirements listed below are invited to submit their applications.
Advanced university degree in gender and women studies, social sciences, development studies or any related discipline;
A minimum of 3 years of relevant working experience in gender/women studies at national and/or international level, including a minimum of two years of academic research background;
Familiarity with policy, legal, regulatory frameworks in relevant fields and good understanding of the context;
Professional fluency in English and Armenian with excellent writing and oral skills;
Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills;
Proven ability to work as a member of a team consisting of both local and international experts;
Demonstrated awareness on gender matters and sensitivity.
Responsibilities and key results expected
To conduct extensive research on gender and women’s studies and subsequently develop and design educational materials;
To participate in meetings with beneficiaries and stakeholders (round table discussions);
To adapt educational material on women and gender related topics to the Armenian context;
To develop and design the outline and the syllabus of an academic course.
The experts will be paid highly competitive salary. In addition, travel costs and daily subsistence allowance for attending meetings or undertaking research assignments will be paid. The period of consultancy is one year (with the possible extension).
All interested and qualified applicants are requested to submit a CV, a letter of interest and a research paper (maximum of 10 pages) in English by April 10 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Successful candidates would be contacted further for an interview.
“Victorious women, harmonic society” fest
The Society Without Violence NGO introduced and declared July 27 as gender equality day in Armenia. For those who are interested in what this day entails and what exactly motivated SWV to declare this torrid summer day to promote gender equality, we have an interesting story to tell. The date was not decided because it was the day when the total lunar eclipse occurred or because Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest on that day in 1890.
So, why July 27? You can find various interesting and even weird days that people celebrate around the world. For instance, the Southern Hemisphere celebrates “Put on Your Own Shoes Day” and the United States celebrates “Bean Day” in January. One can find any kind of day to celebrate but the Gender Equality... Since 2001, SWV has been fighting for a society, which is free from stereotypes, gender-based violence and discrimination. Hence, the SWV team took a serious responsibility in declaring July 27 as a day to promote social, economic and political equality for both women and men. Every year, the SWV team enthusiastically waits for this day with plenty of new and creative ideas. The preparation process, though very tedious and troublesome, is usually inspiring and also fun. Nevertheless, it is the result of our hard work and dedication that makes it possible to bring the July 27 event to life every year.
This year we celebrated the Gender Equality day in the heart of Armenia-in the center of the city of Yerevan. The event this year was titled “Victorious women, harmonic society” fest. We decided to bring something new to our celebration. After we introduced the message of the day to our volunteers and initiated an interesting project and filmed a video where they explained the concept of gender and gender equality. However, we did not stop there and organized “I am visible” art competition. Talented artists from all over the country took part in the competition. Artists submitted unique and interesting pieces of art work, which expressed the vital role women in public life. Two winners were chosen (one selected by the SWV team, the other was based on social media voting). However, we did not limit ourselves just to the competition and video. The designs were so beautiful, that we printed some of them on notebooks, bags, t-shirts, postcards and put them on sale. The proceeds generated from the sale are to be used for other activities directed towards female empowerment in Armenia. Since there are many noteworthy initiatives and projects to fund in Armenia, we let those who bought the designs select where funding should go. Customers were given cards, where they could select which project, in their opinion, is worthier to fund.
To raise awareness, a concert was organized, and several singers and bands performed. They all strongly supported the idea of having a gender equality day. Some of them expressed their support and sent messages to their audience during their performance.
Finally, the day we were looking forward arrived. Because this event was shedding light onto such an important cause, we did our best before and during the event. SWV can proudly say that the day served its purpose. People came to the mentioned location to buy items with beautiful designs, which expressed the idea of women’s visibility in society and made their small contribution. Some of them took booklets, which explained gender concept and gender equality. It was so inspiring to see that many enthusiastic people show interest in our event. Others decided to join the performers on the spot. A volunteer from the audience, a Georgian tourist, expressed his willingness to sing during the concert.
To conclude, SWV is proud to organize such a day. It is essential to raise awareness about gender issues because only knowledge can fight and win. We will go on with organizing such days, as we have done in the last eight years.
Leading the Way Towards a Democratic European Future
Georgia’s capital Tbilisi hosted the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (Eap CSF) named “Leading the Way Towards a Democratic European Future”, from 10-12 December 2018. The Society Without Violence (SWV) representative Anna Karapetyan participated in the forum and brought her valuable input to the first working group, under the shelter of “Democracy, Human Rights, Good Governance and Stability”. Ms. Karapetyan was appointed as a rapporteur of the “Gender” subgroup.
Welcome reception of the forum was hosted by the Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze. Alongside with regional issues and challenges, The Velvet Revolution in Armenia got exceptional highlights throughout the conference withthe Minister of the Foreign Affairs of the RA, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, being one of the pivotal speakers of the forum. The Forum also commenced the 10th Anniversary of the Eastern Partnership Initiative establishment.
“Claiming your woman’s rights is like a drug addiction”, - participant.
“Society Without Violence” NGO has organized its next training on “Gender Equality and Domestic Violence” for Social Science teachers of Lori region. The participant schools were from Gugark, Spitak, Alaverdi cities and some villages.
Though the previous group of teachers was also from Lori region, the opinion on “Gender Equality and Domestic Violence” classes was radically different from the previous group’s opinion. The participants expressed conservative and stereotypic viewpoints not only on gender issues but also formal gender education mentioning that there is no need for such kind of classes in our schools.
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Zaruhi Hovhannisyan: Activist, politician, journalist and violist
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'The whistle blows and I set off for the one kick I know will stay with me for the rest of my life, maybe even define my life...'
Michael Carrick was the heartbeat of Manchester United. For more than a decade he was the player that made them tick. Loved by his managers, lauded by his fellow professionals, worshipped by the Old Trafford faithful, yet regularly misunderstood by the wider public, Carrick was a player like no other.
Intelligent, calm, thoughtful - in many ways the opposite of the archetypal English midfielder - Carrick has always been his own man and is typically forthright. In his book he reveals what it's really like to win relentlessly under legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson, shows us the hidden secrets of the famous Carrington training ground, invites us to experience the camaraderie and clashes inside the United dressing room, and lets us feels what it's like to walk out on the Old Trafford pitch alongside some of the biggest names in the game - from Ronaldo to Scholes to Giggs, Rooney and the rest.
A deeply personal book, Between the Lines reveals for the first time Michael's battles with mental health, his struggles with the national side, as well as the redemption he has found with his family and his team.
From growing up in the north-east to winning the Champions League and five Premier League titles with Manchester United, via West Ham and Tottenham, Carrick's story reveals him to be his own man: fearless, thoughtful, intelligent and honest.
*All of Michael Carrick's proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the Michael Carrick Foundation, dedicated to providing financial support to community services that will give underprivileged children living in the North and North East better opportunities so that they feel safe, valued and inspired.*
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“The world, if left to its own devices, is balanced evenly between good and bad. Each of us has the ability to tip it.” Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Especially today, with the horrific news of the Orlando mass shooting capturing people’s attention, a ray of optimism is needed. That beam of light was mighty and bright at our Human Rights Awards Dinner this month when we celebrated and honored people who are tipping the world in the right direction.
Don & Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award
Christof Heyns, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, addressing the Human Rights Awards Dinner audience.
Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, received the esteemed Don & Arvonne Fraser Human Rights Award for his work investigating and exposing some of the world’s most egregious human rights violations. The Advocates’ connection to Mr. Heyns’ work as a special rapporteur began in the 1980s when The Advocates developed the groundbreaking Minnesota Protocol, the first set of international guidelines for investigating suspicious unlawful deaths. Effective investigation is key to establishing responsibility and holding perpetrators accountable, but no international standards existed at the time that required governments to initiate or carry out investigations of suspected unlawful deaths. Read some of Mr. Heyns’ remarks and about the Human Rights Awards Dinner.
The UN adopted the Minnesota Protocol in 1991 with the official title, UN Manual on the Effective Prevention of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions. The manual, widely known as the Minnesota Protocol, has been used in myriad investigative contexts in almost every region of the world. Last year, Mr. Heyns asked The Advocates to help update the Minnesota Protocol with forensic, medical, and other advancements since the original publication. “The need for clear international standards that encompass the realities of human rights abuses in the twenty-first century has resulted in the current revision,” said Mr. Heyns.
In addition to his UN role, Heyns is professor of human rights law and director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
David Wippman, Dean, University of Minnesota Law School
David Wippman, Dean of University of Minnesota Law School, was honored with The Advocates’ 2016 Special Recognition Award in recognition of his career-long human rights work and his stewardship in the creation of the University of Minnesota Law School’s pioneering Center for New Americans.
The only program of its kind in the United States, the Center was designed to expand urgently needed legal services for non-citizens, pursue litigation to improve our nation’s immigration laws, and educate non-citizens about their rights. The Center has already seen notable successes, including a victory at the U.S. Supreme Court. The Center is made possible through a partnership between The Law School, The Advocates, Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, and the law firms of Faegre Baker Daniels, Robins Kaplan, and Dorsey & Whitney.
“We honor Dean Wippman for changing the world and Minnesota for good and leaving our community a better place,” said Robin Phillips, The Advocates’ executive director.
Volunteer Recognition Awards
Mary Ellen Alden
Since Mary Ellen Alden began volunteering with The Advocates in 2012, she has represented 15 asylum seekers, including women fleeing domestic violence in Honduras and Ethiopia; political activists from Togo, Syria, and Ethiopia; and Oromo activists from Ethiopia. Her passion for justice for her clients is unparalleled.
“We are proud to count Mary Ellen among our award recipients this year,” said Sarah Brenes, director of The Advocates’ Refugee & Immigrant Program. “She is priceless.”
Thomas Dickstein
For his bar mitzvah, Thomas Dickstein asked for donations to support The Advocates’ Sankhu-Palubari Community School in Nepal. When he traveled to Nepal and connected with the school’s students, he returned home fired up. Over time, Thomas led a book and backpack drive for the school, developed a PowerPoint presentation and a video to convince others about the school’s need and success. “Thomas sets a great example for all of us,” said Robin Phillips, The Advocates’ executive director. “Imagine what a world we would have if everyone followed his lead.”
Front row, left to right: Max Schott, Gayle Shaub, Dean Eyler, Nancy Quattlebaum Burke Back row, left to right: Craig Miller, Meg Martin, Ashley Bailey, Brian Dillon, Monica Kelley, Joy Anderson, Nicole Strydom, Leah Leyendecker, Tammy Mayer, Sandy Bodeau, Karlie Hussey, Brianna Mooty, Matthew Webster, Elizabeth Dillon. Not pictured: Hallie Goodman, Amanda Sicoli, Scott Wick, Jodee Marble.
Gray Plant Mooty
Led by attorneys Max Schott and Dean Eyler, the pro bono team at Gray Plant Mooty has taken on complex cases involving female genital mutilation, forced marriage, and levirate marriage (a widow forced to marry her deceased husband’s brother). Many of the cases required additional fact-finding and expert documentation to understand the nuanced nature of the harm their clients suffered and the cultural context of the country in which it occurred.
Their litigation expertise allowed them to draw out critical facts from the clients and piece together the claims in ways the court could understand. “We’re thankful for the team’s commitment, and we’re proud to count them among our volunteer award recipients,” said Sarah Brenes, director of The Advocates’ Refugee & Immigrant Program. The team includes Joy Anderson, Ashley Bailey, Sandra Bodeau, Nancy Quattlebaum Burke, Brian Dillon, Elizabeth Dillon, Dean Eyler, Hallie Goodman, Karli Hussey, Monica Kelley, Leah Leyendecker, Megan Martin, Craig Miller, Brianna Mooty, Max Schott, Amanda Sicoli, Nicole Strydom, Matthew Webster, and Scott Wick; and paralegals Jodee Marble, Tammy Mayer, and Gayle Schaub.
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Presented The Advocates’ Volunteer Service Award at the event was Henok Gabisa, attorney & Oromo Studies Association president, & attorneys from Stinson Leonard Street. The team works with The Advocates to hold Ethiopia accountable for persecuting Oromos.
Mr. Gabisa had approached The Advocates because of Ethiopia’s persecution of Oromos, the largest ethnic group in that country. While for decades the Ethiopian government has persecuted them, the government in 2014 used lethal force to
respond to peaceful Oromo student protests. Protesters, some young teens, were arrested, detained without charge, and labeled terrorists.
Mr. Gabsia and Stinson team members in St. Louis and Washington, D.C. interviewed witnesses in the United States and abroad, prepared affidavits, tracked down first-hand information, prepared briefs, and ensured witnesses do not face retaliation. Their work to hold the Ethopian government accountable is changing the world for good.
The Stinson Leonard Street team includes (L-R) Neal Griffin, Marc Goldstein, Andrew Scavotto, & Marcia Stanford
A team of Thomson Reuters’ employees is being recognized for its research on Human Rights Council recommendations to assist with Universal Periodic Review lobbying. Members of the Thomson Reuters team include Mark Petty, Matthew Buell, Marianne Krljic, Ethan Wood, Blake Hatling, Bryan Bearss, Chelsea Reynolds, and Benjamin Petersburg.
The Thomson Reuters’ team includes (L-R) Bryan Bearss, Matthew Buell, Ethan Wood, Marianne Krljic, Mark Petty, Chelsea Reynolds, Benjamin Petersburg, & Blake Hatling.
Lobbying the UN Human Rights council is tricky. Human rights defenders need to know which countries will be receptive to certain issues, but countries’ priorities can be opaque, ever-changing. The Advocates needed a special research team, so it turned to Thomson Reuters. With a worldwide reputation for making complex legal information understandable and accessible, it is no surprise that Thomson Reuters created an amazing volunteer team to streamline The Advocates’ UN lobbying. Three times a year, team members pore through thousands of UN statements to identify countries that may be receptive to lobbying on women’s rights, the death penalty, and LGBTI rights.
“With a few clicks of the Thomson Reuters’ spreadsheet, we identify the countries to target for lobbying,” said Jennifer Prestholdt, director of The Advocates’ International Justice Program. “Their lists are spot-on, and they are changing the world for good.”
Suzanne Turner
As coordinator of Dechert’s pro bono work, Suzanne Turner is central to finding eager volunteers to help The Advocates. She even recruited her school-aged daughter to blog about women’s human rights. She also traveled with The Advocates twice to the other side of the world to conduct fact-finding and to document how to strengthen Mongolia’s response to domestic violence.
“Suzie lives our mission,” said Rose Park, Director, The Advocates’ Women’s Human Rights Program.
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The U.S. runs with a devil
You may never have heard of the Oromo people, the largest single ethnic group in Ethiopia. You might be surprised to learn that if you are a U.S. taxpayer, you are subsidizing their oppression.
On Tuesday, April 19, a Congressional commission named the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission conducted a hearing on human rights conditions in Ethiopia. The Commission provides information concerning human rights to Congress, so it is particularly fitting that it should inquire into conditions in Ethiopia. That country has been a major ally of the United States and recipient of U.S. humanitarian and military aid for all of the years Ethiopia’s current regime has been in power. Since 2013, the United States has given in the range of half a billion dollars per year in foreign aid to Ethiopia, plus a much smaller amount of military aid, which means the United States is Ethiopia’s largest and most important source of foreign assistance.
In July 2015, President Obama visited Ethiopia, drawing widespread criticism from human rights groups for his warm words toward the country and his relatively milquetoast references to its abysmal human rights record. Obama said that the Prime Minister of what he referred to as the “democratically elected” Ethiopian government “would be the first to acknowledge that there is more work to be done” in the field of human rights.
Well, yes. The ruling party in Ethiopia won all 547 seats in Parliament following the elections that occurred just two months before Obama’s visit, and the “democratically elected” Prime Minister was allocated 100 percent of the vote. U.S. officials were prohibited from acting as election observers. The election featured denials of registrations for opposition candidates, while journalists were arrested and threatened. After the election, at least three opposition politicians were murdered, with no investigations conducted.
The government’s security forces employ murder and torture. In 2014, they fired into crowds of peaceful students who were protesting the government’s “land grab” for the benefit of international development interests, which would potentially displace an estimated two million Oromo. Dozens were killed. Many more were arrested and remain in prison. The killings continue. According to Human Rights Watch, relying on reports of activists, at least 75 protesters were killed by government security forces in November and December 2015, while the government only acknowledged five deaths. The actual figures are likely much greater than is known, since the government tightly restricts access to such information. There is no freedom of the press, no independent judiciary, no adherence to international human rights standards beyond lip service.
The Ethiopian government is adept at achieving the maximum oppression while drawing minimal attention to its human rights abuses. It signs onto numerous international human rights conventions, although it routinely violates them. It purports to allow local human rights organizations to exist, although its Charities and Societies Proclamation makes it largely impossible for them to operate by denying the organizations international funding.
Perhaps most impressive, the government masterfully plays the terrorism card. In 2009, it adopted the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, allowing draconian treatment of persons accused of being “terrorists,” largely an arbitrary term for those opposing actions of the Ethiopian government and wishing to bring about change. The government frequently brands protesting Oromo and others as “terrorists” to justify imprisoning or killing them.
The Tom Lantos Commission should disseminate to Congress all possible documentation of the crimes of the Ethiopian government. In turn, Congress should find ways to be sure the United States ratchets up the pressure on its strategic ally far beyond clubby acknowledgements of “more work to be done.” The spigot of international development money should not remain open without real and fundamental changes in the human rights environment in Ethiopia, beginning with an end to extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary killings; a release of political prisoners; restoration of a free press and independent judiciary; and the repeal or modification of the Charities and Societies Proclamation and the Anti-Terrorism Law.
By: James O’Neal, retired attorney and member of The Advocates for Human Rights’ board of directors, and Robin Phillips, the organization’s executive director. Deeply concerned about continuing human rights violations in Ethiopia, The Advocates has consistently raised concerns about the treatment of Oromos in Ethiopia at UN human rights bodies and with the African Commission on Human & Peoples’ Rights.
Pictured above: Amaanee Badhasso, International Oromo Youth Association’s president in 2014, accompanied The Advocates’ Amy Bergquist to Geneva that year to meet with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Read other blog posts about Ethiopia’s persecution of the Oromo by entering “Ethiopia” or “Oromo” in the blog’s search bar.
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Oromo Protests One Year On: Looking Back; Looking Forward
Minnesota Oromos and allies rally at the Minnesota State Capitol on May 9, 2014
Oromos and others in the Ethiopian diaspora are on the edge of their seats. Not only are general elections in Ethiopia scheduled for Sunday, but today the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is reviewing Ethiopia’s human rights record.
Ethiopia under review at the UN
Today, May 22nd, the United Nations’ Committee on the Rights of the Child is reviewing Ethiopia’s human rights record in light of its commitments under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This treaty describes the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of children. Ethiopia became a party to the Convention in 1991. Ethiopia has undergone three previous reviews with the Committee, and tomorrow’s session will consolidate the country’s fourth and fifth periodic reviews. The Committee’s review has a number of objectives. The Committee will review Ethiopia’s progress on the Committee’s previous recommendations, assess the current state of Ethiopia’s commitments, and–we hope–address some relevant issues civil society organizations like The Advocates for Human Rights and the the International Oromo Youth Association (IOYA) raised in a report to the Committee in July 2014.
Amy Bergquist and IOYA President Amane Badhasso prepare for the closed-door session with the Committee on the Rights of the Child
The Advocates and IOYA met with Committee members in Geneva last September to assist them in preparing their list of issues to focus on during tomorrow’s review. The report describes numerous violations of children’s rights in Ethiopia, and it also focuses on ethnic discrimination faced by the Oromo people–the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia. It emphasizes legal provisions that hinder civil society organizations from being able to carry out effective child rights work in Ethiopia. The report also outlines various government violations affecting children, including violations of civil rights and freedoms, family environment, basic health and welfare, and education. The Advocates’ report especially emphasizes the violations carried out by the Ethiopian government against minors in relation to last year’s Oromo student protests. Read on for some initial coverage of how the Committee has been using this report during today’s review.
What happens at the Committee’s review?
The Committee’s review takes place over two sessions. The first session starts with representatives of the Ethiopian Government presenting a brief overview on the current state of Ethiopia’s commitments under the Convention on the Rights of the Child–typically a brief summary of the State’s report to the Committee and a response to the Committee’s list of specific issues to which Ethiopia was previously asked to reply. Then there is a first round of questions and responses from the government delegation. During the second session, government representatives will have a chance to answer additional questions from the Committee, responding with more detail to address the Committee’s concerns.
The review takes place in Geneva, Switzerland with the first session from 10am–1pm, and the second from 3pm–6pm. The sessions are broadcast on the UN’s live treaty body webcast, and will later be archived and available online.
Quick recap
This morning, the Committee raised concerns about the government’s response to the Oromo student protests in 2014. The Ethiopian delegation’s response was as predictable as it was disappointing. The Ethiopian government said the students were not peaceful but rather were “promoting a terrorist agenda.” The Committee members expressed displeasure with the government’s classification of children as “terrorists,” prompting the Ethiopian Ambassador to the UN Office in Geneva to assert to the Committee that the students were probably “convinced by a totally unacceptable ideology.” The ambassador reserved judgment on whether the rights of students had been violated, but conceded that the delegation had heard the Committee’s concerns.
The Committee raised many other issues highlighted in our report, including sexual assault of students by teachers, FGM, discrimination against children with disabilities, and child domestic workers. For more details about today’s review, follow tweets at @alb68.
In just a few weeks, the Committee will issue its Concluding Observations and Recommendations from today’s review.
Concerns surrounding Ethiopia’s general elections
Ethiopia will also hold its parliamentary elections on Sunday, May 24th. According to Ethiopia’s Fana Broadcasting Corporate, about 36.8 million people have voting cards, and the nation has set up 45,000 polling stations across the country.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, who is running for re-election, has never run for the post of prime minister before. He took over leadership of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) after the death of the former Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi. The EPRDF, the current ruling party, has won four consecutive elections in Ethiopia, winning the 2010 elections with 99.6% of the vote. Several opposition groups fear this election will have the same result.
Oromo groups, in particular, have been campaigning against the EPRDF, but according to an Al Jazeera report, this campaigning has prompted the government to place an even stronger grip on its citizens, increasing repression of their basic political liberties. Since 2010, the government has shut down the majority of independent media sources in Ethiopia, and so the Ethiopian media itself does not provide much coverage of election issues. Many sources that provide information to media and human rights groups are often targeted by the Ethiopian government, and many diaspora websites are blocked. At the same time, citizens fear the consequences of voting for an opposition party, worried that it will lead to even more repression.
Looking back on the past year
With all that’s taking place in Ethiopia over the next few days, it’s an important time to look back and reflect on what’s happened and the advocacy The Advocates has been engaging in with the diaspora over the past year:
(1) Oromo student protests
Oromo students protesting in Burayu. Image courtesy of Gadaa.com. http://gadaa.com/oduu/25775/2014/05/02/breaking-news-oromoprotests-buraayyuu-oromiyaa/
We’re now one year on from the Oromo student protests, highlighted by a blog series at The Advocates Post last year. Human rights organizations and Oromo diaspora groups, while outraged by the events in Ethiopia, have been unable to intervene directly due to the government’s strict limitations on independent human rights work within the country. Instead, the Oromo diaspora began awareness-raising movements here in Minnesota and around the world, using the #OromoProtests hashtag, and inviting others to join the movement. The Oromo diaspora organized several programs and made use of various tactics from The Advocates’ Paving Pathways appendix on “Using Popular Social Media Platforms for Effective Human Rights Advocacy.”
(2) Ethiopia’s turn in the Universal Periodic Review
The Ethiopian Government’s delegation to the Universal Periodic Review on May 6, 2014, chaired by State Minister of Foreign Affairs Berhane Gebre-Christos
At the time of the protests, Ethiopia was up for review as part of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The Advocates, along with members of the Oromo diaspora in Minnesota, prepared a stakeholder report for Ethiopia’s review. We lobbied the Geneva missions of several foreign governments, urging them to raise issues surrounding discrimination targeting Oromos and the student protests to Ethiopia’s government.
In September, the UN Human Rights Council formally adopted the outcome of the UPR of Ethiopia. As we reported at the time, there were some fireworks as civil society organizations challenged the Ethiopian government’s repressive policies.
At the adoption of the UPR outcome, the Ethiopian government made several commitments to improve its human rights record, including accepting a recommendation from the United Kingdom to “[t]ake concrete steps to ensure the 2015 national elections are more representative and participative than those in 2010, especially around freedom of assembly and encouraging debate among political parties.” Initial reports suggest that the Ethiopian government has not honored its word. But people in the diaspora can work with people on the ground in Ethiopia to document these ongoing human rights violations and to prepare reports to use in future advocacy.
(4) Meeting with the Committee on the Rights of the Child
Amane Badhasso and Sinke Wesho in front of Palais des Nations in Geneva
In September 2014, The Advocates and IOYA traveled to Geneva to meet with the Committee on the Rights of the Child as it prepared its list of issues that would guide its review of Ethiopia’s human rights record. We also had the opportunity to meet with the staff of some of the UN special procedures to discuss other opportunities for raising human rights concerns at the United Nations.
(5) The African Human Rights Commission reviews Ethiopia’s human rights record
Also in September 2014, The Advocates and IOYA submitted a lengthy alternative report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, responding to the Ethiopian Government’s report. The in-person review, originally scheduled for October, was delayed due to the Ebola crisis. But the review finally happened just last month, and the African Commission’s concluding observations on Ethiopia’s human rights record should be published in the next few months.
(6) More to come
The Advocates has a few other projects in the works with diaspora communities from Ethiopia. We’ll keep you posted as those efforts progress.
Hope for the upcoming days
As we’ve said before, making progress on human rights is like a marathon, not a sprint. Ethiopia is a case in point. But neither The Advocates nor the diaspora will turn its back on the Ethiopian government’s human rights violations. We’ll continue to monitor the situation in the country and pursue strategies to pressure the government to honor its human rights commitments. Our toolkit, Paving Pathways for Justice and Accountability: Human Rights Tools for Diaspora Communities, is over 400 pages long, and there are still a lot of strategies that need to be developed and still a lot of work that remains to be done in the fight for human rights in Ethiopia.
Are you, or do you know, a member of a diaspora community? What can you do to be an advocate for human rights from afar?
By Amy Bergquist, staff attorney for the International Justice Program of The Advocates for Human Rights.
Read more about diaspora engagement and human rights in Ethiopia:
Advocating for the Rights of Children in Ethiopia
Building Momentum in Geneva with the Oromo Diaspora
UN Special Procedures Urged to Visit Ethiopia to Investigate Crackdown on Oromo Protests
Oromo Diaspora Mobilizes to Shine Spotlight on Student Protests in Ethiopia
Ethiopian Government Faces Grilling at UN
“Little Oromia” Unites to Advocate for Justice and Human Rights in Ethiopia
Diaspora Speaks for Deliberately Silenced Oromos; Ethiopian Government Responds to UN Review
Ambo Protests: A Personal Account (reposted from Jen & Josh in Ethiopia: A Chronicle of Our Peace Corps Experience)
Ambo Protests: Spying the Spy? (reposted from Jen & Josh in Ethiopia: A Chronicle of Our Peace Corps Experience)
Ambo Protests: Going Back (reposted from Jen & Josh in Ethiopia: A Chronicle of Our Peace Corps Experience)
The Torture and Brutal Murder of Alsan Hassen by Ethiopian Police Will Shock Your Conscience (by Amane Badhasso at Opride)
#OromoProtests in Perspective (by Ayantu Tibeso at Twin Cities Daily Planet)
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2014’s Lesson: Take Action. Lives Depend on It.
December has been a terrible month for human rights—from the U.S. Senate’s report confirming the use of torture, to the slaughter of Pakastani school children, to two grand jury decisions not to indict police officers for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Overall, 2014 has been an extremely troubling year. Some human rights abuses garnered a lot of attention; many did not, taking place under the radar of the media and public conversation. Let’s consider a few examples, and let them serve as a call to action.
Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria one night in mid-April. This travesty garnered wide media attention and support from around the world, with celebrities carrying “Bring Back Our Girls” placards and rallies demanding the girls’ return. Unfortunately, 219 girls are reported to remain in captivity. Boko Haram continued its reign of terror, and is responsible for other atrocities throughout Somalia and Nigeria during 2014, including kidnappings, mass recruitment of child soldiers, and bombings of churches and public squares. Just this month news reports surfaced that Boko Haram kidnapped at least 185 women and children and killed 32 people in northeast Nigeria.
Central American refugees―mostly children (and many by themselves)―are seeking asylum, after journeying across one of the world’s most dangerous migrant routes to escape horrific violence in their home countries. The crisis was brought to light and much of the nation was shocked when, in June, images of children being held by US authorities surfaced, showing children crowded in makeshift prisons, and crammed into rooms and sleeping on concrete floors. Instead of treating them as refugees and in accordance with internationally-recognized human rights standards, the U.S. has treated these children as national security threats, warehousing them in razor-wired prisons, detaining them in horrendous conditions, and subjecting them to expedited proceedings to deport them at warp speed and back to the life-threatening dangers they fled.
The terrorist organization ISIL has committed gruesome acts of violence that have alarmed the world community, including murdering political opposition members in mass, enslaving and brutalizing women and girls, and forcing young boys into its ranks. An August attack by ISIL in the Sinjar region caused thousands of Shiites and Yazidis to flee; in October, ISIL abducted 5,000-7,000 Yazidi women and children and sold them into slavery, reported the UN.
Grand jury decisions not to indict police officers for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner highlighted racial profiling, police brutality, and failures of the justice system throughout the country, including a police officer shooting 12-year-old Tamir Rice to death in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Ethiopian government attacked a student protest in the nation’s Oromia region in April, killing as many as 47 students, as some reports indicate. The Ethiopian government has persecuted and targeted the Oromo people for years, subjecting Oromo to abduction, mass incarceration, and extreme levels of torture, including electric shock and repeated rapes.
Nearly 200,000 people have been killed and millions more took flight because of violence in Syria―the world’s largest refugee crisis resulting from a civil war that has raged in the region following popular uprising during the Arab Spring in 2011. To date, UNHCR estimates that more than 2.5 million refugees have fled the disaster, surpassing the refugee crises in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, and Central America.
Countries took huge steps backward for rights of LGBTI communities, enacting draconian laws which punish homosexuality with prison terms, torture, and death. Members of LGBTI communities in some countries are hunted down by vigilantes and are beaten or killed. In 2014, Uganda enacted one of the most notorious laws—its “Kill the Gays” law—punishing homosexuality with life in prison. The Ugandan Constitutional Court struck down law. Unfortunately, because the court ruled on procedural grounds rather than on the merits, the court’s decision does not bar parliament from adopting an identical law in the future. And homosexuality remains a criminal act in Uganda, as it was before the new law was signed.
The U.S.’s use of drone strikes are a significant setback to international law, setting new precedents for use of force by nations around the world. As of November 2014, attempts to kill 41 people resulted in snuffing out the lives of an estimated 1,147 individuals, reports The Guardian. The U.S. has, to date, used drones to execute without trial some 4,700 people— including civilians and children—in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, all countries against whom the U.S. has not declared war, the organization Reprieve reports.
An Egyptian court sentenced 529 people to death in a mass trial in March. The next month, a court sentenced another 680 to death in a proceeding that lasted only a few minutes. These mass executions, issued by a military government than came to power in a July 2013 coup, represent some of the largest ordered executions in the last century. Activists who supported efforts to oust former President Hosni Mubarak continue to be rounded up and targeted by the military, aiming to crush political opposition and to roll back achievements made during the Arab Spring. And in November, an Egyptian court dismissed conspiracy to kill charges against Mubarak, and he was cleared of corruption charges; he will likely be freed in a few months.
Women and girls have suffered immeasurably where they should be safest, in their homes. Women aged 15-44 are more at risk from rape and domestic violence than from cancer, motor accidents, war and malaria, according to the World Bank. On average, at least one in three women is beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused by an intimate partner in the course of her lifetime. One high profile domestic violence incident this year involved NFL player Ray Rice beating his then-fiance into unconsciousness and flattening her to the floor of an elevator. As a result of the attack, Rice was suspended for two games. When TMZ posted the video of the attack for the world to see, the NFL suspended Rice indefinitely and the Baltimore Ravens pressured his victim to apologize. Ultimately, the NFL reversed its decision to suspend Rice indefinitely in late November.
Harmful cultural practices violate women. Many governments “address” human rights violations—even the most cringe-worthy, stomach-churning―against women and girls by punishing the victims. Or—as in the case of women from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala seeking refuge in other countries—governments turn their heads to the violence, empowering the perpetrators and further victimizing and subjugating the women. These abuses include acid attacks, female genital mutilation, forced marriage, honor killings, bride burning, and gang rapes. Consider the death of Farzana Iqbal, 25, in May in Pakistan; her family stoned her to death outside a courthouse in Pakistan because she sought to marry without consent from her family a man she loved. Consider Hanna Lalango, 16, who died a month after she entered a public mini-bus in Ethiopia and was gang-raped by strangers for five days―a case similar to one in India two years ago, but one that did not garner the same level of attention and outrage. As an added note, Lalango’s father said he would not have made the case public if his daughter had lived because the shame would have shadowed her for the rest of her life.
The U.S. Senate “torture report” released on December 9 graphically details the CIA’s use of abuse, including keeping a prisoner awake for 180 hours with his hands shackled over his head, threatening to sexually assault and cut the throat of a detainee’s mother, penetrating a detainee’s anus for “rectal feeding,” and tying a prisoner to a floor until he froze to death.
Taliban militants stormed a school in Peshwar, Pakistan and killed more than 130 students in a terrorist attack on December 16 to retaliate against the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Malala Yousafzai, the young girl who caught the world’s attention for being shot for going to school. Responding to the Peshwar slaughter, Malala stated, “I, along with millions of others around the world, mourn these children, my brothers and sisters—but we will never be defeated.”
Forty-three students traveling to a protest in Mexico were rounded up and “disappeared” in September. The mayor of Iguala, Mexico in concert with local gangs ordered the capture and murder of these students, reports indicate. Federal police may also have complicity in the crime. The act has garnered widespread attention in Mexico, with people questioning the legitimacy of federal and state Mexican authorities, who for years has been corrupted by the influence of narco-traffickers and gangs.
More than 2,000 Gazans were killed when Israel launched a military operation in the Gaza strip in July to stop rocket attacks that followed an Israeli crackdown on Hamas in retaliation for the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers. The disproportionate level of force used by the Israeli military resulted in large number of civilian deaths. Of the 2,192 Gazans killed, about 1523 civilians (including 519 children), 66 Israeli soldiers, five Israeli civilians (including a child), and one Thai civilian were killed, reports indicate. At the end of the conflict, 110,000 people were internally displaced and 108,000 were made homeless, according to Amnesty International.
What can we do in the face of these human rights violations and the countless others that go unnoticed? Pay attention. Look behind the headlines. Make our voices heard by public officials, leaders, and the world community. Volunteer for projects that address the issues most important to us. Support organizations such as The Advocates for Human Rights which take on the larger systemic issues that allow human rights abuses to continue. We are not helpless. In 2015, we can, by working together, move closer to our vision of a world in which all people live with dignity, freedom, justice, equality, and peace . . . because every person matters.
By: The Advocates for Human Rights’ Deepinder Mayell, Robin Phillips, Jennifer Prestholdt, and Susan Banovetz
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During the week of September 22, the International Oromo Youth Association’s (IOYA) president, vice president, and I were in Geneva—invited there to meet with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the treaty body that oversees implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. IOYA worked diligently to raise funds from the Oromo diaspora to support our trip. The week was a good illustration of many of the ways diaspora groups can use the United Nations to advocate for human rights in their countries of origin and ancestry–the focus of Chapter 9 of our diaspora toolkit, Paving Pathways for Justice and Accountability: Human Rights Tools for Diaspora Communities.
The treaty-body review process is cyclical, like the Universal Periodic Review. It typically starts with the government’s report on its compliance with the treaty. You can read the Ethiopian Government’s report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child here. Next, civil society groups like The Advocates for Human Rights and IOYA can submit their own alternative reports (also called “parallel” or “shadow” reports), responding to the government’s report and identifying issues that need further attention. Read our report to the Committee here.
The next step in the process is for the Committee to publish a “list of issues” to guide the rest of the review. The Committee on the Rights of the Child invites some civil society organizations to meet with Committee members in person for a confidential briefing before it finalizes the list of issues. We met with the Committee on September 26 and had a productive dialogue about their issues of concern and ours. But because the closed-door session is confidential, I won’t go into details of what we discussed.
Two weeks later, the Committee published its list of issues for its upcoming review of Ethiopia. The Committee included many—but not all—of the issues we raised in our report. Based on the list of issues, we know the Committee is concerned about issues such as “discrimination and stigma faced by girls, children with disabilities, and children of ethnic minorities”; sexual abuse of children, including children with disabilities; FGM; support for children with disabilities, including children who live and/or work in the streets; “relocation of a significant number of indigenous families, belonging, inter alia, to the Anuak, Nuer or Oromo, under the ‘villagization’ programme, . . . to areas unsuitable for agricultural use, where they lack access to education and basic necessities”; child domestic workers; abuse and violence against children; and sexual violence perpetrated by teachers against students.
The next step in the process is for the Ethiopian Government to submit a written response to the list of issues. The Committee requested a response by March 15, 2015, but oftentimes the responses come much later.
Now that we know the issues the Committee is concerned about, we have the opportunity to submit a new report if we have any additional information that might be relevant. And after the Ethiopian Government submits its written response, we can submit our own alternative report to highlight any inaccuracies or omissions in the government’s report.
Next, the Ethiopian Government will send a delegation to Geneva for an “examination” by the Committee. The examination will take place during the Committee’s session running from May 18 to June 5, 2015. The examination isn’t limited to the topics covered in the list of issues, so it’s possible the Committee will voice its concern then about the government’s violent crackdown on student protests. Then, after the session, the Committee will publish its Concluding Observations and Recommendations for the Ethiopian Government. You can read the Concluding Observations from Ethiopia’s last review, in 2006, at this link.
To learn more about the UN treaty body review process, read pages 224-233 of Paving Pathways.
IOYA Meets with UN Special Procedures Staff
IOYA President Amane Badhasso meets with the staff of one of the special procedures mandate-holders
We didn’t travel all that way just for one meeting. Rather, we decided to make the most of our time by following up on a letter we sent to some of the UN Special Procedures in June, encouraging them to visit Ethiopia to investigate the government crackdown on the Oromo protests. We met with staff of several special procedures, discussing the possibility of a country visit and also talking about what role the Oromo diaspora could play in assisting people who might want to submit individual communications to the special procedures. To learn more about how to engage with the UN Special Procedures, read pages 211-222 of Paving Pathways.
IOYA and The Advocates Host a Side Event
While the Human Rights Council is in session, NGOs with consultative status, like The Advocates for Human Rights, can apply for space at the United Nations to host a “side event.” To learn more about applying for consultative status with the United Nations, read pages 310-312 of Paving Pathways.
IOYA Vice President, Sinke Wesho (right) presents at the side event
The Advocates and IOYA hosted a side event called “Diaspora Engagement on Human Rights: Ethiopia as a Case Study.” I introduced the audience to our Paving Pathways toolkit, and then I turned the floor over to my IOYA colleagues. IOYA’s President, Amane Badhasso, spoke about the ways in which the Oromo diaspora used social media to engage in advocacy surrounding the Oromo protests. To learn more about how you can conduct an effective human rights advocacy campaign, including a campaign using social media, read Chapter 7 , as well as Appendix C and D, of Paving Pathways.
IOYA’s Vice President, Sinke Wesho, talked about the issue of human trafficking from Ethiopia and the efforts of the diaspora to assist victims and document the problem. To learn how you can get involved in monitoring and documenting human rights violations, read Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Paving Pathways.
IOYA had invited members of the Oromo diaspora in the Geneva area to attend, but a mix-up by security at the entrance gate meant that most of them were not allowed into the building. Nonetheless, the event was well-attended. Even Ephrem Bouzayhue Hidug, Minister Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia to the UN Office at Geneva attended, perhaps to monitor whether people were criticizing Ethiopia. He listened politely and when we opened the session up for questions and comments, he praised the IOYA representatives for their advocacy. But then he went on to suggest that the criticisms of the Ethiopian government were unfounded. After the event, people came up to congratulate the IOYA representatives and take photos. When the cameras began to flash, Mr. Hidug angrily lashed out at the people taking photos, insisting that he did not authorize anyone to take his photo: “This is Switzerland, so if someone says you cannot take their photograph, you must not do so!” From my perspective, though, nobody was interested in taking his photograph.
The Advocates Delivers Statements During Human Rights Council Debates, Prompts Ethiopia to Exercise Right of Reply
NGOs with consultative status can also take the floor and make statements during certain periods of the Human Rights Council’s debates. While we were in Geneva, I delivered two statements.
Amy Bergquist delivers a statement on access to justice for Africans in the diaspora at the 27th Session of the Human Rights Council
The first was during a general debate about racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related forms of intolerance following an interactive dialogue on access to justice with the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. I spoke about the importance of access to justice for Africans living in the diaspora, particularly for human rights violations that occurred in their country of origin. You can read my statement here, and watch me deliver it here. (Scroll down to Chapter 21 of the video.)
The second statement was during a general debate on technical assistance and capacity-building. I spoke about the importance of providing technical assistance and capacity-building to diaspora communities that want to improve human rights and accountability in their countries of origin and ancestry. I pointed to Ethiopia as a particularly relevant example, noting that the 2009 Charities and Societies Proclamation had stifled civil society work on human rights within Ethiopia. In such circumstances, I observed, it is particularly important to build the capacity of diaspora organizations to promote human rights in their country of origin. You can watch me deliver the second statement here. (Scroll down to Chapter 52 of the video.)
Ephrem Bouzayhue Hidug, Minister Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia to the UN Office at Geneva, exercising Ethiopia’s right of reply in response to The Advocates’ statement to the Human Rights Council
During these debates, countries may exercise a “right of reply” to respond to a statement made by another country or by an NGO. Mr. Ephrem Hidug, who had attended our side event earlier that day, felt compelled to respond to our statement. This time, though, he couldn’t stop the cameras from rolling.
He denied that the Charities and Societies Proclamation has had a negative effect on civil society organizations in Ethiopia, asserting that Ethiopia has thousands of organizations active on “advocacy, development, humanitarian, and other things.” Notably, he did not state that they work on human rights issues. You can listen to his full statement here at Chapter 69.
All Work and No Play . . . .
Switzerland’s Oromos enjoying their 2014 Irreechaa celebration in Lausanne
As it turned out, at the end of our busy week in Geneva, Switzerland’s Oromo community had organized a celebration of Irreechaa, a harvest festival sometimes referred to as the “Oromo Thanksgiving.” The IOYA representatives and I traveled to Lausanne, a lovely town on the shore of Lake Geneva, and enjoyed a wonderful day soaking in Oromo culture, music, and food. Oromos had come from all over Switzerland–some had driven from more than 2 hours away–to join in the celebration. We were overwhelmed by their hospitality and their eagerness to hear what we had accomplished during our brief visit.
Advice for Diaspora Advocates Around the World: It’s a Long-Term Commitment
Amane Badhasso and Sinke Wesho in front of the Palais des Nations in Geneva
After our busy week in Geneva, I asked IOYA President Amane Badhasso to reflect on what she’d done and lessons learned. I encouraged her to share advice that she would give to other diaspora organizations–both Oromo groups and other diaspora communities–that want to promote human rights in their country of origin or ancestry. Here are her recommendations:
The promotion of human rights is a long-term commitment, and those who want to implement/promote human rights in their country of origin should understand the issues within their country of origin and tell stories from the perspective of those on the ground. In addition, it is important for those in the diaspora to utilize all tools available to lobby their country of residence and assure that the international community is aware of various abuses in the country of origin. It is also crucial to educate the public and use resources available to collaborate with groups that deal with human rights advocacy so that a practical outcome could come out of advocacy.
During our week in Geneva, we learned about many ways the Oromo diaspora can engage in advocacy at the United Nations. IOYA can’t take on all of these strategies on its own; there are many opportunities for other diaspora groups to get involved. But our advocacy with the Committee on the Rights of the Child was an important step in raising visibility about human rights violations against the Oromo people in Ethiopia.
Are you a member of a diaspora community? What ways can you engage with the United Nations to promote human rights in your country of origin or ancestry?
More posts about human rights in Ethiopia:
By TheAdvocatesPostin Human Rights Advocacy, International Justice, The Advocates for Human Rights - All Posts November 7, 2014 November 10, 2015 2,190 Words4 Comments
H.E. Mr. Minelik Alemu Getahun (left), Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations Office in Geneva
This fall was a busy time for advocacy at the United Nations on human rights in Ethiopia. It was also a great time to see The Advocates for Human Rights’ new toolkit, Paving Pathways for Justice and Accountability: Human Rights Tools for Diaspora Communities, in action.
Universal Periodic Review Concludes with Some Fireworks
In a one-hour session on September 19, the UN Human Rights Council adopted the outcome of its second Universal Periodic Review of Ethiopia. You can watch the video of the session here.
I’ve blogged about the UPR of Ethiopia before, and the adoption of the outcome is the last step in the process. The adoption of the outcome is also the only opportunity civil society organizations have to speak during the UPR process.
The Advocates for Human Rights is based in Minnesota, not Geneva, so we don’t generally get a chance to address the Human Rights Council during the UPR process. But I often watch the live webcasts, and this time I got up early to livetweet.
Ms Renate Bloem from Civicus World Alliance for Citizenship Participation addresses the Human Rights Council
Several non-governmental organizations took the floor and raised concerns about the human rights situation on the ground in Ethiopia. Civicus World Alliance for Citizenship Participation, for example, expressed concern about Ethiopia’s refusal to accept recommendations to remove draconian restrictions on free expression. Renate Bloem (left), speaking for Civicus, added:
While relying on international funding to supplement 50-60 percent of its national budget, the government has simultaneously criminalized most foreign funding for human rights groups in the country. These restrictions have precipitated the near complete cessation of independent human rights monitoring in the country. It is therefore deeply alarming that Ethiopia has explicitly refused to implement recommendations put forward by nearly 15 governments during its UPR examination to create an enabling environment for civil society.
The Ethiopian Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Minelik Alemu Getahun (top), lashed out at the NGOs that commented, particularly Civicus:
I regret the language used by some of the NGO representatives and particularly the call for action some of them made against Ethiopia in the Council for alleged isolated acts. Some of the language used in the allegations, particularly the remarks by CIVICUS on our budget is outrageous and incorrect. I can assure the Council that Ethiopia relies on its peoples and their resources, which is not unusual supplemented by international support.
The Human Rights Council then adopted the outcome of the second UPR of Ethiopia. The recommendations Ethiopia accepted are contained in the Report of the Working Group and an addendum, available here. Some of the more promising recommendations that Ethiopia accepted in September are:
Implement fully its 1995 Constitution, including the freedoms of association, expression and assembly for independent political parties, ethnic and religious groups and non-government organisations (Australia).
Take concrete steps to ensure the 2015 national elections are more representative and participative than those in 2010, especially around freedom of assembly and encouraging debate among political parties (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
Consider implementing the pertinent recommendations from the Independent Expert on Minorities, with a view to guaranteeing equal treatment of all ethnic groups in the country (Cape Verde).
Monitor the implementation of the anti-terrorism law in order to identify any act of repression which affects freedom of association and expression and possible cases of arbitrary detention. In addition, develop activities necessary to eliminate any excesses by the authorities in its application (Mexico).
Now it’s up to people on the ground in Ethiopia, as well as people outside of Ethiopia like the Oromo diaspora, to lobby the Ethiopian Government to implement the recommendations it accepted and to monitor whether the government is keeping its word.
The next UPR cycle for Ethiopia will begin in about 4 years, when NGOs will have a chance to submit new stakeholder reports demonstrating whether Ethiopia has implemented the recommendations it accepted, pointing out any developments on the ground since the last review, and advocating for new recommendations that will improve human rights in Ethiopia. Learn more about how you can get involved in the UPR process of Ethiopia (or any other country) on pages 200-210 of Paving Pathways.
Opportunities Ahead for Voices to be Heard
There’s much more to be done in the effort to build respect for human rights in Ethiopia. In addition to the next steps mentioned above, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights will be reviewing Ethiopia’s human rights record in its December 2014 session. In September, the Advocates and the International Oromo Youth Association submitted a lengthy alternative report to the African Commission, responding to the Ethiopian Government’s report. The African Commission will conduct an examination of the Ethiopian Government and then will issue Concluding Observations and Recommendations. You can read the African Commission’s Concluding Observations from its first review of Ethiopia, in 2010, here. To learn more about advocacy with the African Commission, read pages 268-280 of Paving Pathways.
On Wednesday, November 19, Amane Badhasso and I will have a talk with the Amnesty International chapter of the University of Minnesota Law School. The students are eager to learn more about human rights in Ethiopia, and they want to participate in a collective activity to show their support. There’s been a lot of attention lately to a report Amnesty just released on human rights violations against the Oromo people.
Organizations like The Advocates for Human Rights and Amnesty will be ineffective if they work on their own. The Oromo diaspora, as well as other diaspora communities from Ethiopia, have a critical role to play in leading the way to promoting human rights, justice, and accountability in Ethiopia. The Advocates for Human Rights hopes that Paving Pathways will lay the groundwork for many more fruitful collaborations.
Are you a member of a diaspora community? Do you know people who are living in the diaspora? What steps can the diasporans you know take to improve human rights and accountability in their countries of origin or ancestry? How could Paving Pathways and The Advocates for Human Rights assist them?
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By amylbergquistin International Justice, The Advocates for Human Rights - All Posts November 6, 2014 November 6, 2014 1,207 Words12 Comments
I’m traveling to Geneva next week along with representatives of the International Oromo Youth Association to meet with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to talk about children’s rights in Ethiopia. We submitted a report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child in July, and the Committee invited us to meet with Committee members in a 2.5 hour, closed-door session next Friday.
As I get ready to head back to Geneva, my thoughts turn to my last visit to the United Nations, back in March. As I wandered through the Palais des Nations complex of buildings after a busy day, I came across an exhibit that left me speechless. This exhibit was in the majestic main hallway of the old League of Nations building—a space with towering ceilings and beautiful views of Lake Geneva. But in that grand setting was a photo exhibit about a pernicious contemporary global human rights violation: child marriage. Child marriage is a worldwide phenomenon, but as it turns out, several of the girls in the exhibit are from Ethiopia.
And the exhibit is particularly timely right now. On Monday, Bangladesh approved a law that will impose a two-year prison sentence on anyone who marries a girl under age 18. And on Wednesday, a judge in India admonished the parents and in-laws of a 14-year-old bride, stating “Child marriage is an evil worst than rape and should be completely eradicated from the society.” The magistrate continued:
There are serious outcomes of child marriage. It is the worst form of domestic violence against the child, not only by the respondents (husband and his family) but also by her own parents. Child brides have a diminished chance of completing their education and are at a higher risk of being physically abused, contracting HIV and other diseases, and dying while pregnant or giving birth.
The traveling exhibit, called “Too Young to Wed” (more information at the bottom of this post), is a striking example of how art can inform our understanding of human rights issues:
Yemen: Young girls sit inside a home outside of Al Hudaydah. Yemeni women’s rights groups agree that child marriage is rampant in every part of Yemeni society.
Yemen: Galiyaah, age 13, Sidaba, age 11, Khawlah, age 12. In Yemen, where marriage can resemble a business transaction, sisters Galiyaah (left) and Sidaba (center), marry the brothers of their cousin, Khawlah (right), who wed the sisters’ uncle.
Ethiopia: Debitu, age 14. Debitu escaped from her husband after months of abuse. Seven months pregnant, she is now homeless and uncertain of her future. “I didn’t want to get pregnant because I was very small. I wanted to wait until I am old enough. . . Sometimes I think I will die [during child birth].”
Nepal: Surita, age 16, Bishal, age 15. Bishal accepts gifts from visitors as his new bride, Surita, sits bored at her new home. Here in Nepal, as in many countries, not only girls, but boys too are married young.
Nepal: Sumeena, age 15. Sumeena leaves her home to meet her groom, Prakash, 15. The harmful practice of child marriage is common in Nepal.
Ethiopia: Destaye, age 11, Addisu, age 23. Addisu and his new bride Destaye are married in a traditional Ethiopian Orthodox wedding in a rural area outside the city of Gondar, Ethiopia. Community members said that because of Addisu’s standing as a priest, his bride had to be a virgin. This was the reason Destaye was given to him at such a young age.
(right) Ethiopia: Destaye, age 11. Destaye, now 15, intended to continue her schooling, in spite of the teasing she endured from her community. “They used to laugh at me for going to school after marriage,” she said. “But I know the use of school so I don’t care. . . . But people laughing at you makes it more difficult.” But after the birth of her son six months ago, Destaye no longer had time for classes. “I feel sad because I quit learning,” she said.
Ethiopia: Members of the Fistula Girls Club and the Community-based Reproductive Association get ready to perform a traditional dance during a performance against child marriage in Shende village in Ethiopia. This is one of many events hosted by the groups to discourage early marriage and other harmful practices in the Bure district.
Afghanistan: Ghulam, age 11. Ghulam plays in the village on the day of her engagement. Removed from school just months earlier, she said she is sad to be getting engaged because she wanted to be a teacher. Parents sometimes remove their daughters from school to protect them from the possibility of sexual activity outside of wedlock.
Afghanistan: Ghulam, age 11; Faiz, age 40. Ghulam and Faiz, age 40, sit for a portrait in her home before their wedding in Afghanistan. According to the U.S. Department of State report “Human Rights Practices for 2011,” approximately 60 percent of girls were married younger than the legal age of 16. Once a girl’s father has agreed to her engagement, she is pulled out of school immediately.
Yemen: Nujood, age 12. Nujood Ali, two years after her divorce from her husband, who was more than 20 years her senior. Nujood’s story sent shock waves around the country and caused parliament to consider a bill writing a minimum marriage age into law.
Ethiopia: Street girls attend classes at Godanaw Rehabilitation Integrated Project (GRIP) in Addis Ababa. This Ethiopian humanitarian shelter provides skills training and health care to thousands of street girls—three-quarters of whom have escaped early marriages in the countryside.
Yemen: Asia, age 14. Asia washes her newborn at home in Hajjah while her 2-year-old daughter plays. Asia is still bleeding and ill from childbirth, yet has no knowledge of how to care for herself or access to maternal health care.
Ethiopia: China, age 18. A young sex worker named China sits stunned after being beaten up by a client. Many of the girls who run away from child marriages end up trafficked to brothels where they often face intense violence.
Afghanistan: Jamila, age 15. Kandahar policewoman Malalai Kakar arrests a man who repeatedly stabbed his wife, 15, and mother of two children, for disobeying him. When asked what would happen to the husband for this crime, Kakar replied, “Nothing. Men are kings here.” Kakar was later killed by the Taliban.
Afghanistan: Mejgon, Age 16. Mejgon weeps in the arms of the case worker near fellow residents at an NGO shelter run by Afghan women in Herat, Afghanistan. Mejgon’s father sold her at the age of 11 to a 60-year-old man for two boxes of heroin.
Yemen: Tehani, age 8. “Whenever I saw him, I hid. I hated to see him,” Tehani (in pink) recalls of the early days of her marriage to Majed, when she was 6 and he was 25. The young wife posed for a portrait with former classmate Ghada, also a child bride, outside their home in Hajjah.
India: Sarita, age 15. Sarita is seen in tears before she is sent to her new home with her new groom. The previous day, she and her 8-year-old sister Maya were married to sibling brothers.
(left) India: Rajani, age 5. Long after midnight, Rajani is roused from sleep and carried by her uncle to her wedding. Child marriage is illegal in India, so ceremonies are often held in the wee hours of the morning. “It becomes a secret the whole village keeps,” explained one farmer.
India: Rajani, age 5. Rajani and her boy groom barely look at each other as they are married in front of the sacred fire. By tradition, the young bride is expected to live at home until puberty, when a second ceremony transfers her to her husband.
Ethiopia: Agere, age 32. Agere breastfeeds her twin newborns. Agere was married at age 12 to her husband, who later gave her AIDS. The twins have tested HIV positive. Now abandoned, she does not have enough money to buy them uninfected milk.
Nepal: Niruta, age 14. A nine-months pregnant Niruta carries grass for her family’s farm animals in Kagati Village, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Niruta moved in with the family of Durga, 17, and became pregnant when they were only engaged.
Afghanistan: Bibi Aisha, age 19. In a practice known as baad, Bibi Aisha’s father promised her to a Taliban fighter when she was 6 years old as compensation for a killing that a member of her family had committed. She was married at 16 and subjected to constant abuse. At 18, she fled the abuse but was caught by police, jailed and then returned to her family. Her father-in-law, husband and three other family members took her into the mountains, cut off her nose and her ears, and left her to die. “I was a woman exchanged for someone else’s wrongdoing. [My new husband] was looking for an excuse to beat me.”
(left) Afghanistan: Roshan, age 8. Female relatives of the bride-to-be, Roshan, prepare food and tea for guests on the day of her engagement to Said, 55, at her home in rural Afghanistan. Upset about the engagement of her daughter, Roshan’s mother exclaimed, “We are selling our daughters because we don’t have enough food to feed the rest of our children!”
(center) Yemen: Tehani, age 8. Tehani works in the fields just outside her village in a rural area of Hajjah, Yemen.
(right) Nepal: Surita, age 16. Village leader Pudke Shreshta Balami blesses the home of Surita directly following the wedding ceremony in Nepal.
Too Young to Wed is part of a transmedia campaign led by VII Photo Agency photographer Stephanie Sinclair, who has documented the global issue of child marriage for nearly a decade. The original photos in the exhibit were taken by Sinclair and Jessica Dimmock. Too Young to Wed is a partnership between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and VII, a premier photo agency known for focusing on social issues and human rights. Sinclair and Dimmock collaborated on the project. Learn more about the project here.
You can read more about child marriage. The Advocates for Human Rights’ Women’s Human Rights Program maintains the Stop Violence Against Women (StopVAW) website, which includes information and resources about child marriage. In December 2013, an organization called Women Living Under Muslim Laws submitted the results of its multi-country study on child and forced marriage to the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights.
How can you use words, images, cartoons, and other media to be an advocate for human rights?
By: Amy Bergquist, staff attorney with the International Justice Program at The Advocates for Human Rights
For more on children’s rights in Ethiopia, read the report by The Advocates for Human Rights and the International Oromo Youth Association to the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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Home / Races / Strong Team Sunweb is ready for 2019
Strong Team Sunweb is ready for 2019
We all know Team Sunweb is a force to be reckoned with in today’s peloton. In the 2018 season, Tom Dumoulin achieved second place in the general classification of both the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France. The women’s team as well as the riders who ride cyclocross have also booked serious successes. But great victories only motivates the team and the riders to make more improvements. Team Sunweb operates at the very highest level of cycling, and is therefore also aiming for improvements in the 2019 season. And they are not doing that alone.
Cervélo, Craft, Lazer, KPMG, Skoda and more
The team has a group of dedicated partners who have one clear goal: to be the best. And the new group of Team Sunweb partners bring a wide range of knowledge and expertise to the table. The team’s new bike partner, Cervélo, has new aero model which was born in the wind tunnel: the S5. Cervélo is all about innovation. And that is reflected in the new partnership, which is more than mere sponsorship. The riders’ feedback about the bikes will facilitate developments for future models.
This type of joint venture underlines the new Team Sunweb partner portfolio. While in the past, sponsors were sought only for financial support, joint ventures in terms of product development and innovation are now the order of the day. This also well reflects one of Team Sunweb’s core values: Keep Challenging.
Other new Team Sunweb partners reflect this way of working: this includes the highly-respected cycling clothing brand Craft, as well as helmet manufacturer Lazer. In addition, Team Sunweb has launched a new and unique joint venture with auditing giant KPMG. While the project is firmly under wraps at the moment, there is talk of a performance data analysis superbrain, which will eventually serve the entire team in order to track and improve everyone’s performance analysis. There are also new partnerships with Skoda for the team cars, and Continental for tyres.
The Team Sunweb riders
There are whole lot of new faces at Team Sunweb in both the World Tour men’s team, as well as the women’s team and the development team. This includes youthful talent who will be given the opportunity to show what they can do, as well as experienced riders to fill the gaps left by some of the riders who moved on to other teams after the 2018 season. In the men’s team, two well-known names from the peloton join the ranks of the seasoned professionals at Team Sunweb: Nicolas Roche and Jan Bakelants. Also, the less well-known young Australian rider Robert Power is a new arrival. The riders from all three squads (men, women and development team) all joined together for the 2019 team presentation in Berlin. All of the team left Berlin to head south for their respective winter training camps in Calpe, Spain.
“One of the special things about Team Sunweb is that it treats us development team riders in the same way as the top professionals, which is unusual for riders of our age,” said new signing 18-year-0ld Edo Maas. Maas is an upcoming talent who won the E3-Harelbeke for juniors in 2018 and came 4th in the Junior Paris Roubaix. “This makes for an excellent atmosphere, and it’s a great way for me to grow as a rider. I love the Spring Classics. The harder the racing gets, the better. I’m really looking forward to proving myself in the new season.”
Chad Haga, one of the senior domestiques (support riders) in the team, rode both the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France in 2018. He explained during the team presentation interview with The Prologue that he was very well rested over the winter break. “This off-season was the most time I’ve ever been off the bike! So coming back is a hard reset for me and a bit of a shock really (laughs). I am not used to losing quite so much fitness.” Haga is a key domestique for Tom Dumoulin and the Team Sunweb squad and is known as a bit of a philosopher in the group. “Becoming a better racer is all about self-improvement. I have a perfectionistic attitude and like to challenge myself in order to get the most out of myself, whatever the task is.”
Søren Kragh Andersen, who ended the 2018 season on a high note by beating Niki Terpstra in the final to win an edition of Paris Tours which included some serious gravel sections, is aiming for a major role during the Spring Classics. “I hope to be able to share a leadership role with Michael Matthews in the Spring Classics: to be heading into the finals together and see in the final who is the strongest between us. I will be there for him in the pre-final and he for me. We showed that we understand each other well in the Binck Bank Tour 2018 (Matthews won a stage and was second in the General Classification and Kragh Andersen was 7th in the GC).”
Coryn Rivera, one of the big names in the women’s team
Floortje Mackaij has been racing for the Team Sunweb women’s team for six years. “We have a super-strong team with a number of new, great young riders. I think our team spirit makes us different from other teams: we have one goal and we know we have to achieve that together. We are ready to show that in 2019!”
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Rosewood Yangon To Open In Myanmar This Winter
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has announced the launch of Rosewood Yangon, the brand’s first hotel to open in Myanmar this winter
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has announced plans to open its sixth Asian property, Rosewood Yangon in Myanmar this winter. The property is one of numerous exciting openings for the brand, with properties also set to open this winter in Montecito, Bangkok, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.
The brand currently manages 24 one-of-a-kind luxury properties in 15 countries around the world. Rosewood Yangon will be no different, providing guests with an exquisite stay in the city. Located on The Strand in the heart of the city’s historic district, Rosewood Yangon will offer guests unparalleled access to the cultural riches of Myanmar’s largest city.
Ideally situated amidst classic colonial landmarks in the cultural heart and central business district, within walking distance to the city’s most notable attractions, guests can easily take in the bustling city life at the Bogyoke Aung San Market (formerly known as Scott’s Market), enjoy a cruise down the winding Yangon river, or immerse themselves in local culture at the iconic Shwedagon Pagoda.
“With its stunning vistas, awe-inspiring architecture, rich history and culture, Myanmar and Yangon are perfect examples of a Rosewood destination, and we look forward to introducing our affluential explorers to this destination,” says Sonia Cheng, chief executive officer of Rosewood Hotel Group. “Already an emerging regional business centre, Yangon is a wonderfully dynamic city with deep cultural traditions and is a perfect gateway for our discerning guests to discover the wonderful landscapes and culture of Myanmar.”
The hotel is housed within a stunning heritage building, originally constructed in 1927 as the New Law Courts by architect Thomas Oliphant and Doorman Long UK, the engineers behind the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge. The property has been meticulously restored to incorporate every contemporary amenity and comfort while simultaneously preserving the essence and splendour of the building’s storied past.
Guests can check into 209 spacious guest rooms, suites, one- and two-bedroom apartment units. Boasting high ceilings and abundant natural light, most guest rooms also feature patios and balconies where guests can take in views of the majestic Yangon River or the beautifully landscaped internal courtyards. The hotel’s interiors have been designed to seamlessly blend the historical restoration with contemporary Burmese touches – all in Rosewood’s signature residential style.
For the gourmand traveler, the hotel will also offer five distinct dining venues featuring local, Asian, and internationally-influenced cuisine, including a residential-style tea lounge and patisserie, a modern Cantonese restaurant, a convivial brasserie, an intimate bar and cigar lounge, and a panoramic rooftop bar boasting sweeping views of the city and the Yangon River.
Rosewood Yangon will join Rosewood’s distinctive Asian properties including Rosewood Beijing, Rosewood Phuket, and Rosewood Sanya.
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Aqil Shah: Pakistani Military Sees Militant Problems as Result of Indo-American Plot
Matthew Yglesias Apr 1, 2009, 7:23 pm
Via Kevin Drum, some provocative contentions from Aqil Shah in a Foreign Affairs symposium on Pakistan:
Any desire to deal firmly with cross-border militancy is trumped by the military’s perceived need to retain its ties to this or that militant group in order to counter Indian influence in Afghanistan. The army continues to fear that the United States could simply lose interest in Afghanistan once it captures the senior leadership of al Qaeda (as Washington did after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan), leaving Pakistan exposed to Indian (and Russian) “encirclement” — evidence of which it sees in New Delhi’s alleged support for the insurgency in Pakistan’s resource-rich Baluchistan province and Indian funding for a 135-mile road connecting Afghanistan’s Nimroz province with the Iranian port of Chabahar. Intelligence officials privately concede their mentoring of militant groups in the past, but say they have now escaped the military’s orbit — an assertion not fully consistent with the facts. There appears to be a pervasive belief in the army, among both mid-level and senior officers, that the United States and India are destabilizing FATA [Federally Administered Tribal Areas] and the rest of the country as a prelude to depriving Pakistan of its nuclear weapons. Officers who have served in FATA have told me that they face a U.S.-Indian combined offensive and that the local Taliban receive their funds from across the border. The army might inculcate such beliefs in order to motivate its soldiers, but they also connect to the military’s larger worldview. For the generals, the U.S.-Indian nuclear deal is proof of an evolving Indo-U.S., or even Indo-U.S.-Israeli, strategic alliance — not to mention American duplicity.
