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Rutgers: Fred Hill Sr., longtime baseball coach, passes away at 84
Longtime Rutgers baseball coach Fred Hill Sr. passed away at the age of 84. Hill amassed over 1,000 wins in 37 seasons between Montclair State and Rutgers.
Rutgers: Fred Hill Sr., longtime baseball coach, passes away at 84 Longtime Rutgers baseball coach Fred Hill Sr. passed away at the age of 84. Hill amassed over 1,000 wins in 37 seasons between Montclair State and Rutgers. Check out this story on app.com: https://www.app.com/story/sports/college/rutgers/2019/03/02/rutgers-fred-hill-baseball-dies/3039050002/
Josh Newman and Greg Tufaro, Asbury Park Press Published 9:32 a.m. ET March 2, 2019 | Updated 12:51 p.m. ET March 2, 2019
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Former Rutgers head baseball coach Fred Hill Sr., a beloved and legendary mentor who is the winningest coach of any sport in the state university athletic program’s 150-year history, died this morning at the age of 84, the school said in an announcement.
Hill is survived by his wife of 62 years, Evelyn. They are the proud parents of six children: Nancy, Fred, Linda, Jim, Tracey and Karen. They also have a plethora of grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
A member of the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and the Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame, Hill compiled a 941-658-7 record in 30 seasons with the Scarlet Knights before retiring in 2014.
READ: Rutgers sports information director Jimmy Gill compiled dozens of Fred Hill Sr. tribute quotes
“Fred Hill was more than a hall of fame coach, he was a hall of fame person,” Rutgers Director of Athletics Pat Hobbs said in a release from the state university. “His impact is far greater than 1,089 career baseball victories. It’s beyond measure and lives within the countless individuals he coached, mentored and inspired. The entire Rutgers community will miss him dearly. Our sincere condolences to his wife Evelyn and the Hill family.”
Hill’s 1,089-749-9 career record – including the 147 games he won on the diamond at Montclair State University, where he was also the school’s head football coach – ranks him among the 40 winningest coaches in college baseball history.
The Verona native has the distinction of being the college head coach of former NFL star Sam Mills and former MLB pitcher Jay Aldrich, who both played for Hill at Montclair State University.
He was a three-time ABCA East Region Coach of the Year, three-time Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year and one-time Big East Conference Coach of the Year. Hill was named NCAA Division III Coach of the Year in 1983, his final year at Montclair State, during which he led the team to the College World Series.
Rutgers legendary baseball head coach Fred Hill in attendance as Rutgers dedicated its new indoor baseball and softball practice facility called the Fred Hill Training Complex. January 31, 2017, Piscataway,, NJ. (Photo: Bob Karp/Staff Photographer)
“Where do I start?” current Rutgers head baseball coach and former player Joe Litterio said. “How do you say goodbye to a man who has meant so much to so many different people? He was a leader by example. He taught us to do things the right way, to win with class. Nothing fancy, just old-fashioned hard work. And that was just the baseball side of him. He taught us much more than the fundamentals of baseball. He taught us the fundamentals of life.”
Hill guided Rutgers to 11 NCAA Tournament appearances, 12 regular-season conference championships and eight conference tournament titles.
“He’s literally one of the greatest men I’ve ever known, if not the greatest,” said Kean University head baseball coach Neil Ioviero, who pitched for Hill in the early 1990s. “We are all going to pass and when your day finally comes and the Lord is taking you back home, the thing people are going to remember is the impact you’ve made on people’s lives, and it’s thousands of people he’s impacted in the course of his life.”
Ioviero said Hill “lived a very fulfilled life” with the support of “an incredible family.” Hill spent the past two seasons assisting Ioviero at Kean University. Hill spent the two previous years as an assistant at Caldwell College.
“He’s going straight to heaven for all the good he’s done for people,” Ioviero said. “I always say the best decision I made with 3,000 schools around the country was to go to Rutgers just to be around that man, which basically put me in the position to do what I do now. I don’t know if I’m on the same career path if it wasn’t for him.”
The legendary mentor, affectionately known as Moose,” groomed more than 70 players who advanced to the professional ranks including MLB All-Stars Eric Young Sr. and Todd Frazier.
Former Rutgers baseball coach Fred Hill in attendance for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Fred Hill Training Complex for baseball and softball on Oct. 24, 2015, on the Livingston Campus in Piscataway. (Photo: File photo)
“I was fortunate to play for Coach Hill,” said Doug Alongi, a recent Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame inductee who starred for the Scarlet Knights in the early 1990s. “There were times we took the field and were outclassed from a talent perspective, but not once did we take the field and find ourselves less prepared than any opponent. Coach was a great teacher of the game, and I’m glad I was able to recently thank him for the impact he had on my life. Coach Hill loved the college game but would have excelled as a minor league coach, as the focus there is all about teaching and developing talent.”
Hill rebuilt the Scarlet Knights, who made the school’s lone College World Series appearance in 1950, into a northeast power, leading Rutgers to eight consecutive Atlantic 10 Conference regular-season titles from 1986 through 1993. During that stretch, Hill’s team advanced to the NCAA Tournament five times.
Rutgers made six more NCAA Tournament appearances under Hill as a member of the Big East Conference, whose regular-season title the Scarlet Knights won on four occasions and whose league tournament crown the Scarlet Knights won three times under Hill’s tutelage. Hill is the second winningest coach in Big East Conference history, winning 267 league games in 19 seasons.
Former Rutgers baseball coach Fred Hill and his wife Evelyn at the ceremony for his number retiring in May.(Photo: Jim O’Connor/NJ Sport Pics)
“I think the baseball stuff speaks for itself,” said Bobby Brownlie, a Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame inductee who played for Hill in the early 2000s. “But what I really learned from Moose was – first and foremost – family. When you played at Rutgers, you didn’t just play for Moose. You played for his entire family. They were a part of the program. Whether it was Mrs. (Evelyn) Hill, or even just after games getting to meet his daughters and his sons and his extended family. One of the most important things I learned from him was the value of family, not only to be a baseball person, but to be a husband and a father. He had a great impact on me baseball-wise, and even a much more profound impact on me as the person I became.”
In the days before Hill’s passing, Brownlie, a first-round draft pick of the Chicago Cubs in 2002 and one of 20 All-Americans Hill groomed, said former Rutgers players were reminiscing about their former coach’s far-reaching impact.
“What I’ve been hearing from people in the last couple of days is more a testament to who he was as a man, caring about you in baseball, but also teaching you life lessons,” Brownlie said. “Everybody that played for him has used his model to frame their life, no matter what they’ve gone into. I think his legacy is going to be strong and live on because of the players and people he impacted, and how they have grown after playing for him.”
Hill earned his 1,000th career victory on April 17, 2010 before a record crowd of 1,124 spectators at Bainton Field. Four years later, his No. 24 was retired at the baseball complex. Former MLB player and manager Jeff Torborg was the only other Scarlet Knight to have his baseball jersey retired to that point.
Like Ioviero, Mike Garlatti, who served as an assistant coach at Rutgers from 1989 through 1992 and is currently the Northeast scouting supervisor for the Colorado Rockies, credits Hill with positioning him for a career in baseball.
“He is a New Jersey sports icon and what he did with that baseball program is going to be hard to match,” Garlatti said. “As good as he was as a coach, he was even a better person. He was a man of faith and a man of class and he always treated everybody with respect. He was very honest with his players, his coaches and the administration. He should be and he was a role model for many coaches, no matter what sport you coached. He was a believer in New Jersey kids and he wasn’t a guy who made excuses. On a personal note, working with him for three and a half years, he had a huge mark on my career. He was a big influence on where I am now.”
The 2007 Rutgers team, widely regarded among the finest in school history, won a school record 42 games under Hill. Six players from that squad were selected in that year’s MLB Draft.
Hill compiled a 148-19-2 record during seven seasons as Montclair State's head baseball coach. He fashioned a 52-16-4 record during the same time frame as the school's head football coach.
Hill was a collegiate star at Upsala College, where he earned 11 letters, four in baseball, four in football and three in basketball. He was named chosen as a Small College All-American following his final football season, and was honored by Upsala as a distinguished alumnus in 1992. Hill played minor league baseball in the Washington Senators’ organization and was roommates with Jim Kaat.
Hill began his coaching career as a freshman baseball coach at Upsala before moving to Clifford Scott High School, spending five years as an assistant and six as head coach. His next move was to lead the Pequannonck High School football team. Hill then returned to his alma mater as assistant baseball coach, taking over as Montclair State head baseball and football coach in 1977.
In January 2017, Rutgers opened the Fred Hill Training Complex, a $3 million facility that spans 22,500 square feet and is equipped with state-of-the-art pitching machines, six batting cages, bullpen mounds and a full turf infield. The facility serves the needs of the baseball and softball programs, allowing the teams to have a dedicated home for workouts and practices.
“I could speak for hours on what Coach Hill represented,” Glen Gardner, who played for and coached with Hill, said in a press release from the state university. “It was more than just baseball. As far as I’m concerned, I would never had been a coach if it wasn’t for Moose. If I helped anyone through my 29 years, it was an extension of Moose. Everything I learned, I learned it from him. He influenced so many. Moose might not be with us on this planet anymore, but he’s still teaching baseball to a lot of players.”
On the day his jersey was retired, Hill, surrounded by family and many former players at home plate, told MyCentralJersey.com about the accomplishment for which he was most proud.
“We had 72 players go on and play professional baseball and that’s a plus for sure,” Hill said. “But I want to see all of our kids be successful, whether they're coaching or in the business world. That’s what makes me happy.”
Staff writer Josh Newman: jnewman@app.com; @Joshua_Newman
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The Grey Eagle is central to the River Arts Discrict just outside of downtown. It is an intimate venue that hosts all genres including national touring acts and up and coming bands. Some featured bands include Dr. Dog, Hurray for the Riff Raff, and Dawes... The Grey Eagle’s mission is to spotlight rising talent, offer a diverse assortment of musical genres tailored for the local interests, and provide a friendly and inviting atmosphere for people to mingle and relax.
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IDOLiSH7 Anime Premieres on January 7 With Episode 3
The official website for the IDOLiSH7 television anime revealed on Thursday that the main broadcast of the series will premiere on Tokyo MX on January 7 at 10:30 p.m. The anime will also air on KBS Kyoto , Sun TV , TV Aichi , TV Hokkaido , TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co., Ltd. and BS11 . The broadcast will begin with episode 3 of the anime.
In addition, the anime's first two episodes will air together as a special that will premiere on Tokyo MX on January 1 at 8:00 p.m. The special will also air on all the same networks as the series' main television broadcast. The television special will include the opening video and comments from the cast.
The advance screening version of the anime's first two episodes opened in 79 theaters in Japan and began streaming in Japan on November 3. Crunchyroll began streaming the episodes worldwide outside Asia on the same day. The first two episodes also screened early at Anime NYC in the United States on November 18.
The first Blu-ray Disc and DVD volume of the anime will ship in Japan on February 23. The anime will have 17 episodes.
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Balancing the Books
Never Before And Never Again So Rich
Jay Palmer
Updated April 2, 2001 12:01 am ET / Original July 17, 2019 4:30 pm ET
Reviewed by Ann Logue
THE WEALTH CREATORS:
The Rise of Today's Rich and Super-Rich
By Roy C. Smith
St. Martin's Press,
384 pages, $27.50
T he super-rich probably aren't so different from you and me, despite their airplanes and huge estates. After all, the richest man in America is a college dropout, married to an engineer. Is that the American dream at work, or what?
Roy Smith would agree. In fact, his book, The Wealth Creators , has the interesting thesis that today's richest Americans reflect who we all are as a culture and society -- which is not the way it was as little as two decades ago.
Smith, a limited partner at Goldman Sachs (he left the firm's investment-banking practice in the late 1980s), teaches finance and international business at New York University. His template for comparison between who the rich used to be and who they are now is Forbes Magazine's lists of the 400 richest Americans in 1982 and in 1999. And the list has changed mightily over the years.
In 1982, the richest person in America was thought to be Daniel K. Ludwig, an oil-tanker tycoon. Many of the others on the "richest" list were people who had inherited money from ancestors named Bass, Getty or Hunt. But -- relatively speaking -- by 1999, the oil people were no longer very rich. Instead, the mega-megabucks were held by high-technology entrepreneurs, especially current or former Microsoft employees named Allen, Ballmer or Gates. The richest trust-fund beneficiaries on the list, Sam Walton's children, show up at No. 6, and represent the first generation in that family to inherit money.
In the 17 years between 1982 and 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 14 times and total household wealth quadrupled. Control of commodities like oil wasn't important in this era; instead the creation of wealth depended on the creation of ideas and, more importantly, the possession of common stock. This created billionaires out of technology barons, investors (such as Buffett and Soros) and corporate executives.
Smith is a cheerleader for American capitalism and democracy, but this is no hagiography. He points out that some of these rich people are not necessarily nice and sometimes show contradictory behavior. After all, they're humans just like the rest of us.
For example, Warren Buffett, the disciple of Columbia's Graham and Dodd, engages in commodity speculation and has been known to make investment decisions with only 15 minutes of consideration, rather than hours of careful research. Likewise, Smith refuses to confuse a bull market with brains, noting that "No one doubts that Jack Welch of General Electric is a great CEO, but equally no one ever thought he caused the sharp decline in interest rates that also occurred during his watch and helped GE's stock price rise." Special scorn is reserved for the board of directors of Heinz, for making Anthony O'Reilly so rich despite the company's mediocre performance on his watch.
Smith explains things clearly, so finance pros can just skim his explanations about mutual funds or leveraged buyouts. But lay readers, watching dot.com zillionaires come and go, will appreciate the descriptions.
His thesis will remain interesting when Forbes publishes its future lists, since so much new technology wealth has disappeared... And whoever replaces Bill Gates may reflect the American dream as interpreted by the future new economy.
Ann Logue is a freelance writer.
deleteourbroker.com: Using the Internet to Beat the Pros on Wall Street
By Christopher Byron
Simon & Schuster, 288 pages, $26
If you've somehow missed the ubiquitous market guru on TV, the 'Net or in various print media, fret not. This is a comprehensive, in-your-face primer for online investors, overlooking no venue and taking no prisoners. Don't log on without it.
TheStreet.com: Everything You Need to Know to Outsmart Wall Street and Select Winning Stocks
By Dave Kansas and TheStreet.com staff
Doubleday, 322 pages, $37.95
Yet another Internet investing guide, this one written by a huge cast, with an introduction by James J. Cramer. (Whaddya mean, James J. Who?) It claims to give readers all the savvy they need to go toe-to-toe with the pros -- or at least be one-up on the amateurs.
E-mail comments to editors@barrons.com
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Report: Bath Rugby Annual Awards Dinner
George Ford did the double at the Bath Rugby Annual Awards Dinner at the Pavilion last night, scooping both Supporters' Player of the Year and Players' Player following an incredible year for both his club and country.
The awards recognised the contribution of several outstanding individuals in what has been a remarkable season for the Club.
First up was the Academy Player of the Year award, which went to Charlie Ewels. The second row has had a season to remember, making his first team debut and even captaining the side at senior level at just 19 years of age. His ability and leadership has seen him rewarded with the England U20 captaincy, with whom he lifted the 2015 Six Nations trophy, and in a role he will reprise at the World Rugby U20 Championship in Italy.
Most Improved Player of the Season went to the loosehead prop Nick Auterac. The 22-year-old has put in some notable displays in his debut season at the Club, impressing many with his power in the scrum and the loose under the tutelage of Neal Hatley.
Academy hooker Tom Dunn won the Community Player of the Season award, a category in which he has also been nominated for the upcoming Premiership Rugby awards.
There was also an opportunity to highlight the fantastic work done in the sport at local grassroots level, when the head coach of Chippenham Rugby U15s, Nick Tilley, was given the Spirit of Rugby award for his tireless work with the team. Most importantly, his players and peers emphasised how Nick made the game fun for all - something which made the award more than appropriate.
Three senior players have reached a century of appearances for Bath this season. Dave Attwood, Ross Batty and David Wilson all received framed shirts from their respective 100th appearance for reaching this impressive milestone.
He's crossed the line on ten occasions this season, which means wing Matt Banahan was named Top Try Scorer. The Jersey flyer has Jonathan Joseph and Semesa Rokoduguni one try behind him, so he'll be hoping to extend that lead before the season is out.
One might have thought the Try of the Season was a foregone conclusion, and indeed it was: openside Francois Louw took the honours for the terrific blend of skill and teamwork shown by Jonathan Joseph, Ross Batty and himself on that unforgettable evening in Toulouse.
Forward of the Year went to number eight Leroy Houston, whose consistently strong performances have endeared him to all quarters of the rugby world this season. Best Back went to the architect of the Try of the Season, Jonathan Joseph, undoubtedly one of the most exciting players in the European game.
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Home / Biographies / Singer Biographies / Giovanni Battista Rubini: Last of a Breed
Giovanni Battista Rubini: Last of a Breed
Stefan Zucker
Excerpted from The Origins of Modern Tenor Singing
Giovanni Battista Rubini Ruled as the Paragon of Virtuoso Tenors, King of the High Fs
by Stefan Zucker
Rubini was Bellini’s favorite tenor. In a letter to his friend and confidant Francesco Florimo, the composer observed, “You have good reason to say that at the entrance of Rubini [in Il pirata] it seemed to you as if you were seeing an angel, for he said it [the music] with an incomprehensible divineness….” At the time of his death, Bellini was about to refashion Norma for Rubini for the 1835-36 season of the Théâtre-Italien. Specifically he was going to replace the tenor aria and the Pollione-Adalgisa duet, add a second tenor aria and rework most of the tenor lines. Though Bellini died before he could make these revisions, Rubini went on to become the most famous Pollione of his day. When he was unable to appear in a series of Norma performances at the Italien in 1837 because of illness, the Parisian audience became dispirited and could take no pleasure in Norma or any other opera.
Rubini was the most celebrated unneutered male international superstar until that time and one of the two or three most celebrated ever as well as the last really brilliant male opera virtuoso. Yet he succeeded in having a career only after the utmost perseverance. Dismissed by his first voice teacher for lack of vocal promise, rejected for employment as a leading tenor, a recitalist, even as a comprimario, he reached his lowest ebb when a Milan impresario refused him work as a chorister “because of insufficient voice.”
When Rubini finally did succeed in getting roles, he barely was tolerated. Domenico Barbaja, the so-called “Napoleon of impresarios,” who simultaneously ruled the opera houses of Vienna, Milan and Naples, was unwilling to rehire him after a year’s engagement at Naples. In the end Barbaja relented but retained him at a reduced salary. In his thirties Rubini at length came to be regarded as the foremost male singer of the time. But he was short, pockmarked and an indifferent actor, with a number of vocal flaws.
Today we assume that any reigning tenor must have had a voice of some plangency and strength. Rubini’s, however, was characterized as “lightly veiled” in quality–that is, having little brightness or ring. Further, he had the habit of singing with head resonance notes and passages that it was felt ought to be sung with chest resonance. Throughout his career critics complained about the smallness of his voice. Below the top of the staff he often was often said to have been inaudible! Other singers routinely covered him.
A number of writers criticized Rubini’s sparing use of moderately loud and moderately soft levels of dynamics. In the English critic Henry F. Chorley’s words, at the time of Rubini’s London debut in 1831 at thirty-six, his voice was “hardly capable, perhaps, of being produced mezzo forte or piano; for which reason he had adopted a style of extreme contrast betwixt soft and loud, which many ears were unable, for a long period, to relish.”
His contemporaries attributed his success primarily to the infectious joy he took in his own singing, to his formidable technique (by the late 1830s his range and agility were relics from the vocal practices of twenty years earlier) and above all to the exquisite finish of his renditions. Anton Rubinstein is said to have remarked to the critic Pierre Lalo, “I formed my ideas of noble and eloquent phrasing almost entirely from the example of the great Tenor Rubini.”
This most musical of singers was father to something we now think of as the mark of provincialism and coarseness–the sob. Rubini’s sob must have had a telling effect emotionally, for according to Ferdinand Hiller, “When [in the first-act finale of La sonnambula] Rubini seemed to be singing tears, Chopin too had tears in his eyes.”
Giovanni Battista Rubini was born in Romano, near Bergamo, on April 7, 1795… [The article continues.]
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Coolmore Stud Stakes aim for Written By
Blue Diamond Stakes winner Written By will be aimed at the Coolmore Stud Stakes.
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Trainer Grahame Begg is single-minded in his focus for Blue Diamond Stakes-winning colt Written By this spring, with the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes the goal.
Written By is in the early stages of his build-up to a spring campaign having returned to Begg's stable last week after two-month spell.
Begg plans to kick off the brilliant colt's spring in an 1100m-race on September 22 at Caulfield before progressing to the Blue Sapphire Stakes and the Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) for three-year-olds on November 3.
"He's put on over 40 kilos on during his nine-week break and we're delighted with the way he's come back in," Begg said.
"He looks like physically he's matured a lot. He's strengthened up in all the right places.
"His whole spring preparation is tailored around the Coolmore. It's going to be his number one goal."
The $13 million Everest in Sydney in October is Australia's richest race but does not carry Group One status and Begg said his focus was on the Coolmore, not securing a slot, saying it would be more valuable for Written By as a stud prospect.
"There has been (interest regarding the Everest) but we've resisted all temptation. We want to run in a proper Group One," Begg said.
"The Coolmore is more value for the horse's value, as far as being a stud proposition.
"That's the goal."
Begg indicated the Group One weight-for-age Darley Classic (1200m) at Flemington was an option for a fourth run of the spring, a week after the Coolmore.
"If we think he's going well that's an option, but probably a good option will be pulling up stumps and getting ready for the Lightning Stakes or something like that," he said.
Written By won his first four starts highlighted by a dominant win in the Group One Blue Diamond.
He also won the Blue Diamond Prelude and Pago Pago Stakes and ended his juvenile season with a fourth in the Golden Slipper.
Begg said there had been a lot of interest from high profile studs in NSW and Victoria but added connections had decided to wait until after the spring carnival to make any decisions.
"Nothing has been done. We're reassessing the situation after the spring. And that's the punt we're taking," he said.
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A prolific author of short stories and books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics.
Most famous for his satirical novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut is hailed as a comical commentator on the society in which he lived and as one of the most important contemporary writers.
This new audio edition, authorized by Fitzgerald's estate, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal....
Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred....
The Return of the King
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The Return of the King is the towering climax to J. R. R. Tolkien’s trilogy that tells the saga of the hobbits of Middle-earth and the great War of the Rings....
Audio book chapters are in the wrong order!!!!
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By: Sun Tzu
Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....
Aidan Gillen needs to narrate more books
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By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: Tim Robbins
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins....
Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
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By: Aldous Huxley
On the 75th anniversary of its publication, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before....
“Oh, Ford, Ford Ford, I Wish I Had My Soma!”
By: Joseph Heller
Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him....
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One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)....
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
By: William Golding
Narrated by: William Golding
Get ready for an adventure tale in its purest form, a thrilling and elegantly told account of a group of British schoolboys marooned on a tropical island....
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Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture....
If you hate spoilers, save the intro for last.
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By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (translator)
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
This is an intense detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary....
Wonderful reading, disturbing book
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C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old Devil to his nephew, Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man....
One to Read Again and Again
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By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers....
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Narrated by: Richard Poe
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families....
Why have I avoided this Beautiful Book???
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Narrated by: Gary Sinise
Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and beloved novels....
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Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure....
By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature....
Not to be rushed but to be savored
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The Brothers Karamazov [Naxos AudioBooks Edition]
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel....
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By: Ayn Rand
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, an electrifying moral defense of capitalism and free enterprise....
A long listen but worth the effort and patience
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Narrated by: Emma Thompson, Joanne Froggatt, Isabella Inchbald, and others
A lively comedy of manners, with a witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work....
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A Work of genius
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
By: Bram Stoker
Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, and others
By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.....
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A Tale of Two Cities [Tantor]
By: Charles Dickens
This novel provides a highly charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice, private experience and public history, during the French Revolution....
it's the singer not the song*
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By: S.E. Hinton
Narrated by: Jim Fyfe
Ponyboy can count on his brothers....
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By: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa - translator
One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career....
Outstanding Audiobook!
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This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood and is notable for being the first work in which Joyce uses his innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style.....
Autobiography of a Yogi
By: Paramahansa Yogananda
Narrated by: Ben Kingsley
When Autobiography of a Yogi first appeared in 1946, it was acclaimed as a landmark work in its field....
Spiritually Uplifting -- and entertaining!
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By: Homer, Emily Wilson - translator
Narrated by: Claire Danes
A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....
Unsatisfying
By: Mary Shelley
Narrated by: Dan Stevens
Narrator Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch....
The Modern Prometheus
By Anon on 07-23-18
The Old Man and the Sea
Narrated by: Donald Sutherland
Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed Hemingway's power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature....
Truly a Classic
By: Marcus Aurelius, George Long - translator, Duncan Steen - translator
Narrated by: Duncan Steen
One of the most significant books ever written by a head of State, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius....
This is a masterpiece. Most enriching. So thankful for it.
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By: Norton Juster
Narrated by: Rainn Wilson, Norton Juster
For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different....
A Favorite
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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.
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Home American History Coeur D’Alene Indians
Coeur D’Alene Indians
Coeur d'Alene people and tipis, Desmet Reservation, c. 1907
It is not known how long these Indians were in northeastern Washington and northern Idaho but probably for many centuries. Their lands stretched from the Coeur d’Alene and Bitterroot Mountains to the headwaters of the Spokane River, to Lake Coeur d’Alene, to the headwaters of the Clearwater River, and to the Spokane Valley. The Spokane Indians lived west and the Kalispell tribe lived to the north. The Pend Oreille lived to the northeast and the Flathead lived to the east. The Nez Perce lived south and the Palouse lived southwest. The Coeur d’Alenes are considered part of the Salish Family of North American Indians. Their headquarters were on the Spokane River near Lake Coeur d’Alene. There were an estimated 2000 to 5000 people before the smallpox epidemics of about 1831 and about 1850.
Lewis and Clark were the first white men that came in contact with the Coeur d’Alene Indians. This was when they were returning from their trip to the Oregon Coast in May 1806. On May 6, Lewis and Clark were camping at a site on the Clearwater River where they gave medical treatment to a band of Nez Perce Indians. This was when they met three Indians from the Coeur d’Alene tribe.
The first fur traders in the area were members of the Northwest Company led by David Thompson. Thompson built a trading post on the Clark Fork River in 1809. The Indians traded furs and horses. It was during those times that the Indians became known as the Coeur d’Alene. Formerly they had been known as the Skitswish, their tribal name.
In the 1830s, missionaries began to come West. In 1838, Elkanah Walker, Cushing Eells, and their wives built Tshimakain mission on Walker’s prairie near present Ford, Washington. Jesuit missionary Nicholas Point came there in 1842, probably the greatest Christian influence on the Indians there. The first Jesuit mission was built at the confluence of the St. Joe River and the Lake. This mission was later moved to high ground near Cataldo, Idaho, after being flooded.
They used leather covered teepees during hunting and berry-picking season because they were light weight and mobile. Poles and liners were made with deer and elk hides. After they got the horse and could hunt Buffalo easily, the teepees were made of Buffalo hide, which was much easier since the skins were so much bigger. After the horse inter-marriage also became more common when tribes often visited each other. The first recorded such marriage was between a Kalispell and a Coeur d’Alene in 1840.
By 1853, many travelers were coming through their lands. One was Isaac Stevens, who was territorial governor of Washington. He was also commissioner of Indian affairs and leader of a survey crew for a northern transcontinental railroad. The Indians treated them fairly but were wary about a railroad coming across their land. Their fears were confirmed in 1855 when they heard about the treaty negotiations with the Yakima and other tribes. After disagreements, a war broke out between the tribes and the white men, later known as the Yakima War or Cayuse War of 1855. Kamiakin, chief of the Yakima, urged the Coeur d’Alene to join them but the Coeur d’Alene wisely decided not to join them.
More intruders came with the gold discovery in the northern Columbia River. The Indians became even more alarmed when forts were built at Yakima and Walla Walla. This was not a sign of peace. Then they learned of Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe, who was bringing 158 men to Spokane country. Steptoe set out from Fort Walla Walla on May 6, 1858. Soon they would be engaged in war, with Steptoe taking most of the casualties. More troops were sent to forts Vancouver, The Dalles, and Walla Walla. In the meantime, Indians took U.S. branded horses and mules from the battlefield and traded them.
On August 3, Colonel George Wright set out with a full contingent of men and animals to take revenge on the northern tribes. It wasn’t long before they engaged the Indians in war. Armed with a new rifle, the white men were able to fight from a much greater distance. Casualties for the Indians were high. At the first of September they engaged again at what would later be called the Battle of Spokane Plains. Wright had 680 men and the Indians had somewhere between 500 and 1000. These were tribes from the Spokane, Yakima, Nez Perce, Pend Oreille, Palouse, and Coeur d’Alene. Though the Indians fought well they still had to retreat. On September 7, the Indians sent a contingent to talk peace with Wright. Wright demanded unconditional surrender by all parties involved in the war and threatened total extermination for those refused. These were harsh terms but eventually the natives agreed. Some 800 horses were killed by the Army to prevent the Indians from using them against them. This area today is named Horse Slaughter Camp near Highway 90, two miles west of the state line. Bones could still be found their many years later. The party also destroyed native beef cattle and graineries.
On September 11, Wright met with the Indians, with Jesuit father Joseph Joset representing them. Wright demanded the Indians surrender the men who attacked Colonel Steptoe, give back all federal government property, allow white people to pass through unharmed, and surrender one chief and four men and their families to be taken as hostages back to Walla Walla. The Indians complied. Shortly afterward, forts were built at Boise and Colville to protect white settlers and deal with the conquered Indians. Father Pierre DeSmet was brought in to tend to the spiritual needs of the tribe and actl as a liaison between them and the government. DeSmet also brought back the hostages from Fort Walla Walla.
On March 3, 1863 the tribal boundary was changed because some of their land became part of the new territory of Idaho. The size of the reservation didn’t change but its government did. The reservation and its borders were finally accurately mapped on June 6, 1867. Things went well for the first ten years and in fact they refused to join the Nez Perce in the War of 1877. By 1882, they had 5,000 acres of land under cultivation. They built many new homes and a new Catholic church. They had very productive farms and cattle. They were almost completely self- supporting and needed very little government aid. One man even ran a stage line from Farmington to Lake Coeur d’Alene.
But rumors began that whites wanted to settle their and that the Indians would lose their best land. The Indian agent Moore and Chief Andrew Seltice fought hard for their rights. Roman Catholic priests also fought for them. A petition was sent to the president and other officials sign by six chiefs and 40 other influential men of the Tribe. The government sent out three men to negotiate with the Indians, basically to give up their land for certain compensation. They met on March 7, 1887. The first result was that the Spokane Indians gave up their lands and moved to join the Coeur d’Alenes on their reservation. The Spokane Tribe was given $95,000, with $30,000 given in the first year, $20,000 given in the second year, and $5,000 for the next eight years. An additional $5,000 was given to those who would break and plant 5 acres of land. Six Spokane chiefs would receive $100 per year for ten years. The whites convinced the Coeur d’Alenes that it would be wise to open their reservation to other tribes to fend off the whites who wanted their land. On March 26, 1887, a treaty was formally read and signed, to establish the Coeur d’Alene Reservation and its boundaries. Provisions for money were made for loss of land outside the boundary and for needed improvements.
In January and February 1888, a scarlet fever and measles epidemic struck the tribes. Fortunately the Coeur d’Alenes weren’t too bad off because they had a doctor who quarantined the sick away from the well. By this time there were only about 520 members. 125 could read English and 310 could speak it well enough to be understood. By the end of the year they harvested wheat, oats, barley, vegetables, and hay. They raised horses, mules, cattle, pigs, and sheep.
On March 26, 1889 a new agreement was signed that reduced the reservation. This was because gold had been discovered and whites wanted mineral rights. This agreement also provided that the Upper and Middle bands of the Spokane Tribe and some Kalispell Indians could move to the Coeur d’Alene Reservation. Even with less land they continued to improve yield and number of families supported. The treaty was not ratified until February 13, 1891. About 185,000 acres were transferred to the public domain with this treaty. With the payment from the government they were considered the wealthiest Tribe in the Pacific Northwest. They used much of this money for fine work horses, wagons, buggies, and the latest farm equipment. They were able to plant much larger areas with much larger yield. They also put some money in banks where they could earn interest. On February 4, 1894, the northern boundary was changed. They would get another $15,000 in compensation.
On August 9, 1909, event that would forever change their lives occurred. The government auctioned off the remaining 1,044 parcels remaining after all had been allotted to the tribes. Their word over 115,000 names entered 1,000 names were picked many of them white.
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Home American History Native American History The First Americans- A Humorous Take
The First Americans- A Humorous Take
1882 studio portrait of the (then) last surviving Six Nations warriors who fought with the British in the War of 1812
The typical U.S. history course begins with a chapter on the original inhabitants of the Americas. When I was a student of U.S. history in school, many moons ago, the first Americans were called “Indians.” This led to some confusion when we students discovered that there were people from India who also were called Indians.
Today American Indians are often called Native Americans. This is also somewhat confusing because those of us born in America (North or South) can also be considered native Americans (albeit with a lower-case “n”). In any event, historical or otherwise, here are some observations about American Indians (the term I prefer).
Most historians believe that the first Americans came from Asia thousands of years ago across a land bridge that existed where the Bering Strait is located today. This successful migration supports the idea that travelers should always get their bearings straight before beginning a voyage.
These first Americans came from the eastern hemisphere from an area we call the Orient to become the first settlers of the western hemisphere. Some say the Indians were here first because they had reservations. I have reservations about the theory, but I repeated it anyway.
The first Americans moved from place to place as they hunted and gathered food. Surprisingly, they seldom got angry or insane. For these reasons, they are called “no mads.”
One of the first Native American civilizations was the Olmec Empire. They were among the first Americans to develop agriculture. We know this fact because of the Olmec Indian who had a song written about him. “Olmec Donald Had a Farm” was the title.
The first American crop was maize. This was a truly amazing development. I know that was corny, and it goes against my grain, but I just couldn’t be cereal about the subject. Just lend me an ear and don’t stalk me if you don’t approve.
The Incas, like most American Indian groups had no system of writing. To record information and send messages throughout their vast empire, they had a system using knots of strings called “Quipus” (kee-pus). The leaders said “This system will Quipus together.”
The people of the Great Plains of North America lived in teepees. One bald Sioux chief (a nice guy known as “Sweet Sioux “) kept his toupee in his teepee. He did this to keep his wig warm, and if anyone made fun of him, there would be the devil toupee.One day “Sweet Sioux” visited a psychiatrist complaining that “some days I feel like a teepee and some days I feel like a wigwam.’ The doctor quickly responded, “your problem is you’re two tents.”
The Inuits settled in the northernmost parts of North America. They came looking for a source of food. When the first animal, a mammoth, was spotted (which was very unusual because most of them were solid-colored) the tribal leader shouted, “I knew it” and henceforth they were known as the “ I knew its,” or Inuits, for short.The Inuits are sometimes called Eskmoes but I won’t deal with that issue. My feeling is Eskimo questions and I’ll tell you no lies.
Transportation by water was very important. Many American Indians used canoes. The name originated when one American Indian said to the other, “I can paddle this boat, canoe?”
Throughout the Americas, American Indian cultures, as all cultures must, adapted to the climate and terrain. If it started terrain they adjusted by building shelters weather they liked it or not. That settles that, and the Indians settled the Americas.
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Cop Alert Inspired Paul McCartney’s ‘Band on the Run,’ Says Wings Drummer
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Denny Seiwell, the drummer with Paul McCartney’s band Wings for their first three albums, recalled an incident in a hotel which he believes partly inspired the song “Band on the Run.”
It took place during the outfit’s formative years, a period of touring that saw them traveling with their wives, arriving unannounced at venues and simply asking if they could perform, while seeking out low-cost places to stay overnight.
“I think at one of those places that we stayed Paul had a little beef with the owner over something,” Seiwell told Billboard in a new interview. “And somehow or another his elbow kind of hit the guy in the face. Don't think he did it intentionally, but all of a sudden his oldest girl is running around saying, 'Everybody get up, pack up. We got to get out of here. The cops are coming.' And it was hilarious, But I really think that that's where he got the term 'band on the run' from.”
On another occasion, the touring party found themselves together in a room that was too small for them. “And this night manager, this little bald fellow, came up to us and he had a little kids’ pail. And he said, 'Does one of you people own that black and white dog?' Paul goes, 'Yeah. That's my dog, Lucky.' He says 'Why?' 'Well, he's running around the hallways and he shat in the hall. You're gonna have to clean this up.' So Paul went and cleaned it up. You know, it was magical.”
Among the bonus items in the new expanded edition of Wings’ 1973 album Red Rose Speedway is The Bruce McMouse Show, an abandoned part-animated movie that saw the band interacting with a cartoon family of mice. “When we were filming that, they had me standing on a stage and speaking into my hand as though an imaginary mouse was standing on it,” Seiwell remembered. “And [there was] this big long conversation and I had no idea about acting, especially in that kind of a situation. It was probably one of the most uncomfortable things I'd ever done. I'm glad they left it out of the film.”
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State v. Omar Quinton Triggs
Errata Issued
Sua Sponte
Filed By: Unassigned District 1
Decision: (N) No Action
No action.
Comment: Letter from Atty. Paulson re paragraph 10 in the 6-13-2017 DEC, action?
Judge Panel: Brash, Brennan, Kessler
Decision: Reversed and remanded Pages: 11
Written by: Kessler, Joan F.
Order Text: Judgment reversed and cause remanded.
Comment: ERRATA ISSUED
Attorney address updated
Comment: Address changed for attorney: 17459 Randall E. Paulson
Certificate of Filing by Mail
Comment: BRY-IB
Filed By: Randall Paulson
Filed By: Gregory Weber
ORD that the deadline for the State to file its brief is extended through October 24, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
See BRS event due on 10-24-2016
Comment: Added AAG Gregory M. Weber per notice of appearance.
ORD that the deadline for Triggs to file his appellate brief and appendix is extended through September 9, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
See BAP event due on 9-9-2016
ORD that the court will take no action on the motion filed on September 1, 2016.
Comment: 18th
ORD that the deadline for Triggs to file a brief and appendix is extended through August 26, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(20(a) (2013-14).
Comment: Removed AAG Weber; Added Criminal Appeals Unit
ORD that the deadline for Triggs to file a brief and appendix is extended through August 19, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14)
ORD that the deadline for Triggs to file a brief and appendix is extended through August 12, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
IT IS ORDERED that the deadline for Triggs to file a brief and appendix is extended August 5, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
ORD that the deadline for Triggs to file a brief and appendix is extended through July 29, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
IT IS ORDERED that the time for the appelllant to file an appellant's brief is extended until July 22, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
ORD that the dceadline for Triggs to file his appellants' brief and appendix in this matter is extended to July 15, 2016.
IT IS ORDERED that the time for the appelllant to file an appellant's brief is extended until July 5, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
ORD that the time for the appellant to file an appellant's brief is extended until June 23, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
Comment: 9th
IT IS ORDERED that the time for the appellant to file an appellant's brief is extended until June 13, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
ORD that the time for the appellant to file an appellant's brief is extended until June 3, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
IT IS ORDERED that the time for the appellant to file an appellant's brief is extended until May 23, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
ORD that the time for the appellant to file an appellant's brief is extended to 5/16/16. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
ORD that the time for the appellant to file an appellant's brief is extended until May 2, 2016. See Wis. Stat. rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
ORD that the time for the appellant to file an appellant's brief is extended until April 18, 2016. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
Comment: 3d
IT IS ORDERED that the deadline for Triggs to file his appellant's brief and appendix is extended to April 4, 2016.
IT IS ORDERED that the deadline for filing the appellant's brief and appendix in this matter is extended to March 21, 2016.
Comment: 63-1 to 64-1
Comment: 1-10 to 62-3
Fee Paid
Comment: Receipt No: 15R 003071
Miscellaneous Motion on XX-Case
Filed By: Robert Webb
IT IS ORDERED that the time for ordering transcripts is retroactively extended until August 5, 2015. See Wis. Stat. Rule 809.82(2)(a) (2013-14).
Comment: MXT/ to order transcripts
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Maestro was a BBC Two series broadcast in 2008 in which eight celebrities competed for the chance to conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra at BBC Proms In The Park in Hyde Park, as part of the BBC Proms' world-famous Last Night celebrations on 13 September 2008.
Maestro was presented by Clive Anderson.
The panel of judges was chaired by Sir Roger Norrington, who was conducting the Last Night Of The BBC Proms 2008 at the Royal Albert Hall.
At the end of each episode of Maestro, the judges and members of the BBC Concert Orchestra decided which celebrity to vote off.
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Financial Policy Committee at the Bank of England
Donald Kohn Tuesday, November 4, 2014
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Donald Kohn, Robert S. Kerr senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, delivered remarks at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on the “Financial Policy Committee (FPC) at the Bank of England.”
Kohn, who now serves on the FPC, is a 40-year veteran of the Federal Reserve System and served on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve from 2002 to 2010, the last four years as vice chairman. He described the regulatory structure adopted by the UK after the recent financial crisis, focusing on the responsibilities and authorities of the FPC, its interactions with the institutions responsible for microprudential and monetary policies, and the actions the FPC had taken to enhance the resilience of the UK financial system.
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SUDS that can stop the floods
With new legislation set to increase the use of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), John Lloyd, head of design at Hanson Formpave, looks at the benefits SUDS offer and why builders’ merchants should be prepared.
The Environment Agency estimates that more than 5m people in England and Wales now live or work in properties that are at risk of flooding – a number that is set to quadruple over the next 20 years as our climate becomes prone to intense rainfall.
Large areas of hard landscaping can add to the problem but this need not necessarily be the case. Hanson Formpave offers a range of permeable paving products for paths, driveways and patios that aid run-off. Many can also be combined with its Aquaflow Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SUDS) to provide complete surface water management.