I have no idea whether or not this is right. But I think it reflects something we need more of in our “Af-Pak” commentary — more from people who actually speak local languages talking about how the world looks through the eyes of the Pakistani institutions that matter. If Shah has this right, then I don’t think a lot of fine talk about building a strategic partnership with Pakistan is going to get us very far. Maybe he’s way off base, but I think it’s telling that none of the other participants in the forum say “that’s absurd — this guy has no idea what he’s talking about.” So apparently a lot of experts think this is at least a possibility worth taking seriously. But it rarely seems to penetrate into discussions of American policy in the region.
A few more points on this general subject:
The historically pro-Pakistan tilt of U.S. policy on the subcontinent goes against the logic of culture, values, and domestic ethnic politics so it’s not crazy of Pakistan to think we might abandon it.
The India nuclear deal was made on the U.S. side with remarkably little attention to its implications for Pakistan and Afghanistan.
An overwhelming Pakistani security focus on the India issue is important in justifying the military’s enormous power over the Pakistani state.
India is much bigger than Pakistan, and also adjacent to China, so at any reasonable size the Indian military is going to look terrifying to a Pakistan that insists on viewing India as a threat.
I would also venture that 30 years from now people are going to look back and see America’s relationship with India and China as rising great powers as more important issues than our relationship with Pashto-speaking town elders in rural Afghanistan.
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Anti-Occupy Mob Trashes Hong Kong Protest Site
An anti-Occupy protester shouts at pro-democracy demonstrators in an occupied area of Hong Kong on Oct. 3, 2014.
Philippe Lopez—AFP/Getty Images
By Liam Fitzpatrick / Hong Kong
A pro-government mob, hundreds strong, destroyed one of Hong Kong’s democracy-protest sites Friday afternoon local time, attacking students, trashing student tents and hurling obscenities.
Police were initially overwhelmed and failed to separate the two sides, although they were able to evacuate some democracy activists from the site, located in the densely populated district of Mong Kok, on the Kowloon peninsula.
The anti-Occupy crowd destroyed banners and posters and chanted “go home” at the students. Water bottles were thrown. Abandoned buses that had stood at the site since activists occupied it were boarded and driven off to loud cheers.
Another protest site, in Causeway Bay, was also reportedly attacked.
There were allegations that female activists were being sexually molested and foreign journalists set upon.
Occupy Central, one of the city’s main pro-democracy organizations, condemned what it called “police inaction.”
Photographs of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution
Protesters sit behind a government building as the standoff continues Oct. 5, 2014 in Hong Kong.
Paula Bronstein—Getty Images
Protesters walk along the protest site on a quiet night as the standoff continues Oct. 5, 2014 in Hong Kong.
A pro-democracy protester sleeps on a concrete road divider on a street outside the Hong Kong Government Complex on Oct. 5, 2014 in Hong Kong.
Chris McGrath—Getty Images
People try to prevent a man from removing a barricade set up by pro-democracy protesters blocking a main road at Hong Kong's shopping Mongkok district Oct. 4, 2014.
Bobby Yip—Reuters
Policemen try to get a man to let go of a fence guarded by pro-democracy demonstrators in an occupied area of Hong Kong on Oct. 3, 2014.
A local resident breaks through police lines and attempts to reach the pro-democracy tent on Oct. 3, 2014 in Mong Kok, Hong Kong.
A student protester is injured after being pulled off and hit by residents and pro-Beijing supporters while local police are escorting him out of the protest area in Kowloon's crowded Mong Kok district, Oct. 3, 2014 in Hong Kong.
Wong Maye-E—AP
Students and pro-democracy activists leave the protest site as local police hold back local residents and pro-government supporters on Oct. 3, 2014 in Mong Kok, Hong Kong.
A man walks past a barricade as protesters continue to block areas outside the government headquarters building in Hong Kong, Oct. 3, 2014.
Carlos Barria—Reuters
Pro-democracy demonstration in Hong Kong, Sept. 3, 2014.
James Nachtwey for TIME
Student protesters raise their hands to show their non-violent intentions as they resist during change of shift for local police but backed down after being reassured they could reoccupy the pavement outside the government compoundís gate, Oct. 2, 2014 in Hong Kong.
Police stand guard outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Oct. 2, 2014, as pro-democracy protesters remain gathered for the fifth day in a push for free elections of the city's leader.
A taxi driver gives a thumbs up to pro-democracy protesters as he drives past the protest site in front of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's office, early on Oct. 3, 2014 in Hong Kong.
Protesters sleep on the road outside the Police Headquarters building on Oct. 2, 2014 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Students from various universities continue their protest in the streets of Hong Kong, Oct. 1, 2014.
Nicole Tung for TIME
A protester holding an umbrella stands on the street close to the Hong Kong Government Complex on Oct. 1, 2014 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Joshua Wong, leader of the student movement, delivers a speech as protesters block the main street to the financial Central district, outside the government headquarters building in Hong Kong Oct. 1, 2014.
Protesters react as Joshua Wong, leader of the student movement, speaks to the crowd outside the government headquarters building in Hong Kong Oct. 1, 2014.
Tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators, some waving lights from mobile phones, fill the streets in the main finical district of Hong Kong, Oct. 1, 2014.
Wally Santana—AP
A protester sleeps on the streets outside the Hong Kong Government Complex at sunrise on Sept. 30, 2014 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Pro-democracy demonstrators rest during a protest in Hong Kong on Sept. 30, 2014.
Protesters relax on the streets outside the Hong Kong Government Complex on Sept. 30, 2014 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
A pro-democracy protestor speaks to the crowd in front of the government offices in Hong Kong on Sept. 30, 2014.
Anthony Wallace—AFP/Getty Images
A couple wearing protective masks and ponchos walk through Admiralty district as part of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong on Sept. 30, 2014.
Xaume Olleros—AFP/Getty Images
Protesters sing songs and wave their cell phones in the air after a massive thunderstorm passed over outside the Hong Kong Government Complex on Sept. 30, 2014 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Pro-democracy demonstrators gather for the third night in Hong Kong on Sept. 30, 2014.
A businessman stands in front of a road block set up by protesters at the main street of the financial Central district in Hong Kong Sept. 29, 2014.
Tyrone Siu—Reuters
A protester raises his arms as police officers try to disperse the crowd near the government headquarters in Hong Kong, Sept. 29, 2014.
Umbrellas used to shield demonstrators from pepper spray and the sun are displayed during a pro-democracy protest near the Hong Kong government headquarters on Sept. 29, 2014.
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Residents on scooters bring supplies to protesters camped outside the headquarters of Legislative Council during protests in Hong Kong on Sept. 29, 2014.
Police walk down a stairwell as pro-democracy demonstrators gather for a rally outside the Hong Kong government headquarters on Sept. 29, 2014.
Protesters gather in the streets outside the Hong Kong Government Complex on Sept. 29, 2014 in Hong Kong.
Pro-democracy demonstrators hold up their mobile phones during a protest near the Hong Kong government headquarters on Sept. 29, 2014.
Pro-democracy demonstrators are sprayed with pepper spray during clashes with police officers during a rally near the Hong Kong government headquarters on Sept. 28, 2014.
A pro-democracy demonstrator wearing a mask and goggles to protect against pepper spray and tear gas gestures during a rally near the Hong Kong government headquarters on Sept. 28, 2014.
Riot police launch tear gas into the crowd as thousands of protesters surround the government headquarters in Hong Kong, Sept. 28, 2014.
A protester walks in tear gas fired by riot policemen after thousands of protesters blocking the main street to the financial Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong, Sept. 28, 2014.
A pro-democracy protester confronts the police during a demonstration in Hong Kong on Sept. 28, 2014.
Pro-democracy protesters demonstrate in Hong Kong on Sept. 28, 2014.
Policemen confronts protesters in Hong Kong during a demonstration on Sept. 28, 2014.
Riot police fire tear gas on student protesters occupying streets surrounding the government headquarters in Hong Kong, early on Sept. 29, 2014.
A pro-democracy demonstrator pours water over a man's face after police fired tear gas at protesters during a rally near the Hong Kong government headquarters on Sept. 28, 2014.
Pro-democracy protesters put their hands up in the air in front of the police in Hong Kong on Sept. 28, 2014
Alex Ogle—AFP/Getty Images
Some of the protesters sleep as they block the main street to the financial Central district outside the government headquarters, in Hong Kong, Sept, 29, 2014.
Policemen rest following pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, early on Sept. 29, 2014.
It could not be immediately confirmed if the anti-Occupy mob belonged to a specific political group. However, the South China Morning Post reported that they were being directed by a “middle-aged Putonghua-speaking woman wearing a face mask using a loud hailer.”
The attack on the Mong Kok site comes after a day of growing tensions, with the authorities and students at an impasse and protest leaders unsure of how much longer the movement will retain popular support.
The movement has been hampered by the lack of a politically experienced leader, able to unite its disparate elements and woo long-term support from a wider public that is torn between the desire for electoral reform, the social disruption a prolonged campaign could bring, and the fear of invoking Beijing’s displeasure.
— With reporting by David Stout / Hong Kong
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Translation Zone(s): Constellations Hong Kong
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Earlier this July I was invited to be part of Translation Zone(s): Constellations Hong Kong, an exhibition curated by Dr Heather Connelly as part of her transdisciplinary research into art-and-translation. The exhibition was part of the International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) 6th International conference that ran from 3 to 6 July at Hong Kong Baptist University.
This is an excerpt from her description of the exhibition (the full one can be found on her website linked above):
Translation Zone(s): Constellations Hong Kong provides physical and hospitable environment for artists and translators to engage in a critical dialogue about the potential of future international transdisciplinary research between artists and translators, and how contemporary arts practice can play a pivotal role within the research process. The exhibition includes work from established and emerging artists, curators, writers and researchers Bill Aitchison (UK/CN), Emma Cocker and Clare Thornton (UK), Heather Connelly (UK), Johanna Hällsten (SE/UK), Saskia Holmkvist (SE/NO), Rebecca Johnson (UK), Xiangyun Lim (SG), Marianna Maruyama (NL), Manuela Perteghella (IT/UK) and Ricarda Vidal (DE/UK), Annie Xu (CN/UK) and Solomon Yu, Jimmy Chan and Eddie Cheung (HK) and provides space for artists contributing to the panel to present their practice as objects, performances and documentation of events. Read More
Sunday: 29 Oct
It’s been 5 weeks since I’ve left Norwich on the very same date I arrived a year ago. Returning so abruptly feels like climbing through jagged creeks in suffocating heat, but I am now about 7.5/9 in Singapore, 0.5 lost elsewhere. There’s a 1.0 straddling a liminal space in which some clarity is slowly twisting into form.
My days now are full of uncertainty but also full with people. For that, I am grateful. I do not think it easy to find humans who make you realise it is possible to be yourself. Time with them keeps me focused on the larger picture, in both heart and mind.
Everyday / Sunday
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Boase-Beier, Jean, Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust: Translation, Style and the Reader (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)
—————— Stylistic Approaches to Translation (Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing, 2006)
—————— ‘Loosening the grip of the text: theory as an aid to creativity’, in Translation and Creativity, ed. Loffredo, Eugenia and Perteghella, Manuela (London: Continuum, 2006), pp. 47-56
Barnstone, Willis, The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)
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Norwich: Spring
was late. As we waited
for milder days, hail
came, a storm
before calm.
Then sprung longer days,
deeper shadows,
turning shy poppies from
eyes of the night
into blossomed blood.
Sleep needs new tactics,
its turf reclaimed. Sun
nourishes as rest denies,
unfurling violet-lined eyes.
New leaves emerge
in darkness. I
now tap and not tread,
dance, not dread.
Translators in an author’s oeuvre
One thing I’ve noticed in recent months is an increased sensitivity to how different translators translate the same author. It isn’t clear if it’s simply a matter of time and reading more, or trickle-down effect from the things I’m learning and doing in the MA programme. Probably a combination of factors, as most things go. Of course, without being able to read the original, I can’t be sure about if these differences belong to the author, or the translator. Yet a kind of distinction, strangely recognisable, is emerging as I read and reread certain titles. I hesitate to tap on the words ‘style’ or ‘voice’ — both so loose and arbitrary in meaning they’re not quite useful here — and still I struggle find words to describe that something. That something, that seems to belong to the text the same way the sound of water trickling does to a running stream. That’s just the right proportion and balance, almost like serendipity, or like the sort of magical feeling one gets when sun pierces through a blanket of pregnant grey clouds at the exact moment you step out from an absolutely shitty day. Almost like that, but as a flowing and undulating sort of energy, taking the form of these translated English words on paper.
When that happens, I start to pay close attention to the language, sometimes even closer than the plot. I flip the pages to double-check the particular translator. I wonder about the musicality of the language, and whose song is. (Perhaps a symphony?) Thus far, the only two translated authors I’ve read a good number of their titles to notice this ‘noticing’ is Banana Yoshimoto and Haruki Murakami. In the case of the latter, translation seems to play a more prominent role in his own process of writing and publishing:
This calls to mind the act of translation — shuttling from one world to another — which is in many ways the key to understanding Murakami’s work. He has consistently denied being influenced by Japanese writers; he even spoke, early in his career, about escaping “the curse of Japanese.” Instead, he formed his literary sensibilities as a teenager by obsessively reading Western novelists: the classic Europeans (Dostoyevsky, Stendhal, Dickens) but especially a cluster of 20th-century Americans whom he has read over and over throughout his life — Raymond Chandler, Truman Capote, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Brautigan, Kurt Vonnegut. When Murakami sat down to write his first novel, he struggled until he came up with an unorthodox solution: he wrote the book’s opening in English, then translated it back into Japanese. This, he says, is how he found his voice. Murakami’s longstanding translator, Jay Rubin, told me that a distinctive feature of Murakami’s Japanese is that it often reads, in the original, as if it has been translated from English.
‘The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami’, The New York Times Magazine
The rest of the interview is as fascinating as insight into the author, who I look towards largely for his process and not just his work (my favourite book by him is What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, probably his most autobiographical — at least an unveiled one). The same article has a quote that’s a brilliant peek:
“Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life,” he said. “If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy. I’m not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. I don’t get bored. I’m kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I’m always hot.”
As someone who struggles to reconcile equally developed and contrasting selves coexisting in the same body, topped with a bright, freshly-pickled marcellino cherry of ADD, his discipline, steady focus, and clear dedication are constant reminders of the muscles I need to continue working on.
Strand of thought sparked by a current reread of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
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March 21, 2019 / 3:50 AM / 4 months ago
China urges U.S. to block Taiwan leader's Hawaii stopover
BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China urged the United States on Thursday not to allow Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to stop over in Hawaii next week when she makes a tour of the island’s diplomatic allies in the Pacific, adding another irritant to Beijing-Washington ties.
FILE PHOTO: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during "A Civil Society Dialogue on Securing Religious Freedom in the Indo-Pacific Region" forum in Taipei, Taiwan March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo
China regards Taiwan as its sacred territory and regularly calls it the most sensitive and important issue in ties with the United States. It always complains about transit stops by Taiwan leaders in the United States.
Tsai said she will transit via Hawaii on her way home from an eight-day visit to Palau, Nauru and the Marshall Islands, which began on Thursday.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China had lodged “stern representations” over Tsai’s planned stopover in the United States.
“We have consistently and resolutely opposed the United States or other countries which have diplomatic relations with China arranging this kind of transit,” Geng told reporters in Beijing.
China urged the United States not to send “Taiwan independence forces any wrong signal”, he added.
China views Taiwan as merely a wayward province, with no right to state-to-state relations.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department said Tsai’s transit was consistent with the unofficial nature of U.S. relations with Taiwan and was based on long-standing U.S. practice “out of consideration for the safety, comfort, convenience, and dignity of the traveller.”
She said Tsai’s transits would be “private and unofficial” and she would be greeted in Hawaii by James Moriarty, chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan, America’s de facto embassy there.
The United States, like most other countries, has no formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan but is the island’s largest weapons supplier and most powerful international backer.
The State Department declined to comment on a Bloomberg news report on Thursday that quoted unnamed sources as saying that the Trump administration has given tacit approval to a request by Taiwan to buy more than 60 F-16 fighter jets built by Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin did not respond to a request for comment.
China and the United States are trying to end a bitter trade war and they also have differences over Chinese activity in the disputed South China Sea, as well as over human rights.
Tsai’s tour comes amid heightened tension between Taipei and Beijing, which has stepped up diplomatic and military pressure to assert its sovereignty over self-governed Taiwan.
Taipei is battling to prevent its remaining 17 allies from switching allegiance to China.
Tsai said in a statement before setting off on the tour that it was her duty to promote Taiwan internationally.
“Letting the country advance down the right path, and letting Taiwan continue to shine on the world stage, are all things that must be done as president, and I will go all out,” she said.
Last year, China persuaded the Dominican Republic, Burkina Faso and El Salvador to forge relations with Beijing in what Tsai called “increasingly out of control” behaviour.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said in January Beijing reserved the right to use force to bring Taiwan under its control but will strive to achieve peaceful “reunification”, though democratic Taiwan has shown no interest in being run by Beijing.
Reporting by Yimou Lee and Twinnie Siu; Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard in BEIJING and David Brunnstrom and Mike Stone in WASHINGTON; Editing by Clarence Fernandez, Robert Birsel and Sandra Maler
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Where is the Upper School located?
The Upper School is located at Central Lutheran Church, 409 N Tacoma Avenue, just two blocks away from our K–5 campus.
What are the hours be for the Upper School?
School hours are 8 a.m.–3 p.m. Doors open at 7:50 a.m. and close at 3:15 p.m.
Students can be dropped off beginning at 7:50 a.m.
Is there any administrative staff at the Upper School?
Yes. Our Head of School spends a portion of each day on campus. In addition, we have a full-time Upper School faculty member who serves as a lead teacher and part-time administrator so that there is always at least one administrative staff member on campus during school.
What is different about the Logic School?
During the Logic School years, the teaching method shifts from singing and sound-offs to discussion, debate, and argument. Students continue to make use of the “tool” of singing and sound-offs, but the primary emphasis becomes argument and debate. Students are taught Socratically, with a good bit of give and take (dialectic) between teacher and students. Logic is introduced as a central subject, which is integrated into almost every other class students take. Special emphasis is given to the study and detection of logical fallacies.
Are there elective classes in the Logic School?
Yes. Electives are currently predetermined and include music (Worship Arts), Art (themed), PE, Theater, and Mapping the World. Beginning with the 2020/2021 school year, students will be given the opportunity to select their electives.
Will my student have the same teacher all day?
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Do upper grades take field trips?
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Do Upper School students have the opportunity to participate in athletics?
Yes, they do. Cor Deo is part of the WIAA Chinook League, along with 15 other schools. We have a cross country team in the fall and a track & field team in the spring. Soccer, basketball, volleyball, baseball, and other sports will be added strategically as we have interest and resources. In addition, if your child is interested in participating in a sport that Cor Deo does not offer, our school day schedule is such that your child can participate in sports in the Tacoma Public Schools.
Intramural sports will also be offered. At this time, we are planning to offer flag football in the first trimester and ultimate frisbee in the third trimester.
What other extracurricular activities will be offered?
After school classes for all of our students are available at the Grammar campus. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in a variety of clubs including debate, chess, mountaineering, drama, and homework club.
How do you build community among the students?
Breaks and lunch occur at the same time for all students. Also, students in the seventh and eighth grades have electives together.
Will tuition for the Upper School be higher than for the Grammar School?
We will work to keep tuition as low as possible as we grow, though tuition for the Upper School will be higher than for the Grammar School to account for the higher cost of operating it.
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Mitt Romney attacked for Romney Care (with video clip from October 11, 2011 Republican debate)
October 13, 2011 – 12:53 pm
John Brummett thinks that Romney will win the nomination and probably the presidency. However, he sees Romney’s work on healthcare as governor in Massachusetts as a potential problem for him. I have been against Romney because of the reasons found in this article below which I read 3 years ago:
Lessons from the Fall of RomneyCare
By Michael Tanner
Michael Tanner is director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute. He is the author of Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution and coauthor of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It, just released in a new edition.
When then-Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney signed into law the nation’s most far-reaching state health care reform proposal, it was widely expected to be a centerpiece of his presidential campaign. In fact Governor Romney bragged that he would “steal” the traditionally Democratic issue of health care. “Issues which have long been the province of the Democratic Party to claim as their own will increasingly move to the Republican side of the aisle,” he told Bloomberg News Service shortly after signing the bill. He told other reporters that the biggest difference between his health care plan and Hillary Clinton’s was “mine got passed and hers didn’t.”
Outside observers on both the Right and Left praised the program. Edmund Haislmaier of the Heritage Foundation hailed it as “one of the most promising strategies out there.” And Hillary Clinton adviser Stuart Altman said, ‘‘The Massachusetts plan could become a catalyst and a galvanizing event at the national level, and a catalyst for other states.”
Today, however, Romney seldom mentions his plan on the campaign trail. If pressed he maintains that he is “proud” of what he accomplished, while criticizing how the Democratic administration that succeeded him has implemented the program. Nevertheless, he now focuses on changing federal tax law in order to empower individuals to buy health insurance outside their employer, and on incentives for states to deregulate their insurance industry. He would also use block grants for both Medicaid and federal uncompensated care funds to encourage greater state innovation. He encourages states to experiment, but does not offer his own state as a model.
A Double Failure
There’s good reason for his change of position. The Massachusetts plan was supposed to accomplish two things-achieve universal health insurance coverage while controlling costs. As Romney wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “Every uninsured citizen in Massachusetts will soon have affordable health insurance and the costs of health care will be reduced.” In reality, the plan has done neither.
Perhaps the most publicized aspect of the Massachusetts reform is its mandate that every resident have health insurance, whether provided by an employer or the government or purchased individually. “I like mandates,” Romney said during a debate in New Hampshire. “The mandate works.” But did it?
Technically the last day to sign up for insurance in compliance with that mandate was November 15, though as a practical measure Massachusetts residents actually had until January 1, 2008. Those without insurance as of that date will lose their personal exemption for the state income tax when they file this spring. In 2009, the penalty will increase to 50 percent of the cost of a standard insurance policy.
Such a mandate was, of course, a significant infringement on individual choice and liberty. As the Congressional Budget Office noted, the mandate was “unprecedented,” and represented the first time that a state has required that an individual, simply because they live in a state and for no other reason, must purchase a specific government- designated product.
It was also a failure.
When the bill was signed, Governor Romney, the media, state lawmakers, and health care reform advocates hailed the mandate as achieving universal coverage. “All Massachusetts citizens will have health insurance. It’s a goal Democrats and Republicans share, and it has been achieved by a bipartisan effort,” Romney wrote.
Before RomneyCare was enacted, estimates of the number of uninsured in Massachusetts ranged from 372,000 to 618,000. Under the new program, about 219,000 previously uninsured residents have signed up for insurance. Of these, 133,000 are receiving subsidized coverage, proving once again that people are all too happy to accept something “for free,” and let others pay the bill. That is in addition to 56,000 people who have been signed up for Medicaid. The bigger the subsidy, the faster people are signing up. Of the 133,000 people who have signed up for insurance since the plan was implemented, slightly more than half have received totally free coverage.
It’s important to note that the subsidies in Massachusetts are extensive and reach well into the middle class-available on a sliding scale to those with incomes up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level. That means subsidies would be available for those with incomes ranging from $30,480 for a single individual to as much as $130,389 for a married couple with seven children. A typical married couple with two children would qualify for a subsidy if their income were below $63,000.
What we don’t know is how many of those receiving subsidized insurance were truly uninsured and how many had insurance that either they or their employer was paying for. Studies indicate that substitution of taxpayer-financed for privately funded insurance is a common occurrence with other government programs such as Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP). Massachusetts has attempted to limit this “crowdout” effect by requiring that individuals be uninsured for at least six months before qualifying for subsidies. Still some substitution is likely to have occurred.
The subsidies may have increased the number of Massachusetts citizens with insurance, but as many as 400,000 Massachusetts residents by some estimates have failed to buy the required insurance. That includes the overwhelming majority of those with incomes too high to qualify for state subsidies. Fewer than 30,000 unsubsidized residents have signed up as a result of the mandate. And that is on top of the 60,000 of the state’s uninsured who were exempted from the mandate because buying insurance would be too much of a financial burden.
Billion-Dollar Overrun
According to insurance industry insiders, the plans are too costly for the target market, and the potential customers- largely younger, healthy men-have resisted buying them. Those who have signed up have been disproportionately older and less healthy. This should come as no surprise since Massachusetts maintains a modified form of community rating, which forces younger and healthier individuals to pay higher premiums in order to subsidize premiums for the old and sick.
Thus, between half and two-thirds of those uninsured before the plan was implemented remain so. That’s a far cry from universal coverage. In fact, whatever progress has been made toward reducing the ranks of the uninsured appears to be almost solely the result of the subsidies. The much ballyhooed mandate itself appears to have had almost no impact.
The Massachusetts plan might not have achieved universal coverage, but it has cost taxpayers a great deal of money. Originally, the plan was projected to cost $1.8 billion this year. Now it is expected to exceed those estimates by $150 million. Over the next 10 years, projections suggest that Romney- Care will cost about $2 billion more than was budgeted. And the cost to Massachusetts taxpayers could be even higher because new federal rules could deprive the state of $100 million per year in Medicaid money that the state planned to use to help finance the program.
Given that the state is already facing a projected budget deficit this year, the pressure to raise taxes, cut reimbursements to health care providers, or cap insurance premiums will likely be intense. Romney likes to brag that he accomplished his health care plan “without raising taxes.” Unless something turns around, that is not likely to be the case much longer.
Moreover, the cost of the plan is also likely to continue rising, because the Massachusetts reform has failed to hold down the cost of health care. When Romney signed his plan he claimed “a key objective is to lower the cost of health insurance for all our citizens and allow our citizens to buy the insurance plan that fits their needs.” In actuality, insurance premiums in the state are expected to rise 10–12 percent next year, double the national average.
The Bureaucratic Connector
Although there are undoubtedly many factors behind the cost increase, one reason is that the new bureaucracy that the legislation created-the “Connector”-has not been allowing Massachusetts citizens to buy insurance that “fits their needs.”
Although it has received less media attention than other aspects of the bill, one of the most significant features of the legislation is the creation of the Massachusetts Health Care Connector to combine the current small-group and individual markets under a single unified set of regulations. Supporters such as Robert E. Moffit and Nina Owcharenko of the Heritage Foundation consider the Connector to be the single most important change made by the legislation, calling it “the cornerstone of the new plan” and “a major innovation and a model for other states.”
The Connector is not actually an insurer. Rather, it is designed to allow individuals and workers in small companies to take advantage of the economies of scale, both in terms of administration and risk pooling, which are currently enjoyed by large employers. Multiple employers are able to pay into the Connector on behalf of a single employee. And, most importantly, the Connector would allow workers to use pretax dollars to purchase individual insurance. That would make insurance personal and portable, rather than tied to an employer-all very desirable things.
However, many people were concerned that the Connector was being granted too much regulatory authority. It was given the power to decide what products it would offer and to designate which types of insurance offered “high quality and good value.” This phrase in particular worried many observers because it is the same language frequently included in legislation mandating insurance benefits.
At the time the legislation passed, Ed Haislmaier of the Heritage Foundation reassured critics that “the Connector will neither design the insurance products being offered nor regulate the insurers offering the plans.” In reality, however, the Connector’s board has seen itself as a combination of the state legislature and the insurance commissioner, adding a host of new regulations and mandates.
For example, the Connector’s governing board has decreed that by January 2009, no one in the state will be allowed to have insurance with more than a $2,000 deductible or total out-of-pocket costs of more than $5,000. In addition, every policy in the state will be required to phase in coverage of prescription drugs, a move that could add 5–15 percent to the cost of insurance plans. A move to require dental coverage barely failed to pass the board, and the dentists-along with several other provider groups-have not given up the effort to force their inclusion. This comes on top of the 40 mandated benefits that the state had previously required, ranging from in vitro fertilization to chiropractic services.
Thus, it appears that the Connector offers quite a bit of pain for relatively little gain. Although the ability to use pretax dollars to purchase personal and portable insurance should be appealing in theory, only about 7,500 nonsubsidized workers have purchased insurance through the Connector so far. On the other hand, rather than insurance that “fits their needs,” Massachusetts residents find themselves forced to buy expensive “Cadillac” policies that offer many benefits that they may not want.
Governor Romney now says that he cannot be held responsible for the actions of the Connector board, because it’s “an independent body separate from the governor’s office.” However, many critics of the Massachusetts plan warned him precisely against the dangers of giving regulatory authority to a bureaucracy that would last long beyond his administration.
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Despite the problems being encountered in Massachusetts, the Romney plan continues to receive a surprising amount of support as a model for reform. The health care plans advocated by all three of the leading Democratic presidential candidates- Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama-are all substantially the same as Romney’s. They are all variations of a concept called “managed competition,” which leaves insurance privately owned but forces it to operate in an artificial and highly regulated marketplace similar to a public utility. All of their plans include an individual mandate (only for children in Obama’s case, and for everyone in Clinton’s and Edwards’s plans), increased regulation, a government-designed standard benefits package, and a new pooling mechanism similar to the Connector.
Romney denounces Senator Clinton’s plan as “government run health care,” but there really is very little difference between the Romney and Clinton plans.
In addition, several states have been seeking to use Massachusetts as a model for their own reforms. In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger added an employer mandate to a plan that otherwise looked very much like the Massachusetts plan. Other states considering similar proposals include Alaska, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia. Although none of these proposals has made it into law, several remain under active consideration.
No one can deny that the U.S. health care system needs reform. Too many Americans lack health insurance and/or are unable to afford the best care. More must be done to lower health care costs and increase access to care. Both patients and providers need better and more useful information. The system is riddled with waste, and quality of care is uneven. Government health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid threaten future generations with an enormous burden of debt and taxes. Given these pressures, the temptation for a quick fix is understandable.
But, as Massachusetts has shown us, mandating insurance, restricting individual choice, expanding subsidies, and increasing government control isn’t going to solve those problems. A mandate imposes a substantial cost in terms of individual choice but is almost certainly unenforceable and will not achieve its goal of universal coverage. Subsidies may increase coverage, but will almost always cost more than projected and will impose substantial costs on taxpayers. Increased regulations will drive up costs and limit consumer choice.
The answer to controlling health care costs and increasing access to care lies with giving consumers more control over their health care spending while increasing competition in the health care marketplace- not in mandates, subsidies, and regulation. That is the lesson we should be drawing from the failure of RomneyCare.
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2008 edition of Cato Policy Report.
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Animal Welfare For Farmed Fish - Is Asia-Pacific Ready?
20 October 2011, at 1:00am
EM Leano and CV Mohan from the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific look at the welfare of farmed fish, the current legislation and the challenges faced as public perception changes.
Is the handling/killing of farmed aquatic animals inhumane?
This will be the question that every farmer, processor and vendor needs to ask whenever they harvest or process their produce, or during eradication of stocks when there is a disease outbreak.
According to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), animal welfare in general is a complex subject with scientific, ethical, economic, cultural and political dimensions. It is currently considered as one of the standards of quality of animal products. And with the growing consumer interest on animal welfare worldwide, it is just appropriate to spend some insights on this aspect with regard to farmed aquatic animals, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.
In the past, animal welfare legislation tended to focus on the protection of animals used for research or teaching, for exhibition and for commercial transport. Additionally, controlled use of chemicals during aquaculture operations and disease prevention and treatment are also dealt with in fish welfare.
The use of animals in basic and applied research is governed by both scientific objectives and ethical considerations (Olson et al., 1991). Heightened concern over the humane treatment of experimental animals by the scientific community and the public has led to the development of guidelines and regulations concerning animal care and use.
In aquaculture research for example, overwhelming emphasis is given on keeping fish in the best possible low stress conditions to promote rapid growth and natural reproduction (Allan and Heasman, 2001). In all cases, the ultimate goal is to protect and manage fisheries resources for the benefit of current and future generations. Of equal importance is the need to reassure the community that ethics are given prime consideration before any animal experimentation commences.
With regard to the controlled use of chemicals in aquaculture in response to public concerns about human food safety, human health, and environmental effects, fish farmers must have access to a range of properly authorised medicines to safeguard animal health and welfare (Costello et al., 2001).
The lack or limited availability of approved drugs and chemicals has dramatically reduced the effectiveness and increased the cost of fish production for natural resource management agencies (Schnick et al., 1996). Moreover, there is still a need to standardise and to harmonise guidelines on responsible use of chemicals in aquaculture, especially in the less-developed countries in the region.
Current fish welfare legislation Animal health is an essential component of animal welfare (OIE, 2010a). At present, the Aquatic Animal Health Code (Aquatic Code; OIE, 2010b) includes one section that deals with welfare of farmed fi sh (Section 7) containing an introductory chapter (Chapter 7.1) and two chapters dealing with fish welfare during transport (Chapter 7.2) and killing of fish for human consumption (Chapter 7.3). Chapter 7.3 is the most recent addition, which was unanimously adopted by the 176 OIE Members during the OIE 78th General Assembly Meeting in 2010. In preparation is the chapter on emergency killing for disease control purposes not intended for human consumption (Chapter 7.4).
Chapter 7.2 (Welfare of farmed fi sh during transport) provides information to minimise the effect of transport on the welfare of farmed fish by air, sea or land, within a country and between countries. It lists the responsibilities of the personnel handling fish throughout the transportation process to ensure that consideration is given to the potential impact on the welfare of the fish.
Competence (of the transport personnel) is also given importance which requires all parties supervising transport activities should have appropriate knowledge and understanding to ensure that the welfare of the fish is maintained throughout the process. Competence may be gained through formal training and/or practical experience. The chapter also enumerates some guidelines on transport planning which include vehicle design and maintenance, water quality, conditioning of fish for transport, species-specific recommendations and contingency plans.
Chapter 7.3 (welfare aspects of stunning and killing of farmed fish for human consumption) address the need to ensure welfare of farmed fish, intended for human consumption, during stunning and killing including transport and holding immediately prior to stunning.
This chapter describes general principles that should be applied and is guided by the principle that fish should be stunned before killing, and the stunning method should ensure immediate and irreversible loss of consciousness. If the stunning is not irreversible, fish should be killed before consciousness is recovered. Stunning and killing methods by mechanical and electrical means are described in details, while other methods such as chilling, asphyxiation, exsanguinations without stunning are considered to result in poor fish welfare.
Overall, the section lists recommendations (on a general level) for the welfare of farmed fish (excluding ornamental species) during transport, slaughter, and destruction for disease control purposes. The following principles will apply:
The use of fish carries with it an ethical responsibility to ensure the welfare of such animals to the greatest extent practicable.
The scientific assessment of fish welfare involves both scientifically derived data and value-based assumptions that need to be considered together, and the process of making assessments should be made explicit as possible.
Asia-Pacific aquaculture and fish welfare legislation
Asia has the longest history of aquaculture in the world. It is believed that the first record of fish culture was in China, as reported in a Chinese ancient booklet in carp culture by Fan Li dating back more than 2,500 years ago (Liao, 2009). It was not until the 1940’s, however, when the landmark of systematic fish culture was established thru the breakthrough works of Hudinaga (1942) on artificial propagation of kuruma prawn (Penaeus japonicus).
Since then, mass propagation and culture technologies have been developed among many fish and crustacean species that has contributed to the success of the aquaculture industry in the region and the world. In 2008, Asia-Pacific countries produced almost 90 per cent of the total world aquaculture production and remain to be the top aquaculture-producing countries in the world, with eight countries (China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Philippines and Japan) included in the top 10 list (FAO, 2010).
Looking at the existing animal welfare regulations involving (farmed) fish (Table 1), however, none came from Asia-Pacific countries. This scenario can be due to the fact that majority of aquafarmers in the region are small scale, especially in rural/coastal communities. This means that most of the farms are farmer-owned/leased, managed and operated (De Silva, 2010).
With the long history of aquaculture in Asia, and considering the aquaculture traditions handed down from one generation to the next and modifi ed by modern technologies, it will surely be a great challenge to implement any fish welfare act that might directly or indirectly affect the overall perceptions of small scale aquafarmers. China as example – the top aquaculture producer in the world, with the longest history of aquaculture practices, and one of the largest consumers of seafoods (fi sh and crustaceans) – does not have any existing fi sh welfare regulation.
The same goes with most of the Asian countries where transport, handling and killing of fish usually does not conform to the fish welfare guidelines drafted by OIE. The thought that fish are raised (cultured) solely for human consumption, humane or inhumane handling and killing of fish stocks will be the least of the concerns by most aquafarmers in the region, especially so with the many small producers that culture fish mostly for domestic consumption or for local markets.
In the Asia-Pacific region, the challenge will remain in the implementation of fish welfare regulations as the perception of what does or does not constitute an act of cruelty to animals differs from one region and culture to another (OIE, 2010a).
Fish welfare acts should also consider the extent to which the regulations should be applied, whether it will be limited to big producers and processors that produce fish for export, or will include even the small producers that only target local markets.
If it will include the latter, the culture/tradition-rich Asia-Pacific countries will surely find it hard to abide on whatever fish welfare acts that will be promulgated, especially if it is more inclined or intended for fulfi lling international certification system for exported aquaculture products. As such, small (scale) producers and local consumers in the region might not partake at all on these fish welfare acts, as their main concern is just to produce and consume fish.
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Understanding Fish Vaccination
4 September 2006, at 1:00am
By Cedric Komar, William.J. Enright, Luc Grisez, and Zilong Tan and published by Intervet - Although fish farming has great development potential in Asia, fish diseases still remain a major constraint to its successful expansion.
Understanding Fish Vaccination - By Cedric Komar, William.J. Enright, Luc Grisez, and Zilong Tan and published by Intervet - Although fish farming has great development potential in Asia, fish diseases still remain a major constraint to its successful expansion.
The culture environment, be it in tanks, cages or ponds, seawater or freshwater, can stress the fish due to high stocking densities, reduced oxygen levels, sub-optimal water quality and high pathogen loads. Therefore, farmed fish, similar to farmed animals, have an increased susceptibility to infectious diseases. Such diseases may be bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic in origin.
Prophylactic treatments and good management practices can usually prevent or reduce the susceptibility to diseases. Although, antibiotics can overcome bacterial diseases, consumer health and food safety issues prevent their use in aquaculture. Moreover, established viral diseases cannot be treated.
Therefore, vaccination is the best alternative to combat bacterial and viral diseases. It has been a key tool in the success of the livestock, pig, poultry and salmon industries in the fight against infectious diseases. In salmon farming, the use of vaccines is now so routine that all fish stocked in sea cages are vaccinated. It has been proven to be cost effective. It is also the key reason for the success of that industry.
However, in Asia, fish vaccination is still a new concept that is not very well known and understood among farmers and professionals working in the area.
What are vaccines?
For oral vaccination, antigens are incorporated in feed
Vaccines are various preparations of antigens derived from specific pathogenic organisms that are rendered non-pathogenic. They stimulate the immune system and increase the resistance to disease from subsequent infection by the specific pathogen. Vaccination can be compared with an insurance policy where it is worth paying a basic fee for a policy that would later cover the costs of a more expensive disease or accident that may occur. Similarly, vaccination is a preventive measure that protects fish against a future disease and the associated costs due to morbidity, mortality and therapeutic treatment.
However, just as an insurance policy will cover the costs of an accident only if this fits the clauses of the insurance contract, a vaccine only protects against specific diseases. For example, a vaccine against Streptococcus iniae infection will protect the vaccinated fish against Streptococcus iniae but it will not protect the fish against Vibrio anguillarum.
A vaccine can be either water or oil based. Typically, injection vaccines are oil based as the oil provides adjuvant qualities. This means that the oil increases the effectiveness of the vaccine as well as the duration of the desired protection. The choice of vaccine depends on the particular case. It will depend on whether protection can be obtained, the duration of the protection possible versus the required duration, the final cost of the vaccine in relation to the benefit to the farmer and the registration limitations imposed by authorities in the countries where the vaccine is marketed.
There are three major modes for the application of vaccines: oral, immersion and injection. However in all cases, only healthy fish should be vaccinated as it is a preventive measure and not a cure.
Oral vaccination
With oral vaccination, the vaccine is either mixed with the feed, coated on top of the feed (topdressed) or bio-encapsulated. When antigens are to be incorporated in feed, the heat sensitivity of the antigen has to be considered. When vaccines are used as top dressing in feed, a coating agent is usually applied, either to prevent leaching of the antigen from the pellets or to prevent breakdown of the antigen in the acidic environment of the fish stomach. For sensitive antigens, various microencapsulation methods are being evaluated and tested.
Bio-encapsulation is used where fish fry are to be vaccinated. In this case, live feed, such as Artemia nauplii, copepods or rotifers, are incubated in a vaccine suspension after which they are fed to the fry. Since these live organisms are non-selective filter feeders, they will accumulate the antigen in their digestive tract and as such, transform themselves into living microcapsules.
Oral vaccination has the advantage that it is a very easy vaccine administration method with no stress to the fish. However, oral vaccines have a very short term stability once mixed with the feed. In most cases, only limited protection can be obtained and the duration of protection can be rather short. Moreover, although oral vaccination is the preferred method from a fish farmers perspective, at present there are few, if any, effective oral vaccines in the market.
Immersion vaccination
Artemia in vaccine solution (orange dots represent vaccine antigen)
Skin epithelium and gills have mechanisms to protect fish in a broad as well as specific way. Immersion vaccination works on the ability of mucosal surfaces to recognize pathogens they had been in contact with. When fish are immersed in water containing the diluted vaccine, the suspended antigens from the vaccine may be adsorbed by the skin and gills. Then, specialised cells, such as antibody-secreting cells, present in the skin and gill epithelium will be activated and will protect the fish when fish are exposed to the live pathogen at a later stage. Other cells located in the epithelium of skin and gills, such as antigen presenting cells (macrophages), also absorb vaccine antigens and transport them to specialised tissues where the systemic immune response builds up.
In immersion vaccination, there are two application methods: dip and bath. In dip vaccination, fish are immersed for a very short duration, usually 30 seconds, in a highly concentrated vaccine solution, usually 1 part vaccine product to 9 parts water. With bath vaccination, fish are exposed for a longer period, usually one to several hours, in a lower concentration of vaccine.
Dip vaccination
Of the two alternatives, dip vaccination is more widely used since it facilitates fast vaccination of large numbers of fish (up to 100kg of fish per litre of vaccine). Immersion vaccination is widely used for vaccination of fry from 1 to 5 g. It is an effective method that results in relatively good protection. The limitations of immersion vaccination are that the duration of immunity is not very long and a booster vaccination is required when the disease prevails over longer periods. Also, the method is impractical for larger size fish due to cost-effectiveness and the stress that could be induced by vaccination.
It has to be noted that, in fish smaller than 1g, the immune system might still be immature and, therefore, the vaccine efficacy may be reduced. A few bacterial combination vaccines exist for immersion application but, to our knowledge, no inactivated viral vaccine is presently available for immersion application.
Injection vaccination
Initially, fish farmers may not favour injection vaccination as they fear that the stress resulting from the handling and injection of the fish will cause high mortality. In contrast, many studies and farmers experience in the salmon industry have shown that there is no mortality associated with the vaccination process per se, although some weak fish may die due to the handling process.
Light anaesthesia of fish is needed for injection vaccination. This decreases the stress due to vaccination, prevents mechanical injuries and helps the fish to recover faster from the handling. When injection vaccination is performed properly, mortality immediately after vaccination should not exceed 0.25%. Higher mortalities indicate incorrect use of anaesthetic, excessive handling/stress of the fish, incorrect needle insertion (e.g., rupturing the spleen), vaccination of diseased or weakened fish, lack of oxygen in the anaesthesia vessel, etc.
Injection vaccines can be administered by intramuscular or intraperitoneal (in the abdominal cavity) injection, but the latter is by far the most common. As intraperitoneal injection vaccination involves depositing the vaccine in the abdominal cavity, it is important that the needle should penetrate the targeted abdominal wall of fish by 1 to 2 mm. Short needles might deposit the vaccine in the musculature and cause inflammation and a bad immune response.
The right thickness of needle is also important. If the vaccine is viscous, it might pass through the needle with difficulty. In contrast, a needle that is too large can induce sores and secondary infections at the injection site, and allow the vaccine to flow back. The rapidity of the immune response is temperature dependant. It usually takes several weeks before good immune protection is developed as a result of vaccination. Therefore, it is important not to stress the fish in the weeks following vaccination as stress is known to suppress the immune system.
Injection vaccination has a number of major advantages that makes it a preferred vaccination method. Injection vaccination provides for a long duration of protection, i.e., for over a year, and it allows for multiple antigens to be combined in a single vaccine and, therefore, in a single administration. In addition, the fish farmer is assured that every fish in the population has received the vaccine and at the correct dose. At present, the most complex products provide protection against 6 antigens (5 bacterial and 1 viral) and, in the near future, heptavalent vaccines will become available. The injection volumes per fish are usually 0.1 or 0.2 ml and give protection throughout the production cycle of most farmed species. Injections are in general superior to any other vaccine application method; however, from a practical point of view, they can only be applied to fish of 10g or more.
Although oral vaccination is the most practical method for fish farmers and may be less stressful for the fish, it is also the least effective method of vaccination. Immersion vaccination gives a good protection for up to several weeks or months and is usually used to vaccinate small fish of 15g to protect them until they are big enough to receive an injection vaccination. The injection vaccination is the best vaccination method in terms of duration of immunity and efficacy of protection. It usually protects fish until market size.
Just like in the salmon and livestock industries, vaccination will become a critical factor for economically viable and sustainable aquaculture in Asia. However, it is important to realise that it is only the combination of vaccination with several other factors, such as high quality seed, good nutrition, good management and good husbandry practices that can assure the highest possible survival rate and the best profit margins.
Though perceived as time consuming, it has been shown that a team of four people can manually vaccinate about 5000 salmon per hour. Injection vaccination can be done by specialized machine or by hand.
Different types of vaccines exist:
Inactivated vaccines are the most common in aquaculture. They are produced by inactivating the disease-causing micro-organism with chemicals or heat.
Live, attenuated vaccines. To make a live, attenuated vaccine, the disease-causing microorganism is grown under special laboratory conditions that cause it to lose its virulence or disease-causing properties. Intervets Aquavac ESC, a vaccine used against Edwardsiella ictaluri in Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) in the USA is an example.
Subunit vaccines are a more modern type of vaccine, developed from antigenic fragments that are able to evoke an immune response. Subunit vaccines can be made by purification of parts of the actual micro-organism or they can be made in the laboratory using genetic engineering techniques. An example is Intervets Compact IPN used against infectious pancreatic necrosis virus infections of salmon in Chile.
Recombinant vector vaccines. A vaccine vector or carrier is a weakened bacterium into which harmless parts of genetic material from another disease-causing micro-organism have been inserted.
DNA vaccines are developed using plasmids containing information on the expression (of part) of the antigen of interest.
Synthetic/peptide vaccines are synthetically prepared antigenic epitopes in a suitable carrier or adjuvant.
Anti-idiotypic vaccines contain antibodies developed so as to mimic an antigen.
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China expert: Doing business with China starts in our schools
Working successfully with Chinese businesses will require changes that start in our schools, says visiting China specialist Dr Martin Jacques.
He is in New Zealand to deliver the keynote address at the new New Zealand Forum on October 16, presented by Massey University and Westpac.
“If you think China is going to be your major trading partner, you will need to have a good number of New Zealanders who can speak Mandarin,” Dr Jacques says.“It’s really important. While there are lots of educated young Chinese who can speak English in major cities, being able to speak a Chinese dialect is a sign of respect, and can give you valuable intel on what’s going on.”
Fonterra’s recent botulism scare in China brought home just how important our second-largest trade partner is to the New Zealand economy – and its increasing influence on the global economy.
A renowned journalist and academic, Dr Jacques is the author of global best-seller When China Rules the World: The rise of the middle kingdom and the end of the Western world. He says New Zealand is well positioned to learn from mistakes made by European nations when doing business with Chinese firms.
University Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey says Dr Jacques can give New Zealanders valuable insight into how we can develop our relationships with China and the East Asian region.
“Five years ago New Zealand signed the first free trade agreement between China and a developed nation, so New Zealand is ahead of other nations in terms of doing business. Dr Jacques can share his observations on the wider aspects we need to bear in mind so that we can build fulfilling long-term relationships with our near neighbours in China and East Asia.
“At Massey University, we are committed to helping shape the future of our nation and take what is special about New Zealand to the rest of the world.”
“Westpac institutional and corporate customers are increasingly doing business with, and in, Asia. Our economies are becoming significantly inter-connected and it is vital New Zealand stays abreast of the opportunities that Asia presents,” says Westpac General Manager of Corporate and Institutional Banking, Karen Silk.
Dr Jacques says that China will be the dominant trading nation in East Asia and Asia Pacific, and will draw New Zealand and Australia into an ever-closer economic relationship which will have widespread ramifications.
“Setting up a strategic relationship requires taking a long-term view,” Dr Jacques says. “If you do business in China, you’re looking at playing a very long game in terms of business and education. It’s not a market to make a quick buck in – the firms that truly succeed are ones that take a long-term view.”
Dr Jacques is a visiting senior research fellow at the London School of Economics, a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and a fellow of the Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC. His book When China Rules the World has been highly influential all over the world. For 14 years he was the editor of Marxism Today, and has written extensively for many international newspapers and magazines.
The new New Zealand Forum Annual Thought Leadership Series
Massey University, in partnership with Westpac, presents the 2013 new New Zealand Forum. It is an invitation-only event that brings together influential visionaries to generate debate.
This annual series of high-level discussions began last year with The Economist executive editor Daniel Franklin and a panel of New Zealand experts promoting thought leadership around major future issues for New Zealand and the world.
Facilitated by TV3 newsreader and reporter Mike McRoberts, Dr Jacques will be joined by a panel of expert speakers for the Forum panel discussion, sharing their views and challenging the thinking about New Zealand’s current approach to East Asia.
Forum panelists include: NZ Trade and Enterprise programme leader – agribusiness Haylon Smith; Tourism New Zealand general manager Asian markets Tony Everitt; Westpac general manager corporate and institutional banking Karen Silk; Asia New Zealand Foundation education director Jeff Johnstone; and Massey University’s Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley and Associate Professor Henry Chung.
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Antibody drugs are the main force in the modern pharmaceutical industry, currently accounting for 50% of the global biopharmaceutical market, and the fastest growing segment of the industry. Since the first monoclonal antibody was approved for marketing in 1986, by the end of 2015, the FDA has approved more than 50 antibody drugs, and the global sales increased from $370 million in 1997 to $70 billion in 2015.
Initially, anti-cancer antibodies were primarily antisera obtained by immunizing animals’ antigen. The antibody obtained by this route is called a polyclonal antibody. Since antisera contains numerous antibody molecules directed against different antigens, these antigens are present not only on cancer cells but also on the surface of normal somatic cells. Thus, polyclonal antibody drugs have serious adverse reactions. The maturation of hybridoma technology is a monoclonal antibody, that is, the obtained antibody only targets one antigenic determinant, and the conditions are laid. The world's first monoclonal antibody drug OKT-3 was approved in 1986, but its therapeutic effect is not optimistic and easily triggers a human anti-mouse immune response. However, the listing of this drug marks the beginning of the era of monoclonal antibody drugs. The antibody-based drug development has been going on for more than 30 years.
Currently, marketed antibody drugs are concentrated in many fields such as tumors, immune-related diseases, infections, and ophthalmology, nerves, respiration, metabolism, and bone-related diseases. However, antibody drugs themselves have problems that cannot be ignored, such as complex and unstable structures, difficulty in large-scale production, long development cycles, and high production costs. At present, through the transformation of antibody structure, some new directions for the development of antibody drugs, such as antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), bispecific antibodies, and single-domain antibodies (also known as Nano-antibodies), have been developed to improve some inherent defects in structural antibodies, thus to better meet the needs of clinical drugs.
Among them, antibody-drug conjugates have become a hot spot in the field of drug development because of reduced immunogenicity and increased specificity. T-DM1 (Trastuzumabemtansine), a drug approved for the treatment of HER-2 positive breast cancer in 2013, is the first antibody drug conjugate prepared by coupling Herceptin with the chemotherapeutic drug emtansine. ADCs are the perfect "marriage" between antibodies and cytotoxic drugs, consisting of three major components: "antibody", "linker" and "warhead molecule". The antibody drug conjugate can specifically recognize the tumor antigen, form an ADC-antigen complex, enter the target cell through receptor-mediated endocytosis, release a highly active warhead molecule, and complete selective killing of the tumor cell. In theory, cytotoxic substances such as chemotherapeutic drugs, cytotoxins, and radionuclides that have a greater killing effect on tumor cells can be used as the warhead molecules of ADC, but previous experiments have shown that traditional chemotherapy drugs cannot achieve the effect of ADC, and the anti-tumor activity is even lower than the efficacy of the chemotherapy drug itself. The main reason for this phenomenon is that the dose of ADC enriched in the target site after injection is low, and the cytotoxicity of the chemotherapy drug itself is not strong enough, and the therapeutic effect is greatly reduced. Therefore, the warhead molecule of the ADC must be a drug molecule that efficiently inhibits cancer cells. The antibody conjugate molecules that have been discovered so far mainly include dolastatin and auristatin, maytansine and maytansinoid derivatives, belonging to tubulin inhibitors; Kazimycin, doxorubicin, aflatoxin derivative PBD, camptothecin derivative SN-38, belonging to DNA, and so on.
ADC solves the problem of poor selectivity of cytotoxic drugs, and at the same time, some cytotoxic drugs have been used, and offers more methods and options for tumor targeted therapy. However, it is very challenging to find suitable new ADC warhead molecules, from the discovery of cytotoxic drugs and the mechanism of their action, to the structural transformation and structure-activity relationship research. There is still a long way to go.
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There are some antibodies:
1. Nimotuzumab
Anti-EGFR antibody (Nimotuzumab) is a humanized antibody of IgG that binds to an EGFR.
Necitumumab
Necitumumab (proposed INN) is a monoclonal antibody and an antineoplastic, which binds to the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR).
What is EGFR?
Epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR) has tyrosine kinase activity. Once combined with epidermal growth factor (EGF), EGFR can activate related genes in the nucleus, thus promoting cell division and proliferation. The expression of EGFR is increased in gastric cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
EGFR is a large transmembrane glycoprotein with a molecular weight of about 180 kD. It has ligand-induced tyrosine protein kinase activity. It is a member of ErbB, a conservative receptor family. Other members of this family include HER2/Neu/ErbB2, HER3/ErbB3 and HER4/ErbB4. ErbB receptors are commonly characterized by an extracellular (EC) ligand binding region, a single transmembrane region consisting of two repetitive cysteine-rich regions, and intracellular sequences containing tyrosine protein kinases and self-phosphorylation sites.
Structure of EGFR
EGFR is a receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK), located on chromosome 7 and composed of 28 exons and encodes 1186 amino acids. The relative molecular weight of the glycoprotein is about 170,000. It consists of three parts: an extracellular functional domain that binds to EGF, a short transmembrane (TM) and an intracellular domain that has tyrosine kinase activity. Extracellular domain (ECD): At the N-terminal, there are 621 amino acid residues, consisting of four sub-regions; TM: a hydrophobic region consisting of 23 amino acid residues and a single-chain alpha helix; Intracellular region: 542 amino acid residues, consisting of three sub-regions: JM, tyrosine kinase (TK) and C-terminal.
Activation of EGFR
Activation of EGFR generally requires ligand activation. In the EGFR family, almost all of them have their corresponding ligands, except ErbB2. When EGFR binds to ligands, there are three main activation processes: (1) after ligand binds to EGFR, the three-dimensional conformation of EGFR is changed to form a homologous dimer or EGFR binds to another member of ErbB family to form a heterodimer; (2) tyrosine kinase region of EGFR is activated, which binds to an ATP molecule and phosphorylates the tyrosine residue of the receptor in the dimer; Substrate enzymes of SH2 protein are identified in turn, and signal is transmitted to human cells to stimulate cell growth and proliferation.
The correlation between EGFR and some tumors
EGFR is stably expressed in various epithelial tissues, interstitial and neuronal tissues. Studies have shown that overexpression and/or mutation of EGFR can lead to multiple tumors. The association between EGFR and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been the most studied, but in recent years, EGFR mutations have been detected in other tumors. Up to now, the overexpression of EGFR has been found in many solid tumors. After the analysis of EGFR gene in cancer patients, it was found that most patients had deletion of exon 19 of EGFR or missense mutation of exon 21 of EGFR in chromosome L858R. This mutation will lead to downstream signal changes, abnormal induction of MAPK ERK1/2 signal, accompanied by cell proliferation and changes in sensitivity to EGFR phosphatase inhibitors. These changes make EGFR overexpression, cell signal transduction enhanced, cell proliferation, differentiation, migration increased, and eventually lead to malignant transformation.
EGFR and targeted therapy of tumors
Growth factor signaling pathways play an important role in many physiological and pathological processes, such as growth, proliferation, development and apoptosis. Disruption of growth factor signaling pathways through multiple pathways may lead to tumorigenesis. EGFR signal plays an important role in controlling the occurrence of multiple epithelial tumors. Therefore, malignant transformation and poor prognosis of tumors can be controlled by regulating EGFR signal.
EGFR antagonists
With the further study of the relationship between signal transduction and cancer, researchers put forward the concept of signal transduction intervention therapy, that is, to intervene in the abnormal link of signal transduction pathway in order to achieve the purpose of inhibiting the growth of cancer. Overexpression and/or mutation of EGFR in many tumors are closely related to the occurrence, development and prognosis of tumors. EGFR can be used as a target to study the antagonists in its signal transduction pathway and find drugs to treat tumors. At present, the main antagonists used are EGFR monoclonal antibodies and small molecule tyrosine kinase antagonists. Compared with other chemotherapeutic drugs, monoclonal antibodies have the characteristics of high efficacy and low side effects. Small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors can competitively inhibit the binding of ATP to intracellular tyrosine kinase domain of EGFR, thereby affecting the phosphorylation of tyrosine residues and inhibiting downstream signal transduction of EGFR.
Targeted therapeutic effect of natural substances
Receptor molecule can induce invagination through the strong mediation of sorting signal, and the affinity with agonist is greatly reduced after the invagination of receptor. If a substance is found to promote the invagination of EGFR or increase the invagination time of EGFR, the substance can prove to inhibit the activity of EGFR and play an anti-tumor role.
Targeted therapy of nanoparticle delivery system
In addition to the direct effects of modification, modification or inhibition of EGFR, researchers have also adopted an indirect and simpler method to treat tumors induced by EGFR changes. The researchers transfected the B-type nanoparticle delivery system modified with EGFR into Panc-1 cells in vitro. The EGFR in the delivery system can specifically bind to EGF, thus reducing the concentration of free EGF and achieving the effect of targeted therapy for pancreatic cancer. Compared with the previous non-modified nanoparticle delivery system, this method is featured by high transfection rate, good integration effect and high safety for the treatment of pancreatic cancer and even other types of cancer.
EGFR plays an important role in the occurrence and development of tumors. As an important target, EGFR provides a new way for the diagnosis and treatment of tumors. In the development of tumors, tumors caused by disorders of EGFR signal transduction account for a considerable proportion. The abnormal expression of EGFR can regulate the proliferation, angiogenesis, adhesion, invasion, metastasis and apoptosis of tumor cells. Antineoplastic drugs targeting EGFR have also been applied to tumors. By exploring the function of EGFR signaling pathway and its relationship with tumorigenesis and development, we can further understand the mechanism of EGFR. However, there is little research on the important node genes in EGFR signaling pathway in tumorigenesis and development. Therefore, node genes in EGFR signaling pathway will be the future focus of tumors development research.
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2. Bacterial Vectors
2.1 Listeria Monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes (LM) is a Gram-positive bacterium, in the division Firmicutes, named after Joseph Lister. It is the species of pathogenic bacteria that causes the infection listeriosis. It is a facultative anaerobic bacterium, capable of surviving in the presence or absence of oxygen. It can grow and reproduce inside the host's cells and is one of the most virulent foodborne pathogens, with 20 to 30% of food borne listeriosis infections in high-risk individuals may be fatal. Its ability to grow at temperatures as low as 0℃ permits multiplication at typical refrigeration temperatures, greatly increasing its ability to evade control in human foodstuffs.
Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive facultative intracellular parasite with a wide range of hosts, with special intracellular infection and immune mechanisms. After LM infects the host, it can exist in both lysosomes and in the cytoplasm of the cells, so that the foreign antigens transported can enter the MHC class I and MHC class II antigen presentation pathways, and induce CD+8T cells and CD+4T cell immunity. Response; at the same time, LM's natural adjuvant characteristics make it an ideal vaccine carrier, especially in the delivery of tumor antigens.
2.1.1 Immune response induced after LM infection
2.1.1.1 Innate immune response
LM infection of host cells can lead to the production of a variety of pro-inflammatory factors and inflammatory chemokines. The most important early cytokines are IL-12p70, γ-interferon (IFN-γ) and interleukin 18 (IL‐ 18). These cytokines and cascades produce chemokines that induce neutrophil infiltration into the site of infection to activate cell-mediated killing. Interleukin 12 (IL-12) stimulates NK cells and T cells to produce IFN-γ, which in turn activates macrophages and stimulates aggregation of dendritic cells (DCs) carrying bacterial antigens. To the site of infection, further induction of antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte effect (CTL) is induced. IFN-γ induced by LM infection in a host can trigger DC cells carrying bacterial antigens to regulate co-stimulatory molecules and produce functional IL-12, and IL-12 as an important signaling molecule can induce unsensitized helper T cells differentiate into helper T cells to advance cell-mediated immune responses.
2.1.1.2 Cellular immune response
After LM carries a foreign antigen into the host, the bacteria present in the lysosome are degraded into short peptides. The short peptide binds directly to the MHC class II molecule and is then presented to CD+4T cells. CD+4T cells produce a large number of Th1 type cytokines. For example, IFN-γ and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), these cytokines not only promote the differentiation of Th0 cells into Th1 type cells, but also play a role in assisting CD+8T cell responses. When LM escapes to the cytoplasm of the cell, the secreted protein enters the proteasome structure and is degraded into a peptide substance. The peptide substance is transported to the endoplasmic reticulum and then binds to the MHC class I molecule and is presented to CD+8T cells. After LM infection, effector CD+8 cytotoxic T lymphocytes rapidly expand, mediating the recognition and killing of infected cells, and then transforming into protective T lymphocytes.
2.1.2 Advantages of attenuated LM as a foreign antigen expression vector
The researchers engineered the attenuated LM into a vector that can accommodate exogenous antigens, making it a prophylactic or therapeutic live vector vaccine that induces a strong cellular immune response. As a vaccine vector, attenuated Listeria has the following advantages: direct infection of antigen-presenting cells, with two types of antigen processing and presentation pathways; chromosomal system can stably express multiple gene products, easy to operate; as Gram-positive bacteria, no Contains endotoxin and is easy to use. In view of these advantages of LM as a foreign antigen expression vector, LM has become a research hotspot in molecular biology and immunology in recent years. Listeriosis vaccines has been widely used as a vector for carrying viral and tumor antigens to stimulate cell-mediated immune responses. With the attenuated LM as the carrier, many foreign antigens have been studied in experimental animal models such as mice, rabbits, cats, chickens and monkeys, and good results have been obtained.
2.2. Salmonella
Salmonella belongs to the Enterobactericae family, a group of Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic and facultatively intracellular pathogenic bacteria. Currently, based on genome sequence similarity, the genus Salmonella is categorized into two species S. bongori and S. enterica which in turn is divided into six subspecies including S. enterica subsp. enterica.
Salmonella sp. has an ability to multiply inside phagocytic and nonphagocytic cells including macrophages, dendritic cells (DCs), neutrophils, M cells and epithelial cells. The ability of Salmonella to invade and survive within a host cell is dependent on two Type III Secretion Systems (T3SS), the multiprotein complexes with a needle-like structure present on the bacteria cell wall. Proteins involved in the assembly of the two major T3SSs of Salmonella are encoded by SPI1 and SPI2.
The vast majority of tumors express proteins or other antigens that are absent (or present only in very low quantities) in healthy adult tissues. These tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) are potentially immunogenic and tumor development is usually accompanied by specific, although often ineffective, anti-TAA immune response. TAA vaccines used for cancer therapy often fail, probably due to inadequate antigen presentation and insufficient activation of innate immunity. The application of Salmonella as a vector for TAAs should result in overcoming both impediments. The first attempts to deliver TAA via Salmonella were undertaken in late 1990s. From that time numerous studies utilizing natural (mPSCA, mAFP, survivin, endoglin) or artificial (β-galactosidase) tumor antigens have proved that placing a TAA-coding transgene under strong cytomegalovirus promoter in a plasmid carried by Salmonella allows for TAA expression in the cytoplasm of infected cells or dendritic cells which engulfed the infected, apoptotic cells; TAA expression elicits efficient cell-mediated or both cell-mediated and humoral immune responses.
Attenuated Salmonella mediates the reaction with the host through the type III secretion system. It can transmit effector genes and express a variety of therapeutic proteins on the cell surface or cytoplasm, induce the body to produce corresponding specific humoral immunity, cellular immunity and local mucosal immune response, and resist the invasion of pathogens carrying the corresponding foreign proteins. Attenuated Salmonella carrying a foreign gene enters macrophages and dendritic cells and then disintegrates and dies, releasing multiple copies of the foreign gene, exogenous gene expression. Inducing MHC-1 molecule-mediated antigen-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cell tumor protective immune responses. CTL and antigen-presenting dendritic cells were activated, with a decisive increase in the respective activation markers CD2, CD25, CD28, CD48 and CD80.
Because attenuated Salmonella can not only grow under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. It can also selectively accumulate in tumor tissues. The hypoxic necrotic areas in the tumor can make these bacteria easily spread in tumor tissues: at the same time, they are sensitive to antibiotics. If necessary, it can be eliminated by antibiotics without tolerance; plus good invasiveness and specific tendency. Can be displaced from the distant inoculation section and accumulate in the tumor site. The level of replication in tumor tissues is 1000-10000 times higher than that of normal tissues; and the cost is low, which can be administered by oral route, with few side effects, suitable for long-term treatment and can express multiple effector genes, and combined with other methods to exert anti-tumor Maximum effect. Long-term maintenance until tumor regression and many other features as an anti-tumor ideal carrier delivery vector, which provides the possibility of using Salmonella as a targeting vector for tumor gene therapy. Attenuated Salmonella cancer vectors, currently experts have used attenuated Salmonella as a gene transfer vector to treat solid tumors, deep tumors and metastases, and have achieved satisfactory therapeutic effects in both in vitro and animal model experiments. It has been shown to have high tumor targeting and safety in clinical phase I experiments. And some of the results have been initially applied to the clinic. It shows a strong development prospect.
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Antibody drugs have flourished in the past 20 years. At present, there are varieties of antibody drugs marketed globally, and their therapeutic fields have gradually expanded from traditional cancers and autoimmune diseases to anti-infective and metabolic diseases. In 2013, there were 6 antibody drugs in the world's top 10 best-selling drugs, including 3 autoimmune therapeutic drugs and 3 anti-tumor antibodies. The development of monoclonal antibodies has also opened up the exploration of new structures and new functional antibody drugs, in order to further optimize the functional activity of antibody drugs. Antibody-drug coupling, diabody, etc. are all hotspots in the development of current antibody drugs. Monoclonal antibodies are capable of specifically binding to a particular epitope on a target antigen, with the advantage of high affinity and specificity.
However, traditional antibodies only bind to a single epitope of a single target, so their efficacy is limited. Pharmacological studies have revealed that most complex diseases involve a variety of disease-related signaling pathways, such as tumor necrosis factor TNF, interleukin-6 and other pro-inflammatory cytokines simultaneously mediate immune inflammatory diseases, and the growth of tumor cells is often caused by caused by abnormal upregulation of multiple growth factor receptors. Blockade of a single signaling pathway is usually limited in efficacy and is prone to develop resistance. Therefore, the development of diabody and their analogs capable of simultaneously binding two targets has long been an important field in the development of new structural antibodies. Early deficiencies in immunogenicity, structural stability, and antibody quality control have limited further development of diabody.
In recent years, improvements in upstream genetically engineered antibodies and downstream production techniques have overcome the shortcomings of traditional diabody, thereby facilitating the entry of multiple classes of novel diabody into clinical development. The diabody currently under investigation can be divided into dual signal blocking and anti-CD3+ T cell-mediated diabody: structurally, they can be divided into small antibodies consisting of single-chain antibodies or Fab regions; from the production process can be divided into prokaryotic antibody or Fab region composed of small antibodies and whole antibodies; from the production process can be divided into prokaryotic or eukaryotic expression, single cell expression and dual cell line expression combined with in vitro assembly . This article provides a brief review of the new developments in diabody.
Method for constructing bifunctional antibody--genetic engineering method
A diabody is a bispecific antibody that is a non-native antibody that binds to the two arms of the antigen with different specificities. A diabody is a bispecific antibody that is a non-native antibody that has different specificities for the two arms that bind to the antigen. The construction of diabody usually uses biological methods and chemical cross-linking methods. With the development of antibody engineering and molecular biology techniques, a new class of methods for constructing diabody--genetic engineering methods has been developed in recent years.
The use of genetic engineering methods can not only construct diabody with multiple functions and multiple uses, but also make the construction of humanized diabody a reality. Diabody have potential applications as a new secondary targeting system in clinical treatment. In this paper, the development status of diabody construction technology was introduced from three aspects of biological method, chemical method and genetic engineering method, and the prospect was made. A method for preparing a diabody, characterized in that a small molecule drug is chemically coupled with a pathogen or a tumor-specific antigen to prepare a conjugate of a small molecule drug-specific protein, and after immunizing the animal, the animal spleen is taken The cells are fused with the corresponding myeloma cells to prepare a monoclonal antibody, and then the monoclonal antibody against the small molecule drug is screened by ELISA, and the positive hybridoma is also screened for the antigen corresponding to the specific carrier protein. Monoclonal antibodies. The bifunctional monoclonal antibody binds to the small molecule drug and the specific pathogen antigen through a non-covalent bond, and the binding is reversible, and plays a role in directing the small molecule drug to a specific position, so that the lesion is the drug concentration is higher than other parts of the body.
Structure and production technology of diabody
The study of diabody began with hybridoma fusion of monoclonal antibodies in the 1980s to construct tetraploid hybridomas. The two arms bind to the T cell surface CD3 molecule and the cancer cell surface EpCAM receptor, so this technology is also called "trifunctional antibody". Although catumaxomab was approved by the European Union in 2009 for the treatment of malignant ascites caused by EpCAM-positive tumors, the high immunogenicity of murine antibodies greatly limits its clinical application.
Mechanism of action of diabody
Mediated T cell killing
An important mechanism of diabody is to mediate T cell killing. In recent years, with the deepening of the understanding of the immune escape mechanism of cancer cells and the rise of tumor immunotherapy, the research on antibody drugs that activate T cells has received much attention. It is generally believed that efficient activation of T cells requires a dual signal, the first signal comes from the binding of the MHC-antigen complex on the antigen-presenting cell to the T cell receptor TCR-CD3, and the second signal is the co-stimulation of T cell and antigen-presenting cell expression. Non-antigen-specific costimulatory signals produced by molecular interactions. Since the expression of MHC on the surface of most cancer cells is down-regulated or even absent, immune killing is escaped. CD3 diabody can bind to T cell surface CD3 molecules and cancer cell surface antigens, respectively, thereby narrowing the distance between cytotoxic T cells and cancer cells, guiding T cells to directly kill cancer cells, and no longer rely on the dual activation of T cells. signal. The unique T cell activation pattern of CD3 diabody is considered to be a major advantage in its mechanism of action.
Double target blocking
Another important mechanism of action of diabody is the simultaneous binding of dual targets to block the dual signaling pathway. The mechanism is applied in a wider range of applications, including cancer, autoimmune diseases, inhibition of blood vessel growth and anti-infective treatment. For example, the transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor HER family, which plays an important regulatory role in cellular physiology, includes members such as HER1, HER2, HER3, and HER4, which are highly expressed on the surface of many epithelial-derived solid cancer cells. It is an important target for tumor targeted therapy. The antibodies that have been marketed include Herceptin monoclonal antibody that binds to the HER2 D4 domain, pertuzumab that binds to the HER2 D2 domain, and Erbituximab that binds to HER1/EGFR, and are widely used in breast cancer.
Clinical treatment of solid cancer such as gastric cancer and colorectal cancer. Studies have revealed that homologous or heterodimers between members of the HER family or between different members activate intracellular signals and promote the development of cell proliferation tumors. Herceptin antibodies block homodimerization of the HER2 receptor. HER2 and HER3 are the strongest dimeric forms of the HER family that activate the initial oncogenic signaling, and will be clinically capable of blocking the use of this dimerized pertuzumab in combination with Herceptin, achieving better than single antibodies. Efficacy reveals the clinical effect of dual target blockade.
Application of diabody drugs
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic macular edema (DME) are the leading causes of blindness in working populations worldwide, and the standard treatment for DME is anti-VEGF. However, DME is a multifactorial disease and cannot rely solely on one pathway of VEGF. Currently, the development of a diabody drug faricimab can treat DME.
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Protein mutagenesis refers to the introduction of desired changes (usually in a favorable direction), including addition, deletion, and point mutations, into the target DNA fragment (either genome or plasmid) by means of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and other methods. Site-directed mutation can rapidly and efficiently improve the character and characterization of the target protein expressed in DNA, which is a very useful method in gene research.
Site-directed mutagenesis in vitro is an important experimental method in current biological and medical researches. It is a convenient program to modify and optimize genes, an effective means to explore promoter regulatory sites, and a powerful tool to study the complex relationship between protein structure and function.
The structure of protein determines its function, and the relationship between them is one of the focuses of proteome research. Fixed-point modification, deletion or insertion of a specific base of a known gene can change the corresponding amino acid sequence and protein structure, and the study on the expression products of the mutant gene can help human understand the relationship between protein structure and function, and discuss the structure/domain of protein. And using the fixed point mutation gene technology transform: such as the wild type of green fluorescent protein (wtGFP) is to a faint green fluorescent under uv excitation, after the light emitting structure domain specific amino acids of fixed-point modification, GFP can be excitation in the visible light wavelength range (absorption area red shift), and one hundred times on the luminous intensity is better than the original, and even appeared yellow fluorescent protein, blue fluorescent protein, and so on. Fixed point mutation technology potential application field is very wide, such as the research of the structure of protein interaction sites, different modification enzyme activity or dynamic characteristics, modification or DNA promoter action element, the introduction of new enzyme loci, improve the antigenicity of protein or protein stability, activity, the research of crystal structure, as well as drug development and gene therapy, etc.
Differs from that of fixed point mutation is the random mutation based on PCR, by changing the PCR conditions improve the random error in the process of PCR, this method is suitable for the unknown protein, a global analysis, so someone called saturated mutations (saturation mutagenesis). However, this method has limitations in application due to its lack of purposiveness, tedious analysis and absence of more than two base mutations at one site. Site-directed mutagenesis is applicable to genes with a preliminary understanding of protein structure, which is more purposeful, precise and simple than random PCR mutagenesis. Meanwhile, gene modification is more "arbitrary". As site-directed mutation technology has a very broad application prospect in proteomics, it is believed that this technology will have greater improvement and development in the near future, and it will also be familiar to more people.
According to the theoretical knowledge of biology, genes will have mutations, which can be spontaneous or induced. But before the invention of site-directed mutagenesis by Canadian biochemist M Smith (1932-2000), mutant strains had to be induced to mutate by natural or chemical means. Such a method is a random mutation, and the mutant strain must be changed in biological shape to be sure that there is a mutation, but the mutation location cannot be determined unless it is found by molecular biological method or genetic method. In other words, the mutation is blind. But Smith's site-directed mutagenesis, which allows random or engineered mutations to be carried out on any gene fragment via a designed oligonucleotide, is so targeted that it is sometimes called "anti-inheritance".
It's interesting that this revolutionary approach to life science research and application was the result of a coffee break between Smith and his colleagues. Almost every biological laboratory USES site-directed mutagenesis to study the function of genes or proteins. The application of site-directed mutation method is not only widely used in the field of genetic engineering technology, but also can be used in the agricultural breeding of good varieties resistant to insects and diseases, as well as the medical correction of genetic diseases and the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
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Batán Grande
Sicán/Lambayeque cultural site systematically looted from the early 20th century to the present.
Dos Cabezas
Dos Cabezas is a Moche cultural site on Peru’s north coast that was the site of a major tomb looting event in the 1970s or 1980s and several recent looting incidents.
Huaca Malena
Peruvian site, the location of a major cemetery of the Wari culture that was heavily looted for textiles in the 1980s and 1990s.
Huaquero
A huaquero is a person who clandestinely excavates at archaeological sites for the purpose of obtaining marketable antiquities; a looter.
John Bourne Collection
Collection of Pre-Conquest metal objects, some of which were purchased in the United States in 1987 and were later identified as being from the site of Sipán, Peru.
A Moche funerary site in Northern Peru that was looted for spectacular gold objects during the same looting wave that hit following the discovery of the famous lord of Sipán tomb.
Laguna de los Condores
Remote Peruvian funerary site where numerous mummies were mutilated by incidental looters looking for sellable metal objects.
Loma Negra
A Moche or Vicús cultural site that was heavily looted in the 1960s and 1970s for metal objects, many of which are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Media Investigations
Some of the most informative studies of the traffic in cultural objects have been conducted by investigative media.
Ocucaje Cemeteries
Nazca and Paracas cemeteries that were looted throughout the 20th century for sellable ancient textiles; aslo the site of a famous class of fake antiquity, the so-called Ica Stones.
Paracas Mantle returned from National Gallery of Australia
Stolen from Peru’s national museum, the textile was purchased by Australia’s national museum and was returned in 1989 after several years of Peruvian demands.
Paracas Textiles
Masterful funerary textiles looted from Peruvian tombs throughout the 20th century, primarily in the 1930s, becoming a staple of the international antiquities market.
Peru v. Johnson
A civil suit filed against collector Benjamin Johnson in a US Court was ruled in favor of the defendant as the government of Peru could not prove that they were the legal owner of the objects in question.
Peruvian Antiquities Seized at Dulles Airport (1981)
Dealer pleaded guilty to falsely declaring the value of freshly-looted Peruvian antiquities that he attempted to bring into the US...
Sipán
One of the best-known cases of archaeological looting; a Moche funerary site that was looted in 1987; the contents of an elite tomb were smuggled out of Peru and into various foreign collections.
Sipán Jewellery Offered for Sale at Sotheby’s (1994)
Several Peruvian antiquities offered for sale at Sotheby’s Auction House in 1994 that were seized by US Customs under suspicion of having been looted from Sipán.
Swetnam, Drew, Kelly Smuggling Ring of Objects from Sipán
The following is one particularly well documented incidence of the trafficking of artefacts from Sipan.
Yates, D. (2015), ‘Illicit Cultural Property from Latin America: Looting, Trafficking, and Sale’, in F. Desmarais ed. Countering Illicit Traffic in Cultural Goods: The Global Challenge of Protecting the World’s Heritage (Paris: ICOM).
Spiegler, H., and Weitz, Y. (2010) ‘The Ancient World meets the Modern World: A Primer on the Restitution of Looted Antiquities’, Art and Advocacy Volume 06, 1-4.
Alva, W. (2001), ‘The Destruction, Looting and Traffic of the Archaeological Heritage of Peru’, in Brodie, N., Doole, J. and Renfrew, C. eds. (2001), Trade in Illicit Antiquities: the Destruction of the World’s Archaeological Heritage (Cambridge: McDonald Institute), 89–96.
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1928 Presidential Election Data Sources
Popular Vote Data Sources by State
Note: There is no federal government agency that is in charge of compiling official Presidential Election popular vote statistics. The individual states are responsible for this function. Below is a list of source from each state from which the 1928 Presidential Election popular vote data was collected.
State Data Source
Alabama State of Alabama Department of Archives and History, "Vote for Presidential Electors, General Election November 6, 1928," Alabama Official and Statistical Register 1931 (Montgomery: The Wilson Printing Company, 1928)
Arizona Arizona Secretary of State, Official Canvass General Election Returns, November 6, 1928 (Phoenix, 1928)
California California Secretary of State, "Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States," Statement of Vote at General Election Held on November 6, 1928 in the State of California (Sacramento, 1928)
Colorado Colorado Secretary of State, comp., State of Colorado Abstract of Votes Cast at the ... General Election Held on the Sixth Day of November A.D., 1928 ... (Denver, 1928)
Connecticut State of Connecticut, comp., "Summary - Vote for President of the United States, State Officers, and U.S. Senators, November 6, 1928," State of Connecticut Public Document No. 26 Statement of Vote General Election November 6, 1928 (Hartford, 1928)
Idaho Idaho Secretary of State. Election Division, State of Idaho Presidential Vote Cast at the General Election November 6, 1928 (Boise, 1928)
Illinois Illinois Office of the Secretary of State, "Vote for President - Nov. 6, 1928," Official Vote of the State of Illinois Cast at the General Election November 6, 1928 (Springfield, 1928)
Indiana Indiana Legislative Bureau, "Abstract of Vote For Presidential Electors, ... At the general election held on November 6, 1928," Year Book of the State of Indiana for the Year 1928 (Indianapolis, 1928)
Kansas Kansas Secretary of State, "General Election, November 6, 1928 Electors of President and Vice President," Twenty-sixth Biennial Report of the Secretary of State 1927-1928 (Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant, 1928)
Louisiana Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns for Electors for President and Vice-President of the United States (Baton Rouge, 1928)
Maine Maine Secretary of State, Presidential Election Nov 6, 1928 (Augusta, 1928)
Maryland Maryland Secretary of State, comp., "General Election Returns November 6th, 1928," Maryland Manual 1929 (Annapolis, 1928)
Massachusetts Massachusetts Secretary of State, "Presidential Electors at Large," Public Document #43 1928 (Boston, 1928)
Michigan Michigan Department of State, "Presidential Vote by Counties, 1928," Michigan Official Directory and Legislative Manual 1929-1930 (Lansing, 1928)
Minnesota Minnesota Secretary of State, "Vote by Counties of Presidential Electors," The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota 1929 (St. Paul, 1928)
Mississippi Mississippi Secretary of State, "General Election Presidential Electors, November 6th, 1928," Biennial Report of the Secretary of State to the Legislature of Mississippi Oct. 1, 1927 to Oct. 1, 1929 (Jackson, 1928)
Missouri Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri Vote for President, November 6, 1928, By Counties," State of Missouri Official Manual for the Years 1929-1930 (Jefferson City, 1928)
Montana Montana Secretary of State, Montana General Election Returns Official Abstract of Votes Cast at the General Election Held in Montana Nov. 6, 1928 (Helena, 1928)
Nebraska Nebraska Secretary of State, comp., Official Report of the Nebraska State Canvassing Board General Election Held November 6th, 1928 (Lincoln, 1928)
Nevada Nevada Secretary of State, comp., State of Nevada Official Returns of the Election of November, 1928 (Carson City, 1928)
New Hampshire New Hampshire Department of State, State of New Hampshire Manual for the General Court 1929 No. 21 (Concord, 1928)
New Jersey New Jersey, "Average County Vote for Electors, 1928," Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey 1929 (Trenton, 1928)
New Mexico New Mexico Secretary of State, "Canvass of Returns of Election Held November 6, 1928 - State of New Mexico," The New Mexico Blue Book State Official Register 1929-1930 (Santa Fe, 1928)
New York New York State Department of State, "Presidential Vote, New York State By Counties, November 6, 1928," Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New York 1929 (Albany, 1928)
North Carolina North Carolina Secretary of State, "Vote for President by Counties 1928-1948," North Carolina Manual 1949 (Raleigh, 1928)
North Dakota North Dakota Secretary of State, Ed., "Party Votes, General Election, November 6, 1928," Compilation of Election Returns National and State 1914-1928 (Bismarck, 1928)
Ohio Ohio Secretary of State, Ohio Election Statistics The General Election Held on the Eighth Day of November 1938 (Cleveland, 1928)
Oklahoma Oklahoma State Election Board, comp., Directory of the State of Oklahoma 1949 (Oklahoma City, 1928)
Oregon Oregon Secretary of State, Abstract of Votes Cast in the several counties in the State of Oregon at a General Election held on the Sixth Day of November, A.D. 1928, for Presidential Electors ... (Salem, 1928)
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Bureau of Publications, "Votes Cast for Presidential Electors at General Election November 6, 1928," The Pennsylvania Manual 1929 (Harrisburg, 1928)
Rhode Island Rhode Island Secretary of State, "Presidential Election, November 6, 1928 Vote of Rhode Island by Cities and Towns," Rhode Island Manual 1929-1930 (Providence, 1928)
South Carolina South Carolina Secretary of State, "Statement of the Whole Number of Votes Cast for President of the United States, at the General Election Held in South Carolina on November 6th, 1928," Supplemental Report of the Secretary of State to the General Assembly of South Carolina for the Fiscal Year Beginning January 1, 1923 and Ending December 31, 1928 Part II (Columbia, 1928)
South Dakota South Dakota Secretary of State, "Presidential Electors," Official Election Returns for South Dakota General Election November 6, 1928 (Pierre, 1928)
Utah Utah Secretary of State, Abstract of the Returns of an Election Held in the State of Utah, Tuesday, November 6th, A.D. 1928 (Salt Lake City, 1928)
Vermont Vermont Secretary of State, "Presidential Election," Vermont Legislative Directory Biennial Session 1929 (Montpelier, 1928)
Virginia Virginia Secretary of State, comp., Statement of the Vote Cast in the Commonwealth of Virginia for President of the United States - 1924 and 1928 � (Richmond, 1928)
Washington Washington Secretary of State, comp., "Presidential Electors," Abstract of Votes Polled in the State of Washington at the General Election Held November 6, 1928 (Olympia, 1928)
West Virginia West Virginia Secretary of State, "Vote for President of the United States," General Election Returns, 1928 (Charleston, 1928)
Wisconsin Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library, comp., "Summary Vote for President Nov. 6, 1928," The Wisconsin Blue Book 1929 (Madison, 1928)
Wyoming Wyoming Secretary of State, comp., "Total Vote by Counties, General Election, November 6, 1928," 1929 Official Directory of Wyoming and Election Returns for 1928 (Cheyenne, 1928)
National Results for 1928
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Do You Know Kanye West is a Kisii?Shocking!
by venas April 29, 2019
Believe it or not,Kanye West is a Kisii.The three names of Kanye West are Kanye Omari West,Omari is the middle name which is only available in Kisii,Kenya.
If you visit Wikipedia you’ll discover that his middle name is Omari,which is a Kisii name.His biography reads:
“Kanye Omari West (/ˈkɑːnjeɪ/; born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and fashion designer. His musical career has been marked by dramatic changes in styles, incorporating an eclectic range of influences including soul, baroque pop, electro, indie rock, synth-pop, industrial, and gospel. Over the course of his career, West has been responsible for cultural movements and progressions within mainstream hip hop and popular music at large.
Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West first became known as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the early 2000s, producing hit singles for recording artists such as Jay-Z, Ludacris and Alicia Keys. Intent on pursuing a solo career as a rapper, West released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004 to widespread critical and commercial success, and founded the record label GOOD Music. He went on to experiment with a variety of musical genres on subsequent acclaimed studio albums, including Late Registration (2005), Graduation (2007), and the polarizing but influential 808s & Heartbreak (2008). He released his fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in 2010 to further rave reviews, and has since succeeded it with Yeezus (2013), The Life of Pablo (2016) and Ye (2018), as well as full-length collaborations Watch the Throne (2011) and Kids See Ghosts (2018) with Jay-Z and Kid Cudi respectively”
Essentially,the rapper is a Kenyan just like Barack Obama.Even his face resembles that of a Kisii.
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Barlow and Peterson smart choices
By Sydney Mayhew
The San Francisco 49ers locked up their most prestigious football player in All Pro linebacker Julian Peterson by placing their “exclusive franchise” tag on him. Julian Peterson had a breakout career year this year as he achieved being a two-time Pro Bowler and was the winner of the Len Eshmont award in a vote by his teammates.
He is the first linebacker on the team to win the award since 1984 when Keena Turner picked up the honor. This award was established in 1957 and is given to the most inspirational and courageous player, an award that Julian earned with hard work and focused intensity.
When you think about the San Francisco 49er defense in the last few years, linebacker Julian Peterson instantly comes to my mind. He was the forefront of our defensive attack in many ways and defensive coordinator Jim Mora used Julian in a variety of formations and schemes.
In fact Jim Mora will tell you himself that he believes Julian Peterson is in the same mold as veteran superstar Ray Lewis in terms of determination and work ethic. I would have to concur with this from my own observations and let the statistics do the talking.
Julian Peterson this year was a powerhouse and proved it on the field with his intense style of play. He recorded 144 tackles, seven sacks, three forced fumbles, 14 passes defended, two interceptions and one fumble recovery on just this season. There were a few games on the season where he recorded tackle highs of 12, one against the Chicago Bears and against the former Super Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
I can also remember Julian vividly in games like the one against St. Louis where he displayed a series of plays in eight tackles, a forced fumble and take this two sacks on Rams quarterback Marc Bulger. In the second game against St. Louis he recorded another sack and had three passes defended and batted down a fourth-down pass on the 49er five-yard line.
These are some of the plays I can remember Julian by this last season and so many more. In all perspectives Julian outdid himself in more ways than one this year. He played his heart out in the final year of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers desiring to cash in on the big money pot at the end of the season.
Every player that enters the NFL from college wants to achieve that milestone in their careers when they reach the final year of their first contract and have budded into a superstar that equals pay dirt in the form of multi-million dollar contracts.
Right after the final game of the season against the Seattle Seahawks, General Manager Terry Donahue made a general statement that indicated the team’s intentions involving Julian Peterson. It set off a controversy throughout the off-season in regards to who deserved to be signed first Terrell Owens or Julian Peterson. Almost all 49er fans agreed that Julian should be the priority but there still remained some that continued to feel that Terrell Owens shouldn’t be allowed to get away.
“I think we’ll get a deal done,” Donahue said. “If we don’t, I’ll be proved wrong. But I expect him to be back on the team.”
What complicated the negotiation process and still continues to be that the Washington Redskins resigned their most prestigious linebacker in LaVar Arrington to an eight-year, $68 million dollar contract. This raised the bar very high for the salary- capped 49ers to formulate a reasonable offer of their own.
49ers General Manager Terry Donahue reiterated that he didn’t think Arrington’s contract should be a template for resigning Peterson, indicating that the team was not about to match the bonanza contract bestowed upon LaVar Arrington.
“LaVar Arrington is very different; it is easy to say, Well, LaVar got this, so Julian Peterson should get it,” Donahue said. “They don’t play the same position. They both play linebacker, but they don’t play the same linebacker position. One (Arrington) has been (chosen for) the Pro Bowl three times; one (Peterson) has been two. One may have more of an injury history than the other. I don’t know.”
In other words this play the war of defensive posturing based upon the size of a contract the Redskins are willing to give their top man and the fact that 49er owner Dr. John York will be very reluctant to match this sizable offer because of his belief in fiscal restraint and doing more with less.
Julian Peterson has indicated he doesn’t want to play football forever. He made this clear to several media interviews and wants to go into this next contract as being potentially his last one. He wants a six or seven year deal and that he is only interested in being treated fairly and is willing to give his all to the team that will have him. The San Francisco 49ers are the top choice in his mind as they are the suitors of choice based upon their willingness to draft him.
“I’m a pretty loyal guy,” said Peterson, drafted in the first round (16th overall) in 2000 by the 49ers. “This is obviously my first choice because they were the first team to really look at me and grab me.”
Placing the franchise tag on Julian Peterson, as the two parties remain very far apart on an extended contract was the smart choice to do. We at least have Julian through 2004 and in that time will have enough wiggle room to pursue talks again in regards to getting him an extension.
Julian’s agent has been tough to deal with because of the Washington Redskins contract deal with their own LaVar Arrington in the form of an eight-year nearly $80 million with incentive and a $20 million signing bonus to boot.
What San Francisco will be accountable for in slapping the franchise tag on Julian is paying him a projected cost of $5.8 and $7.2 million based upon the top salary for linebackers in the league at the present. Both of his teammates in linebackers Derek Smith and Jeff Ulbrich have nothing but high praises for him and hope that a long- term deal is eventually reached with Julian.
“He’s a crucial part of our defense,” 49ers linebacker Derek Smith said of Peterson. “He can change the game for you. He makes the big plays and gets the crowd behind the team. He is a fun guy to play with and a good person on and off the field. I really hope they can work things out.”
Some wonder exactly how Julian Peterson will be used this next season under a new defensive coordinator in Wily Robinson, a former Pittsburgh assistant and long time associate of coach Dennis Erickson. He comes to the 49ers with a lot of experience and with a proven track record in formulating a great defense like the one present in Pittsburgh. Julian Peterson is looking forward to getting in the trenches and working with his new boss.
“All I’ve known for four years is Jim Mora, but it was a great opportunity for him,” Peterson said. “I think (Robinson) will probably do a great job, once he looks at our personnel and the things we can do.”
“I would like to see what his thought process is. I’m pretty sure when he knows the talent of the linebackers we’ve got, he’ll use a lot of linebacker sets and stuff like we’ve been doing. I’m looking forward to sitting down and talking with him.”
What the 49ers did with Julian Peterson was unbelievable in some ways. With injuries riddling the secondary as they have for two straight years, Julian was used in almost every conceivable position and he executed that game plan with great precision every time he was called upon to do so.
He was used over the course of his four years with the 49ers in almost every position on defense. In one game last season, he lined up as a linebacker, a defensive end, a cornerback and a safety. It has been out of necessity sometimes and out of confusing their opponents on many others.
“Jim didn’t want me to be just an everyday linebacker,” Peterson said. “He wanted me to be an every-down player, one of the best players in the league. By him letting me play all these different positions in all these different ways, I just feel like I can’t ever be counted out.”
So as you can see we set the bar high for Julian Peterson and what was so remarkable about it is that he achieved everything we set out for him. The franchise tag almost is like a badge of honor in some ways as it recognizes the team’s best player and that the team will be committed to reaching an agreement in the future.
To other athletes it is a disgrace and a nuisance as it prohibits an individual from obtaining the fast cash they know they can get by going into free agency and landing a big money contract right away. Reasons the 49ers can’t reach an agreement with Peterson’s agent Kevin Poston, is that he is asking for guaranteed money in excess of $20 million, which is far more than the 49ers are willing to pay.
With the franchise tag they lock up Peterson and pay him the equivalent of what the top linebackers make in salary terms for the 2004 season. Under the rules of the franchise tag, the 49ers can match any offer from another team, and if Peterson still leaves, they in turn receive two first round draft choices in compensation.
The signing bonus is something that has been indicated as a sticking point with the negotiations between Poston and the 49ers. Poston also represents Washington Redskin linebacker LaVar Arrington and is in the running for obtaining Peterson a contract as close to Arrington’s numbers as possible.
When you look at what Arrington accomplished in 2003 he made 88 tackles, six sacks and zero interceptions. Julian Peterson’s statistics far exceeded Arrington’s this year so reasonably you’d ask yourself he deserves a similar contract for accomplishing more. But the Poston brothers (Kevin and Carl) are notorious for seeking big money contracts for their clients.
Several of their clients have even refused to report to training camp pending contract resolution. Julian Peterson represented by Kevin Poston poises a big problem for the 49ers front office in these heated negotiations.
Meanwhile the negotiations will continue with Julian Peterson’s agent Kevin Poston. Terry Donahue has made it known that they want a deal to be done but won’t hesitate to remain with the franchise tag and follow its rules for the season. In return Peterson will be paid a salary based upon the five highest paid linebackers in the NFL today and that will be averaged to determine his annual salary should a contract not be stricken.
“We made that decision over a long period of time trying to negotiate with his agents,” Donahue said. “We feel like we’ve made him a very competitive offer that puts him in a linebacker category with Brian Urlacher, Derrick Brooks and LaVar Arrington. We’re very hopeful that we can get a long term deal done and we’ll keep working towards that.”
Saving the franchise tag for Julian Peterson was a no brain decision. Had we been able to get a deal done we might have been able to use the tag on someone else such as Terrell Owens. But all indications point to Owens leaving and wanting to leave by his own accord sooner rather than later, because he has displayed displeasure for all that San Francisco is.
I feel Terrell Owens is a tremendously gifted athlete one that wants to win and has an edge over so many others. Facing him as an opponent will be a scary proposition, as we have no one in our secondary that can cover him effectively one on one. I do not regret his services over the eight years he’s been with us, only the insults and camera incidents that isolated him as being the sole reason for the team winning and unaccountable in losing.
The San Francisco 49ers took further positive steps in working out a long-term deal with restricted free agent running back Kevan Barlow. Kevan Barlow came to terms with the 49ers on a five-year, $20 million dollar contract that includes $8 million in guaranteed money, league sources indicate. His contract includes a $1.5 million signing bonus, with $6.5 million option bonus. He will earn $10 million over the first two years of the deal.
Before this deal was disclosed the most the 49ers were expected to do for Barlow as a restricted free agent was to tender him an offer at $1.8 million for the 2004 season to ensure that they would receive first and third round draft picks as compensation if he went to another team.
There was at some point some speculation that the New England Patriots were seriously considering Kevan Barlow for their ground attack that features no clear definitive leader as a main running back. Barlow’s agent Mike Sullivan noticed the level of sincerity that the 49ers were showing in keeping Kevan around and asked Kevan point blank if he desired to remain in San Francisco. Kevan quickly responded with a yes and entrusted Sullivan to begin the negotiations process on an extension.
In actuality the deal for five years saves the 49ers almost $1 million towards the 2004 salary cap. His contract also doesn’t call for any voidable years, which are relevant considering contracts of some other 49er players. Barlow rushed for 1,024 yards last season despite only making four starts.
In fact he rushed for 433-yards and four touchdowns in the last four games of the season. Barlow averaged 109-yards per game with a 5.4-yard average per rush. He also honed in on his receiving abilities with 18 receptions for 160-yards and one touchdown. When I remember Kevan Barlow last season one game comes to mind in the revenge game against the Arizona Cardinals.
In that game he rushed for a career-high 154-yards on 18 attempts, including a 46-yard touchdown run. Kevan Barlow now will be the featured back in our running game as desired by head coach Dennis Erickson. He accomplished his durability and fumbling questions by starting all four games that Garrison Hearst remained out due to injury.
For the 11-year veteran in Garrison Hearst it spells the end of the road unless he’s willing to restructure a contract that he’ll make $2.5 million on this year. The 49ers are not expected to pay that for a back-up running back even though it is Garrison Hearst.
Discussions with Hearst’s agent Pat Dye Jr. are still under way on restructuring his contract. It is something that will be another bitter pill for Hearst to swallow. It is rumored that former head coach Steve Mariucci would be very interested in obtaining Garrison Hearst’s running abilities for the Detroit Lions. His options are many at this point and he’ll have to do some soul searching on where he chooses to end his career.
“We’re hopeful that there’s a possibility that we can get to where we’re comfortable and Garrison’s comfortable, and he’ll remain with the team,” Donahue said. 'Obviously we’ve made a long-term commitment to Kevan, but we have high regard for Garrison and what he means to this team.”
I cannot say enough of what Garrison Hearst has brought to this team and of course what the team has done for him during his long battle against all odds in returning to the field because of a rare ankle condition.
Garrison has been a real factor in many years in being the explosive running back this team needed to carry the offense. He also realizes that the team has been patient and kind enough to allow him to heal and make the comeback he always had on his mind and made it a reality.
I hope he can come to the conclusion that being a back up in this part of his career is not necessarily a bad thing, but I also can understand that he still has two to three good years left in him as a featured back. His leaving would be a real loss that the team would all feel in one form or another, mainly because of what he brings to the locker room and what he does out on that field.
Meanwhile we know that Kevan Barlow is the future and that embracing that with this contract extension was the right thing to do. He has proven to be reliable and durable enough to withstand the rigors of an NFL season. Sure there are comparisons to Hearst we can still see he’s flawed in and we can see that fumbling the ball still gives us worry.
But the point is made that improvements have been made on all these fronts in regards to Kevan Barlow. He publicly stated his desire to stay in San Francisco and for that honesty and sincerity I must say I’m proud we could accommodate that for him.
“We certainly see him as a very integral part of our future and certainly see him as a young ascending player. He started four games last year and rushed for over 1,000-yards and is a player who we think can be an extremely productive player throughout the next five years of his NFL career,” Donahue said. “We definitely see him as part of the core of the team that we want to put together to try and win a world championship with and we think that he is a very talented player and can become one of the top 10 running backs in this league.”
What is very well known is Kevan Barlow’s itching for more playing time. He saw the injury to Garrison Hearst late in the season as an opportunity to prove him as the future starter and he impressed enough people to land this contract.
He remains obligated to Garrison Hearst for all that he has learned over the last two years and attributes his success to Garrison Hearst and his teachings and watching his remarkable performances on and off the field.
“I’m ready for that. I think I’ve shown what I can do,” he said. 'I’m ready to come in and dedicate myself to working out. My first two years I was in a comfort zone knowing I was splitting time with Garrison. Now I’m ready for more.”
Still there remains many a free agent on the list that seem to be eyeing the door. I cannot say I’m happy with the state that the team is in. Obviously this will be a tough year to recover from should we not be able to convince more of our 14 free agents to stay. One thing is for certain this team will have a major facelift in personnel and new coaches.
Putting this all together and getting it to work will be difficult and daunting in my opinion. We will have to examine every angle for us to make the correct decisions come draft weekend. We will also have to handle the real scenario of struggling to reach .500 again considering that so much of what was drafted since 1999 will be gone and keeping veterans will be an expensive thought Dr. John York will want to forget.
I applaud the decisions on Kevan Barlow and Julian Peterson, not everything with our organization is all bad. If we can become fiscally responsible and get things in order in cleaning out the cobwebs of dead money players, we will be able to move ahead and stockpile the talent and energy that can propel us to the post-season again.
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Harris RF Communications Sponsors Habitat for Humanity House in Rochester, New York
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, will sponsor and support construction of a Flower City Habitat for Humanity House in Rochester, New York.
(1888PressRelease) July 29, 2010 - Over the course of the next three months, Harris RF Communications employees, their families and other volunteers will construct a two-bedroom home on Grape Street, located in the city of Rochester. In addition to the volunteer hours, Harris RF Communications, headquartered in Rochester, is making the $75,000 donation to Flower City Habitat required to finance construction of the home. Habitat homes are purchased by qualified lower-income families in need of affordable housing. The families also help construct the home.
The financial donation and volunteer support to Flower City Habitat is part of a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Harris RF Communications, the world's leading global supplier of tactical communication systems to government, military and public safety agencies. Harris RF Communications honored its four founders at a gala celebration July 15.
"The founders of RF Communications viewed their company as an investment — in employees, in customers and in the greater Rochester community. Their goal was to create a lasting employer with the highest standards of business," said Dana Mehnert, group president, Harris RF Communications. "We're proud to renew their commitment."
Flower City Habitat for Humanity (FCHH) is a non-denominational housing ministry dedicated to eliminating substandard and poverty housing in Rochester, NY. Since 1984, FCHH has built or renovated 175 homes, and is one of the largest Habitat affiliates in the northeastern United States.
Harris RF Communications is the leading global supplier of secure radio communications and embedded high-grade encryption solutions for military, government and commercial organizations. The company's Falcon family of software-defined tactical radio systems encompasses manpack, handheld and vehicular applications. Falcon III is the next generation of radios supporting the U.S. military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) requirements, as well as network-centric operations worldwide. Harris RF Communications is also a leading supplier of assured communications® systems and equipment for public safety, utility and transportation markets — with products ranging from the most advanced IP voice and data networks to portable and mobile single- and multiband radios.
About Harris Corporation
Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $5 billion of annual revenue and more than 15,000 employees — including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at www.harris.com.
Kevin Aman
RF Communications
kevin.aman ( @ ) harris dot com
jim.burke ( @ ) harris dot com
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Banned Books That Shaped America
September 30, 2016 Scott Parker-Anderson read, Uncategorized Leave a comment
The list of authors of frequently and recently banned books reads is very similar to the New York Times Best Seller list: Alexi Sherman, Dr. Seuss, John Green, Hermann Hesse, Aldous Huxley, Toni Morrison, John Steinbeck, Anne Frank, Alice Walker, Stephen Chbosky, William Shakespeare, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Kurt Vonnegut, Augusten Burroughs, and J. D. Salinger. Access to their works is being fought by small fringe groups that want to censor what you can experience. Their agendas vary, but are similar in their desired outcome: control of knowledge. No one is requiring them to read Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss, but they want to stop you from having the choice of reading it. Do not let scared small-minded individuals create your world. Fight censorship!
The Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2015, as recorded by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), are:
1. Looking for Alaska, by John Green Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.
2. Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James Reasons: Sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and other (“poorly written,” “concerns that a group of teenagers will want to try it”).
3. I Am Jazz, by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings Reasons: Inaccurate, homosexuality, sex education, religious viewpoint, and unsuited for age group.
4. Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, by Susan Kuklin Reasons: Anti-family, offensive language, homosexuality, sex education, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“wants to remove from collection to ward off complaints”).
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon Reasons: Offensive language, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“profanity and atheism”).
6. The Holy Bible Reasons: Religious viewpoint.
7. Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel Reasons: Violence and other (“graphic images”).
8. Habibi, by Craig Thompson Reasons: Nudity, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.
9. Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan, by Jeanette Winter Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group, and violence.
10. Two Boys Kissing, by David Levithan Reasons: Homosexuality and other (“condones public displays of affection”).
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley, 1965 (Grove Press)
Objectors have called this seminal work a “how-to-manual” for crime and decried because of “anti-white statements” present in the book. The book presents the life story of Malcolm Little, also known as Malcolm X, who was a human rights activist and who has been called one of the most influential Americans in recent history.
Malcolm x was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 19, 1925, and spent much of his life fighting for equal rights for African Americans. Freedom for African Americans was supposed to have come with the end of the Civil War in 1865, but their struggle to attain equality persisted well into the next century, and continues today. Despite freed slaves’ legal and political gains during the period just after the Civil War, known as Reconstruction, they and their children suffered blows to their rights in the last decades of the nineteenth century. For example, in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation, in the form of “separate but equal” public facilities, was constitutional. Legalized racism across America, especially in the South, continued through the first half of the twentieth century.
Suffering from discrimination, economic oppression, and violence at the hands of whites, African-American communities rallied around several different political leaders. Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) encouraged blacks to gain political power by earning the respect of white people through hard work and humble conduct. W.E.B. DuBois (1868–1963) demanded political empowerment and spiritual rebirth. Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) urged a return to Africa, contending that black people should rely upon their own unity and create their own means of empowerment. Garvey’s fiercely nationalist ideas influenced many African Americans, among them Earl Little, Malcolm X’s father, a preacher who spread Garvey’s ideas in his small Michigan community.
During the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Malcolm X gained national and international prominence. Often distancing himself from the movement’s leaders, he was perhaps the most controversial leader of the period. Malcolm X’s separatism and militancy contrasted with the desegregation efforts and nonviolent tactics of Martin Luther King, Jr. Historians credit Malcolm X as the spiritual father of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s. At the time of Malcolm X’s murder in 1965, his views and commitments were undergoing a great change. He was demanding unity and self-determination for black people, whose struggle he viewed in the context of oppressed peoples all over the world. He was also abandoning the hard-line anti–white prejudice of his early years.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X is the result of a collaboration between Malcolm X and journalist Alex Haley. Over a period of several years, Malcolm X told Haley his life story in a series of lengthy interviews. Haley wrote down and arranged the material in the first person, and Malcolm X edited and approved every chapter. Thus, though Haley actually did the writing, it is reasonable to consider the work an autobiography. The work is one of the most important nonfiction books of the twentieth century, as it offers valuable insight into the mind of a key figure on a core issue of twentieth-century America. In 1965, a New York reviewer wrote of Malcolm X, “No man has better expressed his people’s trapped anguish.” The autobiography continues to be relevant to efforts to combat racism. Equal rights activists fighting against oppression of African Americans revived Malcolm X’s philosophy in the 1980s, and Spike Lee released the movie Malcolm X in 1992, shortly after the infamous beating of black motorist Rodney King by white police officers.
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Noseda’s inaugural American program with NSO proves a mixed bag
Fri Jan 20, 2017 at 12:45 pm
By Charles T. Downey
Gianandrea Noseda led the National Symphony Orchestra in an American program Thursday night.
Every four years the city of Washington shuts down for the inauguration of a new president, but the music goes on.
Next fall Gianandrea Noseda will have his own “inauguration” as the new music director of the National Symphony Orchestra. The Italian conductor took the podium of his new ensemble for a final guest appearance this week, predictably in a program of American music, heard at the first performance on Thursday evening, shortly after the president-elect’s inauguration eve concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
The Kennedy Center is marking the 100th anniversary of President Kennedy’s birth this coming May. The second half opened with the Fanfare for the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy, composed by Leonard Bernstein for Kennedy’s inauguration eve gala concert in 1961. It is a trifle, over in less than a minute when Bernstein seemed to run out of ideas and wrote a major chord, leaving the orchestration for Sid Ramin to complete. The NSO played the piece for the first time at a concert in 2011, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s inauguration. It did not need to be repeated.
It was a curious way to honor President Kennedy, playing the suite from John Williams’ score for the 1991 film JFK, which trades in highly dubious conspiracy theories. The playing of the NSO was polished, beginning with the elegiac trumpet solo by principal William Gerlach. Williams powered the music for the “Motorcade” sequence with tense snare drum, dissonant string clouds, and looming brass, providing a nefarious tinge to Stone’s recasting of the facts of the assassination. As he often does, Williams turned to a lush all-strings texture for the “Arlington sequence,” beautifully played by the NSO strings.
Oddly the NSO also played another John William suite, from the music for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, paired with Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait. The juxtaposition was apt, as Williams took many stylistic cues for this score from Copland’s elegiac work. In form the selection of pieces was similar to that for JFK, with a misty-eyed trumpet solo and an all-string conclusion. Instead of the unsettled dissonance, though, pianist Lisa Emenheiser and concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef convincingly led sections of folk-style Americana.
Composed in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack, Copland’s Lincoln Portrait is not great music. In his send-up of the piece, Peter Schickele showed that the style is quite easy to imitate and that it can give faux solemnity to even the most ridiculous words. Noseda, who claimed in pre-concert remarks that he was getting to know this program of American music for the first time, kept the tempos crisp and unyielding. The musicians handled the admittedly corny minstrel song snippets (“Camptown Races” among others) with sincerity, and actress Phylicia Rashad, who was Mrs. Huxtable on The Cosby Show, brought dignity to the narration. She got ahead of herself at one point, trying to speak over one of the loud sections that are supposed to come between the spoken portions, but a subtle gesture from Noseda put her back on track.
George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, in the orchestration by Ferdinand Grofé, was the somewhat conventional conclusion to the evening. On the solo part pianist Jon Kimura Parker was effective without being distinctive, outshone by aptly jazzy, semi-improvisatory solos from clarinet, trumpet (assistant principal Steven Hendrickson this time), and trombone.
Parker took considerable rhythmic freedom in the unaccompanied sections, often slowing down to a crawl and then speeding back up in an often repeated gesture. Noseda wrung maximum energy from the final fast section, calling for the violins to keep their incisive melodic line taut and percussive like something out of Stravinsky.
The most poignant moment of the evening came first, with a heartfelt rendition of Stravinsky’s eclectic arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner. Stravinsky, a recent immigrant to the United States because he was fleeing war, reharmonized the tune that had been the official national anthem of his adopted country for only about a decade. Offended by the changes, a police squad forced Stravinsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra not to play his version at subsequent concerts after the work’s premiere. So much for President Kennedy’s admonishment that “in free society art does not belong to the spheres of polemic and ideology.”
The program will be repeated 3 p.m. Sunday. kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/NRCSG; 202-467-4600. Medici.tv will also broadcast the second performance, the NSO’s first collaboration with the online streaming service.
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Help protect encryption
Posted by ppnsteve on Mar 08 2016 in Announcements, Technology, Hot Topics
Governments in many places around the world are considering policies that undermine online encryption. We expect our government to protect us, but these policies would instead put everyone’s private data and communications at risk.
I’m sure you’ve heard the argument: “Well, I don’t have anything to hide.” But if we can’t trust the security of our encrypted data, then we can’t trust that it’s safe from anyone — not just our government, but also strangers and even criminals. Sure, you’re probably not hiding any major crimes, but what about your financial information and medical records? Weakening encryption weakens our ability to choose what’s private or not — from everyone.
Share the video below with all of your closest “I don’t have anything to hide-ers” to show them how encryption helps protect their information, and that maybe they do have a thing or two that should stay secret.
Encryption is at the heart of the Internet, and it is essential for our security, our economy, and our freedom. Share now and help us protect it.
Encryption helps secure everything from your financial information to personal emails. See why encryption matters, then help keep it from being weakened.
They are watching you. Find out how, why, and what you can do to take a stand against government surveillance.
U.S. Forces Killed Osama bin Laden
Posted by ppnsteve on May 02 2011 in Announcements, News, Hot Topics
A CIA-led team killed Osama Bin Laden at a compound inside Pakistan Sunday and recovered his body, bringing a close to the world's highest-profile manhunt after a decade-long search, President Obama announced to the world Sunday night.
"Justice has been done," the President said solemnly in a hastily-arranged late night TV address from the East Room of the White House. Bin Laden, he said, "murdered thousands of innocent men, women and children" and his death was "the most significant achievement to date" in the U.S. war against the al Qaeda, terrorist network that bin Laden founded, led and inspired.
As described by the President and top administration officials, the successful effort to track down bin Laden centered on a man whom the officials described as a trusted courier for al Qaeda, a protégé of Khalid Sheik Muhammed, the operational mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
CNN reports the mission that killed one of the world's most notorious terrorist leaders was carried out by U.S. forces with the cooperation of Pakistan, U.S. President Barack Obama said Sunday night.
Osama bin Laden, the longtime leader of al Qaeda, was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion about 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members, a senior U.S. official told CNN.
Members of Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, were on site in Abbottabad during the operation, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said.
Bin Laden resisted the assault and was killed in a firefight, senior administration officials said.
The Pakistani intelligence official said he did not know who fired the shot that actually killed the terror mastermind. U.S. sources including a senior official and a congressional source familiar with the operation said bin Laden was shot in the head. Three other men were also killed in raid, as was a woman who was being used as a human shield, senior administration officials said.
The U.S. team was at the compound for about 40 minutes, the officials said. There were no casualties on the American side, although a U.S. helicopter crashed during the raid due to mechanical problems. The helicopter was then destroyed for security reasons, senior administration officials said.
A senior administration official told reporters that Obama's administration did not share intelligence gathered beforehand with any other country -- including Pakistan -- for security reasons.
The official said only a small group of people inside the U.S. government knew about this operation ahead of time. Another official said a "small U.S. team" was involved in the operation; but the official would not confirm any U.S. military involvement.
However, a senior defense official said U.S. Navy SEALs were involved.
Boycott Sony
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Canadian Internets
Posted by ppnsteve on Feb 02 2011 in Technology, Hot Topics, Rants and Raves
So, some friends up north have to deal with the new UBB (per gb overage plans) and have come up with this 'bypass' to save money:
SECRET COPYRIGHT TREATY LEAKS. IT’S BAD. VERY BAD.
Posted by ppnsteve on Nov 05 2009 in News, Background, Technology, Hot Topics, Rants and Raves
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says:
Originally posted by Cory Doctorow
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* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn’t infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.
* That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet — and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living — if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.
* That the whole world must adopt US-style “notice-and-takedown” rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused — again, without evidence or trial — of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.
* Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM)
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Hanesbrands Q4 Profit Doubles as Debit Decreases
In What's New, Industry News by Accessories Staff February 6, 2013
Winston-Salem, NC—Hanesbrands Inc. reported Tuesday that its fourth quarter profit doubled from the previous year, thanks to exiting under-performing businesses, successfully managing cotton inflation and reducing its debt.
For the quarter ended Dec. 29, the apparel, hosiery and innerwear maker posted net income of $80.4 million, or $1.07 a share, compared to $41 million in the year ago period.
Total net revenue increased 5% to $1.15 billion compared with the year-ago quarter and increased 2% to $4.53 billion for the full fiscal year. Full-year sales increased 4% excluding the managed decline in the branded printwear division and the decline in JCPenney which is undergoing a strategic shift.
Since being spunoff as a separate company from Sara Lee Corp. in 2006, Hanesbrands ha reduced its $2.6 billion debt to $1.25 billion as of Dec. 31. The company plans to pay another $250 million this year out of a projected $350 million to $450 million in free cash flow.
“By reducing bond debt by $750 million over the past 13 months, we have ended our era of high debt leverage, and the momentum of strong results in the back half of 2012 positions us well for continued profit growth in 2013,” Richard Noll, chairman/ceo, said.
More Acquisitions Possible?
The stronger financial position could allow the company to pay a dividend, conduct a share-repurchase program or make more acquisitions in key apparel categories.
Each of the company’s business segments reported at least double-digit operating profit growth in the quarter. The Innerwear division was the strongest contributor to full-year results, delivering 18% growth in operating profit.
For the full year, Hanesbrands had a 38% decrease in net income to $164.7 million. The company had a $67.8 million loss related to discontinued operations, primarily the decisions to exit its European imagewear screen-print business and put more focus on its Hanes and Champion brands within its branded printwear division.
“The operating margin of 13% demonstrates the benefits of our multi-year efforts of building our brand, filling our innovation pipeline, and transforming our supply chain to build a more profitable business,” Noll said. “More specifically, our leading brands remain strong and should only strengthen as we increase our media spending this year. The innovation we have at retail and in the pipeline to elevate strategy is contributing sales and importantly margins for 2013.”
Hanesbrands confirmed its fiscal 2013 earnings forecast of a range of $3.25 to $3.40, but forecast a $40 million to $50 million revenue decline in its branded printwear category as it deemphasizes commodity apparel products.
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United States congressional delegations from Alaska
These are tables of congressional delegations from Alaska to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.
Current delegation
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator Dan Sullivan
Rep. Don Young
Alaska's current delegation
1 United States Senate
2 House of Representatives
2.1 Delegates from Alaska Territory
2.2 Members from the State of Alaska
3 Living former Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alaska's at-large congressional district
4 Living former U.S. Senators from Alaska
United States Senate[edit]
Main article: List of United States Senators from Alaska
Ernest Gruening was elected to the Senate on October 6, 1955 for the 84th Congress but did not take the oath of office and was not accorded senatorial privileges, Alaska not yet being admitted as a state.
Class 2 Senators
Bob Bartlett (D)[1] 86th Congress
(1959–1961) Ernest Gruening (D)
Ted Stevens (R)
91st Congress
(1969–1971) Mike Gravel (D)
92nd Congress
93rd Congress
(1981–1983) Frank Murkowski (R)
101st Congress
102nd Congress
103rd Congress
Lisa Murkowski (R)
Mark Begich (D) 111th Congress
Dan Sullivan (R) 114th Congress
Delegates from Alaska Territory[edit]
Main article: Alaska Territory's at-large congressional district
From May 17, 1884 to August 24, 1912, Alaska was designated as the District of Alaska. From then to January 3, 1959, it was the Alaska Territory.
59th (1905–1907) Frank Hinman Waskey (D)
60th (1907–1909) Thomas Cale (I)
61st (1909–1911) James Wickersham (R)
62nd (1911–1913)
63rd (1913–1915)
64th (1915–1917)
65th (1917–1919) Charles August Sulzer (D)
James Wickersham[2] (R)
66th (1919–1921) Charles August Sulzer[1] (D)
George Barnes Grigsby (D)
67th (1921–1923) Daniel Alexander Sutherland (R)
71st (1929–1931)
72nd (1931–1933) James Wickersham (R)
73rd (1933–1935) Anthony Joseph Dimond (D)
79th (1945–1947) Bob Bartlett (D)
Members from the State of Alaska[edit]
Main article: Alaska's at-large congressional district
Alaska's at-large congressional district
(1959–1961) Ralph Julian Rivers (D)
(1967–1969) Howard Wallace Pollock (R)
(1971–1973) Nick Begich[1][4] (D)
Don Young[5] (R)
Living former Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alaska's at-large congressional district[edit]
As of May 2015[update], there are no former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alaska's at-large congressional district who are currently living at this time; the most recent representative to die was Howard Wallace Pollock (1967-1971) on January 9, 2011.
Living former U.S. Senators from Alaska[edit]
As of April 2015[update], there are three former U.S. Senators from the U.S. State of Alaska who are currently living at this time, one from Class 2 and two in Class 3.
Date of birth (and age)
Mike Gravel 1969–1981 3 (1930-05-13) May 13, 1930 (age 89)
Frank Murkowski 1981–2002 3 (1933-03-28) March 28, 1933 (age 86)
Mark Begich 2009–2015 2 (1962-03-30) March 30, 1962 (age 57)
^ a b c Died in office.
^ Successfully contested the election of George Barnes Grigsby, the representative who replaced Charles August Sulzer.
^ Contested the election of Charles August Sulzer, and when Sulzer died, continued the contest against his successor George Barnes Grigsby and won.
^ Disappeared October 16, 1972, re-elected November 7, declared dead December 29.
^ Elected to fill the vacancy caused by the previous representative, Nick Begich being re-elected (presumably posthumously) to the next term.
Key to party colors and abbreviations for members of the U.S. Congress
American (Know Nothing) (K-N)
Anti-Jacksonian (Anti-J),
National Republican (NR)
Anti-Administration (Anti-Admin)
Anti-Masonic (Anti-M)
Conservative (Con)
Democratic (D)
Dixiecrat (Dix),
States' rights (SR)
Democratic-Republican (D-R)
Farmer–Labor (FL)
Federalist (F)
Free Soil (FS)
Free Silver (FSv)
Fusion (FU)
Greenback (GB)
Jacksonian (J)
Nonpartisan League (NPL)
Nullifier (N)
Opposition Northern (O)
Opposition Southern (O)
Populist (Pop)
Pro-Administration (Pro-Admin)
Progressive (Prog)
Prohibition (Proh)
Readjuster (Rea)
Republican (R)
Socialist (Soc)
Unionist (U)
Whig (W)
or Unaffiliated
Alaska's delegation to the United States Congress
Dan Sullivan (R)
Don Young (R)
Other states' delegations
Non-voting delegations
Years in Alaska (1959–present)
Lists of United States congressional delegations
Alabama (H, S)
Alaska (H, S)
Arizona (H, S)
Arkansas (H, S)
California (H, S)
Colorado (H, S)
Connecticut (H, S)
Delaware (H, S)
Florida (H, S)
Georgia (H, S)
Hawaii (H, S)
Idaho (H, S)
Illinois (H, S)
Indiana (H, S)
Iowa (H, S)
Kansas (H, S)
Kentucky (H, S)
Louisiana (H, S)
Maine (H, S)
Maryland (H, S)
Massachusetts (H, S)
Michigan (H, S)
Minnesota (H, S)
Mississippi (H, S)
Missouri (H, S)
Montana (H, S)
Nebraska (H, S)
Nevada (H, S)
New Hampshire (H, S)
New Jersey (H, S)
New Mexico (H, S)
New York (H, S)
North Carolina (H, S)
North Dakota (H, S)
Ohio (H, S)
Oklahoma (H, S)
Oregon (H, S)
Pennsylvania (H, S)
Rhode Island (H, S)
South Carolina (H, S)
South Dakota (H, S)
Tennessee (H, S)
Texas (H, S)
Utah (H, S)
Vermont (H, S)
Virginia (H, S)
Washington (H, S)
West Virginia (H, S)
Wisconsin (H, S)
Wyoming (H, S)
Northwest Territory
Orleans Territory
Southwest Territory
Lists of former House members
List of former Senators
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107th United States Congress
The One Hundred Seventh United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D. C. from January 3, 2001 to January 3, 2003, during the final weeks of the Clinton presidency and the first two years of the George W. Bush presidency; the apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Twenty-first Census of the United States in 1990. The House of Representatives had a Republican majority, the Senate switched majorities from Democratic to Republican and back to Democratic. By the end of term, Republicans had regained the majority in the Senate, but since the body was out of session reorganization was delayed till the next Congress. A rare split in the United States Senate, the defection of a single Senator, the inauguration of a new Vice President, led to three changes in majorities. Major security events occurred; the September 11 attacks were disruptive.
Some Senators were targeted by anthrax attacks. The Congress voted to allow the President to invade Iraq. January 3, 2001: Senate was evenly split between the two parties. Democrat Al Gore — the out-going Vice President — gave the Democrats the tie-breaker and majority control for the 17 days between the January 3 swearing-in of the new Congress and the January 20 inauguration of Republican Vice President Dick Cheney. First Lady Hillary Clinton, wife of President Bill Clinton, became the first presidential spouse to serve in Congress. January 20, 2001: George W. Bush became President of the United States. May 24, 2001: Senator Jim Jeffords a Republican, declared himself an independent and announced he would join the Democratic caucus, giving the Democrats majority control, effective June 6, 2001. September 11, 2001: September 11 attacks September 20, 2001: George W. Bush reported to a joint session of Congress on the investigation into the September 11 attacks and announces the War on Terrorism October 7, 2001: Operation Enduring Freedom began October 9, 2001: Anthrax attacks were executed against members of the Senate, including Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
December 2001: Corporate financial scandals, including Enron and MCI June 12, 2002: Prime Minister of Australia John Howard addressed a joint session of Congress. The address was scheduled for September 12, 2001, but was interrupted by the September 11 attacks. In Washington at the time, he sat in on Congressional sessions on September 12 instead. November 25, 2002: Jim Talent takes Senate seat in Missouri giving Republicans a majority. Reorganization delayed until the convening of the 108th United States Congress. June 7, 2001: Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act, Pub. L. 107–16, 115 Stat. 38 October 26, 2001: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act, Pub. L. 107–56, 115 Stat. 272 January 8, 2002: No Child Left Behind Act, Pub. L. 107–110, 115 Stat. 1425 January 11, 2002: Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, Pub. L. 107–118, 115 Stat. 2356 March 9, 2002: Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act, Pub.
L. 107–147, 116 Stat. 21 March 27, 2002: Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, Pub. L. 107–155, 116 Stat. 81 May 13, 2002: Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, Pub. L. 107–171, 116 Stat. 134 July 30, 2002: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Pub. L. 107–204, 116 Stat. 745 August 6, 2002: Trade Act of 2002, Pub. L. 107–210, 116 Stat. 933 October 16, 2002: Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq, Pub. L. 107–243, 116 Stat. 1497 October 21, 2002: Sudan Peace Act, Pub. L. 107–245, 116 Stat. 1504 October 29, 2002: Help America Vote Act, Pub. L. 107–252, 116 Stat. 1666 November 25, 2002: Homeland Security Act, Pub. L. 107–296, 116 Stat. 2135 December 17, 2002: E-Government Act of 2002, Pub. L. 107–347, 116 Stat. 2899 President of the Senate: Al Gore, until January 20, 2001 Dick Cheney, from January 20, 2001 President pro tempore: Robert Byrd, until January 20, 2001 Strom Thurmond, January 20 – June 6, 2001 Robert Byrd, from June 6, 2001 Majority Leader: Tom Daschle, until January 20, 2001 Trent Lott, January 20 – June 6, 2001 Tom Daschle, from June 6, 2001 Majority Whip: Harry Reid, until January 20, 2001 Don Nickles, January 20 – June 6, 2001 Harry Reid, from June 6, 2001 Minority Leader: Trent Lott, until January 20, 2001 Tom Daschle, January 20 – June 6, 2001 Trent Lott, from June 6, 2001 Minority Whip: Don Nickles, until January 20, 2001 Harry Reid, January 20 – June 6, 2001 Don Nickles, from June 6, 2001 Republican Conference Chairman: Rick Santorum Republican Conference Secretary: Kay Bailey Hutchison Republican Campaign Committee Chair: Bill Frist Republican Policy Committee Chairman: Larry Craig Democratic Policy Committee Chairman: Byron Dorgan Democratic Conference Secretary: Barbara Mikulski Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Patty Murray Democratic Chief Deputy Whip: John Breaux Speaker: Dennis Hastert Majority Leader: Dick Armey Majority Whip: Tom DeLay Chief Deputy Whip: Roy Blunt Conference Chair: J. C. Watts Conference Vice-Chair: Deborah Pryce Conference Secretary: Barbara Cubin Policy Committee Chairman: Christopher Cox Campaign Committee Chairman: Thomas M. Davis Minority Leader: Dick Gephardt Minority Whip: David E. Bonior, until January 15, 2002 Nancy Pelosi, from January 15, 2002 Chief Deputy Minority Whips: John Lewis, Ed Pastor, Max Sandlin & Maxine Waters Democratic Caucus Chairman: Martin Frost Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman: Bob Menendez Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Nita Lowey Skip to House of Representatives, below Senators are listed by their class.
In this Congress, Class 2 meant their
The Eighty-seventh United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D. C. from January 3, 1961, to January 3, 1963, during the final weeks of the administration of U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the first two years of the administration of U. S. President John Kennedy; the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950, along with 2 seats temporarily added in 1959. Both chambers had a Democratic majority. January 3, 1961: President Eisenhower severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba. January 20, 1961: Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. April 17, 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba began. May 4, 1961: Freedom Riders began interstate bus rides to test the new U. S. Supreme Court integration decision. May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard became the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.
May 25, 1961: President Kennedy announced his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade November 20: 1961: Funeral of Speaker Sam Rayburn, who died on November 16 February 3, 1962: Embargo against Cuba was announced February 20, 1962: John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth March 26, 1962: Supreme Court ruled that federal courts could order state legislatures to reapportion seats October 1, 1962: James Meredith registered as the first black student at the University of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals. October 14, 1962 - October 28, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis May 1, 1961: Area Redevelopment Act, Pub. L. 87–27, 75 Stat. 47 August 30, 1961: Oil Pollution Act of 1961, Pub. L. 87–167, 75 Stat. 402 September 4, 1961: The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, Pub. L. 87–195, 75 Stat. 424 September 13, 1961: Interstate Wire Act of 1961, Pub. L. 87–216, 75 Stat. 491 September 21, 1961: Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, Pub. L. 87–256, 75 Stat. 527 September 22, 1961: Peace Corps Act of 1961, Pub.
L. 87–293, 75 Stat. 612 September 26, 1961: Arms Control and Disarmament Act of 1961, Pub. L. 87–297, 75 Stat. 631 October 15, 1961: Community Health Services and Facilities Act, Pub. L. 87–395, 75 Stat. 824 March 15, 1962: Manpower Development and Training Act, Pub. L. 87–415, 76 Stat. 23 June 28, 1962: Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, Pub. L. 87–510, 76 Stat. 121 August 13, 1962: Communications Satellite Act, Pub. L. 87–624, 76 Stat. 419 October 11, 1962: Trade Expansion Act, Pub. L. 87–794, 76 Stat. 872 October 23, 1962: Bribery Act, Pub. L. 87–849, 76 Stat. 1119 October 23, 1962: Vaccination Assistance Act of 1962, Pub. L. 87–868, 76 Stat. 1155 October 23, 1962: River and Harbor Act of 1962, Pub. L. 87–874, 76 Stat. 1173 March 29, 1961: Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, extending the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state, was ratified by the requisite number of states to become part of the Constitution August 27, 1962: Approved an amendment to the United States Constitution prohibiting both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax, submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification Amendment was ratified on January 23, 1964, becoming the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution President: Richard Nixon, until January 20, 1961 Lyndon Johnson, from January 20, 1961 President pro tempore: Carl Hayden Majority Leader: Mike Mansfield Majority Whip: Hubert Humphrey Caucus Secretary: George Smathers Minority Leader: Everett Dirksen Minority Whip: Thomas Kuchel Republican Conference Chairman: Leverett Saltonstall Republican Conference Secretary: Milton Young National Senatorial Committee Chair: Barry Goldwater Policy Committee Chairman: Styles Bridges Bourke B.
Hickenlooper Speaker: Sam Rayburn, until November 16, 1961 John W. McCormack, from January 10, 1962 Majority Leader: John William McCormack until January 10, 1962 Carl Albert, from January 10, 1962 Majority Whip: Carl Albert Hale Boggs, from January 10, 1962 Democratic Caucus Chairman: Francis E. Walter Caucus Secretary: Leonor Sullivan Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Michael J. Kirwan Minority Leader: Charles A. Halleck Minority Whip: Leslie C. Arends Conference Chair: Charles B. Hoeven Policy Committee Chairman: John W. Byrnes House Democratic Caucus Senate Democratic Caucus Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election, In this Congress, Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1962; the names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link, in the directory after the pages of terms of service, you will see the committees of the Senate and Joint and after the committee pages, you will see the House/Senate committee assignments in the directory, on the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressi
103rd United States Congress
The One Hundred Third United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D. C. from January 3, 1993, to January 3, 1995, during the final weeks of George H. W. Bush's presidency and the first two years of Bill Clinton's presidency; the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Twenty-first Census of the United States in 1990. Both chambers had a Democratic majority; this is the last Congress. January 20, 1993: Bill Clinton became President of the United States. February 26, 1993: World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center exploded, killing 6 and injuring over 1,000. February 28, 1993: Waco siege: Bureau of Alcohol and Firearms agents raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations.