SUDS can reduce the risk of flooding and help control the amount of water that enters the drainage infrastructure but its use has not yet been made mandatory. This is potentially set to change this year as the new legislation, as part of The Flood and Water Management Act 2010, comes into force. It applies to all new schemes requiring planning permission and will compel builders and developers to consider SUDS at the earliest stage of a project’s development.
Under the previous legislation everyone had a right to connect their drains to sewers; this Act removes this right and approval will be required before a connection can be made.
Justify decision
If a builder decides that they don’t want to install a SUDS they will have to justify their decision. The cost to disprove it, particularly for small developments, is likely to be more than implementing the system in the first place. And, if you’re already creating paths and driveways, why not put the space to good use?
Many builders are already considering SUDS in their developments to meet conditions of planning and tackle drainage issues while providing an attractive finish.
The concept behind SUDS is to use cost-effective solutions with low environmental impact to drain surface water run-off in a controlled way, replicating nature. This is done through collection, storage and cleaning of the water before it is slowly released, either into the watercourses or directly into the ground.
Cheaper in the long run
Developers may think that adopting SUDS will cost them money but, when designed well, they can prove to be much cheaper than underground water storage tanks. In addition, project lead times are reduced as pipework, tanks and sewerage approval aren’t required, automatically removing the associated installation time, labour and costs – and counteracting any additional monies spent on the paving and SUDS materials.
The Aquaflow system, for example, allows water to drain through the permeable paving blocks and upper filter layer, which cleans the water, before it is stored within the sub base for release back into the environment or harvested for flushing toilets, washing cars and watering soft landscaping.
It is also cost-effective as it requires far less excavation – more than 300mm less – than some other systems, providing cost savings in labour and waste removal as well as wider environmental benefits.
Affordable performance
Most of the paving range can be incorporated with the Aquaflow SUDS, and among its portfolio of paving products is EcoGranite, which is manufactured using up to 77% recycled content. It is cheaper than natural granite but matches its performance and appearance and can be used with the Aquaflow system to create a sustainable paving solution.
All products in the Formpave range are ISO14001 accredited and certified with the BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing of Materials Standard, recognising their environmental credentials.
To help merchants, Hanson Formpave also has a comprehensive brochure available which includes the full product range and answers the questions routinely asked by retail and commercial contractors. It also has clear instructions on laying block paved driveways, patios or paths as well as cleaning and maintenance tips.
There is also a free design service to help builders prepare draft proposals or validate a client’s own designs. All plans that have been provided or approved by Hanson Formpave are covered by professional indemnity insurance.
This article first appeared in the February 2014 issue of Builders' Merchants News.
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Almost three quarters of tradespeople in the UK are happy in their work, despite working long hours and regular weekends, according to a new survey.
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Phil L. Nacke
The world lost an out-of-the-box, passionate and creative soul, father, grandfather, cousin, colleague, educator, partner and friend when Phil L. Nacke, of Meridian, Texas, passed away on Monday, March 4, 2019, at Providence Hospital in Waco after battling a severe lung infection.
Born December 4, 1934, to Henry and Alice (Quirin) Nacke, Phil grew up on the family farm near Granville, Iowa. Named Philip (“lover of horses”) by his father, Phil had a lifelong passion for animals, especially his beloved Arabian horses; flowers, especially orchids and iris; music, especially piano and organ performance; and educating and supporting young people in their passions.
After graduating from St. Mary’s Academy in Alton, Iowa, in 1952, Phil studied Latin and English at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. He obtained his Master’s degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and his Doctorate in Reading Education from the University of British Columbia.
A lifelong educator, Phil began his teaching career at Cumberland (Iowa) High School, where he taught Latin and English. After moving to Arizona, Phil taught Reading Education in Tempe. Phil then was on the faculty at Jersey City State College in New Jersey, before moving to the University of Kentucky, Lexington, where he was tenured professor, teaching Curriculum and Instruction in the Education Department. While at U.K., Phil served on the dissertation committees of a number of music students and also taught courses in health care strategies through the Nursing program.
After retiring as professor emeritus from U.K. in the early 1990s, Phil returned to the family farm in Iowa to care for his mother and sister. While in Kentucky, Phil obtained his first Arabian mare. In Iowa, Phil continued to raise horses, Red Angus cattle, Vizslas and Jack Russel Terriers. Phil moved his horse farm to Bosque County in 2010.
Phil’s love of music formed an enduring thread through his life. From an early age, Phil sang for services in the Catholic Church, and later learned to play piano and organ. While at Loras College, he toured and sang with the Lorians, a student musical group. In Lexington, Phil served as Musical Director at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church and was honored to play for one of U.K.’s commencement exercises. After moving to Bosque County, Phil became active in the Bosque Civic Music Association, where he served as Chair of the Hospitality Committee and was the creator and driving force behind The Showcase of Young Musicians, a forum for the young people of Bosque County to share their musical talents with the community. Phil was also an active member and sponsor of the Bosque Chorale.
Phil was preceded in death by his parents and his older sister, Shirley Ann Nacke. Left to carry on Phil’s legacy are his daughter, Ann Shippy and grandsons, Grant and Reed Shippy of Austin, TX; daughter, Laura Roberts and granddaughters Ava and Ella Alexander of Austin, TX; daughter, Onyay Pheori of Los Angeles, Ca; and partner, Bill Calhoon of Meridian, TX.
A celebration of Phil’s life will be held on Saturday, May 11, 2019, 1:00 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Clifton.
In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution to your favorite charity.
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Juno Temple on Playing Veronica Newell
Behind the Scenes of Dirty John
Go behind the scenes of Bravo's series with exclusive interviews from the cast and crew.
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@conniebritton
Four-time Emmy® award-nominated Connie Britton stars as Debra Newell, a successful interior designer and single mother from Orange County, who falls in love with the charismatic John Meehan, in Bravo’s scripted anthology Dirty John. Britton also serves as an executive producer on the series.
Britton most recently starred in the first season of Ryan Murphy’s 9-1-1. and in the Golden Globe® nominated, SMILF. Britton is best known for her Emmy® award-nominated roles starring on Nashville and Friday Night Lights. Her role on Nashville also earned her a Golden Globe® nomination. She received another Emmy® Award nomination for her role in the first installment of American Horror Story. Additional television credits include: American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, Spin City, 24, and The West Wing.
Britton recently completed production on Land of Steady Habits, based on the debut novel from Ted Thompson, written and directed by Nicole Holofcener. Her film credits include Professor Marston & The Wonder Woman, Beatriz at Dinner, Me & Earl & the Dying Girl, This Is Where I Leave You, The To-Do List, Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World, and American Ultra.
In April 2014, Britton was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme. In this role, she raises awareness of UNDP’s work in poverty eradication and women’s empowerment, advocating to the American and global public.
@EricBana67
Eric Bana stars as the charismatic John Meehan, who sweeps Debra Newell off her feet and pulls her into his web of lies, in Bravo’s scripted anthology Dirty John.
He also serves as an executive producer on the project.
Bana was first introduced to American audiences in the title role of Mark "Chopper" Read in the feature film Chopper, which premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and was then released in the U.S. to critical notice after its Australian success. Shortly thereafter, he co-starred in Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down as Delta Sgt. First Class "Hoot" Gibson, one of a group of elite U.S. soldiers opposite Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, and Tom Sizemore. The war epic is based on journalist Mark Bowden’s best-selling account of the 1993 US mission in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Bana was next seen as Bruce Banner in Ang Lee’s The Hulk, based on the Marvel Comics character, followed by Troy, where he played Hector the Prince of Troy. Bana later starred in Steven Spielberg’s critically acclaimed Munich, about the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics. He also starred opposite Drew Barrymore in Lucky You, and opposite Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson in The Other Boleyn Girl.
Bana has starred in the Australian films Romulus, My Father and The Nugget. His other film credits include: J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, Funny People, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Hanna, Deadfall, Closed Circuit, Lone Survivor, Deliver Us From Evil, The Finest Hours, Special Correspondents, and The Secret Scripture. Most recently, he was seen in The Forgiven and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
Bana made his directorial debut for the drama documentary Love the Beast that premiered at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. The filme featured Bana, Jay Leno, Dr. Phil and Jeremy Clarkson, and explored the meaning of Bana’s 25-year-long relationship with his first car, and the importance of the bonds that form through a common passion.
Bana currently resides in Australia with his wife and two children.
Julia Garner stars as Terra Newell, Debra Newell’s youngest daughter, who is sceptical about her mother’s relationship with John Meehan, in Bravo’s scripted anthology Dirty John.
Garner is a talented dynamic young actress who recently gave a breakout performance that received critical praise as the scrappy and conniving "Ruth Langmore" opposite Jason Bateman and Laura Linney in Netflix's Ozark. Garner also co-stars in the Netflix series Maniac opposite Emma Stone, Justin Theroux, and Jonah Hill. The series is written and directed by Cary Fukunaga. In 2015, Garner received critical recognition for her performance as a pregnant teenager in Paul Weitz's Grandma, which she starred in opposite Lily Tomlin. Other film credits include memorable performances in We Are What We Are, Electrick Children, and Martha Marcy May Marlene. On the small screen, she has been praised for her work on FX's The Americans, and was recently seen appearing in HBO's GIRLS and in Netflix's The Get Down. She was also recently seen in The Paramount Network's six-part event series WACO opposite Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch.
Juno Temple stars as Veronica Newell, Debra Newell’s eldest daughter, who is skeptical about her mother’s relationship with John Meehan, in Bravo’s scripted anthology Dirty John.
Temple will soon be reprising her role as “Thistlewit” in Disney’s Maleficent 2. A recipient of the 2013 BAFTA EE Rising Star Award, she starred opposite Kate Winslet in Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel and Unsane, opposite Claire Foy for director Steven Soderbergh. She also appeared in Black Mass opposite Johnny Depp, and in coming-of-age dramedy One Percent More Humid opposite Julia Garner that premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. She also starred in the HBO series Vinyl. She recently wrapped shooting Lost Transmissions opposite Simon Pegg. Temple’s other credits include Far From The Madding Crowd, Away, Maleficent, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, Horns, The Dark Knight Rises, Killer Joe, Dirty Girl, Little Birds, Greenberg, Paul W. S. Anderson’s Three Musketeers, among others. In 2013, Temple starred in three films which premiered to critical acclaim at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Afternoon Delight, Magic Magic, and Lovelace. She was also previously named one of BAFTA’s Brits to Watch in 2011 and Variety’s Ten Actors to Watch in 2010.
Jean Smart stars as Arlane Hart, Debra Newell’s devoutly religious mother who preaches forgiveness, in Bravo’s scripted anthology Dirty John. The series reunites Smart with Bana, who she previously starred alongside in the film Lucky You.
Winner of three Emmy® Awards with an additional five nominations for her work on Fargo, Harry’s Law, Frasier, The District, 24, and Samantha Who, Smart has also made her presence known on the big screen and garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her critically acclaimed performance in the Miramax feature film Guinevere. On stage, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Last Summer at Bluefish Cove and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress for her starring role on Broadway opposite Nathan Lane in The Man Who Came to Dinner. In 2016, she also received a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album for her work on Patience and Sarah. Most recently, Smart starred in Paul Feig’s film A Simple Favor, Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself, Brampton’s Own, and Senior Moment. Notably, she was seen starring in The Accountant and the second season of Fargo on FX, for which she won a Critics’ Choice Award and was nominated for an Emmy® Award. On TV, Smart also stars in FX series, Legion.
During her career, Smart has showcased her talents alongside numerous top Hollywood actors including Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama, Steve Martin in Bringing Down the House, Mark Wahlberg in I Heart Huckabees, Zach Braff and Peter Sarsgaard in Garden State, Bruce Willis in The Kid, Robert De Niro and Martin Landau in Mistress, and Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple II. Other recent film work includes Great Hope Springs with Meryl Streep, Barry Munday with Patrick Wilson and Judy Greer, Youth in Revolt with Michael Cera, and the dark comedy Miss Meadows opposite Katie Holmes and James Badge Dale.
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Julienne: “Our fascination with midcentury style really kicked in in 1996 when we started to get into the tiki scene. Jay has been a huge fan of Americana for a long, long time, going through various fashion stages influenced by American culture: the Glen Miller look in 1975, zoot suits in 1981, and rockabilly. For me, it was through knowing Jay that I got to appreciate my own American culture.”
Jay: “Fast forward to 2006. Julienne and I were tiring of London winters and hankering to live in a sleek, midcentury modern ranch in sunny California where she grew up. We’d visited the U.S. numerous times and daydreamed about actually living in a place similar to the incredible homes in Atomic Ranch. So we sold our Victorian flat in Chelsea and moved with our three Abyssinian cats to Los Angeles to find our dream home. We spent six months looking all over L.A. We saw plenty of great houses, but, for a variety of rea-sons, none of them seemed quite right. We kept up our search until we finally found the home we’d always imagined, just west of the quaint town of Sierra Madre, which was featured in our favourite sci-fi ’50s movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
“The house was built in 1952 by architect Harold B. Zook, who designed five other homes on the street. The owners of the first house built by Zook told us they had seen a home he’d designed in Palm Springs and asked him to build something similar for them. Zook liked the location of the house so much that he bought the parcel of land next to it and built his own home. For us, the house was the perfect blend of ranch and modern—gabled roofs with walls of glass and a modern sense of space; we fell in love the moment we set foot in the spacious living room with its views of the mountains and valley.”
Julienne: “Although the house was a great example of the style, there were things that needed changing and updating. We wanted to convert the garage to a studio/workroom for all of Jay’s records (he’s a DJ) and for my music and voiceover recording, with a bathroom as well. The bath attached to the master bedroom had been redone sometime in the 1980s (ugh!), and we thought to turn that into a big walk-in closet instead and build an entirely new structure for the master bath. There was a ton of space at the side and back of the house being taken up by old, cracked asphalt, and we knew we would still have plenty of room to put in a cool carport and a big indoor/outdoor master bath. The kitchen had been updated in the 1980s (cheap terra cotta tiles—also yuck!) and so that had to go as well.”
Jay: “There was also a badly built roof extension over the patio added in the ’70s that looked more suited to the inside of a barn, and the electrical and plumbing systems were in dire need of replacement. But we loved the location, the design and the potential of the house, and figured that we could handle the renovation of the house, too. Little did we know…”
Sometimes, the best homes need some serious TLC to become as bright as they once were! Of course, this story is far from over. Tune in to part 2 of this story to discover what Jay and Julienne found out about their Zook home.
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AUCD - Your Voice in Advocacy for Inclusive Communities
Sample Phone Script (722KB) [download]
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Sunday, November 11, 2018 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Congressional B
Hosted by AUCD's Public Policy Committee, this Driving Change Session will explore how public policy impacts access to inclusive communities. Join us to hear from a panel about experience and strategies to translate your knowledge and background into relationships and messages that influence policy at the local, state and federal level and drive change.
Participants will be able to:
Increase skill and comfort with policy advocacy
Increase understanding education vs advocacy
Build strategies to match advocacy message to audience
Have new connections to resources to support policy advocacy
Jamie Ray-Leonetti. Institute on Disabilities at Temple University: Philadelphia, PA
Julie Christensen, MSW, PhD. Iowa's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at the Center for Disabilities and Development: Iowa City, IA
Maureen van Stone, Esq. MS. Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities at Kennedy Krieger Institute: Baltimore, MD
Sachin Pavithran, PhD. Center for Persons with Disabilities: Logan, UT
1.5 CEUs hours (social work) are available for this session through the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Learn more, including how to get your certificate.
About Our Speakers
Jamie Ray-Leonetti
Jamie Ray-Leonetti is the Associate Director of Policy, responsible for coordinating all policy-related activities for the Institute and working on other grants and contracts related to public policy, such as the implementation of the CMS Final Rule for Home and Community-based Services. Before joining the Institute, Ms. Ray-Leonetti spent the first 20 years of her professional career advocating for individuals with disabilities throughout Pennsylvania. She has a BA in Humanities from York College of Pennsylvania and a JD from Temple University School of Law.
Julie Christensen, MSW, PhD
Julie Christensen, MSW, PhD, is the Director of Iowa's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at the Center for Disabilities and Development (CDD) within University of Iowa Health Care. Christensen's background includes over 15 years' experience working with youth and young adults with disabilities and mental health challenges and their families, with an emphasis on work with urban poor and other underrepresented populations.
Christensen received undergraduate degrees from Syracuse University and a MSW from Roberts Wesleyan College. She received a PhD in Health Practice Research at the University of Rochester, with a research emphasis on quality of life for adolescents and young adults with intellectual developmental disabilities.
Maureen van Stone, Esq., MS
Maureen is the Associate Director of the Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities (MCDD) at Kennedy Krieger Institute and the founding director of Project HEAL (Health, Education, Advocacy, and Law), a MCDD community-based program. Project HEAL is Maryland's only comprehensive medical-legal partnership, which provides advocacy and legal services to families and children with disabilities who receive clinical services at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Maureen is faculty for Kennedy Krieger Institute's Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education and adjunct faculty at Towson University and The University of Baltimore School of Law. Maureen is a member of Kennedy Krieger Institute's ethics committee.
Maureen serves as the Vice Chair, on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, for the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc. She also serves on the Committee on Improving Health Outcomes for Children with Disabilities through The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; she serves on two advisory committees for the National Council on Disability; and she serves as an expert on the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy, Community of Practice on youth receiving Supplemental Security Income.
Maureen earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Southern California, a master's degree in developmental psychology at The Johns Hopkins University, and a Juris Doctor at Whittier Law School, with a concentration on children's legal issues. Prior to law school, Maureen worked as a clinician on the Neurobehavioral Unit in the Department of Behavioral Psychology at Kennedy Krieger Institute for six years. Maureen is a graduate of the Leadership Maryland Class of 2012 and received the following awards from Maryland's business and legal newspaper, The Daily Record: 2018 Top 100 Women award, 2016 Innovator of the Year, 2014 Very Important Professionals award, 2013 Maryland's Top 100 Women award, 2012 Leadership in Law award, and 2011 Leading Women award.
Sachin Pavithran, PhD
Sachin Pavithran was born in India, but grew up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sachin came to the US at the age of 17 to start his college career at Utah State University. He graduated from USU with a degree in Business Information Systems, and another degree in Marketing. Sachin received his Masters in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling and a PhD in Disability Disciplines from Utah State University.
Sachin has over twelve years of direct involvement in development, testing, and training for accessibility for assistive technology, extensive experience in lecturing and training others in accessible technology. Sachin provides technical assistance on accessible information technology for individuals and groups. He helps in the evaluation of products related to web accessibility and design. He sits on various boards nationally, such as, The Research and Development committee for the National Federation of the Blind, The National Multicultural Council, and Senator Hatch's Advisory board for disability policy. He was appointed by President Obama to the U.S. Access Board where he currently serves as the Chairman of this agency.
Sachin aspires to be in the fore-front of establishing and implementing national and international policy that impacts people with disabilities around the world.
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Look How Much Less Americans Can Afford Now Compared To Six Years Ago
Rob Wile
In oil markets guru Stephen Schork's latest report, he takes issue with the Federal Reserve's recent argument that inflation is going to remain subdued.
It is true that core inflation — all prices excluding food and energy — has not spiked.
But the "wealth effect" that Chairman Ben Bernanke is hoping to create by causing the value of assets like stocks to rise will be outweighed by everyone panicking about their grocery and electricity bills going up.
By pouring more and more dollars (albeit, electronically) into the economy, investors will not only be encouraged to own paper assets like stocks and bonds, but they will also want to own dollar-denominated hard assets; be that gold, cocoa, coffee or, yes, oil.
[But] the cost is far outpacing wealth for the average consumer.
...in 2006 (Bernanke's first year at the helm of the Fed) the average weekly earnings (pre-tax) of a worker in the U.S. could purchase 332 loafs of bread, 265 cartons of eggs, 109 gallons of milk, 141 gallons of gasoline and 3,170 KWhs of electricity.
Since then, the cost of these staples has soared, while incomes have barely moved and the value of our homes has declined by one-fifth.
Six years later and average weekly incomes can only buy 250 loafs of bread (-25%), 187 cartons of eggs (-30%), 101 gallons of milk (-7%), 94 gallons of gasoline (-34%) and 2,644 KWhs of electricity (-17%).
To add insult to injury, the cost of electricity for households has grown by 23%, while the cost of natural gas (which now accounts for more than half the generation capacity in the U.S.) has fallen by 55% for producers!
See Also: CHART OF THE DAY: The American Paycheck Buys Half As Much Gas As It Did 10 Years Ago >
More: Stephen Schork Inflation Ben Bernanke
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Freedman: A Chance To Respond
Boss eagerly anticipating Birmingham clash
Dougie Freedman can’t wait for the weekend’s clash with Birmingham City to arrive, as his Wanderers side look to bounce back from the Boxing Day defeat to Sheffield Wednesday.
The Whites will be looking for a return to winning ways when they welcome the Blues to the Reebok, with both sides level on points in the Championship table.
The match marks the halfway point of the hectic Christmas period, by the end of which Freedman’s side will have played five games in the space of 15 days.
But fixture congestion is not a concern for the manager, who said: “I’m really looking forward to the game and if I had a Christmas wish it would be that the game was today (Friday).
“The lads are very disappointed with the way they performed on Boxing Day and I’ve seen a quiet determination around the group. That is great to see as a coach and over the last couple of days we’ve gone about our business very professionally.
“Against Sheffield Wednesday we let ourselves down, there’s no doubt about that. But we’ve addressed the issues from that game and we’ll move on. Sometimes you have to accept defeats to get better and I’m sure we’ll do that.”
With the January transfer window opening in a matter of days, Freedman also confirmed that he will investigate the possibility of adding to his squad, saying: “When I came into this job I always felt there wasn’t enough balance in the squad.
“I’ve looked at a number of positions in our squad and I don’t think there’s enough depth in some of them, particularly for competing in this division when there are a lot of games. If you get a few injuries all of a sudden you may be forced to play people a bit out of position.
“With the injuries to David Wheater and, more recently, Matt Mills it’s been a bit difficult. I’ll be trying to balance it up and I have made some calls to managers, but as we speak nothing has been lined up.”
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New IT Rule 10CB for Computation of Interest Income (Secondary TP Adjustments)
Jun 18, 2017 Income Tax Kewal Garg
CBDT Notifies New ‘Income Tax Rule 10CB’ for Computation of Interest Income (Secondary TP Adjustments) with Time Limit (90 Days) and Applicable Interest Rate (Separate for INR/ FC Transactions)
The CBDT has notified a new ‘Income Tax Rule 10CB’ which prescribes time limit for repatriation of excess money (90 days) and applicable rate of interest (separate rates for transactions in INR/ Foreign Currency), to be considered while making Computation of Interest Income pursuant to Secondary Transfer Pricing Adjustments under IT section 92CE, applicable w.e.f. 15 June 2017.
It may be noted that Income Tax Section 92CE has been inserted by the Finance Act, 2017, w.e.f. 1 Apr. 2018, to provide for secondary adjustment by attributing income to the excess money lying in the hands of the associated enterprise, in order to make the actual allocation of funds consistent with that of the primary transfer pricing adjustment. The provision shall apply to primary adjustments exceeding Rupees One Crore made in respect of Assessment Year 2017-18 onwards.
Subsequently, the CBDT has notified ‘Income Tax Rule 10CB’ for operationalising the provisions of secondary transfer pricing (TP) adjustment on 15 June, 2017, which prescribes the time limit for repatriation of excess money and the rate of interest to be applied for computing the income in case of failure to repatriate the excess money within the prescribed time limit. Separate rates of interest have been provided for international transactions denominated in Indian currency and in foreign currency. The rates of interest are applicable on an annual basis.
The time limit of 90 days for repatriation of excess money shall begin only when the primary adjustments exceeding Rupees One Crore made in respect of Assessment Year 2017-18 or later, attains finality. Where the transfer pricing order is appealed against by the taxpayer, the time limit for repatriation shall commence only after the appeal is finalised by the appellate authority.
CBDT Notification No. 52/2017 dt. 15 June 2017
G.S.R. 590(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) to section 92CE and section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes, hereby, makes the following rules further to amend the Income-tax Rules, 1962, namely:-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Income-tax (15th Amendment) Rules, 2017. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Income-tax Rules, 1962, after rule 10CA, the following rule shall be inserted, namely:-
“10CB. Computation of interest income pursuant to secondary adjustments–
(1) For the purposes of sub-section (2) of section 92CE of the Act, the time limit for repatriation of excess money shall be on or before ninety days ,-
(i) from the due date of filing of return under sub-section (1) of section 139 of the Act where primary adjustments to transfer price has been made suo-moto by the assessee in his return of income;
(ii) from the date of the order of Assessing Officer or the appellate authority, as the case may be, if the primary adjustments to transfer price as determined in the aforesaid order has been accepted by the assessee;
(iii) from the due date of filing of return under sub-section (1) of section 139 of the Act in the case of agreement for advance pricing entered into by the assessee under section 92CD;
(iv) from the due date of filing of return under sub-section (1) section 139 of the Act in the case of option exercised by the assessee as per the safe harbour rules under section 92CB; or
(v) from the due date of filing of return under sub-section (1) section 139 of the Act in the case of an agreement made under the mutual agreement procedure under a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement entered into under section 90 or 90A;
(2) The imputed per annum interest income on excess money which is not repatriated within the time limit as per sub-section (1) of section 92CE of the Act shall be computed,-
(i) at the one year marginal cost of fund lending rate of State Bank of India as on 1st of April of the relevant previous year plus three hundred twenty five basis points in the cases where the international transaction is denominated in Indian rupee; or
(ii) at six month London Interbank Offered Rate as on 30th September of the relevant previous year plus three hundred basis points in the cases where the international transaction is denominated in foreign currency.
Explanation– For the purposes of this rule “International transaction” shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 92B of the Act.”
Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) vide notification number S.O. 969 (E), dated the 26th March, 1962 and last amended by the Income-tax (14th Amendment) Rules, 2017, vide notification number G.S.R 569(E), dated the 9th June, 2017.
In order to make the actual allocation of funds consistent with that of the primary transfer pricing adjustment, Finance Act, 2017 inserted Section 92CE in the Income-tax Act, 1961 with effect from 1st day of April, 2018 to provide for secondary adjustment by attributing income to the excess money lying in the hands of the associated enterprise. The provision shall be applicable to primary adjustments exceeding one crore rupees made in respect of the assessment year 2017-18 and on wards.
The said rule prescribes the time limit of repatriation of excess money and the rate at which the interest income shall be computed in the case of failure to repatriate the excess money within the prescribed time limit. In order to provide for an uniform treatment in respect of various types/ situations of primary adjustments as referred to in sub-section (1) of section 92CE, it prescribes for a time limit of 90 days for repatriation of excess money.
With regard to the rate of interest to be computed in the case of failure to repatriate the excess money within the prescribed time limit, it provides for separate interest rates for international transactions denominated in Indian rupee and those denominated in foreign currency. The rate of interest is applicable on annual basis.
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38 - Solving the Station Repacking Problem
from Part VI - Secondary Markets and Exchanges
By Alexandre Fréchette, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Neil Newman, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
Edited by Martin Bichler, Technische Universität München, Jacob K. Goeree, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Book: Handbook of Spectrum Auction Design
Print publication: 26 October 2017, pp 813-827
Over 13 months in 2016–17, the US government held an innovative “incentive auction” for radio spectrum, in which television broadcasters were paid to relinquish broadcast rights via a “reverse auction”, remaining broadcasters were repacked into a narrower band of spectrum, and the cleared spectrum was sold to telecommunications companies. The stakes were enormous: the auction was forecast to net the government tens of billions of dollars, as well as creating massive economic value by reallocating spectrum to more socially beneficial uses (Congressional Budget Office 2015). As a result of both its economic importance and its conceptual novelty, the auction has been the subject of considerable recent study by the research community, mostly focusing on elements of the auction design (Bazelon, Jackson, and McHenry 2011; Kwerel, LaFontaine, and Schwartz 2012; Milgrom et al. 2012; Calamari et al. 2012; Marcus 2013; Milgrom and Segal 2014; Dütting, Gkatzelis, and Roughgarden 2014; Vohra 2014; Nguyen and Sandholm 2014; Kazumori 2014). After considerable study and discussion, the FCC has selected an auction design based on a descending clock (FCC 2014c; 2014a). Such an auction offers each participating station a price for relinquishing its broadcast rights, with this price offer falling for a given station as long as it remains repackable. A consequence of this design is that the auction must (sequentially!) solve hundreds of thousands of such repacking problems. This is challenging, because the repacking problem is NP-complete. It also makes the performance of the repacking algorithm extremely important, as every failure to solve a single, feasible repacking problem corresponds to a lost opportunity to lower a price offer. Given the scale of the auction, individual unsolved problems can cost the government millions of dollars each.
This chapter shows how the station repacking problem can be solved exactly and reliably at the national scale. It describes the results of an extensive, multi-year investigation into the problem, which culminated in a solver that we call SATFC.
Yoav Shoham, Stanford University, California, Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Book: Multiagent Systems
Print publication: 15 December 2008, pp i-vi
13 - Logics of Knowledge and Belief
Print publication: 15 December 2008, pp 393-420
In this chapter we look at how one might represent statements such as “John knows that it is raining,” “John believes that it will rain tomorrow,” “Mary knows that John believes that it will rain tomorrow” and “It is common knowledge between Mary and John that it is raining.”
The partition model of knowledge
Consider a distributed system, in which multiple processors autonomously performing some joint computation. Of course, the joint nature of the computation means that the processors need to communicate with one another. One set of problems comes about when the communication is error prone. In this case the system analyst may find himself saying something like the following: “Processor A sent the message to processor B. The message may not arrive, and processor A knows this. Furthermore, this is common knowledge, so processor A knows that processor B knows that it (A) knows that if a message was sent it may not arrive.” The topic of this chapter is how to make such reasoning precise.
Muddy children and warring generals
Often the modeling is done in the context of some stylized problem, with an associated entertaining story. Thus, for example, when we return to the distributed computing application in Section 13.4, rather than speak about computer processors, we will tell the story of two generals who attempt to coordinate among themselves to gang up on a third.
3 - Introduction to Noncooperative Game Theory: Games in Normal Form
Print publication: 15 December 2008, pp 47-86
Game theory is the mathematical study of interaction among independent, self-interested agents. It has been applied to disciplines as diverse as economics (historically, its main area of application), political science, biology, psychology, linguistics—and computer science. In this chapter we will concentrate on what has become the dominant branch of game theory, called noncooperative game theory, and specifically on normal-form games, a canonical representation in this discipline.
As an aside, the name “noncooperative game theory” could be misleading, since it may suggest that the theory applies exclusively to situations in which the interests of different agents conflict. This is not the case, although it is fair to say that the theory is most interesting in such situations. By the same token, in Chapter 12 we will see that coalitional game theory (also known as cooperative game theory) does not apply only in situations in which the interests of the agents align with each other. The essential difference between the two branches is that in noncooperative game theory the basic modeling unit is the individual (including his beliefs, preferences, and possible actions) while in coalitional game theory the basic modeling unit is the group. We will return to that later in Chapter 12, but for now let us proceed with the individualistic approach.
Self-interested agents
What does it mean to say that agents are self-interested? It does not necessarily mean that they want to cause harm to each other, or even that they care only about themselves.
11 - Protocols for Multiagent Resource Allocation: Auctions
In this chapter we consider the problem of allocating (discrete) resources among selfish agents in a multiagent system. Auctions—an interesting and important application of mechanism design—turn out to provide a general solution to this problem. We describe various different flavors of auctions, including single-good, multiunit, and combinatorial auctions. In each case, we survey some of the key theoretical, practical, and computational insights from the literature.
The auction setting is important for two reasons. First, auctions are widely used in real life, in consumer, corporate, as well as government settings. Millions of people use auctions daily on Internet consumer Web sites to trade goods. More complex types of auctions have been used by governments around the world to sell important public resources such as access to electromagnetic spectrum. Indeed, all financial markets constitute a type of auction (one of the family of so-called double auctions). Auctions are also often used in computational settings, to efficiently allocate bandwidth and processing power to applications and users.
The second—and more fundamental—reason to care about auctions is that they provide a general theoretical framework for understanding resource allocation problems among self-interested agents. Formally speaking, an auction is any protocol that allows agents to indicate their interest in one or more resources and that uses these indications of interest to determine both an allocation of resources and a set of payments by the agents.
Print publication: 15 December 2008, pp xv-xvi
D - Classical Logic
from Appendices: Technical Background
The following is not intended as an introduction to classical logic, but rather as a review of the concepts and a setting of notation. We start with propositional calculus and then move to first-order logic. (We do the latter for completeness, but in fact first-order logic plays almost no role in this book.)
Propositional calculus
Given a set P of propositional symbols, the set of sentences in the propositional calculus is the smallest set ℒ containing P such that if φ, ψ ∈ ℒ then also ¬φ ∈ ℒ and ∈ ∧ ψ ℒ. Other connectives such as ∨, →, and ≡ can be defined in terms of ∧ and ¬.
A propositional interpretation (or a model) is a set M ⊂ P, the subset of true primitive propositions. The satisfaction relation ⊧ between models and sentences is defined recursively as follows.
For any p ∈ P, M ⊧ p iff p ∈ M.
M ⊧ φ ∧ ψ iff M ⊧ φ and M ⊧ ψ.
M ⊧ ¬φ iff it is not the case that M ⊧ φ.
We overload the ⊧ symbol. First, it is used to denote validity; ⊧ φ means that φ is true in all propositional models. Second, it is used to denote entailment; φ ⊧ ψ means that any model that satisfies φ also satisfies ψ.
5 - Games with Sequential Actions: Reasoning and Computing with the Extensive Form
In Chapter 3 we assumed that a game is represented in normal form: effectively, as a big table. In some sense, this is reasonable. The normal form is conceptually straightforward, and most see it as fundamental. While many other representations exist to describe finite games, we will see in this chapter and in Chapter 6 that each of them has an “induced normal form”: a corresponding normal-form representation that preserves game-theoretic properties such as Nash equilibria. Thus the results given in Chapter 3 hold for all finite games, no matter how they are represented; in that sense the normal-form representation is universal.
In this chapter we will look at extensive-form games, a finite representation that does not always assume that players act simultaneously. This representation is in general exponentially smaller than its induced normal form, and furthermore can be much more natural to reason about. While the Nash equilibria of an extensiveform game can be found through its induced normal form, computational benefit can be had by working with the extensive form directly. Furthermore, there are other solution concepts, such as subgame-perfect equilibrium (see Section 5.1.3), which explicitly refer to the sequence in which players act and which are therefore not meaningful when applied to normal-form games.
Perfect-information extensive-form games
The normal-form game representation does not incorporate any notion of sequence, or time, of the actions of the players.
10 - Protocols for Strategic Agents: Mechanism Design
As we discussed in the previous chapter, social choice theory is nonstrategic; it takes the preferences of the agents as given, and investigates ways in which they can be aggregated. But of course those preferences are usually not known. What you have, instead, is that the various agents declare their preferences, which they may do truthfully or not. Assuming the agents are self interested, in general they will not reveal their true preferences. Since as a designer you wish to find an optimal outcome with respect to the agents' true preferences (e.g., electing a leader that truly reflects the agents' preferences), optimizing with respect to the declared preferences will not in general achieve the objective.
Mechanism design is a strategic version of social choice theory, which adds the assumption that agents will behave so as to maximize their individual payoffs. For example, in an election agents may not vote their true preference.
Example: strategic voting
Consider again our babysitting example. This time, in addition to Will, Liam, and Vic you must also babysit their devious new friend, Ray. Again, you invite each child to select their favorite among the three activities—going to the video arcade (a), playing basketball (b), and going for a leisurely car ride (c). As before, you announce that you will select the activity with the highest number of votes, breaking ties alphabetically.
C - Markov Decision Problems (MDPs)
We briefly review the main ingredients of Markov Decision Problems or MDPs, which, as we discuss in Chapter 6, can be viewed as single-agent stochastic games. The literature on MDPs is rich, and the reader is referred to the many textbooks on the subject for further reading.
An MDP is a model for decision making in an uncertain, dynamic world. The (single) agent starts out in some state, takes an action, and receives some immediate rewards. The state then transitions probabilistically to some other state and the process repeats. Formally speaking, an MDP is a tuple (S,A,p,R). S is a set of states and A is a set of actions. The function p : S × A × S ↦ ℝ specifies the transition probability among states: p(s, a, s′) is the probability of ending in state s′ when taking action a in state s. Finally, the function R : S × A ↦ ℝ returns the reward for each state-action pair.
12 - Teams of Selfish Agents: An Introduction to Coalitional Game Theory
In Chapters 1 and 2 we looked at how teams of cooperative agents can accomplish more together than they can achieve in isolation. Then, in Chapter 3 and many of the chapters that followed, we looked at how self-interested agents make individual choices. In this chapter we interpolate between these two extremes, asking how self-interested agents can combine to form effective teams. As the title of the chapter suggests, this chapter is essentially a crash course in coalitional game theory, also known as cooperative game theory. As was mentioned at the beginning of Chapter 3, when we introduced noncooperative game theory, the term “cooperative” can be misleading. It does not mean that, as in Chapters 1 and 2, each agent is agreeable and will follow arbitrary instructions. Rather, it means that the basic modeling unit is the group rather than the individual agent. More precisely, in coalitional game theory we still model the individual preference of agents, but not their possible actions. Instead, we have a coarser model of the capabilities of different groups.
We proceed as follows. First, we define the most widely studied model of coalitional games, give examples of situations that can be modeled in this way, and discuss a series of refinements to the model. Then we consider how such games can be analyzed. The main solution concepts we discuss here are the Shapley value, the core, and the nucleolus.
Appendices: Technical Background
6 - Richer Representations: Beyond the Normal and Extensive Forms
In this chapter we will go beyond the normal and extensive forms by considering a variety of richer game representations. These further representations are important because the normal and extensive forms are not always suitable for modeling large or realistic game-theoretic settings.
First, we may be interested in games that are not finite and that therefore cannot be represented in normal or extensive form. For example, we may want to consider what happens when a simple normal-form game such as the Prisoner's Dilemma is repeated infinitely. We might want to consider a game played by an uncountably infinite set of agents. Or we may want to use an interval of the real numbers as each player's action space.
Second, both of the representations we have studied so far presume that agents have perfect knowledge of everyone's payoffs. This seems like a poor model of many realistic situations, where, for example, agents might have private information that affects their own payoffs and other agents might have only probabilistic information about each others' private information. An elaboration like this can have a big impact, because one agent's actions can depend on what he knows about another agent's payoffs.
Finally, as the numbers of players and actions in a game grow—even if they remain finite—games can quickly become far too large to reason about or even to write down using the representations we have studied so far.
2 - Distributed Optimization
In the previous chapter we looked at distributed ways of meeting global constraints. Here we up the ante; we ask how agents can, in a distributed fashion, optimize a global objective function. Specifically, we consider four families of techniques and associated sample problems. They are, in order:
distributed dynamic programming (as applied to path-planning problems);
distributed solutions to Markov Decision Problems (MDPs);
optimization algorithms with an economic flavor (as applied to matching and scheduling problems); and
coordination via social laws and conventions, and the example of traffic rules.
Distributed dynamic programming for path planning
Like graph coloring, path planning constitutes another common abstract problemsolving framework. A path-planning problem consists of a weighted directed graph with a set of n nodes N, directed links L, a weight function w : L ↦ ℝ+, and two nodes s, t ∈ N. The goal is to find a directed path from s to t having minimal total weight. More generally, we consider a set of goal nodes T ⊂ N, and are interested in the shortest path from s to any of the goal nodes t ∈ T.
This abstract framework applies in many domains. Certainly it applies when there is some concrete network at hand (e.g., a transportation or telecommunication network). But it also applies in more roundabout ways.
8 - Communication
Agents communicate; this is one of the defining characteristics of a multiagent system. In traditional linguistic analysis, the communication is taken to have a certain form (syntax), to carry a certain meaning (semantics), and to be influenced by various circumstances of the communication (pragmatics). As we shall see, a closer look at communication adds to the complexity of the story. We can distinguish between purely informational theories of communication and motivational ones. In informational communication, agents simply inform each other of different facts. The theories of belief change, introduced in Chapter 14, look at ways in which beliefs change in the face of new information—depending on whether the beliefs are logical or probabilistic, consistent with prior beliefs or not. In this chapter we broaden the discussion and consider motivational theories of communication, involving agents with individual motivations and possible courses of actions.
We divide the discussion into three parts. The first concerns cheap talk and describes a situation in which self-motivated agents can engage in costless communication before taking action. As we see, in some situations this talk influences future behavior, and in some it does not. Cheap talk can be viewed as “doing by talking”; in contrast, signaling games can be viewed as “talking by doing.” In signaling games an agent can take actions that, by virtue of the underlying incentives, communicate to the other agent something new.
4 - Computing Solution Concepts of Normal-Form Games
Print publication: 15 December 2008, pp 87-112
The discussion of strategies and solution concepts in Chapter 3 largely ignored issues of computation. We start by asking the most basic question: How hard is it to compute the Nash equilibria of a game? The answer turns out to be quite subtle, and to depend on the class of games being considered.
We have already seen how to compute the Nash equilibria of simple games. These calculations were deceptively easy, partly because there were only two players and partly because each player had only two actions. In this chapter we discuss several different classes of games, starting with the simple two-player, zero-sum normal-form game. Dropping only the zero-sum restriction yields a problem of different complexity—while it is generally believed that any algorithm that guarantees a solution must have an exponential worst case complexity, it is also believed that a proof to this effect may not emerge for some time. We also consider procedures for n-player games. In each case, we describe how to formulate the problem, the algorithm (or algorithms) commonly used to solve them, and the complexity of the problem. While we focus on the problem of finding a sample Nash equilibrium, we will briefly discuss the problem of finding all Nash equilibria and finding equilibria with specific properties. Along the way we also discuss the computation of other game-theoretic solution concepts: maxmin and minmax strategies, strategies that survive iterated removal of dominated strategies, and correlated equilibria.