Four agents and 5 Davidians died in the raid. April 19, 1993: Waco siege: The 51-day standoff ended with a fire that killed 76 people, including Koresh. October 3, 1993: Operation Gothic Serpent: In Mogadishu, two U. S. Army UH-60 Blackhawks were shot down and the operation left over 1000 Somalis dead and over 73 Americans WIA, 19 KIA, 1 captured. January 17, 1994: 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 quake hit the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles at 4:31 a.m. killing 72 and leaving 26,029 homeless. February 22, 1994: Aldrich Ames and his wife were arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. February 28, 1994: 4 United States fighter jets shot down 4 Serbian jets over Bosnia and Herzegovina for violating Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone. September 19, 1994: Operation Uphold Democracy: American troops staged a bloodless invasion of Haiti to restore the elected President to power. October 1, 1994: Palau achieved independence and became an associated state under the Compact of Free Association.
November 8, 1994: Republican Revolution: The Republican Party won control of both the House and the Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secured control of both houses of Congress. February 5, 1993: Family and Medical Leave Act, Pub. L. 103–3, 107 Stat. 6 May 20, 1993: National Voter Registration Act of 1993, Pub. L. 103–31, 107 Stat. 77 August 10, 1993: Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Pub. L. 103–66, 107 Stat. 312 November 16, 1993: Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Pub. L. 103–141, 107 Stat. 1488 November 30, 1993: Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, Pub. L. 103–159, title I, 107 Stat. 1536 November 30, 1993: Don't ask, don't tell, Pub. L. 103–160, 107 Stat. 1670 December 8, 1993: North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, Pub. L. 103–182, 107 Stat. 2057 December 17, 1993: FRIENDSHIP Act of 1993, Pub. L. 103–199, 107 Stat. 2317 May 26, 1994: Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, Pub. L. 103–259, 108 Stat. 694 September 13, 1994: Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, Pub.
L. 103–322, 108 Stat. 1796 September 23, 1994: Community Development, Credit Enhancement, Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994, Pub. L. 103–325 President: Dan Quayle, until January 20, 1993 Al Gore, from January 20, 1993 President pro tempore: Robert Byrd Majority Leader and Policy Committee Chairman: George Mitchell Majority Whip: Wendell Ford Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair: Bob Graham Caucus Secretary: David Pryor Policy Committee Co-Chair: Harry Reid Chief Deputy Whip: John Breaux Minority Leader: Bob Dole Minority Whip: Alan Simpson Conference Chairman: Thad Cochran Policy Committee Chairman: Don Nickles Conference Vice Chair: Trent Lott National Senatorial Committee Chair: Phil Gramm Speaker: Tom Foley Majority Leader: Dick Gephardt Majority Whip: David Bonior Caucus Chairman: Steny Hoyer Caucus Vice-Chairman: Vic Fazio Chief Deputy Majority Whips: Barbara Kennelly, Butler Derrick, John Lewis, & Bill Richardson Minority Leader: Bob Michel Minority Whip: Newt Gingrich Chief Deputy Whip: Bob Walker Conference Chair: Dick Armey Conference Vice-Chair: Bill McCollum Conference Secretary: Tom DeLay Policy Committee Chairman: Henry Hyde Campaign Committee Chairman: Bill Paxon Armenian Caucus Biomedical Research Caucus Blue Dog Coalition Congressional Arts Caucus Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Congressional Automotive Caucus Congressional Black Caucus Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans Congressional Caucus on Korea Congressional Fire Services Caucus Congressional Friends of Ireland Caucus Congressional Hispanic Caucus Congressional Pediatric & Adult Hydrocephalus Caucus Congressional Progressive Caucus Congressional Travel & Tourism Caucus Congressional Western Caucus Congresswomen's Caucus House Democratic Caucus Law Enforcement Caucus Northern Border Caucus Senate Democratic Caucus This list is arranged by chamber by state.
Senators are listed in order of seniority, Representatives are listed by district. Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress, In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1994. Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link, in the
The Eighty-eighth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D. C. from January 3, 1963, to January 3, 1965, during the last year of the administration of U. S. President John F. Kennedy, the first of the administration of his successor, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson; the apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Eighteenth Census of the United States in 1960, the number of members was again 435. Both chambers had a Democratic majority. November 22, 1963: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became President of the United States on the death of President John F. Kennedy. March 30 – June 10, 1964: The longest filibuster in the history of the Senate was waged against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with 57 days of debate over a 73-day period, it ended when the Senate voted 71–29 to invoke cloture, with the filibuster carried out by southern members of the Democratic Party, the first successful cloture motion on a civil rights bill.
August 2–4, 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Incident June 10, 1963: Equal Pay Act, Pub. L. 88–38 October 17, 1963: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, Pub. L. 88–149 October 31, 1963: Community Mental Health Centers Act, Pub. L. 88–164, title II, including Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Act December 17, 1963: Clean Air Act, Pub. L. 88–206 July 2, 1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. 88–352 July 9, 1964: Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, Pub. L. 88–365 August 7, 1964: Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Pub. L. 88–408 August 20, 1964: Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Pub. L. 88–452 August 31, 1964: Food Stamp Act of 1964, Pub. L. 88–525 September 3, 1964: Wilderness Act, Pub. L. 88–577 September 4, 1964: Nurse Training Act, Pub. L. 88–581 1964: Library Services and Construction Act January 23, 1964: Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax, was ratified by the requisite number of states to become part of the Constitution President of the Senate: Lyndon Johnson, until November 22, 1963.
Hickenlooper Speaker: John McCormack Majority Leader: Carl Albert Majority Whip: Hale Boggs Democratic Caucus Chairman: Francis E. Walter, until May 31, 1963 Albert Richard Thomas, from January 21, 1964 Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Michael J. Kirwan Minority Leader: Charles A. Halleck Minority Whip: Leslie C. Arends Conference Chair: Gerald Ford Policy Committee Chairman: John W. Byrnes House Democratic Caucus Senate Democratic Caucus Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Senators are ordered first by state, by class. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election, In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1964. Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link, in the directory after the pages of terms of service, you will see the committees of the Senate and Joint and after the committee pages, you will see the House/Senate committee assignments in the directory, on the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.
Aeronautical and Space Sciences Agriculture and Forestry Appropriations Banking and Currency Commerce District of Columbia Finance Foreign Relations Government Operations Interior and Insular Affairs Judiciary Labor and Public Welfare Post Office and Civil Service Public Works Small Business Standards and Conduct Subcommittee on Internal Security Whole Agriculture Appropriations Banking and Currency District of Columbia Education and Labor Foreign Affairs Government Operations House Administration Interior and Insular Affairs Merchant Marine and Fisheries Post Office and Civil Service Public Works Rules Science and Astronautics Small Business Standards of Official Conduct Un-American Activities Veterans' Affairs Ways and Means Whole Atomic Energy Conditions of Indian Tribes Construction of a Building for a Museum of History and Technology for the Smithsonian Defense Production Disposition of Executive Papers Economic Immigration and Nationality Policy Legislative Budget The Library Navajo-Hopi Indian Administration Printing Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures Taxation Architect of the Capitol: J. George Stewart Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver Compt
The One Hundred Fifteenth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D. C. from January 3, 2017, to January 3, 2019, during the final weeks of Barack Obama's presidency and the first two years of Donald Trump's presidency. Several political scientists described the legislative accomplishments of this Congress as modest, considering that both Congress and the Presidency were under unified Republican Party control. According to a contemporary study, "House and Senate GOP majorities struggled to legislate: GOP fissures and an undisciplined, unpopular president undermined the Republican agenda. Most notably, clashes within and between the two parties strained old ways of doing business." January 5, 2017: House of Representatives condemned United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334. January 6, 2017: Joint session counted and certified the electoral votes of the 2016 presidential election.
January 11–12, 2017: Senate, in an all-night session, took first steps to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The final vote was 51 to 48 to approve a budget resolution to allow "broad swaths of the Affordable Care Act to be repealed through a process known as budget reconciliation." January 20, 2017: Inauguration of President Donald Trump. February 7, 2017: Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education; this was the first time in United States history that a cabinet confirmation was tied in the Senate and required a tie-breaking vote. February 28, 2017: President's speech to a Joint Session. April 6, 2017: Senate invoked the "nuclear option" to weaken Supreme Court filibusters. Nominee Neil Gorsuch was confirmed the next day. June 14, 2017: Majority Whip Steve Scalise and several staffers were shot during the 2017 Congressional baseball shooting, they were practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. September 1, 2017: The Parliamentarian of the United States Senate decreed that the Senate had until the end of the month to pass ACA repeal via the reconciliation process, or the option would no longer be viable.
October 24 – December 14, 2017: 2017 United States political sexual scandals from the "Me too" movement: Allegations that Congressman Ruben Kihuen sexually harassed a campaign staffer led some in congressional leadership to call for his resignation. Kihuen announced he would not seek another term in office. Senator Al Franken announced he would resign "in the coming weeks" after photographs were made public suggesting that he sexually assaulted a Los Angeles-based radio personality during a USO tour in Iraq in 2006, he was accused by multiple female constituents of groping at various Minnesota fair appearances that he attended. Three members of Congress either announced their impeding resignations. Allegations that President Donald Trump raped and sexually harassed at least nineteen women, one girl, Miss Teen USA contestants resulted in calls by members of Congress for him to resign. Allegations that Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore raped and sexually harassed at least eight women and one girl contributed to his defeat by Democrat Doug Jones in a special Senate election to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Allegations that Representative Blake Farenthold sexually harassed a former staffer resulted in the commencement of an investigation by the House Ethics Committee and his announcement he would not seek re-election in 2018. He subsequently resigned on April 6, 2018. January 20–22, 2018: United States federal government shutdown of January 2018 January 30, 2018: 2018 State of the Union Address February 9, 2018: United States federal government funding gap October 6, 2018: Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court. November 28, 2018: Senate discharges from committee and calendars S. J. Res. 54, bill that ends US intervention in the Yemeni Civil War. December 22, 2018 – January 25, 2019: 2018–19 United States federal government shutdown May 5, 2017: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, H. R. 244, Pub. L. 115–31 August 2, 2017: Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, H. R. 3364, Pub. L. 115–44 December 12, 2017: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, H.
R. 2810, Pub. L. 115–91 December 22, 2017: Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, H. R. 1, Pub. L. 115–97 February 9, 2018: Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, H. R. 1892, Pub. L. 115–123 March 23, 2018: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, H. R. 1625, Pub. L. 115–141 April 11, 2018: Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, H. R. 1865, Pub. L. 115–164 May 24, 2018: Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, S. 2155, Pub. L. 115–174 May 30, 2018: Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017, S. 204, Pub. L. 115–176 August 13, 2018: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, H. R. 5515, Pub. L. 115–232 October 5, 2018: FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, H. R. 302, Pub. L. 115–254 October 11, 2018: Music Modernization Act, H. R. 1551, Pub. L. 115–264 October 23, 2018: America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, S. 3021, Pub. L. 115–270 October 24, 2018: SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, H. R. 6, Pub. L. 115–271 December 20, 2018: Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, H.
R. 2, Pub. L. 115–334 December 21, 2018: FIRST STEP Act, S. 756, Pub. L. 115–391 May 4, 2017: American Health Care Act, passed House May 4, 2017 June 8, 2017: Financial CHOICE Act, passed House June 8, 2017 Resignations and new members are discussed in the "Changes in membership" section, below. Section contents: Senate: Majority, Minority • House: Majority, Minority President: Joe Biden
James Wickersham
James Wickersham was a district judge for Alaska, appointed by U. S. President William McKinley to the Third Judicial District in 1900, he resigned his post in 1908 and was subsequently elected as Alaska's delegate to Congress, serving until 1917 and being re-elected in 1930. He was instrumental in the passage of the Organic Act of 1912, which granted Alaska territorial status, introduced the Alaska Railroad Bill, legislation to establish McKinley Park, the first Alaska Statehood Bill in 1916, he was among those responsible for the creation of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, which became the University of Alaska. A residence hall on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus is named in his honor. Wickersham was born near Patoka and moved in 1883 with his wife, Deborah, to Tacoma, Washington Territory, where he became a judge. While in Tacoma he helped lead a mob which forced the city's Chinese population out of town, was arrested as one of the "Tacoma Twenty-Seven," though he was never convicted.
He was a member of the Tacoma Academy of Science and was President of that organization in 1893. He presented a paper to the Academy on 6 Feb, 1893, entitled, Is it Mount Tacoma, or Rainier? During the presentation the "following prominent Indians representing the Puyallup and Klickitat tribes were seated on the platform: George Leschi, son of Quiemuth, a leader in the Indian war of 1855; the presentation has been reproduced by a digital file created at the Library of Congress. When Wickersham set off for Alaska he was dodging a government posting in Japan, he told anyone who asked that he preferred the Eagle post, saying he "yearned for the Yukon, not Yokohama". With the introduction of federal oversight in the form of three district court judges, Wickersham being one of the two new appointees, his peers being Arthur H. Noyes in Nome and established Melville C. Brown in Juneau, he was now one of the three most powerful people in Alaska, with no one within 3,000 miles to overrule his decisions or stand in his way.
After the Nome Gold Conspiracy involving prominent Republican National Committee member Alexander McKenzie, it was Wickersham they turned to clean up the legal mess left by ousted Judge Noyes involved. Through his hard work, his tenacity, he made sure everyone understood his authority, his start into Alaskan official law was a litigation of most profound simplicity, the epitome of Alaskan frontier spirit. "Chief Charley, head of the Charley River band of the Tena Indians, was the first litigant to appeal to the new court officials for justice." Someone from upriver had stolen his dog, a serious offense that warranted violence if this new American law official could not have it solved within his power peacefully. After being given the run around, Charley reached Wickersham and consulted the highest court in the land. After listening Wickersham appointed a deputy to retrieve the stolen animal, waited with the chief for his return, chatting about everyday problems; when the dog was safely returned two points were driven home, the concrete authority of Judge Wickersham, that his tenure in Alaska would be one of action.
As the most powerful personage of Federal oversight for the vast majority of the interior of Alaska, Wickersham was an important man to have on your side. His relationship with the development of Fairbanks helped shape not only the future of the Interior's expanding city, but the shape of things to come for the state. Wickersham's working relationship with Captain E. T. Barnette led to the small settlement developing into a city that became a gateway to the arctic. Through Barnette and Wickersham's efforts, Fairbanks became incorporated, initiated federal development, settled locations for key federal positions in the city thus insuring its future relevance. Though they worked well together for the betterment of Alaska, the interior, they did not always have the best personal relationship; when presiding over one of Barnette's many gold claim cases, he inferred that if the case went in his favor, Wickersham could benefit from the decision himself after his term was over. "It was an outright bribe."
Quoted one historian. Personal opinions and changing allegiances aside, as far as the future of Fairbanks went, Barnette could always count on Wickersham to have his back as what Barnette wanted was what was best for Fairbanks; as Wickersham finished up his time as judge, he moved on to represent Alaskas' interests in Washington. From the position of the judge on the trail in Alaska, Wickersham ran for the position of congressional delegate for the District of Alaska in 1908 beginning his term in 1909. In his first two terms as delegate, Wickersham focused on two aspects: territorial status for Alaska and trust-busting the Alaska Syndicate; the issue of home-rule in Alaska falls under the popular idea that Alaska had been neglected by the United States federal government since its purchase from Russia in 1867 and was denied any form of self-government. The first semblance of self-government came through the First Organic Act in 1884; this act instated "…a governor, attorney, clerk of court, four deputy marshals, four commissioners, who were to function as justices of the peace."
As a reactionary to the huge population increase during the Klondike gold rush, these government offices were not voted in by Alaskans, but appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate each for a four-year term. This act moved Alaska from a purchased
The 116th United States Congress is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It convened in Washington, D. C. on January 3, 2019 and will end on January 3, 2021, during the third and fourth years of Donald Trump's presidency. Senators elected to regular terms in 2014 are finishing their terms in this Congress and House seats were apportioned based on the 2010 Census. In the November 2018 midterm elections, the Democratic Party won a new majority in the House, while the Republican Party increased its majority in the Senate; this is the first split Congress since the 113th, the first Republican Senate/Democrat House split since the 99th. This Congress is considered to be the most diverse elected, the youngest in the past three cycles. December 22, 2018 – January 25, 2019: 2018–19 United States federal government shutdown January 3, 2019: Nancy Pelosi elected Speaker of the House, becoming the first former speaker to return to the post since Sam Rayburn in 1955.
February 5, 2019: 2019 State of the Union Address, after being delayed from January 29, 2019, due to the partial government shutdown. February 15, 2019: President Trump declared a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States. February 27, 2019: Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, accusing Trump of several financial fraud crimes. March 24, 2019: Special Counsel investigation: Summary letter of special counsel Robert Mueller's report issued to congress by attorney general William Barr. February 15, 2019: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019, Pub. L. 116–6, H. J. 31 March 12, 2019: John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation and Recreation Act, Pub. L. 116–9, S. 47 For the People Act of 2019, H. R. 1 Equality Act, H. R. 5 Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal, H. Res. 109 SAFE Banking Act of 2019, H. R. 1595 Taxpayer First Act of 2019, H. R. 1957 March 15, 2019: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a national emergency declaration at the southern border.
Resignations and new members are discussed in the "Changes in membership" section, below. President: Mike Pence President pro tempore: Chuck Grassley President pro tempore emeritus: Patrick Leahy Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell Majority Whip: John Thune Conference Chair: John Barrasso Conference Vice Chair: Joni Ernst Policy Committee Chair: Roy Blunt Campaign Committee Chair: Todd Young Steering Committee Chair: Mike Lee Chief Deputy Whip: Mike Crapo Deputy Whips: Roy Blunt, Shelley Moore Capito, John Cornyn, Cory Gardner, James Lankford, Martha McSally, Rob Portman, Mitt Romney, Tim Scott, Thom Tillis, Todd Young Minority Leader/Caucus Chair: Chuck Schumer Minority Whip: Dick Durbin Assistant Leader: Patty Murray Policy Committee Chair: Debbie Stabenow Caucus Vice Chairs: Mark Warner, Elizabeth Warren Steering Committee Chair: Amy Klobuchar Outreach Chair: Bernie Sanders Policy Committee Vice Chair: Joe Manchin Caucus Secretary: Tammy Baldwin Campaign Committee Chair: Catherine Cortez Masto Chief Deputy Whip: Cory Booker, Jeff Merkley, Brian Schatz Speaker: Nancy Pelosi Majority Leader: Steny Hoyer Majority Whip: Jim Clyburn Assistant Leader: Ben Ray Luján Caucus Chair: Hakeem Jeffries Caucus Vice Chair: Katherine Clark Campaign Committee Chair: Cheri Bustos Policy and Communications Committee Chair: David Cicilline Policy and Communications Committee Co-Chairs: Matt Cartwright, Debbie Dingell, Ted Lieu Steering and Policy Committee Co-Chairs: Rosa DeLauro, Barbara Lee, Eric Swalwell Assistant to the Majority Whip: Cedric Richmond Senior Chief Deputy Whips: John Lewis, Jan Schakowsky Chief Deputy Whips: Pete Aguilar, G. K. Butterfield, Henry Cuellar, Dan Kildee, Sheila Jackson Lee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Terri Sewell, Peter Welch Minority Leader: Kevin McCarthy Minority Whip: Steve Scalise Conference Chair: Liz Cheney Conference Vice Chair: Mark Walker Conference Secretary: Jason Smith Policy Committee Chair: Gary Palmer Campaign Committee Chair: Tom Emmer Chief Deputy Whip: Drew Ferguson Most members of this Congress are Christian, with half being Protestant and 30.5% being Catholic.
Jewish membership is the highest percentage in American history. Other religions represented include Buddhism and Hinduism. One senator says that she is religiously unaffiliated, while the number of members refusing to specify their religious affiliation increased; the Senate includes 25 women, the most female senators to date. In six states — California, Nevada, Arizona and New Hampshire — both senators are women. 13 states are represented by one male and one female senator, while 31 states are represented by two male senators. There are 91 non-Hispanic white, four Hispanic, three Black, three Asian, one multiracial senators, while two identify as LGBTQ+. There are 102 women in the largest number in history. There are 313 non-Hispanic whites, 56 black, 44 Hispanic, 15 Asian, 4 Native American. Eight identify as LGBTQ+. Two Democrats — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Donna Shalala — are the youngest and oldest freshman women in history. Freshmen women Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are the first two female Muslims and freshmen Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland are the first two female Native American members.
The numbers refer to their Senate classes. All class 1 seats were contested in the November 2018 elections. In this Congress, class 1 means their term commenced in the current Congress, requiring re-election in 2024.
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Utah Lake State Park
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)[1]
The Provo River Delta is where the Provo River drains into Utah Lake. There is a clear contrast between the clear water of the river and the gray murky water of the lake.
Location of Utah Lake State Park in Utah
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Utah Lake State Park (the United States)
Utah County, Utah, United States
40°14′17″N 111°44′7″W / 40.23806°N 111.73528°W / 40.23806; -111.73528Coordinates: 40°14′17″N 111°44′7″W / 40.23806°N 111.73528°W / 40.23806; -111.73528
308 acres (125 ha)[2]
285359 (in 2011)[4]
Utah Lake State Park is a state park in west Provo, Utah, United States.[5] The park is located at the west end of Provo Center Street on the east shore of Utah Lake (the largest fresh water lake in the state) immediately northwest of the Provo Municipal Airport.[6]
1 Day visits
2 Camping
2.1 Lakeshore Campground
3 Camping amenities
4 Disability access
Day visits[edit]
A day-use permit also covers use of boat ramps.
Camping[edit]
Lakeshore Campground[edit]
Camping: April 1 – October 31
Reservations accepted: April 15 – October 15
Stay limit - 14 days
Total units - 31
RV trailer sites - 31
Maximum RV length - 40 feet
Tent sites
Group camping
Utah Lake State Park has 1 loop with 31 sites [7]
Camping amenities[edit]
Campsites can accommodate both back-in and pull-through parking for RVs, and camping spots for tents are available; each campsite includes running water and electricity (30 amp service), a fire pit with a barbecue grill, and a picnic table. Restroom facilities are shared, as are dumpsters. Free, unisex shower stalls are accessible on the outside of the restrooms.[8]
Disability access[edit]
Wheelchair accessible locations include:
North jetty – fishing pier
Campground showers
Campground restrooms
Campground roads (asphalt)
Campground picnic tables (concrete)
Campground BBQ grill (concrete)
Campground fire pit (concrete)
For updated information regarding facilities for the physically challenged, contact the park.
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Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is a recreation and conservation unit of the National Park Service that encompasses the area around Lake Powell and lower Cataract Canyon in Utah and Arizona, covering 1,254,429 acres of desert. The recreation area borders Capitol Reef National Park and Canyonlands National Park on the north, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on the west, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument and the northeasternmost reaches of Grand Canyon National Park on the southwest, the Navajo Nation on the southeast; the Glen Canyon NRA was established in 1972 "to provide for public use and enjoyment and to preserve the area's scientific and scenic features." The stated purpose of Glen Canyon NRA is for recreation as well as preservation. As such, the area has been developed for access to Lake Powell via 5 marinas, 4 camping grounds, two small airports, houseboat rental concessions; the southwestern end of Glen Canyon NRA in Arizona can be accessed via U. S. Route 89 and State Route 98.
State Route 95 and State Route 276 lead to the northeastern end of the recreation area in Utah. The current Lake Powell lies above Glen Canyon, flooded by the Glen Canyon Dam, completed in 1966. Lake Powell has nearly 2,000 miles of fish-holding shoreline and provides opportunity to fish for largemouth bass, smallmouth bass and striped bass that swim in the midst of the recreation area. Several local marinas provide houseboats, jet skis, fishing gear, related equipment to visitors; the geology of the area is dominated by the Glen Canyon Group, consisting of the Navajo Sandstone, Kayenta Formation, Wingate Sandstone. The entire stratigraphic section included rocks dating from the Cretaceous to Pennsylvanian. With over one million visitors per year, it is inevitable that some will deface the rock faces of the canyon; the Glen Canyon NRA has implemented a voluntourism program wherein volunteers sign up for a five-day houseboat trip to remove graffiti from the canyon walls. Glen Canyon Glen Canyon Dam Glen Canyon Institute Rainbow Bridge National Monument Official National Park Service site Official National Park Service Concessionaire Site Lake Powell Resorts & Marinas, managed by ARAMARK, is an authorized concessioner of the National Park Service, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Glen Canyon Natural History Association Page Lake Powell Chamber of Commerce Lake Powell National Golf Course scenic 18-hole golf course Lake Powell Yacht Club to serve the interest of boat owners and water recreational enthusiasts
Fishlake National Forest
Fishlake National Forest is a U. S. National Forest located in south central Utah; the namesake for the forest is the largest freshwater mountain lake in the state. Animals that inhabit this forest are elk, deer, black bears, various species of bats, raccoons, two species of skunks, turkey vultures, two species of eagles, snowshoe hares, various species of woodpeckers, pine marten, four species of hummingbirds, kestrels, various species of owls, minks, three species of fox, bighorn sheep, wild turkeys, mountain goats. Established in 1907, the forest is split into four districts; the forest lies in parts of nine counties. In descending order of forestland area, they are Sevier, Piute, Wayne, Garfield and Sanpete counties. Forest headquarters are located in Richfield with local ranger district offices in Beaver, Fillmore and Richfield; the national forest is the headwaters of a tributary of the East Fork Sevier River. Pando, a clonal quaking aspen stand, according to some sources, is the oldest and largest organism on Earth, is located in the Fremont River Ranger District of the National Forest, 1 mile southwest of Fish Lake on Utah route 25.
Native water rights to Fish Lake were sold to the Fremont Irrigation Company on March 10, 1889 for nine horses, 500 pounds of flour, one steer, a suit of clothes. Ten years President William McKinley created a Forest Reserve which included Fish Lake. List of U. S. national forests Fish Lake, Utah Fishlake Scenic Byway Fishlake National Forest - USDA Forest Service Fishlake National Forest - Utah Office of Tourism
Bryce Canyon National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks; the red and white colors of the rocks provide spectacular views for park visitors. Bryce Canyon National Park is much smaller, sits at a much higher elevation than nearby Zion National Park; the rim at Bryce varies from 8,000 to 9,000 feet. The Bryce Canyon area was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area in 1874; the area around Bryce Canyon was designated as a national monument by President Warren G. Harding in 1923 and was redesignated as a national park by Congress in 1928; the park covers 35,835 acres and receives fewer visitors than Zion National Park or Grand Canyon National Park due to Bryce's more remote location.
In 2016, Bryce Canyon received 2,365,110 recreational visitors, representing an increase of 35% from the prior year. Bryce Canyon National Park lies within the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau west of the Paunsaugunt Fault. Park visitors arrive from the plateau part of the park and look over the plateau's edge toward a valley containing the fault and the Paria River just beyond it; the edge of the Kaiparowits Plateau bounds the opposite side of the valley. Bryce Canyon was not formed from erosion initiated from a central stream, meaning it technically is not a canyon. Instead headward erosion has excavated large amphitheater-shaped features in the Cenozoic-aged rocks of the Paunsaugunt Plateau; this erosion exposed colorful pinnacles called hoodoos that are up to 200 feet high. A series of amphitheaters extends more than 20 miles north-to-south within the park; the largest is Bryce Amphitheater, 12 miles long, 3 miles wide and 800 feet deep.
A nearby example of amphitheaters with hoodoos in the same formation but at a higher elevation, is in Cedar Breaks National Monument, 25 miles to the west on the Markagunt Plateau. Rainbow Point, the highest part of the park at 9,105 feet, is at the end of the 18-mile scenic drive. From there, Aquarius Plateau, Bryce Amphitheater, the Henry Mountains, the Vermilion Cliffs and the White Cliffs can be seen. Yellow Creek, where it exits the park in the north-east section, is the lowest part of the park at 6,620 feet; the national park is located in southwestern Utah about 50 miles northeast of and 1,000 feet higher than Zion National Park. The weather in Bryce Canyon is therefore cooler, the park receives more precipitation: a total of 15 to 18 inches per year. Yearly temperatures vary from an average minimum of 9 °F in January to an average maximum of 83 °F in July, but extreme temperatures can range from −30 to 97 °F; the record high temperature in the park was 98 °F on July 14, 2002. The record low temperature was −28 °F on December 10, 1972.
Little is known about early human habitation in the Bryce Canyon area. Archaeological surveys of Bryce Canyon National Park and the Paunsaugunt Plateau show that people have been in the area for at least 10,000 years. Basketmaker Anasazi artifacts several thousand years old have been found south of the park. Other artifacts from the Pueblo-period Anasazi and the Fremont culture have been found; the Paiute Indians moved into the surrounding valleys and plateaus in the area around the same time that the other cultures left. These Native Americans hunted and gathered for most of their food, but supplemented their diet with some cultivated products; the Paiute in the area developed a mythology surrounding the hoodoos in Bryce Canyon. They believed. At least one older Paiute said his culture called the hoodoos Anka-ku-was-a-wits, Paiute for "red painted faces", it was not until the late 18th and the early 19th century that the first European Americans explored the remote and hard-to-reach area. Mormon scouts visited the area in the 1850s to gauge its potential for agricultural development, use for grazing, settlement.
The first major scientific expedition to the area was led by U. S. Army Major John Wesley Powell in 1872. Powell, along with a team of mapmakers and geologists, surveyed the Sevier and Virgin River area as part of a larger survey of the Colorado Plateaus, his mapmakers kept many of the Paiute place names. Small groups of Mormon pioneers followed and attempted to settle east of Bryce Canyon along the Paria River. In 1873, the Kanarra Cattle Company started to use the area for cattle grazing; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent Scottish immigrant Ebenezer Bryce and his wife Mary to settle land in the Paria Valley because they thought his carpentry skills would be useful in the area. The Bryce family chose to live right below Bryce Amphitheater—the main collection of hoodoos in the park. Bryce grazed his cattle inside what are now park borders, reputedly thought that the amphitheaters were a "helluva place to lose a cow." He built a road to the plateau to retrieve firewood and timber, a canal to irrigate his crops and w
Jurassic National Monument, at the site of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, is well known for containing the densest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur fossils found, is a paleontological site located near Cleveland, Utah, in the San Rafael Swell, a part of the geological layers known as the Morrison Formation. Well over 15,000 bones have been excavated from this Jurassic excavation site and there are many thousands more awaiting excavation and study, it was designated a National Natural Landmark in October 1965. The John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation and Recreation Act, signed into law March 12, 2019, named it as a national monument. All of these bones, belonging to different species, are found disarticulated and indistinctly mixed together, it has been hypothesised that this strong concentration of mixed fossilised bones is due to a "predator trap", but any kind of definitive scientific consensus hasn't been reached yet and debates still continue to the present day. The visitor center is administered by the Bureau of Land Management.
There is a skeleton reconstruction of an adult Allosaurus on display in the visitor center, along with many other exhibits. A renovated and expanded quarry visitor center was dedicated on April 28, 2007; the visitor center is open seasonally with variable hours. The quarry was found by sheepherders and cattlemen as they drove their animals through the area during the late 19th century. In 1927, the Department of Geology at the University of Utah, under the direction of Chairman F. F. Hintze, visited the area and collected 800 bones. In 1939-41 a field party of Princeton University, led by William Lee Stokes, came on site to extensively dig up specimens; because of the proximity to Cleveland and because these expeditions were financed by Malcolm Lloyd, the site was known as the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry. In three summers, the 1939-1941 Princeton expeditions collected 1,200 bones. A part of these bones was sent to Princeton and the bones were sorted to mount a complete composite skeleton of Allosaurus, but World World II broke out and the skeleton was not mounted and exhibited in the University until February 1961.
This Allosaurus skeleton, still nowadays on display at Guyot Hall, in the campus of New Jersey, is most the first Allosaurus skeletal mount obtained from the Quarry. In the meantime, because excavations had been interrupted by the war, work started again in 1960, when young paleontologist James Henry Madsen Jr. was hired within the University of Utah to assist William Lee Stokes with the excavations. As of 1960 Stokes and Madsen founded the "University of Utah Cooperative Dinosaur Project", with funds of the University of Utah; this project granted casts or specimens of dinosaurs to museums and institutions from the USA but from countries all around the world, in exchange of financial and excavation assistance. The project continued until 1976. Madsen managed to continue excavating the Quarry by means of a private company he founded the same year, intended to sell casts of dinosaur skeletons to museums and private buyers. Before that, in 1974, a new dinosaur had been described by Madsen Assistant Research Professor of Geology and Geophysics in the University of Utah.
He named it Stokesosaurus clevelandi, honouring professor William Lee Stokes. In 1976, another new dinosaur was described from fossils found in the quarry by Madsen, he named. In 1987, Brigham Young University paleontologists excavated a fossil dinosaur egg, at the time the oldest such egg found. Over the years, excavations led by the University of Utah and the Natural History Museum of Utah have resulted in the collection of more than 12,000 fossil bones from the quarry. While most of the original fossils are housed at the Natural History Museum of Utah, many skeletons reproduced from Cleveland-Lloyd dinosaur remains are now on exhibit in more than 65 museums worldwide. Original specimens from the quarry remain on public exhibit in Utah at the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City, the Utah State University Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Price and the Earth Science Museum at Brigham Young University in Provo; the U. S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management opened a visitor center at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in 1968.
This was the first-ever BLM visitor center. On April 28, 2007 a new, larger facility was dedicated; the new visitor center generates its own electricity from rooftop solar panels. The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry of east central Utah has produced one of the most prolific dinosaurs bone assemblages in the Upper Jurassic beds of North America; the quarry is part of the Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation. The fossil deposit, interpreted to be a possible predator trap, consists of a calcareous smectitic mudstone which accumulated on the floodplain of an anastomosing river system. An anastomosing river system consists of multiple interconnected channels confined by prominent levees separated by interchannel topographic lows; the depositional environment of the quarry mudstone was an interchannel seasonal accumulation of clay nested in a topographic low between channel levees called a floodpond. Dinosaurs became entrapped in the cohesive and adhesive mud as they drank and hunted near the floodpond.
The preserved fauna consists of all dinosaurs with the majority being carnivorous dinosaurs including Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Stokesosauru
International Union for Conservation of Nature [videos]
The International Union for Conservation of Nature is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. It is involved in data gathering and …
Julian Huxley, the first Director General of UNESCO, took the initiative to set up IUCN
IUCN-Headquarters in Gland, Switzerland
Utah Lake [videos]
Utah Lake is a shallow freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Utah. It lies in Utah Valley, surrounded by the Provo-Orem metropolitan area. The lake's only river outlet, the Jordan River, is a tributary of the Great Salt Lake. Evaporation accounts for 42% of the outflow of the lake, which leaves the …
Satellite photo of Utah Lake
Wasatch Mountains and ancient shoreline of Lake Bonneville
Jordan River pumping station at Utah Lake
Illustration of Fort Utah in 1850
Utah County, Utah [videos]
Utah County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 516,564, thus making it Utah's second-most populous county. The county seat and largest city is Provo, which is the state's third-largest city. — Utah County is part of the Provo-Orem, UT …
A partial view of Utah Valley seen here from outside of Salem
View of the cities of Lehi, American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Lindon and Orem along Interstate 15 and the northeast shore of Utah Lake
Utah Valley, Utah County as seen from Traverse Ridge in Lehi
Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range is visible from much of Utah County.
State park [videos]
State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, or recreational potential …
Niagara Falls State Park, New York, USA
American bison in Custer State Park, South Dakota, USA
Bodie State Historical Park, California, USA
Babcock State Park, West Virginia, USA
Provo, Utah [videos]
Provo is the third-largest city in Utah, United States. It is 43 miles south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Provo is the largest city and county seat of Utah County. — Description — Provo lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south. With a …
Downtown Provo
Ft. Utah in 1850
Rock Canyon in Provo
Novell headquarters.
Fresh water [videos]
Fresh water is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water. Fresh water includes water in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, icebergs, bogs, ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, and even underground water called groundwater. Fresh water is generally characterized by …
Rivers, lakes, and marshlands, such as (from top) South America's Amazon River, Russia's Lake Baikal, and the Everglades in Florida of the United States, are types of freshwater systems.
Earth seen from Apollo 17. The Antarctic ice sheet at the bottom of the photograph contains 61% of the fresh water, or 1.7% of the total water, on Earth.
Water fountain found in a small Swiss village. They are used as a drinking water source for people and cattle. Almost every Alpine village has such a water source.
Image: Amazonas, Iquitos Leticia, Kolumbien (11472506936)
Lake [videos]
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are also larger and deeper than ponds …
Lake Sevan is the largest body of water in Armenia and the Caucasus region. It is one of the largest freshwater high-altitude (alpine) lakes in Eurasia
Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada
Oeschinen Lake in the Swiss Alps
Lake Tahoe on the border of California and Nevada
Recreational vehicle [videos]
A recreational vehicle, often abbreviated as RV, is a motor vehicle or trailer which includes living quarters designed for accommodation. Types of RVs include motorhomes, campervans, caravans, fifth-wheel trailers, popup campers and truck …
Motorhome with slide-out extended floors
1933 car and tourist observation trailer
1970s Hanomag-Henschel Orion
1970s Dodge Travco
Picnic table [videos]
A picnic table is a modified table with benches, designed for eating a meal outdoors. — Uses — Picnic tables are used for dining, resting, doing crafts, and other activities. Picnic tables can be found outdoors in many public parks, residential back yards, rest …
A picnic table
Wooden table, circa 1964
Metal table, 2006
Concrete table, 2008
Google [videos]
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon …
Google's headquarters, the Googleplex
Google's first production server.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2003
Entrance of building where Google and its subsidiary Deep Mind are located at 6 Pancras Square, London, UK.
Arches National Park [videos]
Arches National Park is a national park in eastern Utah, United States. The park is adjacent to the Colorado River, 4 miles north of Moab, Utah. More than 2,000 natural sandstone arches are located in the park, including the well-known Delicate Arch, as well as a variety of unique geological …
Delicate Arch with background of La Sal Mountains
A panoramic view of the Tower of Babel in the Courthouse Towers area
Arches quarter
Balanced Rock
Bryce Canyon National Park [videos]
Bryce Canyon National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive …
Bryce Amphitheater from Sunrise Point
Erosion of sedimentary rocks has created natural arches.
Bryce Canyon has extensive fir forests.
Canyonlands National Park [videos]
Canyonlands National Park is an American national park located in southeastern Utah near the town of Moab. The park preserves a colorful landscape eroded into countless canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River, and their respective tributaries. Legislation creating the park …
Looking over the Green River from Island in the Sky
The Island in the Sky mesa from the Needles district
Chesler Park in the Needles
The Chocolate Drops buttes from the Maze
Capitol Reef National Park [videos]
Capitol Reef National Park is an American national park located in south-central Utah. The park is approximately 60 miles long on its north–south axis but an average of just 6 miles wide. The park was established in 1971 to preserve 241,904 acres (377.98 sq mi; 97,895.08 ha; 978.95 …
Petroglyph in Capitol Gorge
Capitol Dome formation
Fruita School House
Zion National Park [videos]
Zion National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah near the town of Springdale. A prominent feature of the 229-square-mile park is Zion Canyon, which is 15 miles long and up to 2,640 ft deep. The canyon walls are reddish and tan-colored Navajo …
Zion Canyon from Angels Landing at sunset
Court of the Patriarchs, by Ansel Adams (1933)
A ranch near the mouth of Zion Canyon (c. 1910s)
The Three Patriarchs in Zion Canyon are made of Navajo Sandstone
National monument (United States) [videos]
In the United States, a national monument is a protected area that is similar to a national park, but can be created from any land owned or controlled by the federal government by proclamation of the President of the United States. — National monuments can be managed by one of several federal …
Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming
Navajo National Monument, Arizona
Statue of Liberty National Monument, New Jersey and New York
Fort Matanzas National Monument, Florida
Cedar Breaks National Monument [videos]
Cedar Breaks National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located in the U.S. state of Utah near Cedar City. Cedar Breaks is a natural amphitheater, stretching across 3 miles, with a depth of over 2,000 feet. The elevation of the rim of the amphitheater is over 10,000 feet (3,000 …
Cedar Breaks amphitheater
A Larkspur wildflower near the rim of Cedar Breaks.
Hoodoos in Cedar Breaks
Image: Cedar Breaks, panoramic view from the canyon rim
Dinosaur National Monument [videos]
Dinosaur National Monument is a United States National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers. Although most of the monument area is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry …
Confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers
Green River Canyon in Dinosaur National Monument
Fremont culture llizard petroglyphs, Dinosaur National Monument
Workers inside the Dinosaur Quarry building
Hovenweep National Monument [videos]
Hovenweep National Monument is located on land in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, between Cortez, Colorado and Blanding, Utah on the Cajon Mesa of the Great Sage Plain. Shallow tributaries run through the wide and deep canyons into the San Juan River.Although Hovenweep National …
Horseshoe Tower in the snow
Hovenweep House
Hovenweep Castle
Square Tower
Natural Bridges National Monument [videos]
Natural Bridges National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located about 50 miles northwest of the Four Corners boundary of southeast Utah, in the western United States, at the junction of White Canyon and Armstrong Canyon, part of the Colorado River drainage. It features the thirteenth …
Owachomo Natural Bridge
Horsecollar Ruin
Owachomo Bridge
Owachomo Bridge at night
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area [videos]
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is a recreation and conservation unit of the National Park Service that encompasses the area around Lake Powell and lower Cataract Canyon in Utah and Arizona, covering 1,254,429 acres of mostly desert …
Reflection Canyon
Rainbow Bridge National Monument
The Permian through Jurassic stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau area of southeastern Utah that makes up much of the famous prominent rock formations in protected areas such as Capitol Reef National Park and Canyonlands National Park. From top to bottom: Rounded tan domes of the Navajo Sandstone, layered red Kayenta Formation, cliff-forming, vertically-jointed, red Wingate Sandstone, slope-forming, purplish Chinle Formation, layered, lighter-red Moenkopi Formation, and white, layered Cutler Formation sandstone. Picture from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah.
Houseboat and powerboat in Knowles Canyon on Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah
Mormon Trail [videos]
The Mormon Trail is the 1,300-mile route that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled from 1846 to 1868. Today, the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States National Trails System, known as the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail. — The Mormon …
Echo Canyon, Utah on Mormon Trail
Mormon Battalion Trail Marker in Oatman Flats, Dateland, Arizona
Historic Information along the National Historic Trail
Daguerreotype of Nauvoo as it appeared at the time of the Mormon exodus.
United States National Forest [videos]
National Forest is a classification of protected and managed federal lands in the United States. National Forests are largely forest and woodland areas owned collectively by the American people through the federal government, and managed by the United States Forest Service, a division of the United …
Sierra Nevada in the Sequoia National Forest, California
Rain forest in the El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico
Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon
Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania
Fishlake National Forest [videos]
Fishlake National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in south central Utah. The namesake for the forest is Fish Lake, the largest freshwater mountain lake in the state. — Wildlife — Animals that inhabit this forest are elk, shrews, deer, black bears, coyotes, various species of bats …
Image: Quitchupah Canyon
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Sawtooth National Forest [videos]
Sawtooth National Forest is a National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres in the U.S. states of Idaho and Utah. Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it was originally named the Sawtooth Forest Reserve in a proclamation …
Sawtooth Valley from Galena Summit
Castle (left) and Merriam (right) peaks in the White Cloud Mountains
Pine beetle-killed trees below Mount Heyburn
The Sawtooth Mountains from southeast of Stanley
United States Forest Service [videos]
The United States Forest Service is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass 193 million acres. Major divisions of the agency include the National Forest System, State and …
Forest Service team uses a 106 mm Recoilless Rifle for avalanche control at Mammoth Mountain in the Inyo National Forest in California. Note the Minarets in background.
The U.S. Forest Service R&D lab in Olympia, Washington
Smokey Bear poster
Image: United States Forest Service Horse patrol
Bears Ears National Monument [videos]
Bears Ears National Monument is a United States national monument located in San Juan County in southeastern Utah, established by President Barack Obama by presidential proclamation on December 28, 2016. The monument's original size was 1,351,849 acres, which was …
Indian Creek Canyon and the Sixshooter Peaks
The Bears Ears from Utah State Route 261
Monarch Cave Ruin, a cliff dwelling on Comb Ridge
Valley of the Gods, an area outside the redefined monument boundaries of December 2017
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument [videos]
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a United States national monument that originally designated 1,880,461 acres of protected land in southern Utah in 1996. The monument's size was later reduced by a succeeding presidential proclamation in 2017. The land is among …
Anthropomorphic petroglyph along the Escalante River
Metate Arch in Devil's Garden
Toadstool-shaped hoodoo in the rimrocks area near Paria, Utah
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Jurassic National Monument [videos]
Jurassic National Monument, at the site of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, is well known for containing the densest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur fossils ever found, is a paleontological site located near Cleveland, Utah, in the San Rafael Swell, a part of the geological layers known as …
Camarasaurus
Allosaurus mounted skeleton
Rainbow Bridge National Monument [videos]
Rainbow Bridge National Monument is administered by Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, southern Utah, United States. Rainbow Bridge is often described as the world's highest natural bridge. The span of Rainbow Bridge was reported in 1974 by the Bureau of Reclamation to be 275 feet, but …
The Rainbow Bridge and surrounding canyon seen from the Navajo Mountain side
Rainbow Bridge National Monument from space
Image: Utah Rainbow Arch
Caribou-Targhee National Forest [videos]
Caribou-Targhee National Forest is located in the states of Idaho and Wyoming, with a small section in Utah in the United States. The forest is broken into several separate sections and extends over 2.63 million acres. To the east the forest borders Yellowstone National Park, Grand …
Camas flowers and the west vista of the Teton Range from Caribou-Targhee National Forest
Minnetonka Cave is one of only two caves administered by the U.S. Forest Service
Upper Mesa Falls, Fremont County, Targhee National Forest
Manti-La Sal National Forest [videos]
The Manti-La Sal National Forest covers more than 1.2 million acres and is located in the central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Utah and the extreme western part of Colorado. The forest is headquartered in Price, with ranger district offices in Price, Ferron, Ephraim, Moab …
La Sal Mountains as seen from Arches National Park
First snow in La Sal Forest
Image: Fall Aspen Trees in the La Sal Mountains
Red Cliffs National Conservation Area [videos]
The Red Cliffs National Conservation Area is a 44,724-acre National Conservation Area located in southwest Utah, north of St. George at the northeastern-most edge of the Mojave Desert. It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Landscape Conservation System …
Image: Red Cliffs and Pine Valley Mountains
Image: Red Cliffs Desert Reserve
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Is Sam Hunt’s ‘Downtown’s Dead’ a Hit? Listen and Sound Off!
Sam Hunt's "Downtown's Dead" is not a departure from the songs that made him famous. His new single is a heartbreaker with a summer-influenced, pop-country beat.
Josh Osborne, Hunt, Shane McAnally, Zach Crowell and a hip-hop writer named Charlie Handsome wrote the song, emphasizing how the narrator feels about the party now that his love is not around. Look for "Downtown's Dead" on iTunes and at other digital retailers, but not a full-length album anytime soon. Hunt says he's not close having the material to follow up Montevallo.
As important as the languid guitars, dobro and drums that make "Downtown's Dead" are the ambient sounds coming from both channels. Hunt and his production team create a city landscape with background conversation, a distant police siren and a dozen other non-specific sounds one hears walking Nashville's Lower Broadway or Manhattan. His soft approach runs counter to his pain, but that big Sam Hunt-style chorus adds urgency. You can almost feel it coming, as you could with "House Party," "Break Up in a Small Town" and many of his best songs.
While catchy, "Downtown's Dead" isn't quite the singalong "Body Like a Back Road" is, simply because repeating the title over and over again isn't as satisfying. The song creates a storyboard for action that never resolves — in that way, maybe it's a perfect moment in time separated from a day, night, week or year spent missing a girl.
Did You Know?: Minus Charlie Handsome, this same group of songwriters also wrote Hunt's "Body Like a Back Road."
Where Has Sam Hunt Been?
Sam Hunt's "Downtown's Dead" Lyrics:
The city showing stars / All you see for miles is people spilling / In and out of cars / Man I love these bars are making a killing / Everywhere I go looks like the place to be / I see people that I know / But I feel like there’s no one here but me.
Downtown’s dead without you / Girls walk by and friends say hi / It’s Friday night it might as well be just another / Tuesday night without you /As long as you're still in my head / There ain't no way that I can paint a ghost town red / Downtown's dead / Downtown's dead."
They're dancing in the strobes / Out here in the throes of loud house music / Everything’s a blur / I don’t hear the words but lips are moving / Try to get involved, but I’ve about had enough of people wall to the wall / And I’m just holding it up 'cause
Free drinks, bright lights, what am I doing with my life? / Okay, I quit, I’ve had enough of this / 'Cause people are losing their minds, can’t get you out of my head, I’m calling it a night / I’m crawling back to your bed
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After growing up in San Mateo, California, and getting her MBA, Kirsten Weiss joined the Peace Corps. For nearly fourteen years she worked around the fringes of the former USSR and deep in the Afghan war zone, which she says gave her “glimpses into the darker side of human nature,” while also stimulating an interest […]
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Adelaide High School's facilities are excellent. Built in the early 1950s, the Heritage listed buildings have been redeveloped and enhanced during the past few years.
A major building program took place between 2013 and 2015 which saw the addition of a state-of-the-art new wing, the Charles Todd Building, and the complete refurbishment of another.
The new wing contains general learning areas, a drama workshop, PE laboratory, three science laboratories, and Library, IT Help Desk and an Infotainment / Recording Booth.
The refurbished building contains Languages, Art and Home Economics and a Mathematics Centre.
2016 saw the redevelopment of one of the Technology rooms into a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths) Room.
Students learn in air-conditioned classrooms, enjoy modern, well-equipped Design and Technology suites, as well as computer suites housing networked PCs. The school also boasts a wireless network for use by lap-top computers. The school's science labs and lecture theatres have been upgraded to be amongst the best in the state.
Our Library staff support staff and students with their Intranet for online learning and home study. The Library is a bright and open facility, divided into areas for class research and resource based learning, small group research, quiet reading and Senior School private study. Computers also provide quick and easy access to the school catalogue of all resources including text books, equipment and DVDs.
The parklands provide additional facilities to our modern gymnasium and weights room. Students have access to upgraded tennis, basketball and netball courts, cricket nets, several ovals and a number of cricket turf wickets. The school's boatshed on the banks of the River Torrens houses not only the rowing equipment and provides the training facility for the rowing crews, but is extensively used by staff and students for co-curricular activities. The second boatshed at West Lakes is a shared facility with two other public rowing schools.
The school also houses a Performing Arts Centre for music, drama and dance, a Language Centre, STEM facilities, a Hall with state of the art sound and lighting equipment and a Centre for Hearing Impaired. The Performing Arts facilities will be upgraded during 2019.
About Adelaide High School
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Home / News and Events / Nigeria: Fertilizer Project Raises Yields by Over 50%, Showcases Successful PPP’s
Nigeria: Fertilizer Project Raises Yields by Over 50%, Showcases Successful PPP’s
In Nigeria, the world’s largest single-train urea plant has created over 50,000 jobs across the agriculture value-chain, while its affordable fertilizer is boosting farm yields and putting big smiles on farmers’ faces.
Co-funded by the African Development Bank, the Indorama Eleme Fertilizer project is a success story of public-private partnership (PPP).
For years, Shuaibu Yusuf, a Kaduna-based farmer, struggled with low harvests from his grain and vegetable farm.
His story changed when a farm officer he met in a rural market introduced him to Indorama fertilizer and taught him how to apply it correctly. The farmer saw immediate transformation - his crops - maize, tomatoes, pepper and sorghum - flourished.
“The benefits that I get from higher-yield farming are increased food, education for my children and the ability to pay our medical bills. Low productivity brings despair. But as long as farming is profitable, I will introduce my children, neighbours and community members to it, so we can all move ahead economically,” Yusuf, who is married with 10 children, said.
With financing from the African Development Bank and other partners, Indorama Fertilizer Plant produces 4,000 tons of urea fertilizers per day or 1.5 million metric tons annually. Forty percent of this goes into the Nigerian farming sector, nourishing plants, and increasing yield and farmers’ incomes.
“I feel very proud of what we have achieved here. We have brought about the world's largest single train urea plant in a country where 70 percent of the people are farmers. So we have contributed immensely to the food security of this country,” said Mr. Deepu Sivadas, Indorama’s Chief Technical Officer.
Happy Users Attest to Indorama Fertilizer’s Effectiveness.
“Since farmers started using Indorama fertilizer, there's been about a 50% increase in yields, compared to other years. That's why we are in the business of bringing the product from Port Harcourt to our local farmers,” says NuraDogo, an elated agro dealer based up north in Makarfi village, Kaduna State.
Dogo buys fertilizer in large volumes from the Indorama Eleme Fertilizer plant in Port Harcourt to sell to local farmers. “Sales are increasing,” he says.
“My family and I are proud of my fertilizer business. We are earning more money and are hopeful of a brighter future.”
One key to reducing food production costs and increasing food supply is locally produced fertilizer. Low consumption levels of fertilizer translate to low harvests in Nigeria and indeed Africa as a whole, where average fertilizer use stood at 10-15% of global levels.
As part of its strategy for the agriculture sector, the African Development Bank in 2013 extended a senior loan facility of US$ 100 million to Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals Limited to part finance a US$ 1.2 billion urea fertilizer plant (Line 1) with production capacity of 1.5 million tons per annum.
The goal of the project was to enable Nigeria, which relied heavily on fertilizer imports, (80% of fertilizer consumed in the country was imported), to progressively become self-sufficient and a major exporter.
The completion and exploitation of the fertilizer plant in 2016 helped turn Nigeria from a net fertilizer importer to a self-sufficient producer, and now a net exporter of fertilizer.
In 2017, Nigeria exported 700,000 metric tons of urea to Africa and global markets.
Agriculture is a dominant sector that engages about 70% of Nigeria’s population, contributes significantly to rural employment, and provides substantial non-oil foreign exchange earnings. However, variations in crop yield can have a massive impact, affecting revenues, food security, and even the health of farmers and their families. Nigeria spends at least US$6 billion per year on food imports.
Increased income for African families
The availability of fertilizers at affordable prices is not only helping farmers see higher yields with improvement in incomes, but is bringing other benefits.
Local production of fertilizer is helping shore up foreign exchange reserves, and some of Nigeria’s previously flared natural gas, is now channeled into fertilizer production.
The Indorama project has created tens of thousands of jobs and above all, has brought hope to youth like Sampson Nwuko.
“Indorama has helped me pay my house rent and take care of my family. The project introduced new production technologies and changed the lives of many people in Nigeria,” said 31-year old Nwuko, an Instrumentation Engineer at the Indorama Eleme Fertilizer Plant in Port Harcourt.
At age 16, Nwuko lost his father just after completing secondary school. Life became tough and he struggled through university, joining the ranks of Nigeria’s unemployed shortly afterwards. All that is now in the past, thanks to full time employment with the fertilizer company.
For Nwuko and many others, the Indorama plant has been an important step towards the Bank’s goal of radically transforming Africa’s agriculture and making the continent self-sufficient in food.
To date, Indorama has trained over 200,000 farmers on the proper use of fertilizers and that number is expected to reach 2 million by 2021. The, creation of an additional 50,000 jobs and an annual contribution of US$2 billion to Nigeria’s GDP are other bonuses.
Thanks to the remarkable success of Line 1, the Board of the African Development Bank recently approved another senior loan facility of US$ 80 million to Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals Limited to part finance a second US$1.1 billion fertilizer plant (Line 2). The additional plant will enable the company actualize its plans to double its fertilizer production from 1.5 million tons of urea to 3 million metric tons per annum.
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Let there be light: Angola's rural electrification project [FOCUS]
With a vast territory, Angola has a wealth of natural resources. The country boasts of an exceptional economic potential not to mention the richness of its biodiversity, which should make it possible to diversify its sources of income and develop its infrastructure.
“The Kwanza River, the Kalandula Waterfalls, rivers and streams has not finished. The hydroelectric potential of Angola is one of the largest in Africa. Today, only 4% of these water resources are exploited. A situation to which the authorities intend to rectify: The construction of the Laúca hydroelectric dam is one of the key stages of this huge project. “
Inaugurated some two weeks ago, Lauca, is over $4 billion worth of investment, for a production of 2070 megawatts by May 2018. This will benefit at least 8 million inhabitants, thus doubling the energy capacity of the country, where 65% of the population today still live without electricity.
Here, 9000 people are working to ensure the 6 turbines of the site are put on line within the announced deadlines.
In the region the effects of the energy production of the dam already illuminate the everyday life. In Dombo, it is an unusual evening for the inhabitants of the village located at 40 km from Lauca. Today they see their home light up for the very first time.
Next step: The Caculo Cabasa dam, which is expected to produce an additional 2100 megawatts within four years. Ultimately, the Kwanza river will supply 7 hydroelectric dams for a production of 7450 megawatts.
The major challenge remains the distribution of this new energy. Connecting the province of Malanje with the Laùca dam in the center of the country, in Luanda’s main market in the west, represents logistics and exorbitant costs.
The Angolan capital is a hub of 6 million inhabitants. And yet electricity is scarce. A reality for the national electricity Distribution company. The country’s electrification project poses many challenges. And the abandonment of diesel, a necessity.
In Luanda the generators are running at full throttle. A diesel dependency that pushed Fernando Miguel to leave Kikuxi after 9 years and nearly 10 obsolete generators.
“The Angolan energy production capacity does not meet the national demand. A demand that grows as the country develops. The average per capita electricity consumption is expected to reach 1,230 kilowatt hours in 2025, compared with 375 kilowatt hours in 2013. But beyond the average consumer, reliable access to electricity is essential to the proper functioning of Angolan enterprises.”
Nova Cimangola is an inspiring example. The cement factory invested $300 million for the production of a clinker, the material used to make cement … units that operate 24 hours a day.
The electrification programme initiated by the Government is still in its first steps. It is on this project that Angola hopes to revive its economy.
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The Latest: Louisiana governor ‘grateful’ storm wasn’t worse
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on Barry (all times local):
Louisiana’s governor says he is “extremely grateful” that Tropical Depression Barry did not cause the disastrous floods that had earlier been forecast.
In a news conference Sunday evening, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Barry’s rains could have been much worse. He says the state is now better prepared for future storms.
Edwards says more than 90 people have been rescued from 11 parishes because of the storm. He does not believe there have been any weather-related fatalities.
The governor urged residents to be cautious when going outside and to avoid any downed power lines.
Federal officials say the response to Tropical Depression Barry has gone well, although they remain concerned about the risks of flooding and heavy rainfall.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan says he was briefed on the storm and response efforts Sunday afternoon.
Neil Jacobs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says significant rainfall is expected to fall as the storm continues moving inland.
McAleenan says officials are keeping a close watch over Barry, but are optimistic. He praised Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and local officials for their response to the storm.
Officials say there have been 13 rescues and nearly 90,000 customers in Louisiana remain without power. Of the 23 shelters still open, fewer than 300 people remained.
Tropical Storm Barry has now weakened to a tropical depression, but forecasters warn flooding rains and tornadoes are still possible as the storm winds down.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami downgraded the storm in a Sunday afternoon advisory and removed all tropical storm warnings.
Forecasters say Barry’s maximum winds are down to 35 mph (55 kph). Its center was about 20 miles (35 kilometers) north-northeast of Shreveport in northwest Louisiana.
The National Weather Service says flooding rains and tornadoes are happening well east and south of the storm’s center and should continue into Monday as what remains of Barry moves north into western Arkansas.
As Tropical Storm Barry slowly winds down and moves away, storms well away from the center have prompted a rash of tornado warnings.
The warnings have been in the outer bands of the storms just east of Baton Rouge and in Mississippi.
Some trees have been knocked down and minor damage reported to buildings in East Baton Rouge and Denham Springs, but no serious damage or injuries have been reported.
Forecasters say the chance for tornadoes In Mississippi and east of the Mississippi River in Louisiana will continue throughout Sunday.
Louisiana authorities say that a family they tried to rescue from high water was doing OK and preferred to stay in their home.
KTBS-TV reported that rescuers tried Saturday night to reach the family near Franklin, which is about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Lafayette.
The Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office was eventually able to reach the family, but they preferred to stay in their home.
Deputy Steve Dooley said that authorities drove through water that was almost impassible but made it eventually to the house where the family was.
He said: “We made it to the house, and they just didn’t want to come out.”
Deputies told the station that they weren’t aware of any injuries from the storm in the parish.
Tropical Storm Barry’s winds weakened slightly to 40 mph (65 kph), but the risks associated with the storm – including flooding and tornadoes – are sparking new concerns.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said in its 11 a.m. Sunday advisory that the storm’s center was located about 50 miles (85 kilometers) south-southeast of Shreveport, Louisiana, and was moving north at 9 mph (15 kph).
The center discontinued a storm surge warning it had issued from Intracoastal City to the mouth of the Atchafalaya River.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for parts of Louisiana including East Baton Rouge until 10:30 a.m. CDT. A flash flood warning was in effect for Iberia, Lafayette, St. Martin, and Vermilion parishes until 1:15 p.m. CDT.
Flights are arriving and departing again from the New Orleans airport as Tropical Storm Barry heads north.
The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport said in a statement Sunday morning that most airlines are returning to normal operations. The airport is advising passengers to arrive at least two hours early as they could encounter long lines.
Delta Air Lines spokesman Drake Castañeda said Sunday that the Atlanta-based company resumed normal operations in New Orleans Saturday night. Castañeda said Delta flights from Atlanta and New York landed in New Orleans shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday.
President Donald Trump is urging Gulf Coast residents to be careful as Barry continues dropping rain across the region.
In a Sunday morning tweet, Trump said: “A big risk of major flooding in large parts of Louisiana and all across the Gulf Coast. Please be very careful!”
The storm’s center is moving over Louisiana on Sunday morning and is expected to move over Arkansas overnight and into Monday.
In its latest update, the National Hurricane Center said the storm is expected to become a tropical depression as it loses energy while moving over land Sunday. Barry’s maximum sustained winds were at 45 mph (72 kph) as of 7 a.m. CDT Sunday. But forecasters say the flood threat will continue, partly because of the slow movement of the storm.
Barry is forecast to weaken to a tropical depression soon, but is still expected to drop torrential amounts of rain across a wide region of the South as its center moves over Louisiana on Sunday and Arkansas on Monday.
In its latest update, the National Hurricane Center said the storm is expected to become a tropical depression as it loses energy while moving over land Sunday. Barry’s maximum sustained winds remained at 45 mph (72 kph) as of 7 a.m. CDT Sunday.
But forecasters say the flood threat will continue, partly because of the slow movement of the storm. It was moving across Louisiana Sunday morning at about 6 mph (10 kph).
A severe thunderstorm embedded in one of Barry’s outer bands began rotating over Mississippi before dawn Sunday, prompting a tornado warning.
There were no immediate reports of any injuries or damage.
The National Weather Service in Jackson says the storm early Sunday morning was capable of producing a tornado near the small town of Ellisville, Mississippi.
Ellisville is about 85 miles (137 kilometers) southeast of Jackson.
Forecasters say the storm that’s drenching Louisiana has now prompted a flash flood warning that covers Mississippi’s capital city.
The National Weather Service said early Sunday that up to 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) of rain had already fallen in the Jackson area — and more was on the way.
Before dawn Sunday, a narrow band of heavy rain was still streaming north through Jackson. The weather service said that could bring an additional 2 inches (5 centimeters) of rain to the area.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center’s 4 a.m. advisory says Barry was centered around 80 miles (125 kilometers) southeast of Shreveport, Louisiana.
The latest advisory from the U.S. National Hurricane Center has discontinued a tropical storm warning for the area including metropolitan New Orleans, although the warning is still in effect from Morgan City to Cameron.
The storm surge warning from the mouth of the Atchafalaya River to Biloxi, Mississippi, was also discontinued as of the 1 a.m. Sunday advisory, but the warning is still in effect for Lake Pontchartrain and the area between Intracoastal City and Biloxi.
The agency says Barry is still carrying “life-threatening flooding rains” as it moves over Louisiana. Forecasters say Barry will move across central and northern Louisiana and then over Arkansas on Sunday night and Monday.
Maximum sustained winds had decreased to near 45 mph (75 kph) and the storm was centered around 45 miles (75 kilometers) southwest of Alexandria.
A weakened Barry inundated the Gulf Coast but appears unlikely to deluge New Orleans as it slowly advances.
Still, Gov. John Bel Edwards on Saturday night urged residents across south Louisiana to stay “vigilant.” He warned that Barry could still cause disastrous flooding across a wide stretch of the Gulf Coast overnight.
On Saturday, New Orleans had been braced for heavy rains, but instead had intermittent bands of moderate showers and occasional sunshine.
Forecasters downgraded rainfall estimates for New Orleans through Sunday to between 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 centimeters). Experts had earlier said the city could get up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain.
As of late Saturday night, the storm had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (80 kph) and was centered 35 miles (56 kilometers) southwest of Alexandria.
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Around Galeton and Coudersport (Postcard History) (Paperback)
By Ronald W. Dingle
Potter County's abundance of forests in the late 1800s played a large part in making the town of Williamsport the lumber capital of the world. To the north, Galeton had one of the largest sawmills in the country and was the railroad hub of the county. Austin, Cross Fork, Germania, Shinglehouse, Harrison Valley, and other area towns also contributed a great deal during the logging era. There were sawmills, kindling wood factories, hub factories, stave and heading mills, and tanneries in almost every town in the county. Around Galeton and Coudersport showcases a large collection of vintage postcards of Potter County, opening a window back through time and providing a glimpse of life during the formation of the county.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Publication Date: June 18th, 2008
Series: Postcard History
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CAPACCIO: Board fell perfectly for Bills to get their man
Ed Oliver was selected ninth overall by the Bills
Sal Capaccio
April 25, 2019 - 10:30 pm
Photo: Andy Lyons - Getty Images
Buffalo Bills fans can thank both Jon Gruden and Dave Gettleman.
The Oakland Raiders coach and New York Giants general manager both made shocking moves in the top-six of the NFL Draft on Thursday, allowing Houston’s Ed Oliver, one of the best interior defensive linemen, to fall to the Bills at No. 9 overall.
Oliver had long been considered a top target for the Bills, but over the past few weeks, there was growing buzz that he wouldn’t be there when it was time to turn their card in.
Suddenly, Gruden and his new general manager Mike Mayock chose Clemson defensive end Clelin Ferrell, considered by most to be a mid-to-late first round prospect. Then Gettleman wasted no time in selecting his franchise hopeful quarterback Daniel Jones out of Duke.