Multiagent Systems
Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic, and Logical Foundations
Yoav Shoham, Kevin Leyton-Brown
Print publication: 15 December 2008
Buy the print book
Multiagent systems combine multiple autonomous entities, each having diverging interests or different information. This overview of the field offers a computer science perspective, but also draws on ideas from game theory, economics, operations research, logic, philosophy and linguistics. It will serve as a reference for researchers in each of these fields, and be used as a text for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses. The authors emphasize foundations to create a broad and rigorous treatment of their subject, with thorough presentations of distributed problem solving, game theory, multiagent communication and learning, social choice, mechanism design, auctions, cooperative game theory, and modal logics of knowledge and belief. For each topic, basic concepts are introduced, examples are given, proofs of key results are offered, and algorithmic considerations are examined. An appendix covers background material in probability theory, classical logic, Markov decision processes and mathematical programming.
Print publication: 15 December 2008, pp vii-xiv
A - Probability Theory
Probability theory provides a formal framework for the discussion of chance or uncertainty. This appendix reviews some key concepts of the theory and establishes notation. However, it glosses over some details (e.g., pertaining to measure theory). Therefore, the interested reader is encouraged to consult a textbook on the topic for a more comprehensive picture.
Probabilistic models
A probabilistic model is defined as a tuple (Ω, F, P), where:
Ω is the sample space, also called the event space;
F is a σ-algebra over Ω; that is, F ⊆ 2Ω and is closed under intersection and countable union; and
P : F ↦ [0, 1] is the probability density function (PDF).
Intuitively, the sample space is a set of things that can happen in the world according to our model. For example, in a model of a six-sided die, we might have Ω = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}. The σ-field F is a collection of measurable events. F is required because some outcomes in Ω may not be measurable; thus, we must define our probability density function P over F rather than over Ω. However, in many cases, such as the six-sided die example, all outcomes are measurable. In those cases we can equate F with 2Ω and view the probability space as the pair (Ω, P) and P as P : 2Ω ↦ [0, 1]. We assume this in the following.
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Eighteenth-century philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment
Part of Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Alexander Broadie, University of Glasgow
Craig Smith, University of Glasgow
Alexander Broadie, Roger L. Emerson, Mark G. Spencer, M. A. Stewart, Jacqueline Taylor, Aaron Garrett, Paul Wood, Heiner F. Klemme, Christel Fricke, Fania Oz-Salzberger, Craig Smith, Knud Haakonssen, John W. Cairns, Christopher J. Berry, Murray G. H. Pittock, Catherine Labio, Deidre Dawson, Samuel Fleischacker, Gordon Graham
Publication planned for: November 2019
availability: Not yet published - available from November 2019
The second edition of this Companion presents a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century phenomenon that has had a profound influence on Western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson and other Scottish thinkers. Their subjects range across philosophy, natural theology, economics, anthropology, natural science, and law and the arts, and in addition, they relate the Scottish Enlightenment to its historical context and assess its impact and legacy. The result is a comprehensive and accessible volume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety and the underlying unity of this important movement. This volume contains five entirely new chapters on morality, the human mind, aesthetics, sentimentalism and political economy, and eleven other chapters have been significantly revised and updated. The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology, literature and the history of ideas.
Provides a philosophical perspective on the full range of achievements of the Scottish Enlightenment, addressing themes within theology, economics, anthropology, natural science, law and the arts
Explores the breadth of influence of the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including figures such as David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid and Adam Ferguson
Contains five new chapters and almost all of the others are significantly revised or updated from the first edition
Introduction Alexander Broadie
1. Several contexts of the Scottish Enlightenment Roger L. Emerson and Mark G. Spencer
2. Religion and rational theology M. A. Stewart
3. The human mind and its powers Jacqueline Taylor
4. Anthropology: the 'original' of human nature Aaron Garrett
5. Science in the Scottish Enlightenment Paul Wood
6. Scepticism and common sense Heiner F. Klemme
7. Moral sense theories and other sentimentalist accounts of the foundations of morals Christel Fricke
8. The political theory of the Scottish Enlightenment Fania Oz-Salzberger
9. Political economy Craig Smith
10. Natural jurisprudence and the theory of justice Knud Haakonssen
11. Legal theory John W. Cairns
12. Sociality and socialisation Christopher J. Berry
13. Historiography Murray G. H. Pittock
14. Art and aesthetic theory Catherine Labio
15. Literature and sentimentalism Deidre Dawson
16. The impact on America: Scottish philosophy and the American founding Samuel Fleischacker
17. The nineteenth-century aftermath Gordon Graham
Select bibliography, Index.
Alexander Broadie is Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. His books include The Circle of John Mair: Logic and Logicians in Pre-Reformation Scotland (1985), The Shadow of Scotus: Philosophy and Faith in Pre-Reformation Scotland (1995), A History of Scottish Philosophy (2008), The Scottish Enlightenment: The Historical Age of the Historical Nation (2001) and (as editor) Studies in Seventeenth-Century Scottish Philosophers and Their Philosophy (2017).
Craig Smith is the Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in the Scottish Enlightenment in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Adam Smith's Political Philosophy: The Invisible Hand and Spontaneous Order (2006) and Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society: Moral Science in the Scottish Enlightenment (2018), and he is a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith (2013).
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Yvette Nicole Brown Comments on Replacing Chris Hardwick at SDCC
by Sam Stone
– on Jul 05, 2018
Yvette Nicole Brown said while she will be filling in for Chris Hardwick as the moderator of The Walking Dead panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego, she does not intend on taking his job.
The actor and noted Walking Dead fan posted on Twitter clarifying her intentions after being named Hardwick's replacement for the panel earlier this week. The post also confirms Brown's involvement, as the switch has yet to be officially announced by AMC.
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In the wake of accusations by actor and cosplayer Chloe Dykstra that she endured years of emotional and sexual abuse while dating Hardwick, the former Talking Dead host was dropped from several panels at Comic-Con, including his usual role hosting The Walking Dead panel.
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Brown, a frequent guest on Talking Dead, is expected to host the Hall panel on Friday, July 20, from 11:15 a.m to 1:15 p.m.. While details for the event are yet to be announced, it is expected to feature the cast and crew of both The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead while providing a first look at the upcoming ninth season of the popular survival horror series, along with an official premiere date for Season 9.
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There is no word on whether Talking Dead, the after-show formerly hosted by Hardwick examining each episode of The Walking Dead, will continue when the series returns this fall.
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Olympics - Aug. 11
Japan's Kosuke Kitajima swims to the gold in the men's 100-meter breaststroke final during the swimming competition in the National Aquatics Center at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
Credit: AP Photo/David J. Phillip
A British track cyclist pedals during a training session at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
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Britain's Andrew Smith returns a shot against Germany's Marc Zwiebler during their men's badminton singles match at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
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Germany's 470 Women crew Vivien Kussatz and Stefanie Rothweiler, not seen in the picture, compete during race two of the 470 Women class sailing competition of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in Qingdao, about 450 miles southeast of Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
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China's Lin Yue, front, and Huo Liang in action winning the gold medal in the men's 10m synchronized diving final in the National Aquatics Center at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Bejing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
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Jeff Stevens of Berkeley Calif., delivers a pitch during an exhibition game against China at Wukesong baseball field at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
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Top seed Roger Federer of Switzerland returns to Dmitry Tursunov of Russia during first round tennis match at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
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Alaa Shili of Tunisia, right, fights Wilhelm Gratschow of Germany during a men's featherweight 57 kilogram preliminary boxing match at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
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Michael Phelps of the U.S. swims in a men's 200-meter butterfly heat during the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Center at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
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A member of the British track cycling men's team sports a lion patterned shirt, during a training session, at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
Silver medalist Zuzana Stefeckova of Slovakia shoots during the women's trap shooting event at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
Austria's Mirna Jukic starts a women's 100-meter breaststroke semifinal during the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Center at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008
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Okka Rau of Germany returns a shot against USA in women's beach volleyball game at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008. USA won 2-0.
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Laser dinghies practice for sailing competition of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in Qingdao, about 450 miles southeast of Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
Katie Hoff, left, of the U.S. and Italy's Federica Pellegrini swim in a women's 200-meter freestyle heat during the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Center at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
Russia's Marina Shainova reacts as she fails to make a lift in the womens 58 kg division of the weightlifting competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China Monday, Aug. 11, 2008. Shainova won the silver medal.
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Gao Ao (8) of China shoots and scores as Brittany Hayes (3) tries to defend against her during a preliminary round women's water polo match at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008. The USA won 12-11.
Italy's Federica Pellegrini celebrates after setting a world record to win a heat of the women's 200-meter freestyle during the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Center at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008. At left is second place finisher Katie Hoff of the United States.
Venus Williams of the U.S. serves the ball to Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland during their women's singles tennis first round match at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
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Cuban divers Jose Antonio Guerra Olivia and Erick Fornaris compete in the mens synchronized 10m platform diving competition at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008.
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Please review the use of physical restraints in Japanese psychiatric treatment
Alliance against physical restraint in psychiatric care （精神科医療の身体拘束を考える会） started this petition to 内閣総理大臣 内閣総理大臣 安倍晋三 and
In May 2017, my son Kelly Savage, who worked as an English teacher in Japan, died after being found in cardiopulmonary arrest while he was tied to his bed with physical restraints in a psychiatric hospital in Kanagawa prefecture.
The cardiopulmonary arrest was completely unexpected, and occurred after he had been tied to his bed on the psychiatric ward for 10 days.
We asked the psychiatric hospital to investigate the cause of his death and to review their policy on the use of physical restraints, but they refused to do so.
From the first time that a Japanese high school student came to our house on an exchange programme, Kelly loved Japan. He loved watching Japanese movies such as Totoro and became fascinated by Japanese culture. He studied Japanese through high school and university and qualified to be an English teacher in Japan. He taught English to Japanese children in elementary and junior high schools in Kagoshima for about two years. The students and other teachers loved his fun-loving, friendly personality.
Unfortunately, he became depressed and entered a Japanese hospital in April. But less than two weeks later, he was discovered in cardiopulmonary arrest. It seems that he was tied to his bed with leg, waist and wrist restraints almost the entire time he was in the hospital.
Compared to other countries, Japanese psychiatric hospitals keep patients in restraints for a much longer time. According to a survey conducted on 689 patients in 11 psychiatric hospitals, the average time spent in physical restraint is 96 days[1]. Meanwhile, the average time in foreign countries is at most several hours to tens of hours.
Although it is thought that there are not many people in Japanese psychiatric hospitals, in fact, the number of people who are physically restrained in Japanese psychiatric hospitals continues to increase. In 2014 more than 10,000 people were restrained-the highest ever recorded, and more than double the number a decade earlier [2].
It is well known that long-term restraints can cause grave physical, as well as psychological, harm to patients. It may cause deep vein thrombosis, also known as economy-class syndrome, which can be fatal[3,4]. In order to give proper treatment for hospitalized patients, the use of physical restraints in psychiatric medical treatment must be reduced.
Together with Toshio Hasegawa, Professor of Health Faculty at Kyorin University, we have set up a group to try to appeal to the country to reduce the use of physical restraints in psychiatric treatment[5].
According to Professor Hasegawa, experiences similar to Kelly’s occur to many Japanese people as well [1].
At the very least, we hope that Kelly’s experience will not be repeated. Kelly, who was fascinated by Japan and loved Japanese culture, would want Japanese psychiatry to improve. We hope that this incident will lead to improved psychiatric care in Japan.
We appreciate your continued support so that this request can be delivered to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Martha Savage
[Our request]
To prohibit the use of body restraints for a long period of time (24 hours or longer) in psychiatric hospitals.
To quickly investigate whether there are human rights violations caused by physical restraint in psychiatric hospitals.
In order to prevent human rights violations and deaths from occurring in psychiatric medical care, require a visual record, such as a video recording, whenever physical restraints are used. Allow access to those recordings for patients or next of kin within 14 days to determine the actual conditions employed.
The government should demonstrate leadership by setting targets with specified dates by which both the number of people in physical restraints and the time period of restraints are reduced.
To provide medical information to patients and bereaved families, require hospitals to disclose information based on "guidelines for providing medical information" by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
We ask for your continued support so that people receiving psychiatric treatment in Japan will receive proper medical care, will not be restrained more than necessary and will not lose their lives.
[1]長谷川利夫. (2016). 精神科医療における隔離・ 身体拘束実態調査 ～その急増の背景要因を探り縮減への道筋を考える～. 病院・地域精神医学, 59(1), 18–21.
[2] https://yomidr.yomiuri.co.jp/article/20170201-OYTET50013/
[3] Dickson BC, Pollanen MS: Fatal thromboembolic disease: A risk in physically restrained psychiatric patients. J Forensic Leg Med 2009; 16:284–286.
[4] https://www.e-rapport.jp/team/action/sample/sample07/01.html
[5] 【ホームページ 精神科医療の身体拘束を考える会】 https://www.norestraint.org
日本語版ページはこちら：https://goo.gl/CVtrTF
Our homepage: https://www.norestraint.org
English newspaper article: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/18/national/family-blames-prolonged-use-restraints-kanagawa-hospital-english-teachers-death/#.W9OrpWgzZPY
Please share my name and email address with Alliance against physical restraint in psychiatric care （精神科医療の身体拘束を考える会）, so that I can receive updates on this campaign and others.
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Cutting edge chemistry in 2016
We take a look back at some highlights from last year’s chemical science research
It’s fair to say 2016 was an exciting year for chemistry. We had barely packed away last year’s Christmas decorations when Iupac rocked the world by confirming the discovery of four new chemical elements, completing the seventh row of the periodic table. Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 have been named nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts) and oganesson (Og) respectively, in recognition of the institutes and teams in Japan, the US and Russia who discovered them.
You can read more about how they were discovered, and what Yuri Oganessian had to say about the future of the periodic table in our in-depth feature.
Molecular machines
Another exciting moment for chemists was the announcement of this year’s Nobel prize, which went to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Ben Feringa for their work on molecular machines. By building the first mechanically interlocking molecules into moving components like motors and switches, the trio laid the foundations for what is now a burgeoning field. Researchers today continue to build on their work, and last year saw some exciting developments.
David Leigh’s group at the University of Manchester in the UK developed a ‘robot’ molecule that can pick up molecular cargo, then move it to a new location before releasing it1. The robot is made up of a platform attached to a rotating arm, which has a thiol group at the gripping end. The arm can be made to bond to the 3-mercaptopropanehydrazide cargo and swing it from one end of the platform to the other by changing the pH conditions. This precise kind of action is unprecedented on such a miniscule scale and the team are hopeful that it will lead to further advances in molecular robotics.
Leigh’s group also created a molecular system of interlinked chains that mimics the way the chemical fuel adenosine triphosphate (ATP) powers motor proteins within living cells. The arrangement consists of a catenane where one small ring continuously rotates clockwise around a larger one by interacting with a chemical fuel, 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl chloride.2
Meanwhile, researchers have managed to recreate the action of another crucial component of living cells – the ribosome. Andrew Turberfield’s group at the University of Oxford, UK – together with Rachel O’Reilly’s group at the University of Warwick – made a system of hairpin-shaped DNA strands that could assemble chains of peptide building blocks by binding to them and self-assembling into a pre-programmed DNA sequence.3 They say systems like these could one day help to power and control molecular robots or factories.
The robot octopus
Who doesn’t love a soft robot? The tentacle-twitching 3D printed robot octopus made by researchers at Harvard University in the US caught our eye earlier this year. Although the ‘octobot’ has few practical uses so far, it is an important proof of concept, being the first self-powered, non-tethered robot to be made entirely out of soft components.21 The bot doesn’t need to be connected to an external power source, nor does it include any internal batteries. Instead, it runs entirely on hydrogen peroxide, which breaks down in the presence of a platinum catalyst to produce gases that power its movements.
Synthetic chemists
Others focused on an entirely different kind of machine, exploring how computers could shake up the way we do chemistry.
Last year we learned about new software developed by Bartosz Grzybowski from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, and the Polish Academy of Sciences, which could help researchers plan new syntheses in a fraction of the time it normally takes, without having to sift through piles of literature. Chematica maps out more than 10 million substances and the reactions between them. Users can enter a ‘destination’ molecule and the system will work out the best potential ‘pathways’, based on cost, substrate availability and number of steps, in a matter of seconds.4 Syntaurus, another piece of the group’s software, uses more than 20,000 chemical rules that have been manually encoded to come up with new syntheses. Its creators recently used it to map out a total synthesis for epicolactone, a complex natural product.5
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Chematica’s cost optimised route to the drug vardenafil identifies synthetic reactions that span half a century
Meanwhile, other groups are using machine learning to predict the optimum conditions for reactions. A team led by Nishanth Chemmangattuvalappil and colleagues from the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus developed a computational method that both designs carbon-capturing ionic liquids for carbon capture, and also predicts their prime operating temperature and pressure, the ease and cost of their synthesis, and their toxicity and corrosiveness.6
And Ichigaku Takigawa’s group at Hokkaido University in Japan has developed a method that reduces the time it takes to predict how well different metals will perform as catalysts.7
Stephen Buchwald and Klavs Jensen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, have gone further, combining machine learning approaches with practical chemistry to create a ‘robot chemist’: an automated flow reactor that can learn from its mistakes, optimising the conditions for catalytic reactions based on the results of previous experiments.8
The flat family
Graphene has some new friends in the land of 2D materials. In 2016 the first two-dimensional form of boron22 was synthesised. We also welcomed antimonene23 – a monolayer of antimony – that, unusually for a 2D material, was stable in water. Meanwhile, theoretical scientists predicted the existence of a new siligraphene24, SiC7, which the team believes could have solar cell applications if it can be made. On the flipside, the possibility that penta-graphene – a two-dimensional carbon allotrope made of pentagons – will ever be synthesised was ruled out using simulations by a group led by Christopher Ewels from the University of Nantes, France.25
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The monolayer’s polyhedra are held together by boron-boron ‘dumbbells’
A catalyst for change
Speaking of catalytic reactions, 2016 saw a number of advances in this arena.
George Olah and Surya Prakash’s team at the University of Southern California, US, developed a catalytic system that can make methanol straight from the tiny concentration of carbon dioxide found in Earth’s atmosphere – an important first step towards ‘air capture’ of atmospheric CO2. Their method involves bubbling air through a solution containing adsorbents that can capture CO2, and then bringing it together with a ruthenium catalyst and hydrogen, which results in the formation of methanol.9 The group hope that if the process can be scaled up, it could allow fuels or other useful products to be produced directly from air-captured carbon dioxide.
Another new catalyst is allowing drugs to be labelled with the radioactive hydrogen isotope tritium in a way that minimises radioactive waste. Unlike the iridium or rhodium catalysts that are often used for this purpose, the iron catalyst developed by Paul Chirik’s lab at Princeton University, US, and researchers at Merck, functions at low pressures of tritium. It also enables molecular sites that were previously inaccessible to be labelled, which could offer new ways to test the efficacy and safety of drugs.10
And when it comes to the search for new catalysts, there have been successes for low-tech approaches too. We reported a few months back that a team led by Remzi Becer at Queen Mary University of London, UK, had used a one-penny coin in place of copper wire to catalyse polymerisation. The coin was found to actually work faster than wire, and a far more cost-effective option with current copper prices. The penny can even be spent afterwards.11
Elsewhere, a group at the University of Kragujevac in Serbia showed that lemon juice can act as a cheap, green alternative to metal catalysts in the preparation of bioactive molecules. Nenad Janković and colleagues were able to make quinoxalines and benzoxazines from substituted ethyl 4-oxo-2-butenoates and ortho-phenylenediamine or ortho-aminophenol with excellent yields, with the citric acid in lemon juice acting as both a solvent and a biocatalyst.12
Flipping reaction
Images produced using atomic force microscopy (AFM) have dazzled us in recent years. In 2016, researchers continued to use the technique to probe chemical reactions in exquisite detail. Leo Gross and his co-workers at the IBM Research Centre in Switzerland were able to switch a single molecule reaction back and forth using voltage pulses applied to the needle tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope, inspecting their results using AFM.26 First, they used two pulses to break open a carbon–carbon bond in a molecule containing three aromatic rings, converting two of the rings into a larger one. With another pulse, they could ‘pinch’ the large ring back into two.
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The atomic force microscopy images (bottom row) show the products of the reversible reaction (middle right and far right) the team induced using a scanning tunnelling microscopes’ tip
Printing possibilities
Over the past few years 3D printing has begun to open up new possibilities to chemists working across a range of disciplines, from materials design to tissue engineering. The technology continued to move forward in 2016.
Anthony Atala’s group at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina, US, came closer than ever before to printing tissues and organs for medical transplants, by developing a 3D printing system that can build large areas of cells that stay nourished and maintain their structural integrity. Their device prints a soft, nutrient-rich hydrogel containing living cells alongside a biodegradable polymer ‘mould’ that holds the tissue together at first, but later disappears. The printer can also incorporate microchannels into the structures to provide space for oxygen and nutrients to be fed to the tissues, much like a system of blood vessels in actual organs. The team showed they could print three different tissue types – bone, muscle and a human-scale ear made of cartilage – that continue to survive and develop several weeks after being transplanted into rats or mice.13
Source: © 2015 HRL Laboratories/Dan Little Photography
Pyrolysis converts the 3D printed polymer into a ceramic
Another 3D printing first was achieved by Tobias Schaedler and colleagues at HRL laboratories in the US, who were able to print ceramic structures. Because they are so brittle, ceramic materials usually have to be made by sintering – fusing powder grains at very high temperatures. To get around this, Schaedler’s group printed microlattices out of pre-ceramic polymers that pyrolyse into ceramics when heated. As the polymers can be deposited as high-purity liquids, the lattices have fewer flaws than ceramics manufactured by conventional processes, making them much stronger. The potential applications range from micro-electromechanical systems to jet engines.14
Meanwhile, A group at the University of Miami, US, led by Adam Braunschweig have added a new dimension to the technique and developed a process they call 4D printing, which controls the chemical composition of printed polymer patterns as well as their three-dimensional position (CW June, p26).15 Their system can print patterns of different brush polymers close together on a glass surface, independently controlling their position at sub-micrometre resolution using arrays of printing tips attached to microfluidic cells. Different monomers can be introduced into the cells to alter the chemical composition of the polymers. The team says this approach is taking them closer to being able to replicate both the architectural and chemical complexity seen in biological materials.
Goodbye greys
As 2016 drew to a close, we were wowed by the first ever colour electron microscope images, made possible by work from Mark Ellisman’s and Roger Tsien’s groups at the University of California, San Diego in the US.27 The technique involves encoding photosensitive versions of the proteins into the DNA of the cells to be imaged, which are then bathed in diaminobenzidine (DAB) monomers that contain a rare earth element such as lanthanum. When the photosensitive proteins are exposed to a specific wavelength of light, they release reactive oxygen species, which hit any DAB monomer within 5nm and cause it to polymerise. The distribution of the rare earths bound to polymerised DAB can then be mapped using energy-loss spectra, which is distinctive for each element, and colour is applied to mark their location. The technique was used to track protein dynamics between interacting nerve cells.
Source: Cell Chemical Biology
The new technique allows specific cell proteins to be visualised at high resolution using an electron microscope
When the sun shines
The sun also shone on solar technology in 2016, with a number of new advances reported.
Perovskite solar cells are currently the hot ticket item. Midway through last year the Swiss team led by Michael Grätzel from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne smashed their own efficiency record for a 1cm2 perovskite solar cell, achieving a certified efficiency of 19.6% by making improvements to the manufacturing process.16
But perovskite technology is still plagued by stability issues – there are still very few verified measures of efficiency simply because many of the cells degrade too quickly on exposure to air or sunlight. And new work by Robert Palgrave and his team at University College London, UK, has cast doubt on the chance of finding new perovskites to build solar materials that avoid this problem. The group showed that some of the calculations used to make predictions about the stability of undiscovered perovskites are flawed, and may produce results that will only lead to disappointment when syntheses are attempted further down the line.17 Other groups remain undeterred, however, and the hunt for new solar materials goes on.
When it comes to other solar cell technologies, researchers have continued to work towards improvements. Qunwei Tang and his colleagues at the Ocean University of China developed ‘all weather’ solar cells that can generate electricity using both sunlight and rainfall – a particularly attractive prospect for rainy countries such as the UK. The dye sensitised solar cell (DSSC) exploits ionic charge in salty raindrops to generate current.18 The same group also made a cylindrical DSSC that generates stable electrical output regardless of the angle of the sun.19
Source: © Joel Jean and Anna Osherov
The lightest solar cell ever made can sit on the surface of a bubble
And Vladimir Bulovic, Annie Wang and Joel Jean from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled the lightest ever solar cell – so thin, it can sit on the surface of a soap bubble.20 The cell, which is 1.3µm thick and weigh sjust 3.6g/m2, was produced using vapour deposition to manufacture the supportive substrate, a protective overcoat and the organic light-absorbing components in a single process, rather than making each layer separately and then assembling them. The group thinks a similar approach could be used with other materials, perhaps even those tricky perovskites.
And on that sunny note we bring our round up of last year’s research news to a close. We can’t wait to see what 2017 brings.
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9 J Kothandaraman et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b12354
10 R Pony Yu et al, Nature, 2016, 529, 195 (DOI: 10.1038/nature16464)
11 R Aksakal, M Resmini and C R Becer, Polym. Chem., 2016, DOI: 10.1039/C6PY01295G
12 J Petronijević et al, Green Chem., 2016, DOI: 10.1039/c6gc02893d
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15 X Liu et al, Polym. Chem., 2016, DOI: 10.1039/c6py00283h
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Reactions and synthesis
Soft robotics
We take a look back at the year’s most interesting chemical science stories
We take a look back at the year's most interesting chemical science stories
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Tributes pour in as Unite’s Victor Ochello retires
Tributes have been paid to Unite the Union’s Victor Ochello who retired from his post as the regional officer today, after 13 years at the head of the union in Gibraltar.
Unite’s General Secretary, Len McCluskey, said: “Victor has made a massive contribution over many years, not just to Unite Gibraltar but to the wider labour movement.”
“I thank him for his hard work and dedication over his 13 years as an officer and his remarkable 48 years membership of our union, during which time he has made a difference to the lives of working people on the Rock.”
“I have no doubt that Victor’s dedication and commitment will continue to be felt through his continued trade union activism as a retired and Unite Community member.”
Christian Duo, Unite Gibraltar’s branch coordinating officer, said Mr Ochello has worked “tirelessly” in support of the trade union and the working people in Gibraltar.
“He has always tackled unfairness and inequality in the workplace and beyond,” Mr Duo added.
“I am delighted that he will continue his work with us following his retirement and that his passion for helping working people will not be lost completely.”
Mr Ochello said it was the right time to go into retirement after giving 48 years of his life to the trade union movement in Gibraltar and the past 13 years in office.
“It has been an absolute pleasure for me, first representing the T&GWU and now Unite the Union,” he said.
“I will always treasure having made so many friends throughout my career and am thankful to all officials, committee members, convenors, shop stewards and members who have worked alongside and supported me all along.”
“I now look forward to a well-deserved retirement and to spending some much-needed time with my family.”
“However, I will always be there for Unite and for workers in general.”
“I do intend to carry on supporting the union and its members as a retired member wherever possible.”
“Hasta la Victoria. Siempre.”
The Chief Minister Fabian Picardo also paid tribute to Mr Ochello for the work he has done over the years.
Mr Picardo said: “He and I have worked together for many years.”
“I represented Victor and many of his members as a lawyer before I was in Government and I have negotiated with him since I became Chief Minister.”
“In all that time, we have agreed and disagreed as we have had to in exercise of our respective responsibilities, but we have never fallen out.”
“In the best moments as in the worst moments, Victor and Fabian have always remained friends, colleagues and comrades.”
“We have always, therefore, found a way to row back from confrontation to achieve more for those we represent from a consensual approach - something that some seem not to have understood.”
Mr Picardo said there are many way he learnt from Mr Ochello, adding: “Although we may defend our positions passionately, we also help each other and work together and in a collegiate fashion whether or not the cameras are rolling and the microphone eavesdropping.”
“A fraternal farewell to Victor from me, in solidarity, and a big thanks for his grain of sand for the improvement of the lot of working people.”
“I wish Victor a long and fruitful retirement in which I am sure he and I will be able to continue to work together to continue to improve the lives of working people in Gibraltar.”
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Saturday, Nov. 10 at 12:30pm
Based on Laura Moriarty’s best-selling novel, “The Chaperone” reunites the writer (Julian Fellowes), director (Michael Engler), and star of “Downton Abbey.” Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous early 1920s, “The Chaperone” — the first feature film from PBS’s beloved “Masterpiece” anthology series — is a period drama that is at once a coming-of-age tale and classic mystery. A Kansas woman (Elizabeth McGovern, “Downton Abbey,” “Ragtime”) is forever changed when she chaperones a beautiful and talented 15-year-old dancer named Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson, “Split”) — future star of the silent classics “Pandora’s Box” and “Diary of a Lost Girl” — to New York for the summer. One of them is eager to fulfill her destiny of dance and movie stardom; the other is on a mission to unearth the secrets of her past.
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John Francis Lane
A prolific actor, John Francis Lane made a name for himself in dramatic film. Lane started off his career in film with roles in the comedic drama "La Dolce Vita" (1961) with Marcello Mastroianni and the Franco Nero dramatic adaptation "A Quiet Place in the Country" (1970). He went on to act in the adaptation "I Racconti di Canterbury" (1972) with Hugh Griffith, "Moses -- the Lawgiver" (1974-75) and the period drama "Another Time, Another Place" (1983) with Phyllis Logan. Later in his career, Lane acted in the Vincent Spano drama "Good Morning Babylon" (1987).
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Home →IT Strategy →Big Data →Sutter Health's CTO Focuses Attention on Big Data
Sutter Health's CTO Focuses Attention on Big Data
By Peter High | Posted 04-14-2017 Print
Wes Wright, CTO of Sutter Health, a not-for-profit health system, is focused on deploying big data analytics, cloud, VDI and Hadoop, and strengthening security.
CIO Insight: Can you describe some of the innovative ways you are levering technology at Sutter?
Wright: As we're increasingly exploring different big data initiatives, we're actually moving much more heavily into the cloud. The cloud offers us a level of elasticity that we could never achieve in our own data centers, and that, in turn, gives us the freedom to do things like spin up and spin down Hadoop clusters as demand dictates.
Healthcare IT as an industry has historically been very reticent about cloud—and very slow to adopt it—because of the responsibility of protecting our patients' health information, but the upside is huge. Over the next two years, we're going to tackle major initiatives like interfacing genomic data with clinical records, and that is going to exponentially expand our need for compute and storage.
The cloud can offer that to us, and it can grow as we grow. By giving us the freedom to take on projects like that, we are helping to advance the state of the art of medicine by giving clinicians richer, more contextual data that can help them improve patient care and outcomes.
CIO Insight: What approach have you taken to ensure that your technology and data are secure?
Wright: There are really three key elements to ensure IT and data security: centralize, protect, monitor. The more places that data and IT resources reside, the harder it is to monitor and protect those locations and the data they contain. The VDI deployment is the first step, and that takes care of centralization.
From there, it's going to be a lot easier to protect data with tools like Lancope and some of Microsoft's security offerings to monitor user and device behavior patterns. With those technologies, we can actually see which devices are talking to each other and what they are communicating, as well as how users are communicating with each other and network-connected devices. That allows us to establish baselines and set up alerts on anomalies.
We also use solutions like FireEye and monitoring solutions like ExtraHop to spot anomalous behavior, investigate breaches and take a more proactive stance on security.
CIO Insight: As you look to the future, what technology trends particularly excite you?
Wright: This is really geeky, but the Intel 3D XPoint is going to be transformational. Being able to use all the dimensions on a chip is going to revolutionize the compute world. Things are going to be faster, cheaper, smarter. As much as anything, it's a game changer for the industry.
For healthcare, the cloud is really just starting to gain acceptance. But once the industry really figures out how to leverage the advantages it offers, there is major upside. It's going to allow healthcare IT to experiment with more innovative, cutting-edge projects like big data because scale in the cloud is so elastic.
OpenStack and open-source applications and operating systems are also going to become much more prevalent in healthcare over the next year as those offerings mature.
And perhaps most importantly, I'm excited to see what can be done in healthcare as these technologies gain a meaningful foothold. I feel like we're on the cusp of something great—of a Rosetta Stone, if you will—that is going to completely revolutionize healthcare for our patients.
It will be better, smarter, more proactive, more cost-effective. And lives will be saved. At the end of the day, that's what really matters.
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The Golden State Insiders’ Club
Cronyism is the governing principle of California’s political class.
Lloyd Billingsley
In the generation that passed between Jerry Brown’s two eight-year stints as governor, California became a high-tech powerhouse, with Apple, Google, and Silicon Valley serving as the flywheel of innovation for the United States and the world. Even so, before he left office last year, Brown noticed a problem: California was falling behind in online education, particularly for working adults looking to improve their skills and qualifications. Brown proposed a public online college that would operate through the state’s community college system. Lawmakers approved the plan, but after Brown left office, problems began to mount.
The online college, slated to open October 1, would offer programs in medical coding, cybersecurity, information technology, and other areas. “We want to move fast—but not break things,” said California Community Colleges Board of Governors president Tom Epstein. “We have the legislative mandate, and we’re doing our best to meet it.” But the project is imperiled by cronyism, the ineradicable California disease.
As Dan Morain of CALmatters reported, the director of the planned online college, Heather Hiles, “pushed to grant a no-bid contract of up to $500,000 to an executive recruiter who is a friend and long has been a part of San Francisco’s political scene.” Others sought to put this position out to bid, but Hiles lobbied for her friend, Carolyn Carpeneti.
Carpeneti and her firm, The Leadership Group, are tasked with recruiting top executives for marketing, finance, and administration, plus a “chief learning officer,” “chief of workforce programs,” “chief success officer,” and “chief people officer.” Taxpayers and students have a right to wonder what, exactly, such positions entail, and whether the new executives might have insider connections. Carpeneti certainly does. She previously worked as a political fundraiser for Willie Brown—the former San Francisco mayor, longtime State Assembly speaker, and perhaps most prominent shot-caller in California history. According to Morain, Carpeneti and Brown were also “romantically involved and had a daughter in 2001.” Nonprofits and committees controlled by Brown, he showed, “paid Carpeneti $2.3 million over a five-year period.” In the early 2000s, the multitasking Carpeneti performed consulting work for former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former governor Gray Davis, and former lieutenant governor Cruz Bustamante, among others.
Hiles claims that her only concern was to find the best-qualified candidate, but questions linger. Morain, formerly with the Los Angeles Times and Sacramento Bee, pointed out that Hiles also has connections to San Francisco politics, “having overseen communications for Governor Gavin Newsom while he was running to succeed Brown as mayor” in 2003. Hiles was subsequently appointed to the city’s Unified School District board. Even as California’s population approaches 40 million, the Golden State’s ruling class remains a small world, where the well-connected use supposedly innovative new projects as vehicles for expanding the bureaucracy and rewarding cronies.
For example, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), established in 2004, promised lifesaving cures and therapies for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other diseases, plus a steady stream of royalties for state coffers. After spending some $3 billion, CIRM has delivered none of the promised cures, but the state stem-cell agency did hire former state senator Art Torres as co-vice chairman. CIRM promptly tripled Torres’s salary, even though there was a better-qualified candidate, one with biotech experience, who was willing to serve for no pay.
Likewise, the state’s vaunted high-speed rail project brought on board Lynn Schenck, a former congresswoman and chief of staff to recalled-governor Gray Davis. The so-called “bullet train” initiative has three regional offices and a Sacramento headquarters, but has yet to carry a passenger.
The online-college project is worthwhile and overdue. Carpeneti believes that it can be “a beacon for the rest of the nation.” Yet, before serving a single student in California, the project has already loaded up on bureaucrats.
Carpeneti is hardly the only Willie Brown associate on the current scene. In 1994, Brown, then 60, met Kamala Harris, 30 years his junior. She became “the speaker’s new steady.” Brown appointed Harris to the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission—lucrative sinecures that gave her a platform for her run for district attorney of San Francisco, followed by her ascents to the state attorney general’s office and the U.S. Senate.
Now, Harris wants to be president. In California, a little cronyism goes a long way—unless you’re a taxpayer.
Lloyd Billingsley is the author of Bill of Writes: Dispatches from the Political Correctness Battlefield. His most recent crime books include Sexual Terrorist, about the Golden State Killer, and A Shut and Open Case: A Double Murderer Mounts a Comeback in Davis, California. He has written for the California Globe, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, and many other publications.
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Which UK stock market sectors have performed best over two decades?
Thursday 11 July 2019 12:36 am
Banks can cope with no-deal Brexit but risks remain, says BoE
Harry Robertson
Reporter covering economics and markets. You can send me stories or get in touch at harry.robertson@cityam.com
The UK financial system is strong enough to cope with a severe global slowdown and a “worst-case” disorderly Brexit simultaneously, the Bank of England has said.
Read more: No-deal Brexit fears have increased, Bank of England governor warns
Yet it warned that an increasingly likely no-deal scenario posed “material risks of economic disruption” and would likely cause volatility in asset prices and possibly disrupt cross-border banking.
The assessment of the UK’s banking sector came in Threadneedle Street’s final Financial Stability Report before Britain is due to exit the European Union on 31 October.
In recent months the chances of a no-deal Brexit have risen as Boris Johnson edges closer to Downing Street and the clock runs down. Johnson has pledged to leave at the end of October “come what may”.
The Bank’s governor Mark Carney said today that Britain’s “major financial institutions have done what’s necessary” to cope with such an outcome.
The report said banks were strong enough “continue to lend through the wide range of UK economic and financial shocks” caused by Brexit.
Yet it said that “a range of UK asset prices” such as sterling, shares, and corporate and government debt, “would be expected to adjust sharply, tightening financial conditions for UK households and businesses,” the FPC said.
Carney warned that share trading “would be one example where European actions have the potential to create some disruption that could have knock on effects”. UK and EU regulators have been locked in a battle over how exactly cross-border share trading will work after Brexit.
Trade risks
Globally, “rising trade tensions have resulted in declining business confidence and pose material downside risks to global output growth,” the FPC said.
A shock to the global system would be amplified by “underlying vulnerabilities” such as high debt levels in both the US and China. A global loss of confidence could damage their ability to pay down their debt piles.
The Bank of England said it was confident that “the core of the UK banking system remains resilient to these global risks”, however.
“The core UK banking system would be strong enough to absorb, rather than amplify, the resulting economic shocks” from a severe trade war and a no-deal Brexit, the Bank said.
Carney raised questions over whether the government had done enough work on trade infrastructure such as customs systems to be ready for no deal.
“There has been progress there [but] it is not yet all the way there,” he said. Carney added that UK companies that export only to the EU needed to be better prepared.
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“It’s a mixed picture” regarding firms’ knowledge about post-Brexit rules and regulations on trade, he said.
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Summary and Analysis The Eumenides: Second Episode (Lines 179-243)
Apollo enters again and orders the Furies to leave his temple at once lest he set loose the power of his sacred arrows against them. He warns that his temple is too holy a place for them to defile by their presence and says that their rightful place is wherever blood is being shed and people are suffering.
The chorus demand that Apollo acknowledge his own guilt in this crime, for it was he who ordered Orestes to commit matricide. Apollo defends himself by saying he ordered Orestes to avenge the murder of Agamemnon. In response, the Furies accuse Apollo of having given sanctuary to Orestes despite his bloodguilt, and of having abused them, the divinely ordained avengers of Clytaemestra, in the pursuit of their duty. Apollo points out that the Furies made no effort to punish Clytaemestra for killing Agamemnon. They reply that Agamemnon was not a blood relation of his wife and his murder did not come within their province. Apollo says that marriage is the most sacred of all bonds. If the Furies ignored the murder of a husband by a wife, they have no right to hound Orestes for bringing his father's murderer to justice. The Furies answer defiantly that they will pursue Orestes without mercy and will see him punished for his crime. Apollo says that he will continue to assist the fugitive. The chorus and Apollo exit.
The scene changes to Athens, outside the Temple of Athene on the Acropolis. A lapse of several years has taken place. Orestes enters and clings to the feet of Athene's statue as a suppliant. He tells the goddess that he has come in accordance with the advice of Apollo. Long wandering has purged him of his bloodguilt. Now he awaits his trial and her judgment.
This is one of the few Greek plays in which there is an exit and re-entrance of the chorus and a complete change of scene. There may also have been a short interval in the production here to allow for the removal and introduction of various pieces of scenery; for example, there is now a statue of Athene on stage that was not present during the first part of the drama.
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The Big Crunch
What could the Fed buy with its $4.5 trillion?
Nick Wells | Eric Chemi
Published 2:19 PM ET Tue, 15 Dec 2015 Updated 10:07 AM ET Wed, 16 Dec 2015 CNBC.com
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The Federal Reserve may be raising interest rates Wednesday, but that's only the first step in what's bound to be a long return to normalcy.
The central bank will also have to decide what to do with the massive assets it picked up during the recession. Specifically, $4.5 trillion, mostly in Treasury notes as well as mortgage-backed securities that were bought up in an attempt to absorb some of the toxic assets.
The unconventional monetary policy of adding trillions to the balance sheet will require some unconventional methods of spending down. We thought we'd help Janet Yellen out and find out what $4.5 trillion could buy you.
The Fed could outright buy most companies on the S&P 500 — a full 341 separate companies at once. That's most of the companies, but counting from the bottom of the list when ranked by market cap.
If they just wanted to stick to the priciest, they could buy the 14 biggest companies: everything from Apple to Pfizer. That includes a lot of the nation's biggest firms, including AT&T, Facebook and GE.
The Fed has always made clear that its inflated balance sheet was a temporary policy to help stabilize the economy and that it would return to normal as stability returns. But no one knows how to do that and what the consequences of spending down the mass of funds will be.
Of course, that $4 trillion figure is total and doesn't take into account the size of the U.S. economy.
The Fed's balance sheet is now about 27 percent of GDP, far above the historical rate of around 6 percent. But that's nothing compared to many industrialized nations. The Bank of England and the European Central Bank both have higher asset-to-GDP ratios that the U.S., and assets at the Bank of Japan reached over 60 percent of GDP last year.
At the end of 2014, Switzerland's central banks' assets totaled 561 billion CHF, or about 87 percent of GDP.
In terms of sales, the Fed's balance sheet is nine times the size of Wal-Mart's annual sales, which topped the S&P in 2014 net sales. It's also 19 times the size of Apple's annual sales and 81 times those of Caterpillar, the company ranked 50th on that list.
The sheet is worth the sales of the bottom 433 companies on the index in net sales, or the same as the top 30.
With its massive pile of assets, the Fed could even match the top 30 companies' sales, and still have a few billion left over.
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Monday is the worst day to schedule your meetings. Science says this is the best time (and way) to do it
Published Mon, Apr 1 2019 10:21 AM EDT Updated Tue, Apr 2 2019 9:14 AM EDT
Gary Burnison, Contributor@gary_burnison
Steve Carell as Michael Scott on 'The Office.'
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Let's be honest: Most people don't like meetings — they're too long, too boring, too frequent and too often don't accomplish much of anything. It's no wonder so many people check out by putting their conference calls on mute and then scroll through emails.
The real problem with meetings, researchers suggest, is that they're usually scheduled on the worst day and time: Monday mornings.
To be fair, it makes sense why so many of us do it anyway. It's the start of the week, so why not gather the team and make sure everyone's on the same page?
But Lynn Taylor, author of "Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job," argues that employees are the most productive on Monday mornings, so it's important not to disrupt their concentration by distracting them with meetings. "Because you've stepped away for a couple days, these back-to-work mornings are the most memorable for the rest of the week," she says.
On top of that, employees are also likely to be out of the office on Mondays, so any meeting scheduled that day will probably have a lot of no shows.
The most optimal time to book a meeting is on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., according to a study conducted by YouCanBookMe, a U.K.-based scheduling firm. It's not too early in the morning and too late in the week. The team analyzed data from more than two million responses to 530,000 meeting invitations.
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If you can't schedule meetings for Tuesdays at 2:30 p.m. on the dot, then mid-afternoon and mid-week meetings are the most ideal.
The 'what' is just as important as the 'when'
Time is the most precious commodity for all of us. That's why the most successful CEOs and business leaders always take the "B.L.U.F." (bottom line up-front) approach when it comes to meetings. B.L.U.F. essentially focuses on what needs to be done, who is going to do it and by when.
Here's how to effectively use this approach if you want to make the most out of your meetings:
1. Decide which category the meeting will fall under.
Informational: This is used to make an announcement or keep the team updated on a topic. The purpose is to ensure that everyone is on the same page. It can still be actionable in some way.
Decision-taking: This is more about figuring out what actions everyone needs to take. It is most effective when done in small groups (once you have more than three to five people, it's difficult to make decisions).
Discovery: This is the perfect meeting for discussing problems and potential solutions.
Brainstorming: This is all blue skies with no bad ideas. For these creative sessions, it's recommended to go offsite and out of people's comfort zones, routines and habits. Having more participants means more opportunity for people to feed ideas of each other, which is a good thing.
2. The 45-minute rule. A half hour is too short when you spend the first five to seven minutes with small talk. Meeting for an hour can drag things on (I subscribe to the theory that people will take all the time you give them). Forty-five minutes is usually the sweet spot. During that time, look for solutions that are 80 percent right and 100 percent executable versus the other way around.
3. Materials "in advance" means more than three minutes' notice: If you've got prep materials for the meeting, you have to give people a day or two to review. Flipping through presentation slides together as a group, and for the first time, is a waste of time.
4. Open with purpose, close with action. Just as you set expectations for what you want to accomplish at the open (the B.L.U.F. approach), bring the meeting to a close with an action plan. Before they walk out that door or disconnect from the conference call, everyone must know what's expected of them — and by when.
5. Is it even a meeting? If you simply need to get to the bottom of what's really going on, it's not necessary to call it a "meeting." For urgent matters, it's appropriate to stop by someone's office (or call them) unannounced. By catching people in the moment, you'll find that they're less guarded and more likely to tell you things unscripted and unrehearsed.
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Consultancy McIntosh Perry buys oil specialist Onstream Engineering
28 November 2018 Consulting.ca
Privately-held, national engineering consultancy McIntosh Perry has acquired oil & gas specialist Onstream Engineering. The acquired firm supports industry clients with project services related to facilities and pipelines, among other areas.
Founded in 1990, McIntosh Perry started out as a civil engineering firm servicing Ontario. Since then, the company has expanded through a series of mergers and acquisitions to expand its geographical footprint across Canada, while enlarging its service capabilities. In 2016, the firm merged with engineering firm CCI Group, and then with oil & gas focused engineering consultancy OEL Projects. Notable acquisitions over the years have included William Leung & Associates, Kleinfeldt Consulting Limited, and VVV Engineering.
Today, the company has over a dozen offices across Canada and over 600 engineers. The company provides a full suite of engineering consulting services, serving areas like public infrastructure, oil & gas, building and restoration services, and sustainable community development. McIntosh Perry has further expanded its oil & gas engineering capabilities in Western Canada with the addition of Calgary-based firm Onstream Engineering. The acquired firm provides an array of engineering services focused on project control – including facilities and pipelines, process engineering, design services, and regulatory approvals.
Recent projects completed by Onstream include small to mid-sized compression and pipeline projects; single well tie-ins; and facility projects like oil treatment, refrigeration, and water disposal.
"Onstream shares our strong focus on client satisfaction, technical expertise and providing high-quality services," commented Gus Sarrouh, CEO, McIntosh Perry. "We are well-positioned in the Oil & Gas market with OEL Projects Ltd., a McIntosh Perry Company, and the addition of Onstream furthers our goal to grow our Oil & Gas Division in Western Canada. We are excited to welcome the talented and experienced team at Onstream to the McIntosh Perry family."
Troubled times
The transaction arrives at a time when the Canadian oil & gas industry is currently in the throes of a crisis, as the country’s pipeline development has failed to keep pace with the industry. As such, Canadian crude is being sold at discount prices to the US (as low as $45 a barrel), due to a lack of infrastructure to send oil to the coast (and to oil-hungry Asia-Pacific countries where it can be sold at a higher price). The lack of pipeline capacity and market access is costing the Canadian economy an estimated $80 million a day, according to the Alberta government.
Over the years, a number of oil pipelines have been proposed. The Northern Gateway and Energy East projects have been scrapped, while Keystone XL and the Trans Mountain expansion remain on hold. The federal government bought the Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion earlier this year to make sure that its expansion and capacity doubling would occur. However, the project has been stalled since August, when a federal court ruled that regulators failed to adequately consult First Nations along the route, as well as account for the expanded pipeline’s impact on BC killer whales.
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Great Duck Island
Great Duck Island is a 220-acre island located roughly 90 minutes south of campus, by boat.
The College shares the island with the Nature Conservancy, the State of Maine, and a private summer resident. COA owns approximately 12 acres, consisting of the original light-station property, which includes the old Head Keeper’s House, two boathouses, and the actual lighthouse, which was constructed at the end of the 19th century.
Alice Eno Station
In the Summer of 2000 the station was renamed the Alice Eno Field Research Station in honor of a longstanding trustee, who dedicated enormous amounts of her time facilitating research on Maine’s coast. Cooperative agreements with TNC and the State of Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife give COA students access to the bulk of Great Duck for sponsored research projects. Electricity at the station is generated by a solar array. Download a detailed synopsis of the Eno Station and student projects on Great Duck Island.
Waterbird activity
Great Duck supports some of the largest known breeding populations of Leach’s Storm Petrels and Black Guillemots in the Lower 48. These, along with resident Herring and Black-Backed Gulls, are subjects of on-going research by teams of students from the College’s Island Research Center under the supervision of faculty member John Anderson. A major concern is the island’s large population of Snowshoe Hare, a species that was introduced in the mid-20th century, and has had an enormous impact on the island’s flora.
Gulls flying along the south end of Great Duck Island
Click here for a more detailed history of Great Duck Island. More detailed information on the seabirds of Great Duck can be found by clicking here.
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B.C. Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson is seen in an undated handout photo. (William Huang/BC Supreme Court via The Canadian Press)
B.C. Supreme Court chief justice calls on feds to appoint more judges
Christopher Hinkson points to 10 vacancies in the court, while Ottawa puts figure at nine
Feb. 8, 2018 4:00 p.m.
The chief justice of the B.C. Supreme Court says he is frustrated by the federal government’s “failure” to appoint judges, and is calling on Ottawa to urgently fill at least nine vacancies.
Christopher Hinkson said he is speaking out after exhausting all other options to persuade Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould.
“I don’t like rushing off to the press and trying to confront the minister in that fashion,” he said Thursday. “But I’ve given up the softer approaches because they simply haven’t worked.
“We still remain with an insufficient number of judges to serve the needs of the public in British Columbia and to provide what has been promised to them, and that is access to justice.”
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Hinkson said there are 10 vacancies in the court, while the federal government puts the figure at nine. He also wants Ottawa to establish five new judicial positions in B.C.
Most Monday mornings, he said he meets with as many as 10 litigants whose cases have to be delayed — some for a year — because judges are not available.
“I have explained to them that, in my view, they should have had a judge, and if we had a full complement they would have had a judge,” he said. “They doubtless will have had to pay their lawyers to prepare for the case and they will get to do that again.”
The vacancies account for 10 per cent of the B.C. Supreme Court’s judiciary. Judges are overworked, burdened by more complex cases and appear to be retiring earlier, Hinkson said.
Wilson-Raybould’s office overhauled the appointment process in 2016 to boost the numbers of non-white and women judges. It made changes to judicial advisory committees, which review candidates and make recommendations, including requiring members to receive diversity training.
The committee in B.C. has recommended more than nine candidates, said Hinkson, but the minister has rejected them because they were not “suitable,” though he doesn’t know what criteria she is using.
He said while he supports increasing diversity, if people from diverse backgrounds are not applying or do not meet the requirements to be a judge, the positions shouldn’t be left vacant.
“It’s taken a while to have sufficient numbers of women to suggest that they could form an equal part of the court. … It’s the same with other areas that aren’t proportionally represented,” he said. “There aren’t sufficient people in those groups yet to populate the court.
“The minister has said that she wants merit-based appointments. Sometimes, merit is going to dictate that a certain demographic is over-represented on the court because those are where the meritorious people exist.”
Wilson-Raybould said she expects to announce new appointments shortly. Last year she appointed 100 judges, the most by a justice minister in over two decades, and she has made 151 appointments since she became minister in 2015, she said.
“I am deeply proud of the all of the appointments I have made since becoming minister,” she said in a statement. “We are beginning to demonstrate how it is possible to have a bench that truly reflects the country we live in.”
Candidates are assessed on merit and the needs of the court, Wilson-Raybould said.
To create new judicial positions, Wilson-Raybould said the chief justice and the province must provide a business case for an increase, and B.C. has not made a request while she has been minister.
On Wednesday, Wilson-Raybould appointed one new justice to the B.C. Supreme Court and moved a judge to the Appeal Court.
Hinkson said he decided to speak to a small group of journalists on Thursday partly because the former chief justice of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench was vocal and appeared to get Ottawa’s attention. Alberta has more vacancies than B.C., but it received nine new judicial positions this year, he said.
The previous Conservative government left the B.C. court with six vacancies, which climbed to as many as 14 under the Liberals, he said.
“It’s gone on too long.”
Laura Kane, The Canadian Press
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Photographs of Films: Jason Shulman
May 12 - June 4, 2016 Gallery Exhibitions
Jason Shulman, Wizard of Oz (1939), 2017
Photographs of Films is a series of photographs which capture the entire duration of a movie in a single exposure.
The films range from cinema classics such as Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz, Deep Throat and 2001: A Space Odyssey to more niche movies such as Digby, The Biggest Dog in the World and the most viewed film of all time, The Irony of Fate, a Soviet production which used to be broadcast on Russian television every Christmas.
The photographs capture something the human eye can’t ordinarily see. They collapse the totality of a movie into a single moment, a single frame. The results vary from luminous colour field abstractions to visual précis that are both a blur and a reveal. The photographs of Hitchcock films show ghostly figures emerging from an abstract background. ‘With Rear Window you can see Jimmy Stewart in his wheelchair against the fragmented lines of window frames. It could work as a poster for the film. ‘The Kubricks, on the other hand, do not show human figures. They stand out for their formal composition, almost dividing the image into a triptych.’
‘There are roughly 130,000 frames in a 90 minute film and every frame of each film is recorded in these photographs. You could take all these frames and shuffle them like a deck of cards, and no matter the shuffle, you would end up with the same image I have arrived at. ’
Jason Shulman is a sculptor who lives and works in London.
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Home Entertainment Movies Box Office Preview – Buddy comedy STUBER and horror flick CRAWL won’t...
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Box Office Preview – Buddy comedy STUBER and horror flick CRAWL won’t cause much concern for SPIDER-MAN
It's another slower weekend before the next big Disney summer blockbuster
Edward Douglas
Welcome back to the Beat’s weekly Box Office Preview!
After a decent 4thof July weekend, we get another slower weekend with two movies that might struggle to have much impact against the stronger releases, Spider-Man: Far from Home and Toy Story 4in their second and third weekends respectively.
STUBER (20thCentury Fox)
Cast: Dave Bautista, Kumail Nanjiani, Betty Gilpin, Natalie Morales, Iko Uwais, Mira Sorvino
Directed By: Michael Dowse (Goon, What If, It’s All Gone Pete Tong)
Although there aren’t any big releases this weekend, the one with the best chance at bringing in business is this high-concept action comedy pairing Guardians of the Galaxy’s and former WWE superstar Dave Bautista with Pakistani comic Kumail Nanjiani from HBO’s Silicon Valley and the indie hit The Big Sick.
The general premise of Stuber has Bautista playing an L.A.P.D. on the case of avenging his murdered partner who gets a lead on the same day that he has to get eye surgery. Unable to drive, he calls upon the Uber app to get him somewhere and Nanjiani’s “Stu” is the unfortunate driver who ends up caught in the case.
Other than his Marvel movies playing Drax from the Guardians of the Galaxy, Bautista’s movie output has been fairly erratic, from a villainous role in 2015’s James Bond movie Spectre to smaller movies like last year’s crime-thriller Hotel Artemis. Bautista’s most recent role in the Chinese martial arts film Master Z: Ip Man Legacy is likely to have only been seen by a small niche group of martial arts fans, although Stuber also shows off Bautista’s fighting skills.
Stuber also stars Betty Gilpin from G.L.O.W., up and comer Natalie Morales and Indonesian martial artist Iko Uwais, best known for The Raid movies but whom also appeared in Mark Wahlberg’s Mile 22 from last summer
The action buddy comedy i.e pairing two incompatible character for comedy purposes is a fairly reliable movie genre that’s led to a number of blockbuster hits, especially if you consider the likes of the Will Smith Men in Black movies in that category. More recently, Kevin Hart has starred in a number of successful ones like Central Intelligence (with Dwayne Johnson), two Ride Alongs(with Ice Cube), The Wedding Ringer with Josh Gad and Get Hard with Will Ferrell. Oh, yeah, and Night School with Tiffany Haddish. Hart is basically the buddy comedy king. Unfortunately, he’s not in this movie…
Granted, neither Bautista nor Nanjiani are quite as tried and true as box office stars as most of the people mentioned above, so Stuber is a bit of a risky experiment by Fox (and Disney) who believe that the right concept, an original one no less, and right marketing can convince audiences to go see a movie with a relatively silly title and cast. What should help the movie greatly is that Bautista and Nanjiani have been hot on the talk show trail together in the past week, pushing the chemistry that’s the main driving force (sorry for that bad pun) of the movie.
Reviews so far have generally been dismal even though Fox was confident enough to give the movie early previews a few weeks back and has been holding lots of preview and promo screenings hoping to get the high school and college-age kids talking about it.
A high concept action-comedy like this can do well in the summer where there’s very little to do for those on break from school, and an R-Rated comedy geared towards young men should be able to bring in $13 to 16 million with relative ease, especially with the only new competition being a questionable horror movie (see below).
CRAWL (Paramount)
Cast: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson, Anson Boon, George Boon,
Directed By: Alexandre Aja (Haute Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D,Mirrors, Horns)
Another one of the summer’s odder releases, but also, like Stuber, one of the few original movies not a sequel, remake or based on preexisting material is another horror film, this one pairing legendary horror icon Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) with a newer horror filmmaker, French master Alexandre Aja, who has directed an interesting array of remakes and original horror ideas.
Crawl is the latter… but only if you haven’t seen any of the Lake Placid movies or the 1980 movie Alligator or have never watched any of the many cheesy movies produced by Syfy. It involves a Category 5 hurricane that leaves a young woman (Kaya Scodelario) trapped in a flooded house with alligators on the prowl inside it.
Crawl is Aja’s most high-profile horror movie in quite some time, probably going back to 2010’s Piranha 3D, another cheesy horror movie that opened with a measly $10 million in late summer 2010 and grossed $25 million total. His previous horror movie Mirrorsdid slightly better, but he’s probably still best known for his previous remake of The Hills Have Eyes that teamed him with the late Wes Craven in 2006, and that grossed $41.8 million after an opening of $15 million. Aja clearly has a fanbase in the horror genre but maybe not so much outside of it, and he certainly hasn’t capitalized on the horror boom over the past six or seven years. The idea of teaming him with Raimi, whose most recent horror movie Drag Me to Hell ended up in the same $42 million range doesn’t bode that well.
British actor Scodelario is probably best known from the Maze Runnerfilms and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, but honestly, I probably couldn’t pick her out of a police line-up. She’s joined by veteran character actor Barry Pepper, who oddly, ALSO appeared in the Maze Runner movies. Although Pepper has appeared in the movies of many Oscar-nominated filmmakers like Clint Eastwood and the Coen Brothers and Spike Lee, I’m not sure how many regularly moviegoers even know who he is. With that in mind, Crawlis much like so many other horror movies where it’s more about the premise i.e. killer crocodiles than the cast.
Movies like Crawlhave potential to do well, going by the likes of 1997’s Anaconda, which opened with $16.6 million and made $66 million total. The sequel seven years later ended up with half that amount. Of course, there’s also those shark movies with last year’s The Megbeing a huge hit with $145 million, although Crawl is probably closer to 47 Meters Down, which ended up with $44.3 million after an $11 million summer opening.
Maybe it shouldn’t be too surprising that Paramount has decided not to screen Crawl in advance for film critics. Maybe they remember how much having all those great reviews helped last year’s WWII horror film Overload i.e. not at all.
This seems like the kind of movie that can appeal to younger moviegoers looking for a reason to get out of the summer heat, but they could just as likely go see the action-comedy Stuber, which has generally had a stronger marketing campaign. I can see Crawl bringing in $10 to 12 million this weekend but not much more, especially without a name star to sell it.
Spider-Man: Far from Home shouldn’t have much difficulty remaining #1 for a second weekend in a row, and we’ll just have to see if either of those new movies breakout and do bigger business than expected.
This Week’s Box Office Predictions:
Spider-Man: Far from Home (Sony) – $43.5 million -53%
Toy Story 4 (Disney/Pixar) – $19.3 million -43%
Stuber (20thCentury Fox) – $15.6 million N/A
Crawl (Paramount) – $11.4 million N/A
Yesterday (Universal) – $6.2 million -38%
Aladdin (Walt Disney Pictures) – $5 million -34%
Annabelle Comes Home (New Line/WB) – $4.7 million -53%
Midsommar (A24) – $3 million -57%
The Secret Life of Pets 2 (Universal) – $2.8 million -40%
10. Men in Black International (Sony) – $1.9 million -48%
At least this is a good weekend for new limited release in select cities including Lulu Wang’s The Farewell, starring Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians), and Lynn Shelton’s Sword of Trust, starring Marc Maron and Jillian Bell. Both films are excellent, the former mostly being a drama while the latter is a comedy with dramatic moments. Also, Jesse Eisenberg stars in The Art of Self Defense (Bleecker Street), a movie that also combines genres, as sort of a dark comedic thriller. It’s in limited release this weekend but should expand fairly wide next week. If you’re into nature and saving the planet, you’ll want to check out Richard Ladkani‘s Sea of Shadows, released by National Geographic in select cities this weekend. It’s an amazing look at the fight to save an endangered species of whale in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez.
Next week: Disney’s The Lion King. To quote Metallica: “Nothing else matters.”
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Lawmaker challenges broadband providers on net neutrality
After court ruling, what happens to net neutrality?
Net neutrality wars could entangle free speech
FCC may need to regulate broadband, say lawmakers
Bill would require FCC report before reclassifying broadband
A Florida congressman has introduced legislation to require the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to deliver a detailed cost-benefit analysis to Congress before moving forward with a plan to reclassify broadband as a regulated common-carrier service.
The bill, authored by U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), would also require the FCC to conduct a market study to show "market failure" in the broadband industry before moving forward with the plan to reclassify broadband.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's plan to reclassify broadband as a regulated service is a mistake, Stearns said at a press conference Tuesday organized by Americans for Prosperity, an antiregulation advocacy group. The effort will hurt the FCC's goal of making broadband available to all U.S. residents, he said.
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"I think this is a partisan move by him to regulate the Internet," Stearns said. "This curious step by Chairman Genachowski would reverse course and ... do an end run around Congress, where this issue should and must be debated first."
Genachowski, a Democrat, announced last week that he would launch a proceeding to reclassify broadband from a largely unregulated information service to a regulated common-carrier service in response to an appeals court ruling last month saying that the agency did not have the authority to enforce informal network neutrality rules. Comcast, which had slowed some peer-to-peer traffic in the name of network management, challenged the FCC's authority to enforce the informal rules in place since 2005.
The reclassification of broadband is needed for the FCC to pass formal net neutrality rules and to implement parts of its national broadband plan, released in March, Genachowski said.
At the same time that the FCC reclassifies broadband as a regulated service, the FCC would move to exempt broadband from most traditional telecom regulations under Genachowski's plan.
Stearns, the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee, said that the Internet Investment, Innovation and Competition Preservation Act would require the FCC to "prove" there is market failure in the broadband industry before reclassifying broadband, then go to Congress for approval.
The 11-page bill would require the FCC to provide to Congress "substantial evidence that the market failure is causing specific, identified harm to consumers by preventing a substantial number of consumers nationwide from accessing a substantial amount of lawful Internet content, applications, and services of their choice."
Under the bill, the FCC would also have to consider the costs of enforcement and the impact on innovation and broadband investment before reclassifying broadband. The bill would also require the FCC to revisit its reclassification decision and look for market failures every two years.
The Stearns bill would also require the FCC, if it passes net neutrality rules, to enforce them on application providers and Web content providers as well as broadband providers.
In October, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), introduced bills to prohibit the FCC from creating formal net neutrality rules, after the agency launched a rulemaking process to do so. Both bills have gone nowhere.
During the press conference with Stearns, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) announced it will launch a $1.4 million advertising campaign to warn residents of the FCC's broadband regulation plans. The TV spot will run in Pennsylvania, Hawaii, Washington and on national cable, the group said.
"The wave of new regulations proposed by the FCC amounts to nothing less than a Washington takeover of the Internet," said Phil Kerpen, vice president for policy at AFP. "The FCC wants to reduce the Internet to an old-fashioned, government-regulated utility."
A few blocks away from the press conference, net neutrality supporter Free Press was hosting a daylong forum on media reform Tuesday, and FCC member Mignon Clyburn, a Democrat, ripped into net neutrality and reclassification opponents, saying they were spreading "misinformation" about the FCC's efforts.
"An unfortunate reality is that having an open forum with reasonable and honest debate in this sphere appears unlikely," she said. "Instead, the lobbying machine for some extremely powerful interests has already been churning out quote-worthy lines at a rapid rate."
Clyburn disputed assertions that the FCC was trying to take over the Internet. The FCC would only give itself regulatory authority over broadband in a few areas, including net neutrality, privacy and broadband subsidies, she said. The commission will avoid imposing regulations that it used when "Ma Bell" was a telecom monopoly in the U.S., like some critics have suggested, she said.
"Nothing could be further from the truth," she added. "We are merely looking to preserve the authority that almost everyone assumed we had ... prior to the court's decision."
Grant Gross can be reached at grant_gross@idg.com.
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Webinar: The Role Of Data In Developing Lead Nurturing Content
Written by Brian Anderson, Associate Editor
Published in Content Strategies
B2B marketers need to deliver content that resonates with prospects at every stage of the buying cycle, but it is particularly important during the nurturing process.
In a recent webinar, titled Have Enough of the Right Content to Optimize Lead Nurturing Results, representatives from Avitage and Televerde outlined the types of content that work best for lead nurturing campaigns. They also discussed ways to use customer data to tailor lead nurturing content to improve its effectiveness.
“One of the critical features about lead nurturing is that it is a non-linear process,” said April Brown, VP of Demand Generation Services at Televerde. “Even though you may see workflows that look very linear, it does not reflect the reality or the complexity of the content consumption process that your prospects actually go through. The only way to see that is through a data-driven approach.”
In a poll conducted during the event, 75% of the audience stated that their company creates most of its content. Also, close to 60% of the audience create between two and three versions of their content based on target audience, while 43% have three different versions of their content to match the various stages of the lead nurturing cycle.
“With data analytics, you can start to analyze the data on your buyers and customers in order to start getting better visibility into why they act the way did,” said Jim Burns, CEO of Avitage. “That helps decide the campaigns you want to run, the content you want to create and the messages you want to put out there.”
Other poll results showed that one-third (33.3%) of the audience stated they perform between one and three tracks during their current nurture programs, while an equal number of the audience perform between four and 10 tracks. Close to 30% perform point campaigns for their nurture programs, and a little over 5% perform more than 10 tracks during a single nurture campaign.
To view an on-demand version of the webinar, click here.
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New Cider with Rosie nature trail
Country Life May 24, 2014
The glorious Slad Valley in Gloucestershire, brought to life in Laurie Lee’s seminal novel Cider with Rosie, is the site of a new nature trail designed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth on June 26. The six-mile circular route meanders through the picturesque countryside near Stroud, where Lee (1914-97) grew up, and is punctuated by larch posts featuring his verse.
It will be launched by musician and author Cerys Matthews, who wrote the foreword for the new edition of Cider with Rosie, and takes in four Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust nature reserves: Frith Wood, Snows Farm, Swift’s Hill and Laurie Lee Wood, which opened last year.
Unusually for a book written in 1959, much of the bucolic countryside that enriched Lee’s work remains intact, as does his childhood home, the church, school house and the Woolpack Inn in Slad. ‘Remarkably, the key elements of the landscape that inspired the book still survive and are as important as any characters,’ says the trust’s Roger Mortlock. The trust is also organising a centenary walk on June 8 (www.laurielee.org).
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FirstEnergy is new presenting sponsor of Akron Marathon
CRAIN'S AKRON BUSINESS
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The Akron Marathon kicks off bright and early Saturday, Sept. 26.
FirstEnergy Corp. is expanding its branding efforts by becoming the presenting sponsor of the marquee event of the Akron Children’s Hospital Akron Marathon Race Series.
Marathon and FirstEnergy officials made the announcement Tuesday, Oct. 27.
The Akron-based energy company has signed a three-year deal as the title sponsor of the series’ annual marathon, half marathon and team relay events that take place each September, according to Andrew Antonucci, marketing and communications manager for the Akron Marathon Charitable Corp., which runs the event.
“The Akron Marathon has always been about community, and we’re extremely happy one of the largest employers in Summit County has stepped up to become presenting sponsor,” said Steve Marks, Akron Marathon founder, in a prepared statement.
Time Warner is bowing out as the title sponsor, which it had been since the marathon’s inception in 2003. However, the New York-based company may be interested in staying involved with the marathon in some way, Antonucci said.
A Time Warner spokesman said the company is always evaluating ways to enhance the communities it serves and has not closed the door on involvement with the marathon series. However, the company at this time has decided to support other local endeavors, such as the recent Together We Can week of service.
Terms of the sponsorship deal with FirstEnergy were not disclosed. But this isn’t the company’s first involvement with the marathon; it has been a gold level sponsor for the main event since 2003.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Akron Children’s Hospital to increase our sponsorship of the Akron Marathon,” said Chuck Jones, president and CEO of FirstEnergy, in a prepared statement. “This race has become a nationally respected event, both because it’s so well-organized and because of the tremendous ways this community has embraced it. Many of our employees and customers run, volunteer and cheer for this event every year, making this a perfect fit for FirstEnergy.”
In 2013, FirstEnergy struck a deal for the naming rights to Cleveland Browns Stadium, giving it a prime branding spotlight. The 17-year deal costs FirstEnergy about $6 million annually.
In 2015, marathon organizers expanded the event to a three-race series called the Rubber City Race Series. In addition to the marathon were an 8K in June, and a 10K and half marathon in August. The idea behind the series is to offer runners training events for the marathon and to hopefully boost participation in the main event, according to a September Crain’s story. About 13,000 runners raced in the September marathon.
The same month, Akron Children’s Hospital came on board as the 2016 title sponsor of the series, giving it a new name, Akron Children’s Hospital Akron Marathon Race Series.
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Crayon gives gender equality a boost with the SHE Index
2019-03-06 20.01 In
OSLO, Norway – It’s a common refrain in business: What gets measured gets done.
When it comes to gender diversity, the SHE Index makes the goal of equality in the workplace a true possibility.
The index aims to measure, in unrivalled detail, how diverse a company is in terms of gender and it evaluates and ranks companies accordingly. Organizers aim for it to become the leading global index on gender equality and Crayon has been instrumental in this development.
“We are proud of the work that we’ve been able to do, along with EY and Microsoft, to help develop this index and create real, measurable change in businesses,” says Crayon CEO Rune Syversen. “It’s a change that is long overdue and companies must do better.”
Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft’s corporate vice president, spoke at Olso’s City Hall and at the SHE Conference about the index and its ability to change the face of the global workforce.
Launched in 2017, the index had a goal to measure the gender development in the Norwegian workplace. The first SHE Index contained details of 25 of the largest 50 Norwegian public companies.
“The original index was completed using Excel questionnaires, and it was data rich and very professional, however it took up a lot of time and resources,” says Syversen. “We are excited to be an integral part in taking the index to the next level.”
The use of Microsoft Azure and PowerBI, coupled with Crayon’s expertise in database setup, algorithm and app development, the SHE Index is a cutting-edge portal to further gender equality.
The new SHE Index will make it easier for companies to register, amend and update their data. It also allows businesses to seamlessly display the results for other participating companies and provide top-notch security and privacy guarantees.
“With the new set of tools that have been developed, the SHE Index will enable all companies to see their own results and those of others with ease,” says Syversen. “It will be a powerful tool in pushing for gender equality.”
Melanie Coffee
Melanie.coffee@crayon.com
http://www.crayon.com
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Culture, Language and Identity: English–Tamil In Colonial India, 1750 To 1900
C. T. Indra, R. Rajagopalan
Routledge India
ISBN 9780203702772 - CAT# YF26268
December 12, 2017 by Routledge India
Editor(s) Bio
This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism, mid-18th to late-19th century, the English-speaking missionaries and East India Company functionaries in South India were impelled to master Tamil, the local language, in order to transact their business. Tamil also comprised ancient classical literary works, especially ethical and moral literature, which were found especially suited to the preferences of Christian missionaries.
This interface between English and Tamil acted as a conduit for cultural transmission among different groups. The essays in this volume are on chosen areas of translation activities and explore cultural, religious, linguistic and literary transactions.
This volume and its companion (which looks at the period between 1900 CE to the present) cover the late colonial and postcolonial era and will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of translation studies, literature, linguistics, sociology and social anthropology, South Asian studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, literary and critical theory as well as culture studies.
Contributors. Foreword by Susan Bassnett. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction R. Rajagopalan 1. Semi-machi(a) Nations and Translation: India, 1500 to 1900 A. Noel Joseph Irudayaraj 2. The Metamorphosis of Tamil–English Lexicography: Dictionaries by Foreign Missionaries in the Period 1750–1900 P. R. Subramanian 3. The Politics, Problems and the Beauties of Translating ‘The Holy Bible’ V. Richard 4. On Translating Moral and Ethical Texts from Tamil to English R. Rajagopalan and C. T. Indra 5. Literary Daughters and their Lineage: A Study of the Novels Saguna and Kamala by Krupabai Satthianadhan in English and in Tamil Translation Padma Narayanan. Afterword by Rathi Jafer. Bibliography
C. T. Indra is former Professor of English and former Chair of the Department of English, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India where she taught for over three decades. She was member of the Curriculum Development Council of UGC for English. She was the recipient of the British Council Translation award (1988) and the Katha award (1994). She was Coordinator and one of the translators in the British Council-sponsored project Representations of the West in South Indian short stories, subsequently published as Routes (2000). Her translations from Tamil include Legend of Nandan (Indira Parthasarathy’s play, 2003), Cross Section (Sivakami’s novel, 2014, with Prema Jagannathan).
R. Rajagopalan is former Reader in English, Presidency College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and has served in state government educational institutions. He writes short stories and poetry in Tamil and translates as well. He has received the Tiruppur Tamil Chankam poetry award and Thisai Ettum translation award. He was associated with and contributed to leading little magazines in Tamil such as ‘Zha’, ‘Gavanam’, besides ‘Kachadathapara’. He has republished Krupabai Satthianadhan’s pioneering feminist novels Kamala and Saguna. He was part of the Tamil group and one of the translators for the British Council project published as Routes (2000). He has edited the works of modernist Tamil poets such as Gnanakoothan, Atmanam, Nakulan, Anand and Devathachan, and has authored a collection each of poetry, short stories and literary articles apart from children’s books.
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The Making of Stonehenge
ISBN 9780415085137 - CAT# RU10936
ISBN 9780203419465 - CAT# RU4976
November 1, 2002 by Routledge
Every generation has created its own interpretation of Stonehenge, but rarely do these relate to the physical realities of the monument. Rodney Castleden begins with those elements which made possible the building of this vast stone circle: the site, the materials and the society that undertook the enormous task of transporting and raising the great vertical stones, then capping them, all to a carefully contrived plan.
What emerges from this detailed examination is a much fuller sense of Stonehenge, both in relation to all the similar sites close by, and in terms of the uses to which it was put. Castleden suggests that there is no one 'meaning' or 'purpose' for Stonehenge, that from its very beginning it has filled a variety of needs. The Romans saw it as a centre of resistance; the antiquaries who 'rediscovered' it in the seventeenth century saw a long line of continuity leading back into the nation's past. The archaeologists see it as a subject for rational, scientific investigation; The National Trust and English Heritage view it as an unfailing magnet for visitors; UNESCO has declared it a World Heritage Site, the cultural property of the whole of humanity. Lost to view amid competing interests over the millenia are the uses it has served for those who live within its penumbra, for whom Stonehenge has never been 'lost' or 'rediscovered'. It exists in local myth and legend, stretching back beyond history.
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We Didn't Hit Level
Davis Disappointed By Prenton Performance
Steve Davis admits that it was hard to explain why Crewe produced a below par performance at Prenton Park at the weekend. The Alex never really hit the heights of recent performances, with the game decided by a first half corner.
Matthew Pennington headed home the only goal of the game and although the Alex dominated much of the possession in the second period, we couldn’t quite create real genuine chances to secure a point.
Davis was bitterly disappointed that he couldn’t take our recent good form into such an important clash at Tranmere.
Steve Davis told the club’s official web-site: “It was very disappointing because we didn’t get anywhere near the level we have been playing at, especially in the first half.
“I was disappointed because we had gone into the game in good form. We have been playing well and I have been relatively pleased but we didn’t perform in the first half. We had a go in the second half but didn’t build enough momentum to get something from it.
“We didn’t show that real quality and didn’t create enough chances. I just felt we lacked that energy and although I cannot fault their effort, we lacked a bit of quality. We just couldn’t break them down and I expected more from the players.”
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Government Benefits for Military Students
What Does It Mean for a School to Be Military-Friendly?
Home > Resources > Military-Friendly Colleges
According to the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), there are more than 2 million members of the armed forces in active duty or reserve forces in the U.S. There is also a veteran population of nearly 20 million. The federal government helps these military personnel and their families afford higher education, including online criminal justice degree programs, through financial aid programs like the Montgomery GI Bill® and the Post-9/11 GI Bill®.
There are more than 2 million members of the armed forces in active duty or reserve forces in the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs
The Montgomery GI Bill offers education benefits to nearly 1 million active duty military and veterans. The Post-9/11 GI Bill pays recipients' public school tuition in full and reducing private school tuition costs for those who served in active duty after Sept. 10, 2011. There is also the Service Members Opportunity Colleges (SOC) program, which facilitates credit transfers and eases residency requirements to help military personnel and their families complete their degrees. Aside from federally sponsored programs, many colleges and private foundations provide scholarships for veterans and their families. Military-friendly colleges usually offer other benefits as well, such as counseling programs and prior learning credits for military experience.
The Importance of Military Status
Military status can impact eligibility for GI Bill education benefits, other forms of federal aid, and privately funded grants. Certain student aid programs may be restricted to active-duty service members or reservists, while others cater to veterans and their families. Some programs only offer to dependents of veterans who became disabled or died in combat.
Military Status and Benefits
Active-duty Military
Active-duty service members work full-time in the military, sometimes live on a military base, and can be deployed overseas at any time. The Armed Forces Tuition Assistance (TA) program, the Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB-AD) and the SOC program are all specifically designed for active-duty personnel.
Inactive-duty Military
Inactive duty generally applies to those on the inactive status list of the Reserve Component of the Armed Forces, or those assigned to the Inactive National Guard. Reservists may be eligible for VA benefits, depending on how long they have served and how long they held active duty status. Educational benefits for reservists include the Montgomery Bill (MGIB-SR) and the Reserve Educational Assistance Program (REAP).
Discharged (Multiple Types)
Military discharge releases service members from the obligation to continue serving in the armed forces, and a discharge can be either voluntary or involuntary. Those who have been honorably discharged from active service may be eligible for VA benefits, including the Post-9/11 GI Bill.
Retired/veteran
Military veteran status is awarded to those who have spent at least 20 years in the military, in either active service or in qualifying reserve service. Retired veterans are eligible for a wide range of VA benefits, including education benefits from the GI Bill, plus veteran-specific federal, state, and privately funded scholarships. Several student aid programs are available for dependents of retired military personnel, as well.
The Post-9/11 GI Bill®
This VA-administered program provides financial assistance for college courses and on-the-job-training. It's open to service members with 90 days of active-duty service since Sept. 10, 2001, or who are still on active duty. The program also caters to veterans who have been honorably discharged or discharged with a service-related disability after 30 days of active duty.
The Post-9/11 GI Bill is open to service members with 90 days of active-duty service since Sept. 10, 2001, or who are still on active duty.
There are two types of benefit programs available under the Post-9/11 Bill. The Yellow Ribbon Program offsets private schools' high tuition costs, plus graduate programs not covered under the GI Bill and out-of-state tuition expenses. The program is restricted to veterans -- active-duty personnel and their spouses may not apply. Participating schools agree to contribute additional educational funds to supplement their veteran students' G.I. tuition benefits. Each institution determines how much tuition it will contribute, and then the VA matches that amount and makes payments directly to the school.
The Post-9/11 Bill's second program is Transfer of Entitlement, which allows military personnel to give some or all of their education benefits to their spouses or dependents who are enrolled in college. Any service member can transfer their benefits if they have completed six years of service and agree to serve four more years, or if they have completed at least 10 years of active-duty or selected reserve duty service. The U.S. Department of Defense must approve requests to transfer, after which the beneficiaries must apply for transfers at the VA.
The Montgomery GI Bill®
The Montgomery GI Bill offers two programs, one for those on active duty and the other for reservists. The Montgomery GI Bill Active Duty (MGIB-AD) allows active duty service members to contribute $100 per month for one year in exchange for a monthly educational benefit once they have completed two years of service. This stipend increases for those with three years of active duty. Active-duty personnel can also participate in the Buy Up Program by paying an additional $600, which qualifies them to receive a repayment rate of eight dollars to one, with a maximum of $5,400 in benefits. The Montgomery GI Bill Selected Reserve (MGIB-SR) caters to reservists, and requires six years of service. This program provides up to $860 per month for full-time studies, for a maximum of three years. The benefits for both programs expire after 10 years, if unused, and veterans using these benefits at public colleges and universities pay in-state tuition, regardless of their state of residency.
Service Member Opportunity Colleges
The Service Member Opportunity Colleges (SOS) program partners with Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES) to improve educational opportunities for service members, primarily by making it easier to transfer credits and reducing residency requirements. The SOC program focuses on military personnel and their families who must move frequently, which makes it difficult to complete a college degree in one place without interruption. SOC member schools accept each other's credits in transfer, and usually offer online programs. This makes SOC schools ideal for military personnel.
Military-friendly colleges offer support services for active-duty military personnel, veterans, and their spouses and dependents. As you select an online criminal justice degree, learn which resources are available specifically for those with military status: financial assistance, credit transfer, and on-campus counseling are a few potential examples.
Tuition Discounts For Military
All military members are eligible for tuition assistance at public schools, covering up to 100% of the total expense. Military personnel can also apply for the MGIB Top-Up Program, which supplements private school tuition not covered by the GI Bill. In addition, schools participating in the Yellow Ribbon program offer special assistance to cover out-of-state and private school tuition. Military-friendly colleges often sponsor independently funded grants to help defray tuition and other costs.
Credit Opportunities
Military-family colleges offer prior learning assessments, awarding college credit for military service. The American Council on Education works with the Department of Defense to review the joint services transcript, which connects occupational experience and military service training with corresponding college credit recommendations. Each school decides which credits are transferable to their programs.
The Student Aid site maintained by the U.S. Department of Education provides a list of financial aid opportunities for military service members and their families. Active-duty service members and their dependents can use GI Bill benefits to attend an out-of-state public college while paying in-state tuition. Funds are also available for dependents of veterans who have been disabled due to a service-related injury, or who died while on active duty.