The board was falling perfectly for the Bills to grab either Oliver, Kentucky defensive end Josh Allen, Iowa tight end T.J. Hockenson, or one of a few offensive linemen, if they chose that route. After Allen and Hockenson went seventh and eighth, respectively, Oliver’s name was still there, staring Bills general manager Brandon Beane and head coach Sean McDermott right between the eyes. They couldn’t pass up that chance.
Oliver is an elite defender who can step in and play right away, especially given how head coach Sean McDermott loves to rotate players up front. He’s incredibly explosive off the ball, which allows him to penetrate and disrupt plays in the backfield and even pressure the quarterback, something the Bills could really use from the interior defensive line. The knock on him is his frame. At 6' 2" and 287-pounds, he’s shorter and lighter than what you usually want from an interior defensive linemen, which is why he needs to rely on his speed, athleticism, and explosiveness off the ball to beat offensive linemen before they can really latch on to him. The Bills already have Star Lotulelei as their primary run-stuffing and block-eating defensive lineman, which means Oliver wouldn’t have to be used to do that right away and could play to his strengths as a penetrator and pursuer.
After the pick was made, Beane told the Buffalo media that Oliver will be used more as a three-technique (lining up on the outside shoulder of the offensive guard), as opposed to on the nose, where he was often used at Houston.
Beane added that in all the mock drafts his staff did in pre-draft preparation, they never had Oliver falling to them if only one quarterback was taken in top-eight, had him sometimes falling if two quarterbacks were taken, and was usually there if three quarterbacks were selected. Two quarterbacks and a non-quarterback surprise happened. He added that they thought a team could trade with the Detroit Lions into the No. 8 spot and take him once he got there. That didn't happen.
Beane even went so far as to say the team’s free agent strategy involved knowing there were good pass-rushing defensive tackles in the draft and that’s where you need to find them since they rarely get to free agency.
"Ed is a competitor,” Beane said. “He's tough. Plays from the snap to the whistle."
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Abel Joseph #20
Born: January 4, 1974
Hometown: Montreal, Canada
High School: College Francais/Dawson College
Prep Career
Abel averaged 27 points and 12 rebounds during 1991-92 season, leading College Francais to a 25-5 record. He averaged 15 points, eight rebounds and seven blocks for Dawson College in 1992-93. He also shot a league-best 60.8% from the field and led Dawson to a 24-5 record, including a 14-2 slate in the AAA Basketball League, the elite basketball conference in Montreal.
Dawson advanced to the provincial championship game and Joseph earned all-league honors in 1992-93 and was named the team's most valuable player as well as the most improved player. He was coached by Olga Hrycak and was a member of the All-Quebec team that won the 1993 Canada game.
Marquette Career
Abel was named team captain for the 1997-98 season.
Has come off the bench in 29 games this season … Set season and career highs with eight points against DePaul (Jan. 9) … Grabbed season and career best six rebounds versus DePaul (Jan. 26) and Southern Miss (Jan. 4) … Tied his career high with six rebounds versus Cincinnati (Feb. 27) … Registered six points on 3-3 shooting and four rebounds against UNC Charlotte (March 8) … His points total was his best output in 17 contests.
Redshirted
Came off the bench in 30 games … Grabbed two rebounds in six minutes in NIT win over St. Bonaventure (3/20) … Tied a career high with five rebounds at Dayton (1/20) … Scored a career-high seven points against Cincinnati (1/12) … Had four rebounds against Wisconsin (12/31) … Registered a career high with five rebounds against Illinois-Chicago (12/20) … Had four points versus Northwestern (12/3) … Scored four points and grabbed three rebounds against UW-Milwaukee (12/2).
Coach Kevin O'Neill on Joseph- “Abel is an excellent athlete, who may require some time to get used to basketball at this level. His best basketball is in front of him. He's very coachable and is a very hard worker, who is going to be a good player at Marquette.”
A member of the Great Midwest Conference All-Academic Team … Recipient of Marquette's Multi-Cultural Center Minority Student Leadership Award … Saw playing time in eight games this season … His longest stint was five minutes against South Florida on Jan. 31 … Scored six points on 3-6 shooting from the field in that game … Pulled down a season-best two rebounds versus South Florida and Louisiana Tech (12/21).
All-Time Senior Season Rankings
9th, Blocked Shots (27)
1993-94 Great Midwest Conference All-Academic Team
1994 Recipient of Marquette's Multi-Cultural Center Minority Student Leadership Award
Son of Eugene Joseph and Marie Rose Leonce, majored in psychology
Post-MU
In 2007, Abel Joseph was named the General Manager of The ABA Montreal Royal professional basketball team. http://oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3481807
Mr. Joseph has been involved with basketball for almost 20 years in the Montreal basketball community, and played at Marquette University as well as in Europe with Vevey and Carouge. “I am very excited about this opportunity. The ABA is becoming very big and important in Canada with so many teams and our goal is to make the Royal the very best among them - both on and off the court. The fans of Montreal really like the ABA style of play. Since my playing days are pretty much over, this ABA mania is a good place to start giving back to the sport I Iove,” said Joseph.
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ALA Girls Nation Prepares Teens for Leadership
A record number of women are running for public office this year. In the near future, we can expect more female public servants representing the American people — from local chambers to Capitol Hill. In light of this exciting trend, it is important to highlight programs that help develop young women to become the next generation of female leaders. One such program? American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) Girls Nation.
ALA Girls Nation is a unique weeklong mock experiential learning program, one that positions high-potential teens for a lifetime of public service to our country. This summer, 100 female high school seniors — two from each of our 50 states — will convene in Washington, D.C. for the 72nd Annual ALA Girls Nation. Each teenage girl represents her state as a “senator” – mirroring the structure of government at the federal level. During this transformative weeklong program, these senators form a fictitious nation, become “Nationalists” and “Federalists,” enthusiastically campaign to hold office, and — perhaps most important — accept and celebrate the outcome of these elections and come together to serve for the good of the nation – ALA Girls Nation.
The American Legion Auxiliary is a nonpartisan organization committed to advocating for veterans’ issues, promoting patriotism, and mentoring America’s youth — proudly presenting ALA Girls Nation for over 70 years. The ALA Girls State and ALA Girls Nation programs are privately-funded and presented by members of the ALA. The world’s largest women’s patriotic service organization, the ALA was chartered in 1919 to support the mission of The American Legion.
More than 6,500 young women have attended ALA Girls Nation since its inception in 1947. Each participant leaves the program thoroughly informed about the fundamentals of U.S. government — and the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of citizens. ALA Girls Nation lasts for one short week. Yet the seven-day experience — one that champions the legislative process and serious collaboration — has laid the foundation for thousands of bright futures.
Many ALA Girls State and ALA Girls Nation alumnae have chosen careers in public service, putting their ALA Girls State and ALA Girls Nation experience into action to serve the people. The lessons learned about teamwork, resilience, and the democratic principles that guide the republic in which we live are applied in real life by many alums who have gone on to serve at the local, state, and national level — including high-ranking members of the judiciary.
Justice Lorie S. Gildea began her tenure as chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court in 2010. She participated in the state-level version of ALA Girls Nation, known as ALA Girls State, in 1979 — and the program, Gildea said, “empowered her to embark upon a lifetime of service and leadership.”
“At ALA Girls State, we learn that every voice has value and that every woman needs to use her voice,” said Gildea. “We also learn that we need to be courageous and confident enough to take life up on the opportunities that present themselves to us.”
“An informed citizenry is essential to the success of our democracy. ALA Girls State [and ALA Girls Nation] plays a vital role in informing and educating our future leaders,” Gildea said. “Participation in ALA Girls State was formative for me as I know it is for all the young women who have the opportunity to attend. It is a wonderful opportunity to learn about and see firsthand how the three branches of our government work. I am so grateful to the American Legion Auxiliary for presenting ALA Girls State and teaching me and thousands of Minnesota’s young women about the value of participation and the possibility of leadership.”
Other ALA Girls State and ALA Girls Nation alumnae have gone on to hold leadership roles in industries spanning government, military, media, education, and law. Notable alumnae include Jane Pauley, national media personality; Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, president of Augustana University and former South Dakota U.S. Representative; Susan Bysiewicz, former Connecticut Secretary of State; Lt. Gen. Michelle D. Johnson, superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy and former Air Force aide to the president; Ann Richards, former governor of Texas; and Susan Porter-Rose, former chief of staff to First Lady Barbara Bush — among countless others.
For some girls, ALA Girls Nation is their first opportunity to connect with peers with common interests. For others, it is the first time they encounter students whose perspectives differ from their own. For all, it is a moment in time when a select few teenage girls from all over the country come together to discover and celebrate the honor and importance of participating in our democracy. To learn more about ALA Girls State and ALA Girls Nation visit www.ALAforVeterans.org.
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Unemployable: Topher Kingsley-Williams, Co-Founder of Porpoise
Katherine Karaus
Writer & UX Copywriter
Topher Kingsley-Williams
About the Unemployable Series: Writer Katherine Karaus talks candidly to founders in our community who never quite fit the corporate mold about their entrepreneurial journeys. This month we're featuring, Topher Kingsley-Williams, Co-founder of Porpoise.
Katherine: What did your career arc look like before you started your own company?
Topher: I dropped out of university, well, got kicked out of university. A combination of the two. While I was in university I always felt as though I could be creating a business and creating value some way. I ended up moving to Australia, buying a small boat, and racing sailboats for 4 years semi-professionally. It was incredible, but there wasn’t much purpose to my life. I was just playing with boats. I wanted to have some sort of impact, and do something more business oriented. I decided that I’d quit sailing and try to get into business more formally. I fell into the tech world by accident. I got a job working for a company with a contract with Red Hat. After a period of 3-4 years working with that organization I found myself at a point where I was quite bored. I was limited because I didn’t finish my degree, so that was an educational barrier. I didn’t have the qualifications necessary to move up. It’s less that I wasn’t employable -- I didn’t feel challenged, and the corporate hierarchy was limiting. So I quit that job and worked with a number of startups on a consulting basis. That was my first solo role in the tech world.
Katherine: Tell me about how you started Porpoise (am I saying that right?)
Topher: Yes, it’s like the mammal. It’s a play on the word purpose. We joke with clients, “You can’t give your employees purpose, but you can give them Porpoise.”
Katherine: That’s dumb, and I like it.
Topher: [Laughs] It works really well. It started off as a joke, but people really liked it. It breaks the ice and allows people to talk about something serious in a playful way. But how we got started -- essentially, one of my co-founders said “You should start a software company.” I was like “Nope. Absolutely not, it’s way too much work.” And 3 months later we started a software company. I think my initial reaction came from knowing how much effort would be involved. That co-founder hadn’t worked at a tech company before. He saw the glamorous side of tech exits. But it’s not all sunshine and lollipops. After a number of conversations with him and our other co-founder, my gut was saying we could figure this out. We had three different strong suits, and we were all bringing something very different to the table.
Porpoise Team
Katherine: What’s Porpoise all about?
Topher: We’re a proudly Canadian company spending time in New York. It’s all about helping companies recognize their employees for who they are, and try to establish an amazing workplace culture. We really want to build employee-centric workplaces that are designed around people's values. We also wanted a business that supported our lives, and where our employees felt supported. We wanted to marry our work lives with families, kids, and traveling.That’s difficult at a fast-paced startup that’s trying to grow really quickly. You’re constantly challenged with long long days and tight deadlines and not much money. For the most part we’ve been able to keep the balance.
Katherine: What has been the most challenging part of starting your own company?
Topher: All three co-founders are control freaks, which is interesting. None of us is particularly employable. Because of that we have a roving leadership model where depending on the situation you can all take charge. We’ve managed to work well within these boundaries. I think one of the main tradeoffs of entrepreneurship is you have to be very cautious and aware of your health and stress levels. I’ve gotten better at it. Not being able to leave work at work is definitely a challenge. But well worth it.
Katherine: What advice would you give to the younger, sailboat-racer version of yourself?
Topher: Read more books.
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Espionage & spy thriller
Trust, But Verify (The Witch Who Came in from the Cold Season 2 Episode 5)
by Max Gladstone, Lindsay Smith, Ian Tregillis and others
Lindsay Smith
Ian Tregillis
Cassandra Rose Clarke
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe) Publication Date: 15/03/2017
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The Cold War gets magical when spies brush shoulders with sorcerers in this genre-defying serial created by Lindsay Smith and Max Gladstone.
This is the 5th episode in the second season of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Lindsay Smith.
The Ice plots their move on the Hosts, enlisting local muscle whose loyalties are divided. Newcomer Van turns heads at the boxing ring and Bar Vodnář alike. Zerena grooms Tanya and Andula for her own secret endeavors.
Welcome to Prague, 1970: the epicenter in a Cold War of spies and sorcerers. The streets are a deadly chessboard on which the CIA and KGB make their moves, little dreaming that a deeper game is being played between the Consortium of Ice and the Acolytes of Flame, ancient factions of sorcery.
Praise for The Witch Who Came in from the Cold:
"Those who like to mix magic, spycraft, and secret history should enjoy this—it may please fans of Stross’s Laundry series." —Locus Magazine
"Full of fast-paced, high-intensity action paired with magic at a level that has not been seen until now, with a cliff-hanger that lets readers know that the game is not over and has only just begun." —The San Francisco Book Review
"The Witch Who Came in from the Cold is a chilly evocation of a different kind of Cold War." —Charles Stross, author of the Laundry Files series
“Take a double shot of Le Carré, a dash of Deighton, a twist of Quiller, a splash of Al Stewart’s The Year of the Cat, throw in a jigger full of elemental magic, mix well … and voilà! The Witch Who Came In From The Cold.” —Victor Milán, author of The Dinosaur Lords
"The occult love child of John le Carre and The Sandbaggers." —Marie Brennan, author of A Natural History of Dragons
"As soon as I saw that, I was instantly hooked, and the pilot jacked the intrigue to the max. Two female Soviet spy witches, an American spy with something weird drilling magical holes in his head, and a world of secrets within secrets in a locale where old-world myth and the Cold War face off, pedal to the metal . . . it’s awesome. Or as we said in 1970, Far out. " —Sherwood Smith, author of Crown Duel
"The installments are easy to read one at a time, but the tangles of alliances, secrets, and shocking double-crosses will have readers up all night mumbling, “Just one more.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Serial Box Publishing LLC
Max Gladstone is a fencer, a fiddler, and a two-time finalist for the John W. Campbell Award. He is fluent in Mandarin and has taught English in China. He is the author of the Hugo Award-nominated Craft Sequence of novels, a game developer, and the showrunner for the fiction serial, Bookburners. A graduate of Yale, Max lives and writes in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Fran Wilde is an author and technology consultant. In 2015, her debut novel, Updraft, won the Andre Norton Award for Best Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy and was nominated for the Best Novel Nebula Award.
While not working on her Bone Universe books, Wilde writes short stories for various popular SFF publications and blogs about food and genre for Cooking the Books, the popular social-parenting website GeekMom, and at The Washington Post.
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TT: Ten and counting
September 14, 2009 by Terry Teachout
ArtsJournal, which hosts this blog, turned ten years old yesterday. Doug McLennan, the founding genius and tutelary spirit of the site that Web-savvy people who take the arts seriously visit every day, has blogged about the anniversary here. His post is very much worth reading.
It was Doug who invited me to become ArtsJournal’s first blogger. I went live nine years ago. More than six thousand postings later, Our Girl, CAAF, and I are still going strong, and still proud to be associated with the most important and influential arts-related site on the Web. At a time when newspaper and magazine coverage of the arts is in a tailspin, Doug has changed the face of arts journalism for the better.
I can’t thank you enough, Doug, for making it possible for me to join the revolution. We’re still here–and we’re not going anywhere.
TT: The golden age
In 1977 CBS aired When Television Was Young, a two-hour-long documentary hosted by Charles Kuralt (remember him?) that consisted for the most part of excerpts from kinescope recordings of live TV broadcasts that originally aired between 1949 and 1961. The programs include Captain Kangaroo, CBS Reports, Douglas Edwards with the News, The Edsel Show, The Ernie Kovacs Show, The Garry Moore Show, The Goldbergs, The Honeymooners, Howdy Doody, I Love Lucy, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, The Mickey Mouse Club, Mary Martin and Noël Coward: Together With Music, Mr. I. Magination, Playhouse 90, The Red Skelton Show, See It Now, The $64,000 Question, Studio One, Suspense, Texaco Star Theater, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, You Are There, and Your Show of Shows. Some anonymous benefactor has posted the whole show on YouTube in seven installments. I commend all seven to your attention.
Don’t be thrown by the fact that the program gets off to such a slow start. Television used to be like that:
TT: Three for three
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong has received yet another pre-publication rave, this one in the August issue of Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association. Here’s an excerpt:
Teachout excels when explaining such things as why the early Armstrong recordings with his Hot Five and Seven groups are cornerstones of jazz. He provides a fresh musician’s perspective when analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of such foundational compositions as “Heebie Jeebies” and “West End Blues.” Teachout also argues for the merits of Armstrong’s popular music done in the manner of Bing Crosby. And he disagrees with the later bebop players who didn’t like Armstrong’s act, which they viewed as pandering to white audiences. What they didn’t understand, and what Teachout vigorously argues while simultaneously revealing the soul of his subject, is that being an entertainer was wrapped up in Armstrong’s personality and genius. Ultimately, Teachout’s fine biography shows how much of Armstrong’s love of music–and people–was behind that signature million-watt smile….
Nice, huh?
A boy must peddle his book, so I now have a personalized author page at Amazon. To see it, go here.
TT: Almanac
“The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.”
Willa Cather, One of Ours
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TATIANA TROUVÉ - A quiet place
Oct 15th – Nov 17th 2018
Paris, 47, rue Saint-André des artsMap
All authentic art is capable of crossing the boundaries of space and time. It has the gift of ubiquity because it tends to coincide with the world. Tatiana Trouvé will inaugurate her collaboration with kamel mennour by dislocating herself over three different sites: the gallery at 47 Rue Saint-André-des-Arts in Paris, the London gallery, and the stand at Frieze. The three installations sketch the map of an unexplored territory, striving to construct a place where art might recover its cosmic breath, the power to entirely refashion the world, rather than representing a portion of it on the model of a still life.
Pursuing a process begun with Prepared Space (recently shown at Petach Tikva Museum of Art in Tel-Aviv), Navigation Map, London 2018 transforms the gallery space in London into a truly 3D cartographical space, of the sky and earth at once. Here, the atlas is no longer simply a medium of representation, becoming itself a space to inhabit, a work of art, a place of contemplation and prayer. At the same time, the voyage itself transforms into something closer in its execution to a musical or artistic score (Cage’s Prepared Piano). This short circuit, making the voyage and its representation, possibility and reality, story and experience coincide, produces a strange transformation of the very idea of place: space is no longer extension, a simple, three-dimensional extension of matter, but rather a series of signs referring to a series of gestures, a symbolic and bodily liturgy to be activated by the spectator. Shaping space, even in the simplest way, means imagining a potential choreography, making it possible, and condensing into matter a virtual dance whose dwelling is its unfolding.
In The Shaman, a new work presented at Frieze, Tatiana Trouvé interrogates the position and the status of the subject placed before or within art. Whereas in her earlier work, the dramaturgy of her practice has privileged the attitudes of the witness (the guardian) or the traveller who has renounced all forms of property, here the artist’s self as it is embodied in the work loses its purely human traits and takes on the unexpected form of a tree that transforms itself into a fountain. A shaman is not only a traveller in the geographical and spatial sense of the word. It is someone who is able to travel from one identity to another, from one biological species to another, translating the one’s language into the other’s. On top of this, just as every tree lives at once in the air and underground, every shaman is someone able to inhabit more than one world. And, like for the tree, it is only this capacity for living at once here and elsewhere, this ontologically amphibian life, capable of constant transformation, that makes it possible for the shamanism of art to become a life source for others.
In this gesture, as in all of Trouvé’s work, something seems to shrink the different places and times of the cosmos in an archeological journey towards the deep springs of the world. It is not that her works imitate the style or the taste of a vanished time in human history—rather, by drawing not on time itself but on the original force of art and the world, of technique and nature, her works find a way to capture their most telluric power. Rather than thinking of art as the imaginative activity of the world’s lost infancy, Tatiana Trouvé strives to bring it together with planetary geology. The space of this coming together is the studio. It is in these planetary incubators that the world, things, and the souls who make them (artists) undergo an imperceptible, incessant metamorphosis, and art is its silent, implacable guardian. In her exhibition in Paris, A Quiet Life, Trouvé stages the studio as a cocoon inside of which the whole Earth experiences new forms of existence and organisation. It is thanks to these acceleration chambers that everything that remains outside of art becomes and appears as a fossil, an older, prehistoric form of existence.
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The Business Of Grand Prix Economics
Steve Seepersaud
uestion: What record did F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone break in real estate?
(You can find the answer at the end of this article.)
Today, disagreements over money are almost as common in sports as practice sessions and games. Most of the time, the disputes are relatively harmless, and involve a player that is demanding more money from his team.
One battle over cash wasn’t so harmless and almost led to the breakup of a major pro racing circuit. The Grand Prix recently dodged a bullet when warring factions reached a deal that essentially put the brakes on a secessionist movement. We'll take a look at what nearly caused a destructive rift in Formula One racing and how much money is up for grabs.
All amounts of money are in U.S. dollars.
deal announced
The future of F1 has gone from questionable to relatively secure; that's because racing chief Bernie Ecclestone signed an agreement with several carmakers that threatened to form a rival racing series in 2008 if he didn't give them more money.
After years of negotiation, Ecclestone and the Grand Prix Manufacturers' Association (GPMA) signed a document called a memorandum of understanding. The terms of the agreement have not yet been revealed; however, published reports have speculated that teams will receive 50% of the sport's revenues, which amounts to nearly $1 billion. Under an agreement signed in 1997, teams shared about a quarter of F1's income.
Renault, BMW, Honda, Toyota, and DaimlerChrysler's Mercedes had to settle for a little less than what they wanted, which was initially 60% of the earnings, starting in 2008.
Ron Dennis of McLaren said there's still a long way to go, but the memorandum is essential to a new Concorde Agreement, which replaces the one expiring in 2007. This agreement would spell out the payments for teams, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) — the sport's governing body, and Ecclestone, who holds commercial rights to the sport.
Now that both sides have put pen to paper on this crucial memo, teams are going full throttle, pouring resources into their F1 programs. For example, BMW plans to increase its team’s workforce from 300 to more than 400 by next year at its facility near Zurich, Switzerland.
The GPMA contingent has joined Ferrari, Williams, Midland, Super Aguri, Toro Rosso, and Red Bull, which already signed on with Ecclestone.
The man who, for several years, had been the No. 1 enemy of GPMA has been involved with racing longer than many of us have been alive.
Ecclestone's first racing experience was back in the early 1950s in the Formula 3 circuit. He gave up driving after an accident in 1951. In 1957, he returned to the sport as a driver manager after he made a fortune in real estate and loan financing.
The politics behind the F1 reads almost as well has a soap opera script…
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NIADA returns to Capitol Hill for National Policy Conference
Tuesday, Sep. 25, 2018, 10:10 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Independent dealers are making sure their collective voices are heard by federal lawmakers this week.
The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association’s annual National Policy Conference and Day on Capitol Hill opens on Monday in Washington D.C., as independent dealers arrived from across the country to continue to expand the growing footprint of the used-vehicle industry in the nation’s capital.
NIADA highlighted that one of the industry’s most important events of the year promises to make a bigger impact than ever before, with dealers and industry leaders expected to engage with more members of Congress and Congressional staff than ever before, topping the record of 110 meetings set at the 2017 NPC.
Since returning to Washington in 2013, the National Policy Conference has given independent dealers the chance to meet face-to-face with legislators and regulators, making the voice of the used-vehicle industry, independent dealers and small business heard and represented in shaping the policies of the federal government.
“This event is a truly amazing opportunity for independent dealers to be able to come to Washington D.C. and get involved in the process,” said NIADA president Andy Gabler, owner of Lakeside Auto Group in Erie, Pa.
“During the past five years, NIADA has made huge strides in our presence in Washington. Legislators and regulators know who we are and respect what we do. We have made our voice heard, educated legislators and created important relationships,” Gabler continued.
The highlight of the event is Wednesday’s Day on Capitol Hill when some 200 dealers and industry partners representing the national association and its various state affiliates will meet with Senators and Representatives or their staff to advocate for the industry against tariffs, and in support of making the reforms of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent.
In addition, Reps. Roger Williams (R-Texas), Mark Walker (R-N.C.), Mike Rogers (R-ala.), Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and John Carter (R-Texas), as well as Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Geoff Diehl are expected to attend the annual Friends of the Auto Industry Congressional Reception on Tuesday night, and Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) will speak at the Power Lunch in the Kennedy Caucus Room during the Day on the Hill.
The NIADA Political Action Committee will present its Legislator of the Year award during the conference.
The conference also features a series of regulatory briefings on Tuesday at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City, including updates from the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, the Federal Trade Commission, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators and the House Ways and Means Committee.
Tuesday’s agenda also features an address from keynote speaker Chris Stirewalt, Fox News’ politics editor and co-host of the popular weekly podcast "I’ll Tell You What".
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Family Traveller launches the Family Traveller Excellence Awards 2019 in partnership with Ayla
4th July 2019, Now in its fifth year, the Family Traveller Awards recognises the industry’s most innovative brands and products within the family travel space. The awards return this year with a fresh format and a headline sponsor, Ayla, the newest and most exciting destination in Jordan.
The 2019 awards are evolving and instead of focusing on traditional categories such as best destination and best kids club, Family Traveller is asking the industry and its readers to nominate initiatives which go above and beyond for families. This could be an exciting kids’ sports academy at a resort, an incredible family suite on a cruise ship, a new style of ski school or a hotel that encourages children to look after the environment. It doesn’t matter how big or small the initiative or organization, how luxury or affordable, how exotic or local, the key criteria is the ability to delight, entertain and inspire families on holidays or days out.
For the first time ever, children will be invited to join the judging panel since they are at the very heart of family travel and experiences.
Jane Anderson, editor, Family Traveller said, ‘Family travel is my passion on both a personal and profession level, and I know this is a sector that is becoming more creative by the day. I’m looking forward to seeing all the coolest, most thoughtful innovations out there being nominated this year.’
Eng. Sahl Dudin, managing director, Ayla said, ‘We are delighted to be the headline sponsor of the 2019 Family Traveller Excellence Awards. Family is at the heart of everything we do at Ayla and we feel Family Traveller has the same ethos and focus we do when it comes to family holidays and experiences.’
Family Traveller is inviting nominations from all aspects of the travel industry including airlines, cruise lines, ferry companies, tour operators, hotels and resorts, villas, museums, rental companies, festivals, kids’ clubs, theme parks, campsites, eco initiatives, adventure companies and activity centres.
The nomination should have been created in the last five years. From the nominations, Family Traveller’s esteemed judging panel will create a shortlist, which will go to a public vote and further panel votes to find the Top 50 Family Traveller Excellence Awards.
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BP talks Shah Deniz Stage 2 project’s development
11 September 2018 12:52 (UTC+04:00)
The work as part of the Shah Deniz Stage 2 project, a.k.a. the Shah Deniz full field development (FFD), is progressing ahead of schedule, BP Regional President for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey Gary Jones told reporters in Baku Sept. 11.
He said that the BP started production from four wells at the Shah Deniz Bravo platform, and it is necessary to clear these wells in the coming months.
It takes time to understand what other changes need to be made and use this experience when starting production from other wells, he noted.
All BP’s expectations associated with the project are justified, said Jones.
Jones added that presently, as part of the second stage of the field’s development, production is also being carried out from wells at the Shah Deniz Alpha platform.
As part of the implementation of Shah Deniz Stage 2, gas production will increase from 9 to 25 billion cubic meters per year. The produced gas will be exported to Turkey and the European markets through the expansion of the South Caucasus Pipeline and the construction of the Trans-Anatolian (TANAP) and Trans-Adriatic (TAP) gas pipelines.
A contract for development of the Shah Deniz offshore field was signed on June 4, 1996. The field's reserves are estimated at 1.2 trillion cubic meters of gas.
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Newly-built Khankendi vessel re-floated at Baku Shipyard
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Home MMA News Kevin Lee Kevin Lee says politics at lightweight helped move to welterweight
Kevin Lee says politics at lightweight helped move to welterweight
Cole Shelton
Kevin Lee is moving up to welterweight to take on Rafael dos Anjos in the main event of UFC Rochester.
Many believe Lee is moving up to welterweight because of his size. However, according to “The Motown Phenom” that is not the case. Rather, Lee decided to move up in weight given the state of the lightweight division and how the top contenders are not fighting.
“A lot of [the lightweight division] kinda went stagnant, which is a real shame,” Lee said on The MMA Hour. “I mean, it’s always been one of the best divisions in the UFC. There’s just so many ups and so many questions. And part of me was like, this is where I said I wanted to be, and this is where I started and where I’m gonna finish, especially with fighting Khabib. But when I looked at it, like, okay, I’m not going to sit around and wait.
“It’s too many politics going on. Like you said, Max is now fighting Dustin, Tony’s sitting out — which, I’m sad about that whole situation — and all these other things, and nobody wants to fight, and guys only want these certain fights just to push them up, and Conor’s kinda calling the shots still. And I’m like, you know what, f*ck all of this. I’m mostly worried about me anyway. To me, I’m the top dog. So it’s what’s best for my career and going forward.
“Those fights are still going to be out there,” continued Lee. “I still am 100 percent confident I can make 155 again, but we’ll see after. I prefer this fight at 170; 155, they need to get their shit together. That’s all. I think it’ll come together towards the end of this year, but I wasn’t about to sit around and wait for them.”
Ultimately, Lee says the move to welterweight is not permanent and would return to lightweight once division starts to move forward. For now, Lee is focusing on ‘RDA’ and looking to get a win in his welterweight debut.
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New York Yankees at Milwaukee Brewers Box Score, July 24, 1984
Venue: County Stadium
Night Game, on grass
New York Yankees 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 2
Milwaukee Brewers 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 0
WP: Pete Ladd (4-5) • LP: Joe Cowley (1-1)
Winning Run scored with 1 out
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BR Home Page > Register > Players > Lucas Erceg
Lucas Erceg
Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Left • Throws: Right
Team: Milwaukee Brewers (minors)
Born: May 1, 1995 in San Jose, CA us
Draft: Drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2nd round of the 2016 MLB June Amateur Draft from Menlo College (Atherton, CA).
High School: Westmont HS (Campbell, CA)
Schools: Menlo College (Atherton, CA), University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Full Name: Lucas Erceg
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2017-04-07 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Frederick Keys 6 6 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-04-10 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Wilmington Blue Rocks 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 1
2017-04-11 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Wilmington Blue Rocks 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-04-13 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Frederick Keys 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-04-18 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Lynchburg Hillcats 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 pdH 0
2017-04-20 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Buies Creek Astros 4 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-04-22 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Buies Creek Astros 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-04-25 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Down East Wood Ducks 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-04-27 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Down East Wood Ducks 5 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-04-29 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Frederick Keys 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 pdH 0
2017-04-29 (2) A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Frederick Keys 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-05-05 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Frederick Keys 5 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-05-09 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Lynchburg Hillcats 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-05-12 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Winston-Salem Dash 4 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-05-13 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Winston-Salem Dash 4 4 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-05-19 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Winston-Salem Dash 5 5 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 1
2017-05-24 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Down East Wood Ducks 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-05-24 (2) A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Down East Wood Ducks 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-05-26 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Myrtle Beach Pelicans 4 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 1
2017-05-31 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Buies Creek Astros 5 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-06-02 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Buies Creek Astros 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-06-06 (2) A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Winston-Salem Dash 3 3 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-06-08 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Myrtle Beach Pelicans 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-06-12 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Salem Red Sox 4 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-06-13 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Salem Red Sox 5 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-06-15 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Potomac Nationals 4 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-06-18 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Potomac Nationals 5 3 2 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-06-22 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Potomac Nationals 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-07-04 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Salem Red Sox 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-07-05 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Salem Red Sox 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-07-10 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Winston-Salem Dash 5 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 pdH 0
2017-07-27 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Wilmington Blue Rocks 3 3 1 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-07-29 (2) A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Wilmington Blue Rocks 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-07-30 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Wilmington Blue Rocks 4 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-08-09 (2) A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats Lynchburg Hillcats 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-08-11 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Myrtle Beach Pelicans 4 4 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-08-16 A+-CARL Carolina Mudcats @ Down East Wood Ducks 4 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 1
Player Moved from A+-CARL to AAA-PCL
2017-09-01 AAA-PCL Colorado Springs Sky Sox Memphis Redbirds 4 4 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3B 0
Player Moved from AAA-PCL to Fal-AZFL
2017-10-10 Fal-AZFL Salt River Rafters @ Surprise Saguaros 2 2 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-10-12 Fal-AZFL Salt River Rafters Scottsdale Scorpions 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 1
2017-10-13 Fal-AZFL Salt River Rafters @ Scottsdale Scorpions 4 4 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 pdH 0
2017-10-14 Fal-AZFL Salt River Rafters @ Peoria Javelinas 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 1
2017-10-18 Fal-AZFL Salt River Rafters @ Mesa Solar Sox 4 4 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 1
2017-10-19 Fal-AZFL Salt River Rafters Glendale Desert Dogs 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 3B 0
2017-10-26 Fal-AZFL Salt River Rafters @ Scottsdale Scorpions 5 5 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-10-28 Fal-AZFL Salt River Rafters Peoria Javelinas 5 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017-10-30 Fal-AZFL Salt River Rafters Mesa Solar Sox 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 3B 0
2017-11-02 Fal-AZFL Salt River Rafters @ Glendale Desert Dogs 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3B 0
2017 Player Batting Splits
130 549 506 68 131 35 1 15 83 2 2 36 96 .259 .310 .421 .731 213 8 3 0 4 3
67 273 252 33 65 20 0 11 48 0 1 18 44 .258 .311 .468 .780 118 4 2 0 1 2
63 276 254 35 66 15 1 4 35 2 1 18 52 .260 .308 .374 .682 95 4 1 0 3 1
vs RHP as LHB
120 345 316 83 21 1 12 52 27 56 .263 .322 .449 .771 142 5 1 0 1 3
vs LHP as LHB
98 204 190 48 14 0 3 31 9 40 .253 .289 .374 .663 71 3 2 0 3 0
20 86 82 11 18 4 0 1 7 2 0 4 15 .220 .256 .305 .561 25 3 0 0 0 1
27 115 108 14 23 5 0 4 16 0 1 5 20 .213 .261 .370 .631 40 2 2 0 0 1
25 105 95 12 31 7 0 2 20 0 0 7 20 .326 .362 .463 .825 44 2 0 0 3 0
26 112 98 14 29 9 0 3 16 0 0 14 20 .296 .384 .480 .864 47 0 0 0 0 0
3 11 10 2 4 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 .400 .455 .600 1.055 6 1 0 0 0 0
2 outs, RISP
83 115 105 22 5 0 4 25 9 21 .210 .278 .371 .650 39 0 1 0 0 1
vs. Younger Pitchers
40 96 92 21 6 0 2 11 3 20 .228 .250 .359 .609 33 0 0 0 1 1
vs. Older Pitchers
124 453 414 110 29 1 13 72 33 76 .266 .322 .435 .757 180 8 3 0 3 2
Please note that splits include both major and minor league stats. We have decided that the splits across all levels is more useful than just minor league stats.
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Coventry takes responsibility for East Thurrock's recruitment
John Coventry takes responsibility for East Thurrock United's summer recruitment
By Danny Rust @Danny_Rust10 Sports Reporter
Taking responsibility - John Coventry Picture: MIKEY CARTWRIGHT
EAST Thurrock United boss John Coventry says he takes responsibility for the club’s poor recruitment last summer.
Rocks went into the campaign with an almost entirely new squad, having released 10 individuals.
And Coventry feels suffering relegation to the Isthmian Premier League can be seen as a positive.
Coventry said: “The fact we’ve had a bad season could be put down to a number of things but, first of all, I have to take responsibility.
“My recruitment at the beginning of the season was poor and we got off to a bad start.
“We took more points in the second half of the season than we did in the first.
“Recruitment is down to me and that’s nobody else’s fault. The bottom line is we just weren’t good enough and I have to take responsibility for that.
“The recruitment has been good in other years where we’ve done well, but you need to put your hands up if things don’t go well.
“There are lots of reasons why I could have done better.
"This year I’ve been tied up with me doing other things around the club which has needed more of my time. That’s ended up with me not being able to spend so much time out watching games and players, which is something that I’m probably quite well known for. That has had a knock-on effect to where we are.
“It’s sad that we’ve been relegated for lots of reasons, but it’s also a massive relief in other ways. The club has punched above its weight for years and it’s caught up with us. For me, the only logical thing to do would be to find yourself in a lower division.
"People say we need to rebuild but we couldn’t have continued at the level we were at.”
Despite admitting to being frustrated with the players he brought into the club last summer, Coventry does not regret making big changes to his options on the pitch.
“We lost our last six games of the previous season and I thought we needed to make changes,” added Coventry.
“The people I had at the end of that season had been with me a long time.
“I don’t regret letting go of the 10 players I did from the sense of what they would have given me on the pitch because nine of that 10 have gone on to play two levels lower.”
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The Republican Party and the South African Opposition
In the midst of tweeting commentary (and complaints) about President Barack Obama’s press conference on Wednesday, I received an unexpected reply from Helen Zille, one of the foremost opposition leaders in my native South Africa, and a family friend.
“Can we swap Presidents?” she asked.
@joelpollak Can we swap Presidents?
— Helen Zille (@helenzille) July 15, 2015
Her point is valid, in that as bad as Obama is, there are others far worse. But Zille went further, arguing that Obama–“Barack,” she called him–is “amazing” and “absolutely exceptional.” She did not explain why she felt that way–we’d just have to “agree to disagree.”
@joelpollak I don’t agree. But we’ll have to agree to disagree. I think he is absolutely exceptional.
We cannot actually “agree to disagree,” I replied. The fact is that Obama opposes most of what Zille and her party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) stand for.
The DA has become more diverse, both demographically and ideologically, in recent years, but the party’s core beliefs remain the tenets of classical liberalism: individual freedom, limited government, private property, and free trade. These are the ideas against which Obama defines his own, statist governing philosophy. They map quite closely–if imperfectly–onto the principles of the Republican Party.
That is not to say the DA is equivalent to the Republican Party. When I worked for four years as speechwriter to then-DA leader Tony Leon, I used to describe the party to American friends and relatives as “centrist.” There were certainly some DA leaders who could be described as “Clinton Democrats”–social liberals who favored free markets but a strong government safety net. Others were staunch conservatives. What united the party was the belief that South Africa needed strong political opposition–or its new constitutional democracy would not survive.
It was sometimes difficult to explain to American visitors how I could possibly be working for the opposition and not for the ANC, the party that had liberated the country from apartheid. They shared some of the same romantic visions of multiracial, socialist utopia that I once had.
It is easier to preserve those illusions when you don’t have to live in them. If you spent any real time here, I would try to explain to them, and endured the abuse, dishonesty, and incompetence that thrive under the ANC’s “transformation” agenda, you, too, would support the DA.
I can say the same to my former DA colleagues about America: your official principles do not translate well into the Democratic Party. The “power of individuals to improve their own lives”? Giving parents “choice regarding the type of school their children attend”? Opposing a “one-size-fits-all minimum wage”? Resisting “abuse of power by labour unions that prioritises the employed at the cost of the unemployed”? Focusing on economic growth rather than racial redistribution? Favoring local over national government? These are not Obama’s values.
I can hear some of my old friends in the DA say–as many have said–that their party rejects the social conservatism of the Republican Party. Not really.
The truth is that South Africans are a deeply conservative, religious, and traditionalist nation. If the voters were allowed to decide issues like gay marriage and the death penalty–which have been placed beyond politics by the constitution and the courts–few DA members would be happy. The party wisely gives its members a “free vote” on issues of moral conscience as a quiet acknowledgment of that reality.
The DA has also embraced welfare state policies over the past decade, while Republicans in the U.S. have been moving in the other direction. That, however, has more to do with circumstance than conviction–the DA’s hunt for votes among the disaffected black underclass in South Africa, and the Republicans’ growing concern about America’s exploding national debt and entitlements.
Both the DA and the Republicans favor words like “individual opportunity” to describe their vision of the society they want to create. There are many other similarities besides.
When I returned to the U.S. after a long sojourn in South Africa, I imagined that while I had spurned the radical leftism of my college years and embraced much of what the DA stood for, I would fit right back into the Democratic Party, albeit on the party’s moderate wing.
It took me just a few months to realize there was little room among Democrats for what I now believe. But I switched parties only when I felt I had shed the fear of false labels like “racist,” “greedy,” and “intolerant,” which I had once taken for granted (and probably hurled myself).
Like Zille, perhaps, I had early hopes for Obama, but soon realized–by reading his own words closely, and studying his actions–what he was really about.
If Obama is “amazing,” what are his “amazing” achievements? The country’s fiscal mess is nearly twice as bad. Millions have left the workforce. Terrorism is on the march across the globe. Obamacare is failing. The nation is more divided than it has been in recent memory. The one arguably positive legacy he has achieved is the expansion of gay rights–and there, Obama was a follower, not a leader.
American popular culture, which we have exported all over the world, sets Republicans up as the embodiment of evil. It is gratifying, from afar, to identify with the selfless heroes of that archetype–the rebels against the Death Star, the rock stars against The Man. Zille’s use of “Barack” emulates that pop culture, that aspirational sense of first-name intimacy with the president. It is the fashionable, cultish moniker preferred by Obama’s most devoted fans, those in whose eyes he can do no wrong. It has nothing to do with whether he is a good president.
It is harmless, and probably beneficial, for Zille to identify publicly with Obama, who remains popular in South Africa, though he has been far less helpful to Africa than his reviled predecessor. But on the most basic level, Obama offends what I know are Zille’s most cherished convictions. She engaged me–unwittingly, it seems–during a discussion of how Obama had just scolded a journalist. It was of a piece with Obama’s bullying of the courts and the opposition.
I am sure that Zille, a former journalist herself, would not wish to endorse any of it.
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What retirees moving from out of state need to know about renting in New York City
Be informed so you won't be suprised.
There was a time when the idea of retiring to New York City probably seemed crazy. That time has clearly passed. Boomers who are retirees (maybe even your parents) now see the city as not only a viable option, but also a pretty appealing one, too. Many are coming or returning to the city to be near their kids—and their kids’ kids—because so many young families are electing to stay put instead of decamping to the suburbs.
But New York is no ordinary rental market, and moving here to retire means you’re no longer working, or working as much—which presents its own problem for senior renters. Below are some important aspects, financial and otherwise, to keep in mind when thinking about renting in New York City as a retiree.
Why not just buy?
If you have the money (perhaps from the sale of your former home) you could go ahead and buy a place. But renting gives you the flexibility to try the city or a neighborhood out with relatively low risk. “Choosing to rent may enable you to live in a neighborhood where ownership is too expensive,” says Dolly Hertz, an associate broker with Engel & Völkers NYC. You may be able to get a larger apartment than if you were looking to buy.
If you have a substantial nest egg thanks to the sale of a previous home or other means but no longer earn income, it’s important to note that these savings cannot be used to qualify you for a rental. Why? It is common for landlords to request proof of annual income 40 to 50 times the monthly rent.
“Retired persons have an exceedingly difficult time renting in NYC, as landlords qualify on income, not cash assets—even if the cash assets or marketable securities are $500,000-$1 million,” says Jeffrey L. Geller, vice chairman & chief operating officer of Insurent, a New York City lease guarantee company (and Brick Underground sponsor). “The Insurent Lease Guaranty allows retired people with cash at banks or marketable securities of a minimum of 50 times the monthly rent to easily qualify at over 4,000 Insurent participating buildings.”
Welcome to New York: Give us your money
For the uninitiated, we’re sorry to break it to you, but you could very likely end up paying a broker’s fee to the professional who helps you find your rental apartment. (Fees are typically 12-15 percent of a year’s total rent.) It is possible to find no-fee rentals—more on that here—but it does require a little extra hustle, which has been known to exhaust even energetic young people, so be forewarned.
And while this is not shocking, it's important to note: The cost of living is likely significantly higher than where you will be moving from. "Obviously in New York City, some things are more costly than in other places, and that includes the grocery store," says Citi Habitats agent Natalia Padilla. "The costs of living will really determine whether or not you're going to be able to settle in."
If you’re not made of money
For sure, it’s easier to retire in New York if you have lots of assets, but it’s not impossible if you’ve got a smaller budget or are living on a fixed income. "A lot of retired people are on a fixed income, so finding a unit that's rent stabilized as opposed to market value should be considered a priority," Padilla says. It's not the easiest thing to do, but it is possible, and living in a rent-stabilized apartment will limit annual rent increases to what has been approved by the city's Rent Guidelines Board. (The most recent increases were 1.5 percent for one-year leases and 2.5 percent for two-year leases.) "If my retired aunt was coming into the city, that's what I would be looking for."
Another workaround includes the New York Foundation for Senior Citizens's “house shares” program, through which seniors live with a host, providing reduced rent and companionship. (The Foundation does offer affordable housing in buildings throughout the city, but there is a long waitlist for these apartments.) For help navigating the city, NYFSC also runs senior centers in Chinatown, Little Italy, and Inwood, where meals, activities, and fitness programs are for people over 60.
Make your place, and the city, work for you
Find an apartment and a neighborhood that’s convenient and has what you need—and where you’d like to spend your time. “Renting a one-level house or an apartment with elevator access, in a neighborhood that is walking distance to shopping, movies, and more has become extremely popular among baby boomers, whether in the Midwest or on Park Avenue in Manhattan,” Hertz says.
If you’re moving here to be near family, it makes sense to try to find an apartment near your relatives. Nature lovers should look to locations near Central Park or Prospect Park. The Lincoln Center area, known as Lincoln Square, is popular with senior residents who love the arts and want world-class entertainment nearby. (Yet another thing to think about: Where will your future friends live? While New York’s neighborhoods have residents of all ages, some are dense with young families, students, or people new to the workforce, etc.)
The cost of getting around
Where will you be going, and how will you get there? Living near a transportation hub, where you can catch a few trains to get to different parts of the city, can make all the difference in the world. (Two major spots include Atlantic Terminal in downtown Brooklyn and 59th Street/Columbus Circle in Midtown.) In one of the many price breaks for seniors (other popular ones can be found at museums, theaters, and most cultural institutions), those 65 and older pay half-price fare.
Alternatively, the city’s army of vehicles for hire, including traditional yellow (and in the boroughs, green) cabs, car services, and apps Lyft and Uber can also help you get from point A to point B, but those rides can add up and should be budgeted for.
Best money ever spent
An additional cost to seriously consider is that of a moving service that will execute your move for you. Not only will they move your things, they also will pack them up and unpack them at your new place. (Although be advised: You're likely going to have to downsize and sell, or give away, many of your things, especially if you're coming from a house. If that's the case, enlist the help of professionals to manage that process.)
“Overall, those who have made the switch—often with the aid of companies who handle the whole process for you, including packing, moving, unpacking—are so relieved, it’s a virtual new lease on life,” Hertz says. “Most people agree on one thing: They treasure their autonomy and do not wish to be a burden on their families.”
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Disability benefit claimants now winning 69% of cases at appeal
Assessments for both Personal Independence Payment and Employment and Support Allowance have been branded ‘a total failure’.
Some 69% of PIP and ESA cases that were taken to tribunal went in the claimant's favour (Philip Toscano/PA)
Disability benefit claimants are now winning record levels of appeals against the Department for Work and Pensions, new figures show.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/disability-benefit-claimants-now-winning-69-of-cases-at-appeal-36684913.html
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/article36684909.ece/011cc/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_d859584f-01b8-47b0-b9e8-f1f32f2279a6_1
Assessments for both Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) have been branded “a total failure” and “not fit for purpose” in the wake of the Government statistics.
In the past three months, independent tribunals ruled in favour of claimants in 69% of appeal cases for both benefits.
This represents the highest percentage ever for PIP over a three month period.
DWP says only a fraction of cases are taken to appeal and most decisions are overturned because claimants submit more evidence.
It is clear the assessment process is a total failure and not fit for purpose Debbie Abrahams
“With 69% of both Personal Independence Payment and Employment and Support Allowance decisions being overturned at appeal, it is clear the assessment process is a total failure and not fit for purpose,” said shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams.
“We know from the recent Work and Pensions select committee’s damning report that these assessments cause unnecessary stress and anxiety for the thousands who have been denied support unfairly, as well as wasting public money by sending so many decisions back to the courts.
“The Government is failing sick and disabled people by knowingly allowing this injustice to continue. The Tories must act on the select committee’s recommendations immediately.”
Labour conference 2016
PIP helps disabled people meet additional costs they face because of their impairment or condition, whilst ESA provides support for disabled people whilst out of work.
The figures, released by the Ministry of Justice, which manages the tribunal service, show 12,195 of 17,785 of ESA cases taken to appeal went in favour of the claimant between October and December.
For PIP, it was 13,881 of 20,144 cases taken to appeal over the same time frame.
Mark Atkinson, chief executive at disability charity Scope, said: “The Government needs to get a grip on this situation, as both PIP and ESA appeals are still being won at alarmingly high rates.
“Disabled people rely on these financial lifelines to live independently and be part of their community.
“Without urgent action, vast numbers will continue to be denied this support unfairly.
“The assessments for PIP and ESA must be overhauled to iron out the mistrust, lack of transparency and routine inaccuracies which disabled people report on a weekly basis.”
69% of ESA and PIP appeals went in favour of the claimant between October and December
More than 300,000 PIP and ESA decisions have been changed at review or appeal since October 2015
Nearly half of claimants that have moved over to PIP from the old Disability Living Allowance system have had their benefit initially downgraded or stopped.
Claimants must go through a so-called mandatory reconsideration, an internal review by DWP, before they can appeal to an independent tribunal.
The MoJ spent £103.1 million on social security and child support tribunals in 2016/17, the vast majority of which were for PIP and ESA.
In addition, DWP has spent £108.1 million on direct staffing costs for ESA and PIP mandatory reconsiderations and appeals since October 2015, according to figures obtained by the Press Association.
Stephen Lloyd, Liberal Democrat work and pensions spokesman, said: “These figures are absolutely appalling, but of little surprise to me.
Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Lloyd
“With the many constituents who come through my office and those of other MPs across the country, we see with our own eyes some shocking decisions by work capability tribunals.
“It is time that we stop faceless corporations making money off the backs of disabled people, while providing poor quality service.”
A DWP spokeswoman said: “We are absolutely committed to ensuring that disabled people get the support they’re entitled to.
“Since PIP was introduced more than 2.9 million decisions have been made, and of these 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.
“In the majority of successful appeals, decisions are overturned because people have submitted more evidence.”
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The future of police recruiting in Edmonton
By Cheryl Voordenhout
As the police organization for one of Canada’s fastest growing multicultural cities, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) had an interesting recruitment challenge on their hands. Recruiters felt that good candidates were failing their applications due to small problems that could be easily solved with a bit of mentoring – problems such as a lack of confidence, or discomfort with the demanding academy expectations that often go hand-in-hand with police training.
In response, the EPS created the Mentoring Academy. Believed to be the first of its kind in Canada, the Academy selects previously deferred applicants from communities and demographics that are under-represented in the EPS — women, newcomers and Indigenous Canadians, for example — and helps prepare them to complete a police officer application and to be successful in police training.
The program, which ran its first pilot class in spring 2017, takes police hopefuls through 12 weeks of mentoring, fitness testing, practice interviews, scenarios and workshops. Topics such as ethics in policing, active listening, effective presentations and situational awareness are covered. The goal is to help prepare participants for what they will encounter in the application process, as well as in training, should they succeed in being hired.
“It came out of necessity,” says Staff Sgt. Robinder Gill, who instigated the program. “We live in a very diverse community, and the EPS, like most other police agencies, doesn’t accurately reflect that diversity. We had to ask ourselves why that was the case.”
Currently, about 22 per cent of EPS sworn members are women, while 11 per cent identify as a visible minority or Indigenous person. Part of the issue, notes Gill, is that many people from these under-represented communities lack the mentorship and support to make it through the demanding recruit selection and training process.
“Sixty per cent of police officers had someone in their immediate family or social circle who was a police officer,” Gill says. “Many of these individuals in the Mentoring Academy are trying to run the same race, but they’re behind the start line already because they don’t have the same supports.”
Academy participants are selected based on a review of their file, with special attention paid to the reasons they were deferred in any previous attempts to get hired by the EPS.
“Some of the applicants who don’t make it through the first time have what it takes. They just don’t know it themselves,” says Heather Smith, the program’s co-ordinator. “The fact we’ve selected them for this program — that we’re investing this time into developing them — shows them that we see their potential, and that helps build their confidence.”
Smith notes that recruiters were surprised by a discrepancy between the number of women who attended the EPS’s Women in Policing information session versus the number of women who actually applied. “There’s a disconnect,” she says. “Sometimes women need reassurance that they can do this job. The ‘gap’ in their skills is really just their perception. It’s fair to say this is probably the case for most minority applicants, too.”
To develop the curriculum, recruiters looked at the places where applicants typically struggle: physical fitness, often a challenge for those working multiple jobs or juggling family responsibilities; and the behavioural descriptive interview (BDI), cited by many as the hardest part of the application process.
The BDI asks applicants to describe particular experiences and how they handled them. Interviewers are looking for evidence of competencies such as adaptability, perseverance, interpersonal skills and stress management — skills that Academy students do have.
“They’ve had plenty of challenging life experiences; they just may not have much practice articulating them in a way that resonates with police recruiters,” Smith says.
Although the program is still in its infancy, it is already showing results. Participants who go forward into the application process are scoring three to seven points higher on their BDI component than those who have not gone through the Academy and are, on average, 7-15 seconds faster in the obstacle course portion of the fitness testing.
Nine from the first Academy of 16 people have been hired into the next recruit class and two more are making their way through the eight-stage application process. This is leading to an unexpected benefit for students who go on to recruit training.
“There are quite a few of us in my recruit training class that are from the Mentoring Academy,” says Karianne Veillette, who participated in the pilot and started recruit training in August. “It’s definitely a great support system because we already have team building experience from our time in the program.”
Recruiters also rave about the value of the Academy as a screening tool. “In the normal application process, we get about eight hours with each applicant,” Gill says. “With this program, we spend 36 hours with them.”
The extra time gives recruiters a chance to assess the character of each participant and determine whether the applicant has the values and integrity to uphold the high standards of the EPS. “We then feel confident we’re sending the highest calibre of individuals into our application process,” Gill says.
While it is true that students are getting a hand up, recruiters are quick to note that it’s not a free ride. After the Academy, participants still need to go through the normal application process, and if selected, they enter a recruit training class like any other new recruit. “Everyone knows this Academy is by invitation only,” says Smith. “There’s a sense of pride in that. And the expectation when you go into training is even higher.”
Academy participant and new recruit Conrad Whetstone agrees: “You see the passion and dedication these people are putting into you, trying to give you the best chance of success, and it makes you very proud to have been selected.”
With the full support of EPS leadership and a successful pilot behind them, the Recruit Selection Unit plans to continue running this ground-breaking program.
“I see this as changing the way we recruit for sure,” says Gill. The second class started in September with 16 participants registered, including one who relocated to Edmonton specifically to take part.
Recruiters are optimistic about the direction the Mentoring Academy is taking, not just in terms of widening the net to increase options for recruitment, but also for the possibilities it offers as recruiters start to consider people with different but equally valuable skills.
“Traditionally, we had this box, and we looked at people based on how they fit into that box,” Smith says. “But when you have people with vastly different life experiences, how are you supposed to evaluate them the same way?”
For more information, visit joineps.ca.
Cheryl Voordenhout is a communications advisor and has been with the EPS for a year. Previously she held writing and communications positions with the City of Edmonton and the Government of Alberta.
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Mind, Body, Spirit: Thought & Practice
The Spirituality of John Lennon
Edited by Nicholas Nigro
He was only 40 years old when he died a tragic and untimely death. Yet it could be argued that John Lennon crammed multiple lifetimes into those 40 years. More than three decades since his passing, the venerated singer and songwriter has legions of fans all over the world, many of whom weren't yet born when the Beatles transformed music culture forever in the 1960s. Lennon's enduring popularity is rooted in the extraordinary depth of the man as both a gifted musician and tireless humanitarian. Lennon's timeless message has changed so many people's lives for the better. Posthumously through his music and memory, he continues to offer hope and inspiration to men and women of all ages, encouraging them to be all they can be and to give something back to the planet they call home. The Spirituality of John Lennon is a comprehensive collection of the music legend's insights, philosophies, and reflections on the purpose of life. Lennon once said, "I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us."
With so much wisdom between its covers, The Spirituality of John Lennon is a book that Lennon fans new and old will cherish.
Dimensions 114 x 152mm
Imprint BACKBEAT BOOKS
Publication City/Country Milwaukee, United States
ISBN10 161713595X
About Nicholas Nigro
NICHOLAS NIGRO is a freelance writer and author of multiple books on a variety of subjects, including spirituality, science, popular culture, and business. Recent credits include the three debut titles (as editor) in the Backbeat Books Spirituality Series: The Spirituality of Bono, The Spirituality of Carlos Santana, and The Spirituality of Richard Gere.
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Tycoon wants to free millions of Filipinos from loan sharks
BILLIONAIRE John Gokongwei, owner of the Philippines’ largest snack maker and budget airline, and a Skype, Inc. founder will invest as much as $200 million over three years to lend to millions of unbanked Filipinos.
The venture, set up last year by Gokongwei’s JG Summit Holdings, Inc. and financial-technology start-up Oriente, seeks to give credit through a digital platform to Filipinos who often resort to loan sharks because they lack access to formal banking services. Its expansion comes as the central bank encourages emerging technologies to spur financial inclusion in a country where more than 70% of adults have no bank accounts.
“The big picture here is how do we liberate and enable under-served Filipinos to have access to funds,” JG Summit President Lance Gokongwei, son of John, said in an interview in Manila on Wednesday.
The platform with Oriente, which was established by a co-founder of Skype and Chinese financial-technology start-up LU.com, rivals a venture of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.-led Globe Telecom, Inc. and Jack Ma’s Ant Financial as well as Manila-based PLDT, Inc., which is in talks with a possible foreign partner.
The venture is hiring 1,000 people this year mostly to handle verification, loan processing and collection for a targeted half a million borrowers by the end of 2018, said Hamilton Angluben, general manager of the platform, which is called Cashalo.
There are only 41.5 million deposit accounts in the Philippines, even though there are more mobile phones than the 110 million population, and almost 50 million people use Facebook in the country.
“The technological savviness of Filipinos is off the charts,” said Geoffrey Prentice, Oriente co-founder and chief strategy officer. The service will also be attractive because so few people have credit cards, he added.
Bank branches aren’t available in a third of towns and cities in the Philippines, while pawnbrokers and microfinance providers have a wider presence, according to central bank data.
Cashalo users can apply for loans entirely online and those without bank accounts can receive the money in designated convenience stores, pawnshops, and bill payment centers within 24 hours. The service allows customers to borrow as much as 5,000 pesos ($95) for up to 45 days at 2.95% plus a 4% processing fee. That compares with the 20% monthly interest charged by many loan sharks. — Bloomberg
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Award-Winning Australian VFX & Animation Company Iloura Merges with Method Studios
Sister VFX studios come together under one brand.
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After integrating operationally over the last year, Deluxe sister VFX companies Iloura and Method have taken the final step in joining forces, unifying under a single brand; Method Studios. Now with a team across Melbourne, Sydney, Vancouver, Los Angeles, New York, Pune, Chicago and Atlanta, Method is a growing, global VFX force, with one of the industry’s deepest talent pools. The company works on blockbuster and prestige features, episodics, design, advertising and immersive experiences. Method launched a new merged website today.
Method President and GM Ed Ulbrich said, “We’ve been quietly building something new here; bringing together the best of what each studio has developed around the world – whether it’s production processes, artistry, sales and marketing, technology or culture. We’re now one of the biggest VFX studios in the world. Our ability to take on larger and more meaningful pieces of big features, to act as sole or co-lead vendor, choose our projects, and produce the stunning work these teams are creating doesn’t come from one studio or brand alone. It’s a combination of the best of everything we have to offer.”
Iloura brings to Method a 30-year legacy of creative passion and stand-out VFX and animation work, teams that earned a 2016 VFX Emmy® for work on Game of Thrones, and VFX Oscar® nominations for Mad Max: Fury Road, and Deepwater Horizon. Key talent led by award-winning VFX Supervisor Glenn Melenhorst and VFX Producer and EP Ineke Majoor in Melbourne, and by GM Jeanette Manifold in Sydney, will bring their teams’ artistry to an expanding set of clients through Method. Simon Rosenthal, now Method Head of VFX, Australia, continues his 20+ year leadership of the newly-branded teams. Iloura recently completed work on Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Bright, and earlier, Game of Thrones Season 7 ‘Spoils of War,’ and Thor: Ragnarok.
Founded in 1998, Method has grown from a boutique Los Angeles VFX studio to a global powerhouse. Method’s experienced group of 30 VFX Supervisors and creative leads delivers stunning design, VFX, and immersive artistry. Recent features include Thor: Ragnarok, Okja and the VFX-Oscar-nominated Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, with Black Panther, Aquaman, A Wrinkle in Time, Ant Man and the Wasp, Avengers: Infinity War, Christopher Robin, The New Mutants, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald, Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Untitled Deadpool Sequel among the features it has in production.
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Let's use TV to change minds, attitudes...even society
Rosie Arnold, head of art at Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and the new Thinkbox Academy president, lays out her agenda for society-changing films that harness the power of TV
It’s 1972. It’s break time at junior school. My friends and I are in the playground, imitating a cartoon polar bear we’ve seen on TV. But this bear isn’t in a TV programme, he’s in an ad – "It’s frothy, man!" – for a soft drink called Cresta, written by the great John Webster (although, being only 10 at the time, I have no idea who Webster is).
In those days, ads were inescapable. Well-loved. Ad breaks were something you looked forward to. Is that still the case in 2017? Nobody watches TV any more, right?
The question arises because many of us in advertising consistently underestimate TV. A recent survey of our peers revealed we assume the public only watches an hour and 15 minutes of TV a day – whereas the real figure is three hours and 54 minutes. So it’s big, it’s valued, it’s trusted and we know that it remains the most effective advertising medium. So what else can we do with it to drive positive change?
Redress the balance
Throughout my career, I have constantly encouraged more women into the creative department – and I hope that by being president of the Thinkbox Academy, I will continue to help that cause. It’s not just women; I want to encourage people with different backgrounds and ethnicities, too. Being a creative is a wonderful career; it should not be an exclusively male, white, middle-class domain.
But I am more ambitious still. I believe that we all have the power to change attitudes, affect social norms and redress the balance in the world – and that we have a responsibility to do that.
Lofty words, I know.
We think we understand the reach of TV, but clearly don’t. Last year, for example, more people around the world saw a Unilever ad than saw the Disney film Frozen.
We know film can change people’s attitudes – that’s why companies invest so much in it. This means that, while shaping brands, we can also challenge prejudices.
Many companies are already championing this thinking. There seem to be two approaches: either an ad champions change, or it subtly tries to shift perceptions of role models and activities associated with gender, race or social class.
The incredible "#ShareTheLoad" Ariel detergent ad that encouraged more men to do the laundry – all the more extraordinary because it came from India. Or the Amazon Christmas ad that brought together an imam and a priest. Already, this power is being recognised and acted upon around the world.
Alternatively, the message can be embedded in the work. At Christmas, did you register that there was a British Asian family in a Currys ad or, indeed, a black family in the John Lewis ad?
Check ourselves
Every time I see or write a script, I challenge my own stereotypes. Does it have to be a woman putting the food on the table? Does it have to be a heterosexual couple? Does everyone have to be white? Does it have to be a boy who becomes a scientist? Do the elderly people all have to be doddering grandparents? We all need to check ourselves when judging ideas and casting.
When I entered the business, people would always remark that "the ads are better than the telly". I don’t hear that any more. There are, of course, campaigns that capture the public’s imagination – look at the phenomenon which is Christmas advertising – but we cannot effect real change and influence if we are not entertaining.
So let’s all be brave and optimistic and recognise the opportunities such a great tool as TV can give us. Go forth and make great society-changing films that make this article redundant.
The Thinkbox Academy
The Thinkbox Academy is made up of 150 advertising and marketing luminaries who have been involved in award-winning creative work for TV. The Academy judges the bi-monthly Thinkboxes: the only awards that celebrate the UK’s world-beating TV ad creativity, in all its forms and at regular points through the year.
Ryanair shows brands must put trust first to stay ahead in our changing economy
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Lokpal website launched by Chairperson Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose
New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): The Website of the Lokpal or anti-corruption Ombudsman was inaugurated by the Chairperson, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose in presence of all the Members of Lokpal, a press note from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) said on Thursday.
The press release said, "The DG, National Information Commission (NIC), Neeta Verma was also present on the occasion. The Website has been developed by NIC and provides basic information with respect to the working and functioning of the Lokpal. The Website can be accessed at http://lokpal.gov.in.""The Lokpal is the first institution of its kind in independent India, established under the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 to inquire and investigate into allegations of the corruption against public functionaries who fall within the scope and ambit of the above Act," the release added.
Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose was appointed as the first Chairperson of the Lokpal and his oath was administered by President Ram Nath Kovind on March 23.
The Government had also appointed four Judicial and four non-Judicial Members. The office of Lokpal is temporary functioning from the Hotel Ashok, in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.
The press note further stated, "The process of notifying the rules and regulations including the format for receiving complaints is being developed. All complaints which were received till April 16 have been examined by the Office of Lokpal and disposed of accordingly. The Complaints received thereafter are under examination." (ANI)
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Mary Sue Patchett Executive Vice President - Community and Field Operations
Mary Sue Patchett
Mary Sue Patchett has over 30 years of senior care and housing experience serving in leadership roles. She became the Company’s Executive Vice President – Community Operations in November 2015. Prior to that, she served as Division President of the Company’s southeast division since February 2013 and as Divisional Vice President since joining the Company in September 2011 in connection with the Company's acquisition of Horizon Bay. Previously, Ms. Patchett served as Chief Operating Officer of Horizon Bay from January 2011 through August 2011 and as its Senior Vice President of Operations from March 2008 through December 2011.
Prior to joining Horizon Bay, she was President and owner of Patchett & Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm for senior housing and other healthcare companies, from 2005 until March 2008. Ms. Patchett had previously served as Divisional Vice President for Alterra Healthcare Corporation for over six years and started in senior living with nine years in numerous leadership positions at Sunrise Senior Living. Ms. Patchett has served on numerous industry boards and is serving on the Board of Directors of Argentum and the Board of Directors of Florida Senior Living Association as its past chair. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from George Mason University.