On-campus Benefits
As you search for the criminal justice degree that suits your needs, consider which on-campus resources are available to active-duty military, veterans, and their families. The VA collaborates with some colleges to provide employment counseling for veterans and spouses transitioning to the civilian workforce. The Post-9/11 Bill has a provision for a monthly housing allowance, and several institutions offer specialized counseling, peer mentoring, and other services for military personnel and their families.
Several military-friendly colleges offer degrees in military studies that focus on areas like diplomacy, intelligence, and leadership. These programs may lead to military career advancement, and they also appeal to veterans moving into civilian positions in government, teaching, or related fields. Other popular fields of study for service members, veterans, and their families include criminal justice, business administration, computer science, and cyber security.
Active-duty personnel who attend college must balance the demands of their military commitments with their studies. Veterans and their families pursuing higher education must navigate the challenges of their personal and professional responsibilities, plus course requirements. These university students are particularly well-served by military-friendly online colleges. An online criminal justice degree offers flexible schedules, accelerated formats, and round-the-clock access to classes and student resources.
* GI Bill® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). More information about education benefits offered by VA is available at the official U.S. government website at http://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill.
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Viking Sky Officially Christened In Norway
The latest additional to Viking Ocean Cruises fleet of luxury cruise ships, Viking Sky, which joined the fleet in March 2017, was officially christened in Tromso, Norway on 22 June 2017.
The vessel is the third cruise ship launched by Viking Ocean Cruises in the last three years. The cruise line has another five cruise ships under construction or on order.
Each of the 47,800 gross tonne ships accommodates 930 passengers in 465 staterooms and suites, all with balconies.
The next new vessel, Viking Sun is due to debut in September 2017, followed by Viking Spirit in 2018. The further three cruise ships will join the fleet in 2019, 2021 and 2022.
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Quark Expeditions Orders New Cruise Ship
Quark Expeditions today signed an agreement with Croatia’s Brodosplit to build a new expedition ship for polar operations, set to launch in 2020.
The 200-passenger ship was designed by LMG Marin in close cooperation with Quark Expeditions, the company announced.
The 13,000-ton ship will feature twenty zodiacs as well as four embarkation points for landings, as well as two helidecks.
It is one of more than two dozen new expedition ships set to debut between now and 2022, according to the 2018 Expedition Market Report.
“This ship will be more than just a ship – it will be an unrivalled operational base for polar expeditions," said Andrew White, Quark Expeditions President, “Our guests travel with Quark to maximize their expedition experience, push their boundaries and experience the magic of the polar regions. With this new ship, in the hands of the most experienced expedition team in the industry, we will get you off the ship and into nature further, faster and safer than ever before.”
Going further was a key consideration in the ship’s design, driving optimization of fuel, water, provisioning and waste handling systems to deliver an exceptional 40-day operational capability.
This extended range, in combination with the helicopters, will make destinations such as the Ross Sea and the remote western Antarctic “Phantom Coast” safely accessible.
Incorporating a wide array of groundbreaking safety systems, the ship will feature thirteen fully redundant critical systems, twin propellers powered by four engines in two separate engine rooms, and even a fully operational emergency bridge. And, unique to Quark, all expedition operations will be run by Quark Academy-trained expedition staff, the company said.
“Quark Expeditions only operates in the polar regions - the most unforgiving areas of the world, so safety is our top priority." added White. “That’s why we created Quark Academy to ensure the highest level of training in the industry and why, when we designed this ship, we included cutting-edge safety features and made no compromises for non-polar operations.”
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For UC Berkeley alumnus, sex ed finds voices outside the classroom
Olivia Staser/Staff
By Imad Pasha | Senior Staff
Last Updated January 24, 2018
For Danielle Bezalel, the decision to start up a sex education podcast aimed at the Bay Area started around 7,000 miles away — in Israel.
She was there as a volunteer, teaching English and learning Hebrew. But as they often do, the experience led to a clash of cultural, generational and religious ideas.
“Essentially, I had a super heated interaction with a rabbi there,” Bezalel explained in an interview. “He said that he had five daughters, and that when all of his daughters eventually respectively turned seventeen or eighteen, they would be married off by the matchmaker, and hopefully they would get pregnant that night, and no one was going to teach them or talk to them about sex prior to that night.”
That didn’t sit well with Bezalel, and neither did the relative reticence of her teaching cohort to question it. “I felt like these young women weren’t getting the autonomy and the choices that they deserved — and the education and knowledge they deserved — to make their own decisions to be happy and healthy individuals,” she said.
That was in 2015, the year after she graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in film and media studies and a minor in education. By 2017, she had taken a class on creating podcasts and established “Sex Ed with DB.”
Though that experience in Israel drove her towards creating the podcast, its focus is on the Bay Area. For its first season, both the guests and hosts were pulled from a diverse slice of identities and sexualities in the Bay Area community.
“The difference between a textbook article and our podcast is that we have on these real people who have gone through these really challenging things, and they’re all so different, I think that people can relate to them on different levels” — Danielle Bezalel
The first season featured a large spread in guest ages, from two queer-identifying 18-year-olds to her own mother, who has been an OB-GYN for more than 25 years. It included a lecturer at San Francisco State University as well as a queer-identifying youth worker from Oakland. Bezalel also points to the diversity of ethnic backgrounds present — she herself identifies as white, though her father is from Afghanistan, and those on her show have represented a range of cultures and ethnicities, including Chinese American, Filipino American, mixed-race Black-identifying and Latina.
“They all have really different experiences, different upbringings, different backgrounds,” Bezalel explained. “I think we really wanted to focus on that diversity, making sure we were, essentially, putting our money where our mouths were when we were calling this an ‘intersectional podcast.’ ”
That season has since been downloaded by around 3,000 unique visitors, mostly in and around the Bay. But for her second season, Bezalel hopes to reach 10,000.
That’s not easy in a media landscape that’s saturated by similar content — even something as specific as sex-education podcasts has thousands, if not tens of thousands, of options. All are fighting for funding from a similar slate of companies, and only those with the most downloads are economically feasible for the companies wanting to participate.
Like many of those resources, Bezalel attempts to use her podcast to take sexuality out of the zone of awkward taboo. “On every episode there’s laughing, there’s lightheartedness, there’s silliness and goofiness,” she said. “Simultaneously, these topics can be very serious — I think we strike a really great balance of making the content bold and refreshing and new and covering it in a comedic way, with this dichotomy of it also being really challenging to talk about these things.”
The episode topics for season two, which have not yet officially been released, cover a wide range of sex-education topics as well, including:
Periods and menstruation
Culturally responsive sex education
Sex while disabled
“Don’t Assume Motherhood”
Sex toys and masturbation
Post-menopause / Pain and dysfunction during sex
Sex workers’ experiences
Pornography’s impact on young people
It’s a list that highlights some of the advantages podcasts have as a format — especially the ability to cover a breadth of topics rarely seen in any classroom, whether in high school or college.
Season two is scheduled to air starting in late April or early May. But beyond this second season, the future of the podcast is a little less certain. “This fall I’m going to be moving to New York City and attending Columbia to get a masters in public health with a focus on sex, sexuality, and reproductive health,” Bezalel said. Though she hopes to come back to the podcast after her first semester or year, the move highlights the transience that often plagues content produced for podcasts, YouTube, and other forms of new media.
“…the internet has served as a democratizing force that allows these voices to be a part of a larger conversation about sexual health and sexuality.”
However, the rise of new media has also revolutionized the way many people, from students to adults, obtain sexual health information and education. Here on UC Berkeley’s campus, programs such as the Sexual Health Education Program, or SHEP, run by University Health Services, offer classes, outreach events, contraceptives and other resources for students to learn about sexuality. But outside of the college sphere, accessing these types of resources is more difficult.
This is particularly true of resources oriented around the experiences of LGBTQ+, nonwhite, non-cisgender and disabled individuals. As such, the internet has served as a democratizing force that allows these voices to be a part of a larger conversation about sexual health and sexuality. “The difference between a textbook article and our podcast is that we have on these real people who have gone through these really challenging things, and they’re all so different, I think that people can relate to them on different levels,” Bezalel said.
The task of providing accurate sex education to those who haven’t received it — both locally and globally — is a daunting one. But it’s one that Bezalel and a host of other individuals and organizations are tackling head-on. Each plays a small, but critical role in the the mission to, as Bezalel puts it, “revolutionize the way we talk about sex.”
Imad Pasha is the Weekender editor. Contact him at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter at @prappleizer.
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Football ›
Despite loss, quarterback situation appears to be settled
Photo Credit: Katie Bauer | Daily Texan Staff
Sam Ehlinger
Published on October 14, 2017 at 10:37 pm Last update on October 16, 2017 at 12:12 am
By Alex Briseño
The burnt orange half of the Cotton Bowl sat nervously in the final stages of the fourth quarter, but it wasn’t because of Texas’ 29-24 deficit.
The Longhorn faithful watched as freshman quarterback Sam Ehlinger was assisted off the field after a hard hit violently bounced his head off the ground.
“I wasn’t ever confused at all,” Ehlinger said. “It was a hard hit. My head hit the ground pretty hard. And they were taking precaution. I told them immediately I could go back in. I felt fine.”
In the meantime, sophomore quarterback and former starter Shane Buechele took off his headset, buckled his helmet and took the reins of the Longhorn offense –– temporarily.
With Texas trailing No. 12 Oklahoma, 29-24, and just over 5:00 remaining in the game, Buechele strung together a pair of completions and an eight-yard rush to put Texas 31 yards away from giving his team the lead while Ehlinger attempted to watch from the trainer's tent on the sideline.
“There’s actually a little sliver at the top and they were getting mad at me because I was trying to watch what was going on,” Ehlinger said. ”I’m trying to get back in the game, obviously, but I’m trying to see which side is cheering … They made me count backwards from 100 by 7. With everything going on and the crowd I was like, ‘I’m good, 93, c’mon.’”
With the Longhorns setup with a first down on the 31-yard line, the tent collapsed and Ehlinger returned to the sideline. Ehlinger watched on from the sideline as Buechele dropped back, but Buechele didn't have much time before he nearly lost the ball after getting sacked.
Buechele regained possession, and Herman quickly called a timeout. The offense huddled on the field with 2:42 remaining in the ballgame, then the crowd applauded as Ehlinger emerged from the huddle.
Ehlinger didn’t lead the team to a touchdown. In fact, he threw the ball out of bounds on fourth down, handing the ball over to Oklahoma.
So it begged the question: Did Herman consider leaving Buechele in the game?
“There was (consideration),” Herman said. “But I think when the guy’s played three-and-a-half quarters and is in the rhythm he’s in, if he’s cleared, you’re going to put him back in the ballgame.”
Ehlinger had one more shot to lead the Longhorns, who once trailed 20-0 in the second quarter, to a miraculous comeback. Although the Longhorns just trailed 29-24, with the ball placed at their own four yard line and only 49 seconds remaining, it proved to be insurmountable.
But Ehlinger shouldn't receive any of the blame. He is just the third true freshman to start at quarterback in the Red River Showdown. At the conclusion of the game, he owned the true freshman record with 278 passing yards.
Even in the loss, it sure seems like Tom Herman has now come close to announcing his outright starter. When asked if he anticipated sticking with Ehlinger, he said, “I would think so at this point.”
Ehlinger finished with 278 yards through the air, 106 on the ground and two touchdowns. And Herman said he’s seen what he needs to see from Ehlinger — not just on Saturday, but several contests ago.
“Oh, he showed me all he needed to show me in Los Angeles,” Herman said. “He’s a tough dude. He doesn’t get rattled. He’s competitive as all get out … I’ve seen everything I need to see from Sam Ehlinger.”
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Use of the DDX Services, this Web site, the Content or any software application installed by you in connection with the use of this Web site, is at your sole risk. IN NO EVENT SHALL HSPS OR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THE DDX SERVICES, THE CONTENT OF THIS SITE OR ANY SOFTWARE APPLICATION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, COMPUTER VIRUS OR SYSTEM FAILURE, OR LOSS OF DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE DDX SERVICES, THIS SITE (OR THE CONTENT PROVIDED AT THIS SITE OR ANY WEB SITE RELATED TO ANY THIRD PARTY), OR ANY SOFTWARE APPLICATION INSTALLED IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THIS SITE OR USERS' INABILITY TO USE THE CONTENT CONTAINED IN THIS SITE (OR ANY OTHER WEB SITE), ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. HSPS WILL NOT BE LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY OR ARISING FROM YOUR RELIANCE ON THE DDX SERVICES, THIS SITE OR THE CONTENT. THESE WAIVERS APPLY EVEN IF HSPS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL HSPS’ OR HENRY SCHEIN, INC.’S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES, LOSSES, OR CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) EXCEED THE AMOUNT, IF ANY, PAID BY YOU TO HSPS SPECIFICALLY FOR ACCESSING THE DDX SERVICES DURING THE PRECEEDING THREE-MONTH PERIOD. THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY EVEN IF ANY REMEDY PROVIDED UNDER THESE TERMS OF USE FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. Some states do not allow the exclusion of liability for consequential damages, so the above limitations may not apply to you in all cases.
If there is a dispute between users of the DDX Services or between users of the DDX Services and any third party, you understand and agree that HSPS is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have such a dispute, you hereby release HSPS, Henry Schein, Inc. and their respective officers, employees, agents and successors in rights from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and/or the DDX Services. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which says "A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which, if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor."
15. FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
THE CONTENT TOGETHER WITH ANY DOCUMENTS ISSUED BY HSPS OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES, SERVICE PROVIDERS, OR BUSINESS PARTNERS AND AVAILABLE THROUGH HSPS' WEB SITES MAY CONTAIN FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE U.S. PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995. THOSE STATEMENTS MAY APPEAR IN A NUMBER OF PLACES IN THE SITE AND CAN BE IDENTIFIED BY THE USE OF FORWARD-LOOKING TERMINOLOGY SUCH AS \"MAY,\" \"COULD,\" \"EXPECT,\" \"ANTICIPATE,\" \"INTEND,\" \"BELIEVE,\" \"PLAN,\" \"ESTIMATE,\" \"FORECAST,\" \"PROJECT,\" OR OTHER COMPARABLE TERMS OR THE NEGATIVE THEREOF. HSPS PROVIDES THE FOLLOWING CAUTIONARY REMARKS REGARDING IMPORTANT FACTORS WHICH, AMONG OTHERS, COULD CAUSE FUTURE RESULTS TO DIFFER MATERIALLY FROM THE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS, EXPECTATIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED HEREIN. THE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS INCLUDED HEREIN ARE BASED ON THEN-CURRENT EXPECTATIONS OF MANAGEMENT. ALL FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS MADE BY US ARE SUBJECT TO RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES AND ARE NOT GUARANTIES OF FUTURE PERFORMANCE. FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS INVOLVE KNOWN AND UNKNOWN FACTORS, RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES THAT MAY CAUSE OUR ACTUAL RESULTS, PERFORMANCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS, OR INDUSTRY RESULTS, TO BE MATERIALLY DIFFERENT FROM ANY FUTURE RESULTS, PERFORMANCE, OR ACHIEVEMENTS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED BY SUCH FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS. THOSE FACTORS, RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FACTORS DESCRIBED UNDER \"RISK FACTORS\" DISCUSSED IN HENRY SCHEIN, INC.'s PERIODIC FILINGS MADE WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. WE CAUTION YOU THAT THAT THESE FACTORS MAY NOT BE EXHAUSTIVE AND THAT MANY OF THESE FACTORS ARE BEYOND OUR ABILITY TO CONTROL OR PREDICT. ACCORDINGLY, FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON AS A PREDICTION OF ACTUAL RESULTS. NEITHER HENRY SCHEIN, INC. NOR HSPS UNDERTAKE ANY DUTY OR HAVE ANY OBLIGATION TO UPDATE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS.
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, HSPS shall have the right immediately to terminate this agreement with you and your use of the DDX Services and this site if it determines in its sole discretion that you have breached any of these Terms of Use or otherwise been engaged in conduct which HSPS determines in its sole discretion to be unacceptable.
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These Terms of Use (as any such terms that may be updated by HSPS from time to time) and the DDX License Agreement and Services (if applicable) constitutes the entire agreement between you and HSPS with respect to the DDX Services and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals (whether oral, written, or electronic) between you and HSPS with respect to this site. If any part of these Terms of Use is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in a manner consistent with applicable law to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intentions of the parties, and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. The failure of HSPS to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. You agree that regardless of any statue or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to the use of the DDX Services, this site or the content or any software application installed by you in connection with the use of this Web site must be filed within one year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
Except as otherwise provided, all notices given under these Term of Use shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt if delivered by hand or facsimile transmission with receipt confirmed, three days after mailing by certified or registered mail, and one day after sending by overnight courier, to the parties’ respective addresses. All notices give to HSPS under this Agreement shall be sent with a copy to Henry Schein, Inc., 135 Duryea Road, Melville, New York 11747, Attn: General Counsel, Fax (631) 843-5660.
22. No Joint Venture
Nothing in these Terms of Use shall be construed to create, constitute, give effect to or otherwise imply a joint venture, partnership, agency or employment relationship of any kind between the parties. Neither party nor its respective representatives, employees or agents may make representations or agreements that are binding upon the other party.
You shall not have the right to assign (by operation of law or otherwise) these Terms of Use without the prior written consent of HSPS. Except as otherwise provided herein, these Terms of Use shall be binding
HSPS shall have no liability for delays, failure in performance or damages (other than obligations regarding payment of money or confidentiality) due to: fire, explosion, lightning, pest damage, power surges or failures, strikes or disputes, water, acts of God, the elements, war, civil disturbances, acts of military authorities or the public enemy, inability to secure raw material, transportation facilities, fuel or energy shortages, acts or omissions of communications carriers, or other causes beyond HSPS’s control, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
25. Remedies
Due to the fact that the disclosing party could not be adequately compensated by money damages in the event of the receiving party’s breach of any of the confidentiality provisions of this Agreement, the disclosing party shall be entitled, in addition to any other right or available remedy, to an injunction or other equitable relief restraining such breach or any threatened breach.
26. NO PUBLICITY
HSPS shall be entitled to disclose and publicize, in the form of customer lists, marketing materials and otherwise, your identity as a client of HSPS and display your logo on its web site. Neither party shall issue a general press release naming the other party or regarding the existence of these Terms of Use, without the prior written consent of the other party; provided, however, that either party may, without such consent, make any press release or other public announcement as required by law.
27. SECTION HEADINGS
The headings contained in these Terms of Use are for convenience of reference only and are not intended to have any substantive significance in interpreting these Terms of Use.
Henry Schein Practice Solutions Business Associates Agreement
(PRIVACY AND SECURITY OF HEALTH INFORMATION)
This BUSINESS ASSOCIATE AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is entered into between Henry Schein Practice Solutions Inc. ("Business Associate") and you ("Provider"). Both parties agree as follows:
I. DEFINITIONS
Capitalized terms used, but not otherwise defined, in this Agreement shall have the same meaning as those terms in the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, at 45 Code of Federal Regulations ("CFR") part 160 and part 164 subpart E (the "Privacy Rule"), the Security Standards issued at 45 CFR part 160 and part 164 subpart C (the "Security Rule"), and the breach notification rules at 45 CFR Part 164, subpart D ("Breach Rules") as they may be amended from time to time.
The following capitalized terms shall have the following meaning when used in this Agreement:
a. "Breach" shall have the same meaning as the term "Breach" in 45 CFR 164.402.
b. "Designated Record Set" shall mean a group of records maintained for Provider that are the medical and/or billing records that refer to an individual Patient.
c. "Electronic PHI" shall mean the PHI that is transmitted or maintained by Business Associate on behalf of Provider in electronic media, including, but not limited to, hard drives, disks, on the internet, or on an intranet.
d. "HITECH Act" shall mean the "Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act" set forth within P.L. 111-5, and all relevant regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time.
e. "Patient" shall mean the individual whose PHI is contained in a specific medical or billing record that Business Associate maintains on behalf of Provider, or that person’s duly appointed guardian or qualified personal representative.
f. "PHI" shall have the same meaning as the term "protected health information" in 45 CFR 160.103, limited to the information created or received by Business Associate from or on the behalf of Provider.
g. "Secretary" shall mean the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or his designee.
h. "Unsecured PHI" shall have the same meaning as the term "Unsecured Protected Health Information" as defined in 45 CFR 164.402.
II. OBLIGATIONS AND ACTIVITIES OF BUSINESS ASSOCIATE
a. Business Associate agrees to comply with those provisions of the Security Rule that are set forth at 45 C.F.R. §§ 164.308, 164.310, 164.312, and 164.316, as amended from time to time, with respect the security of PHI, in the same manner that such regulations apply to the Provider.
b. Business Associate agrees to comply with the Privacy Rule at 45 C.F.R. § 164.504(e), as amended from time to time, with respect to its use and disclosure of PHI, in the same manner that such regulation applies to Provider. The additional requirements of the HITECH Act that relate to privacy and that are made applicable with respect to covered entities shall also be applicable to Business Associate and shall be and by this reference hereby are incorporated into the Business Associate Agreement.
c. Business Associate agrees to not use or further disclose PHI other than as specifically permitted or required by this Agreement or as required by law.
d. Business Associate agrees to use appropriate safeguards and comply, where applicable, with Subpart C of 45 CFR Part 164 with respect to Electronic PHI, to prevent use or disclosure of PHI other than as provided for by this Agreement.
e. Business Associate agrees to mitigate, to the extent practicable, any harmful effect that is known to Business Associate of a use or disclosure of PHI by Business Associate in violation of the requirements of the Agreement.
f. Business Associate agrees to report to Provider if it becomes aware of any use or disclosure of PHI not provided for by this Agreement, including any Breach of Unsecured PHI as required by 45 CFR 164.410, and any Security Incident of which it becomes aware. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the parties acknowledge and agree that this Agreement shall constitute notice to Provider that Business Associate may periodically experience broadcast attacks on its firewall, port scans, unsuccessful log-on attempts, denials of service and similar unsuccessful security incidents, and Business Associate need not further report such incidents to Provider so long as such incidents do not result in unauthorized access, use or disclosure of PHI.
g. Business Associate agrees to ensure that any Subcontractors that create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI on behalf of Business Associate on behalf of Provider agree to the same restrictions and conditions that apply to Business Associate with respect to such information, including, without limitation, implementation of appropriate safeguards to protect the security of Electronic PHI.
h. Upon the written request of Provider, Business Associate agrees to provide access to Provider to PHI that Business Associate maintains in a Designated Record Set (if in fact its arrangements with Provider require Business Associate to maintain Designated Record Sets on behalf of Provider), in order for Provider to meet the Patient access and copying requirements under 45 CFR 164.524. If Business Associate maintains an electronic health record which contains the PHI, Business Associate shall provide such information produced in accordance with this section 2(h) in electronic format to enable Provider to fulfill its obligations under applicable regulations.
i. Upon the written request of Provider, Business Associate agrees to make any amendment(s) to PHI that Business Associate maintains in a Designated Record Set (if in fact its arrangements with Provider require Business Associates to maintain Designated Record Sets on behalf of Provider), that the Provider directs or agrees to pursuant to 45 CFR 164.526.
j. Business Associate agrees to make its internal practices, books and records relating to the use and disclosure of PHI available at the request of the Provider to the Secretary, for purposes of determining Provider’s compliance with the Privacy Rule, subject to attorney-client or other applicable legal privileges.
k. Business Associate agrees to document such disclosures of PHI and information related to such disclosures as would be required for Provider to respond to a request by Patient for an accounting of disclosures of PHI in accordance with 45 CFR 164.528, as may be amended from time to time.
l. Upon written request of Provider, Business Associate agrees to provide Provider with information collected in accordance with Section II.i. of this Agreement to permit Provider to respond to a request by Patient for an accounting of disclosures of PHI in accordance with 45 CFR 164.528.
m. Business Associate agrees that to the extent it is to carry out Provider’s obligation under the Privacy Rule that it will comply with the requirements of the Privacy Rule that apply to Provider in the performance of such obligation.
n. Business Associate agrees to notify Provider without unreasonable delay, but in no event more than 60 days after Business Associate becomes aware of an unauthorized use or disclosure by or on behalf of Business Associate which constitutes a Breach of Unsecured PHI unless it receives a request to delay such notification from a law enforcement official pursuant to 45 CFR 164.412. Such notification shall include a list of impacted Patients, and describe the Breach in such reasonable detail.
o. Upon written request of Provider, Business Associate will comply with a Patient request for restriction of certain disclosures to health plans in accordance with 45 CFR 164.522 and the HITECH Act, if the disclosure is to a health care plan for the purposes of carrying out payment or health care operations and the PHI pertains solely to a health care item or service for which Patient has paid for out of pocket in full. Except to the extent that Provider must agree to a Patient request for restriction under the HITECH Act, Business Associate shall not be required to comply with a Patient’s request to restrict the use or disclosure of PHI.
III. PERMITTED USES AND DISCLOSURES BY BUSINESS ASSOCIATE
a. Business Associate may use or disclose PHI to perform functions, activities or services for, or on behalf of, Provider, in accordance with the contractual or other arrangements between Provider and Business Associate.
b. Except as otherwise specifically permitted by Section IV. of this Agreement, Business Associate shall limit its use and disclosure of PHI to only the minimum necessary PHI required by Business Associate to furnish services on behalf of Provider.
IV. SPECIFIC USE AND DISCLOSURE PROVISIONS
a. Business Associate may use PHI for the proper management and administration of the Business Associate or to carry out the legal responsibilities of the Business Associate.
b. Business Associate may disclose PHI for the proper management and administration of the Business Associate, provided that disclosures are required by law, or Business Associate obtains reasonable assurances from the person to whom PHI is disclosed that it will remain confidential and be used or further disclosed only as required by law or for the purpose for which it was disclosed to the person, and the person notifies the Business Associate of any instances of which it is aware in which the confidentiality of PHI has been breached.
c. Business Associate may use PHI to provide data aggregation services as permitted by 45 CFR 164.504(e)(2)(i)(B) (i.e. the combining PHI received from Provider with PHI received by Business Associate in its capacity as the business associate of another practice for the purpose of conducting data analyses that relate to health care operations of various practices).
d. Business Associate may use PHI to create de-identified health information to the extent permitted by the Privacy Rule. There will be no restrictions on Business Associate’s use or disclosure of the de-identified health information once it is so de-identified.
V. OBLIGATIONS OF PROVIDER
a. Provider represents and warrants to Business Associate that its Notice of Privacy Practices permits Provider to disclose PHI to Business Associate, and that the Notice of Privacy Practices used by Provider incorporates the terms and statements required by the Privacy Rule. Provider agrees that Provider shall not modify such notice or its privacy procedures in any manner that may affect Business Associate’s authority to use or disclose PHI pursuant to this Agreement without the consent of Business Associate, except as may be required by applicable law.
b. If applicable, Provider shall notify Business Associate of any changes in, or revocation of, permission by a Patient to use or disclose PHI, to the extent that such changes may affect the permitted uses or disclosures of such PHI by Business Associate.
c. Provider shall not request that Business Associate use or disclose PHI in any manner that would not be permissible under the Privacy Rule, Security Rule or other applicable law or its Notice of Privacy Practices if done by Provider except the uses specifically permitted under Section IV. above, where Business Associate may use or disclose PHI for data aggregation or management and administrative activities of Business Associate.
d. Provider represents and warrants to Business Associate that Provider shall comply with all requirements of the Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and any similar federal or state requirements relating to privacy concerns.
VI. MUTUAL OBLIGATIONS
The parties agree that they will neither directly nor indirectly receive remuneration in exchange for any PHI of a Patient, unless a valid authorization, pursuant to 45 CFR 164.508, is executed by that Patient. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the parties agree that they may receive remuneration in exchange for PHI of a patient in accordance with 42 USC § 17935(d)(2) and 45 CFR 164.502(a)(5)(ii)(B)(2).
VII. TERM AND TERMINATION
a. The Term of this Agreement shall be effective as of the date set forth above, and shall remain effective so long as a relationship between the Provider and the Business Associate shall persist. This Agreement shall terminate when all of the PHI provided by Provider to Business Associate or created or received by Business Associate on behalf of Provider is destroyed or returned to Provider or, if it is infeasible to return or destroy PHI, protections are extended to such information in accordance with the termination provisions in Section VII.d.2. below.
b. Upon Provider’s knowledge of a material breach of this Agreement by Business Associate, Provider shall provide written notice to Business Associate identifying the breach, and permit the Business Associate 30 days to cure the breach; if Business Associate does not cure the breach or end the violation within the time specified, or if cure is not possible, Provider may immediately terminate this Agreement, and/or report the event to the Secretary.
c. Upon Business Associate’s knowledge of a material breach of this Agreement by the Provider, the Business Associate shall provide written notice to the Provider identifying the breach, and may permit the Provider the opportunity to cure the breach within 30 days; if Provider does not cure the breach or end the violation within the time specified, or if cure is not possible, Business Associate may immediately terminate this Agreement, and/or report the event to the Secretary.
d. Effect of Termination.
i. Except as provided in Section VII.d.2. below, upon termination of this Agreement, for any reason, Business Associate shall return or destroy all PHI received from Provider, or created or received by Business Associate on behalf of Provider. This provision shall apply to PHI that is in the possession of subcontractors or agents of Business Associate. Business Associate shall retain no copies of the PHI.
ii. In the event the Business Associate determines that the returning of or destroying of the PHI is infeasible, Business Associate shall provide to Provider notification of the conditions that make return or destruction infeasible, and thereafter, Business Associate shall extend the protections of this Agreement to such PHI and limit further uses and disclosures of such PHI to those purposes that make the return or destruction infeasible, for so long as Business Associate maintains such PHI.
VIII. NOTICE
Any and all notices, requests, or reports, required or permitted to be given under any provision of this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed given upon the mailing thereof by first class certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or by overnight mail. If such notice is to the Business Associate, then it shall be sent to the attention of the HIPAA Compliance Officer at the address provided below with a copy to the General Counsel, Henry Schein, Inc., 135 Duryea Road, Melville, New York 11747. If such notice is to the Provider, then it shall be sent to the address that the Business Associate then has on file for the Provider.
IX. MISCELLANEOUS
a. This Agreement is between Provider and Business Associate and shall not be construed, interpreted, or deemed to confer any rights whatsoever to any third party, including Patients.
b. The parties agree that any ambiguity in this Agreement shall be resolved in favor of a meaning that complies and is consistent with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Transaction Standards, Security Standards, the Privacy Rules, and the HITECH Act.
c. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Utah, without regard to the conflicts of law principles of such state.
d. Provider and Business Associate agree to negotiate in good faith if, in either party’s reasonable judgment, modification of this Agreement becomes necessary due to legislative or regulatory amendments to the Privacy Rule, the Security Rule, or the HITECH Act.
e. In the event that it is impossible to comply with both this Agreement and any underlying services agreements between the parties, the provisions of this Agreement shall control with respect to those provisions of each agreement that expressly conflict.
f. This agreement replaces and supersedes any previous agreement with respect to the subject matter hereof.
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David Weiss sworn in as Delaware U.S Attorney
After the approval of U.S. Congress, David Weiss was sworn in as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware Thursday.
David Weiss sworn in as Delaware U.S Attorney After the approval of U.S. Congress, David Weiss was sworn in as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware Thursday. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2018/02/23/david-weiss-sworn-delaware-u-s-attorney/365304002/
Josephine Peterson, The News Journal Published 6:30 a.m. ET Feb. 23, 2018 | Updated 9:36 a.m. ET Feb. 23, 2018
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David Weiss, Acting U.S. Attorney for Delaware(Photo: Damian Giletto/The News Journal)Buy Photo
U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons nominated Weiss as a candidate for the four-year position and President Donald Trump appointed their recommendation for Congress to approve.
Weiss, who has been the acting U.S. Attorney for the state since March 2017 and from 2009-2011, was approved Feb. 15 by Congress.
"I am honored to have the opportunity to serve the people of Delaware as United States Attorney," Weiss said in a statement.
Carper said he is an excellent choice for the position, and looks forward to Weiss hitting the ground running.
“During his combined 16 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he has prosecuted corruption, money laundering, drug offenses, mail and wire fraud, and he spearheaded the successful effort to establish New Castle County as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area," he said in a statement.
Coons also supported the appointment as he thanked the White House for its support in working with Delaware's senators to nominate Weiss.
"David is a career prosecutor and dedicated public servant, longtime Delawarean, and valued member of our law enforcement community," Coons said.
CRIME: One charged with cashing fake checks from restaurant
In addition to serving as interim U.S. attorney, he was first assistant U.S. attorney and an assistant federal prosecutor, handling violent crime and white-collar cases. Between years served at the state U.S. Attorney's Office, he was a commercial litigation associate and, later, a partner at Duane Morrie LLP.
He earned his bachelor's from Washington University in St. Louis, and his law degree from Widener University School of Law.
Contact Josephine Peterson at (302) 324-2856 or jhpeterson@delawareonline.com. Follow her on Twitter at @jopeterson93.
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Benevolence International Foundation (BIF)
Muslim Charity that provided a foothold for al Qaeda in the United States
Funded and abetted Islamic terrorism in numerous places around the world
Was shut down by the U.S. government in 2002
Is now banned worldwide by the United Nations Security Council Committee
The earliest roots of the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF) date back to 1987, when Sheik Abdel Abdul Jalil Batterjee established Lajnat al-Birr al-Islamiah (the Islamic Benevolence Committee, or IBC), with offices in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The nascent IBC’s purpose was twofold: (a) to supply weapons and funds to the mujahideen who, at that time, were battling the Russian military in Afghanistan, and (b) to facilitate the immigration of jihadists into that conflict zone. In 1992, IBC merged with a Philippine-based group known as Benevolence International, which had been formed by Osama bin Laden‘s brother-in-law Mohammed Jamal Khalifa. The new entity, known as BIF, was incorporated as a tax-exempt nonprofit in Illinois on March 30, 1992. Its headquarters were set up in the town of Plantation, Florida by Adham Hassoun, a local Palestinian activist.
Publicly, BIF stated that its mission was to “hel[p] those afflicted by wars”—with “short-term relief such as emergency food distribution” and “long-term projects providing education and self-sufficiency to the children, widowed, refugees, injured and staff of vital governmental institutions.” But in reality, the Foundation was heavily involved in making financial transactions on behalf of al Qaeda. In its Arabic-language fundraising appeals, the nascent BIF openly characterized itself as a “trustworthy hand for the support of [both] the mujahideen and refugees” fighting in the Bosnian war of 1992-95.
In May 1993, Saudi Arabia, wary of BIF’s ties to al Qaeda, closed down the Foundation’s operations in his country and detained its leader, Abdel Batterjee. This was likely the only pre-9/11 instance of the Saudis shuttering an Islamic charity.
Soon thereafter, Abdel Batterjee stepped down as head of BIF and took a behind-the-scenes role. Succeeding him as the Foundation’s top leader was Enaam Arnaout, who had maintained a close relationship with Osama bin Laden since the mid-1980s, having served as an administrator for the al Qaeda linchpin, occasionally disbursing funds on his behalf.
During the brief period (in 1993) when BIF was headquartered in Florida, the aforementioned Adham Hassoun met Jose Padilla, the so-called “dirty bomber” (who was employed at a location near the BIF office), and introduced Padilla to Islam. It was around this time that the U.S. government began to scrutinize BIF’s operations for possible terrorist ties.
Later in 1993 BIF moved its base of operations to Chicago, in order to be closer to terrorist fronts that Hamas had established in the United States. From Chicago, BIF helped the newly emerging al Qaeda network establish its presence in Sudan, Bosnia and Chechnya, providing support—in the form of food, clothing, money and communications equipment—for mujahideen fighters in those places. Further, BIF actively solicited donations from Muslim Americans and other sources in order to fund terrorist operations by Abu Sayyaf Islamic rebels in the Philippines; BIF’s Philippine operations are believed to have been headed by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
In the mid-1990s, BIF opened an office in Chechnya and served as a conduit for financial and material support to al Qaeda and the Chechen mujahideen that were active there. Further, BIF worked closely with Sheik Fathi, a Jordanian of Chechen descent, who had fought in Afghanistan during the ’80s.
In late 1994, the aforementioned Mohammed Jamal Khalifa traveled to the United States to meet with Mohamed Loay Bayazid, who was BIF’s president at the time. Both men were arrested in Mountain View, California in December of that year—Khalifa on charges related to his suspected role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. When FBI agents searched Khalifa’s belongings, they found Arabic-language manuals that discussed such topics as terrorism training, bomb-making, and other violent pursuits. They also found a personal organizer that listed the phone number of Wali Khan Amin Shah—a member of a Manila, Philippines terrorist cell that was plotting Operation Bojinka, a (foiled) plot to blow up 12 passenger airliners in mid-flight as they made their way from Asia to the United States. Khalifa, who had been funding the Bojinka project, was deported to Jordan by the INS in May 1995. A Jordanian court ultimately acquitted him of the terrorism-related charges.
In May 1995, the Military Security Service of the Bosnian Muslim Army not only warned its superiors that known members of the Arab-Afghan mujahideen in the Balkans were “connected with the activists from [the] Arab humanitarian organization ‘Benevolence International Foundation,’” but also indicated that BIF had demonstrably “abused” its position as a dispenser of humanitarian aid by making the acceptance of Islam a precondition for the receipt of that aid.
A number of BIF employees in Illinois became disgusted by their organization’s focus on promoting jihad rather than on the “humanitarian” work it professed to be doing. In a handwritten note that was later recovered by the FBI, one BIF employee stated: “That is our mission—Lying to the people.”
Other BIF staffers, by contrast, enthusiastically embraced their organization’s jihadist goals. Onetime BIF operations manager Suleman Ahmer, for example, zealously favored cooperation with radical Islamic movements around the world. In an October 1997 letter to fellow BIF administrators, Ahmer suggested that the Foundation’s claim that it engaged in relief activities was a complete fabrication: “We have never worked in the countries which are affected by natural disasters and … we may never work in this area. But somehow in so many of our publications we have [said] that BIF works in areas affected by wars and natural disasters. I wonder where it came from and so on.” Ahmer subsequently persuaded his colleagues to draft two separate BIF mission statements. One, for public consumption, would detail the group’s supposed “relief work”; a second, for the benefit of BIF’s Islamist board members, would emphasize the Foundation’s goal of “making Islam supreme.”
In 1998, al Qaeda military commander Saif al-Islam served as a BIF officer in Chechnya. Meanwhile, BIF’s office in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, maintained close contact with the al Qaeda cell in Kenya that eventually carried out the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi.
At one time, BIF’s Pakistan branch shared the same Peshawar mailing address as the World Assembly of Muslim Youth.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. government froze BIF’s assets and initiated legal action against one of its founders and leading directors, the aforementioned Enaam Arnaout. Further, the government was able to find evidence that the funds which BIF was raising were being sent to al Qaeda for the purpose of buying weapons and transporting terrorists all over the world. In a December 2001 raid of BIF’s Illinois offices, federal investigators uncovered documents that included: (a) handwritten Arabic notations acknowledging that BIF’s headquarters in Croatia had been established “for relief operations and support of jihad in Bosnia-Herzegovina,” and urging supporters to “[c]ontribute with your mujahideen brothers to repel the Crusader-Zionist attack on Muslim lands”; (b) a handwritten note revealing BIF’s “unwritten law”—that “no matter how poor/sick” the civilians in a given location might be, the “first priority” is to channel aid to the “mujahideen”; and (c) receipts (from 1994 and 1995) for supplies (such as blankets, boots, shoes, uniforms, tents, “mass communication stations,” and a combat ambulance) that BIF had donated to the Bosnian military. After these findings had been made, the U.S. government shut down BIF’s American operations.
The government also uncovered evidence that BIF had been working with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a Hamas-supporting charity whose assets were frozen in 2001.
In March 2002, law-enforcement authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina raided BIF’s Sarajevo offices, seizing weapons, booby traps, false passports, bomb-making instructions, computer hard drives, CD-ROMs, a list of the Foundation’s Saudi Arabian sponsors, handwritten letters that Aranout and Osama bin Laden had sent to each other, and documents showing that Arnaout had purchased weaponry to distribute to camps operated by al Qaeda and other mujahideen fighters. Moreover, Bosnian police detained the manager of BIF’s Sarajevo office, former Bosnian intelligence agent Munib Zahiragic, who turned over nearly 100 top-secret documents about suspected fundamentalist terrorists operating in Bosnia, including transcripts of communications between BIF management and senior al Qaeda commanders based in Afghanistan.
In August 2002, more than 600 relatives of victims who had died in the 9/11 al Qaeda attacks filed a 15-count, $116 trillion lawsuit against various parties they accused of having financed and abetted not only al Qaeda, but also Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, which had provided safe haven for Osama bin Laden and his organization. Among the defendants in the lawsuit were: BIF; the International Islamic Relief Organization; the Muslim World League; the National Commercial Bank (one of Saudi Arabia’s largest financial institutions); the SAAR Foundation; the Saudi Binladin Group (a conglomerate owned by the bin Laden family); the World Assembly of Muslim Youth; and the government of Sudan (which had permitted Osama bin Laden to live in that country until 1996).
On November 19, 2002, the U.S. Treasury Department formally designated BIF as a financier of terrorism. In addition to the evidence already cited, the Department said that BIF had “lent direct logistical support in 1998 to Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, a bin Laden lieutenant present at the founding of al Qaida”; that BIF “is also linked to Mohamed Loay Bayazid, who was implicated in the U.S. embassy bombings trial for his efforts, approved by Salim, to obtain weapons components on behalf of bin Laden in 1993-1994”; and that “in the late 1990s, Saif al Islam el Masry, a member of al Qaida’s [consultation council], worked as an officer in BIF’s Chechnya office.”
After pleading guilty in U.S. Federal Court, BIF’s then-chief executive officer Enaam Arnaout began serving a ten-year sentence for racketeering in 2003.
Because of its clear record as a front for al Qaeda, BIF is now banned worldwide by the United Nations Security Council Committee.