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Who Invented The Vulcanized Rubber Tire? History Of Vulcanized Rubber Tire - Biography of Charles Goodyear
Charles Goodyear - Inventor of Vulcanized Rubber Tire. Charles Goodyear was an American who discovered rubber vulcanization in 1839. Goodyear was born in New Haven on 29 December 1800 and died in New York on 1 July 1860 at the age of 59 years. He patented his invention in 1844.
At first Charles Goodyear was a former merchant who went bankrupt and was jailed for being in debt. Charles Goodyear was interested in rubber world as the world was experiencing kareat fever in 1830.
Rubber is good but it smells fierce, hardened when it's cold and too sticky when it's warm and does not seem to be used for practical purposes. Charles Goodyear founded his company and tried hard to make it useful. Prior to seven years, he tried to process rubber materials with magnesium oxide, bronze powder, nitric acid and lime gluten, but remained fruitless.
Invention of vulcanized rubber or rubber tires
The discovery of vulcanized rubber or rubber tires occurred accidentally by Charles Goodyear in 1839. When Goodyear cleaned his hands from the powder, which consisted of a mixture of rubber and sulfur. The powder fell and went inside a stove on the fire. When the rubber melts, it reacts with the material and finds that the material is changed to have a character like elastic skin. This is the first time rubber vulcanization or rubber tires are created.
Charles Goodyear
Furthermore, with these findings Goodyear also managed to find weatherproof rubber. Then he was obsessed to make a variety of goods from the material and patented his creation. Goodyear's patent measures are patented by a British rubber pioneer named Thomas Hancock whose ironic method of retreading is inspired by Goodyear's weather-resistant rubber samples. He also tried to fight through legal channels, but eventually lost and then lost his French patent, and not only that, the royalties were canceled.
In 1898 Frank Seiberling founded Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and became the third largest tire and rubber producer in the world after Michelin and Bridgestone. The company headquartered in Ohio, United States is producing tires for cars, aircraft, and heavy machinery. Despite not having a relationship, the company's name was taken in recognition of Charles Goodyear who created rubber vulcanization in 1839.
In August 1824, Goodyear married Clarissa Beecher and they had seven children, one of whom was William Henry Goodyear.
Charles Goodyear died in New York on July 1, 1860 leaving behind a debt of USD 200,000. But finally Goodyear's sacrifice and hard work were not in vain, as his family could enjoy it all through the accumulation of royalties, and more importantly, his name has been embedded as a pioneer of the world's modern rubber industry.
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The Feds are tightening up airport security. Today, the Transportation Security Administration took over the job of checking passenger I.D.s at airport security lines at New York City's JFK airport. It was the start of a national rollout of about 2,000 federal screeners, who will appear at airports nationwide within the next 18 months. [Source: Aviation Week]
Want to have your own travel TV show? Then follow the example of Robin Esrock, a Canadian who dropped out the rat race on his 30th birthday for a round-the-world trip that was only supposed to last a year...and that has never stopped. Esrock filmed clips of his travels and posted them on YouTube, and he also wrote freelance articles in a style modeled after Hunter S. Thompson. He built a website called Modern Gonzo, and he's been rewarded for his self-promotional efforts and multi-media storytelling talents with his own upcoming TV show on the Canadian cable channel OLN.
Travel photo contest.Trafalgar is once again holding a photo contest inviting people who have taken one of its previous tours to submit a short journal or story along with a photo. After a first round of judging, the winner will be selected by public vote.
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Louisa McGillicuddy interviews Laurence Graff OBE
For Laurence Graff, founder of Graff Diamonds, London has always been a city to inspire and create. After setting up his namesake company during the 1960s, he laid the foundations for what would become the company’s headquarters in the heart of Mayfair in 1994. “Our Bond Street store is our flagship in London, and clients come from all over the world to purchase their jewels from this store,” he says today. “Mayfair is also the home of our workshop, designers, and global headquarters - so it really is the heart of the Graff universe.”
The flagship Graff Diamonds on Bond Street is less than five minutes’ stroll from Burlington Gate, and focuses on, by their own description, “the most fabulous jewels in the world”. Graff, now worth an estimated $4.6bn, oversees a luxury empire that is considered one of the most respected high jewellery houses of the twenty-first century.
Born and raised in London’s East End during wartime, Graff learnt his trade as a teenage apprentice in the historic shops of Hatton Garden. It’s a passion that has been with him from a young age: “I remember spending hours looking at gemstones, they fascinated and captivated me,” says Graff. “Without realising it I became a self-taught gemmologist. It was an inherent feeling which has turned into a life-long passion.”
That life-long passion has meant that Graff has become known in the business for seeking out and acquiring the rarest and most sought-after diamonds in the trade. He has been described in the past as having a “sixth sense” when it comes to diamonds. In fact recently, in October 2017, Graff purchased the largest rough diamond in existence: the 1,109-carat diamond called Lesedi La Rona was mined in Botswana and secured in a deal valued at $53m. It is the largest gem-quality rough diamond to be discovered in more than a century, its size is exceeded only by the famous 3,016-carat Cullinan Diamond, mined in South Africa in 1905, which went on to become part of the Crown Jewels.
Aside from high-profile acquisitions, Graff is famous for pioneering a unique “mine-to-market” model, which means that every piece of Graff jewellery can be traced back to its source. Graff runs state-of- the-art cutting and polishing facilities in Botswana, Johannesburg, Antwerp and New York, while the design, creation and crafting is all done in London.
Laurence Graff OBE
The passion for jewels runs through the Graff family, many of whom are involved in the business in some way: Graff’s brother has been production director for over 50 years, his son is CEO, and his nephew is also a director. Now, there are over 50 Graff boutiques all over the world, including outposts from New York to Paris to Abu Dhabi and Tokyo.
For someone looking to invest in their first significant piece of high jewellery, Graff offers the following advice: “The most important factor to consider, whether you have a budget of £10,000 or £10million, is to buy the very best quality at every level. You can compromise on some things, but you cannot compromise on quality. Quality is timeless.”
The only question, then, is what stone to settle on – what would Graff opt for, if he had to choose just one gemstone? “That’s like asking which is your favourite child!” he jokes. “There is something deeply enigmatic about rubies, emeralds and sapphires - the secrets they hold within the depths of their rich colour. The way a gemstone connects with you when you hold it in your hand is deeply personal.”
Though, he concedes, “There is an extreme beauty to a diamond, you view it as an art form. The colours and reflections of the facets are so beautiful to look at.” Indeed alongside his passion for diamonds, Graff has become one of the world’s leading art collectors, with an impressive collection of modern works that include pieces by Picasso, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Basquiat and Bacon. His first love, though, will always be diamonds. “A diamond will never wear out, will never lose its colour, will never lose its shine,” he says. “It’s forever. What else in life is forever?”
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ABC Family's '25 Days Of Christmas' Schedule Deserves 25 Days Of Snacks To Go With It
By Caitlyn Callegari
Some people are annoyed by how we drag out holidays here in the good ol' U.S. of A., but I have to say, I like it. Perhaps it's because I have a hard time letting things go? Whatever. All I know is that there are a slew of other overly festive people who feel similarly to me. And, I am sure they're rejoicing over the fact that, according to Entertainment Weekly, ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas schedule has been released. So, grinches, please take a seat from high atop your cavernous mountain home. Fellow Whos down in Whoville, this one is for you.
What better way to celebrate 25 Days of Christmas than with a viewing party for you and your friends? Right, there isn't. This is, without a doubt, the best way. A viewing party is simple to put together, too. I mean, ABC Family has already got you covered on the entertainment front, so all you really need to do is provide the refreshments. Holiday themed ones, of course. Considering 25 days is a fairly long time to try and put together a menu off the top of your head, I, out of the kindness of my holiday-loving heart, have provided one for you.
Here are the food and/or drinks you should pair with each day of the 25 Days of Christmas schedule, per the site, for your viewing party needs.
7:00 am: The Preacher’s Wife11:00 am: Disney’s A Christmas Carol1:00 pm: Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas2:30 pm: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus3:30 pm: Frosty’s Winter Wonderland4:00 pm: Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July6:00 pm: The Year Without a Santa Claus7:00 pm: The Polar Express9:00 pm: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (live action)12:00 am: The Year Without a Santa Clause1:00 am: Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
The Refreshments
Build this one around candy cane martinis. For some, it's hard to accept that the holiday season is starting. Ease your friends into Winter the best way you know how: alcohol and fiction.
7:00 am: The Christmas Shoes9:00 am: The Frosty’s Winter Wonderland11:00 am: Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas12:30 pm: A Miser Brothers Christmas1:30 pm: Jack Frost, (animated)2:30 pm: Rudolph’s Shiny New Year3:30 pm: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory6:00 pm: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas8:45 pm: The Santa Clause12:00 am: Snow
Chocolate, for Augustus. Though, I'm never really certain how Willy Wonka qualifies as a Christmas movie.
7:00 am: Christmas in Boston9:00 am: Mickey’s Christmas Carol11:00 am: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory1:45 pm: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus4:00 pm: Jack Frost, (live action)6:00 pm: The Santa Clause8:15 pm: Fred Claus12:00 am: Snow 2: Brain Freeze
A plethora of Santa-themed movies calls for cookies that'd be typically designated to the big guy for all his hard work on Christmas Eve. I say go traditional with homemade chocolate chip. Yum.
7:00 am: Meet the Santas
9:00am: The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
11:00 am: Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
12:00 pm: Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
2:00 pm: Jack Frost, (live action)
4:00 pm: I’ll Be Home for Christmas
6:00 pm: Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
7:00 pm: Fred Claus
9:30 pm: Elf
11:50 pm: Prancer
Maple syrup and spaghetti. JK, that's repulsive. But I think it'd be cute to serve your friends some waffle bites with maple syrup, in honor of Elf.
7: 00 am: Rudolph’s Shiny New Year8:00 am: Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July10:00 am: I’ll Be Home For Christmas12:15 pm: Prancer3:00 pm: The Year Without a Santa Claus4:00 pm: Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town5:00 pm: The Polar Express7:15 pm: Elf9:30 pm: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas12:30 am: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
This is a Saturday, folks. Meaning that, if your viewing party happens to fall on this day, it can be a bit more naughty than one during the week. I'm talking about alcohol, people. Spike that eggnog.
7:00 am: A Very Brady Christmas9:00 am: The Holiday Heist11:00 am: The Year Without a Santa Claus12:00 pm: The Little Drummer Boy12:30 pm: Disney’s A Christmas Carol2:30 pm: The Polar Express4:45 pm: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas6:30 pm: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas9:30 pm: Beyond the Shadows: The Making of Shadow Hunters10:00 pm: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Candy canes. In lieu of the ones that the Grinch stole, obvs.
7:00 am: Home Alone: The Holiday Heist9:00 am: The Little Drummer Boy11:00 am: Three Days1:00 pm: Love Actually4:00 pm: Fred Claus6:30 pm: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation8:45 pm: The Santa Clause12:00 am: The Mistle-Tones
Brr, it's cold out there. Serve your guests English Breakfast Tea and some biscuits while watching Love Actually, the best thing the Brits ever gave us. Aside from Tom Hiddleston, of course.
7:00 am: Fred Claus11:00 am: Secret Santa1:00 pm: The Mistle-Tones3:00 pm: Pinocchio’s Christmas4:00 pm: Disney’s A Christmas Carol6:00 pm: Frosty’s Winter Wonderland6:30 pm: The Santa Clause8:45 pm: The Polar Express12:00 am: Snowglobe
Hot chocolate with a marshmallow topping station? Yes, you will be the most beloved host of all time.
7: 00 am: 12 Dates of Christmas9:00 am: The Little Drummer Boy Book II11:00 am: Pinocchio’s Christmas12:10 pm: Prancer2:20 pm: Snowglobe4:30 pm: Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas6:00 pm: Mickey’s Christmas Carol6:30 pm: The Polar Express8:45 pm: Elf12:00 am: The Year Without a Santa Claus1:00 am: Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
Know what's easy to serve (and, let's be real, just buy from the store) but also super delicious and festive? Peppermint bark.
7:00 am: Prancer11:00 am: Nestor, The Long Eared Christmas Donkey11:30 am: Frosty’s Winter Wonderland12:00 pm: Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July2:00 pm: Mickey’s Christmas Carol2:30 pm: Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas4:00 pm: The Little Drummer Boy4:30 pm: Rudolph’s Shiny New Year5:30 pm: The Year Without a Santa Claus6:30 pm: Elf8:45 pm: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation12:00 am: Christmas Maybe
At this point, we'll be right in the midst of Hanukkah. Give out some chocolate gelt to your guest viewers.
7:00 am: Desperately Seeking Santa
9:00 am: Frosty’s Winter Wonderland
11:00 am: Holiday in Handcuffs
1:00 pm: The Family Man
6:45 pm: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,
9:00 pm: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, (live action)
12:00 am: Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
1:00 am: The Year Without a Santa Claus
Fridays are for winding down and relaxing. Invite your friends over after work to watch some quality films over a seasonal Winter beer or two or 12 or whatever.
7:00 am: Jack Frost (animated)8:00 am: Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas9:45 am: MIckey’s Twice Upon a Christmas11:30 am: The Bells of Fraggle Rock12:15 pm: Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas1:20 pm: The Year Without a Santa Clause2:30 pm: Santa Clause is Comin’ to Town3:30 pm: Frosty’s Winter Wonderland4:00 pm: Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July6:00 pm: Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas9:00 pm: Elf11:15 pm: Fred Claus
In keeping with the Hanukkah celebrations, why not make some delectable potato latkes? It's Saturday, so you have time to cook.
7:00 am: Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas8:45 am: Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas10:25 am: The Bells of Fraggle Rock11:05 am: Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas12:10 pm: Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July2:15 pm: Elf4:30 pm: Toy Story6:45 pm: Toy Story 29:00 pm: Toy Story That Time Forgot9:30 pm: Toy Story 3
It may be a bit ambitious, but I think it's a good a time as any to make Gingerbread cookies and let your viewing party guests decorate their own as they see fit.
7:00 am: Mr. St. Nick9:00 am: Twas The Night Before Christmas11:00 am: Frosty’s Winter Wonderland11:30am: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory2:00 pm: Toy Story4:00 pm: Toy Story 26:00 pm: Toy Story That Time Forgot6:30 pm: Toy Story 38:45 pm: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause12:00am: Snow
Put some Holiday Hershey Kisses in a bowl for everyone to share and voila! You're dunzo. Also, it's decorative. Two for one.
7:00 am: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory11:00 am: Desperately Seeking Santa1:00 pm: Santa Baby3:00 pm: Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe5:00 pm: Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town6:00 pm: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause8:15 pm: Elf10:30 pm: The Little Drummer Boy12:00 am: Snow 2: Brain Freeze
Every viewing party needs Kahlua and milk cocktails. They're like chocolate milk for adults.
7:00 am: Three Days9:00 am: The Little Drummer Boy11:00 am: The Family Man2:00 pm: Christmas in Boston4:00 pm: Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town5:00 pm: The Year Without a Santa Claus6:00 pm: Elf8:15 pm: The Polar Express10:30 pm: Nestor, The Long Eared Christmas Donkey12:00 am: Desperately Seeking Santa
Warm apple pie. Because is it even a holiday without this dessert?
7:00 am: The Family Man10:15 am: Love Actually1:30 pm: The Preacher’s Wife4:15 pm: Snow6:30 pm: The Polar Express8:45 pm: Disney’s A Christmas Carol12:00am: Holidaze
Yule log cake. I think that pretty much says it all. If you're unsure how to execute it, you can find a recipe for that here.
7:00 am: The Preacher’s Wife9:45 am: Christmas Cupid12:00 pm: The Mistle-Tones2:00 pm: Snow 2: Brain Freeze4:15 pm: Disney’s A Christmas Carol6:30 pm: Disney’s Prep & Landing7:00 pm: Disney’s Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice7:30 pm: The Santa Clause9:45 pm: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause12:00 am: Three Days
Watch some movies while decorating a gingerbread house with your guests. Obviously, just buy extra candy, like gum drops and peppermints, so you can eat as you build.
7:00 am: Prancer9:30 am: Rudolph’s Shiny New Year10:30 am: Jack Frost, (live action)12:30 pm: Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July2:30 pm: Frosty’s Winter Wonderland3:00 pm: The Year Without a Santa Claus4:05 pm: Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town5:15 pm: The Santa Clause7:30 pm: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause9:45 pm: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation12:00 am: Holiday in Handcuffs
Red wine. It's festive because it's red? Yeah, let's go with that.
7:00 am: Rudolph’s Shiny New Year8:00 am: Jack Frost (live action)10:00 am: Prancer12:45 pm: Disney’s A Christmas Carol3:00 pm: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas4:45 pm: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause7:00 pm: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation9:15 pm: Elf11:30 pm: Mickey’s Christmas Carol
White wine. It's festive because it's the same color as snow. Definitely going with that.
7:00 am: Prancer9:00 am: Disney’s A Christmas Carol11:15 am: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas1:00 pm: Rudolph’s Shiny New Year2:00 pm: Frosty’s Winter Wonderland2:30 pm: Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause4:30 pm: Snowglobe6:30 pm: Elf8:45 pm: The Santa Clause12:00 am: Jack Frost (live action)
Serve your guests coffee with peppermint mocha creamer.
7:00 am: Rudolph’s Shiny New Year8:00 am: 12 Dates of Christmas12:00 pm: Christmas Cupid2:15 pm: Jack Frost (live action)4:30 pm: The Year Without a Santa Clause5:30 pm: Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town6:30 pm: The Santa Clause8:45 pm: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause12:00 am: Holiday in Handcuffs
It's time. Time to get out those Pillsbury sugar cookie with the Santa Clause faces and Christmas Trees adorning them. They're a crowd pleaser.
7:00 am: The Mistle-Tones
9:00 am: The Holiday in Handcuffs
11:00 am: Santa Baby
1:00 pm: Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe
4:15 pm: Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July
6:30 pm: Frosty's Winter Wonderland
7:00 pm: Mickey’s Christmas Carol
7:30 pm: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
9:45 pm: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
12:00 am: Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
Relax and kick back with your guests as you snuggle up on the couch with this spiked apple cider recipe from Food Network.
7:00 am: Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July9:00 am: The Little Drummer Boy11:00 am: Home Alone: The Holiday Heist1:00 pm: Prancer3:15 pm: The Nightmare Before Christmas5:00 pm: Disney’s Prep & Landing5:30 pm: Disney’s Prep & Landing Naughty vs. Nice6:00 pm: Toy Story That Time Forgot6:30 pm: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation8:45 pm: Elf12:00 am: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
Figgy pudding for Christmas Eve? Is that too much? Maybe. How about serving some chocolate and vanilla pudding, updating the weird food staple in the songs that I don't think anyone ever eats anyway.
7:00 am: Prancer11:00 am: Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey11:30 am: Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town12:30 pm: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas2:15 pm: Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause4:30 pm: Toy Story That Time Forgot5:00 pm: Elf7:15 pm: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone12:00 am: Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town1:00 am: The Year Without a Santa Claus
It's Christmas and they're playing Harry Potter, so it's time to go all out. Make butterbeer and spread the Christmas cheer. You can find recipes on how to do it here.
Now all you have to do is find some friends and get an ugly Christmas sweater. Should be cake.
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9 Days from $995 Mexico’s Copper Canyon Roundtrip Train
Dear Vacation Traveler, Welcome to a great vacation at an affordable price. Your Copper Canyon tour is all inclusive with all meals in Latin America, all activities, all hotels, a great itinerary, all airport transfers, all transportation and excursions. A professional Tour Director accompanies you for the entire Copper Canyon vacation. Our travel packages also offer purified water at meals and on the motor coach. Join the smart shoppers and experienced travelers who have chosen Caravan Tours since 1952.
Begins and Ends: Phoenix
Copper Canyon Mexico Tours
All-Inclusive, Escorted Railroad Vacations
Caravan's all-inclusive Mexico Copper Canyon Railroad Tours (by private train car) are fully escorted by professional Tour Operators.
Travel first class aboard air-conditioned private rail car. See the majestic Sierra Madre Mountains up close as you tour by day, round trip (both south and north train routes) through the five major canyons of Mexico, collectively known as Copper Canyon.
About Copper Canyon Railroad
Ferrocaril Mexicano, exclusive owners of the Chihuahua-Pacifico Railway, operates the Copper Canyon railroad cars. Sightseeing tours by rail car through Copper Canyon is unlike anything you will ever see by train anywhere else in the world.
Altogether there are 25,000 square miles of canyons in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. Copper Canyon private railroad cars travel through an impressive 86 tunnels and over 38 bridges en route, as the train winds its way from sea level to an elevation of 8,000 feet.
Caravan has carefully constructed our Mexico Copper Canyon Railroad Tour Itinerary to show you as much as possible at a pace you will find most comfortable:
Copper Canyon train car seats are reserved for Caravan passengers only
Copper Canyon Mexico railroad tours are suitable for seniors and family vacations
Private rail cars are air-conditioned and were refurbished in 1999
Both north and south train routes are scheduled in the daytime for optimum sightseeing
You’ll stay in carefully chosen and memorable lodges and hotels
Spend two nights at a restored 1890's colonial mansion Posada del Hidalgo in El Fuerte
Stay at Posada Barrancas Mirador, near the highest point of the canyon (each tour's guest room has a terrace overlooking the Copper Canyon)
Restaurants and menus are carefully chosen by Caravan
Purified drinking water and purified ice are served at all meals
Caravan provides bottled water on the coach and the Copper Canyon train
One all-inclusive price with no surprise option sales
For more information on our Copper Canyon Railroad Tour or to make Reservations, please call Toll Free 1-800-227-2826 or 312-321-9800 or visit our Copper Canyon Railroad Tour Page.
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Double $ 995 $ 1,095 $ 1,195
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All meals included in Mexico
Hilton Garden Inn Phoenix
Obregon, Mexico
El Fuerte, Mexico
Rio Vista Lodge
Canyon Rim, Mexico
Posada del Hidalgo
Hermosillo, Mexico
Days 1, 8 – Phoenix, Arizona
Hilton Garden Inn Phoenix Airport North
The Hilton Garden Inn Phoenix Airport North hotel is located one mile from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The hotel opened in 2009. The hotel offers complimentary 24-hour airport shuttle service, complimentary wired and wireless high-speed internet access, a fitness center and an outdoor heated pool and spa. The Great American Grill, the hotel's casual restaurant, is open daily from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Room service is available from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. The lounge is open from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Day 2 – Obregon, Mexico
The Fiesta Inn is a newly opened, modern hotel located in Obregon, Mexico. Located in the Yaqui Valley, Obregon is the second largest city in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. The Fiesta Inn has a fitness center, a large outdoor swimming pool, a lobby bar and the Café La Fiesta restaurant. All guest rooms have air-conditioning, cable TV, coffee and tea makers, and hairdryers.
Day 3 – El Fuerte, Mexico
The Rio Vista Lodge is located in the colonial town of El Fuerte. The lodge is situated on a hill above the town, adjacent to the historic fort. From the patios, you can see the El Fuerte River and the Sierra Madre Mountains. Sunsets can be spectacular.
Day 4 – Canyon Rim, Mexico
Posada Barrancas Mirador
The Posada Barrancas Mirador is located at the canyon's edge, near the highest point of the canyon. The Posada Barrancas Mirador is the premier hotel on the canyon rim and is the only hotel where each guest room has a spectacular view overlooking the canyon. From the hotel you may walk to see the Tarahumara Indians who live in the canyon caves below. You can also shop for native crafts from the Tarahumara artisan vendors who gather in front of the hotel.
Days 5, 6 – El Fuerte, Mexico
The Posada del Hidalgo is centrally located for exploring El Fuerte. This beautiful hotel is a former colonial mansion built by Señor Rafael Almada in 1890 for 100,000 gold pesos. Most of the original pine beams and furniture were brought by boat from San Francisco, California. The hotel features a swimming pool, restaurant, high ceilings with wood beams and two story balconies. Most of the rooms are air conditioned and all have private tile baths.
Day 7 – Hermosillo, Mexico
The Fiesta Americana hotel is located in Hermosillo, the modern capital of the Mexican state of Sonora. This full service hotel has two restaurants and a lobby bar. Hotel amenities include a fitness center and and outdoor swimming pool.
Caravan's Phoenix, Arizona hotel, the Hilton Garden Inn Phoenix Airport North (3838 East Van Buren Street) provides a courtesy shuttle from the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) to the hotel. Upon arrival, request a pickup using the Hilton Garden Inn North's courtesy phone at the baggage claim area or call the hotel directly at: 602-306-2323. The shuttle operates 24 hours daily. Taxis cost approximately $25 and take 10 minutes.
Caravan's Phoenix, Arizona hotel, the Hilton Garden Inn Phoenix Airport North provides a courtesy shuttle from the hotel to the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX). The shuttle operates every half hour on the hour, 24 hours daily. You can sign up for a shuttle at the hotel's front desk. Taxis cost approximately $25 and take 10 minutes.
AeroMexico, Air Canada, AirTran Airways, Alaska Airlines, America West, American Airlines, American Transair, ATA, British Airways, Continental, Delta, Frontier, Lufthansa, Mesa Airlines, Midwest Express, Skywest Airlines, Southwest, Sun Country, Ted, United Airlines, US Airways
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From the scenic Canadian Maritimes to the tropical rainforests of Costa Rica, Caravan has a tour for every one. Passengers requiring special assistance must be accompanied by an able companion.
Included meals for each tour are listed at the end of each day. Meals are shown by B (breakfast), L (lunch) and D (dinner). All meals within Latin America are included. Most meals are included within the USA and Canada. Full, buffet, or deluxe continental breakfasts are included everywhere. Coffee and tea are provided at all meals. In Latin America, bottled water is provided free on the motorcoach and purified water is provided at the meals. Alcoholic beverages are not included unless specified.
What is the currency exchange rate?
As of October 1, 2006, the currency exchange rate is 10.82 Mexican pesos to 1 U.S. Dollar.
Do you have any advice on purchasing real estate and timeshares?
We strongly caution against purchasing real estate or timeshares during your vacation with us. Instead, we suggest you use the experience for the purposes of orientation and information gathering. If you are interested in such a purchase, we suggest you return for at least one more visit and seek the guidance of a lawyer.
Back to Top Customer Reviews of our Mexico's Copper Canyon tour
“I thank you for a well-thought tour!”
Ms. L.B., San Diego, California
“The hotels were fabulous, service was great, and personnel was courteous and helpful. The meals, there were absolutely no complaints. The restaurants were clean and unique. Very nice! ”
Mr. & Mrs. R.D., St. Ann, Missouri
“We enjoyed our trip very much and we are looking forward to our next trip.”
Mr. R.J., Newbury Park, California
“We are looking forward to going on other Caravan tours later next year.”
Mr. & Mrs. R.S., Hideaway, Texas
“Each of the hotels were clean, comfortable, we enjoyed them all. The meals were all excellent and the service was superb. We enjoyed the spectacular scenery, especially the canyons (Copper Canyon). We enjoyed all phases of this trip very much. Caravan does an excellent job! ”
Mr. & Mrs. R.R., St. George, Utah
“Your tour director made the trip worthwhile; in fact, all the tour directors whom we have had on our three trips with Caravan are exceptional. I have been on your tours three times and all were excellent. Love to see more tours outside the U.S. Thank you for wonderful trips!”
Mr. & Mrs. J.S., Raleigh, North Carolina
“I enjoyed the float and seeing the birds, the views from the trains were excellent. Based on our experience on this trip, will want to go with Caravan again.”
Mr. & Mrs. M.K., San Diego, California
“I was pleased with the entire trip and will continue to recommend Caravan Tours to others. Excellent value.”
Mr. & Mrs. V.F., Metaireie, Louisiana
“We will recommend Caravan to our friends. I think supplying all the food and bottled water was a real plus! This was a fun time as well as informative. This has been a favorite planned trip to take. I will certainly consider Caravan in future trips.”
Mr. & Mrs. J.M., Kingsport, Tennessee
“This trip was a wonderful experience, as I have never traveled with Caravan before, but will certainly be looking at your other tours for the future. It was just amazing. We got everything for the money we paid, accommodation, three meals a day, transportation and a great tour director. Keep up the good work!”
Ms. B.C., Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
“Our tour director served as a great historian, had good sense of humor and was accommodating. I would travel with Caravan again with no hesitation!”
Ms. M.B., Las Cruces, New Mexico
“This was our first experience with Caravan Tours and we would certainly recommend it to all.”
Mr. & Mrs. J.H., Hampstead, Maryland
“We usually go on cruises for eighteen or more days at a time, or go to Hawaii for five to six weeks at a time, so this tour was relatively short in our way of vacationing. It was most enjoyable and very relaxing.”
Mr. & Mrs. G.B., Atascadero, California
“All of the hotel locations were great. The buffet breakfasts at El Paso. Posada del Hidalgo, Barrancas Mirador and Palacio del Sol were excellent. Most memorable steak was at Barrancas Mirador. Great combination of guided tours and free time to roam. Fantastic view from the sunrise and canyon! This alone was worth the trip if you did nothing else.”
Mr. & Mrs. J.T., Louisville, Kentucky
“This was my first guided tour, and I enjoyed the tour guides knowledge of the local people and places. Would recommend this tour to our friends.”
Mr. & Mrs. R.M., Eugene, Oregon
“The trip was beautifully organized and each step of the way, our comfort seemed to be considered. Although there were forty people on the trip, it could have been five with all of the attention we were given. I also liked having the daily itinerary booklet. I thought it was very useful. It was a wonderful trip!”
Ms. J.Y., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“My favorite part of the tour was our history lessons given by our tour director.”
Mr. & Mrs. W.T., Las Cruces, New Mexico
“It was a great tour, well planned, and I will use you again!”
Mr. & Mrs. R.C., Saint Charles, Illinois
“An educational experience not to be missed!”
Mr. & Mrs. P.M., La Habra Heights, California
“Caravan Tours personnel made the trip a complete success by being able to adapt to any difficulties encountered by the weather or transportation changes.”
Mr. & Mrs. S.B., Bernet, Texas
“This is a great place to see some fabulous scenery!”
Ms. A.W., Denver, Colorado
“I have traveled extensively in all fifty states and more than ninety countries. I dont usually take tours, but this tour was very well run and a very good value for our money.”
Ms. J.C., Chapel Hill, North Carolina
“I would be glad to recommend this trip by Caravan to anyone. It was great!”
Mr. & Mrs. F.B., Carbondale, Illinois
“The hotel service was good. They did an excellent job of making check in as easy as possible. The restaurants selected were great. The meals were well chosen to give us a taste of Mexico without too much spice. The selection of stops during sightseeing was good and the scenery was beautiful. Our tour director couldnt have been better. I appreciated his knowledge of the history and culture of the area. He was pleasant and had a great sense of humor. Very well organized. The time spent on the rim at the Mirador, awesome!”
Mr. & Mrs. W.E., Ellinwood, Kansas
“An extremely interesting tour, beautiful scenery and I learned a great deal about the Northern part of Mexico. Very good value for the cost.”
Ms. S.M., Calgary, AB Canada
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Indian work with bourbon brand to create limited edition Scout Bobber
Published: 9th March 2018
The throttle and the bottle shouldn’t really mix, but that hasn’t stopped Indian Motorcycles revisiting one of their most successful partnerships.
The classic American cruiser company has once again joined forces with whiskey purveyors Jack Daniel’s, to produce a limited run of Scout Bobbers, hand painted in the black and gold colours of JD’s in house fire brigade service.
Just 177 examples will be made for sale around the world, in a collaboration between America’s first motorbike company and the country’s first registered distillery.
This is the third year in a row that the two companies have released a limited edition Indian, with the design work once again carried out by South Dakota custom shop Klock Werks Kustom Cycles. The first models, in 2016, were built to celebrate 150 years of Jack Daniel’s, while last year’s Jack Daniel’s Limited Edition Indian Chieftain sold out in less than 10 minutes. Orders for the new Scout Bobbers will be taken from Tuesday (13 March) with deliveries from July.
The new model features a two tone matt black paint scheme with 24 carat gold graphics on the tank and mudguards. The leather seat has the Jack Daniel’s logo embroidered on it, while the grips, pegs and gear lever are also unique to the special edition. Each bike also carries its unique production number on a specially designed Montana Silversmith badge that has been coated in 24 carat gold.
The current list price of the standard 1133cc Scout Bobber is £11,229, although no UK prices have yet been revealed for the limited edition, although the Jack Daniel’s big will cost $15,999 in the US, against $11,449 of the standard model.
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Jasper Carrott
Jasper Carrott began his performing career with his own folk club, The Boggery, in Solihull, Birmingham, where he performed songs as well as compering. It didn't take long until his banter overshadowed the songs, and he became known more as a comedian than a singer.
His big break came in August 1975, when he had a surprise top five single with the novelty record Funky Moped - whose success was largely due to the B-side, a risqué monologue about animated children's TV series The Magic Roundabout, being banned by the BBC.
Throughout out the rest of the Seventies, his would regularly release successful albums of his stand-up, requiring him to maintain a high turnover of material. Rather than gags, he pioneered the now familiar style of telling personal anecdotes such as the problems of dealing with a mole in his garden, sitting next to the nutter on the bus, or a visit to Old Trafford.
In 1976, he had his first half-hour stand-up show for BBC Midlands, A Half Hour Mislaid with Jasper Carrott. But two years later his TV career really took off when he was give a stand-up special by LWT, which became a regular event.
In 1982 he moved to the BBC with Carrott's Lib - a Saturday night comedy show broadcast live – which he followed up with such shows as Carrott's Commercial Breakdown,Carrott Confidential, 24 Carrott Gold,and Canned Carrott, which introduced viewers to the double act of Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis
Canned Carrott also featured a regular police drama spoof called The Detectives, co-starring Robert Powell, which was spun off into its own series.
Between 2002 and 2004, he starred in three series of the multicultural sitcom All About Me opposite Meera Syal and Nina Wadia
In 2004, he revived some of his greatest routines for a series of gigs at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, a venue to which he has returned for several Rock With Laughter Christmas concerts, mixing comedy and music.
From 2007 to 2009, he hosted the ITV1 show Golden Balls - but that is not his only connection with gameshows: he was part owner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? producer Celador. He and his wife Hazel sold their shares in 2006 for more than £10million.
Accolades include the British Comedy Awards' lifetime achievement gong in 2008 and an OBE in 2002.
His daughter, Lucy Davis is an actress best known for playing Dawn in The Office.
Jasper Carrott, Alistair McGowan
Date: Sun 17 Nov 2019
Venue: Rose Theatre Kingston
An Audience With Jasper Carrott: The Complete Series
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Wear-Tyne Derby
Derby must be the turning point for Sunderland, says Vaughan
David Vaughan insist this weekend's Wear-Tyne derby must be the turning point for struggling Sunderland
David Vaughan with Paolo Di Canio
David Vaughan believes Sunderland must use this weekend’s Wear-Tyne derby to kick-start their season.
The Black Cats go into Sunday’s game with just one point from a possible 24, and on the back of six successive defeats.
But Vaughan was one of the heroes of Sunderland’s 3-0 win on Tyneside six months ago, in a game that sparked the run that helped the club scramble to safety.
And he says victory at the Stadium of Light could prove to be a similar turning point.
“Obviously we were under a bit of pressure in April, but we had a good result then so hopefully we can reproduce that on Sunday,” said the Wales international, who scored Sunderland’s stunning third goal at St James’ Park.
“Like then, there’s a bit of tension, but also excitement. We’re looking forward to the game and putting in a performance.
“We need something to kick-start our season and get that belief there.
“If we can win against our local rivals, then everyone will be happy on Monday morning.
“It’s probably a good thing we’re playing Newcastle. You don’t need to get yourself up for the game, everyone is buzzing for it.
“Hopefully that will work in our favour.
“If we can get a couple of wins or good results, then the belief comes in and then we can hopefully move up the table.”
Vaughan is mindful of the fact that there have been plenty of positive words from the Sunderland players, while all the time the defeats have kept on racking up.
And he says it is high time that the team repaid the supporters’ loyalty by producing the goods on the pitch.
He admitted: “The supporters haven’t had a great deal to shout about this season.
“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter who the manager is, it’s the players who go out on the pitch.
“We’ve got to try to give a little bit back and do better than we have been doing.”
David Vaughan
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5 Great Musical Biopics You Need To See After Bohemian Rhapsody And Rocketman
By Hugh Scott
The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody was an undisputed smash hit in 2018, winning awards and receiving huge praise. So far in 2019, Rocketman, about the great Elton John has been… less of a juggernaut, but is still a wonderful movie worth checking out. Of course, these aren’t the first music-inspired biopics and there are a lot of them out there worth your time and money.
It's hard to pick and choose the most worth, but I ultimately decided to limit this list to five, which is tough, because it means leaving out some legendary movies, like Sid & Nancy, about Sid Vicious, Amadeus, about Mozart, The Doors, about…well…The Doors and many more.
These are five that we think are worth watching the most, depending on your mood and what time of night it is, because sometimes, the best ones are the ones you see when you are up too late and getting into trouble, just like the subjects in the films.
Yeah, there has been some controversy surrounding this, just as there is for many biopics, but this fantastic film about the legendary rap group N.W.A. has everything anyone could want from a great biopic.
It’s got an outstanding cast, featuring Ice Cube’s son, O’Shea Jackson II, who could be Ice Cube’s twin, they look so much alike. It brings in all the best music from N.W.A.'s short run at the top of the rap game in the late '80s. It has the conflict between band members, specifically going into the legendary feud that erupted between Dr. Dre and Eazy-E that forced the group to break up. And it has a happy ending, of sorts, with Dre reconciling with Eazy before Eazy died of AIDS.
Sure, there are some serious “artistic liberties” taken and there are some very important details left out that many critics point out should have been included, but that happens in a lot of movies like this and that shouldn’t take anyway from anyone’s enjoyment, as long as they know the whole story.
Love & Mercy (2015)
Brian Wilson is a musical genius. He is rightfully often cited as changing rock and roll from a teenage pastime to a serious artistic endeavor with his work in the mid-sixties, specifically with the legendary and amazing Pet Sounds album by his band, The Beach Boys. Love & Mercy is a creative and interesting take on his story and one of the best biopics of this decade.
Love & Mercy splits Brian Wilson’s story up into two important parts of his fascinating life. The first during that amazingly creative time in the mid-sixties when he wrote the album Pet Sounds and the masterpiece “pocket symphony” known as “Good Vibration.” Paul Dano plays the enigmatic artists at his most creative and then as he first descends into mental illness and drug abuse.
The Dano/Wilson scenes bounce back and forth with scenes of Brian Wilson in the 1980s, played by John Cusack, as his mental illness is being taken advantage of by his sketchy doctor, Eugene Landy, played spectacularly by Paul Giamatti. Love & Mercy is a wonderful story of genius lost and redemption found.
I’m Not There (2007)
Since he first moved to New York from Minnesota in 1961, Bob Dylan has set out to create a mythos surrounding himself. He’s notoriously vague and dodgy in interviews and he has spent a considerable amount of time deliberately confusing the public in regards to his history. For all of his lyrical genius, his constant artist re-invention and persona-shifting is just as big a part of his sizable legacy and I’m Not There does nothing to lessen that.
For starters, I’m Not There stars six different actors as Dylan: Christian Bale, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw and Heath Ledger. They all represent the shape-shifting Dylan in different eras. Like Dylan’s autobiography, the movie isn’t linear, nor is it completely true to the facts, because those things don’t matter to Bob Dylan. Instead, what you get is a series of vignettes that try to explain the myth of Dylan, not the true story of Dylan.
There is no curtain being pulled up to reveal the wizard behind it, if anything, there are just more curtains falling down around the legend’s true story. The myth of Dylan, like the myth of the poets he idolizes, including Dylan Thomas, is what is important here. His art is far more important that what he likes for breakfast and his personas have always been the key to his best art.
Walk The Line (2005)
Unlike I'm Not There, Walk The Line is a very straightforward telling of probably the greatest country artist of all-time, Johnny Cash, played in an Oscar-nominated performance by Joaquin Phoenix. It doesn’t get bogged down in myths, nor is it over-stylized or complicated. It’s just an old-fashioned, brutally honest, and forthright story, just like the Man In Black himself was.
At its heart, it’s a love story. It may follow Johnny Cash from his childhood to superstardom, but his beloved wife and oft musical partner June Carter Cash, played by Reese Witherspoon in an Oscar-WINNING performance, is just as important to the story. And what a beautiful love story it is. Eventually. After the ring of fire they are forced to go through before coming out on top in the end.
What makes Walk The Line so great is its brutal honesty about June and Johnny’s relationship, which for years in the beginning was a real rollercoaster due to Johnny’s drug abuse. The film is also completely open about that, his pill addiction and his alcoholism. It’s all there, the naked truth about one of the most influential artist of all time and how his partner truly was a partner, not content to watch Johnny squander his immense talent under the burden of drugs and drink. The movie ends with June finally accepting Johnny’s marriage proposal and if that doesn’t leave you in tears, nothing will.
Motley Crue is completely over-the-top, ridiculous, stupid, and really, really awesome. And so is the 2019 biopic about the group, streaming on Netflix, called The Dirt, based on the completely over-the-top, ridiculous, stupid, and really, really awesome autobiography of the same name the band published in 2001. Sure, there are better biopics out there, but when you’re home on a Friday night with nothing to do, it doesn’t get better than streaming The Dirt.
In a really weird way, it is kind of the same as I’m Not There in that The Dirt is really about perpetuating the mythos of Motley Crue as an drug-addled, drunk, sex-addicted bunch of insane troublemakers that figured out a way to never have to stop being teenagers than it is about telling the whole truth.
The truth is in there, somewhere, maybe. There are certainly some of the harsh truths they faced, like Nikki Sixx’s heroin addiction and Vince Neil killing his friend “Razzle” Dingley, drummer for Hanoi Rocks, in a drunk driving crash in Hollywood in 1984. The story is full of sobering moments, but really, the party never stops.
Five great musicians and bands and five amazing biopics, each uniquely great for different reasons. While it’s sad that La Bamba about Richie Valens missed the list as did the really horribly amazing CBGB with Alan Rickman as Hilly Kristal (like The Dirt we celebrate its glorious badness), these are five that won’t disappoint, for sure.
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Saving babies from dangerous teething medications
Parents can rest easier knowing that dangerous and ineffective over-the-counter medications to ease teething pain are being pulled from store shelves.
35 Number of cases of a benzocaine-associated blood disorder reported to the FDA.
2 Number of deaths from the benzocaine-associated blood disorder.
4 months The age of one of the infants who died after getting a benzocaine treatment for sore gums.
In May 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that over-the-counter oral health products containing the pain reliever benzocaine no longer should be marketed for teething pain or used to treat infants and children younger than 2. The agency also requested that companies add new warnings to all other benzocaine oral health products to describe certain serious risks.
The action came almost four years after Public Citizen petitioned the FDA to effectively ban over-the-counter infant teething products containing benzocaine and significantly increase warnings about other products containing benzocaine.
On Sept. 21, 2017, Public Citizen sued the FDA to compel the agency to respond to the citizen petition.
Benzocaine can cause methemoglobinemia, a life-threatening blood disorder that impairs the body’s ability to use oxygen. The FDA concluded several years earlier that over-the-counter benzocaine products should not be used to treat teething pain in infants and children because they are ineffective for this use and can cause this rare, but potentially deadly, adverse reaction.
But the FDA dragged its feet.
Since Public Citizen submitted its petition in 2014, the FDA continued to receive multiple new reports of serious adverse reactions to benzocaine, including adverse reactions in children who were given over-the-counter benzocaine oral health care products. Faster action by the agency may have prevented some of these injuries.
The agency undoubtedly would not have taken these actions now had Public Citizen not petitioned the agency to do so and sued the agency to compel it to respond to our petition. Although we support the FDA’s action, it comes too late for some infants and children. Dr. Michael Carome, director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group
Benzocaine can cause a life-threatening blood disorder that impairs the body’s ability to use oxygen.
Public Citizen petitioned the FDA in 2014 to ban over-the-counter infant teething products containing benzocaine. We sued in 2017 when the FDA failed to respond.
In 2018, the FDA announced that over-the-counter oral health products containing the pain reliever benzocaine no longer should be marketed for teething pain or used to treat infants and young children.
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County considers promise to only take local trash
Carol McLeod
A piece of paper from more than 20 years ago and the promises it holds to the citizens of Jefferson County recently come under scrutiny. It started when a city in a neighboring county asked if they could bring their trash here.
In a resolution signed by the then Jefferson County Board of Commission, residents in the area of the county’s proposed landfill were assured of several things, including that solid waste materials from only within Jefferson County would be accepted there. That was in 1996; and, in the past several years, the county has been approached by outside interests to see if it would consider changing its policy and accept waste materials from outside the county’s borders.
Of late, some parties have questioned the binding power of that piece of paper and whether an entirely different set of commissioners can be held accountable to the promises signed by their predecessors.
“I think it’s a valid and binding resolution,” said Dalton Dowdy, Jefferson County’s current attorney. “We’ve got it and it does appear to be binding to the commission at this time.”
While the county commission has recently discussed landfill expenses and the idea of opening the landfill to contracts from surrounding counties, Dowdy said he doesn’t think there are any plans regarding changes to the future of the landfill or the old resolution.
Dowdy explained that an engineering firm who works with the county to make sure the landfill is compliant with all applicable laws and regulations recently told the commission that it is filling the current cell with too much dirt and could benefit from taking in outside trash.
“This may be something we might look at in the future,” Dowdy said. “They recommended that to Adam Mestres several years ago.” Mestres was the county’s administrator prior to Adam Brett.
Dowdy said he believes the neighboring city’s interest in the local landfill was presented to the commissioners as “information only,” not as a recommendation to change the county’s policies.
All discussion of making lasting changes to the landfill’s operations were tabled in January to give the sitting commissioners more time to become familiar to the issue.
The resolution signed in February 1996 contains six provisions regarding what was the proposed landfill; Mennonite Church Road would be kept in good repair, trash containers would not be placed near or adjacent to neighboring property, Mennonite Church Road would be kept clean and free from debris, hours of operation would be limited to five and one half days per work with no activity on Sunday, no out of county and no out of state solid waste materials would be accepted at the landfill, and solid waste truck movement is to be minimized on Mennonite Church Road.
In March 1996, the commissioners signed a more detailed resolution, this document states it is an agreement with a citizens committee.
The resolution contains more provisions than the one signed in February; and, those provisions are more specific. They cover road access to the landfill; solid waste truck traffic in front of the Jefferson County High School; landfill effects on water contamination, odor, emission and livestock; what will be accepted in the landfill; cost of the landfill construction and future operation; leachate and waste water collections, storage, treatment and disposal; hours of operation; policy on stray dogs; landfill organizational and management structure; litter management; prison labor; and final appearance of the landfill.
The projected cost of the landfill was not to exceed $2,200,000; and, the money to pay for the project was to come from SPLOST.
Mickey Moses was the attorney at the time of the resolutions and said he was not involved.
“I remember them signing a document; but, I did not draw it up,” he said.
Adam Brett, the county’s administrator, said the landfill will need another cell in four to six years depending on the volume intake of trash.
“The next cell is projected at between $1 – and $1.2 million,” he said. “This year’s landfill budget is $684,300.”
Brett said that in years without new cell construction the landfill usually runs a revenue surplus.
“However, in years with a new cell construction, expenditures can be as much at $600,000 over revenue,” he said.
The request from a municipality outside the county is simply being discussed by the commissioners, Brett said. There is no plan to alter the statements made in either of the resolutions, he added, saying that if and when the issue is considered, there will be public meetings where residents can express their opinions.
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Manchester Guardian
"Summary of News -- Domestic"
The East End of London has been thrown into a state of intense excitement by the discovery of another brutal murder of a woman in the same neighbourhood in which recently other shocking tragedies of a like nature have been perpetrated. The circumstances of the present case leave little doubt as to the series of murders being the work of the same hand. The victim is a woman named ANNIE CHAPMAN, a woman who has for some years gained a precarious livelihood in various ways, some of them not the most reputable. Her body was found at about six o'clock on Saturday morning in the back yard belonging to a house in Hanbury-street, Spitalfields, shockingly mutilated, and with the throat cut. Up to a late hour last night no definite clue to the murderer had been obtained.
"Another Brutal Murder of a Woman in East London
Excitement in Whitechapel"
On Saturday morning at a quarter past six the neighbourhood of Whitechapel was horrified to a degree bordering on panic by the discovery of another barbarous murder of a woman, the scene of the crime being 29, Hanbury-street (late Brown Lane), Spitalfields. Hanbury-street is a thoroughfare running between Commercial-street and Whitechapel Road, the occupants of which are poor and for the most part of Jewish extraction. The circumstances of the murder are of such a revolting character as to point to the conclusion that it had been perpetrated by the hand which committed that in Buck's Row and the two previous murders, all of which have occurred within a stone's throw of each other. The murdered woman, who appears to have been respectably connected, was known in the neighbourhood by women of the unfortunate class as Annie Sivvy, but her real name was Annie Chapman. She is described by those who knew her best as a decent, although poor, looking woman, about 5ft. 2in. or 5ft. 3in. high, with fair brown wavy hair, blue eyes, large flat nose; and, strange to say, she had two of her front teeth missing, as had Mary Ann Nicholls, who was murdered in Buck's Row. When her body was found it was respectably clad. She wore no head covering, but simply a skirt and bodice and two light petticoats. A search being made in her pockets nothing was found but an envelope stamped "The Sussex Regiment." The house in Hanbury-street in the yard of which the crime was committed is occupied by a woman named Richardson, who employs several men in the rough packing line. There is a small shop in front at the basement of the house, which is utilised for the purposes of a cat's meat shop. From the upper end of the house there is a passage at either end leading to a small yard, some 13ft. or 14ft. square, separated from the adjoining houses by a slight wooden fence. There is no outlet at the back, and any person who gains access must of necessity make his exit from the same end as his entry. In the yard there were recently some packing cases, which had been sent up from the basement of the dwelling, but just behind the lower door there was a clear space left, wherein the murder was undoubtedly committed. The theory primarily formed was that the unfortunate victims had been first murdered and afterwards dragged through the entry into the back yard, but from an inspection made later in the day it appears that the murder was actually committed in the corner of the yard, which the back door when open places in obscurity. There were some marks of blood observable in the passage, but it is now known that these were caused during the work of removal of some packing-cases, the edges of which accidentally came in contact with the blood upon the spot from which the unhappy victim was removed.
The discovery of the murder appears to have been made by John Davis, a porter in Spitalfields Market, and one of the occupants of 29, Hanbury-street, but at 5.25, about three-quarters of an hour before the body was found, Albert Cadosch, who lodges next door, had occasion to go into the adjoining yard at the back, and states that he heard a conversation on the other side of the palings as if between two people. He caught the word "No,' and fancied he subsequently heard a slight scuffle, with the noise of a falling against the palings, but thinking that his neighbours might probably be out in the yard he took no further notice and went to his work. It is stated, however, that in the house the back premises of which happened to become the scene of this hideous crime no fewer than six separate families reside, and some people who live on the ground floor and are credited with being "light sleepers" assert emphatically that during the night and morning they heard no sound of a suspicious nature, which is likely enough in view of the pact that the passage from the front to the back of the house has been invariably left open for the convenience of dwellers in the building, the traffic being constant. When the man Davis made his discovery he made no attempt to ascertain the condition of deceased, but immediately alarmed the other inmates of the house, and then proceeded to acquaint the police at the Commercial-street station with what had occurred. In the meantime Mrs. Richardson, the principal occupier of the premases (sic), together with a young woman named Eliza Cooksly, sleeping on the second floor, were aroused, and under the notion that the building was on fire ran to the back bedroom window, whence they were enabled to see the murdered woman lying on the paved yard. When the police arrived they found that the woman had been murdered in a terribly brutal fashion. Her clothes were disarranged, her throat cut, and her body mutilated in a manner too horrible for description. With as little delay as possible the officers removed the body to the nearest mortuary.
Among other statements bearing upon the finding of the body is one by
Mrs. Richardson, the landlady at 29, Hanbury-street, who says: "I have lived at this house fifteen years, and my lodgers are poor but hard-working people. Some have lodged with me as long as twelve years. They mostly work at the fish market or the Spitalfields Market. Some of the carmen in the fish market go out to work as early as 1 a.m., while others go out at four and five, so that the place is open all night and anyone can get in. It is certain that the deceased came voluntarily into the yard, as if there had been any struggle it must have been heard, several lodgers sleep at the back of the house, and some had their windows open, but no noise was heard from the yard. One of my lodgers, a carman, named Thompson, employed at Goodson's, in Brick Lane, went out at four o'clock in the morning. He did not go into the yard, but he did not notice anything particular in the passage as he went out. My son John came in at ten minutes to five, and he gave a look round before he went to market. He went through to the yard, but no one was there then, and everything was right. Just before six o'clock, when Mr. Davis, another of my lodgers, came down, he found the deceased lying in the corner of the yard, close to the house, and by the side of the step. There was not the slightest sign of a struggle, and the pool of blood which flowed from the throat after it was cut was close to the step where she lay. She does not appear to have moved an inch after the fiend struck her with the knife. She must have died instantly. The murderer must have gone away from the spot covered in blood. There was an earthenware pan containing water in the yard; but this was not discoloured, and could not, therefore, have been used by the murderer. The only possible clue that I can think of is that Mr. Thompsons's wife met a man about a month ago lying on the stairs. This was about four o'clock in the morning. He looked like a Jew, and spoke with a foreign accent. When asked what he was doing there, he replied he was wanting to do a 'doss' before the market opened. He slept on the stairs that night, and I believe he has slept on the stairs on other nights. Mrs. Thompson is certain she could recognise the man again both by his personal appearance and peculiar voice."
With regard to the history and recent movements of the victim a woman named Amelia Farmer has given important information. She states that the deceased, whom she had known for a considerable time, had been a fellow-lodger with her. The name of the deceased was Annie Chapman, and she was the wife of a veterinary surgeon, who died at Windsor about 18 months ago. Annie Chapman had for a long time been separated from her husband by mutual agreement, and had been allowed 10s. a week by him for her maintenance. The money had been sent by Post-office order, and had always come regularly. About 18 months ago the instalments suddenly ceased, and, upon inquiry being made, it was found that the husband had died. Annie Chapman had two children, but where they were she could not say. The deceased had a mother and sister, who were living in the neighbourhood of Brompton or Fulham. Farmer had been in the habit of writing letters for her friend, but could not remember the exact address of the mother or sister, but thought it was near the Brompton Hospital. Last Monday, Chapman had intimated her intention of communicating with her sister, saying-- "If I can get a pair of boots from my sister I shall go hop picking." Another relation, a brother-in-law of the deceased, lived somewhere in or near Oxford-street. Farmer asserted that her murdered friend was apparently a sober, steady-going sort of woman, and one who seldom took any drink. For some time past she had been living occasionally with a man who had been in the militia, but was now working at some neighbouring brewery. He was a good-tempered man, rather tall, about 5ft. 10in., fair, and of florid complexion. He was the last man in the world to have quarrelled with Chapman, nor would he have injured her in any way. At the beginning of the week, the deceased had been rather severely knocked about in the breast and face by another woman of the locality through jealousy, and had been obliged to go to the casual ward. As a regular means of livelihood she had not been in the habit of frequenting the streets, but had made antimacassars for sale. Sometimes she would buy flowers or matches with which to pick up a living. Farmer was perfectly certain that on Friday night the murdered woman had worn three rings, which were not genuine, but were imitations, otherwise she would not have troubled to go out and find money for her lodgings, as a lodging-house keeper said she did on Friday night.
The deputy of a lodging-house at 30, Dorset-street, states that Annie Chapman used to lodge there about two years ago with a man called Jack Sivvy, a sieve maker; hence her nickname was Annie Sivvy. She appeared to be a quiet woman, and not given to drinking; in fact, he was quite surprised to hear that she had been seen drinking the night before her murder. The woman had two children to his knowledge--a boy who was a cripple, and who he believed was at some charitable school, and a daughter who was somewhere in France.
Timothy Donovan, the deputy at the lodging-house, 35 Dorset- street, stated that the deceased had been in the habit of coming there for the past four months. She was a quiet woman, and gave no trouble. He had heard her say she wished she was as well off as her relations, but she never told him who her relations were or where they lived. A pensioner or a soldier usually came to the lodging-house with her on Saturday nights and generally he stayed until the Monday morning. He would be able to identify the man instantly if he saw him. After the man left on Monday deceased would usually keep in the room for some days longer, the charge being eightpence per night. This man stayed at the house from Saturday to Monday last, and when he went the deceased went with him. She was not seen at the house again until Friday night about half-past eleven o'clock, when she passed the doorway, and Donovan, calling out, asked her where she had been since Monday, and why she had not slept there, and she replied, "I have been in the Infirmary." Then she went on her way in the direction of Bishopsgate-street. About 1.40 a.m. on Saturday morning she came again to the lodging-house, and asked for a bed. The message was brought upstairs to him, and he sent downstairs to ask for the money. The woman replied, "I haven't enough now, but keep my bed for me. I shan't be long." She was the worse for drink at the time, and was eating some baked potatoes. He saw nothing of her again until he was called to the mortuary yesterday morning, when he identified the deceased by her features and her wavy hair, which was turning gray. After deceased left on Monday last he found two large bottles in the room, one containing medicine, and labelled in a manner which confirmed her statement that she had been under medical treatment. On being asked whether he knew a man called "Leather Apron," Donovan said he knew him well. He came to the lodging-house about twelve months ago, a woman being his companion. In the early hours of the morning the woman commenced screaming murder, and it seems that "Leather Apron" had knocked her down and tore her hair and clothes. "Leather Apron" said the woman was trying to rob him, but he (Donovan) did not believe him, and turned him out of the house. The man had come there several times since for a lodging, but they would not admit him.
No definite clue has as yet been obtained of the perpetrator of the fiendish crime, but the populace is in a state of excitement, which is prolific in rumours which may or may not lead to results. For instance, it was ascertained on Saturday night that a pawnbroker in Mile End Road had detained rings which had been presented to him for pledge, but which on being tested had not been found genuine. Should these rings prove to be those taken from Annie Chapman, and should Amelia Farmer be able to identify them, a solid trace of the bloodthirsty and cruel murderer will be obtained which may lead to his capture. Another clue was furnished by Mrs. Fiddymont, wife of the proprietor of the Prince Albert public-house, better known as the "Clean House," at the corner of Brushfield and Stewart Streets, half a mile from the scene of the murder. Mrs. Fiddymont states that at seven o'clock on Saturday morning she was standing in the bar talking with another woman, a friend, in the first compartment. Suddenly there came into the middle compartment whose rough appearance frightened her. He had on a brown stilt hat, a dark coat, and no waistcoat. He came in with his hat down over his eyes, and with his face partly concealed, and asked for half pint of four ale. She drew the ale, and meanwhile looked at him through the mirror at the back of the bar. As soon as he saw the woman in the other compartment watching him he turned his back, and got the partition between himself and her. The thing that struck Mrs. Fiddymont particularly was the fact that there were blood spots on the back of his right hand. This, taken in connection with his apearance (sic), caused her uneasiness. She also noticed that his shirt was torn. As soon as he had drunk the ale, which he swallowed at a gulp, he went out. Her friend went out also to watch him.
The story is corroborated by the friend alluded to, whose name is Mrs. Mary Chappell, living in Stewart-street. Mrs. Chappell says that when the man came in, the expression of his eyes caught her attention--his look was so startling and terrifying. It frightened Mrs. Fiddymont so that she requested her to stay. He wore a light blue check shirt, which was torn badly, into rags in fact, on the right shoulder. There was a narrow streak of blood under the right ear, parallel with the edge of his shirt. There was also dried blood between the fingers of his hand. When he went out she slipped out at the other door, and watched him as he went towards Bishopsgate-street. She called Joseph Taylor's attention to him, and Joseph Taylor followed him. Joseph Taylor is a builder at 22, Stewart-street. He states that as soon as his attention was attracted to the man he followed him. He walked rapidly, and came alongside him, but did not speak to him. The man was rather thin, about 5ft. 8in. high, and apparently between forty and fifty years of age. He had a shabby genteel look, pepper and salt trousers which fitted badly, and dark coat. When Taylor came alongside him the man glanced at him, and Taylor's description of the look was, "His eyes were as wild as a hawk's." Taylor is a perfectly reliable man, well known throughout the neighbourhood. The man walked, he says, holding his coat together at the top. He had a nervous and frightened way about him. He had a ginger-coloured moustache and had short sandy hair. Taylor ceased to follow him, but watched him as far as "Dirty Dick's," in Halfmoon-street, where he became lost to view.
On the wall of the yard near where the body was found there was written, "Five. 15 more and then I give myself up."
Reference is made in the above report to a mysterious being bearing the name of "Leather Apron," concerning whom a number of stories have for a week or more been current in Whitechapel. Of this individual the following description is given:--
He is 5ft. 4in. or 5ft. 5in. in height, and wears a dark close-fitting cap. He is thickset, and has an unusually thick neck. His hair is black, and closely clipped, his age being about 38 or 40. He has a small black moustache. The distinguishing feature of his costume is a leather apron, which he always wears, and from which he gets his nickname. His expression is sinister, and seems to be full of terror for the women who describe it. His eyes are small and glittering. His lips are usually parted in a grin, which is not only not reassuring, but excessively repellent. He is a slippermaker by trade, but does not work. His business is blackmailing women late at night. A number of men in Whitechapel follow this interesting profession. He has never cut anybody, so far as is known, but always carries a leather knife, presumably as sharp as leather knives are wont to be. This knife a number of the women have seen. His name nobody knows, but all are united in the belief that he is a Jew or of Jewish parentage, his face being of a marked Hebrew type. But the most singular characteristic of the man is the universal statement that in moving about he never makes any noise. What he wears on his feet the women do not know, but they agree that he moves noiselessly. His uncanny peculiarity to them is that they never see him or know of his presence until he is close by them. "Leather Apron" never by any chance attacks a man. He runs away on the slightest appearance of rescue. One woman whom he assailed some time ago boldly prosecuted him for it, and he was sent up for seven days. He has no settled place of residence, but has slept oftenest in a four penny lodging-house of the lowest kind in a disreputable lane leading from Brick Lane. The people at this lodging house denied that he had been there, and appeared disposed to shield him. "Leather Apron's" pal, "Mickeldy Joe," was in the house at the time, and his presence doubtless had something to do with the unwillingness to give information. "Leather Apron" was last at this house some weeks ago, though this account may be untrue. He ranges all over London, and rarely assails the same woman twice. He has lately been seen in Leather Lane, which is in the Helborn district.
The whole of the East End up till a late hour on Saturday night was in a state of consternation, at the latest and what undoubtedly is the most horrible of a series of murders which have taken place within so small an area and during so short a period. All day nothing else was talked of, even by men who are hardened to seeing a great deal that is brutal. Strong, buxom, muscular women seemed to move in fear and trembling, declaring that they would not dare to venture in the streets unaccompanied by their husbands. What has added to the frantic state of the inhabitants of Whitechapel is the fact that the murder was committed in broad daylight and in a street sufficiently near to the Spitalfields Market as to be, at the time in question, a busy thoroughfare. Old residents remarked that Whitechapel and Spitalfields had never borne a particularly good name, but now it had become untenable and unsafe.
During the period of greatest excitement two men were arrested for trifling offences this morning, and on each occasion a maddened crowd ran after the police shouting "The murderer's caught!" Another man, injured in a quarrel, and who was carried to the police station on a stretcher, received similar attention, the crowd fairly mobbing the station and refusing to disperse. Two men who were passing through Brick Lane were denounced by the crowd as the murderers and were attacked. They called upon the police for protection and were taken to Bethnal Green Station and there released. There was also a report current during the day that another woman had been murderously attacked by a man with a knife, and that the assailant was the murderer of Chapman. It, however, transpired that the man who was arrested was blind, and that in an ungovernable fit of passion he had in Spitalfields market inflicted several wounds with a knife upon a woman who led him about. The mortuary in which the body of the murdered woman lies is situated at the corner of Eagle-street, a cul de sac ending in a pair of green doors, within which several officers of the police guard the remains of the dead. The body is that of a fairly nourished woman, but bears traces of rough usage. It is covered by a wrap, and those in custody of it are charged by the police authorities that it shall neither be shown to any person nor disturbed in any way. The district coroner visited the mortuary on Saturday afternoon, and made arrangements for holding an inquest this morning at 10.30 at the Boys' Refuge, near Whitechapel station.
Later particulars state that a theory exists that "Leather Apron" is more or less a mythical personage, and that he is not responsible for the terrible crimes with which his name has been associated. All the same, the details of his appearance have been widely circulated with a view to his early apprehension, and all the police in the vicinity are on the look-out for him. On Saturday night a large force of police constables and detectives closely watched the neighbourhood. Men were posted at all the entrances and exits of the numerous alleys and passages in the neighbourhood, who every few minutes made a thorough examination of the places under their surveillance, and from time to time these were visited by the inspectors on duty with a view of ascertaining whether any suspicious character has been observed. From ten o'clock at night until late in the morning a large crowd occupied Hanbury-street in the vicinity of the notorious house No. 29. When the public- houses emptied the occupants swarmed into the street and caused a good deal of trouble to the police by their behaviour. The people living in the adjoining houses obtained no rest until between four and five o'clock, when the crowd gradually melted away, only, however, to reassemble again in greater force so soon as daylight appeared. In the course of Saturday night and Sunday morning the police arrested two men on suspicion of being concerned in the crime. One man, whose appearance left little doubt in the mind of his captors that he was the Hanbury-street murderer was found by an officer in Bucks row shortly after one o'clock on Sunday morning. He presented a most forbidding appearance, and appeared to be hiding in the street, and when accosted by the officer rushed off at the top of his speed. An alarm was raised, and after a sharp race the man was arrested. He was a villainous-looking fellow, with long hair and shaggy beard, dressed only in a pair of ragged blue serge trousers and an old dirty shirt. He resisted his captors, but was eventually secured and conveyed to Bethnal Green police station. It was said at the time that he was carrying a long knife concealed in the sleeve of his shirt, but on examination no weapon was found upon him. He gave an account of himself which was in the first instance considered unsatisfactory, but inquiries were immediately set on foot, and in the result the man, who appears to be a common vagrant, was released from custody. The second arrest was effected in Gloster-street, where a man, aged about forty, having the look of a seafarer, was arrested. It was pretty obvious, however, from the replies which he gave and his general appearance that he was not the man sought for, and after he had spent some time in Commercial-street station he was also set at liberty. It is suggested that the first- mentioned man is the person who has been spoken of by Mrs. Fiddymont. All day yesterday five policemen guarded the scene of the crime in Hanbury-street. No one was admitted unless he resided in the house. In the street half a dozen costermongers took up their stand and did a brisk business in fruit and refreshments. Thousands of respectably dressed persons visited the scene, and occasionally the road became so crowded that the constables had to clear it by making a series of raids upon the spectators. The windows of the adjoining houses were full of persons watching the crowd below. A number of people also visited the house in Dorset- street where the murderer woman lodged. Inquiries have been made at Vauxhall and at Windsor, where Chapman, or "Sivvy" as she was more generally called, is said to have relatives, but so far without any fresh information being obtained as to her antecedents. The small portion of writing on the envelope found upon the body bearing the stamp of the Sussex Regiment has not been identified or traced. The authorities of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where the woman spent some time, have been communicated with, but they have not been able to afford any information of a useful character. The usually lively condition of Whitechapel and Spitalfields on a Sunday was considerably augmented yesterday by reason of the excitement aroused by the murder. In the course of the day nearly a dozen persons were arrested and conveyed to the Commercial- street police station. In the afternoon a vast crown (sic) had collected about the streets, and as each apprehension was made they rushed pell mell towards the station, obviously under the idea that the murderer of the woman had been caught. Shortly before five o'clock a man was arrested in Dale-street, after a long chase, on a charge of assault. The officer who took him proceeded with his prisoner by way of Hanbury-street to the police station, and so was obliged to make his way through the crowd outside the house. His prisoner stood in some danger of being mobbed, but the crowd eventually gave way and the prisoner was safely lodged in the station. A few minutes later two men were arrested in Wentworth-street. As soon as the crowd saw them in the hands of the police there were loud cries of "Leather Apron," and thereupon hundreds of persons turned out from the side streets, and followed the officers in a tumultuous throng to the station. Not five minutes afterwards a woman was apprehended on some small charge, and the excitement became so intense that a posse of officers was sent out from the building to preserve order.