Over the course of its history, BIF was active in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo and Zenica), Canada, China, Croatia, Georgia (Duisi and Tbilisi), the Netherlands, Pakistan (Islamabad, Peshawar), the Palestinian Territories, Russia (Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Moscow), Saudi Arabia (Riyadh and Jeddah), Sudan, Tajikistan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Yemen.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Adel bin Abdul-Jalil Batterjee
Jose (a.k.a. Abdullah al Muhajir) Padilla
Mohammed Jamal Khalifa
Siraj Wahhaj
Islamic Committee for Palestine (ICP)
International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO)
SAAR Foundation (SAFA Trust Group) (SAAR)
Help The Needy (HTN)
Muslim World League (MWL)
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF)
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Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company is an independent publisher of religious books, from academic books and reference works in theology, biblical studies, and religious history to popular titles in spirituality, social and cultural criticism, and literature.
Founded in 1911, the company has developed a reputation for publishing excellent literary and intellectual works and a myriad of responsible viewpoints from across the religious spectrum. In the spirit of this tradition, Eerdmans looks forward to expansion in the area of digital publishing to offer its trusted and groundbreaking resources to an even wider audience of academics, lay and ministry leaders, and general readers.
Eerdmans also publishes quality children's book under its imprint, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers. These children's books tell delightful stories about adventure, family, and friendship, but they also help children wrestle with special issues, such as grief, divorce, racism, poverty, and war. Some of our best-selling kids books include The Child's Story Bible by Catherine F. Vos and Leading Little Ones to God by Marian M. Schoolland and Paul Stoub. Our children's books have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Caldecott, awarded to A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet.
William B. Eerdmans Sr., our founder, believed that responsible viewpoints from across the religious spectrum should be given opportunity for expression and that high literary and intellectual standards were of utmost importance. His publishing company continues to operate according to these beliefs. Thus, deeply rooted in the historic Christian tradition, ecumenical in spirit, open to emerging dialogue with other faiths, Eerdmans continues to commit itself to the life of the religious academy, to the church, and to the role of religion in culture.
From ten cent specials for Dutch farmers in 1910 to over 1000 titles in print currently, the William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has firmly held to the motto established by its founder William B. Eerdmans, Sr.: "The finest in religious literature."
The son of a Dutch textile manufacturer, Eerdmans immigrated to Grand Rapids from the Netherlands in 1902, and began peddling books to support himself while attending Calvin Theological Seminary. In 1911 Eerdmans quit the seminary, convinced that he would be "a misfit in the ministry," and on August 16, 1911, he and Brant Sevensma formed the Eerdmans-Sevensma Company, a dealership specializing in theological textbooks.
By 1922 Eerdmans was sole owner of the company, then renamed the William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. Many of Eerdmans earliest books were classic theological works by European scholars, and the initial volumes were printed in the Dutch language.
The company distinguished itself in the early years with its numerous volumes on and about John Calvin, including a new printing of the 50-volume "Commentary of John Calvin" published at a cost of $300,000. Calvin's Institutes are still to be found on Eerdmans' list as well as a number of books about John Calvin.
Eerdmans' reputation gradually spread through philanthropic book awards, through generous financial backing of Christian organizations, and through William Eerdmans' propensity for publishing only those books which lived up to his standards of excellence.
Although much of Eerdmans' initial success was predicated on theological and reference works, the company also concerned itself with other genres. In the Fall 1945 issue of "Eerdmans' Quarterly Observer," William Eerdmans elaborated on the scope of the company:
"We should not limit ourselves to a certain field or type of book. There are good books in all the various phases of life and human experience. We should feed our minds with a variety of thoughts, as we do our stomachs with a variety of foods. . . .
Great books are like mountain tops. They take us toward the skies, a new realm, and a new vision of the world and creation . . . . The greatest of all books are those that bring us near Divine truth, with a message of righteousness to all mankind."
That sort of continuing commitment has, over the years, brought into the Eerdmans fold a wide range of authors, including C. S. Lewis, William Dever, Charles Williams, George MacDonald, Karl Barth, Russell Kirk, Richard Lischer, John Stott, Lewis Smedes, John Howard Yoder, Richard John Neuhaus, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Richard Mouw, N.T. Wright, James D. G. Dunn, Marva Dawn, Eugene Peterson, Philip Yancey, Martin Marty, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Rowan Williams, Joan Chittister, Dorothy Day, and John Polkinghorne.
William B. Eerdmans, Sr., died in 1966 and was succeeded by his son, William B. Eerdmans, Jr., who maintains the high literary and intellectual standards the company has always known.
The social ferment of the 1960s introduced a new sphere of books to the company. With the belief that responsible viewpoints from all along the Christian spectrum should be given opportunity for expression, Eerdmans has welcomed books on social criticism, politics, church-state issues, and a myriad of current issues from abortion to racism to medical ethics.
But the mainstay of Eerdmans' backlist remains the numerous volumes of biblical and theological reference works like the New International Commentary series, and various Bible dictionaries, concordances, and handbooks. Massive reference works, like the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (commonly known as "Kittel") and the companion Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament (still in progress) have been translated from the German. 1999 saw the publication of the first volume of another important reference work, The Encyclopedia of Christianity, a translation of the acclaimed German work Evangelisches Kirchenlexicon. In 2000 the one-volume Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible was released and quickly became an invaluable tool for Bible readers.
Current president Bill Eerdmans foresees a healthy future for the company. "It's true that we are a small company, and we will probably remain small, but that allows us a certain amount of freedom to say what we will and will not publish," says Eerdmans. He also foresees a further broadening of the kind of books the company will publish: "We recognize that there are sides and positions and distinctions. As publishers we'll publish both sides if the contribution is responsible."
But whatever the future and despite the growth and inevitable change-Eerdmans can no longer boast of offering books for a mere dime!-what has not changed, and seems likely not to change, is the determination to serve the reading public with high quality religious publications-books that "take us toward the skies. . . ."
Eerdmans celebrates 100 years of "the finest in religious literature."
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal: "We Are a Nation of Immigrants."
"The majority of the American people do understand that we are a nation of immigrants. We have always valued that and held it up as one of the reasons that America is great."
As told to Mattie Kahn
The statistics aren't good. According to recent estimates, women make up just under 20 percent of Congress and less than 25 percent of all state legislatures. Only six of our nation's governors are women—12 percent. Of course, we've never elected a woman president. But we are 51 percent of the population. And the research shows that when women participate in government, we make it run better, more collaboratively. We're a check on partisan gridlock. Ladies, we get shit done. Historically, women have needed to be convinced to enter politics, to be asked. But within weeks of the 2016 presidential election, thousands of women have announced they plan to run. And we want them to win. So, we're giving them and the women who will follow them a weekly example of a woman who has won, who did it. The point: You can, too.
Pramila Jayapal is the first Indian-American woman to serve in the House of Representatives, elected from Washington State where she was previously a state senator. During her congressional race, Sen. Bernie Sanders came out to endorse her for her strong progressive record.
Before she ran for office, the first-generation American was the executive director of OneAmerica, an immigrant and civil rights-oriented advocacy organization she founded to respond to a wave of violent attacks on Sikhs and Muslims post-9/11. She chose to spend Inauguration Day with constituents in Seattle, Washington, talking about issues around immigration and human rights.
When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that's what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there. But when I got to college and actually had a chance to choose what I wanted, I started to focus more and more on how I could do something that was going to make the world better and that led me down the activist path.
It was a little bit of a slow burn because I did start out on Wall Street and it took some time to realize that really wasn't what I wanted to do. ... I went to graduate school, and in between my two years of business school, I went to work in Thailand along the borders between Laos and Cambodia, doing economic development. That's when I really felt like, this is where I need to be.
Jayapal during the congressional new member orientation room lottery draw. She got a good number.
I come from a state in India that is a matrilineal state, Kerala. And so women really are seen as very powerful. My great aunt was one of the first OB-GYNs in India. She wrote the definitive textbook for students who were studying to be OB-GYNs and spent a lot of time in the rural villages doing her work. When I went back to India years later on a fellowship and I was working in northern India, people would practically fall at my feet when they heard that I was her great niece. Her work was so crucial for women and for reproductive health in India.
Eventually, I started my own immigrant advocacy non-profit, OneAmerica, and it became the largest immigrant advocacy group in the state. We had a national profile. And then I left to work on a national campaign called We Belong Together. And I realized, doing all of that work for 15 years, that instead of trying to get other people to do the things we felt needed to be done, it was time for me to just step up and try to do it myself from the inside. And frankly, I was really very tired of never—or very rarely—seeing people like me represented in politics. I felt that we needed far more women, far more people of color, far more activists involved in this process.
Frankly, I was really very tired of never—or very rarely—seeing people like me represented in politics.
I'm not a complainer. I'm a doer. So if I see something is wrong, then I feel like I have to get in there and try to fix it. And so that's when I decided to run. I ran for the state senate and became the only woman of color in the state senate and the first Indian-American ever elected to the Washington State Legislature. It is very embarrassing, I think, that that was true. It's often been lonely. When you're in the state legislature and you're the only woman of color, you can form friendships. But a lot of the times you have to learn to process what's going on, what you do and don't say—and you have learn to process them on your own because there just aren't always a lot of people who really share your experience.
I rely a lot on my breath. I find it to be a really stabilizing influence for me when I'm nervous, when I'm anxious, when I do feel alone. I have a number of breathing rituals that I do. I have a little mantra that I say to myself, accompanied by breathing. I really like candles, too, to mark a particular moment. I have a little yoga ritual that I do just to move my body around. Whatever I do, it's usually very fast because often I don't have the kind of time that I would like to. All of those things have been really important pieces for me to ground myself in who I am and what my voice is. With a public platform, you have to have a very clear voice and authenticity is very important to me.
I've always felt and seen sexism, because I'm often one of few women in a room. And racism as well. But during this last campaign, I think I felt it the most strongly.
I've found that there are so many amazing people who want to support you and want to make a difference. What you just need to do is tap into that energy and a campaign allows you to do that in a very interesting way. I love knocking on doors. I love it. A lot of people don't like it, but to me it's an honor to get three minutes on a door with someone you've never met who will sometimes tell you their deepest fears, their concerns, their hopes. I take that very seriously. The hardest bit is how much money you have to raise, particularly for congressional races. It's not fun. We tried to change that as much as we could. We had 83,000 people across the country that contributed to my campaign. The average amount they donated was $23. I tell people who want to run but are afraid because they're not wealthy, I tell them, "You don't have to be wealthy. You just have to find networks of people who believe in you and believe in your vision." But it's hard. And it's so not fun.
I've always felt and seen sexism, because I'm often one of few women in a room. And racism as well. But during this last campaign, I think I felt it the most strongly. You notice how media does not talk about your accomplishments. They might cover you, but they will not list your accomplishment. When they cover men, they count all of their accomplishments. I had to take some reporters on on that during the campaign. It's so easy to draw women as caricatures, and we just do not see it happen that way for men. Some of the attacks that I saw in the very last month were the worst, partially because I was winning, and when you're winning you get attacked. They seemed to draw on the worst stereotypes about women, that we're ineffective, that we scream too much but never get work done, that we fly off the handle at the littlest slight. Those criticisms often tap into both gender and race, and sometimes I felt reporters weren't even aware that they were doing that.
It is the right time for me to be here. In some odd way, I feel lucky. I have a lot of experience on these issues—around immigrants, especially. And I have a lot of experience fighting back and winning. Obviously, this is going to be a very difficult time because Democrats don't control either chamber and we don't control the White House. We may lose before we win. I understand that. But we have to believe in the core values of our country—democracy, inclusion, equality.
35 years ago, I was a new American. To today's immigrants: Welcome. I will do everything in my power to safeguard your dreams. #TBT pic.twitter.com/ehykZB2t1g
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) January 27, 2017
I always used to say immigration is not about immigration, it is about who we want to be as a country and what we're willing to stand up for. We have to show what we're willing to stand up for. I intend to lead the opposition. I will challenge whatever comes out and am looking not only at Congress but to the public. We have to win in the court of public opinion. Trump wants to take us backward, but the reality is that the majority of the American people do understand that we are a nation of immigrants. We have always valued that and held it up as one of the reasons that America is great. We have to continue to fight for that, and I don't think there's anyone who's better to do that than I am.
Many years ago, Gloria Steinem, who's been a great mentor to me, said, "Every rung of the ladder that we climb, we have to have a hand outstretched to make sure that we're pulling somebody else along with us." I have always believed that. And I'm ready to do whatever I can now not only to elevate the issues that we need to elevate, but to build the movement that is going to be the future of this nation, and that is going to be women; it is going to be women of color; it is going to be young people; it is going to be all the people who refuse to accept that America can be great without all of our voices.
This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
Mattie Kahn Mattie Kahn is a writer who lives in New York.
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Can airline customer service rise to new heights?
The experience of passengers like Nina Boal makes me optimistic about the future of air travel.
An information technology specialist for a government agency in Baltimore, Boal ran into trouble recently when she flew to her mother’s funeral in Chicago. Her fibromyalgia and severe arthritis made it difficult to board the aircraft.
Delta Air Lines staff bent over backward to make the flight as comfortable as possible, she says. It switched her seats to accommodate her mobility challenges, and its agents helped lift her into the seat. They even apologized for the difficulties, even though “there was nothing for them to apologize about,” she says. “Because of their assistance, I was able to get to my mother’s funeral.
Delta didn’t leave well enough alone.
After Boal returned to Baltimore, an airline representative phoned and apologized again, offering a dedicated number for disabled assistance the next time she flies. The airline also offered her a $100 flight credit.
“Not all airlines think only of profits,” Boal says. “There are some legacy airlines, like Delta, that truly want to help passengers get to where they need to, regardless of disabilities.”
But stories like Boal’s aren’t the only thing that make me hopeful. Hard numbers do, too. The industry’s customer-service scores, as tracked by the authoritative American Customer Satisfaction Index, jumped 3.1 percent to their highest level in a decade last year. Granted, its aggregate score of 67 still leaves something to be desired, but at least it’s heading in the right direction.
I’ve also spent time talking with airline executives about their long-term service goals. Last year, I visited with United Airlines in Chicago and Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, and I was surprised by what I learned.
Let me start with my most recent visit with Delta in mid-December. The last time I’d dropped by its corporate headquarters, Delta had just merged with Northwest Airlines, and its customers were unhappy, to put it mildly. About 2 out of every 9 complaints to the Transportation Department in 2010 involved a Delta mainline flight, which was twice the number of grievances lodged against the second-most-complained-about carrier, American.
The executives I met with then seemed nervous. They insisted that most of my interviews take place off the record and spent a considerable amount of time apologizing. They blamed many of their problems on a difficult merger but outlined an ambitious plan which, they promised me, would improve customer service. This included initiatives to empower employees to help passengers, deploy more staff into key service positions and use technology to proactively help customers during flight delays.
The two years that followed weren’t easy, but I started noticing a significant drop in the number of complaints about Delta I received starting in early 2012. By the middle of the year, they’d all but vanished. So when I met with Allison Ausband, Delta’s vice president for reservations sales and customer care, we had a lot to talk about.
The most telling part of our interview came near the end, when I asked what customer service meant to Delta. Did it have the support of senior management? Ausband bolted out of her seat and rifled through a folder, then slid a stack of papers across the table toward me. “We have support at the highest level,” she said. “I meet with Richard Anderson [Delta’s chief executive] every month. We review every number.”
I paged through her November presentation. It was an annotated report containing every customer service metric, including consumer complaints, denied boardings and on-time arrivals and departures. “Better customer service is good for shareholders?” I asked, a little rhetorically.
“Yes,” she says. “That’s how we feel.”
When I visited with United in August, they were roughly in the same place that Delta had found itself in back in 2010. United’s merger with Continental was fraught with difficulties, including a disastrous integration of reservation systems, and the complaints were piling up. Almost every executive I met with, with the possible exception of United’s head chef, issued similar pro-forma apologies.
Scott O’Leary, United’s managing director of customer solutions, said that the integration had been “hard,” adding, “We are not running a good operation.” But in a lengthy interview, he outlined plans similar to Delta’s for improving United’s customer service. United is using a combination of technology, extra staff and policy changes to make your next flight go more smoothly. A new program called IROP 2.0 (that’s airline-speak for irregular operations) was just rolling out as the summer wound down.
Change, O’Leary cautioned, “won’t happen overnight.”
That August, 467 complaints were filed against United with the Transportation Department, more than twice as many as the next airline, American. In September, the number fell to 211 complaints. And in October, it slid to 203. That’s the right direction.
A skeptic might say that I’m just witnessing the normal hiccups and convulsions that happen during an airline merger, a phenomenon that will just repeat itself if American Airlines and US Airways hook up.
A cynic might point out that Delta has every reason to treat disabled customers like Boal as deities. After all, didn’t the Department of Transportation fine Delta a record $2 million for “egregious” violations of its disability rules in 2011?
Both would have a point. But I see something else unfolding here. It’s a realization that airlines can’t take their customers for granted, even the ones flying on discounted fares. Delta appropriately refers to these leisure travelers as “essential” passengers.
Maybe — just maybe — airlines have realized that the passengers in the back of the plane are important, too. Maybe in 2013 they want to make all their customers happy, not just the ones with platinum cards.
Wouldn’t that be something?
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One of these following facts about the Berlin Wall should probably give you much information about this wall. The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area that contained anti-vehicle trenches, “fakir beds” and other defenses. For further information, to get you to know more about this wall, below are some facts about the Berlin Wall you might be interested in.
Facts about the Berlin Wall 1: Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart
The Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart” by GDR authorities, implying that neighboring West Germany had not been fully de-Nazified. The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the “Wall of Shame” while condemning the Wall’s restriction on freedom of movement.
Facts about the Berlin Wall 2: Preventing East Germany from Entering West Germany
The Berlin Wall was constructed as a way of preventing East Germans from entering West Germany. It was not so much a boundary for West Germans wanting to enter the East, who were able to do so by obtaining a permit several weeks in advance. It didn’t face much opposition by the western powers as its construction confirmed that the Soviet Union were not planning to take over West Berlin.
Facts about the Berlin Wall – Berlin memorial
Facts about the Berlin Wall 3: Crossing the Border
Official figures show that at least 136 people died trying to cross the border. People attempting to get from East to West were regarded as traitors and guards were instructed to shoot at them if they attempted to cross, although not to kill them.
Facts about the Berlin Wall 4: Graffiti
The west side of the Berlin wall was covered in graffiti. The East side was not.
Facts about the Berlin Wall – Berlin Wall
Facts about the Berlin Wall 5: Propaganda Disaster
The Berlin Wall was something of a propaganda disaster for the Soviet Union and East Germany. It showed the communists to be tyrannical in the way they controlled the movement of their people and their willingness to shoot at people they considered to be traitors.
Facts about the Berlin Wall 6: Getting Rid of Rubbish
West Berliners used the Berlin Wall as an ideal way of getting rid of rubbish. If they had anything that needed throwing away, they threw it over the wall. After all, it wasn’t as if they would be made to go over it to fetch it back.
Facts about the Berlin Wall – East Berlin ‘Death Strip’
Facts about the Berlin Wall 7: Looking for Freedom
Michael Knight himself, David Hassellhoff, is huge in Germany. The Hoff performed his hit “Looking For Freedom” while standing on the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Facts about the Berlin Wall 8: Checkpoint Charlie
Despite there being a wall separating East from West. However, there were a number of checkpoints that allowed passage to and from the two sides. The most famous of these was Checkpoint Charlie, a checkpoint separating the American-controlled zone of West Berlin from the Soviet-controlled East Berlin. The guard house for Checkpoint Charlie was removed in October 1990 and is now situated in the Allied Museum in Berlin-Zehlendorf.
Facts about the Berlin Wall 9: Demolition of the Wall
Although November 9th 1989 is recognised as the date of the fall of the Berlin Wall. However, official demolition of it didn’t start until June 13th 1990. Between November 9th and June 13th, border controls still existed, although were less strict that previously. Parts of the wall was chipped away by Germans to keep as souvenirs/sell on eBay. In fact, people who did this were known as “wall woodpeckers”. Some parts of the wall had been taken down but only to make way for more crossing points.
Facts about the Berlin Wall 10: Opposition
In some European capitals at the time, there was a deep anxiety over prospects for a reunified Germany. In September 1989, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pleaded with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev not to let the Berlin Wall fall and confided that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it.
Facts about the Berlin Wall – Structure
Hope you would find those Berlin wall facts really interesting, useful and helpful for your additional reading.
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SAG Swept Away by "Mystic River"
by Lia Haberman | Thu., Jan. 15, 2004 8:00 AM
It was hardly a pleasure cruise, but Sean Penn's heartwrenching performance in Mystic River has his Tinseltown peers on board.
The Clint Eastwood adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel was a leading contender among the 10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, announced Thursday morning.
Not only did the dramatic thriller garner a Best Actor nod for Sean Penn and a Supporting Actor nomination for Tim Robbins, the entire cast was recognized in the Best Ensemble category.
It's a major vote of confidence for Mystic, which has already reaped kudos from the Broadcast Critics and the National Board of Review. Because actors comprise the largest voting bloc of the Motion Picture Academy, the SAGs are often key predictors of Oscar glory.
But the weighty film could be given a run for its money by fellow Best Ensemble nominees, including Jim Sheridan's Irish-American family drama In America, Peter Jackson's epic trilogy topper The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, horse-race saga Seabiscuit and quirky dramedy The Station Agent.
Station Agent, from first-time director Thomas McCarthy, could provide some worthy competition. It also racked up three SAG nominations, including Best Actor and Actress nods for stars Peter Dinklage and Patricia Clarkson, who's also competing for a Best Supporting win for Pieces of April.
Notable snubs in the Ensemble category include several critical faves garnering early Oscar buzz, such as Cold Mountain, which managed to rack up a Best Supporting nom for Renée Zellweger but zilch for leading lady Nicole Kidman; Lost in Translation, which nabbed Bill Murray a Best Actor nod but nothing for costar Scarlett Johansson; Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, which was shut out of the SAG Awards entirely; and The Last Samurai, recognized only for Best Supporting Actor nominee Ken Watanabe and not star Tom Cruise.
In the race for leading man, Dinklage, Murray and Penn will compete against Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) and Ben Kingsley (House of Sand and Fog), while Clarkson faces off against Diane Keaton (Something's Gotta Give); Charlize Theron (Monster); Naomi Watts (21 Grams); and Evan Rachel Wood (Thirteen).
Also of note among the Motion Picture category: Teens gone wild tale Thirteen received bookend noms for Best Actress nominee Wood and Best Supporting contender Holly Hunter, and Sin City love story The Cooler garnered bids for Best Supporting Actor and Actress Alec Baldwin and Maria Bello.
Rounding out the Supporting category for the fellas are Baldwin, Robbins and Watanabe, versus Chris Cooper (Seabiscuit) and Benicio Del Toro (21 Grams), while Bello, Clarkson, Hunter and Zellweger will square off against Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider).
Notable nominations (and snubs) on the boob tube side: leading powerhouse laffer Everybody Loves Raymond, which received a grand total of six nominations, including one apiece for stars Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle and Brad Garrett, plus a nod to the cast as a whole.
Meanwhile, HBO dominated the TV movie or miniseries category with Angels in America, which notched six nominations for stars Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson.
Left out of the TV race were most of the Friends cast, including perennial favorite Jennifer Aniston. Lisa Kudrow was the only one to make the cut. Ditto for the Sex and the City women. However, both shows were nominated for outstanding ensembles, which pits them against Raymond, Frasier and Will & Grace.
Competing on the dramatic side are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Law & Order, Six Feet Under, The West Wing and Without a Trace.
The SAG Award nominees were chosen by 4,200 randomly selected members of the actors' union with the final awards voted on by all 98,000 members. The 10th annual awards fest, honoring both TV and film, will air from the Shrine Auditorium Feb. 22 on TNT at 8 p.m.
A complete rundown of the nominees:
Male Actor in a Leading Role: Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Peter Dinklage, The Station Agent Ben Kingsley, House of Sand and Fog Bill Murray, Lost in Translation Sean Penn, Mystic River
Female Actor in a Leading Role: Patricia Clarkson, The Station Agent Diane Keaton, Something's Gotta Give Charlize Theron, Monster Naomi Watts, 21 Grams Evan Rachel Wood, Thirteen
Male Actor in a Supporting Role: Alec Baldwin, The Cooler Chris Cooper, Seabiscuit Benicio Del Toro, 21 Grams Tim Robbins, Mystic River Ken Watanabe, The Last Samurai
Female Actor in a Supporting Role: Mario Bello, The Cooler Keisha Castle-Hughes, Whale Rider Patricia Clarkson, Pieces of April Holly Hunter, Thirteen Renée Zellweger, Cold Mountain
Ensemble: In America The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Mystic River Seabiscuit The Station Agent
Male Actor, Drama Series: Peter Krause, Six Feet Under Anthony LaPaglia, Without a Trace Martin Sheen, West Wing Kiefer Sutherland, 24 Treat Williams, Everwood
Female Actor, Drama Series: Stockard Channing, West Wing Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under Tyne Daly, Judging Amy Jennifer Garner, Alias Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Allison Janney, West Wing
Male Actor, Comedy Series: Peter Boyle, Everybody Loves Raymond Brad Garrett, Everybody Loves Raymond Sean Hayes, Will & Grace Ray Romano, Everybody Loves Raymond Tony Shalhoub, Monk
Female Actor, Comedy Series: Patricia Heaton, Everybody Loves Raymond Lisa Kudrow, Friends Debra Messing, Will & Grace Megan Mullally, Will & Grace Doris Roberts, Everybody Loves Raymond
Ensemble, Drama Series: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Law & Order Six Feet Under The West Wing Without a Trace
Ensemble, Comedy Series: Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Friends Sex and the City Will & Grace
Male Actor, Television Movie or Miniseries: Justin Kirk, Angels in America Paul Newman, Our Town Al Pacino, Angels in America Forest Whitaker, Deacons for Defense Jeffrey Wright, Angels in America
Female Actor, Television Movie or Miniseries: Anne Bancroft, Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone Helen Mirren, Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone Mary-Louise Parker, Angels in America Meryl Streep, Angels in America Emma Thompson, Angels in America
Life Achievement Award: Karl Malden
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Discrimination exceptions to the rules
Discrimination - exceptions to the rules
Some discriminatory behaviour can be defended - fair enough?
It is discrimination to treat someone unfairly or to disadvantage them because they have a particular personal characteristic or belong to a certain group. Discrimination is generally against the law, but there are exceptions.
It is important to understand that exceptions do not automatically place an action beyond the reach of the law. A person can still make a complaint about those actions to the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner. Those wishing to take advantage of the exception will generally be required to prove the exception applies in their circumstances.
Exceptions are made under Tasmanian discrimination law for actions designed to promote equal opportunity or to benefit a group that is disadvantaged or has needs based on its members’ personal characteristics. For example, programs and services provided only to a particular group of people, such as a program to help newly arrived immigrants settle in Tasmania, or a program to help older Tasmanians to return to the workforce, are likely to be covered by an exception in the law.
There is also an exception for action that is reasonably necessary to comply with a law or the decision of a court or tribunal. For example, it is lawful for a pub to refuse to sell alcohol to a person under the age of 18, as the Tasmanian liquor licensing law states no-one under 18 may be served or sold alcohol.
Specific exceptions apply to discrimination on the basis of particular personal characteristics. For example, it is not against the law to reject the application of a boy who wishes to enrol at an all girls’ school, or to exclude a man who wants to join a competitive women’s sporting team.
Sometimes an exception applies to discrimination in employment because there is a genuine occupational need to do so. For example, it is a genuine requirement for a bus driver to hold the appropriate vehicle driver’s licence. It would not be against the law to exclude people without that licence.
An exception also applies to potentially discriminatory statements made for the purposes of accurately and fairly reporting a public act, or where the statement is made in good faith in the public interest. For example, a newspaper may accurately report statements made in a public speech at a white supremacist rally. While the statements made at the rally may fall foul of discrimination law, the reporting of them does not.
If you are planning to do something that may be seen as discriminatory but you think is valid or falls within an exception, then it is wise to apply to the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner for an exemption for that activity (see separate brochure: Discrimination law – should you be exempt?).
If you would like to know more about exceptions or to apply for an exemption for a particular activity, please contact us.
The law in action
Mary moves into a new neighbourhood and notices an advertisement for events conducted by the ‘60s and over club’. Her request to become a member is rejected because she is only 50 years of age. She believes the action is discriminatory, but is told by our office it is not unlawful to discriminate on the basis of age in respect of membership of this particular club, as it is an age-specific club.
Luka applies for a job as a security guard that requires good physical health and the need to occasionally undertake tasks involving high levels of physical exertion in dangerous situations where lives and safety may be at risk. Luka has a history of heart problems that are made worse by strenuous activity. He is told he is not suitable for the job. If Luka made a complaint about this, the employer may be able to defend its actions on the basis of Luka’s inability to meet the inherent requirements of the job.
Svetlana is a registered nurse who has developed difficulty hearing. Her employer dismisses her on the basis she is no longer able to perform the functions of her job, citing as an example her inability to use a stethoscope to hear patients’ heartbeats. Svetlana makes a discrimination complaint. The employer claims an exception applies because it believes Svetlana cannot fulfil the inherent requirements of the job. Our office helps the employer find a way to enable Svetlana to continue working. This includes the use of an electronic stethoscope that boosts volume. Svetlana returns to work and the complaint is resolved.
(the office of the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner)
Phone: 1300 305 062 (in Tasmania) or (03) 6165 7515
E-mail: office@equalopportunity.tas.gov.au
Web SMS: 0409 401 083
Translating and Interpreting Service: 131 450
TTY Users: Phone 133 677 then ask for 1300 305 062
Speak and Listen: 1300 555 727 then ask for 1300 305 062
Office: Level 1, 54 Victoria St, Hobart TAS 7000
Post: GPO Box 197, Hobart TAS 7001
Disclaimer: This information sheet is only a guide and should not be used as a substitute for legal advice.
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Chambers for Europe – Election an Opportunity for Ireland to Ensure its place at heart of EU
Ahead of the European Parliament elections taking place this May, Chambers Ireland and a delegation of representatives from around the Irish Chamber Network today (20 Feb 2019) launches its “Chambers for Europe” manifesto in Brussels.
Speaking at the European Parliament this morning, Chambers Ireland Chief Executive Ian Talbot calls on businesses and their employees to proactively engage with election candidates and highlight their priority concerns ahead of the upcoming election: “Despite collective acknowledgement of the positive role that EU membership continues to play for Ireland, in terms of both peace and economic prosperity, the European elections are often overlooked by voters. With the impending exit of the UK from the EU, Ireland needs to take its relationship with the European Union even more seriously.
“Within our Manifesto, we are calling on candidates for the Parliament elections to prioritise the following issues: investment in our cities and regions, an ambitious international trade agenda, a competitive and global approach to tax reform, a fully-connected digital Europe that supports innovation and a business-friendly framework for a sustainable circular economy.”
Chambers across Europe, and across Ireland, are working to ensure all candidates have a clear understanding of the business community’s priorities. The economic relationship we share with the EU, both in terms of the Single Market and our relationship with its institutions, has become even more valuable in light of the ongoing Brexit negotiations.
The launch of our manifesto this morning follows the announcement of a Pre-Election Partnership between our partner Eurochambres and the European Parliament to drive momentum and citizen engagement ahead of May.
Although Chambers are economic rather than political actors, our Network wants to do everything it can to ensure that citizens go to vote in May with a clear understanding of the importance of the EU and of the need to elect engaged, informed and committed MEPs for the next 5 years.
We call on businesses and citizens to seize this opportunity to make their voices heard and shape the future of Europe and the degree to which Ireland will benefit.”
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Nowitzki, Neuner named Germany's athletes of the year
NBA star Dirk Nowitzki and biathlete Magdalena Neuner have been named Germany's athletes of the year for 2011. Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund were voted Germany's top team.
Dirk Nowitzki (left) and Magdalena Neuner, 2011's best
The Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki, biathlete Magdalena Neuner and defending Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund have been named Germany's outstanding athletes of 2011.
The awards were handed out at a nationally televised ceremony broadcast from the southern town of Baden-Baden on Sunday.
Nowitzki, who became the first basketball player to win the award, was unable to attend the ceremony as the Mavericks are in the final days of training camp ahead of this start of this year's lockout-shortened NBA season on Christmas Day. In June, Nowitzki led the Mavericks to the NBA title and he was awarded with the MVP award for the series.
"After so many years that was by far the best year of my career," said Nowitzki. "Thanks to the sports journalists," joked the player in a televised link from Texas. "You have for the first time shown that you understand something about basketball."
The forward, who is one of the NBA's biggest stars, finished just ahead of last year's winner, Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel, in the male athlete category.
Going out on a high
Dortmund lifted the trophy last May
For Magdalena Neuner, the award comes near the end of a successful career in winter biathlon, a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
The 24-year-old Neuner, who also won the prize in 2007, announced a few weeks ago that she would retire from the sport at the end of the 2011-2012 season.
"To have been named an athlete of the year on two occasions is a really great achievement," said Neuner. She finished well ahead of her nearest competitor, tennis star Andrea Petkovic, in voting in the female athlete category.
In the team category, the award went to Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund, who took the title in May.
"The championship is a fairy tale that came true," said the soccer team's head coach, Jürgen Klopp.
As in every year since 1947, the winners were selected by a panel of German sports writers.
Author: Richard Connor, Chuck Penfold (dpa, SID)
Editor: Martin Kuebler
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Photographing actors - my mini photo essay
Recently I was asked to photograph actors during a rehearsal for a new play called "The grammar of love" at the Oval House Theatre in south London. It was an exciting opportunity as I had never worked with actors as a photographer.
My very good friend, Nuala O'Sullivan, who wrote the play, wanted the images to be in B&W. Mostly. That was the brief. The rest was up to me.
The biggest challenge was the space. A small rehearsal room painted black, with very harsh fluorescent lighting. Small and therefore very intimate too. Which was good for me, but I wasn't sure how the actors would react to having a lens in their faces pretty much all the time.
Well, I'm glad to report they coped well. The constant clicking didn't distract them, they didn't fluff their lines, although I had to give up using flash as that proved too much in a small confined space like that.
The other tricky bit was the fact I saw only a few crucial scenes, but not the whole play. So I had to work out who the characters were and what the chemistry between them was.
But more importantly, I also had to remain one step ahead of them. In such a small space, without a prior knowledge of the script, I had no idea where they would move of what they would do next. There were a couple of moments when I had to beat a hasty retreat when an actor lunged towards me unexpectedly.
I guess it was more stressful for them than it was for me - after all they couldn't stop mid-sentence to let me know they were about to move my way. But a great learning experience for me. I'm sure seasoned photojournalists deal with such situations on a daily basis.
I was wondering whether to say much about the play itself, but I won't. All you need to know is that it takes place in Tokyo and passions run high... I'll let the images speak for themselves.
However, I had to withhold a few shots in order not to give away too much - I don't want to spoil it for Nuala. Or you. With a bit of luck, the play should open at the Oval House Theatre this autumn. And you should definitely see it then.
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Donald Trump and Barack Obama hold talks at the White House
President Barack Obama and his successor Donald Trump have held talks at the White House after the Republican businessman’s shock election victory.
The 90-minute behind-closed-doors meeting on Thursday morning was held to discuss the handover of power.
In an attempt to bury past differences, both men displayed a conciliatory tone.
Speaking to reporters, President Obama said he and the President-elect had held an ‘‘excellent’‘ and ‘‘wide-ranging meeting’‘. Obama also said he would do everything he could to help his successor.
“Most of all, I want to emphasise to you, Mr. President-elect, that we now are going to do everything we can to help you succeed because if you succeed then the country succeeds,” Obama said.
For his part, Trump said it was a ‘‘great honour’‘ to meet the president and said he looked forward to future meetings.
“I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel. He explained some of the difficulties, some of the high flying assets and some of the really great things that have been achieved. So Mr. President, it was a great honour being with you and I look forward to being with you many many more times in the future,” Trump said.
The public display of unity and respectful tone stood in stark contrast to the often bitter exchanges which characterised the divisive election campaign.
Ahead of Tuesday’s vote Obama had called Trump, who has never held elected office, ‘‘uniquely unqualified” to be president.
Trump has vowed to overturn many of what Obama sees as his achievements over the past eight years, including the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.
He has also said his immediate priorities will be to restore the country’s infrastructure and doubling its economic growth.
The president-elect was accompanied to the White House by his wife, Melania, who held talks with First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Norfolk pensioners show care homes can be dignified
PUBLISHED: 09:19 14 December 2010 | UPDATED: 14:10 16 December 2010
By VICTORIA LEGGETT
Residents from four Norfolk care homes are the stars of a new film designed to give their perspective on what dignity means to them.; The film, called ‘I am’, features residents and care home workers from Rebecca Court in Heacham, St Edmunds Home in Attleborough, Philadelphia House in Norwich and Rose Meadow in North Walsham. Pictured: at the George Hotel in Swaffham for the film's premiere are Philadelphia House care assistants (L) Becky Aldiss and Marie Gray with resident Doug Lee.
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Pensioners from Norwich, North Walsham and Attleborough are the stars of a new film which aims to show life in a care home does not have to be undignified.
Nipping out for a wander round the park, eating a beetroot sandwich whenever you fancy one and not having your underwear mixed up with someone else’s.
For a group of Norfolk pensioners, that is what dignity in old age means to them.
Now they have made their screen debuts to star in a short film and explain how respect, independence, privacy and happiness are key to maintaining it.
For many, those terms are not often associated with care homes which more readily evoke images of communal living spaces and a heavy reliance on a series of helpers.
But that is something the stars of I Am – who appear alongside fellow residents and workers at the four care homes where they live – hope to change.
Through the eyes of Doug Lee, of Philadelphia House in Norwich, Geoff Ward and Rita Dolby, who live at Rosemeadow in North Walsham, and Gwen Buckle, of St Edmund’s at Attleborough, the Norfolk County Council film aims to give an insight into their experiences.
Vicky Cowap, quality improvement manager at the council, said the film was a true reflection of the residents’ experience. She said: “We very much wanted them to lead it. It’s totally un-scripted.”
About 100 hours of footage was shot and condensed into the 16-minute film which was premiered in front of its stars at the George Hotel in Swaffham yesterday.
It will now be used to train future carers to stress to them the importance of helping maintain the residents’ self-respect in a setting that is rarely considered dignified.
Care assistant Rebecca Aldiss, who works at Philadelphia House in Norwich, said it was important to show people how much care homes had changed in the past two decades.
She said: “I would never ever put my parents into a car home with how they were 20 years ago. I was shocked. It’s amazing how much it has changed for the better. Individuals are treated as individuals.”
The film will also be used to reassure people facing the prospect of moving into residential care.
Mrs Cowap said many people feared their independence would be the first thing to go when moving to a care home.
“You think you are going to lose your individuality,” she said. “What we wanted to do with the film is show you can still live a good life, albeit in a care home.”
The film has been produced by the county council, which runs 26 residential care homes and 13 housing-with-care units in Norfolk, including those featured in the film.
It was funded from by at £10,000 grant from the Department of Health’s Dignity in Care campaign.
Doug Lee’s starring role in I Am sees him exploring Waterloo Park with care assistant Rebecca Aldis.
The 90-year-old has been at Philadelphia House in Norwich for just over a year and said the film reflects life in a care home perfectly.
“I’m not restricted in any way,” he said. “I do as I like to a certain extent and I can’t praise the carers enough. I didn’t think there were people like that.
“Since I have been here, I have never wanted for anything and, within reason, what I have asked for I have got.”
The father-of-one, who lived in Bowthorpe with one of his grand-daughters before moving to Philadelphia House, admitted he had not expected to maintain as much as independence as he had.
Gwen Buckle, 90, moved to St Edmund’s care home in Attleborough three years ago after a stroke left her in need of extra help.
She said dignity, for her, meant still being treated as an individual by her carers and maintaining her own space.
In I Am she talks about a time when the catering staff at St Edmund’s rustled her up a beetroot sandwich when there was nothing on the tea trolley she wanted.
“I thought so much of that,” said Mrs Buckle, who lived in Old Buckenham before moving to St Edmund’s.
Rita Dolby said knowing she would be listened to by staff at Rosemeadow care home in North Walsham was incredibly important.
The 87-year-old, who is a former school secretary, said: “They are anxious that you should have what you want. We have residents’ meeting and the things mentioned, very often, are implemented within a couple of days.”
Mrs Dolby, a mother-of-one, moved from her North Walsham home to Rosemeadow after operations on her hips..
Geoff Ward, who moved to Rosemeadow this year after suffering a stroke in January 2005, said life in the care home was what he made it. “I get to do the things I like, when I like,” he said.
The 72-year-old said one day he walked into his room and found his washing had been mixed up with somebody else’s but after raising it with his carers it was quickly dealt with. “I suggested laundry bags and that’s going to happen,” he said.
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GC Career Track – the path to success
Eversheds Sutherland launches a research report – GC Career Track for in-house lawyers
A new research report – GC Career Track published by Eversheds Sutherland has identified the most useful training and experience to succeed in-house.
The research, gathered from in-depth interviews of over 140 General Counsel (GC), aspiring GCs, The Law Society, BPP , University Law Departments and search firms, also identifies the obstacles faced by in-house lawyers when it comes to achieving their career ambitions and provides guidance as in-house counsel plot their career track towards the GC role or other senior management positions.
Recent Law Society figures reveal 30,000 in-house lawyers registered in England and Wales, which is the fastest growing category of lawyer year on year, yet GCs face a number of obstacles to progression including in-house structure, lack of relevant training and visibility.
At the same time the role of the in-house lawyer is facing fundamental change. Increasingly sophisticated technology and Artificial Intelligence, combined with an environment of growing regulation and compliance, means that the most successful GCs are now seen as a business adviser to the board. As a result, it is essential that in-house counsel are equipped with new and better management and analytical skills to enable them to provide the best service to the board.
Through a series of workshops with Eversheds Sutherland, GC’s shared their practical suggestions as to how the next generation need to develop their career skills. This included the need for formal management training, mentoring and gaining experience in a non-legal role either on secondment internally or with an external trusteeship or Non-executive role.
Watch Chris Fowler, General Counsel of BT’s Technology Services and Operations division, reflect on his in-house career with Eversheds Sutherland’s Client Development Partner Denise Jagger.
By analysing the skills and experience of existing GCs, there were some clear indicators of success. The report instructs aspiring GCs to develop better commercial awareness, take measured risks, move out of their comfort zone and greatly improve their communication and influencing skills. Meanwhile existing GCs need to plan for more succession, provide greater visibility of the path to succession and provide the right type of opportunities for their teams.
In addition to the report, Eversheds Sutherland has also developed an in-house competency framework as a guide to help legal teams produce their own framework and enable in-house to develop their own career path.
Commenting on the report, Client Development Partner Denise Jagger said:
“I hope that this report provides guidance to existing GCs seeking to plan for succession, assists aspiring GCs to plot their own career development and stimulates others in the profession to think about their suitability for roles not only in in–house legal management but in management more broadly.
“The rapidly changing nature of in-house means that some companies are providing opportunities for in-house to develop by making a broad business contribution but many do not. Educators also need to take responsibility as there is a lack of knowledge among law students as to what skills and characteristics are required beyond the purely technical ones and indeed the breadth and challenging nature of roles in-house.”
“Ultimately the most ambitious assume responsibility for their own development, however a clearer framework for progression would help ensure that the most talented are prepared to seize opportunities and to demonstrate the necessary skills and experience required to make it to the top.”
For more information on Eversheds Sutherland, visit eversheds-sutherland.com
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Evoke BC is a think tank: a research institute to explore new, innovative, and effective decision-making practices.
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How should our communities make decisions?
What will democracy look like in 50 years? In 100 years?
Evoke BC is a group of people dedicated to sharing, exploring and supporting new approaches to democratic decision-making.
New concepts, ideas, and practices will be posted every two weeks - so check back often for the latest in community based democracy!
Evoke BC Fellows:
Mark Friesen has a Master of Urban Studies degree from Simon Fraser University where he focused on governance and decision-making at the municipal scale. Mark works with nonprofit organizations in the design and implementation of stakeholder consultation projects, strategic planning engagements, organizational capacity assessments, and effective governance structures. He has a deep understanding and passion for democratic decision-making.
Kady Wong is an experienced community engagement leader with a wide range of experience, from facilitating watershed education for Metro Vancouver to project managing Simon Fraser University’s flagship Zero Waste Initiative. Currently, Kady is the Program Coordinator at SFU Public Square where she helps to convene diverse public dialogues and events on key public issues. As part of her extra-curricular activities, Kady is a fellow with Evoke BC. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University in Environmental Geography.
Terry Sidhu is a practicing Urban Planner with experience working in different Metro Vancouver and Canadian Cities. Terry has a depth of experience working with the Local Government Act in British Columbia along with navigating many policy documents and bylaws in different cities. In his experience, Terry has seen how political systems can affect the city that we live in and how decisions are made. In his work with Evoke BC, Terry hopes to bring to light some contradictions he has seen in decision making and pursue a more equitable system when it comes to budgeting, finance, and decisions about the built environment in British Columbia. Terry holds a masters degree in Urban Studies from Simon Fraser University.
Amelia Huang is a passionate advocate of sustainable and socially inclusive neighbourhoods, public participation, systems thinking and community economic development. She has an academic background in environmental geography and sustainable community development, and is currently enrolled in the master's program in Urban Studies at SFU. Before her return to school, Amelia spent 5 years as a part of a family owned and operated restaurant business right around the corner from City Hall. She has also been active in several citizen advisory bodies with the City of Vancouver, including the Active Transportation Policy Council and the City Planning Commission. She currently sits as a member of the Strathcona BIA Sustainability Committee, and as the co-chair of the Car Free Vancouver Society.
Katelyn McDougall has several years experience working with with non-profits, community research, communications, policy and service development, and is currently pursuing a Masters of Urban Studies degree at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on transportation finance and decision making within an intergovernmental context, and she has a keen interest in regional governance. She also works as a policy, research and public engagement consultant with a knack for facilitating discussion.
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After the release of our research paper Who's Counting the Dollars?concerning Community Amenity Contributions, we have asked candidates in this year's municipal election for their thoughts on our recommendations.
A land value capture wouldn't entirely replace the CAC system, but it would dramatically scale it back by creating a more transparent system for measuring the impact that upzoning or nearby public infrastructure investments have on land value, and then capturing a portion of that 'lift' in value to spend on community priorities (like affordable housing and more robust public transit). In addition…
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Newbern Lodge No. 97 of Arcadia, TX present the Community Builder Award to Barbara Scates
Cynthia Barrett
Newbern Lodge No. 97 of Arcadia, TX presented the Community Builder Award to Barbara Scates on January 5, 2019. Charlie O’Brian Brittain, Worshipful Master, led the evening’s event. Following a prayer and pledges to the American and Texas flags, Barbara Scates was presented the award. This prestigious award was established by the Grand Lodge of Texas so that lodges can formally recognize outstanding non-Masons who have distinguished themselves through their service to the community, local and state governments, places of worship, or to humanity at large. Community Builders are often found in service clubs, public school systems, religious activities, and all kinds of volunteer work. They are everywhere you look but often go unseen. According to Brittain, Mrs. Scates was given this award in recognition of distinguished service and personal contributions to the community and for her years of work at Excelsior School.
Barbara is married to Jerry Scates and they have three children, Angie Simmons, Michael Scates and Lloyd Scates. She is a CASA volunteer, an Ambassador with the Shelby County Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Shelby County Historical Society, a member of the Excelsior PTO, secretary/treasurer of the newly formed organization, Excelsior School Alumni and numerous other school and community projects. Being a parent and a grandparent is her most treasured profession. She finds time on occasion to spend a day on the lake fishing with her husband and usually a grandchild or two, but most days are spent lending a helping hand to others.
Mrs. Scates thanked the lodge for honoring her with this award. She questions why she was chosen for this recognition and related to the crowd, “I am a giver, I like to see things happen and most importantly, I like to make things happen. It’s just who I am.”
She also thanked the members of the Newbern lodge for their part in serving the community. She expressed her appreciation to the ladies of the Eastern Star for the food served to her and her family members on this occasion.
Congratulations Barbara Scates!
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Killer AI Defeated, Celebrated For Half A Century
Gil Press Contributor
I write about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation.
50 years ago, on April 2, 1968, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey had its world premiere at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C. Reflecting the mixed reactions to the film, Renata Adler wrote in The New York Times that it was "somewhere between hypnotic and immensely boring.”
The 160-minute film with only 40 minutes of dialogue went on to become “the movie that changed all movies forever,” as the poster for its 50th anniversary re-release modestly proclaims. There is no doubt, however, in its influence on popular culture, specifically on the widespread belief in the possibility of sentient machines possessed by their killer instincts.
HAL 9000 became known, even by many people who did not watch the movie, as the artificially intelligent computer killing one after the other the astronauts on a mission to Jupiter. Hollywood ending required that the one surviving astronaut, Dave Bowman, will triumph over the human-like machine. “Catchphrases like HAL's chilling ‘I'm sorry, I can't do that Dave’,” says Paul Whittington, “entered the popular lexicon.”
The Science-fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke, who worked with the director Stanley Kubrick on the plot for the movie (and later published a novel with the same title), said in an interview:
Of course the key person in the expedition was the computer HAL, who as everyone said is the only human character in the movie. HAL developed slowly. At one time we were going to have a female voice. Athena, I think was a suggested name. I don't know again when we changed to HAL. I've been trying for years to stamp out the legend that HAL was derived from IBM by the transmission of one letter. But, in fact, as I've said, in the book, HAL stands for Heuristic Algorithmic, H-A-L. And that means that it can work on a program's already set up, or it can look around for better solutions and you get the best of both worlds. So, that's how the name HAL originated.
That both Clarke and Kubrick have denied any intentional reference to IBM may have to do with the fact that IBM was one of the many organizations and individuals consulted while they created the film. They started the four-year process in 1964, the year IBM introduced its own masterpiece, the computer that sealed the company’s domination of the industry for the next quarter of a century.
On April 7, 1964, IBM announced the System 360, the first family of computers spanning the performance range of all existing (and incompatible) IBM computers. Thomas J. Watson Jr., IBM’s CEO at the time, wrote in his autobiography Father, Son, & Co.:
By September 1960, we had eight computers in our sales catalog, plus a number of older, vacuum-tube machines. The internal architecture of each of these computers was quite different, different software and different peripheral equipment, such as printers and disk drives, had to be used with each machine. If a customer’s business grew and he wanted to shift from a small computer to a large one, he had to get all new everything and rewrite all his programs often at great expense. …
[The] new line was named System/360—after the 360 degrees in a circle—because we intended it to encompass every need of every user in the business and the scientific worlds. Fortune magazine christened the project “IBM’s $5,000,000,000 Gamble” and billed it as “the most crucial and portentous—as well as perhaps the riskiest—business judgment of recent times.”… It was the biggest privately financed commercial project ever undertaken. The writer at Fortune pointed out that it was substantially larger than the World War II effort that produced the atom bomb.
And like nuclear energy, the System/360 and all the computers and networks of computers that came after it, could be used for creation or for destruction. It was a tool, and as 2001 depicts in the first part of the movie, tools can be used to help humanity or as a weapon in humanity’s wars.
In Profiles of the Future, published in 1962, Arthur Clarke wrote:
The old idea that Man invented tools is… a misleading half-truth; it would be more accurate to say that tools invented Man. They were very primitive tools… yet they led to us—and to the eventual extinction of the apeman who first wielded them… The tools the apemen invented caused them to evolve into their successor, Homo sapiens. The tool we have invented is our successor. Biological evolution has given way to a far more rapid process—technological evolution. To put it bluntly and brutally, the machine is going to take over.
Talk of the machine taking over has risen to the surface of public discourse over the last 50-plus years each time computer engineers have added yet another “human-like” capability to the tools they create. After IBM’s Watson AI defeated Jeopardy-champion Ken Jennings in 2011, he wrote in Slate:
I understood... why the engineers wanted to beat me so badly: To them, I wasn’t the good guy, playing for the human race. That was Watson’s role, as a symbol and product of human innovation and ingenuity. So my defeat at the hands of a machine has a happy ending, after all. At least until the whole system becomes sentient and figures out the nuclear launch codes…
The fear that machines will figure out the nuclear codes and destroy their creators was called “absurd” by one of 2001’s creators who strongly believed, as we saw above, that they will indeed “take over.” Dismissing the “popular idea” of the malevolent AI killer he went on to co-create a few years later, Clarke wrote in Profiles of the Future:
The popular idea, fostered by comic strips and the cheaper forms of science-fiction, that intelligent machines must be malevolent entities hostile to man, is so absurd that it is hardly worth wasting energy to refute it. I am almost tempted to argue that only unintelligent machines can be malevolent… Those who picture machines as active enemies are merely projecting their own aggressive instincts, inherited from the jungle, into a world where such things do not exist. The higher the intelligence, the greater the degree of cooperativeness. If there is ever a war between men and machines, it is easy to guess who will start it.
According to this materialistic fantasy, which many computer and AI engineers adhere to today, tools create us and will match or surpass human intelligence but will do no harm.
Or maybe not, on both counts: That computers can harm humans on their own and that machines will be as or more intelligent than humans.
Here’s Piers Bizony in Nature:
Certainly, in the film, the surviving astronaut’s final conflict with HAL prefigures a critical problem with today’s artificial-intelligence (AI) systems. How do we optimize them to deliver good outcomes? HAL thinks that the mission to Jupiter is more important than the safety of the spaceship’s crew. Why did no one program that idea out of him? Now, we face similar questions about the automated editorship of our searches and news feeds, and the increasing presence of AI inside semi-autonomous weapons…
Should we watch out for superior “aliens” closer to home, and guard against AI systems one day supplanting us in the evolutionary story yet to unfold? Or does the absence of anything like HAL, even after 50 years, suggest that there is, after all, something fundamental about intelligence that is impossible to replicate inside a machine?
Gil Press
I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NOR...
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Risk factors for falls among elderly persons living in the community
N Engl J Med., 1988; 319(26): 1701-7, PMID: 3205267
Tinetti ME, Speechley M, Ginter SF
Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. 06510-8056.
To study risk factors for falling, we conducted a one-year prospective investigation, using a sample of 336 persons at least 75 years of age who were living in the community. All subjects underwent detailed clinical evaluation, including standardized measures of mental status, strength, reflexes, balance, and gait; in addition, we inspected their homes for environmental hazards. Falls and their circumstances were identified during bimonthly telephone calls. During one year of follow-up, 108 subjects (32 percent) fell at least once; 24 percent of those who fell had serious injuries and 6 percent had fractures. Predisposing factors for falls were identified in linear-logistic models. The adjusted odds ratio for sedative use was 28.3; for cognitive impairment, 5.0; for disability of the lower extremities, 3.8; for palmomental reflex, 3.0; for abnormalities of balance and gait, 1.9; and for foot problems, 1.8; the lower bounds of the 95 percent confidence intervals were 1 or more for all variables. The risk of falling increased linearly with the number of risk factors, from 8 percent with none to 78 percent with four or more risk factors (P less than 0.0001). About 10 percent of the falls occurred during acute illness, 5 percent during hazardous activity, and 44 percent in the presence of environmental hazards. We conclude that falls among older persons living in the community are common and that a simple clinical assessment can identify the elderly persons who are at the greatest risk of falling.
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Adobe 3Q Net Tops Street View, Sees Strong 4Q
By Adam Samson Published September 20, 2011 FOXBusiness
Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE) posted quarterly profits that beat Wall Street's expectations after the closing bell on Tuesday, and said it expects to have a stronger fourth quarter than analysts anticipated, which sent the shares jumping.
Adobe is "aligning around two large initiatives: Content Authoring and Digital Marketing," said Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO of Adobe. "Each of these opportunities offers significant growth potential, and Adobe is well-positioned to be the market leader in both.
The software company said it earned 39 cents a share in the third quarter, less than the 44 cents it earned in the same period last year. Excluding one-time costs, profits were 55 cents, beating the consensus expectation by a penny.
Adobe's sales increased to $1.01 billion during the quarter, higher than the $990.32 million last year, but narrowly missing forecasts of $1.03 billion.
Looking forward, Adobe expects it will earn between 57 cents and 64 cents during the fourth quarter, coming in at the high range of forecasts of 54 cents to 61 cents.
The San Jose, Calif., company's sales expectations were also higher than anticipated, at $1.08 billion to $1.13 billion compared with $1.07 billion to $1.11 billion.
The shares jumped more than 3% in after-hours trading following the release.
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In reality, then, the statute provides only one category of patent damages – those “adequate to compensate for the infringement.” The statute does, however, set a floor for what constitutes adequate damages – they may be “no … less than a reasonable royalty.” The statute also requires courts, as a part of the damages award, to fix interest and costs against the infringer. In addition, the statute provides that the court can increase damages up to three times the amount found by the jury or assessed by the court. Finally, the statute expressly allows the use of expert witnesses to determine what type of damages to award and to help the jury or court arrive at a reasonable royalty.
The courts have created another form of damages, in addition to the minimum of a reasonable royalty, that may adequately compensate – namely, profits lost by the patent holder due to infringement. Because lost profits damages frequently exceed the amount of a reasonable royalty, patent holders seek lost profits whenever they are recoverable. A hybrid damage award – a split between lost profits and generally reasonable royalty – is also permissible in certain circumstances. The profits the infringer made from the infringement, however, are not permissible damages under the patent statute. Such an award was abolished by the Patent Act of 1946. (The only exception is design patent cases, in which the infringer’s profits are recoverable.)
The law of patent damages has recently come to the forefront, as juries have increasingly awarded large sums for patent infringement. From 1991 to 1996, there were at least eight cases in which patent damages exceeded $100 million. Since then, the number of damages awards that have reached eight – and even nine – figures has steadily risen. Indeed, patent cases now make up a significant number of the largest jury awards in the United States.
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Post-Judgment Royalties (Coming Soon!) – After winning a patent infringement case, if a permanent injunction is not entered, the patent owner may attempt to force the infringer to pay an ongoing royalty for any sales of infringing product post-judgment. (This ongoing royalty obligation is incorrectly referred to as a compulsory license.) Courts have even asked the jury to decide an ongoing royalty rate for patent infringement. The state of the law in this area is evolving, and this page will address issues and cases related to this topic.
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Michael Richardson
MA in TV Fiction Writing 2011
"I really enjoyed my time on the course. I learned a lot, especially about long-running drama and how to structure a story. I think it's been invaluable in terms of my confidence - it's really affected the way I carry myself now."
Michael Lee Richardson’s short film My Loneliness is Killing Me was commissioned by the Scottish Film Talent Network as part of the Scottish Shorts programme. It shoots in February 2018, directed by Tim Courtney.
Since graduating in 2011, Michael has written comedy and animation for CBBC and BBC Alba, and taken part in development schemes with BBC Writersroom, IdeasTap and the Scottish Book Trust.
Michael received the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2015.
His comedy script Monster was shortlisted for the BAFTA Rocliffe New Comedy Award and the David Nobbs Memorial Prize. His young adult comedy script Real Life Experience was ‘highly commended’ for BBC Writersroom’s Trans Comedy Award.
Michael is passionate about queer and trans representation on television, and has worked with All About Trans, a group which advises the media. He is currently working on QWPS, a mentoring project for queer writers, with 404 Ink.
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The Rangers Crest
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The famous 'RFC' Scroll crest is instantly recognisable to football fans across the world and is steeped in history.
It is believed to have been used by the Club since its formation in 1872 although the oldest item to be found with this crest stamped on it is from 1881-82 season. The Members Ticket for Rangers' previous home at Kinning Park is now on display in the Ibrox Trophy Room and this traditional design remained in place for over 70 years.
In 1959 the club moved away from this detail, replacing the Scroll crest with a lion and the Club's now famous motto 'READY'. A new circular look was also chosen, as can be seen from the image taken from a Rangers Handbook from 1959-60.
At the end of the 60s this again changed with Rangers having to register a new Crest which would become synonymous with the Club. The 'READY' Crest again featured a circular design but with 'The Rangers Football Club Ltd' shortened to 'Rangers Football Club' on the outer rim. In the middle a larger football was put in place with the lion and 'Ready' motto more prominent. This has remained the same ever since.
Although the 'RFC' Scroll Crest was omitted in 1959 it made a welcome return in 1968 when it was placed on the club's home jersey for the very first time. It was later added to the shorts a decade later for the start of the 1978-99 season.
Over the years there have been minor alterations to the Scroll Crest found on the club's strips. From 1990 to 1994 'Rangers Football Club' and the 'READY' motto were placed above and below the Crest respectively on the Admiral and Adidas manufactured jerseys.
In 1997-98 the Crest was placed in a shield in what was Nike's first year in partnership with the Club but perhaps the most significant change was before the start of the 2003/04 campaign. Having clinched their 50th League Championship under the guidance of Alex McLeish, a year in which Rangers secured a domestic Treble, the Club decided to add five stars above the Scoll Crest, one for every ten titles won.
Since 2015, there have been suggestions shareholder Mike Ashley holds the rights to the Rangers crests as part of various complicated retail contracts.
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Dr Peter Meadows, Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam, is an honorary lecturer and educational consultant in the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, School of Life Sciences, at the University of Glasgow, where he started lecturing in 1963.
In addition to his long-term teaching and research career, Peter Meadows has thirty years experience conducting environmental sustainability and educational projects in developing countries focusing mainly in Pakistan and North Africa. These have included working with a number of organisations including Universities, Governmental and Non-governmental organisations. He has acted as adviser and consultant for a number of initiatives, especially on natural/environmental disasters in developing countries. This work has been sponsored by DFID, the British Council, the Linnean Society of London, the Asian Development Bank, overseas organisations and recently by the Scottish Government.
He is the chairman and trustee of the charity Hindu Kush Conservation Association and a member of the executive committee of the Scottish Pakistani Association.
Peter Meadows was awarded a Geotechnical Medal in 1995 by the United Kingdom Institution of Civil Engineers. In 2005 he was decorated with the award of Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam, one of the highest civilian medals awarded in Pakistan, for "Services to Pakistan" in the field of education and the environment.
Together with Dr Azra Meadows, we focus on applied and strategic research and consultancy on the management and sustainability of coastal, marine and mountain environments, and their rural communities. Much of this work is in developing countries and is multidisciplinary.
We advise on rural community uplift, access to clean water, and the sustainable use of natural resources. We investigate how biodiversity can control sediment and soil stability, erosion and transport. We advise on the effects of natural hazards on rural communities.
Find out more at the Biosedimentology Unit website.
Lari, Y., Meadows, A. and Meadows, P. (2013) Disaster Preparedness Manual. Heritage Foundation of Pakistan: Karachi. ISBN 9789698655211
Meadows, P.S., Meadows, A. and Murray, J.M.H. (2012) Biological modifiers of marine benthic seascapes: their role as ecosystem engineers. Geomorphology, 157-58, pp. 31-48. (doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.07.007)
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Rock Tech Issues Shares for Services
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 05, 2019 — Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (the “Company” or “Rock Tech”) (TSX-V: RCK; Frankfurt: RJIB) announces the issuance of shares to an Arm’s length service provider pursuant to the terms of a Shares-for-Services Agreement.
The Company, subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange, will issue 22,414 common shares at a deemed price of $0.58 per share. The shares will be subject to a statutory hold period expiring on October 6, 2019.
Additionally, the Company has canceled 100,000 stock options previously issued to an insider. The options had an exercise price of $1.50 and an expiry date of December 31, 2021.
“Martin Stephan” Martin Stephan Director, Chief Executive Officer
Brad Barnett Chief Financial Officer Rock Tech Lithium Inc. 777 Hornby Street, Suite 600 Vancouver, B.C., V6Z 1S4 Telephone: (778) 358-5200 Facsimile: (604) 670-0033 Email: [email protected]
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Statements included in this announcement, including statements concerning our plans, intentions and expectations, which are not historical in nature are intended to be, and are hereby identified as, “forward‐looking statements”. Forward‐looking statements may be identified by words including “anticipates”, “believes”, “intends”, “estimates”, “expects” and similar expressions. The Company cautions readers that forward‐looking statements, including without limitation those relating to the Company’s future operations and business prospects, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward‐looking statements.
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Israel, US to hold largest ever missile defense exercise. Thousands of US soldiers will be deployed in Israel.
Jerusalem Post 21 December 2011
In-depth Report: IRAN: THE NEXT WAR?
Israel is moving forward with plans to hold the largest-ever missile defense exercise in its history this spring amid Iranian efforts to obtain nuclear weapons.
Last week [11-18 December], Lt.-Gen. Frank Gorenc, commander of the US’s Third Air Force based in Germany, visited Israel to finalize plans for the upcoming drill, expected to see the deployment of several thousand American soldiers in Israel.
The drill, which is unprecedented in its size, will include the establishment of US command posts in Israel and IDF command posts at EUCOM headquarters in Germany – with the ultimate goal of establishing joint task forces in the event of a large-scale conflict in the Middle East.
The US will also bring its THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) and shipbased Aegis ballistic missile defense systems to Israel to simulate the interception of missile salvos against Israel.
The American systems will work in conjunction with Israel’s missile defense systems – the Arrow, Patriot and Iron Dome.
Gorenc came to Israel for talks with Brig.-Gen. Doron Gavish, commander of the Air Force’s Air Defense Division.
He toured one of the Iron Dome batteries in the South and the Israel Test Bed lab in Holon where the IAF holds its interception simulation exercises.
The IAF is planning to deploy a fourth battery of the Iron Dome counter-rocket system in the coming months and is mulling the possibility of stationing it in Haifa to protect oil refineries located there.
The Defense Ministry has allocated a budget to manufacture an additional three Iron Dome batteries by the end of 2012. IAF operational requirements call for the deployment of about a dozen batteries along Israel’s northern and southern borders.
The IAF is also moving forward with plans to deploy Rafael’s David’s Sling missile defense system, which is designed to defend against medium-range rockets and cruise missiles. Rafael recently completed a series of successful navigation and flight tests of the David’s Sling’s interceptor and plans to hold the first interception test by mid-2012.
The original source of this article is Jerusalem Post
Copyright © Yaakov Katz, Jerusalem Post, 2012
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US Steps Up War of Words with Afghan Puppet Regime
By Patrick Martin
Global Research, December 04, 2013
In-depth Report: AFGHANISTAN
The war of words between outgoing President Hamid Karzai and US-NATO forces over the legal conditions of their occupation of Afghanistan is intensifying.
Statements of US government and military officials and press commentaries in the United States have become increasingly critical, after Karzai flatly refused to sign a treaty drawn up after protracted US-Afghan talks that would have kept US troops in the country for at least another decade.
The pact is critical for future US military/intelligence operations in the region, including the Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea and Central Asia–the largest concentration of oil and gas resources on the planet. The agreement calls for nine permanent US military bases in Afghanistan, which borders on China, Pakistan, Iran and the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
On Sunday, Karzai issued a statement claiming that US-NATO forces were withholding fuel and other material support from their Afghan counterparts in an effort to force him to sign the security agreement.
“This deed is contrary to the prior commitment of America,” Karzai’s statement said. “Afghan forces are facing interruption in conducting of their activities as a result of the cessation of fuel and supportive services.” US officials denied there was any such action.
Afghan sources told the international press that helicopters had been unable to bring back the dead bodies of soldiers from remote locations because of fuel shortages.
The Afghan military is entirely dependent on US backing for its operations, from the payment of troops to fuel, food, ammunition, intelligence and air support. This year alone the Pentagon is supplying $135 million in fuel to keep the Afghan military on the road.
Karzai initially balked at signing the pact nearly two weeks ago, citing the US refusal to make a binding commitment not to stage raids on the homes of Afghan citizens. A series of atrocities by American forces exacerbated the conflict, including a night raid on a home in eastern Afghanistan in which US commandos killed two civilians, and two drone missile strikes in the southern province of Helmand, killing a farmer and a 2-year-old boy and wounding several women.
A statement issued by Karzai November 28 denounced the attack that killed the child, blasting a house in Faqiran, a village in the Garmsir district. “This attack shows that American forces do not respect the lives and security of the people of Afghanistan,” it said. “For years, our people are being killed and their houses are being destroyed under the pretext of the war on terror.”
The US-NATO commander in Afghanistan, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., called Karzai to apologize personally. The international coalition also issued a statement saying it “deeply regrets” the incident. However, other US officials defended the murder of the farmer, saying that a “precision strike” had killed an “insurgent.” Karzai was using “allegations of civilian deaths for political purposes,” they charged.
In an appearance on ABC television’s Sunday interview program “This Week,” former Obama National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon denounced Karzai’s refusal to sign the security agreement as “reckless… I think it’s reckless in terms of Afghanistan, and I think it also adversely impacts our ability to plan coherently and comprehensively for post-2014.”
“If the United States doesn’t have a bilateral security arrangement with Afghanistan that supports its troop presence there and provides the kinds of protections that we need, the United States cannot be present in Afghanistan after December 31, 2014,” he said.
Donilon concluded, “He should go ahead and sign the agreement, and if he does not, I think the United States will move towards the so-called Option B, and by the way, the United States has a lot of options with respect to being able to pursue its interests.”
The former Obama aide did not spell out what this range of options was. However, a cutoff of US funding to the Afghan puppet regime or an attempt to mobilize sections of the current puppet regime against Karzai are both possibilities. The clash between US imperialism and its Afghan puppet recalls the friction between Washington and its stooge ruler in South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, which culminated 50 years ago in Diem’s overthrow and murder in a US-backed coup.
On Sunday the New York Times published an article titled “Afghans Assail Karzai’s Disparate Views on Killings.” The article, by Rod Nordland, highlights the supposed contrast between Karzai’s “fury” over US drone killings of innocent Afghan civilians, and his silence over Taliban suicide bombings that produce similar carnage.
Nordland provides little evidence to support the headline, quoting only a single Afghan, a former cabinet minister, criticizing Karzai’s reaction to the killings.
The Times reporter effectively accuses Karzai of divided loyalties, claiming to have spoken to “many Afghans, who complain that their president has been looking for excuses to besmirch the Americans and delay signing a vitally important security deal with them, while overlooking equally serious or even worse abuses attributed to the Taliban.”
The article goes on to report that “unease has spread throughout governing circles, and several prominent officials have said that a meeting of the president’s cabinet last Monday was dominated by ministers who tried to persuade Mr. Karzai to sign the bilateral security agreement promptly…”
The Times account identifies Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal as one of those opposing Karzai on the question of the security agreement, on the ground that failure to sign it will lead to a cutoff of the foreign cash on which the Afghan regime subsists. Zakhilwal “is also well regarded by the Americans,” it continues.
The article concludes on an ominous note, citing an unnamed “Western diplomat” warning, “Mr. Karzai should be careful what he wishes for.” The overt implication is that the US might cut off all aid to Afghanistan. The subtext is that Karzai could well suffer the fate of other US stooges who have been “terminated with extreme prejudice” when they became a nuisance.
Copyright © Patrick Martin, World Socialist Web Site, 2013
Articles by: Patrick Martin
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Lee Westwood opens new Close House Academy
Tom Clarke
Lee Westwood recently opened the new Close House Academy
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Close House has opened a new PGA Golf Academy, The Academy, which was officially opened by Close House European touring professional Lee Westwood, reflects the North-East venue’s continued dedication to offer the very best in golf tuition, practice facilities and custom fitting.
The academy’s facilities will include a floodlit driving range, designated long and short game practice areas, a SAM PuttLab analysis system and a high performance custom-fitting centre with the use the Flightscope ball-tracking radar system.
Robert Maxfield, joint Chief Operating Officer and Property and Commercial Director, said, “The new PGA Academy at Close House is a fantastic addition to the family of PGA branded golf academies and courses around the world, including The PGA’s headquarters at The Belfry and the PGA Centenary Course at Gleneagles, the 2014 Ryder Cup venue.
“The Academy reinforces the relationship between The PGA and Close House, whose vision under Graham Wylie’s leadership is set to become one of the finest golf facilities in the UK.”
A team of PGA qualified Golf Professionals will be based on site to deliver all aspects of golf tuition, providing access to the latest technology in golf swing analysis, including the GASP Lab video system and the Explanar training system.
Close House owner, Graham Wylie, said, “This is an exciting new addition to the facilities here at Close House and means we are now able to offer the latest teaching technologies to those wanting to learn and improve.
“We are passionate about providing the best possible golfing experience for both our members and our visitors, and the opening of the new academy will enable our instructors to deliver tuition through the use of the very best facilities.”
The opening also coincided with the 5th annual Have a Heart charity golf event, which this year raised in excess of £350,000 for the Children’s Heart Unit Fund.
A host of celebrities from the worlds of racing, golf, television and sport played a round of golf on Close House’s much acclaimed Colt Course and then enjoyed a gala dinner and auction.
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A Continuum of Legislation and Intimidation in Ohio’s Planned Parenthood Fight
by Sarah Stankorb
Protesters at the Ohio Statehouse in 2009. Photo by ProgressOhio via Flickr.
On Tuesday, Ohio Governor John Kasich finished New Hampshire’s primary in second place, making him the establishment Republican darling of the moment. The next day, a bill reached final passage in Ohio’s legislature to “defund” Planned Parenthood of $1.3 million in state and federal money set aside for infant mortality prevention, HIV testing, and breast and cervical cancer testing under the Violence Against Women Act. The bill now awaits Kasich’s signature, a wave of the pen that could further endear Kasich to conservative voters leading into the February 20 South Carolina primary and friendlier Midwestern primaries in early March. With his focus on faith, optimism, and tax cuts, and possessing a sunnier demeanor than Ted Cruz or Donald Trump, nationally, Ohio’s governor has come to be described as a moderate. But within Ohio, Kasich has led an administration that has quietly restricted access to abortion through a variety of means: budget tinkering, legal maneuvers, and policies that don’t directly encourage intimidation or violence, but which have exploited the current atmosphere of vitriol to the same end.
Cincinnati and Dayton’s Planned Parenthoods are among the nine surviving surgical abortion providers in the state; both facilities are threatened with closure as the result of restrictions passed by a Republican-dominated state legislature and signed (and enforced) by Governor Kasich. If they shut down, Cincinnati—where the current Planned Parenthood health center stands as a replacement for the original building, burned down by an anti-abortion extremist in the 1980s—would become the largest metropolitan area in the country without an abortion clinic.
The fallout from the bill wouldn’t be restricted to Planned Parenthood. This legislation could also prohibit the state Department of Health from awarding state and federal grants to any organization that performs abortion, promotes abortion, or contracts with any organization that does so. For example, the Columbus Public Health department has said that the Planned Parenthood defunding bill would prevent it from contracting with any hospital currently operating in Columbus, because these hospitals provide abortions themselves, contract with abortion clinics, or refer patients for abortion services.
After an investigation found that Planned Parenthood was not guilty of the last round of paranoid accusations brought against it—in which GOP presidential candidates damned the healthcare provider for selling “baby parts” (based on false assertions in altered videos)—Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine raised new claims, in December, of improper fetal tissue disposal. DeWine asserted that Planned Parenthood was “steam-cooking fetuses and then disposing of them in a landfill.” Planned Parenthood called the claims false and inflammatory, and sued. Still, two bills have been introduced in the state House that would require cremation or burial of aborted fetuses (with no option for donation for research) and record keeping that some think could be turned into a database of women who’ve had abortions—lists of names that anti-abortion extremist groups could use to terrifying ends.
John Kasich. Photo by Michael Vadon via Flickr.
Intimidation and violence are traditionally the tool of radical fringe groups, but the long, dark shadow these groups have cast over abortion care providers in recent months has become a useful political weapon, not so much encouraged by lawmakers, but opportunistically leveraged in rhetoric that paints healthcare providers as monsters who sell baby parts and sanction the steam-boiling and trashing of fetal remains. It’s contributing to the reduction of access to abortion until it all but disappears in the state.
KC Slack interned at NARAL and later worked at Preterm Cleveland, where she counseled patients, made appointments, and learned in her first week how to do a bomb sweep. She tells me she held patients’ hands while they had their abortions. She heard the picketers shrieking “Mommy!” at patients, and telling Latina patients they’d be deported if they had abortions. Slack remembers walking around with emergency numbers on the back of her name tag and, as she walked into work, having to endure the menacing screams of men who looked like Colorado Springs shooter Robert Dear—who killed three people and wounded nine more at a Planned Parenthood clinic. Outsiders told her she was paranoid for believing someone might actually commit violence against her, but days after the Colorado Springs shooting she lamented evenly on Facebook: “We’ve known this was coming. Knowing it was coming doesn’t make me feel any better … We’ve been trying to tell you. Do you hear us now?”
Slack remembers thinking during her time at NARAL, “People die for this. I could be one of those people.” But also, “Ok, I’m going to do this.”
Dear’s mass shooting in Colorado Springs was part of a frightening lineage of violent attacks on clinics—and physicians—who perform abortions. There’s a spectrum between intimidation and violence that has long mingled with women’s reproductive choice in this country. There are the typically virulent voices of the picketers who besiege clinics across the country. But there is also the stark reality of extremists belonging to groups like the Army of God, which claims responsibility for many killings and bombings and whose members Dear reportedly described as “heroes.” There are websites that publish the home addresses of abortion providers and scrape social media to post photos of them—sometimes with their children—calling them the “American Abortion Cartel,” calling them monsters and murderers.
This fiction- and horror-drenched speech has bled into our politics. There was Carly Fiorina, in September urging Democrats to watch the now wholly discredited “sting” videos. “Watch a fully formed fetus on the table,” she said, “its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’” In a USA Today op-ed, Ted Cruz wrote about “senior Planned Parenthood officials laughing, swilling chardonnay and casually, callously, heartlessly discussing killing unborn children in order to sell their body parts” and claimed that Planned Parenthood is “in the business of killing unborn children on an industrial scale.” Cruz also celebrated an endorsement by Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, an organization whose vice president once pled guilty to charges of conspiring to bomb a clinic in California. Newman, also a board member of the recently indicted Center for Medical Progress, has connected California’s drought to abortion rates, saying, “Is it no wonder that California is experiencing the worst drought in history when it is the largest child-killer in all of the United States?”
Carly Fiorina. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.
The kind of language employed by public figures like Cruz and Fiorina creates a broader air of stop-at-nothing moral outrage, implicitly nodding at the extreme, extralegal notions of anti-choice crusaders. If you are on the receiving end of that outrage, providing women’s reproductive health has come to mean facing the brunt of public animosity and private threat. The belligerent thrust of anti-abortion sentiment has become a crucible.
In Cincinnati, Dr. Roslyn Kade is medical director for Southwest Ohio Planned Parenthood health centers. She also works at a private clinic in Dayton. After the Brookline, Massachusetts, attacks in 1994, when John Salvi killed two and wounded five at two clinics, Cincinnati’s Planned Parenthood increased its security measures, installed bullet-proof glass, sealed the front sidewalk and picketer-facing door. But security measures like these can only do so much when the threat of extremism follows healthcare workers home.
Kade says she’s had picketers outside her house, which infuriated even her “not pro-choice” neighbors, who did not look kindly on the people carrying gruesome pictures in a place where young kids rode their bikes. As she’s faced intimidation attempts over the years, her resolve has only deepened. “I don’t really look at it, because it’s not going to change my life in any way, and the purpose is to intimidate me,” says Kade.
She adds, “This is just normal reproductive healthcare. I say that over and over, this is just part of healthcare.”
What concerns her is access to reproductive healthcare, not the people who scream at her outside the health center or post personal information online, “not because I’m brave and not because I’m oblivious, but because if the object is to make abortion go away by killing the doctors, that’s a really untenable thing. If it’s to make abortion inaccessible because you intimidate the physicians, that’s also unacceptable.”
Photo via Twitter user @ProChoiceOH (NARAL Pro Choice Ohio)
I ask Kade which is a bigger threat to access right now, the chance of more domestic terrorism or Ohio’s increasingly tight anti-abortion laws, signed and supported by GOP presidential candidate Kasich. It’s the laws, she says, but they are bolstered by extremist threat.
Clinics in Ohio are required to sign transfer agreements (deals arranging for the exchange of patients, records, liabilities, etc.) with private hospitals or the abortion clinic loses its license. A variance (exception) exists, if the hospitals have individual doctors on staff who agree to serve as backup physicians available for emergencies. According to a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood in September, it is difficult to meet this requirement, not only because most local private hospitals are opposed to abortion on religious grounds, but also “because of hospitals’ fear of the harassment and intimidation they and their doctors would face if they were to enter into a [patient-transfer agreement] with an abortion clinic.”
In July of last year anti-abortion groups targeted Wright State University doctors who had signed on as emergency physicians for the Women’s Med Center of Dayton. These doctors’ faces were plastered next to photos of alleged aborted fetuses on large trucks, which were driven through the doctors’ neighborhoods and parked in front of their homes and places of work.
Kade notes, “They had to have individual names, and when you have individual names, the names are public record. So why do you want individual names? So that they can be harassed.”
It’s not that intimidation has been made law, but the laws, in Ohio at least, now function in a way in which intimidation is more than a fringe tool. Defunding Planned Parenthood (and anyone who contracts with an abortion provider) will have a chilling effect on hospitals and health departments across the state. It’s a policy that sidelines abortion providers when it can’t outlaw them. At the same time, there’s a more dangerous pall—they’ll know your name, they’ll come to your house—that hangs over doctors as they make a choice, along with their hospitals, to tether themselves to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers publicly, in an environment where threat and fear have become the norm. It’s a space where civil restrictions and more violent opposition to abortion meet.
Display image by Gage Skidmore via Flickr
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The Future of Cloud Computing? The Convergence of Big Data, Mobility and Cloud
Catherine Andrews April 30, 2015
This blog post is an excerpt from GovLoop’s recent guide, Forecasting the Cloud: Eight Ways the Technology is Changing Government. To download the full guide, head here.
Cloud computing is not a new idea in the world of government IT. But Cisco believes there is a new future opportunity of cloud computing – and for them, it’s all about an innovative concept of convergence and an interconnected cloud.
GovLoop sat down with Mike Younkers, Director, U.S. Federal Systems Engineering at Cisco, to learn more about why the future opportunity for cloud computing is connecting it with mobile, big data and social environments.
Younkers explained that currently, the way much of cloud computing operates is in distinct silos – silos that lock end users into a single public cloud provider.
“That ends up meaning there’s challenges with making connections and moving workloads back and forth,” Younkers explained. “We believe that those clouds should be able to connect freely between one another, regardless of whether they’re public or private. And so we’ve come forward with the intercloud fabric – our technology that allows these various clouds, wherever they are, to be connected in a transparent, secure, and reliable way.”
But for Cisco, this conversation goes beyond just cloud computing – way beyond.
“We talk about the cloud and technologies that connect cloud together, and that’s important,” said Younkers. “But it’s not sufficient. We’re not telling the bigger picture. And what the bigger picture is about is the convergence of some very large technology areas.”
The big picture, to Younkers and Cisco, is all about the synergy that’s created as organizations connect their mobility, cloud and big data environment – a synergy that transforms government.
“The cloud is an enabler,” explained Younkers. “As things come together, the convergence of social media, mobility, and cloud, we can do some interesting and powerful things. So cloud for cloud’s sake is just infrastructure. But the services we can provide to constituents, when we start to bring in the ability to let people access data from wherever they are, that’s the mobility side.”
To illustrate his concept, Younkers shared a recent example from the Smithsonian Institute’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
In 2012, there were more than 30 million visitors to Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo, more than 100 million website visitors, and more than 8 million digitized records available online. The Zoo’s Panda Cam alone received more than 1 million clicks by people watching the new baby panda. Between museum visitors sending pictures via the Wi-Fi network, 7,000 employees sharing large files via email, researchers transferring digital images, and Panda Cam watchers, the Institution’s network was under tremendous strain.
“They faced a problem of convergence,” explained Younkers. “They’re serving connectivity to their users, who are posting images and experiences on social media. At the same time you have researchers that are using the data that the Smithsonian has, and now we’re starting to see a big data problem emerge. You have various people doing research from literally around the world, on lots of different types of devices, because they have access to it through various mobility techniques.”