Last night the police were posted in strong force throughout the neighbourhood. Their precautions are such that they consider it impossible that any further outrage can be perpetrated.
Another telegram last night states:-- A man was arrested at Deptford this afternoon on suspicion of being connected with the East End tragedy, but there is reason to believe he will be able to establish his innocence and will soon be released. A very large number of constables in civilian clothes have been put on duty in the district where the murders have taken place. The inhabitants of the East End appear to have all their attention absorbed in the loathsome details of the murder, knots of people having stood about until a late hour this evening discussing every point of the tragedy.
Persons who knew the deceased have failed to identify the rings referred to above. One of the many statements made to the police yesterday was one by a young woman who says that at three o'clock yesterday afternoon she met a strange man in Flower and Dean-street, one of the worst streets in the East End of London. He asked her to go to the Queen's Head public-house at half-past six and drink with him. Having obtained from the young woman a promise that she would do so he disappeared, but was at the house at the appointed time. While they were conversing the woman, whose name is Lyons, noticed a large knife in the man's right hand trousers pocket, and called another woman's attention to it. A moment later Lyons was startled by the remark which the stranger addressed to her, "You are about the same style of woman as the one that's murdered." "What do you know about her." asked the woman, to which the man replied, "You are beginning to smell a rat. Foxes hunt geese, but they don't always find them." Having uttered these words, the man hurriedly left. Lyons followed until near Spitalfields church, and, turning round at this spot and noticing that the woman was behind him, the stranger ran at a swift pace into Church-street and was at once lost to view. One noteworthy fact in this story is that the description of the man's appearance is in all material points identical with the published description of the up to the present undiscovered "Leather Apron."
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Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
Our Mission and Values Our People Our Story Our Publications Our Leadership Team Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety was announced in September 2018 by the Federal Government. Generally speaking, its work is to enquire into the aged care sector and make recommendations for the future operation of the sector.
As part of this, it will also look at the quality and safety of aged care services, community attitudes towards ageing, how best to meet the healthcare needs of older persons, how best to support younger disabled persons currently residing in aged care homes and the sustainability of the aged care system into the future.
Catholic Healthcare’s Response to the Royal Commission
As an organisation committed to delivering quality care to our residents and clients, Catholic Healthcare welcomes the Royal Commission and intends to fully support the Commission in its important work.
To this end, In January 2019, Catholic Heatlhcare, submitted a comprehensive response to questions asked by the Commission of all approved providers of aged care services in Australia. We are aware that many other providers have responded to these questions, as well.
We expect that in the coming months, the Commission will focus on many areas of importance to residents, clients, families, providers and the aged care sector as a whole. We intend to provide regular communications and also welcome your feedback which is always important to ensure we are meeting our goal to deliver high quality, compassionate care to our residents and clients at all times.
In addition to Government accreditation processes, our residential aged care homes and community services undergo regular quality audits to enable continuous improvement. All Catholic Healthcare homes and services are fully reviewed and accredited.
Royal Commission Support Team
In preparation for the Royal Commission Catholic Healthcare established a Royal Commission Support Team to ensure that we are ready to engage, and that any requests from the Royal Commission are handled and responded to promptly, accurately and efficiently.
The Team is led by our Chief Counsel.
Email: rcsupportteam@chcs.com.au
Media Enquiries: 0490 125 860 or mediaenquiries@chcs.com.au
For updates from the Royal Commission visit https://agedcare.royalcommission.gov.au/
For information about the terms of reference, scope and timeframe for the Royal Commission please visit https://www.pm.gov.au/media/appointment-royal-commissioners-and-terms-reference
See further below for answers to Frequently Asked Questions
A Royal Commission is a formal inquiry established under the Royal Commissions Act 1902. This is how it gets “Royal” in its title.
Royal Commissions are usually established when there is matter of great importance and complexity to be considered.
In the Australian system of government, Royal Commissions are the highest form of inquiry.
What is the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety?
It is a formal inquiry that has been established to enquire into the aged care sector. The specifics of this inquiry are set out in the “Terms of Reference” of the Royal Commission and include the quality and safety of aged care services, community attitudes towards ageing, how best to meet the healthcare needs of older persons, how best to support younger disabled persons currently residing in aged care homes and the sustainability of the aged care system into the future.
The Federal Government has appointed two Commissioners to oversee the Commission, hear and consider the evidence presented and make recommendations. They are;
The Honourable Richard Tracey AM RFD QC – Mr Tracey was a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 2006 until 2018, President of the Defence Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal from 2009 until 2018, and Judge Advocate General of the Australian Defence Force from 2007 until 2014.
Lynelle Briggs AO – a former Australian Public Service Commissioner and current Chair of the General Insurance Code of Governance Committee, Non-executive director of Maritime Super and Goodstart Early Learning and leader of the Government’s review of the Online Safety Act.
What will the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety do?
What is examined by a Royal Commission is defined in a legal document called “Letters Patent” which sets out the Scope and Terms of Reference of the Royal Commission.
The Royal Commission is directed to look at all forms of Commonwealth funded aged care services – regardless of where they are delivered
Quality and safety including the extent of substandard care.
How to best deliver care services to people with disabilities residing in aged care facilities including younger people.
How to best deliver care to the increasing number of Australians living with dementia.
The future challenges and opportunities for delivering accessible, affordable and high quality aged care services, including people’s desire to remain living at home as they age, and aged care in rural, regional and remote Australia.
What the Government, the aged care sector, Australian families and the wider community can do to strengthen care services to ensure quality and safety.
How to allow people greater choice, control and independence and how to improve engagement with families and carers.
How to best deliver sustainable aged care services through innovative care and investment in the aged care workforce and infrastructure.
Any matters that the Commissioners believe is relevant to their inquiry.
The Royal Commission has also been asked to specifically focus on a number of areas such as the quality and safety of aged care services including but not limited to;
Choice and control
Positive behaviour supports to reduce or eliminate the use of restrictive practices
Systems to ensure that high quality care is delivered, such as governance arrangements and management support systems
The Royal Commission will also examine;
Workforce, carer supports
Diversity of older Australian and barriers to accessing high quality care
Interface with other services – primary health, acute care and disability services
Examples of good practice/innovative models of care
Finding of other reports and inquiries.
When will the Royal Commission commence and how long will it go for?
The Royal Commission is currently underway with initial information from some providers, including Catholic Healthcare, submitted in January 2019 and with hearings commencing on the 11th February 2019. The Federal Government has asked the Royal Commission to provide an interim report by the 31 October 2019 and a final report by 30 April 2020.
How will the Royal Commission impact Catholic Healthcare?
As a significant provider of aged care services in residential and in-home setting across Australia, Catholic Healthcare’s services will be included in the work of the Royal Commission.
This is an important undertaking for our industry and as an organisation committed to ongoing improvement we see the Royal Commission as an opportunity to look at how we can ensure our services continue to get better.
We welcome the opportunity to participate in and support the Royal Commission. In doing so, we will engage openly and transparently with the Commission, responding to any requests as quickly as possible.
We have set up a dedicated Royal Commission Support Team to ensure that Catholic Healthcare is ready to engage with the Royal Commission and respond to any requests in a timely, accurate and efficient manner.
What is role of the Royal Commission Catholic Healthcare Support Team?
The Support Team will ensure that requests from the Commission are responded to promptly and efficiently. The Support Team is also available to respond to questions relating to the Commission from residents, clients and families via the following dedicated options:
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The Support Team also aims to provide information and updates relating to the Commission to keep you informed and reduce any concern among residents, clients, families and employees.
Questions relating to particular residents, clients or patients, however, would be best directed, to the relevant Service Manager, for their consideration and response, as these Services Managers would be the most familiar with individual residents and clients.
How will the Royal Commission impact me?
Catholic Healthcare will continue to deliver the highest quality service to clients and residents throughout the Royal Commission.
Royal Commissions can be unsettling for residents, clients and your families and carers. Catholic Heatlhcare will do everything we can to support you through this process by keeping you informed about the Royal Commission’s work.
If you have any concerns about the Royal Commission or issues you would like to raise, please contact our Royal Commission Support Team.
Will the Royal Commission look at Catholic Healthcare’s services?
Yes. As one of the larger aged care providers in Australia, Catholic Healthcare has provided initial information to the Commission in January 2019.
It is expected that all aged care providers across Australia will be involved in the work of the Royal Commission. Some providers will also be called before the Commission.
Catholic Healthcare has setup a Royal Commission Support Team so that we can proactively engage with the Commission’s work accurately and efficiently.
How can I get involved if I want to?
The Royal Commission will issue guidance material which outlines the process for submissions and other information to be provided to the Commission, and the timeframes which will have to be met.
If you have something you would like Catholic Healthcare to consider please contact our Royal Commission Support Team on:
Will you keep me updated?
Yes. We will continue to update the information on this web page to keep you informed on the work and progress of the Royal Commission and Catholic Healthcare’s involvement.
Can I talk to someone at Catholic Healthcare about the Royal Commission?
Yes. We always encourage feedback from our residents, clients, their families and employees. This feedback is equally important if it is in regard to any questions or concerns that you have about the Royal Commission.
If you have any matters that you wish to discuss, please get in touch with our Royal Commission Support Team on:
Royal Commission Updates
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June 2019 - Hearings
02 May 2019 - Focus on Residential Aged Care
14 March 2019 - Focus on Home Care
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EXCLUSIVE: Lyft driver speaks out for first time about why he opened fire on passengers
By: CBS58 Staff
Posted: Dec 7, 2017 3:13 PM CDT
For the first time and only to CBS 58 News, a local Lyft driver is talking about why he opened fire on fleeing passengers last Wednesday.
"In the heat of the moment, when you're put in that position, I want you to know how it feels," said the Army Veteran who asked CBS 58 to not show his face.
He still feels threatened and after being tried in the court of public opinion is trying to avoid retaliation but wants viewers to know he legitimately felt in danger.
He says there were several red flags before he made the decision to pull out his gun.
One man called for a ride, but three others jumped in at the last minute when he arrived.
They asked him how much money he made and changed their destination to a darkened area behind a building.
And then there was a sound he heard from the back seat.
"That's when I heard a ping in the backseat. Metal on metal makes a distinct sound. I'm very familiar with that sound. I'm on high alert. I'm in survival mode. I'm thinking this is not good."
When asked by anchor Michele McCormack if he saw a gun, the driver said: "When I heard the ping, I looked in the rearview mirror. It looked like he was stuffing back in his coat."
At that point, he made the decision to drive towards a security car near the Brookfield Mall.
His passengers were trying to get out of the car while it was moving, but not until he put the car in park did the doors unlock and all four bailed out.
"I got out the same time they did. I turned around. I had my firearm concealed. I turned around. I already had a round chambered. I fired four shots down range. I could have hit them easily. I didn't shoot to hit anyone. I wanted to scare the s*** out of them because I didn't want to get shot myself."
When asked why he felt the need to open fire if they were running away, the driver was matter-of-fact.
"When you're in that position and you're outnumbered by four, you want to make sure they get the message to keep running."
Web Extra: Lyft Driver Speaks Out from CBS 58 News on Vimeo.
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Joshua Holt of Utah begs for help from inside Venezuela prison
May 17, 2018 / 5:08 AM / AP
CARACAS, Venezuela -- A Utah man imprisoned in Venezuela for two years without a trial is making an emotional plea for Americans' help getting out of a Caracas jail, saying Wednesday in a clandestinely shot video that his life was threatened during a riot in the country's most-notorious prison. In two 20-second videos shot on a cell phone, a visibly distraught Joshua Holt suggested that his patience is running out with the U.S. government, which has made his release a top priority in its dealings with Venezuela's socialist government.
"I've been begging my government for two years. They say they're doing things but I'm still here," said Holt in the video posted on his Facebook page.
The 26-year-old traveled to Venezuela in 2016 to marry a fellow Mormon he met on the internet. Shortly afterward, the couple was arrested at her family's apartment in a Caracas public housing project after police said they found him stockpiling an assault weapon and grenades.
Posted by Josh Holt on Wednesday, May 16, 2018
"Please my fellow Americans don't allow me to continue suffering in Venezuela," Holt said in a written message, also posted on his Facebook page. "I am not a political pawn I am a human being a child of God and I just want to live happy with my wife and children. I have NEVER done anything wrong in my life. Please help me!"
His first-ever video message from jail came amid what the U.S. government described as a "riot" Wednesday by fellow inmates, including some of President Nicolas Maduro's top opponents. The disturbance, the extent of which was not known, came as Venezuelans are on edge days before Sunday's presidential election, which Maduro is widely expected to win despite a crushing economic crisis marked by widespread shortages and hyperinflation.
"The people have taken the entire prison. They're trying to break in. They're saying they want to kill me. They're saying they want me as their guarantee," Holt said in one of the videos, without clarifying who was allegedly trying to harm him.
Trucks of Venezuela's domestic intelligence agency SEBIN leave the Helicoide prison in Caracas after reports of a riot inside, May 16, 2018. REUTERS
In a third video circulating on social media, the American is seen standing calmly next to three well-known opposition activists wearing the same black T-shirt he had on earlier Wednesday.
"I'm here to show you that I am not being kidnapped," Holt says in the video, which he didn't post to his Facebook account. "The only people that are kidnapping me is the government of Venezuela."
Chief Prosecutor Tarek William Saab sent a commission to the El Helicoide prison to speak with a representative of the inmates. While he didn't provide details about the disturbance, or what sparked it, he said on Twitter that the delegates offered to coordinate with prison and judicial authorities to address the demands of inmates at El Helicoide, which is the headquarters of the feared Sebin intelligence police.
The inmates were demanding due process rights like speedier hearings and the immediate freedom for prisoners who have received a judge's release order. Foro Penal, a lawyer cooperative, said 20 of the 54 detainees in El Helicoide that the opposition deems to be political prisoners have been granted parole, but are having their release blocked by the government for no stated reasons.
Later, socialist party leader Diosdado Cabello accused the inmates of staging the revolt to spread intrigue ahead of the election.
Food being used as a political weapon in Venezuela
Cabello also broke a longstanding silence from Venezuelan officials' about Holt's imprisonment to accuse the American of being a spy. "He's the U.S.'s spy chief in Latin America and he's jailed here in Venezuela," Cabello said on his weekly TV program.
Holt's trial on weapons charges had been scheduled to start Tuesday but Holt and his wife, Thamara Caleno, were never taken to the courthouse by their jailers.
"The Sebin has told me that as long as my government continues attacking this government and as long as Marco Rubio continues talking about me the longer that they will never let me go," Holt said in a written message, referring to the Republican senator from Florida who has accused Maduro of keeping Holt as a "hostage" to extract concessions from the U.S.
The Trump administration has warned that it could put crippling oil sanctions on Venezuela if Maduro goes ahead with what the U.S. and others consider a sham presidential election Sunday. Several of Maduro's top opponents are barred from running.
Todd Robinson, the top American diplomat in Venezuela, speaks to reporters in Caracas, May 16, 2018. REUTERS
Amid statements of concern by Utah's congressional delegation, Todd Robinson, the top American diplomat in Venezuela, went to the foreign ministry to seek information about Holt. But he left shortly after nightfall with no answers, saying he was unable to meet with the foreign minister and other officials, including Maduro, either didn't take the embassy's calls or claimed not to have any knowledge about the case.
Cabello denied Robinson had been snubbed, accusing him of staging a media show.
"We are concerned about the riot at El Helicoide," Robinson said.
"Joshua Holt and other U.S. citizens are in danger," he added. "The government of Venezuela is directly responsible for their safety and will be held responsible if anything happens to them. We renew our call for the government to release Joshua Holt on humanitarian grounds."
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Too much sitting may raise risk for certain cancers, study finds
June 17, 2014 / 7:54 AM / HealthDay
You may want to stand up to read this.
A new study suggests that people who spend the bulk of their day sitting -- whether behind the wheel, in front of the TV or working at a computer -- appear to have an increased risk for certain kinds of cancers.
Previous studies have tied too much time spent sedentary to a variety of health problems, including heart disease, blood clots, a large waistline, higher blood sugar and insulin, generally poor physical functioning, and even early death.
For the new study, researchers zeroed in on 43 studies that specifically looked at the link between sitting and nearly 70,000 cases of cancer.
After combining the results from individual studies -- a statistical tool that helps to reveal trends in research -- there was good news and bad news.
Is sitting the new smoking?
The good news? Being sedentary did not appear to be linked to every kind of cancer. Scientists found no relationship between sitting and breast, ovarian, testicular or prostate cancers, or cancers of the stomach, esophagus and kidneys, or non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The bad news was that there did seem to be a consistent relationship between hours spent sitting and an increased risk for colon and endometrial cancers.
People who spent the most time sitting during the day had a 24 percent increased risk of getting colon cancer compared to those who logged the least number of hours in a chair, according to the study.
When the researchers looked just at time spent watching TV, the risk jumped even more. Those who clocked the most hours glued to the tube had a 54 percent increased risk of colon cancer compared to those who watched the least.
That may be because viewers tend to consume unhealthy snacks and drinks while watching TV, said study author Daniela Schmid, an epidemiologist at the University of Regensburg in Germany.
For endometrial -- or uterine -- cancer, the risks were even higher. There was a 32 percent increased risk for women who spent the most time seated compared to those who sat the least, and a 66 percent increased risk for those who watched the most TV, the study authors said.
Moreover, every two-hour increase in sitting time was linked to an 8 percent increased risk of colon cancer and a 10 percent increased risk of endometrial cancer.
The risks remained even for "active couch potatoes" -- folks who squeeze in some time at the gym but still spend most of their day off their feet. This suggests that regular exercise can't offset the risks of too much sitting, the study authors said.
The findings, published June 16 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, make sense to Dr. Graham Colditz. He's the associate director for prevention and control at Washington University's Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis.
"High blood sugar and high insulin is a clear sort of pathway to colon cancer, and we know from intervention studies that walking lowers insulin and getting up after meals lowers blood sugar compared to sitting," said Colditz, who was not involved in the research.
As for endometrial cancer, "Obesity is a phenomenally strong cause. In fact, it is the main modifiable risk factor for endometrial cancer," he said.
"So for me, the likely scenario there is that the sitting, the weight gain and obesity really go together and exacerbate the risk of endometrial cancer," he added.
Because the studies included in the review only looked at broad relationships, they can't prove that sitting, by itself, causes cancer. But the findings appeared to be remarkably consistent across studies, so Colditz thinks they should be taken seriously.
The study authors agree.
"Cutting down on TV viewing and sedentary time is just as important as becoming more active," said Schmid. "For those whose jobs require them to sit at a desk most of the day, we recommend breaking up the time spent sitting by incorporating short bouts of light activity into the daily routine," she added.
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Tesla Batteries Make a Bright Future for Energy
The latest scoop on the much anticipated announcement about Tesla’s latest push for Tesla batteries.
The long-awaited Tesla battery pack for your home is now on the market. Late in the evening on April 30, Tesla CEO Elon Musk kept his promise for his hotly anticipated announcement about the company’s next product line. Musk admitted the week prior that the announcement would indeed be about the home battery he promised earlier in the year, the details of which have been quite secretive until, well, the announcement. Musk took the stage at 8pm PST on a Thursday evening to make the announcement, in which he wowed the crowd by directing people to the Tesla website, where the stationary battery is already available for pre-order and scheduled to ship within a few months.
The battery, says Tesla, “increases the capacity for a household’s solar consumption while also offering backup functionality during grid outages.” At the same time, the company said it will producing larger batteries for businesses and utility companies — listing projects with Texas-based Oncor and Southern California Edison.
With this announcement, Tesla has fulfilled the conclusion posted by Wired last week: they are no longer a car company. Tesla is now a battery company first, and a car company second. Tesla isn’t creating a new market, though. The Tesla Powerwall is not exactly the first home battery of its kind. Others exist. Most home batteries function approximately like this: batteries charge at night, when utility company’s rates are the lowest, and can then be switched on in the morning so homeowners can enjoy that cheap energy throughout the day. Batteries, as we all understand, can be juiced up from nearly any source – including a homeowner’s solar panels, provided the correct wiring is available. So, could the new Tesla battery be used to take your home off the grid?
Musk says so. The battery, which is supposed to look like a “beautiful sculpture,” isn’t the determining factor there. Yes, the Tesla Powerwall battery is designed to be powered by what Musk calls the “handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun.” But a homeowner’s individual ability to harness that energy is what determines the answer to the “on or off the grid” question. For instance, does your home have enough solar panels or wind turbines to collect all of the energy you’ll need to power through another day? And not just one day, of course, because you’ll need to store enough energy to make it through the days when you can’t generate enough new power, like when the sun isn’t shining bright. How many Powerwall batteries would your home need to run day after day? You’ll have to do the math.
Here’s one way to think about battery usage. In 2013, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer was 10,908 kilowatt hours (kWh), an average of 909 kWh per month according to the US Energy Information Administration. If you’re an “average” consumer of electricity, that translates to around 30 kWh per day, meaning that you’d need at least three batteries to cover your power usage for one day without relying on the grid. Of course, one could probably manage to scale down their energy usage if they planned to use Tesla’s home battery system as an emergency backup.
The new home battery is a Tesla-branded product, but the car-turned-battery company won’t actually be in the business of producing the energy storage contraptions. That job will be carried out by a number of partners, including SolarCity, the solar installation company run by a pair of Musk’s cousins. In fact, some SolarCity customers are using the Powerwall batteries already, through a leasing program that Tesla and SolarCity launched, possibly to test the market.
The Tesla Powerwall battery system is priced at $3,000 to $3,500, depending on the model your home needs, and installation charges would be additional. Although the battery itself may seem cheap compared to similar batteries on the market, it’s pretty clear that this home battery isn’t targeted at your average homeowner, considering that this cost is for the battery alone and not the array of solar panels and a power inverter that one would also need in order to harness that “free” solar energy Musk likes to joke about. The $3,500 option provides 10kWh, and is designed to be a backup power supply for power outages and people wanting to live off-grid. The less expensive $3,000 version will have a 7kWh capacity, and is designed primarily to help a homeowner deal with fluctuations in energy pricing and supply to cut the cost of their power (by charging up at night when the rates are lower).
What’s the take-away? The new Tesla Powerwall battery, which can clearly be used for either home or business use, is one more notch in the belt for Elon Musk. It’s a wall-mounted rechargeable Lithium-ion battery that looks way more stylish than its competitors. The real purpose of this battery, though, is to get people excited about the prospect of turning away from fossil fuels. Musk doesn’t envision that every home in America will have a Tesla battery in the next X number of years. What he hopes, though, is that Tesla’s newest product will light a fire under other innovators in the industry to get busy working on accessible solutions to help every day people take control of their energy consumption, and the environmental costs associated with it, over a longer timeline. Could the new Tesla Powerwall save the world? Not by itself. Will it give the world a big push in the right direction? Definitely.
The truth, though, is Tesla isn’t the only company in the battery game, and whatever happens with Tesla, this market is expected to grow. A study by GTM Research and the Energy Storage Association earlier this year found that while storage remains relatively niche — the market was sized at just $128 million in 2014 — it also grew 40 percent last year, and three times as many installations are expected this year.
By 2019, GTM Research forecasts, the overall market will have reached a size of $ 1.5 billion.
“The trend is more and more players being interested in the storage market,” says GTM Research’s Ravi Manghani. Tesla, he says, has two unique advantages — it is building a massive battery-making “gigafactory” which should drive down prices, and it is partnered with solar installer Solar City (Musk is Solar City’s chairman), which “gives Tesla access to a bigger pool of customers, both residential and commercial, who are looking to deploy storage with or without solar.”
The major upshot of more and cheaper batteries and much more widespread energy storage could, in the long term, be a true energy revolution — as well as a much greener planet.
Here are just a few ways that storage can dramatically change — and green — the way we get power:
1. Helping to integrate more renewables onto the grid.
Almost everybody focusing the Tesla story has homed in on home batteries – but in truth, the biggest impact of storage could occur at the level of the electricity grid as a whole. Indeed, GTM Research’s survey of the storage market found that 90 percent of deployments are currently at the utility scale, rather than in homes and businesses.
Consider how this might work using the example of California, a state that currently ramps up natural gas plants when power demand increases at peak times, explains Gavin Purchas, head of the Environmental Defense Fund’s California clean energy program.
In California, “renewable energy creates a load of energy in the day, then it drops off in the evening, and that leaves you with a big gap that you need to fill,” says Purchas. “If you had a plenitude of storage devices, way down the road, then you essentially would be able to charge up those storage devices during the day, and then dispatch them during the night, when the sun goes down. Essentially it allows you to defer when the solar power is used.”
2. Greening suburban homes and, maybe, their electric cars, too.
Currently, rooftop solar users are able to draw power during the day and, under net metering arrangements, return some of it to the grid and thus lower their bills. This has led to a great boom in individual solar installations, but there’s the same problem here as there is with the grid as a whole: Solar tapers off with the sun, but you still need a lot of power throughout the evening and overnight.
But storing excess solar power with batteries, and then switching them on once the solar panels stop drawing from the sun, makes a dramatic difference. Homes could shift even further away from reliance on the grid, while also using much more green power.
3. Helping adjust to smart energy pricing
For a long time, economists have said that we need “smart” or “dynamic” electricity pricing — that people should be charged more for power at times of high energy demand, such as in the afternoon and early evening, when the actual electricity itself costs more on wholesale markets. This would lead to lower prices overall, but higher prices during peak periods. And slowly, such smart pricing schemes are being introduced to the grid (largely on a voluntary basis).
So in sum — cheaper, more easily available energy storage helps at the scale of the power grid, and also at the level of our homes, to further advantage cleaner, renewable energy. So if the economics of storage are finally starting to line up — and its business side to ramp up — that can only be good news for the planet.
So if I get this batter can I simply power my home?
Nope! Your house runs on AC current but the battery gives you DC current. This means that you need to take the DC current and convert it to AC current. You might have a device that does this in your car so that you can plug in household items like a computer or a coffee pot. The converter takes the DC current from the car battery and turns it into an AC current so that your laptop can then take this AC current and convert it back to DC. Yes, that seems silly but it’s true. The Powerwall does not include a DC to AC converter (or AC to DC if you want to charge from the power grid).
How long will the batter power an average home?
Tesla makes a 7 and 10 kilowatt-hour battery. Let’s look at the 10 kWh one—but Tesla says that you can stack these such that you could make a 20 kWh battery if that made you happy. But really, this comes down to the definition of power as the rate that you do work (or change energy).
We know the energy stored in the battery and we can estimate the average power the house uses. From that, I can solve for the time to use this energy stored in the battery.
What is the energy stored in a battery? The bigger Powerwall has 10 kWh. Yes, this is a unit of energy and not power. It says that you could get a power of 10 kilowatts for 1 hour. You can convert this energy to Joules if you like – it would be 3.6 x 107 Joules (1 watt is a Joule/second).
The next thing we need to calculate the run time is the power. How much power does your house use? I think 2 kilowatts is a good estimate. With that, we can calculate the time:
Five hours doesn’t seem like a long time, but I bet this would get you through the night if you are using solar power (you don’t use as much energy when you are asleep). Ok, actually you would get less than 5 hours. This calculation assumes everything is 100% efficient. In fact, the battery is only 92 percent efficient and the DC to AC converter would have some energy loss as well. If you aimed for 3 hours at 2 kW, I think you would be ok.
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Crayford business serves up a treat
Mobile Bar staff member Lauren Austin
As the nation basks in the glory of the Olympics and Paralympics, one Crayford business has its own unique Games moment to take away from this summer.
Mobile Bar owners Avtar and Raghbir Sandhu
Mobile Bar Hire, which is based on Optima Business Park, provided the facilities for a huge reception at Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford as part of an event for the Australian Olympic team.
It was quite a way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the firm which started as a hobby for owners Ragbhir and Avtar Sandhu.
Ragbhir said: “It was quite a feather in our cap to be chosen to put on such an event.
“The only time we could deliver the bars and equipment to the site was between 1am and 6am because of all the security restrictions so our team of five stayed through the night to get everything ready.
“But everything worked out and we were so proud of them. It was a pleasure to be part of the greatest occasion in the country’s history.”
A bar was laid out the day before the Olympic opening ceremony on July 26, with green matting on the approach to the venue, Australia’s team logo on the railings and dark drapes being the finishing touch as athletes from Down Under were welcomed with open arms.
It is not just Olympic stars who the company caters for. The business has been growing steadily for the past decade to the extent that the brothers quit their jobs as traffic officers for the Dartford Crossing as success increased three years ago.
Mobile Bar Hire has provided facilities for events such as Take That concerts and television programmes The Only Way Is Essex and the X Factor. It also caters for a range of events throughout the country. These include weddings, stag and hen parties and birthdays as well as less conventional celebrations.
London Mayor Boris Johnson is due to visit the facility tomorrow (October 11) to see the success story for himself.
It employs 15 members of staff, from bar tenders to cocktail waiters to warehouse and administration workers, but the brothers are looking to expand.
Avtar said: “It’s a family business so we try to keep that close-knit feel among our staff. We took nine of our employees down to the Paralympics at the Olympic Stadium. We try to show appreciation for the work they do and the trip was part of that.
“The business had grown a lot in the last decade. We’ve been nominated for the Kent Business Awards and we’re hopeful of getting nominated for the Bexley Business Awards.”
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Malaysia PM Mahathir takes aim at international community over anti-palm oil narrative
FILE PHOTO: Malaysia's Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir. (Photo: AFP)
17 Jun 2019 07:07PM (Updated: 17 Jun 2019 07:11PM )
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Monday (Jun 17) hit out at the international community's negative perceptions of the palm oil industry, while stating that palm oil cultivation has not affected his country’s ecosystem.
Speaking during a question and answer session after delivering a speech on democracy in Malaysia and the region, the prime minister noted that "palm oil is the cheapest edible vegetable oil".
It is also easy to cultivate, and once planted, the yield can be enjoyed for up to 25 years, unlike other oils such as soybean and rapeseed, he said at Cambridge University.
"For that reason, palm oil is able to compete (with other oils) and likely to win. So they (the West) invented this idea that we are cutting down trees to plant (oil) palm trees and depriving animals of their habitats."
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Workers stand near palm oil fruits inside a palm oil factory in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur. (File photo: Reuters/Samsul Said)
Dr Mahathir, who is on a three-day working visit to the United Kingdom, questioned the assumption that palm oil cultivation has harmed Malaysia's environment.
"You talk about the environment, clearing the forests, but look at Britain for example, where is Sherwood Forest? Is it still there? Is Robin Hood still operating from there?”
"Most of the forests in Europe has been cleared, so much so there are no more wild animals in Europe,” Dr Mahathir said.
He added with a laugh: “In Malaysia, we still have tigers. If you like to go into the jungle, we can send you there."
Putrajaya has capped the total oil palm plantation area at 6.5 million hectares, and no new permanent forest areas or peatland would be allowed to be converted to oil palm cultivation.
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Dr Mahathir had said in March that the European Union risked opening up a trade war with Malaysia over its "grossly unfair" policies aimed at reducing the use of palm oil.
The comments came after the European Commission concluded that palm oil cultivation results in excessive deforestation and its use in transport fuel should be phased out by 2030.
He suggested then that the EU’s increasingly hostile attitude towards palm oil was an attempt to protect alternatives that Europe produced itself, like rapeseed oil.
READ: Malaysia minister accuses EU of palm oil 'trade war'
On Monday, the veteran politician said that Malaysia wanted to compete with the rest of the world in a fair manner.
"We have to make some money from the resources we have. We have to utilise our resources. Our fertile soil is suitable for palm oil, therefore we produce palm oil,” he said.
Malaysia is the world's second biggest palm oil producer after Indonesia, and it relies on the crop for billions of dollars in foreign exchange earnings and hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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Ex-network engineer faces prison after admitting he sabotaged employer's system
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IT pro gets 4 years in prison for sabotaging ex-employer's system
Ricky Joe Mitchell must also pay more than $500,000 in restitution and fines
U.S. Correspondent, IDG News Service | PT
A former network engineer for oil and gas company EnerVest has been sentenced to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty in January to sabotaging the company's systems badly enough to disrupt its business operations for a month.
Ricky Joe Mitchell of Charleston, West Virginia, must also pay $428,000 in restitution and a $100,000 fine, according to an announcement this week from U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin's office.
In June 2012, Mitchell found out he was going to be fired from EnerVest and in response he decided to reset the company's servers to their original factory settings. He also disabled cooling equipment for EnerVest's systems and disabled a data-replication process.
Mitchell's actions left EnerVest unable to "fully communicate or conduct business operations" for about 30 days, according to Booth's office. The company also had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on data-recovery efforts, and part of the information could not be retrieved.
"Imagine having your company's computer network knocked out for a month," Goodwin said in a statement. "In this day and age, that kind of attack is devastating."
Mitchell's actions cost EnerVest well over $1 million, according to the indictment against him.
Mitchell had faced up to 10 years in prison as well as three years of supervised release, but could serve less than the four years thanks to federal guidelines providing up to 54 days off per year for good behavior.
He's not the only IT professional in recent memory to take revenge on an employer, although Mitchell's actions caused more economic damage than others.
In 2009, a former IT staffer at Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems hacked into a PowerPoint presentation the CEO was giving to a group of city officials, causing porn to suddenly appear on a large screen.
Walter Powell received a two-year suspended sentence and was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service as punishment for the stunt.
Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris' email address is Chris_Kanaracus@idg.com
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British Sculpture: Post-War
9 January - 15 February 2014
Geoffrey Clarke
Head, c. 1951
Iron and stone
10 1/2 x 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 in, 26.7 x 25 x 17.5 cm
Geoffrey Clarke was one of a group of artists who exhibited at the significant 1952 Venice Biennale show ‘New Aspects of British Sculpture’ in the British Pavilion. In the early...
Geoffrey Clarke was one of a group of artists who exhibited at the significant 1952 Venice Biennale show ‘New Aspects of British Sculpture’ in the British Pavilion. In the early 1950s Clarke made a large series of works based on the human head, including 'Head' (1952) which is in the Tate Gallery. The image of a disjointed and abstracted head appeared in the work of several British artists during this period, including Reg Butler, Eduardo Paolozzi and Nigel Henderson.
Clarke had studied Stained Glass Design at the Royal College of Art from 1948-1951. He was successful and well respected receiving numerous commissions for public and private spaces. At the same time he was creating sculptures, working with glass and iron. However, following his inclusion in the 1952 Biennale, he exhibited his sculpture far less frequently, becoming more involved in the production of monumental architectural installations. It is only now the importance of his early sculptures, such as 'Head' (1951), is being re-evaluated.
Following his graduation from the RCA, Clarke acquired a studio with a forge in South Kensington where between 1951 and 1955 he used iron, almost exclusively, to create a large number of small sculptures. Like the other young British sculptors Paolozzi, Armitage and Turnbull, Clarke was attracted to ‘primitive’ art forms, and in particular the early work of Picasso and African tribal masks. 'Head', with its sharp features, suggests the simplification of African carving as well as tribal weaponry. Iron also referenced the modern age of industrial production; Clarke has created a powerful primitive image for the post war era.
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What to do with gift cards as retailers like Toys R Us go bankrupt
Published Fri, Mar 16 2018 2:59 PM EDT Updated Fri, Mar 16 2018 3:01 PM EDT
Yoni Blumberg@YoniBlum
What to do with gift cards when retailers like Toys R Us go bankrupt
Don't count on gift cards to retain their value after a business goes under.
Toys R Us continued to honor gift cards after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September, but when the company announced on Thursday that it will close or sell all of its U.S. stores, a spokesperson told USA Today that the company would only accept the cards for the next 30 days. That means that, as of about April 14, gift cards to the store will be worthless, so customers need to act fast.
The toy distributor is the latest business to announce that it is liquidating its U.S. operations. In 2017, over 20 retailers filed for bankruptcy. J.C. Penney, RadioShack and Macy's all announced that they would be closing 100 stores. Sears did the same this past January, and 16,000 former employees are now expecting a reduction in their pensions.
The so-called "retail apocalypse" is largely the result of e-commerce, experts think, though developers also may have built an unsustainable number of malls in the second half of the 20th century. Plus, there are indications that Americans are less materialistic than they once were. Consumers are buying less clothing now compared to the '90s, for example.
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Still, as the trend continues, bankrupt companies are likely to stop honoring gift cards.
"Gift cards are, technically, unsecured debt of the bankrupt retailer and bankruptcy law gives them no special protection," said Melissa Jacoby, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Customers with gift cards are considered unsecured creditors, Brian Davidoff, a financial restructuring attorney for Greenberg Glusker, told CNN. When a company declares bankruptcy, judges ensure they prioritize paying off secured creditors first, like bank lenders and vendors.
In fact, once a company declares bankruptcy, it has to ask a bankruptcy court for permission to continue to honor gift cards. Most do, at least for some time.
When Borders went bankrupt in 2015, gift card holders made the claim that the bookstore had not adequately warned them that the cards would soon be worthless. But lower courts decided that they had waited too long to make their claims against Borders, and the U.S. Supreme Court opted against taking up the case. Andrew Behlmann, an attorney representing the chain, made the claim that shoppers had sufficient time to redeem their cards during the store's liquidation sales.
The bottom line: If a retailer is going out of business, use your gift card while you still can.
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Vegas shoots 62, takes 1-shot lead at John Deere Classic
Posted: Jul 13, 2019 / 12:01 AM UTC / Updated: Jul 13, 2019 / 02:49 AM UTC
Jhonattan Vegas tees off on six during the second round of the John Deere Classic golf tournament Friday, July 12, 2019, in Silvis, Ill. (Andy Abeyta/Quad City Times via AP)
SILVIS, Ill. (AP) — Jhonattan Vegas shot a 9-under 62 on Friday in the John Deere Classic to take a one-stroke lead into the weekend.
Off since missing the cuts in the Memorial and U.S. Open in June, , the three-time PGA tour winner from Venezuela said he “found something really good” on the range Thursday after an opening 67.
“Probably the best I’ve felt all year, to be honest,” Vegas said. “I hit the ball extremely well, kind of what I’ve been struggling with a little bit the past few months. It felt really good, in control the whole time with the ball-striking, which is my type of game. So I’m glad that stuff is back.”
Vegas had a 13-under 129 total at TPC Deere Run.
“It’s usually soft, and it’s been a little firmer because of the conditions, obviously a little warm,” Vegas said. “It’s the best I’ve ever seen it.The greens are perfect. The fairways are rolling more. It’s actually a little bit tricky because a lot of the fairways, as undulated as they are, you have to be a little careful with some of those run-outs.”
He last won on the tour in 2017 at the Canadian Open.
Andrew Landry was second after his second 65. He birdied the first three holes on his second nine, then played the next six in 1 over with a bogey on the par-4 sixth hole.
“I’ve been hitting the ball very, very well all year long,” Landry said. “The putter has just kind of been letting me down all year long, and it seems to be working pretty good the last two days.”
Lucas Glover had an albatross on the par-5 10th in a 64 that got him to 11 under. He holed out with a 3-iron from 255 yards after a 318-yard drive.
“Honestly, I was trying to hit it over short left, chip up the green, and I pushed it 5, 8 yards, and it bounced and rolled and I guess it went in. I didn’t see it,” Glover said. “I was just trying to make birdie, and I got lucky with a 2.”
Harold Varner III (65), Russell Henley (68), Daniel Berger (66), Cameron Tringale (66) and Adam Schenk (65) were 10 under. Varner chipped in for eagle from 42 yards on the par-4 14th.
“I hit a really good drive in the rough and it was perfect, and I blasted it and it went too far and smashed the pin and went in,” Varner said. “It was awesome.”
First-round leader Roberto Diaz closed with a double bogey for a 73 that left him at 7 under.
Matthew Wolff, the rookie who won last week in Minnesota, was 4 under after a 71.
Michael Kim, the winner by eight shots last year, missed the cut with rounds of 73 and 72.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos are the first team in the NFL to kick off training camp Thursday, and they'll do it with Emmanuel Sanders on hand but maybe not Drew Lock.
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Audit points to deceptive practices by Delaware-based student loan company Navient
A Delaware-based student loan servicing company may have driven tens of thousands of borrowers struggling with debt into higher-cost repayment plans.
Audit points to deceptive practices by Delaware-based student loan company Navient A Delaware-based student loan servicing company may have driven tens of thousands of borrowers struggling with debt into higher-cost repayment plans. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2018/11/20/delaware-based-navient-may-have-pushed-struggling-borrowers-into-high-cost-plans/2069896002/
Ken Sweet, Associated Press Published 3:02 p.m. ET Nov. 20, 2018
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One of the nation’s largest student loan servicing companies may have driven tens of thousands of borrowers struggling with their debts into higher-cost repayment plans.
That’s the finding of a Department of Education audit of practices at Navient Corp., the nation’s third-largest student loan servicing company.
The conclusions of the 2017 audit, which until now have been kept from the public and were obtained by The Associated Press, appear to support federal and state lawsuits that accuse Navient of boosting its profits by steering some borrowers into the high-cost plans without discussing options that would have been less costly in the long run.
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The education department has not shared the audit’s findings with the plaintiffs in the lawsuits. In fact, even while knowing of its conclusions, the department repeatedly argued that state and other federal authorities do not have jurisdiction over Navient’s business practices.
“The existence of this audit makes the Department of Education’s position (on the Navient lawsuits) all the more disturbing,” said Aaron Ament, president of the National Student Legal Defense Network, who worked for the Department of Education under President Barack Obama.
The AP received a copy of the audit and other documents from the office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, who has been a vocal critic of Navient and has publicly supported the lawsuits against the company as well as questioning the policies of the Department of Education, currently run by President Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. Warren is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2020.
Navient disputed the audit’s conclusions in its response to the Department of Education and has denied the allegations in the lawsuits. One point the company makes in its defense is that its contract with the education department doesn’t require its customer service representatives to mention all options available to the borrower.
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However, the five states suing Navient – Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington, California and Mississippi – say the behavior breaks their laws regarding consumer protection. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says in its own lawsuit the practices are unfair, deceptive and abusive and break federal consumer protection laws.
Of the five states that filed lawsuits against Navient, only Illinois and Pennsylvania were even aware of the audit, and they said they did not receive their copies from the Department of Education. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau declined to comment on whether it had a copy of the report.
The Department of Education said withholding the report was intentional, repeating the argument it has made in court and in public that only it has jurisdiction over student loan servicing issues, through its Federal Student Aid division, or FSA, which oversees student loans.
“FSA performed the review as part of its own contract oversight, not for the benefit of other agencies,” said Liz Hill, a Department of Education spokeswoman.
When student borrowers run into difficulties making payments, they can be offered forbearance, which allows them to delay payments for a set period of time. But under a forbearance plan, in most instances, the loan continues to accumulate interest and becomes a more expensive option in the long run.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleges in its lawsuit against Navient that between 2010 and 2015 Navient’s behavior added nearly $4 billion in interest to student borrowers’ loans through the overuse of forbearance. It is a figure that Navient disputes.
A 2017 study by the Government Accountability Office estimates that a typical borrower of a $30,000 student loan who places their loan into forbearance for three years – the maximum allowed for economic-hardship forbearance – would pay an additional $6,742 in interest on that loan.
“This finding is both tragic and infuriating, and the findings appear to validate the allegations that Navient boosted its profits by unfairly steering student borrowers into forbearance when that was often the worst financial option for them,” Warren said in a letter to Navient last week.
As part of their inquiry, DoE auditors listened in on about 2,400 randomly selected calls to borrowers from 2014 to 2017 out of a batch of 219,000. On nearly one out of 10 of the calls examined, the Navient representative did not mention other options, including one type of plan that estimates the size of a monthly payment the borrower can afford based on their income. Auditors wrote that many customer service representatives failed to ask questions to determine if such a plan, known as an income-driven repayment plan, might be more beneficial to the borrower.
There is no public record of how many struggling borrowers serviced by Navient may have been impacted by these practices. In its most recent annual report, Navient says it services 6 million student loan borrowers, of which 12.7 percent are more than 30 days past due. That would be roughly 762,000 customers who are struggling in some fashion to pay their student loans.
If one out of every 10 of those customers were pushed into forbearance instead of an income-driven repayment plan, as the department’s audit found, that would be 76,200 of Navient’s borrowers.
The DoE report contains recommendations for how Navient could fix its practices but makes no mention of firm requirements or sanctions.
The education department’s Federal Student Aid division decided to do a review of Navient’s forbearance practices after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed its lawsuit against the company in January 2017, department spokeswoman Hill said, to see if there were any compliance issues.
She said DoE officials came to the conclusion that Navient was not improperly steering borrowers. “Nothing in the report indicates forbearances were applied inappropriately – the observations noted focused on suggested improvements regarding how to best counsel” a small minority of borrowers, she said.
In response to questions over the 2017 audit, Navient pointed to the fact that nine out of every 10 borrowers on the calls were offered all their options and that this audit is just one piece of a broader story.
“This (audit), when viewed as a whole, as well as dozens of other audits and reviews, show that Navient overwhelmingly performs in accordance with program rules while consistently helping borrowers choose the right options for their circumstances,” said Paul Hartwick, a company spokesman.
Navient, formerly known as Sallie Mae, is a publicly traded company. In calls and presentations with investors, Navient has said a company priority is to lower its operational costs.
As a student loan servicing company, Navient has one primary operating cost: its employees, including the hundreds of customer-service agents who man Navient’s telephones every day. The fewer customer-service agents Navient employs, the more money Navient puts in its pocket. Doing calls to determine whether a borrower should be in an income-driven repayment plan takes longer, student loan industry experts say.
In fact, that is exactly what Navient said in its response to the Department of Education’s audit.
“We (are not) aware of any requirement that borrowers receive all of their repayment options … on each and every call,” the company said, adding that if the Department of Education chose to require all servicers to discuss income-driven repayment plans with all borrowers, the Department of Education needs to redo its contract with Navient.
Seth Frotman, who was the highest-ranking government official in charge of student loans until he quit in August in protest over how the Trump-controlled Department of Education and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were handling the issue of student loans, said Navient’s response was outrageous.
“In short, Navient, when confronted with evidence of its bad practices, is telling the government, ‘Pay us more money or take a hike.’ And It looks like the Department of Education took a hike,” Frotman said.
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WORLD’S ONLY CORN PALACE RELEASES 2019 CORN PALACE FESTIVAL LINEUP
(Mitchell, S.D.) - The World’s Only Corn Palace is excited to announce the star-studded entertainment lineup for the 2019 Corn Palace Festival. This year’s festival lineup will start on Friday August 23rd with Country music star and 1990 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year, Clint Black. Black has had more than 30 singles on the US Billboard country charts, 22 of which have reached number one. Saturday August 24th the Corn Palace will host ACM and Grammy nominated Country music artist Trace Adkins. Adkins has charted over 20 singles on the Billboard country music charts, including the Number One hits “(This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing”, “Ladies Love Country Boys” and “You’re Gonna Miss This.” Sunday, August 25th Blood Sweat and Tears will take stage performing Billboard Top 40 hits such as “Spinning Wheel”,
“You’ve Made Me So Very Happy”, “Hi-De-Ho” and “When I Die”. Opening for Blood Sweat and Tears will be The Box Tops who will be singing 8 top 40 hits including “The Letter”.
Tickets will go on sale Friday March 22nd at 10AM. Tickets can be purchased at the Corn Palace Box Office, by calling 605-995-8430 or online at www.cornpalace.com .
*Saturday tickets are reserved seating, standing room and VIP Standing Room (Front of Stage).
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The World’s Only Corn Palace is one of the oldest and most unique sports and entertainment venues in the region. Although during the summer months, the Corn Palace offers free tours led by friendly guides full of "a-maize-ing" facts, like how many nails and staples are used in the decoration process of our annual change of murals, we host a variety of events including concerts, basketball, volleyball, wrestling, bull riding, circus, banquets, graduations and much more. The facility can host up to 3,200 people. For more information, please visit www.cornpalace.com.
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The known unknowns behind climate change forecasting.
The massive Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska's Tongass National Forest is rapidly retreating. Photo courtesy of The National Science Foundation.
Climate scientists are certain that human-caused emissions have increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by 44 per cent since the Industrial Revolution. Very few of them dispute that this has already caused average global temperatures to rise roughly 1 degree. Accompanying the warming is disruption to weather patterns, rising sea levels and increased ocean acidity. There is no doubt that further emissions will only make matters worse, possibly much worse. In a nutshell, that is the settled science on human-caused climate change.
What scientists cannot yet pin down is exactly how much warming we will get in the future. They do not know with precision how much a given quantity of emissions will lead to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. For climate impact it is the concentrations that matter, not the emissions. Up until now, 29 per cent of human emissions of carbon dioxide has been taken up by the oceans, 28 per cent has been absorbed by plant growth on land, and the remaining 43 per cent has accumulated in the atmosphere. Humans have increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere from a pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million to over 400 today, a level not seen for millions of years.
There’s a possibility that the 43 per cent atmospheric fraction may increase as ocean and terrestrial carbon sinks start to become saturated. This means that a given amount of emissions will lead to a bigger increase in concentrations than we saw before. In addition, the warming climate may well provoke increased emissions from non-fossil fuel sources. For example, as permafrost thaws, the long-frozen organic matter contained within it rots and oxidizes, giving off greenhouse gases. Nature has given us a major helping hand, so far, by the oceans and plants taking up more than half of our added fossil carbon, but there’s no guarantee that it will continue to be so supportive forever. These so-called carbon-cycle feedbacks will play a big role in determining how our climate future will unfold, but they are not the largest unknown.
Atmospheric physicists have long tried to pin down a number to express what they refer to as climate sensitivity, the amount of warming we will get from a certain increase in concentration of greenhouse gases. Usually, this is expressed as the average global warming, measured in degrees Celsius that results from a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations. The problem is not so much being able to calculate how much warming the doubling of the carbon dioxide alone will cause – that is relatively easy to estimate and is about 1 degree C. The big challenge is in figuring out the range of size of the feedbacks. These are the phenomena that arise from warming temperatures and that amplify or dampen the direct effects of the greenhouse gases that humans have added to the atmosphere.
The biggest feedback is water vapour, which is actually the most important single greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Warm air holds more water vapour. As carbon dioxide increases and the air warms, there is plenty of water on land and in the sea available to evaporate. The increased amount of vapour in the air, in turn, provokes more warming and increased evaporation. If temperatures go down, the water vapour condenses and precipitates out of the atmosphere as rain and snow. Water vapour goes quickly into and out of the air as temperatures rise and fall, but the level of carbon dioxide stays around for centuries, which is why water vapour is considered a feedback and not a forcing agent. Roughly speaking, the water vapour feedback increases the sensitivity of carbon dioxide alone from 1 to 2 degrees C.
Another feedback results from the melting of sea ice in the Arctic. Ice reflects the sun’s energy back out into space, whereas oceans that are free of ice absorb more of the sun’s radiated heat. As warming temperatures melt the sea ice, the Earth absorbs more solar energy and the surface warms faster. The loss of sea ice is a major reason that Arctic temperatures are increasing about twice as fast as the rest of the globe. The Antarctic has gained rather than lost sea ice over recent decades due to the effects of ocean currents and other factors. But this gain is much smaller than the Arctic ice loss, so the overall effect of all polar sea ice on the climate is to amplify the global response to increased carbon dioxide concentrations.
The least well-defined feedback is the effect of clouds. The quantity and distribution of clouds is expected to change in a warming climate, but exactly how is not yet fully known and is debated. High clouds tend to keep more heat in, while low clouds tend to reflect more sunlight back into space, providing a cooling effect. Most experts estimate that clouds, on balance, will have anywhere from a slight cooling feedback to a significant warming feedback.
On top of the variance in the estimates of the feedbacks, the size of the human and natural factors that drive climate change, apart from carbon dioxide, also have a wide range. Greenhouse gases like methane play a big role in warming, while sulphate-particle pollution from coal-burning plants actually cools the planet by blocking the sun. Land-use changes – clearing forests, for example – also affect climate by either reflecting or absorbing more of the sun’s energy. Natural ejections of reflective particles from volcanoes can also influence the climate in significant, but unpredictable ways.
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An early estimate of climate sensitivity was made in 1979 by the American scientist Jule Charney. He based his estimate on just two sets of climate calculations – or models – that were available at that time. One set of models predicted a sensitivity of 2 degrees, the other, 4 degrees, which he averaged to get a mean value of 3 degrees. Rather arbitrarily, he subtracted or added half a degree from the two model estimates to produce a minimum-to-maximum range of 1.5 to 4.5 degrees. Despite the shakiness of this approach, Charney’s estimate has proved remarkably durable.
The five Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports produced between 1990 and 2013 drew upon the results of many more climate models that were also much more sophisticated. Nevertheless, all of the reports came up with estimates of the minimum, maximum and most likely sensitivities that were within half a degree of Charney’s rough estimate. In 2007, the fourth assessment report (AR4) provided a climate sensitivity range of 2 to 4.5 degrees C, with a most likely value of 3 degrees C. The latest report, AR5 in 2013, estimates the likely range of sensitivity at 1.5 to 4.5 degrees C, exactly the range Charney provided 34 years earlier with his educated guesswork.
It is worth noting that climate sensitivity is not an input factor into the climate models but a calculated result.
In the past few years, some scientists have made calculations based on recent temperature measurements and simple energy-balance climate models. This approach has tended to produce an estimate of a most-likely climate sensitivity number around 2 degrees, which is significantly lower than the previous best estimate of around 3 degrees from more complex climate models. Taking account of this work, the IPCC adjusted its lower estimates downward in the 2013 AR5 report and, because of the newly increased range, opted not to settle upon a most-likely central value. These new, lower values suggest that the average, complex climate models may be predicting too much warming.
However, a recent publication in the journal Nature Climate Change by NASA scientist Mark Richardson and his colleagues has exposed flaws in those simple, low sensitivity models. One problem is that the simple calculations took ocean temperatures measured just below the surface (which is the common measurement made by climate scientists) and compared them to the calculated air temperatures near the Earth’s surface that is output by climate models. Since air above the ocean warms more than the water, the comparison is not valid over the oceans. Richardson and his colleagues also factored in the effect of retreating Arctic sea ice on temperature measurements, and the lack of measured historical data in some regions. They then checked the calculations again, and as Richardson explained to Corporate Knights:
“Once you do a fair test then you get the same result from both the simple calculation using real-world data and from complex climate models. We took model water temperatures when the measurements are of water temperatures, and didn’t use model output when and where there were no measurements. This matters because fast-warming areas like the Arctic, where there is now less summer sea ice than in at least 1,450 years, have not historically been measured by thermometers. All of the effects combined in the same way; they hid warming. This is the main reason that climate models looked like they were warmed a bit too much since 1861.”
Additional recent research from a NASA team led by scientist Kate Marvel took a hard look at some other simplifying assumptions made in the low-sensitivity calculations. Marvel and her colleagues modified the inputs to more complex climate models to explore how much certain factors, like sulphate pollution or land-use changes, affected the climate when modelled in isolation. They found that these agents are more effective in causing temperature changes because they tend to be located in the northern hemisphere and on land where they carry a bigger punch than if it is simply assumed that their effect is distributed evenly across the planet, as some of the simpler, low-sensitivity studies have done.
Combining the Richardson and the Marvel results brings estimates of climate sensitivity back to, or even a little above Jule Charney’s estimates. To the non-specialist, all of this may seem like a rather pointless process where we end up where we started from, still stuck with a stubbornly wide range of a factor of 3 or so from minimum (1.5 degrees) to maximum (4.5 degrees). But as Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told Scientific American last year: “We may be just as unsure as before, but we are unsure on a much more solid footing.”
Uncertainty provides no comfort
Climate sensitivity estimates are not just estimated by climate models using modern data. Scientists also have observations of how the Earth behaved in periods of past climatic change. From the ice-age cycles that occurred over the past 800,000 years there are samples of past atmospheres trapped in gas bubbles in ice cores that reveal the chemical mix of the air and the temperatures at the time.
Scientists can look back much further in time, many millions of years ago, when the Earth was in a hot-house state. In those times there was little ice even at the poles and sea levels were several tens of metres higher than they are today.
These observations of the geological past have their own considerable ranges of uncertainty, but, taken together, they produce estimates of climate sensitivity that are broadly consistent with the range calculated by climate models of the modern era. This consilience, which is to say, different approaches pointing to the same general result, explains why climate scientists are so confident that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases lead to increased warming, even if nobody can yet be sure how much the human-induced warming will be over this century and beyond.
One thing we do know with great confidence is that if we continue to emit greenhouse gases at the current rate, then sometime in the second half of this century we will have doubled the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The last time concentrations were that high, 30 million years ago, there was no ice on Greenland and little on Antarctica.
Already, we have increased carbon dioxide concentrations by 44 per cent over preindustrial levels. The only way to stabilize them is to reduce our emissions to near zero. Already, the surface temperature has increased by roughly 1degree, halfway to the 2-degree target set in Paris in December 2015 and two-thirds of the way to the “defence line” of 1.5 degrees, above which low-lying island states are expected to be obliterated by sea level rise. We are already experiencing clear signs of climate disruption, record high temperatures, disappearing glaciers and steadily rising seas.
Uncertainty about the degree of future climate that we will get over coming decades provides no comfort. We know that the effects of climate change will range from bad to very bad. If we are lucky and the climate sensitivity turns out to be low, the worst effects will be delayed for a while. But the sensitivity is just as likely to be higher than the mean figure and the consequences of a 4-degree rise will be more than twice as bad as of a 2-degree rise. The only way to control the outcome is to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible, as soon as possible.
The biggest uncertainty of all is how quickly we can get our collective act together.
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"False" charges may be levelled against Adivasi-Dalit rights leader: Top Dublin-based NGO
Front Line Defenders (FLD), a Dublin (Ireland)-based UN award winning advocacy group, which works with the specific aim of "protecting" human rights defenders at risk, people who work, non-violently, for the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has expressed the apprehension that cops may bring in "false charges" against Degree Prasad Chouhan, convenor, Adivasi Dalit Majdoor Kisan Sangharsh, which operates from Chhattisgarh.
A human rights defender and a law graduate in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh District, Chouhan has been involved in organizing Adivasi villagers to respond to the alleged unlawful dispossession of their land. Also serving as vice president of the Chhattisgarh chapter of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), over the past 15 years Chouhan has advocated for justice for the human rights violations committed against Dalits and the Adivasi community, including illegal land grabbing and forced displacement of indigenous people by state agents, security forces and corporate business interests. He has also worked on extra judicial killings, illegal detention, torture and attacks on minorities.
According to FLD -- which promotes and strengthens international and regional measures to protect human rights defenders through support for the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders -- the stage has been set for levelling "false allegations" against Chouhan following the arrest of human rights defender Sudha Bharadwaj and four others on October 26.
Text of the FLD's appeal to Indian authorities:
Following the arrest of human rights defender Sudha Bharadwaj and four others on October 26, 2018, there is an imminent threat of false charges being brought against Dalit activist and human rights defender, Degree Prasad Chouhan.
The police have already implicated the defender by name in a fake letter produced by them on August 31, 2018, which they claim was written by advocate Sudha Bharadwaj.
There is a clear attempt by the police to smear the human rights defender as a Maoist militant and draw a false link between Degree Prasad Chouhan and the Bhima Koregaon violence which took place in January 2018.
At a press conference on August 31, 2018, the Maharashtra police read out a fake letter allegedly written by Sudha Baradhwaj. The letter purports inter alia that “Comrade Degree Prasad Chouhan, who was sent into the interiors by me, has returned on successfully completing the said operation. As promised, he has to be paid his reward now”.
This is a clear attempt to smear and implicate the defender, paving the way for his possible arrest under the regressive Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). Sudha Baradhwaj through her lawyer has refuted the claims of the Maharashtra Police and expressly stated that the allegations against Degree Prasad Chouhan are baseless.
Sudha Baradhwaj and four other activists have been in police custody under the UAPA since 26 October 2018, when a Pune Sessions Court denied bail to the activists and also refused to extend their house arrest. On 6 November 2018 they were sent to jail.
Degree Prasad Chouhan believes that he faces an imminent threat of being falsely implicated as a Maoist militant or of instigating in some way the Bhima Koregaon violence, which occurred on January 1, 2018 during the commemoration of the 200 year anniversary of a battle the Dalits had won against the Peshwas (upper caste rulers).
The current spate of persecution of human rights defenders through surveillance, threats, arrests and judicial harassment, is an attempt to curb the growing movement for Dalit and Adivasi rights, which has over the years achieved some successes in their fight to preserve their land and rights.
Front Line Defenders expresses grave concern regarding the smear campaign and attempts to falsely imply Degree Prasad Chouhan is a Maoist militant or terrorist, as it strongly believes that they are directly linked to his peaceful and legitimate work in defence of human rights.
Front Line Defenders urges the authorities in India to:
1. Immediately cease any harassment against Degree Prasad Chouhan, including attempts to smear his name through the media and to criminalise him.
2. Ensure that Degree Prasad Chouhan is protected within India and the Chhattisgarh state and permitted to continue his human rights work without hindrance or harassment.
3. Immediately and unconditionally release the five human rights defenders, including lawyer Sudha Baradhwaj, as their arrest is directly linked to their peaceful and legitimate work in defence of human rights.
4. Guarantee in all circumstances that human rights defenders in India are able to carry out their legitimate human rights activities without fear of reprisals and free of all restrictions including judicial harassment.
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Case honors a 1950 grad who changed sports history
TIMOTHY MAGAW
The commemorative emblems have a special texture that resembles Nike's Air Sole units.
The father of Nike Air is getting some props on the sports uniforms of his alma mater: Case Western Reserve University.
Nike and Case have teamed up to honor Frank Rudy, a 1950 graduate of the Case Institute of Technology, with newly designed uniforms and footwear that will sport an emblem bearing Rudy’s initials — MFR — for Marion Franklin Rudy. In addition to his initials, the emblems will have a special texture that resembles Nike’s Air Sole units. Rudy is credited with inventing Nike’s Air Sole technology, which was first featured in the 1979 Nike Tailwind shoe. Also — as might be expected from a major research university like Case — Rudy’s favorite equation, L=MT2, will be featured on the inside back collar of the uniforms. Last year, Rudy’s daughter, Kim McMahon, was made aware of Case’s need for uniforms. She worked with Nike’s design to develop the uniforms for the university’s 500 athletes on 19 varsity sports teams. The university said it is introducing the new uniforms this fall semester as part of a revamped branding initiative.
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My favorite artists from past decades. These guys I listen to over and over again. I own a lot of their records, but not necessarily everything. I have a modest collection of 250 cds. I've converted all of that into FLAC format and listen 24bit/96khz upscaled using pro equipment. I may be a bit fanatic about some of these artists, but not all :)
Here's the scale I use to rate music and films. I try to be objective and consider all aspects. I sometimes write short reviews here.
5.0 / 90 - exceptional
4.5 / 80 - very good
4.0 / 70 - good
3.5 / 60 - fair
3.0 / 50 - average
2.5 / 40 - weak
2.0 / 30 - bad
1.5 / 20 - very bad
1.0 / 10 - trash
Spyra
Wolfram Spyra is currently my favorite artist. He's from Germany and does synthesizer music in "Berlin School style". Spyra has released over 30 albums. I never get tired of his albums. There's a story how I discovered him, as he is very much "under the radar". About ten years ago I downloaded a collection of space music from the internet, it was some sort of radio show that had 1000 tracks. I listened through all of that. Spyra was the one artist that stuck out of it, with his very personal and melodic sequencer music. That's how I got to know him and started buying his records. The rest is history. I own all of his albums!
Livingston Taylor
Livingston, or Liv like they call him, is brother to James Taylor. So that's how I discovered him :) That was a long time ago. I think it was around 1995 when I first heard his first record - Livingston Taylor. It was an odd record but I couldn't stop. Through the years I've picked all of his albums, often ordering from exotic places on the internet. He is quirky! There's no other like Livingston with his unique charm and finger-picking, mellow melodies and daydream lyrics. He is one positive guy. He's played over 4000 gigs, amazing! He's also a professor.
His real name is Evangelos Papathanassiou, I can spell it out from my memory. He is the legend. A giant of synthesizer music. The big man from Greece. He's done 50 albums in his lifetime. Some of those records were soundtracks to films such as Blade Runner, Antarctica, 1492 - Conquest of Paradise and many others. Other albums were simply unique artistic visions for instrumental synthesizer music. He played all his music by hand, recording it on the fly, often utilizing multiple keyboards at the same time! One can only hope to achieve his level of mastery :) He mastered the analog and the digital. I own every album ofcourse.
Armin used to be my favorite trance artist, with the hugely successful ASOT = A State Of Trance series, but I haven't been following him lately. His output has become too commercial and hard-core for my taste and he's lost some of that unique artistry that was present in his younger days. I feel like he's continuing just for the money. I still absolutely loved the Club Embrace record from 2016. How much of that was really done by Armin I don't know :) He probably has an army of producers in-house doing tracks for him. I'm selective about him, I'm not into his artist albums. He's best as a mixer and a DJ.
André Tanneberger is from Germany. He's a popular trance and eurodance artist. He also does beautiful instrumental music that you can hear on his later double albums. He's obviously a very hard working man, producing top albums one after another. Such beautiful music although I'm selective of his output. I often delete many tracks on his albums, but I enjoy all of the rest. This guy divides the opinion, others hate him while others love. That's usually a sign that there is something truly good about the artist :) Go figure.
Ben Taylor (2)
Ben Taylor is a singer-songwriter like his famous father James Taylor. Ben's style is unique. His albums are well thought over. He sings a lot about relationships, but I don't let that bother me :) So far he's done six records plus some minor things. His first album remains shelved, the one he did back in 1997 for Work Group label. It has never been released. Ben - please - you should just release it :) Everyone would absolutely love to hear Green Dragon, Name A Fox! Ben is quite experimental in his music and albums. But he's also easy to approach.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Bonnie is the total odd-ball indie songwriter from America. He has a unique captivating voice and a certain simplicity to his music with rich evocative lyrics. He often plays with a band, or quite many bands infact, but he also does tracks using only his voice and a guitar. He's done atleast 20 albums so far, excluding the plentious live recordings and EPs. Mesmerizing personality out of his time. He sounds like no other musician during this digital age that we're living. Yet he's very modern. He's also done acting in quite a few films.
The quintessential singer-songwriter of the 70's. And the 80's, 90's, 00's. James Taylor is a legend. The man with his guitar and warm soothing voice. Telling us stories from faraway places. Playing seemingly endless concert tours. Releasing albums one after another. Always top notch quality. I first heard his first record - James Taylor - at age 16. Didn't think much of it but I liked it. Forget about him but rediscovered later and started collecting his works one by one. Often riding my bicycle through various libraries in town and record stores. Then carefully recording the LPs on tape. We were living in the 90's after all. What an artist! Superb. I've listened to him so much I'm a bit done :) But I'll sneak back from time to time.
Jean-Michel Jarre
The synth guru from France everyone knows about. He was controversial in his earlier days and divided the opinion. Some people openly laughed at his music as being silly. But time has proven he's a master of the craft. I do like his records but there is a little something that itches. The albums are a bit uneven. Many could have been better or just slightly different. That's the feeling I often get. Maybe I'm too serious about Jean-Michel, while he might not be so serious himself. Still one of the top synthesizer guys producing lots of fantastic music in his own unique blend of sounds. He's been on it for five decades and I wish he'll be around for one more.
The accomplished singer-songwriter from Canada. She is the one artist that made the biggest impression on me, with her out-of-this-world angel voice and unusual guitar chords. First heard her on the Wild Things Run Fast album when I was 16. Thought nothing of it. Later rediscovered her on the album Blue that struct like psychosis. It was this being sent from heaven singing in such melancholy, beauty and soul it was totally unheard of. I started collecting her records one by one, until I arrived at the last one some decade later. What a ride! So many styles and all executed so well. There isn't anyone else like her. She's in a class of her own. But I'm through with her, totally. It's history. Almost. Lol.
Everyone knows Kraftwerk, right? The original electronic music group from 70's Germany that showed us the future of music. Singing about autobahns, robots and computers. They were first a fusion jazz band. Did you know that? Their first three albums are quite different (first album as Organisation). But where did these guys disappear? Many has wondered. I suppose they got paralyzed by their fame and didn't want to spoil their legacy. I believe they could have made many more albums. This band didn't take itself too serious, until they did and quit. Thanks anyway for all the fun kling-klang music. I can't make up my mind whether I like them more in english or german language :) I even like Tour de France, eh.
I've listened to many female artists throughout the years such as Melanie, Kate Bush, Ian Van Dahl, Carly Simon, Madonna and others. But I don't own much of their records. Norah Jones however I do own four of her albums. So I guess I have to mention her. She is good. She has good bands to back her up :) How much of it comes from her own pen I don't really know. But she is definately a talented singer and player. Her soft jazz pop albums are darn nice to listen to. Full of youthful dreamy songs. What's there not to like about? Maybe her style a bit limited but she's got plenty of years ahead - so let's see what future holds.
Takagi Masakatsu
Takagi is my latest discovery. I heard the album "Eating" some years ago, but thought nothing of it. Somehow I got back to it later and saw that he was quite unique. So I searched the internet for more and so far have ordered 12 albums :) He seemed interesting and is indeed very good. The soundtrack for "The Boy and the Beast" animated movie is darn beautiful amongst many others. He's from Japan and seems to do live concerts and video art. Very promising and competent artist that has already done many albums. He does instrumental music mostly, using a mixture of digital and analog, such as pianos, drums and orchestra. Some albums have guest singers. Give Masakatsu a listen.
The electronica duo from land of the trolls, Norway. Not a super duper fan of their music, but I do have all of their records. I think they are pretty good and I get back to their albums a lot. There's enough variation which is good. These guys are self-learned musicians which is proof anyone can do it with enough persistence and practise. It must be the long winters and bad weather that keeps them inside making music. Better than watching television I guess. They invented a new style of electronic music during the 00's. I don't know what's it called. People invent all these funny genre names. Oh, what ever. They do good music!
Pat is my favorite jazz artist. One could say he's a gifted guitar player :) Some of his records are darn awesome. He's made a lot of stuff and plays a lot of concerts. Being a jazz musician must be hard. I don't think there's a lot of money in it. And you have to practise every day. Must hurt the brain in the long haul. I would never have the patience. Pat plays a lot with a trusted combo of musicians. It's nice to see their concert videos, that's the best stuff in my opinion. Actually, I don't own anything from Pat yet. Surprised? But perhaps later.
My favorite heavy metal band :) These guys are workhorses and awesome. Churning out albums one after another and doing thousands of concerts. Everyone knows Iron Maiden anyway so what am I even babling about. They are gifted. They are from U.K. They've got balls. They can laugh to themselves. I must be one rare guy having instantly recognized that the album "No Prayer For The Dying" was a self-parody. Brilliant self-parody. I think all of their albums are good, even those with Blaze Bayley. They only mixed Bayley's vocals too silent on those two albums. He was good. Paul Di'Anno was good. Bruce is God. Amazing band, though it was mostly a teenage thing for me. Fancy the memories.
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Enroll America (EA)
Seeks to maximize the number of uninsured Americans who enroll in health coverage made available by Obamacare
Founded in March 2010, Enroll America (EA) describes itself as a “nonpartisan” 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to “maximize the number of uninsured Americans who enroll in health coverage made available by the Affordable Care Act,” more popularly known as “Obamacare.” Toward that end, EA works to: help the uninsured gain awareness of their various enrollment options; broaden the range of channels through which uninsured individuals can enroll; and help the federal and state governments adopt “streamlined and user-friendly enrollment policies, procedures, and practices.” EA is a collaborative organization, working with partners that span the gamut of health coverage stakeholders—health insurers, hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, employers, consumer groups, faith-based organizations, civic organizations, and philanthropies.
EA’s founder and chairman, Ronald F. Pollack, is also the executive director of Families USA, a healthcare advocacy group that strongly supports the domestic agendas of President Barack Obama. In the late 1990s, Pollack worked on Bill Clinton‘s Presidential Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry. In EA’s early days, Pollack vowed that the organization would be run like a “political campaign.”
EA’s president, Anne Filipic, was a senior staffer with the Obama For America campaign in 2008. She later served as deputy executive director of the Democratic National Committee; as an Obama White House official under Valerie Jarrett; as an aide to Health & Human Services (HHS) director Kathleen Sebelius; and as deputy director of President Obama’s Office of Public Engagement, where she networked with community organizers.
Enroll America is a prime beneficiary of an Obamacare stipulation that provides millions of dollars in grants to hire—at rates as high as $48 per hour—community activists and organizers to serve as “navigators” who help individuals enroll in health-insurance plans provided by state or federal exchanges. The healthcare law specifies that these “navigators” must be attuned to the racial, ethnic and cultural sensitivities of “underserved communities”—a requirement which, by the calculus of the Obama administration, is best fulfilled by activists who embrace identity politics.
In the spring of 2013, as Obamacare was starting to be implemented in a piecemeal fashion, numerous analysts predicted that tens of thousands of such activists would be hired as navigators in the coming months. As one health expert with close ties to HHS put it: “The navigator program, as evidenced by the leadership of Enroll America …, will be a jobs program for unemployable Obama For America [the precursor to Organizing For Action and Organizing For America] campaign volunteers and ACORN remnants.” EA president Anne Filipic, for her part, expected her organization to spend some $100 million—much of which would be federal money—on the enrollment effort.
Also in the spring of 2013, controversy was sparked by reports that the EA-affiliated navigators who were helping people fill out healthcare application forms, were simultaneously presenting those applicants with voter-registration forms. As healthcare policy expert Betsy McCaughey puts it, they were using the healthcare enrollment process as a vehicle to “steer the uninsured into the Democratic Party.” Louisiana Congressman Charles Boustany sent a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, complaining that this practice “could lead some to think [that] voter registration is somehow tied to [healthcare] subsidy eligibility.”
Equally controversial was the revelation, in May 2013, that Kathleen Sebelius had been actively soliciting, on Enroll America’s behalf, large financial donations from companies in the healthcare field as well as patient advocacy groups, churches, and other charitable organizations—all to help EA’s effort to implement Obamacare.
To create a media campaign that would promote Obamacare to the American public as effectively as possible, EA hired Lake Research, a political strategy firm which has also been commissioned for message-management by such high-profile organizations as ACORN, MoveOn.org, and the National Council of La Raza, as well as by 39 members of Congress, all Democrats.
In late November 2013, EA announced that it was severing all ties to its state communications lead, Christopher Tarango, when the latter was caught illegally engaging in covert political activity—which members of 501(c)(3) nonprofits are barred from doing. Specifically, Tarango had conspired to provide a list of potential Obamacare enrollees—obtained via the “commit cards” that EA was distributing door-to-door to help people select health-insurance plans—to an undercover investigator with James O’Keefe of Project Veritas, who was posing as the representative of a political action committee.
EA and its operatives have repeatedly characterized their organization as “purely nonprofit,… not partisan, [and] non-political.” But as journalist John Fund reported, when EA employee Brian Pendleton was introduced at a November 2013 speaking engagement, EA was called “the official group for the DNC [Democratic National Committee].” Further, Fund quoted investigative journalist James O’Keefe as saying that EA “appears to be sharing data and working directly with an explicitly political group called Battleground Texas [which is dedicated to turning Texas into a Democrat-majority state], activities that [O’Keefe] notes ‘are prohibited unless certain conditions are met.’”
In March 2014—on the heels of President Obama’s assurance that “none of the information that is provided [in health insurance application process] … is, in any way, transferred to Immigration services—the Mexican government’s consular office in Brownsville, Texas hosted an Obamacare enrollment fair. Enroll America had a major presence at this event. According to EA field organizer Jose Medrano, 101 families were represented at the fair, and roughly three fifths of the representatives spoke with a healthcare counselor. The consular office, explained Medrano, was seeking to help the families make a “transition” to “mainstream … America.” The following week, Medrano told Breitbart News: “Whether they’re Mexican nationals or whether they’re United States citizens or whether they’re in transition—and if they’re there [at an Obamacare event] it is our [EA’s] responsibility within all of America to educate on the Affordable Care Act.”
Stephen Miller, a spokesman for Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), stated:
“Promoting Obamacare at a Mexican consulate raises three major policy concerns. One, the possibility that illegal immigrants could fraudulently access federal subsidies; two, that such promotions provide a financial inducement to unlawfully enter the U.S. (or overstay a visa) by offering households headed by illegal immigrants federal subsidies through their legal relatives or dependents; and three, that these activities widen an existing flaw in our legal admissions process by continuing to subvert the principle that those seeking to lawfully enter the US should be financially self-sufficient.”
EA’s advisory council is composed of more than 50 organizations, including the AARP, Health Care for America Now, MomsRising, the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, the National Urban League, Planned Parenthood, the Service Employees International Union, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, and the Young Invincibles.
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MoveOn (MO)
Young Invincibles (YI)
National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)
Democracy Alliance (DA)
National Urban League (NUL)
U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG)
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
MomsRising (MR)
Health Care for America Now (HCAN)
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
Organizing For Action (OFA)
Organizing For America (OFA)
Democracy Forward (DF)
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'The Agriculturist' goes digital; AEC breaks new ground with magazine app
Digital publications "" publications that can be downloaded via an app on tablets and smartphones "" are on the rise. Last year Adobe Systems reported that the total number of digital publications downloaded has doubled to 150 million compared to 2012. Recognizing the growing trend, Texas Tech's Department of Agricultural Education and Communication is launching a mobile app version for the spring 2014 issue of The Agriculturist, its student-led magazine.
"We want our agricultural communication students to graduate with the most cutting-edge skillset possible," said David Doerfert, agricultural communications professor. "Mobile publications are the latest trend in the industry that our degree program is responding to."
Each semester, students enroll in ACOM 4310: Development of Agricultural Publications, to produce a magazine from start to finish. The course serves as a capstone where students can utilize the skills they fostered through their undergraduate coursework.
"In this first attempt at designing for mobile devices, I kept the class focused on designing for the iPad using a minimum of interactive features," Doerfert said. "In future semesters, I'll expand the number of interactive features as well as the type of mobile devices the students design for."
While digital publications have a number of benefits, increased interactivity has proven to increase reader engagement. With digital publications, readers can enjoy slideshows, videos, hyperlinks and more. Readers can also easily share their favorite articles on social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. Not to mention that the magazine is easily accessible on your mobile device wherever you go. All these features increase the difficulty of designing the final product.
Typically, the print version of The Agriculturist has a circulation of 4,700 to departmental alumni, as well as current and prospective students with a potential reach of more than 12,000. With the addition of the digital version of The Agriculturist, Doerfert said the reach and circulation of the magazine has the potential to grow seven-fold, to the entire College of Agricultural Science and Natural Resources and beyond. For the foreseeable future, he plans to have his students create both the print and mobile device versions of the magazine.
Written by Faith Jurek
CONTACT: David Doerfert, Professor of Agricultural Communications and Graduate Studies Coordinator, Department of Agricultural Education & Communications, Texas Tech University at at (806) 834-4477 or david.doerfert@ttu.edu
Editor's Note: To access the Spring 2014 edition of The Agriculturist via iTunes, click https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/agriculturist-spring-2014/id791227506?mt=8.
To help improve the digital version of The Agriculturist for future editions by participating in this short survey, go to https://aecttu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_ag7bvMpoJpxHd0p
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When The Greatest met Goldenballs: Muhammad Ali and David Beckham team up to present Beyond Sport Award
By Emily Sheridan
They're two of the most popular sporting stars of their generations.
And tonight, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, 70, teamed up with English football star David Beckham to present a prestigious new award.
The men shared the stage as they presented Afghan refugee Matiullah Haidar with the inaugural Generation Ali Beyond Sport Award at a London reception.
Honoured: Muhammad Ali and David Beckham presented Afghan refugee Matiullah Haidar with an award
The awards marked Ali's first public appearance in the build-up to the Olympics, which kicks off on Friday.
The ceremony celebrates young people who have inspired their peers through sport.
Haidar, 19, who came to the UK as a refugee after losing most of his family in the conflict in Afghanistan, now coaches sport and supports refugees as a translator.
Speaking tonight, Beckham, 37, said: 'Muhammad Ali is one of the most inspirational sportsmen of all time. He is a global icon, and he has touched so many lives.
Met before: A young Beckham with Ali at the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Awards in 1999
Memorable moment: David Beckham also met Ali earlier this year at his 70th birthday celebrations in Las Vegas and posted this photo on his Facebook
'It is a true honour to join with him to present the Generation Ali Beyond Sport Award to one of this incredible group of young people.'
Although Ali isn't expected to take part in Friday's opening ceremony, Beckham confirmed he would have a 'small part' in the extravaganza.
Beckham was controversially snubbed a place in Team GB men's football team by coach Stuart Pearce.
Cheer up Becks! A glum looking Beckham at Los Angeles' LAX airport on Sunday
However, as he was such an important role of London's Olympic bid in 2005, the games chairman Lord Coe has asked him to be involved.
Becks told ITV: 'For him to keep me involved I feel very privileged. He has talked to me about a few things. I am playing a small part in the Olympic ceremony.'
Although he has declined to give away any more details: 'I would love to but I can't because it's exciting, it's going to be good.'
Mohammad Ali, a father of nine, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in the early 1980s.
He has fought his dignified battle with the illness for 26 years and despite looking increasingly frail he continues to make public appearances, refusing to shy away from the limelight.
The decision has endeared him to millions of fans and has helped raise awareness of the degenerative disease.
For more information on Beyond Sport and the Beyond Sport Summit & Awards visit www.beyondsport.org.
Muhammad Ali and David Beckham team up to present Beyond Sport Award
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3 Deaf People start Deaf-centered outdoor space in West Virginia: Lost River Vacations
Three Deaf business owners have joined forces to buy 23 acres of land in Lost River, West Virginia with a dream to convert it into a campground with several tiny houses. The land is close to a state park.
The three are Jane Jonas, Shawn Harrington, and Andrew St. Cyr. They told “The Daily Moth” that they are outdoor lovers and were sad that there was a lack of Deaf-centered outdoor spaces in the mid-Atlantic region, so they decided to do something about it.
The land at Lost River was completely wild at purchase. They have created a road and a parking lot, added electricity, drilled for a well, and set up septic.
Harrington, who owns a construction business, has worked with other Deaf craftsmen to build a tiny house. It will be used for rentals in the future. The group hopes to expand it to 8-10 houses for rent.
I asked Harrington why did the three choose Lost River?
Harrington: Why did we choose Lost River? One of our business partners, Jane Jonas, went there for a vacation. She fell in love with the place and told me about it. We each also visited Lost River on our own time. We saw that it was a beautiful, mountainous, retreat-style and quiet location. It was not that far away too! We felt instantly connected with the local community too. They’re very friendly and welcoming. We felt connected so that’s why we picked the city of Lost River.
Alex: The three said the project was done entirely by the Deaf ecosystem. The group has bigger visions for the land and the retreat.
Harrington: Our plan is to add more features and they include collaborating with Deaf project management and trail builders. They would build hiking trails on our land and we have a large swath of land. This is an exciting time for us and also we’ll get connected with Deaf disc golf course builders. They will build a 9 or18 holes course on our land. That’s our next project. We’re pretty ecstatic.
We’re really looking forward to showcasing the LRV because we’ve worked hard for a long time, coming up two years, and I’m really proud of how the three of us built connections with Deaf businesses. We really believe in supporting the Deaf ecosystem.
Alex: The three will have a launch party at a Deaf-owned brewery, Streetcar 82, in Hyattsville, Maryland on April 28 and will start a Kickstarter and an auction to raise more funds to expand the center. If you live in the area, you can attend by RSVPing.
Calvin Young from “Seek the World” will be there and will release a video about their process.
So, the three has turned their vision into reality, and want to go even further with our support. For more information, go to the link in the transcript.
https://lostrivervacations.com/
DEAF NEWSAlex Abenchuchan April 5, 2019
Interviews with three Deaf software engineers in Bay Area
Braam Jordaan To Receive Silver Award in the Order of the Baobab from President of South Africa
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The Daily Moth 6-19-2019
Trump raises $24.8 million after kicking off 2020 campaign in Orlando; Indian magician dies from river escape stunt; UN says Saudi crown prince liable for killing of Khashoggi; Dutch prosecutor charges 4 men for 2014 plane crash in Ukraine; Signs of climate change; Deaf student gets honored as one of the U.S. Presidential Scholars for 2019; Michigan School for the Deaf community members express concerns at town hall
[Transcript] Hello, welcome to The Daily Moth! It is Wednesday, June 19. Ready for news?
Trump raises $24.8 million after kicking off 2020 campaign in Orlando
President Trump’s 2020 campaign raised $24.8 million in less than 24 hours after officially launching his re-election bid in a rally in Orlando, Florida.
AP News said that Trump’s team already reported $48.7 million in cash at the end of March. This means Trump 2020 already is and will be a very powerful machine with a significant head start ahead of the field of Democratic opponents with fundraising.
Trump’s campaign rally was at a 20,000 seat stadium, the Amway Center. The Orlando Sentinel said it was “near capacity.”
Trump’s wife, children, and the Vice President Mike Pence and his wife were there.
Trump said he won in 2016 because people believed that a nation must take care of its own citizens first. He was proud of passing a criminal justice bill and healthcare reforms for veterans, passing tax cuts, pointed out that the economy is doing great, and said they are keeping their promises to the American people.
His new campaign slogan is “Keep America Great.”
Trump criticized Hillary Clinton by saying her email investigation was biased in favor of her, criticized Democratic congressional investigations, the Mueller investigation, and the concept of socialism.
Next week 20 Democrats will debate in Miami. Election Day will be on November 3, 2020, which is 502 days away.
https://apnews.com/caa01f3c9c18407784f5a2a34b7a108e
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-orlando-trump-rally-crowd-20190618-tkk2pwarsjcgzfwj2vknxgk3hy-story.html
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/18/donald-trump-2020-launch-florida-1369868
Indian magician dies from river escape stunt
A magician and stuntman from India, Chanchal Lahiri, died after attempting a Houdini-inspired stunt where he was lowered in the Hooghly River tied up with steel chains and rope. The stunt was on Sunday night and his body was found Monday night.
He was 40 years old. Before he went into the water, he told a crowd that if “he can open it up then it will be magic, but if he can’t it will be tragic.”
He did not come up from the water. After 30 minutes, spectators, his team, and his family searched for him along the river. Police found his body the next day two kilometers away.
https://cnn.it/2Romjj2
UN says Saudi crown prince liable for killing of Khashoggi; Dutch prosecutor charges 4 men for 2014 plane crash in Ukraine
Here are two world news briefs.
The first — an official UN report on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi said Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated because there is credible evidence that he is liable for the killing.
The UN called the killing an “execution” and said it was an international crime.
The report said based on audio recordings, it appears Khashoggi was killed by an injection of a sedative and suffocated with a plastic bag after he refused to cooperate with Saudi authorities at a Saudi consulate in Turkey.
A Saudi official said the UN report was “nothing new” and had “baseless allegations.”
The second news — an international investigative team led by the Netherlands’ chief prosecutor announced they have charged four men with murder for causing the crash of Malaysia Airlines Fight 17 as it flew over Ukraine during their civil war in 2014. Investigators say it was hit by a Russian-made missile. 298 people died.
Three of the men are former top Russian intelligence officials and the fourth person is a Ukrainian citizen who have worked with Russian-backed separatist units.
Russian officials said the charges are unfounded.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/19/jamal-khashoggi-killing-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-evidence-un-report
https://www.axios.com/murder-charges-downing-malaysia-airlines-flight-17-5bb77337-014b-4892-a9a6-b69ad972dcbf.html
Signs of climate change
Here are three news that are also signs of climate change.
The first — a thin and weak polar bear was found walking in city streets in Norilsk, Russia, which was the first time this has happened in 40 years. Polar bears normally live and hunt hundreds of miles north of the city. The bear was described as hungry and very weak.
Local officials will try to catch the bear and airlift it back north. Fox News reported that environmentalists say wild animals are suffering from shrinking hunting grounds due to receding Arctic ice because temperatures are warmer than normal.
The second news — last week a Danish scientist took a picture of a sled dog team that looked like it was walking on water. This was in Greenland. The scientist said the area is usually icy and covered with snow, but now it has water above it from melting ice sheets.
Greenland has reported record levels of ice melts.
The third news — a team of scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks said they have, from a plane, observed permafrost in the Canadian Arctic thawing 70 years earlier than predicted. They said an area that was normally frozen has turned into an area of small ponds with vegetation growing.
Scientists warn that thawing permafrost could release gases that trap heat, which would create a feedback loop that will contribute to rising temperatures.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/emaciated-polar-bear-spotted-in-russian-city
https://www.foxnews.com/science/stunning-photo-shows-dogs-walking-on-water-amid-greenland-ice-crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/18/arctic-permafrost-canada-science-climate-crisis
Deaf student gets honored as one of the U.S. Presidential Scholars for 2019
Megan Clements, a deaf senior at Rigby High School in Idaho, was selected as one of the finalists for the United States Presidential Scholar award. This is one of the highest honors that a high school student can receive. She will be one of the 161 selected students across the nation who will visit the White House on June 23rd.
The Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964 to recognize and honor some of our country’s distinguished graduating high school seniors. The Presidential Scholars Program is a recognition program, no scholarship is given. Students who are chosen will have a free trip to Washington, D.C., presented a medallion at a ceremony by the White House, and get to meet important people, including the President. Applications are by invitation only. The student has to send in five essays, a letter of recommendation, their transcript, and SAT/ACT scores.
Clements, a 4.0 GPA student, is also the first person to be selected from her district. She is this year’s class valedictorian. She was the first person to create an American Sign Language club at Rigby High School.
The Daily Moth reached out to her for an interview.
(Interview begins)
MEGAN CLEMENTS:
Well, the essay prompt said that I had to pick something that was of significance about myself. I’d have to pick a feature and explain my pick. This was a very vague question, right?
Not that simple, so I picked pole vaulting. Pole vaulting (PV). I really enjoyed trying to figure out how this could be connected. I eventually thought of this comparative essay between pole vaulting and living with my deafness.
I tried to show that in pole vaulting, if you just see a person holding the pole and they’re trying to run with the pole. It looks awkward and slow when they’re trying to run. It seems that the pole is really difficult to carry, and it looks kinda silly while you’re doing it, right? But if you take a step back and look at the full picture, the pole is not the problem. It’s meant to help them jump much higher than they would without the pole. With the pole, you can go to great heights. I compared that to my deafness and how people’s first reaction is sympathy, you know? Like it’s so hard and it feels really bad, but really helped me learn and understand who I am as a person. So I compared these two.
I first got an email then they sent me a letter. That’s when it became real.
RENCA:
An official letter, right. And how did you feel when you got that email and letter? What did that make you feel?
I felt…I got really excited and…at first, I opened the email and I read it. It said, “Thank you for submitting your application…”, my first thought was, “Aw nooo!”
I didn’t get it. I was being rejected; you know?!
Yes and that’s the first sentence you see, gosh!
Denied! Then it said, “Congratulations!”
What, congratulations?! Then I read the rest of the letter. “Oh!”. It seems I spoke too soon. It was really funny.
You must’ve been excited.
Yeah and I told my mom. She was so excited, and she was saying that she couldn’t believe it. I was like, “Ah I see, thanks mom!”
But no, it’s all good. We were really excited, and I told…well, I just told my family. My mom and dad and they were really excited.
So cool. So, you’re visiting Washington, D.C. next week. I’m curious about how you feel about meeting President Donald Trump. You’re meeting him, right? How do you feel about that?
I feel…pretty excited. Originally, I wasn’t sure if I was going to actually meet the president himself or, like, would I just go into the White House and take a look around? But now, I know I’ll be meeting him in person so I’m pretty excited. I think it’ll be fun, you know, taking a picture with him and everything, right? But I’m really excited to meet the other students too. Just meeting them and seeing who they are. Yeah, it’s really... I’m able to bring my interpreter from high school, my own interpreter.
Oh, how nice!
That’s really nice! I’d already know this person that’s interpreting for me. We understand each other’s signing styles.
I’m just curious about your plans following graduation. What are your plans moving forward?
Well, the current plan is I will start school at Utah State University in Fall 2019. This fall, in August I think, and I want to major in Biology. And I want to focus on genetics.
It’s pretty cool.
So, I’m starting this fall and after I get my Bachelor’s degree, I want to become a Physician’s Assistant (PA). So, I think after 6-7 years total of school, I’ll start with my work, I guess.
[End interview]
In 2013, Colin Lualdi from The Learning Center in Massachusetts, was honored as one of the 141 senior finalists for the U.S. Presidential Scholar Program.
In an article written by the Idaho State Journal, Clements’ principal Bryan Lords mentioned that she is a go-getter and a hard worker, and that’s what he loves about her.
To our knowledge, Clements is the 2nd deaf person to receive this award. Congratulations to you and The Daily Moth wishes you the best for your future endeavors.
https://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/index.html
https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/rigby-high-school-student-first-to-be-named-presidential-scholar/article_db1af3cd-9b12-5255-883a-a0410bffd7ac.html
https://www.nad.org/handwaves/july-2013/
Michigan School for the Deaf community members express concerns at town hall
Last night there were about 200 people from the Deaf community in Michigan who attended a town hall hosted by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) and the Office of Special Education (OSE) to express their concerns and frustrations with the Michigan School for the Deaf’s process of hiring a principal and on the school’s signing policy.
There was a protest on Thursday led by students with parents and activists attending. Their main complaint was that the campus manager, Charles Thomas, was not proficient in sign language and was not transparent in his communication with students or parents. The Daily Moth did a report on the protests.
Yesterday morning, before the evening town hall, the OSE announced that they have appointed Angela Horne, a special education teacher, to be an interim, WOC (Working Out of Class) principal.
MSD alumni Jenny Berrigan posted screenshots of the announcement from the OSE, who pointed out that Horne has an Associate’s Degree in Sign Language Interpreting.
Several Deaf community members expressed frustration on social media that Horne is not as qualified or as proficient in ASL as Rex Vernon, who student leaders said was the best choice and is a CODA.
Deaf Michigan resident Kriston Pumphrey attended the town hall and provided some images and video to “The Daily Moth.”
[Videos/images]
[Video of a full-house audience with several people talking onstage]
[Slideshow with the words, “Preparation: Community Input. A community meeting will be held to seek input on the following questions: 1. What personal characteristics, professional background and experiences would you hope the new principal will possess? 2. From your perspective, what would attract a quality educator to seek the principal position at the MSD?]
[Female MSD community member speaking with interpreter translating: You’ve failed to give my son, our children with a proper education under the IDEA. Parents here are demanding, not requesting, we are now demanding ASLPI Level 5 or above.]
[Female MSD community member #2 signing: October 2018, it was announced that the campus manager was hired. Were parents informed? Were you informed? Audience: No!]
The Daily Moth did an interview with two parents to ask them about last night’s town hall and what their main concerns were.
Hello, can you two introduce your names and what role you’ve been playing in this?
HEATHER GOLOB:
My name is Heather Golob. *Signs name*
I’m a parent of 3 deaf children, with the fourth on the way this fall.
SARAH HOUSTON:
I’m Sarah Houston and I’m a parent of a 10-year-old boy enrolled at Michigan School for the Deaf (MSD).
Can you two explain what are the main concerns that the parents in the deaf community shared at last night’s town hall?
HEATHER:
One of the main concerns is their language policy. For our school, their expectation is that all of their staff and teachers to sign at ASL Proficiency Interview (ASLPI) level 4 to 5 in order to better meet our children’s sign language communication needs so they’re not losing that critical information. And none of them are taking these ASLPIs.
SARAH:
Angela Horne (AH) is not a proficient ASL signer. She’s only been working at MSD for 3 years.
That’s not a lot of time compared with other principal candidate options, like Rex Vernon who has 10 years of valuable experience plus he’s got that Children of Deaf Adults (CODA) connection. I don’t understand why that was not the pick?
I want real concrete change within the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) system itself. I’ve asked and said they need deaf representatives in there!
There’s no “if, ands, ors and buts”.
Period!
We need to put a person who truly knows what’s the best for our deaf children because they will always be involved, it’s rooted in their culture, and I’m not necessarily only talking about deaf people. There are some who would prefer a deaf person in that role, yes, my priority is sign language. It’s so important that they are able to have that effective language reciprocity with my child for the deaf community. They want to see real progress with the educational delivery and that will be done with sign language.
Michigan Department of Education (MDE) hosted the town hall and just yesterday morning, they announced that they had picked Angela Horne, just before the town hall. Do either of you feel like they should’ve waited until after the town hall? How did you feel about that timeline set for you where you had the protest, picking the principal and now the town hall?
My thought was…
What happened when the parents asked Charles Thomas (CT) last April or May, around there, asking if he would have a meeting with all of us parents. He never answered our messages. So why are you waiting and avoiding these students until June. When it took 4 students to go outside and protest for you to finally say something?! Now you immediately set up the town hall, and it wasn’t until right before the meeting, they made the announcement in the same day, in the morning. How did that make me feel? What the hell?!
And I’m not surprised that they picked Angela Horne. We knew this would happen.
For me, it shows they simply don’t care. They do not care about what we and the deaf community want. They run on their own system. They pick people who will side with them in order to try to change the philosophy, the bilingual philosophy at Michigan School for the Deaf (MSD). It’s my belief that they’re trying to lessen the emphasis on ASL or they’re just not going to put any focus on sign language in terms of learning and education.
Now, what’s the next important, well, it’s summer now and they’ve already hired Angela Horne as the interim principal. Can you explain what your plans are moving forward?
After what just happened yesterday, I’ve had a lot of thoughts about what our next move would be. I expect them to finally listen and that’s the only one damn thing I want and it’s for them to listen to us! That’s all! And they need to ask us about what we need to meet our kid’s education needs. That’s the only damn thing that we need! That’s all.
I want to take the time to make sure they heard us by taking action. How? First, Angel needs to resign and if she does not then we’re going to have to persist and keep pushing until the first demand has been met. We do have a qualified, competent and culturally appropriate person who can take on that role. Just do it. Doing this would show us that you do hear us. You understand us. If this doesn’t happen then we’ll just have to continue the fight.
Alex: Thank you for your time.
Scott Koenigsknecht, as known as K13, who is the Deputy Superintendent of the MDE, was at the town hall and seated on a table onstage.
The Michigan Deaf Association shared a video of Mary Klein telling him that he has 13 cousins who are MSD alumni. The crowd broke out in cheers and applause.
[Video clip] Mary: Did you know that you have 13 cousins that are MSD alumni? Did you know that?
(Crowd cheering)
Mary: I have a family tree here for you to look at.
Koenigsknecht told NBC 25 News that he understood the community’s concerns, saying “there were a few times when the presenters signed and didn’t speak, and me not knowing sign, I was deprived of the language. So I can certainly see and understand where they are coming from.”
Stevie Gemmill Naeyaert, a MSD alumni, recently publicly called for the resignation of the MSD campus manager Thomas and the interim principal Horne.
So, we can see that it’s a very tense situation between MDE administrators, the Michigan School for the Deaf administrators, and members of the MSD community.
https://nbc25news.com/news/local/sud
MDA Video of Mary Klein: http://bit.ly/2KyE5zV
Stevie’s Resignation Demand: https://www.facebook.com/stevienaeyaert/videos/10156293433793144/
https://www.michiganschoolforthedeaf.org/staff
That is all for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light!
Convo [https://convo.click/2mVhM8h]
Gallaudet University: [gallaudet.edu]
TOP STORIESAlex Abenchuchan June 19, 2019
DEAF NEWSAlex Abenchuchan June 19, 2019
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Sprott eyes back-to-back Prizefighter titles
MICHAEL SPROTT should be sat at home with his feet up enjoying retirement.
MICHAEL SPROTT should be sat at home with his feet up enjoying retirement. Instead the 36-year-old is plying his trade on the domestic scene and will fly the flag for Britain in the Prizefighter International Heavyweights tournament on May 7.
If he is victorious at London’s Alexandra Palace, it will mean back-to-back titles in the series.
Should he lose? Well, knowing Sprott he’ll be back again as a test for the likes of Tyson Fury and David Price or down the card on a show somewhere in Germany.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Michael. He is everything rival Audley Harrison isn’t.
Honest, hard-working, a real trier who’s never been given the breaks he deserved. If he had, he probably would have hung up his gloves with a fair few quid in the bank.
Then again, few boxers walk off into the sunset when they ought to.
When Harrison won Prizefighter in 2009 he didn’t face Sprott because, tragically, the Reading man’s sister died before the competition and he was forced to withdraw.
They did eventually meet 12 months ago, when despite him leading on the scorecards, victory was snatched from Sprott by A-Force’s looping fist. A bingo punch he brought up from nowhere.
That moment landed him the European title and a date with David Haye. I’ll leave the Harrison references here, but let’s just say I believe Michael would have connected with more than one solitary jab had he been given a shot at a world title.
Anyway, back to Prizefighter.
Since lifting the trophy in October Sprott has found opportunities limited, with just one four-rounder since that night at York Hall.
Now he is ready to take on the 18th edition of Matchroom Sport’s eight-man, one-night tournament in an attempt to get back into major title contention.
“It’s kind of dry out there at the moment, there’s very little happening in the UK heavyweight scene,” said Sprott.
“It’s a bit frustrating but I do fight a lot over in Germany so I don’t really worry about my place here, I just get on with winning across Europe.
“I was talking to Jim (Evans, his trainer) about what will happen next and then the International Prizefighter came around and we decided that I’ve got nothing to lose so why not go for it.
“There’ll be no surprises for me on the night, it’s a good line-up so far but I’ve been here before and claimed the title so I know what is needed.”
He added: “I’m definitely ready to fly the flag for Britain. It’s going to be great mixing it with all the other countries – it adds a different twist to the night and I want to come out on top.”
Sprott’s last outing was in Germany on the undercard of Vitali Klitschko’s first-round win over Odlanier Solis, with the Englishman claiming a unanimous decision over Turkish southpaw Serdar Uysal.
“I hadn’t boxed since winning Prizefighter so I just had to get rid of a bit of ring rust,” said Sprott. “Some of my timing was a bit off but I did what I had to do to win and he was there just to survive, tucking up, holding on and running around the ring.
“I had sparred with Vitali for three weeks beforehand and also with Luan Krasniqi so I’ve got some good work under my belt already.
“I was hoping to get a big shot after winning the last Prizefighter I was in, but people avoided me. I know that if I win this Prizefighter with these big names in the line-up then surely I won’t be denied.”
Joining Sprott in the International Heavyweights are New Jersey’s Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson, who boasts 24 victories and just one defeat, a points loss to Vitali Klitschko in a WBC title challenge in December 2009, unbeaten Irish-based Cuban Mike “The Rebel” Perez and German Konstantin Airich. Further names are expected soon.
By the way, in case you’re wondering why I haven’t mentioned 37-year-old Danny Williams boxing on as well with a Latvian identity and licence – well, I just couldn’t bring myself to write about it. It’s just too painful to talk about. Maybe next week.
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Miamisburg shooting victim identified as 19-year-old man
State will tweak online quiz for taxpayers seeking refunds
Jim Otte, Staff Writer
COLUMBUS —
The Ohio Department of Taxation has revamped an anti-fraud program launched last year that led to complaints from refund-seeking taxpayers who had to answer a series of questions about their personal history.
The ID Confirmation Quiz was met with a combination of controversy and confusion, and Ohio Tax Commissioner Joe Testa said it prompted many calls to the Statehouse.
“There was a flurry of activity on that point last year and I understand that,” Testa said. “As a taxpayer I send in my return, I don’t expect to have to answer questions about myself in order to get my own money back.”
Cody Cain, tax manager at Clark Schaefer Hackett, a regional Certified Public Accounting and consulting firm, said the tax quiz presented a lot of challenges for both taxpayers and tax preparers.
“Ten percent failed the quiz, which makes it very challenging for the taxpayers when there are tricky questions about previous marriages, previous homes that they purchased or previous autos that they purchased years and years ago,” Cain said.
The online version of the quiz gave people seeking a refund 10 minutes to answer four questions to verify their identity. Taxpayers could make multiple attempts to answer correctly or choose to take the quiz over the telephone.
Testa said the quiz was designed to stop fraudulent refund requests that often are computer-generated. The state estimates that the quiz helped prevent 234,336 fraudulent refund requests worth $259.1 million in 2015.
In 2014, the state said it stopped 64,693 requests for $277 million, when fraudsters were requesting larger “refunds.”
In response to taxpayer feedback, the state made changes to the quiz to eliminate confusing questions and those that some people might consider too personal. Testa said the process for selecting the taxpayers who take the quiz also changed.
“The number of people who are going to be asked to take the quiz is going to drop pretty dramatically,” he said. “We think it will drop in half, maybe even better than that.”
The quiz was developed by LexisNexis for use by tax departments nationwide. Indiana, Alabama, Louisiana and at least a half dozen other states make use of similar quizzes to fight fraud. Testa said Ohio’s $250,000-per-month contract with LexisNexis more than pays for itself.
Cain said the state is on the right track when it comes to fighting fraud.
“Tax fraud has grown in both volume and sophistication, as well as in complexity, making it very difficult to detect and prevent tax fraud,” he said.
While the first year of the quiz in Ohio prompted complaints, at least one national survey points to more acceptance of anti-fraud programs, even if they require taxpayers to jump through a few hoops to get their own money back.
The Governing Institute, a Washington-based research organization, surveyed taxpayers on how they feel about taking a tax quiz. The survey found 83 percent of those questioned said they would be willing to answer security questions, while 61 percent said they would be willing to delay their refund payment to help fight fraud.
Cain urged taxpayers to help protect refunds by taking action. For starters, Cain said, people should file early to beat fraudulent filers to the punch.
“Always use up-to-date, anti-virus software. Make sure it’s kept current and make sure you keep it turned on,” he said.
Even with some first-year problems, it appears Ohio’s tax quiz is here to stay. Testa said more government agencies and even some companies in the private sector are requiring ID verification online.
“Software vendors are doing that this year, too,” he said. “That’s good news because it helps build that firewall out there so that it isn’t just on the back of the states.
“States are doing this, the IRS is doing this, software vendors are doing this. All of us working together, we’re gong to block more (fraud) and that’s what we need to do.”
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Freetown, Massachusetts (U.S.)
Bristol County
Keywords: freetown | massachusetts | bristol county |
image from www.state.ma.us/bsb/images/Freetown.jpg
Freetown is in Bristol County, southeastern Massachusetts. The flag is saltire design, with a blue band from lower hoist to upper fly, and a green band from upper hoist to lower fly. In the upper quarter is the town name on a yellow ribbon. In the hoist quarter are some pine trees, in the lower quarter is a bridge-like structure, and in the fly quarter is a human head.
Dov Gutterman, 28 October 2002
From www.standardtimes.com/daily/03-00/03-07-00/b01lo029.htm
Freetown considers updating town flag
By Richard Guarino, Standard-Times correspondent
FREETOWN -- Town pride is on the minds of the town fathers. As a way to spur pride, selectmen want to update the town's original flag with a flag designed by the Girl Scouts now hanging in the Statehouse. The flag discussion was held at a recent selectmen's meeting when Roland Gendron of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post asked about the flag flying at Town Hall. Mr. Gendron said that during a recent visit to the Statehouse in Boston, he noticed that the Freetown flag hanging there is very different from the one in Town Hall.
Selectmen told him the flag at the Statehouse was designed by the Girl Scouts several years ago and is not the town's official flag. The official flag hangs in the Town Hall and has the town's emblem of a kettle on a tripod over a campfire. Selectmen Chairman Robert Robidoux said the Town Hall flag is rare. It is one of the few original town flags in existence and has become "yellowed and faded over the years." Mr. Robidoux said the town is looking to come up with a new flag that combines the original flag and the one designed by the Girl Scouts. The board did not have a timetable for the design of the new flag or a design itself. However selectmen did mention an idea which includes putting a hilly background behind the kettle and tripod. "We would like to do a combination of the two flags that takes into account the creativity of the Girl Scouts and the original flag from Town Hall. Once we have something designed, we will pass it around and get a feel for how much people like it," said Mr. Robidoux. Mr. Gendron thought it would be in the town's best interest to make the flag available to the public once there is a design in place. "I think that the people of Freetown would like to fly the town's flag in front of their houses. It could be a nice way to generate revenue for the town," Mr. Gendron said.
Dov Gutterman, 2 January 2003
In "The Standard-Times", 20 March 2008, Kim Ledoux gives an update on the status of the flag of Freetown.
"Officials want to leave the town flag alone, but they support a contest to design a 325th town anniversary commemorative flag to replace the tattered one that represents Freetown at the Statehouse. "The flag that is in the Hall of Flags up on Beacon Hill is one that was produced by the Girl Scouts a number of years ago, and it is in a state of disrepair, so the 325th Committee was interested in launching a contest effort to produce a new flag," said Selectman Jean C. Fox, a member of the 325th Committee. Ms. Fox added that there was a miscommunication in which a number of people, the Historical Commission in particular, received information that the town flag, which is displayed in the town administrator's office, would be replaced.
Ms. Fox clarified that the contest would not replace the town flag but, instead, would create a flag to replace the felt-on-felt flag currently representing Freetown at the Statehouse.
Historical Commission Chairwoman Mary E.R. Brown spoke in support of the contest Tuesday. "It would be wonderful to have a flag to commemorate the 325th anniversary, but we shouldn't change the original flag," she said.
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080320/NEWS/803200339
Ivan Sache, 23 March 2008
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A Chat With Chomsky
The legendary intellectual on academia, knowledge, “free markets,” and the willingness to be puzzled…
by Nathan J. Robinson
For over fifty years, Noam Chomsky has been one of the world’s foremost public intellectuals. Current Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson recently spoke with Chomsky at his office in Tucson, Arizona. The text has been cut down and lightly edited for clarity. Transcript by Addison Kane.
Nathan J. Robinson: Hello! Nice to talk to you, finally.
Noam Chomsky: Very good to see you.
NR: We’ve corresponded a bit.
NC: Yes, and I’ve been reading you for a long time.
NR: And you were kind enough to forward a couple of my articles to a couple of people who inquired on your opinions of Jordan Peterson.
NC: That’s one of the things I send out more than anything else — sitting on a special place on my computer, so I can get it right away.
NR: To avoid the agonizing task of having to go through his work and dissect it.
What I wanted to actually talk to you about today was academia and universities, because one of the reasons that I wrote that—and his rise kind of disturbed me—was I looked at the main book he wrote, and it was just sort of gobbledygook, yet he’s a tenured professor at the University of Toronto, a person who has academic credentials and accolades. The book was blurbed by the chair of the Harvard Psychology Department, and perhaps I’m not cynical enough, but that strikes me as rather strange that people rise to the top of academia who seem to be saying things that I find to be nonsensical. You don’t find that strange, but I do think that’s inherently strange.
NC: How much time have you spent in the academic world?
NR: Yeah, but shouldn’t that be weird?
NC: Spend some time there and you’ll be disabused of this illusion.
NR: It is odd to me, though. I mean, you spent 60, 70 years in universities now, and do you think that a substantial portion of what is done in these places is just a waste of time or is empty nonsense?
NC: First of all, there’s very serious work done. So I think the universities are probably the best institutions in our society, so I’m going to be critical, but we should recognize the value. They are unique. They’re the one place where you do really have some degree of openness and ability to question and pursue your own interests and concerns. There is nothing really comparable. On the other hand, some of the things that happen are unbelievable. So I’ll just give you an example. In the 1960s, I was at MIT. I started teaching undergraduate courses on my own time, on social and political issues. It’s not what I was hired for, so I used my own time. Good classes. Lots of students came. It was quite interesting. My co-instructor and I once — this must have been ’68 or so — decided to assign Henry Kissinger’s book, which had just appeared, on American foreign policy. This was quite an experience. The students were rolling in the aisles. You cannot expect MIT undergraduates to read an essay, in which the theme is that there’s a lot of people who worry about the superficial, peripheral things like wars, and famine, and torture and so on. But the real issue in the world is the fundamental divide between the West, which underwent the Newtonian Revolution, and therefore knows that there’s a world external to the observer, and the rest of them who haven’t quite mastered this. And then he said the Russians have got a foot in each camp. They’ve sort of half made it. So the implication would be that when you bomb the North Vietnamese, they maybe think it’s a headache, because they don’t know there’s a world out there. I mean, can you expect MIT undergraduates to read that? No. But is he a senior professor at Harvard, highly recognized? Well, sure.
NR: What sort of criterion do you use to evaluate what kinds of inquiry are valuable? What kinds of knowledge are worth developing and pursuing?
NC: There’s no simple criterion. So for example, today there was an article in one of the journals, maybe the New York Times, on the study of a Denisovan cave, in Siberia, where they’re finding some quite remarkable things about a branch of the species of humans that were from homo-sapiens that seemed to have developed surprising beginnings of technology, right around the time that homo-sapiens developed. This is very hard work. There are people who have been working on it for a long time, trying to dig out little bits of a bone, or a tooth and experimenting with it. Is that valuable information? I think it is. It doesn’t increase GDP, but it increases our understanding of the history of the human species, and its various branches, and so on.
NR: There’s a lot of pressure to make universities develop a more kind of instrumental approach to knowledge, cutting history departments, and increasing business studies, and what have you — the argument being that knowledge is a tool and we have to teach young people the tools that will help them succeed in the world. When Barack Obama talked about education, he made a joke about art history degrees and talked about preparing kids for life. And it’s hard for me, because I think, well, how do I argue against a pragmatic approach to knowledge, because I do think that knowledge is somewhat pragmatic.
NC: Is it pragmatic? Is your life improved if you have no understanding of the rich tradition of the arts and literature? Or is it improved if you do have knowledge of that? If you can go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and look at the latest exhibit, and appreciate and understand it, is your life improved more than by having another hamburger at McDonalds, let’s say?
NR: It’s very difficult for me, though, to know how I would make the case to someone who didn’t appreciate it?
NC: If you don’t appreciate it, don’t have it. I don’t appreciate apps, so therefore I don’t have any. I don’t use social media, nobody is forcing me to. I’d rather do other things. If somebody would rather spend their life looking at the latest thing on Facebook, they can do that. Fine. But that doesn’t mean others should be deprived of the opportunity to enjoy and appreciate the great intellectual and artistic achievements of the world, and to use that for their own development.
NR: I think the University of Akron just cut a bunch of history and sociology programs and replaced them with an E-sports program, which is a euphemism for video games. All they said was, “we’re responding to the market. This is what people want to study, this is what people want to learn, so this is what our university should become.”
NC: By that standard, you should drop all courses that involve reading, and move just to having students look at Facebook all day.
NR: I’m sure there are people who argue for that.
NC: Probably. That’s what the market says. Okay. Is that a serious proposal? Would we have wanted that to happen anytime in the past? What kind of world would we live in if that were the case? First of all, you wouldn’t have Facebook, and you wouldn’t have computers, and you wouldn’t have literature, and you wouldn’t have arts. You would have — we would maybe be individual farmers, peasants somewhere, trying to keep alive through the next harvest.
NR: I think there are a lot of people who think the dominant consensus, for example, in economics, is that market demand is our measure of human value, that whatever people subjectively choose in a world of plenty.
NC: Economists do say that. But they overlook some not very obscure facts. So let’s turn around to the television. If you took an economics course, one thing you learned, Econ 101, is that markets are based on informed consumers making rational choices. Okay? Did anybody ever notice that industry in the United States, one of the hugest industries in the country spends billions and billions of dollars trying to create uninformed consumers who make irrational choices. It’s known as the advertising industry, public relations industry. It’s exactly what they do. If we had a market, suppose we had a market, you would turn on the television set and there would be an ad for a car which says “here are the characteristics of the car, here are the critiques of it in Consumer Report. So now you could make a judgement as an informed consumer. You can make a rational choice. Is that what you see? No. What you see is some football hero, or model, standing on a car which is going into the air into the stratosphere — anything to make you uninformed and irrational. So what are we talking about?
NR: There was a Dodge ad last year where they overlaid a Martin Luther King speech over the ad for the truck, and they showed the truck, and they had King’s voice booming over the truck, just to try to create the association between justice — this truck is not just a truck, this truck means [laughs] —
NC: If we want invented worlds, we could talk about markets in which informed consumers make rational choices, but it has almost nothing to do with this world.
NR: I want to get back to universities and academia. I was looking at the syllabus you have for the course you have here called “What Is Politics?” You know, I was a political science, political theory undergrad, and when they asked a question within this course of “What Is Politics?” you would begin with The Republic, and then you would do Locke and Rousseau, and you begin sort of with capitalist realism and the threats of nuclear war and climate change as “What Is Politics?” I understand that approach, because those are things that matter, and politics is about things that matter. But does that mean that — how would you reconfigure political science to actually have insight into what politics is?
NC: Well I think a lot of political science has great insight into it. So let’s take the conception that the United States is a democracy. A democracy is presumably a society in which the general population has a voice in how decisions are made, about social, economic, and political conditions. Now let’s take a look at serious political science research. What does it show? There’s very good work on this. So my close friend, Thomas Ferguson, has done leading political science.
NR: The Golden Rule.
NC: The Golden Rule. He’s done remarkable work showing very persuasively, up until the present moment — Golden Rule is years ago. He’s carried forward, up until the present, you can predict the outcome of an election with remarkable precision by simply looking at campaign spending, one variable. Well, there’s a corollary of that. “Elected representatives” assumes they’re elected. The first thing they have to do is appeal to the donor class — somebody in the house of representatives may spend five or six hours a day just calling the donors. And meanwhile, what happens to the legislation? Well, the lobbyists come in from the corporations. They meet with the staff. They of course overwhelm the staff with information and background, and they basically write the legislation — a fact that’s been studied by other fine political scientists who have showed very convincingly that a large majority of the population are literally disenfranchised, meaning their own representatives pay no attention to their preferences. They listen to other voices, and we know which voices those are. Is this a functioning democracy? Well, you take a look at the Economist Intelligence Unit and they just did a big study on democracies throughout the world, and they regard the United States as a flawed democracy.
NR: That’s generous.
NC: I think it’s ranked 25th among the democracies of the world. But it’s ranked that high only because of the narrowness of the conditions that they use. They don’t ask these questions. They’re just asking “does the president lie” or something like that. But if you look at the actual basic features of the society, you see something very different than what’s commonly believed. And just like this matter of “markets responding to informed consumers making rational choices,” everywhere you look you find this. When you begin to look into the specific details, it’s extremely revealing. So take the gun culture in the United States, fanaticism about filling your closet with a half a dozen assault rifles, and so on. Where did this come from? Well, it turns out, there’s good studies of it. These are things that can be studied.
There’s a woman, named Pamela Haag, who did a very good study on the origins of the gun culture. Turns out that after the Civil War, the gun manufacturers had lost their market. There was no gun culture in the 19th century. The gun was like a tool, like a shovel. A farmer had a gun to keep critters away from his sheep, or something, and the farmers — it was an agricultural society, they didn’t want these fancy guns that the gun manufacturers were producing. So you could sell some abroad, and so on, but there wasn’t much of a market. So they started what is probably the first major public relations campaign in modern American history to try to create the image of the “Wild West,” in which noble cowboys had pistols. They were fighting off the bad guys and shooting faster than someone else. All of this is total fantasy. There was nothing like it. Cowboys were kind of the people at the fringe of society who couldn’t get a job, so someone would hire them to push their cows around. It’s not wild. And then comes along the things that were later imitated by the tobacco industry — the Marlboro Man, and so on. “Your son won’t be a man unless he has a Winchester rifle. Your daughter has to have a pink revolver to defend herself.” Pretty soon you have a gun culture. Is it because people wanted guns? It was a created — it was what Thorstein Veblen, a little over a century ago, called “fabricating wants.” It’s a large part of the society.
Then the supreme court comes along in 2008 with the the Heller decision, written by Scalia, a great originalist. It’s a very interesting decision worth reading. If you read his decision, you notice that he avoids all the reasons why the founders wanted people to have guns. Actually, it’s a very learned decision. He is a great scholar, quotes all sorts of documents from the 17th century and so on. But we know exactly why the founders wanted people to have guns. The first one was, there was almost no standing army. And the British are hovering around. They’re the big enemy. Suppose they attack again. Well, you know, we’re going to have to have guys with guns. We can form a well-regulated militia, that’s the first phrase in the Second Amendment. That’s one. Second is, with the British out of the way, we can now expand into the west, into what was called “vacant territory,” so we have to go out there and kill the people who are living in this vacant territory — attack the Indian nations. In fact, the United States is one of the rare countries in the world that’s been at war since the first day of its founding — attacking, and for that, you needed guns. And also, it’s a slave society. There’s a lot of slaves around, not many people controlling them. Got to have guns. There are slave revolutions taking place in the Caribbean. They could extend here, and they pretty soon did in Haiti. You got to have guns. Take a look at Scalia’s decision. Are any of these things mentioned? Not a word. There are debates in the law profession about whether the Second Amendment conveys a militia right, or an individual right. Okay, you can debate that, but it’s kind of beside the point. The point is: The Second Amendment, as the founders understood it, is irrelevant in the 21st century. But that’s considered holy writ. Well, as soon as you begin to look at the actual world, the illusions collapse pretty quickly.
And going back to “What Is Politics?” that’s what the study of it should be. So we actually start the course by talking about Gramsci and hegemonic common sense, and asking how it’s established, what’s its basis, what happens when we investigate it, and so on. And I think that’s what a “What Is Politics?” course ought to be about.
NR: I went to law school, and one of the most striking things to me was the disjunction between what’s happening in the world of the court opinion, and what is happening in the actual world — Right To Work being discussed as an issue of worker freedom, and so on. To finish then, talking about illusions, I think, for me, your writings have been very important to me since I was a teenager, and to a lot of people who have had the same experiences. And I think one of the common reasons for that is that it is difficult to see through illusions, and it can make you feel like you’re crazy in many ways. As I was walking through campus today, I was thinking about a sentence of yours, which was that “tens of millions of people have been killed by what is taught in American economics departments,” which is just factually true. But then you look and the campus is idyllic, and all the students going about, doing their readings of Heidegger, and Nietzsche, learning philosophy, and learning politics, and you feel sort of out of your mind if you think that there’s something sort of not quite real here, or there’s something different between the real world, and everything that’s around me.
NC: Most of these, I don’t think are hard to expose. It’s true that you kind of reflexively just accept what you’ve heard. Actually, Orwell has a nice comment about this in — did you ever read the introduction to Animal Farm?
NR: Oh yeah, this is the deleted —.
NC: The deleted, the suppressed introduction. Well in it, he’s talking about how in free England, ideas can be suppressed without the use of force. And he doesn’t say much about the reasons, but one of them I think is much to the point. He says, basically, that if you’ve had a good education, you’ve gone to Oxford, and Cambridge, and so on, you just have instilled into you the understanding that there’s certain things that do to say “he didn’t go far enough.” It wouldn’t do to think. You just can’t think them. Because the education instills into you the common sense of the day. And it’s not really hard to break out of it. You have to be willing to do the kind of thing that actually led to modern science. So you go back to the time of say, Galileo, neo-scholastic physics more or less had an answer for everything. You know, objects fall because they’re going to their natural place, steam rises for the same reason, perception is a matter of the object moving through space and implanting it in your brain, and so on. Galileo and his contemporaries made a breakthrough. They decided to be puzzled about these things. Somebody decides to be puzzled, you find everything’s wrong. Just the willingness to ask yourself, “look, everybody believes it, is it true?” In fact, there’s kind of a rule of thumb, if everybody believes something, and it’s a contentious issue, something should light up in your brain, and say “you better ask about this. It’s probably not true.” And as soon as you make that simple move, all sorts of things open up. Modern science opened up, and the kinds of things we’ve been talking about now open up.
NR: That’s funny, because you know, on the surface, that’s like the definition of a crazy person. If everyone says something is true, if it’s the established consensus, the idea of being the only one who thinks something and wonders something, it’s very lonely.
NC: People who ask these questions usually aren’t treated very well. Go back to Athens, who was it who had to drink the hemlock?
NR: Right, in every generation it’s the Socrates who gets killed. Just on the subject of “things you’re not allowed to think” — I just wrote an article about how if we applied tort law consistently, fossil fuel companies would be sued out of existence, because obviously if you cause massive damage to other people, and under tort law, you owe them damages. But there’s a court opinion on this where the judge says, “well, the implications of this would be radical. They’d go out of business.”
NC: Let me give you a simpler example: every leading political figure, Obama, Trump, all of them, with regard to an official enemy, say, Iran, says “all options are open.” Okay, we have something called the constitution. It has something called Article VI, which says that treaties entered into by the U.S. Government are the supreme law of the land. One of those treaties, in fact the foundation one for the modern period, is the U.N. Charter. It has an Article II, Article 2.4, which says the threat or use of force in international affairs is banned. Okay? There are a couple of exceptions, but they’re irrelevant. So that means that every leading political figure is violating the constitution. Right? But does anybody care?
NR: Your quote about how if we apply the Nuremberg principles consistently, every U.S. president would be hanged —
NC: This is violating the U.S. constitution.
NR: There are things that are very difficult to dispute if you actually look at it objectively.
Well, let’s finish up then, and thank you very much, and that willingness to be puzzled I think is one of the most important — certainly the most important thing I’ve ever gotten from reading you. It’s not the specific analyses, which have been important, but it’s that idea of trying to ask questions even when you’re discouraged from doing so.
NC: It’s not that you’re told not to. It’s just that the issue doesn’t come up. So like in economics courses, the issue doesn’t come up that there’s a huge industry designed and succeeding and undercutting your major thesis. Designed to do it and succeeding in doing it. It just doesn’t arise.
NR: Sometimes you’re just implicitly discouraged. In grad school, I was told one of my papers seemed as though it was too sympathetic to the tenants, rather than the landlords. They said this isn’t objective, you’ve got to be neutral.
NC: It’s all equal. They’re making a contract so it’s free.
NR: There’s a real fear of being seen as an activist in the academy. And that’s the thing, it’s not actually a left-wing place, even though it’s seen as that.
NC: There’s a historical reason for that. Look at the way activists are treated throughout history — not nicely.
NR:It was really a most striking thing to me in grad school, with how the supposed liberal academia has actually got a real fear of doing anything that would be seen to be engaging in politics or activism.
NC: “Don’t rock the boat. You’re better off.” And you may not say it to yourself — it’s Orwell’s point again. It just wouldn’t do to say those things.
NR: Wouldn’t do.
NC: Okay, I’ve got to go to this class.
NR: I bet, okay. You’ve given me far more time than I could have ever reasonably expected.
Nathan J. Robinson is the editor of Current Affairs.
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Why is it that a bible-believing scientists’ views on science are automatically discounted by some people?
I usually try to avoid the “R” issue, except that Ethan Epstein of the Weekly Standard chose to take a swipe at me in his otherwise good article on our dean of climate skeptics, Dick Lindzen.
Normally, I just ignore this stuff, but my e-mail has been blowing up in the last couple of days. So, against my better judgment, here are some thoughts on the subject…more for the benefit of those who are more outraged than I am (I expect to be attacked).
First, the hypocrisy. When warmist scientists like Sir John Houghton use the Bible to support action to fight global warming (e.g. his book Global Warming: The Complete Briefing) that was OK with everyone. Same with Katherine Hayhoe and Thomas Ackerman.
So, I guess it depends upon whether the bible-believer agrees with them before the warmists decide to trash Bible-believing ways.
In the case of global warming skeptics, I suppose the accusation is part of the assumption that bible-believers feel that “God is in control”, and so everything will turn out OK no matter what we do. Go ahead and pump all the CO2 into the atmosphere you want. The Big Guy will take care of it.
Except that I don’t put myself in this class. I readily admit that we have more than enough nuclear weapons to virtually wipe out humanity. I also admit that evidence of human pollution can be found in almost every corner of the world.
We know that humans are capable of creating a huge amount of misery for ourselves, which we have done repeatedly down through history. Catastrophic global warming could, at least theoretically, be just one more example of this.
Except that I view CO2 as one of those cases where nature, on a whole, benefits from more of our “pollution”. The scientific evidence is increasingly supporting this position.
Not a big stretch considering that CO2 is necessary for life to exist on Earth, and yet only 4 molecules out of every 10,000 in the atmosphere are CO2. Venus and Mars have atmospheres that are almost 100% CO2; life on Earth, in contrast, has sucked most of it out of the atmosphere.
Epstein incorrectly assumes that I support the wording of all of the positions of the Cornwall Alliance, as stated in their Cornwall Declaration. But the Director of the Cornwall Alliance, Cal Beisner, knows I don’t. We’ve discussed it.
Nevertheless, I still support the work of Cornwall. Seldom does the member of an organization agree with all of that organization’s stated positions.
Why do I support Cornwall? The central reason is I believe that current green energy policies are killing poor people.
Anything that reduces prosperity kills the poor. This is the single biggest reason I speak out on global warming, and why the Cornwall Alliance speaks out against policies which end up hurting the poor much more than they help.
Radical environmentalism is interested in seeing more people dead than alive. I don’t care what their press releases say. I’ve debated enough of these folks to know that their biggest complaint is that there are too many people in the world. They have told me so.
They say the Earth would be an absolutely lovely place without any people at all. (Extra points for anyone who can spot the oxymoron there).
On a more superficial level, the accusation is often that the Bible-believing scientist “rejects settled science”, in my case the origin of life. How can anyone trust a climate scientist who rejects “settled science”?
Except this claim reveals an appalling lack of knowledge on the part of the accuser. In general, nothing in science is ever settled. No one knows how life arose from non-living matter. Belief in the naturalistic origin of life is just as religious as the belief in a creator. Even well-known evolutionists have admitted this.
The scientific evidence for a “creator” is, in my opinion, stronger than the evidence that everything around us is just one gigantic cosmic accident. I have no trouble stating that — and defending it — based upon science alone. No need to quote the Bible.
But why should any of this matter for real, observable science, like climate change? Belief in macroevolution is a religion, not science. It is an organizing system of thought, a worldview, which the evolutionist must fit all of his observations into.
The only explanation I can think of for the Weekly Standard swipe at me is that Mr. Epstein is one of the great sea of journalists who has a considerable breadth of knowledge of many subjects, but only limited depth.
Epstein is probably not aware that science is based upon a set of assumptions — unprovable assumptions. That nature is real. That we are capable of knowing its true nature. That nature is unified. In short, the tools of science are based in faith.
The existence of the universe itself violates either the 1st or 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics. That’s why cosmologists must invent physics no one has ever observed to explain how everything came to be.
Is that science? Really?
Epstein doesn’t understand that even atheist scientists are also guided by their religious belief that there is no creator. All scientists interpret data based upon their preconceived notions. In Earth science, I find most researchers believe nature is fragile. That is not a scientific position, it is a religious one. No different from my view that nature is resilient.
In short, there is no such thing as an unbiased scientist.
Furthermore, apart from religious considerations, not all scientific problems are created equal. Just because scientists work on a problem doesn’t mean they understand it.
The force of gravity is relatively simple, and we can predict the position of the planets far in advance with great accuracy because gravity is just about the only force that needs to be considered in those calculations.
But the complexity of the climate system, and especially how it varies, is orders of magnitude more difficult to understand. It currently exceeds our ability to usefully predict its future state.
And if scientists ever are able to “create life” in a test tube from non living chemicals, through all of their hard work and creativity, exactly what will that have proved?
That life could have arisen by chance? Think about it.
Furthermore, life has to do more than just come into being. It has to reproduce. How does that happen by chance? Researchers have computed the probability of it happening to be essentially zero. I’m afraid my faith isn’t strong enough to believe in such silliness.
And if you are going to comment, “Exactly what research shows all of this, Dr. Spencer?” Well, to paraphrase William F. Buckley, Jr., “Do your own damn Google search.”
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