Cisco came in to solve the Smithsonian’s issues with a new network that had better than 99.999 percent availability and reduced latency from more than 20 milliseconds to less than 20 microseconds – a 1,000-fold improvement.
To Younkers, this example showcased why the convergence of mobile, big data and social environments is so important and transformative to government.
“The government is really focused on finding ways to communicate with its constituency,” said Younkers. “Providing services is key. With mobility we’re able to put these services in the hands of the constituent. Through a mobile device we communicate differently and have a more transparent reach.”
“Next, I’d want to push my resources using various apps closer to my constituents,” Younkers continued. “And that’s the power of the cloud, because now with the cloud, I can distribute resources in a way that gives a better experience to my end customer.”
But just pushing compute resources out, and putting the app in the hands of the user isn’t enough, said Younkers, because it doesn’t change the user experience unless they’re able to do something useful with it.
“This is where the idea of big data comes along,” said Younkers, “because now when I have the compute power and app where I need it, I can analyze whatever it is that I’m doing and receive valuable real time intelligence to make better decisions.”
Added Younkers, “I really believe this is how you can see these three trends coming together. Government is able to provide better service to its citizens.”
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It's 50 years since Performance, the film so controversial its own studio banned it
By Tom Stubbs, Bill Prince, Jay Glennie, Adam Scovell 26 November 2018
A half-century since Mick Jagger’s controversial acting debut in Performance comes a new limited-edition book of the same name saluting its revolutionary impact on the political, social and sexual order of its time. Here, with an extract from Jay Glennie’s 50th-anniversary homage - in which stunning unseen imagery and insider truths are revealed - plus three tracts on the film’s influences then and now, GQ celebrates rock'n’roll's greatest cinematic insurgency
An extract from *Performance *
by Jay Glennie
I wanted to make the move from being an agent into producing films, and meeting Donald Cammell, and subsequently Nic Roeg, meant I could make the move a reality,” recalls Sandy Lieberson on the decision to become a film producer and leave behind a successful career as an agent.
Lieberson’s first film as a producer – Performance – is either “The most completely worthless film I have seen since I began reviewing” (Richard Schickel, Time, 1970) or, as championed in 2011 by Mark Cousins in his 15-part TV series of 2011, The Story Of Film: An Odyssey, “not only the greatest Seventies film about identity, if any movie in the whole story of film should be compulsory viewing for film-makers, maybe this is it”.
These appraisals, over 40 years apart, showcase the critical about-turn Performance has undertaken. Almost universally vilified upon its initial release – one notable exception was critic Derek Malcolm, who championed the film, proclaiming it to be “richly original, resourceful and imaginative, a real live movie” – Performance is now seen as one of the seminal films of the last 50 years.
Film historian Colin MacCabe hails Performance as the best British film ever made. But even before its release the film studio funding it were repulsed by its violence, drug taking and sexual morality.
Performance by Jay Glennie, from which this extract is taken, features contributions from James Fox, Mick Jagger, Nicolas Roeg and Sandy Lieberson
Performance is the film that arguably defines the late Sixties in bohemian London. The blurred lines of reality and fiction came together to tell the story of Chas Devlin, a gangster and diligent enforcer of the will of his boss, Harry Flowers. Killing a rival puts the fragile status quo of the London underworld at risk and forces Chas to run and look for refuge until he can slip out of England. A Notting Hill townhouse owned by Turner, a burnt-out rock star, would appear to be the ideal short-term hideaway. That is until Chas allows Turner’s ménage à trois to mess with his identity even further.
American studio Warner Bros, wishing to tap into the burgeoning youth market, financed the production in their misguided belief that they were buying into a film depicting swinging[#image: /photos/5d13aa364d217b59a84bed37] London, a new A Hard Day’s Night, complete with an accompanying album from the film’s lead, the biggest rock star on the planet, Mick Jagger.
Instead what they were handed was a heady cocktail of hallucinogenic mushrooms, sex – homosexual and three-way – violence, amalgamated identities and artistic references to Jorge Luis Borges, Magritte and Francis Bacon. Their star, Jagger, failed to appear until nearly an hour into the film and only sung one song on the subsequent groundbreaking soundtrack by Jack Nitzsche.
After a string of No1 singles – “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”, “Get Off Of My Cloud”, “Paint It Black”, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” – the Stones had released their seventh long player, Beggars Banquet, which longtime Stones engineer, Glyn Johns, called their “coming of age record”, to universal acclaim but not a little controversy, with the backdrop of the civil unrest providing the impetus for “Sympathy For The Devil” and “Street Fighting Man”. Their success saw religious groups and the right-wing media label the Stones a corruptive influence on the God-fearing youth, the accusation being that they were in league with the devil. This furore did little to dent their success; indeed the group’s popularity only soared to even greater heights. And yet it was not sustaining their frontman. The singer was looking to break into movies, as Jagger himself said, “to take on a role because it’s more than just a pop star role”.
Lieberson was enthusiastic about this move: “Mick was a friend and a client, and as far as Donald, Nic and I were concerned he was completely right to play the rock star Turner in Performance. I knew that all the fame and notoriety surrounding him at that time of his life would be perfect.”
What was imperative to Lieberson was that any film that he pursue with Cammell and Roeg “would be influenced by the times we were living in. Into that mix went the political, social and psychological mood sweeping across the world, and in particular for us in London.”
The Sixties saw class barriers come crashing down, as gangsters, pop performers and film stars mixed with aristocracy. London’s Kings Road was full of androgynous-looking males, eager to express their femininity. Performance co-directors Cammell and Roeg brought all this together in a melting pot, which would go on to revolutionise the film world. Their ground-breaking language of imagery was brought to life with nonlinear storytelling and Roeg’s majestically lit cinematography asked audiences to assemble a celluloid jigsaw puzzle in order to fully comprehend and unlock the film’s mysteries.
Viewing the resulting film, Warner Bros were horrified with their investment. Decrying the film’s graphic and decadent drug use, violence and sexual content – Jagger and co-star James Fox were seen on screen enjoying drug-fuelled sex with Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton – they refused to release the film. “They thought it was dirty,” said Lieberson five decades later. Roeg laughingly recalls fearing Warner Bros were going to sue him.
Two years of financial wrangling, threats from both the studio and from Cammell and Jagger ensued before the eventual release of Performance.
Set decorator Peter Young describes the location shoot as a division of two distinct camps – the “straights” (the older experienced film personnel and technicians) and the opposing camp made up of those who wished to partake in drugs: “a looser kind of lifestyle” (“the cool set”). This highly charged atmosphere ensnared victims into its corruptive vortex. Despite proclaiming that Performance was the best performance he ever gave, Fox would leave the industry for ten years. “When I had my Christian conversion in ’69,” he recalls, “my friend Johnny Shannon asked me, ‘Do you want me to sort them out, Jim?’ I thought that it was so super of him. He thought I had got involved with a real heavy cult who were going to take my money and screw my mind.”
The extraordinarily bright, handsome, louche, charming Cammell would see his co-director, Roeg, become lauded as one of the great filmmakers, whereas his own career floundered in Hollywood. And it was in the Hollywood Hills, in relative obscurity aged 62, that he would place a revolver to his head and pull the trigger, after completing only three more films – Demon Seed (1977), White Of The Eye (1987) and Wild Side (1995). Pallenberg, the ultimate rock chick, would begin her descent into drug addiction during filming, naively believing that she “had kept it from everyone”. And as for the film’s star, what became of him? Jagger survived the shoot in one piece and is arguably the greatest rock’n’roll singer on the planet.
Lieberson once told me that a Roeg film is only appreciated by a wider audience many years later, and that chimes with Roeg’s collaboration with Cammell: Performance lives on and continues giving performances 50 years after its inception. Dean Cavanagh, Rupert Everett, Bill Nighy, Paul Schrader, Irvine Welsh and Stephen Woolley all spoke of the profound effect the film had on their subsequent work and careers. The film’s influence can be seen in the work of directors such as Martin Scorsese, Guy Ritchie, Jonathan Glazer and Quentin Tarantino. Musicians including William Orbit, Happy Mondays and Big Audio Dynamite have all used the score and film as reference points and samples in their songs.
The Stones’ former manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, said, “The Stones were not to the celluloid manor born.” And yet Jagger’s cinematic debut as the reclusive rock star Turner is venerated as one of the greatest performances from a musician in film.
The rising resentment against the ruling elite, thrown up and scattered across the globe in 1968, resulted in a seismic social and political change. “Performance was born out of that fervour and an understanding that we did not want to make a Hollywood movie. Donald, Nic and I wanted something that was going to rival the new wave cinema of France and Italy,” says Sandy Lieberson.
It is no exaggeration to claim that 1968, the year the cameras rolled on Performance, was the year that changed the world forever. Christmas Eve saw the Apollo 8 spacecraft manned by Jim Lovell, Bill Anders and Frank Borman become the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon. However, this proved to be a rare moment of good cheer in an otherwise challenging year.
Europe was rioting. Across France some ten million workers went on strike, virtually paralysing the country, in solidarity with students who had taken to the streets of Paris against the De Gaulle government, demanding reforms to their education system. “I was in the Stones’ office when Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader of the student protest group, called after hearing “Street Fighting Man” to ask for Mick’s support. I spoke to him and assured him that the Stones supported their cause,” recalls Lieberson.
Central and Eastern Europe saw widespread protests against the restrictions on freedom of speech, resulting in the Prague Spring. The UK played host to frequent CND marches against the increasing fear of a nuclear holocaust. Conservative politician Enoch Powell’s infamous anti-immigration “Rivers Of Blood” speech stoked further fires.
Warner Bros wanted a new Hard Day’s Night. What they got was hallucinogens, sex and violence
The fear of an unwanted pregnancy had overshadowed any intimate relationship, but the advent of the pill and the relaxation in 1967 of the draconian principle of only prescribing it to married women saw the UK finally attempt to shake off its Victorian attitudes to sex. The same year saw homosexuality decriminalised in England and Wales, despite the home secretary of the time, Roy Jenkins, appearing to capture his government’s attitude when he was quoted as saying during a parliamentary debate, “Those who suffer from this disability carry a great weight of shame all their lives.”
The Black Panther Party came to a wider public consciousness when two black US athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, were sent home from the Mexico City Olympic Games after raising their black-gloved fists in the black power salute during their medal ceremony. The year also saw the tragic assassinations of both Dr Martin Luther King Jr and presidential hopeful Senator Robert Kennedy, adding further fuel to the civil rights protests raging across America. The bloody Vietnam Tet Offensive saw even more American soldiers arrive home to US soil in body bags, resulting in frequent demonstrations against further US involvement in the war. “We also protested the Vietnam War here in London,” remembers Lieberson. “Mick, Donald, Robert Fraser and I spent the afternoon cheering on Vanessa Redgrave in Grosvenor Square.”
Television audiences in America witnessed the first interracial kiss when Star Trek’s Captain Kirk kissed Lieutenant Uhura. At the Academy Awards, Bonnie And Clyde and The Graduate were both nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and studios released genre-defining films such as Rosemary’s Baby, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet Of The Apes, Teorema and The Boston Strangler, so the times were a changing and it appeared that audiences were ready for a film with a great musical score, depicting the coming together of gangsters, rock’n’roll, drugs and free love.
The critical reaction
by Adam Scovell
Like many cult films, Performance did not have an easy start. Even before the mixed reviews that would greet it upon release, the film struggled to make it out of the starting gate. Shot in the summer of 1968, Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg’s film captured the moment when the swinging psychedelia that had dominated the late Sixties started to sour. Yet, with the studio bosses at Warner dismayed by the original cut, Performance was left on the shelf very much until the swinging had all but collapsed into the nihilistic darkness of the oncoming Seventies.
In the run-up to the release, the studio is rumoured to this day to have wanted the negative destroyed. Roeg eventually left the production, then more concerned with his upcoming project, Walkabout (1971), leaving Cammell in the editing room to appease the unhappy producers. He had the huge task of cutting the much longer film down into something shorter and more palatable. What Cammell produced in that desperate moment is one of the finest, most startling pieces of editing cinema has ever seen.
With hindsight of the hippy dream’s demise Performance is a film coloured with foreknowledge of the counterculture’s downfall. Such pessimism, coupled with a hyperactive psych style, didn’t exactly make for a positive critical response, however. Reluctantly released in 1970, the film’s reviews were incredibly divided. The American critic Roger Ebert in particular noticed the unusual editing style enforced on the film, writing that “It’s so nervously edited that it doesn’t stay around to develop the effects it introduces.” More infamously, Richard Schickel of Time called it “The most disgusting, the most completely worthless film I have seen since I began reviewing.” Unlike Chas, the critics of the time were very much not after a bohemian atmosphere.
Whether through accident or a genuine moment of genius, Performance’s disregard for linear narrative and editing paved the way for its critical revival. It’s difficult to think of many other British films that have been as formally daring and Performance now regularly finds its way into “Best British film” lists. The film is peerless but its style and editing has influenced many films that came after, most notably Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast (2000) and Paul McGuigan’s Gangster No1 (2000). Today, it still feels like a full frontal attack upon the senses. Though, considering its problematic history and the constant opposition it faced, we’re lucky to still be able to take this trip.
The substance of style
by Tom Stubbs
Performance is about an extreme, a new amalgam of things – the rub of far-flung elements blending in a moment in the late Sixties when social evolution and radical change defined the time.
Performance has a rub like no other film before or after it. The wardrobe style is as exhilaratingly potent as the soundtrack and cinematography. But how Performance came to be quite so mesmerising has much to do with how the film was made.
The key was David Litvinoff – the “dialogue coach and technical advisor”. A Whitechapel-born Jew and openly gay polymath, he was close enough to the Krays to affectionately call Ronnie “Boot Nose”. He was involved with illegal gambling dens and clip joints, was a newspaper gossip columnist, a Soho “face” and a friend of aristos and lords. He possessed a master grasp of how people spoke and dressed across swathes of swinging London.
We’d seen Jagger’s Sixties frontman garb, but playing Turner seemed to usher in a new chapter that influenced him beyond the screen
He dressed James Fox’s character, Chas, taking him to Cecil Gee on Shaftesbury Avenue for his immaculate clipped tailoring – and something that was far more streamlined and finessed than Savile Row, casting an elegantly elongated silhouette.
A domestic scene sees Chas browse his cufflink selection while a female companion is treated nonchalantly. His lean physique, honed by boxing training, lends a new edge to how shirts and suiting work. (I have attempted to channel this in work projects and life.)
Homosexuality had only been legalised in 1967 and androgynous, bisexual three-way sex scenarios were, it’s fair to say, well out-there. In this light, Mick Jagger looked shocking, not only bohemian, but almost like a sexy girl. It was confusing for audiences and crew alike, provoking the line, “Comical little geezah, you’ll look funny when you’re 50,” from Chas.
We’d seen Jagger’s Sixties frontman garb, but playing Turner seemed to usher in a new chapter that influenced the real Jagger beyond the screen. Garnished with tusk pendant and silk scarves, Jagger’s Turner wears leggings with Moroccan slippers and billowy Byron-esque blousons that were later to become signature tight striped pants and skimpy chiffon or satin shirts.
We see the first references to bondage, with tight leather neck bands, studded wrist and cuffs on both Pherber and Turner that would be used in later Jagger stage appearances. I don’t so much care for Jagger’s look as a gang member in “Memo From Turner” – a solo record from Jagger that can be found on the film soundtrack – but Turner during this performance heralds a new strutting and sexually challenging side of Jagger that would inform much of his stage presence for 20 years.
The leading man
by Bill Prince
In one sense, Mick Jagger and Turner couldn’t be further apart. The latter, after all, is retired (as if...) and working on a book – a writerly urge to which Jagger has thus far failed to yield. Yet, to audiences then and now, they somehow remain one and the same: the princely artist-as-satyr given to exhibiting an insouciant blend of nonchalance and venom at the drop of a microphone.
For his part, Jagger proposed no such synergy, remarking at the time, “I think Turner is a projection of Donald Cammell’s fantasy or idea of how I imagine I am. The thing is, it’s very easy for people to believe that’s what I’m like. It’s easy to do... because it’s just another facet of me if I felt inclined to go that way.”
The clue to any confusion, then, is to be found in that apparent ease – aided and abetted by a willingness to forego the obvious fact that there was a preexisting script. But if Turner amps up the not-entirely-hetero horndog Jagger of song (as Sandy Lieberson later admitted: “We wanted to exploit his unusualness, the androgynous sexual aura that hung around him – something that’s harder to appreciate now that he’s such a figure of the establishment”), then it’s something the singer was equally capable of toning down: “I found [Cammell’s] intellectual posturing very ridiculous... that isn’t me really. You just get in the part – that’s acting, isn’t it?”
Is it? That is the 50-year-old question. Certainly, Jagger’s characterisation of the otherwise Hobbit-like Turner is the keystone of the piece, a brutal/beautiful depiction of haute bohemianism as a rebuttal of everything déclassée that swiftly mainstreamed in the ensuing era of corporate rock bacchanalia.
Still, it’s an association ultimately built on false logic: Performance was released in 1970 but filmed two years earlier, thereby preceding the defining moment of the Stones’ first epoch as rock’s reigning gods – Altamont – at which the brutal killing of an audience member appeared to presage the death of the Sixties itself (a premonition for which the film has long been credited).
For all its cult success (too little, too late to successfully refloat the acting ship grounded by his truly antiheroic official film debut as Ned Kelly, filmed after Performance but released before), what makes the film pertinent to our understanding of its leading man is the effect it possibly had on the band he leads to this day.
It was apparently Cammell who introduced Jagger to his first wife, Bianca, a month after the film’s release. And if Keith Richards did indeed scuttle the Stones’ version of “Memo From Turner” – Jagger’s sole contribution to the Jack Nitzsche soundtrack that effectively debuted the singer’s stop-start solo career – as revenge for Jagger allegedly sleeping with his Performance co-star, Richards’ then-girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, then, according to the guitarist’s 2011 autobiography, Life, their on- (and therefor presumably off-) screen chemistry directly inspired arguably the band’s greatest song, “Gimme Shelter”.
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New Job Roles at Gwrych Castle:
Project Coordinator and Administrator
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Thanks to the support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Gwrych Castle has been awarded a grant to help develop the vision for rescuing Gwrych Castle. We are therefore announcing two job opportunities!
Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust was founded to raise awareness of Gwrych’s plight and to establish a solution for the conservation and preservation of the Castle which, since 1924, had fallen into decline. Since 1997 the Preservation Trust has consistently sought to protect the Castle from the risk of physical deterioration and from arson and vandalism and, although some consolidation and urgent repairs have been undertaken, the condition of the main Castle remains perilous.
Gwrych Castle is recognised as one of Wales’ most important and significant buildings at risk. The wider Estate has significant remains from many previous centuries;; defensive, domestic and industrial.
The Castle is listed Grade I and the listing explains at length the many significant features from all periods of the Castle’s history and overall records that the Castle is ‘Graded I as a magnificent large scale example of a Romantic castellated mansion;; particularly important for its relationship with its site and its spectacular and extensive Picturesque composition, one of the finest examples of its date in Britain’.
In the wider Estate the woodlands are a rich habitat and a resource for environmental research, education (which the Preservation Trust has itself led) and for public enjoyment. In the wider landscape of North Wales, this commanding forested Estate is visually highly significant as one of the last untouched stretches of undeveloped land along the coast between Prestatyn and Penrhyn Bay.
In recent years the Trust has been able to open the Castle to the public, offer guided tours and engage many people in heritage activity. The Castle and gardens are open daily.
In summer 2018, the Castle was placed on the market and the Trust was successful in raising the funds required and effecting the purchase of the site to secure its future.
Now that we own the site, we are beginning to plan the work of the years ahead to stabilise, conserve, repair, restore and reopen the main areas of the Casle and to secure their long term future through income generating activities on the site.
National Lottery Heritage Fund have kindly supported the Trust from its Resilient Heritage programme to carry out a comprehensive programme of investigation, research, planning and preparation in order to be ready to progress our plans over the years that follow.
In summary, the Resilient Heritage project will enable us to:
• The capacity, skills and governance of the Trust will be strengthened through support, training and mentoring.
• The strategic approach to the whole site will be identified, including sympathetic end uses, phases of works and a masterplan and timetable for the long term development.
• The production of a business plan to enable the development and operation of the wider site with detailed financial, commercial and operational plans to support major funding applications.
• Identify the overall approach to activity, learning and engagement of people in the future and the ways in which the Trust can develop its telling of the stories of the site as it develops the bigger project.
• Architectural, landscape, design and cost implications of the masterplan will be developed to support a round 1 application to HLF.
• Development of forecasts of the economic, social and environmental outcomes of the masterplan and phased projects to enthuse stakeholders and support funding applications.
• Develop our current information, plans and directions into a clear and compelling masterplan for the site.
• Facilities for our volunteers will have been improved.
Please note that the appointments will be for a fixed period initially to work with the Trust through an NLHF funded Resilient Heritage project. At this stage it is anticipated that the role will run for some 16 months to spring/summer 2020.
Further stages of development work will then follow, but roles may be redefined and will be funding dependent.
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To support the Trustees to coordinate and assist in the management of all aspects of the project to restore Gwrych Castle.
In the first stage this will consist mainly of the coordination of the activities of the Resilient Heritage project and the development of the scheme and to support the Trust to plan implementation of the resulting projects.
The postholder will be expected, nonetheless, to contribute to the general operation and animation of the site alongside the Trust’s existing staff team and to carry out coordinative duties in respect of, e.g., works progressing to stabilise or clear areas of the Castle.
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To support the Trustees to manage, coordinate and deliver the Trust’s Resilient Heritage project.
The closing date for applications will be Monday 25th March, with interviews taking place on 27th, 28th and 29th March. The new role will then begin on April 1st. Please make contact via email to gwrychtrust@gmail.com
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MASON PEARSON, founder-engineer-inventor, went from Yorkshire, northern England to London in the mid-1860s to work on the British Steam Brush Works, in London's East End, in partnership later known as Raper Pearson Gill. The company was generally a small brush maker. The brushes are made by hand. Mason Pearson invented an automatic brush-drill to accelerate the process in 1885, for which he won a silver medal at the International Inventions Exhibition in London that year. In the same year he was the "pneumatic" rubber-cushion hairbrush out. It was not until 1905 in order to improve his technique, many of which had to be done by hand. His widow continued to run the company on her own for another 20 years, when the next generation was ready to take his share.
During this period, the decision was made to concentrate on the Mason-cushion rubber Pearson's hair brush. The product design used today is similar to the original 1885 model but with the enhancements of the fully developed models of the early 1920. The basic product has not changed since that time and a part of the model names are still with us: Extra Large , Extra Small, Popular and Junior.
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Haaretz - Israel News Thursday, July 18, 2019.
Tammuz 15, 5779 Time in Israel: 12:16 AM
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U.S. Industrial Union Votes to Endorse BDS
The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America votes in favor of boycotting Israel, supporting Iran deal.
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One of the more prominent industrial unions in the U.S. voted to endorse the goals of the worldwide boycott, divestment and sanction (BDS) movement against Israel, citing "its long history of violating the human rights of the Palestinians," thus purportedly becoming the first nationwide union to do so.
The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers' national convention met in Baltimore last week and voted on a string of foreign and as well as domestic policy issues, including the call to boycott Israel and support the nuclear deal with Iran.
According to a statement on the UE's website, the union voted in favor of the "Justice and Peace for the Peoples of Palestine and Israel", and cited Israel’s sordid human rights record: "starting with the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians in 1947-48 that turned most of Palestine into the State of Israel."
The move's goal, the union said, was "to pressure Israel to end its apartheid over the Palestinians just as similar tactics helped to end South African apartheid in the 1980s." The union further called for the U.S. aid to Israel to be cut off and expressed support for "the right to return."
The union also voted on a number of other foreign policy issues, including the demand to end U.S. military intervention in the Middle East and other regions.
"We (need) to get rid of this culture of war,” said Mike Ferritto, a local delegate. “We have done enough damage. We need to get out of the Middle East," said Brandon Dutton, another delegate.
The vote on Israel was prompted by an encounter with Palestinian trade unionists during the World Social Forum in Tunisia. Delegate Autumn Martinez, who cosponsored the resolution and participated in the meet, said: “It’s absolutely disgusting what is going on. Free Palestine!”
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Schools in California
Art Schools in California
Art Schools in Valencia, CA
If you decide that you want to get an art degree, then you might want to consider attending one of the 2 art schools in Valencia, California.
Of the 2 art schools in Valencia, the largest art school, by student population, is California Institute of the Arts. In 2010, California Institute of the Arts graduated approximately 34 students with credentials in art.
A reported 76 students graduated with credentials in art in Valencia in 2010. If you decide to join their ranks, you can expect to pay an average of $18,116 per year in tuition costs.
You should also anticipate spending about $1,659 for art related books and supplies every year. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $10,178 per year, on average, for room and board at Valencia-based art schools. Students who live at home can cut this cost down to approximately $24,333.
Art Salaries and Career Outlook in Valencia
If you plan on staying in Valencia after graduating from art school, you should know that job prospects for artists in Valencia, which is the most popular art profession, are not very good. The number of artists in Valencia is expected to increase by 5% by the year 2018. This projected change is slower than the projected nationwide trend for artists.
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1 College of the Canyons
26455 Rockwell Canyon Rd, Santa Clarita, California 91355-1899
2 California Institute of the Arts
24700 W McBean Pky, Valencia, California 91355-2397
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The tourism sector in Brussels joins forces to strengthen and expand the Green Key programme in the capital of Belgium
In an event held at ‘The Hotel Brussels’ on 25 February 2019, GoodPlanet, Inter-Environnement Wallonie, visit.brussels and the Brussels Hotel Association announced that they are joining forces to further promote Green Key in Brussels
There are currently 239 Green Key locations in Belgium: 34 in Brussels, 69 in Wallonia and 136 in Flanders. Belgium is thereby ranked four on the list of countries with the highest number of Green Key awarded establishments.
Currently, 20% of all hotel rooms in Brussels stands out with a Green Key label, and a number of distinctive Brussels event venues and meeting places has also received the label, in collaboration with Brussels Special Venues.
To further grow the Green Key programme in Brussels, the various stakeholders have launched a new initiative to promote the label and support the Brussels candidates. In April and May, interested establishments can take part in workshops which will prepare them for acquiring the label. GoodPlanet and IEW have also developed a tool to help tourists easily find a sustainable accommodation in Belgium, so that tourists looking to travel sustainably will find Green Key locations to meet their expectations, through a search module and a map.
The new collaboration was presented in the presence of the Prime Minister of the Brussels-Capital Region government, Rudi Vervoort: “Brussels is an open city which welcomes everyone and in which the quality of life is above average. My task, as Prime Minister, is to implement a policy which benefits as many people as possible, while safeguarding the well-being of the residents of Brussels."
The cooperation was launched at an event at ‘The Hotel Brussels’, a hotel in Brussels that at the same time was awarded with the Green Key certificate for the first time. The Hotel is a first-class hotel with a breath-taking view across Brussels from its height of 94 metres. The 420 rooms are furnished in streamlined, contemporary design. The location, in the upper part of the city, is ideal and allows you to undertake many tourist activities in the surrounding area.
The Hotel Brussels has taken a lot of sustainability initiatives. The hotel, for instance, decided to partially produce its own electricity, through cogeneration, saving energy in the process. They took other sustainability measures too, and were awarded the Green Key label. The Hotel intends to go a step further than simply doing business more sustainable; they want to raise awareness in their guests about the subject too.
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#43 DEATH IN THE FAMILY
– August 19, 2011Posted in: All
Forever young: Paul Lockyer
Grubsheet is in mourning – along with much of the Australian media and wider community – after the death of ABC journalist Paul Lockyer and two of his colleagues in a fiery helicopter crash in the South Australian outback. It’s become a cliche to say that someone died doing what he loved. But that is the absolute truth in this instance and the sole comfort to be derived from a tragedy that has felled a much-loved national figure in his prime.
Paul – along with his cameraman, John Bean, and pilot, Gary Ticehurst – came down on the shores of Lake Eyre – whose breathtaking transformation from dust bowl to watery expanse teeming with life they’d lovingly brought to national attention in two ABC documentaries and a host of stories on news and current affairs programs. Paul had literally fallen in love with Lake Eyre. So there’s also comfort to be derived from the fact that, in a sense, he died in his lover’s arms, no longer just telling the story of the never ending cycle of life and death in the Australian bush but becoming a part of it himself.
Paul wasn’t only a former colleague and mate but one of the few true gentlemen of the Australian media – universally respected for his genuine affability and empathy for ordinary people, especially those carving out lives in the remotest parts of Australia. Much as he cared little for status, Paul had become the doyen of Australian rural reporters, instantly recognisable as “that nice bloke from the ABC” wherever he went. He was unfailingly respectful, never pushy and with a ready chuckle, sometimes tinged with incredulity at the more bizarre expressions of the human condition he’d encountered over four decades in the media.
Doyen of rural reporters
Why was he so popular in the bush? It wasn’t just his “open book” manner and instant capacity to engage. As a story-teller, he believed in simplicity. His was the no-frills style of narrative, a perfect compliment to the famed directness of your average Aussie and the national passion for a good yarn, told well. In Grubsheet’s opinion, there are two stellar exponents of the genre in Australian television. One is the laconic and poetry-spruiking Tasmanian, Charles Wooley. The other was Paul Lockyer.
We last saw “Lockers” just over a week ago at the opening in Sydney of the latest exhibition of the works of Australia’s greatest living artist, John Olsen. As it happens, those works are also of the post-drought transformation of Lake Eyre – the reds, ochres and yellows, Olsen’s trademark colours, giving way to swathes of green and blue and yielding the birds, fish and other signs of life the rains had brought. Paul had never met John Olsen and the old man had been too weak after a recent operation to turn up himself. But he’d done Paul the singular honour of asking him to open the exhibition because of their shared love of The Lake.
John’s son, Tim, read out a message from his distinguished father that was so effusive of Paul’s work on Lake Eyre for the ABC that Paul’s wife, Maria, and I glanced at each other in stunned delight and then glanced at Paul, who with characteristic modesty had turned a slight shade of pink. Here was Australia’s most famous artist saying Paul had been his inspiration and describing him as a great Australian who’d done the country a singular service by conveying the beauty and wonder of what Olsen called a once in a lifetime event.
Paul then spoke of his own love of Lake Eyre, urging those present to do everything they could to get there before the miracle of nature subsided. And in words that have a particular poignancy today, he expressed gratitude to the ABC for allowing him unfettered use of its helicopter to be able to tell the story of The Lake, along with the other rural and regional tales that had become both the hallmark and highpoint of his own career. Paul’s friends and colleagues used to joke that the ABC chopper had become “Locker’s ute”. Cruel is the twist of fate that has made it his coffin.
Paul bounded back from the lectern shaking his head in wonderment at John’s Olsen’s glowing endorsement. But there was another pleasant surprise in store when Tim produced a gift from his father – an Olsen painting for Paul to put on his wall. The works on paper on the walls around us had price tags of $120-thousand so this was more than a gesture. Grubsheet remembers suggesting that Paul go out of his way to travel to the southern highlands for a chat with the grand old man of Australian art. Alas, for these two lovers of The Lake, they were destined never to meet.
Teller of big yarns
If Lake Eyre was a labour of love, Paul Lockyer will also be remembered for his coverage of sport ( he won a Logie Award after the Sydney Olympics ) and of hard news, both as a foreign correspondent in Asia and the US and his more recent work in the bush. Last December, he came to national attention for being the first reporter into the Queensland town of Grantham, which was washed away by a torrent that killed more than two dozen people. Paul spearheaded ABC Television’s coverage of the Queensland floods – again using the Corporation’s chopper – and did such a sterling job that many are speculating that more accolades await him posthumously in the next round of journalism awards.
When people in their twenties die, they’re invariably described as “forever young” – the celebrated title of songs by both Bob Dylan and the German “synthpop” group, Alphaville. Paul Lockyer was 61 yet had the visage and frame of a man half his age. Many Australians accustomed to seeing him on television will have been startled to learn with his passing that he began his journalistic career in 1969. When we met up with him the other day, Grubsheet couldn’t help remarking yet again on his eternally youthful appearance, quipping that he needed to share with those of us less fortunate the name of whatever brand of elixir he was taking. There wasn’t one. Except for boundless optimism, a capacity for friendship and a love of story telling. The elixir of life.
Lesley Opie
Posted August 19, 2011 at 4:53 PM
Graham – what a wonderful read. Just so, so sad. Our thoughts and prayers are flying over the Tasman Sea from NZ to Paul Lockyer’s family and friends.
Cathy Sutton
Beautifully written,so sorry that you have lost a dear friend x
GD, A great read. I was thinking of doing something on my blog, but you captured Lockers so well, I don’t need to (except to say goodbye in print). He was a great mate and had a gift for friendship that was wonderful to behold. To go on the road with him was a delight. As you noted, they loved him in the bush, and it’s easy to understand why — he loved them. It was a Mutual Admiration Society of the highest order. You did Lockers proud, Graham. I dips me lid to you.
Kathryn Franco
Thanks for sharing these thoughts Graham. My contact with Lockers was much less than those of you who worked with him daily when at Nine, but I’ll always remember his friendly spirit, open manner and kind eyes which were evident in his contact with us and in his stories. My thoughts are with his family, both at home and in television.
Hayley Solich
A beautiful tribute to a fine man.
Lovely words Graham. As always, thank you for sharing them. W.
peter logue
He was a prince amongst men Graham and an easy guy to be friends with. You managed to capture that in this lovely eulogy. He will be missed.
Steve Adams
GD, you have captured the humanity and humility of ‘Lockers’ – we have lost one of Australia’s best storytellers and a most-loved colleague.
Ian MacDonald
Thanks for those wonderful thoughts Graham, he was a great man….Lake Eyre is now a VERY special place.
Trevor Watson
Excellent piece written by a man who genuinely cared for his friend Paul Lockyer.
Patrick Lindsay
Beautifully said Graham. Paul was a genuinely lovely bloke.
We’re all the poorer for losing a wonderful storyteller.
I’ll miss his passion and his authenticity.
Ian Mac
Bravo GD…you’ve described our dear mate of 4-plus decades, Lockers, superbly. We were all so very fortunate that he was our friend. Oh how we’ll miss engaging grin, his uncommon wisdom and those unforgettable spoons recitals. Mackers.
Tony Eastley
As Ian Mac, and you have pointed out, we were so fortunate to know Paul.
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Britain lagging behind the rest of Europe for cancer survival rates
November 29, 2013 April 24, 2017 Cancer, General
Cancer survival rates in Britain are being called unacceptable after a new report found that rates in Britain are much lower than other major countries in Europe and other top economies in the world. In fact, only Ireland and Poland had lower cancer rates according to the results of the new international health study.
According to experts, if the UK were able to meet average cancer survival rates that exist in Europe about 10,000 lives every year would be saved. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development report annually takes health records from all 34 countries that are members of the international group and other nations where the data is available.
According to the report women that were diagnosed with breast cancer were most likely to be in recovery five years later in every almost other country than Britain. The only countries where survival rates were lower were Poland, the Czech Republic, and Ireland.
This was not the only bad news for Britain as news also came out this week that the UK has the highest rates of infant death compared to other similar countries with similar economies. In fact, the Health at a Glance 2013 study found that 4.3 infants out of a thousand die in Britain compared with the OECD average of 4.1.
Additionally, researchers found that in the UK 40% of all teens had already been drunk more than twice at the young age of 15 and it was one of the top four countries where there were more girls confessing to drunkenness then boys.
Karol Sikora, a cancer specialist, explained that in the UK the system has so many delays worked into it that people’s treatment is delayed when it should be aggressive. She added that there has to be a way to speed up the process for better results.
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Research & Commentary: Michigan Cigarette and Vaping Tax Would Do More Harm Than Good
By Lindsey Stroud
Legislation would increase the excise tax on cigarettes by $1.50 to $3.50 per pack, and apply an 81 percent wholesale tax to e-cigarettes.
Michigan lawmakers have introduced legislation that would increase the state’s so-called sin tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products (OTP), and apply a tax on e-cigarettes and vaping devices. House Bill 4188 would increase the state’s cigarette tax by $1.50 from $2.00 to $3.50 per pack. The legislation would also increase the tax on OTP from 32 to 81 percent of the wholesale price and apply the OTP tax to e-cigarettes and vaping devices.
Sin taxes, also known as excise taxes, are highly regressive and disproportionately impact lower income persons. Moreover, e-cigarettes are a tobacco harm reduction product and should not be subjected to sin taxes, which are typically applied to discourage use of unhealthy products. Although lawmakers may believe taxing e-cigarettes will deter youth use, existing research on recently implemented taxes finds youth e-cigarette use has increased, even in states with high sin taxes.
Lower income persons are more likely to smoke than higher income persons. Americans with only a high school diploma smoke for a period “of more than twice as many years as people with at least a bachelor’s degree,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Lower-income Americans also spend more of their income on cigarettes. From 2010 to 2011, Americans who earned less than $30,000 per year “spent 14.2 percent of their household income on cigarettes.” On the other hand, Americans earning $60,000 or more per year spent just 2 percent of their income on cigarettes during the same period.
Moreover, Michigan currently uses very little tobacco money to help smokers quit. In 2018, the state received an estimated $1.2405 billion in tobacco settlement payments and taxes. However, Michigan spent only $1.6 million on tobacco prevention and cessation efforts.
Aside from the economic consequences of applying sin taxes to e-cigarettes, this misguided measure would also undermine smoking cessation efforts. An estimated three million American adults have used e-cigarettes and vaping devices to successfully quit smoking. Indeed, a 2019 study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds e-cigarettes to be “twice as effective as nicotine replacement therapy” in helping smokers quit.
Numerous public health groups have acknowledged e-cigarettes to be significantly less harmful than combustible cigarettes including Public Health England, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and the American Cancer Society. The Royal College of Physicians, a respected and renowned public health organization finds e-cigarettes “an effective aid to quitting smoking,” and the health risks of e-cigarettes “is unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco.”
Kenneth E. Warner, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, is an outspoken opponent of Michigan’s proposed tax on e-cigarettes. Warner says the “benefits of vaping in terms of increasing adult smoking cessation, substantially outweigh the risks of kids becoming addicted to nicotine.” Warner says “the tax on [e-cigarettes] should be sufficiently lower than a tax on cigarettes to encourage adults to consider e-cigarettes as an alternative to smoking.”
Further, taxes on vaping products do not deter youth use of e-cigarettes, according to recent results. In 2016, Pennsylvania enacted a 40 percent wholesale tax on e-cigarette. However, despite the enormous tax increase, youth e-cigarettes use increased after the tax was enacted.
According to the 2015 Pennsylvania Youth Survey (PAYS), 15.5 percent of middle and high school students reported using an e-cigarette within the past 30 days. In 2017, PAYS found this increased to 16.3 percent of middle and high school students reporting past 30 day use of e-cigarettes. Notably, e-cigarette use among 10th and 12th graders increased from 20.4 and 27 percent respectively, in 2015, to 21.9 and 29.3 percent of 10th and 12th graders reporting e-cigarette use in 2017.
Although Pennsylvania’s vaping tax did not deter youth e-cigarette use, it did shut down brick-and-mortar vape shops. One year after the Pennsylvania tax went into effect, an estimated 120 vape shops closed in the Commonwealth. This is problematic because vape shops generate significant revenue for state and local economies. One analysis estimates vape shops “generate annual non-online sales of more than $300,000 per store.” The global electronic cigarette markets “is estimated to reach $44,610.6 million by 2023.”
Rather than relying on cigarette and vaping taxes, Michigan lawmakers should reform how the state spends tobacco moneys. Cigarette taxes are inherently regressive and disproportionately impact lower income persons. Moreover, lawmakers should avoid placing sin taxes on tobacco harm reduction products because ample research indicates these products are significantly less harmful than combustible cigarettes. Furthermore, despite their intended purpose, sin taxes on e-cigarettes and vaping devices do not reduce youth use.
The follow documents provide more information on sin taxes and tobacco harm reduction.
Cigarette Taxes and Smoking
https://www.heartland.org/policy-documents/cigarette-taxes-and-smoking
In this study from the Cato Institute, Kevin Callison and Robert Kaestner suggest future cigarette-tax increases will offer relatively few public health benefits, and they say the justification given for future taxes should be based on the public finance aspects of cigarette taxes, such as the regressiveness, volatility, or the rate of revenue growth associated with those taxes.
Three Reasons to Avoid Tobacco Taxes
http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/policyblog/detail/three-reasons-to-avoid-tobacco-taxes
Elizabeth Stelle of the Commonwealth Foundation examines Pennsylvania’s proposed tobacco tax hikes. Stelle argues they are the wrong prescription for the state, and she outlines several reasons why they are harmful.
Research & Commentary: Top Ten Reasons Not to Raise Tobacco Taxes
https://heartland.org/policy-documents/research-commentary-top-ten-reasons-not-raise-tobacco-taxes
Heartland Institute Government Relations Director John Nothdurft argues targeted tax increases serve only to push sound fiscal policies and real budget reforms to the public policy back burner. Legislators concerned about the public health effects of tobacco should encourage the use of readily available smoking cessation products and services instead of supporting bad tax policy.
Five Things to Consider Before Raising Tobacco Taxes: A Review of the Research
https://heartland.org/policy-documents/five-things-consider-raising-tobacco-taxes-review-research
This Heartland Institute Policy Brief argues, “Tax increases above current levels are not justified by appealing to the costs smokers impose on nonsmokers. Smokers already pay more than this measure could justify.”
Vaping, E-Cigarettes, and Public Policy Toward Alternatives to Smoking
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/vaping-e-cigarettes-and-public-policy-toward-alternatives-to-smoking
For decades, lawmakers and regulators have used taxes, bans, and burdensome regulations as part of their attempt to reduce the negative health effects of smoking. Recently, some have sought to extend those policies to electronic cigarettes. This booklet from The Heartland Institute urges policymakers to re-think that tax-and-regulate strategy. Policymakers should be mindful of the extensive research that supports tobacco harm reduction and understand bans, excessive regulations, and high taxes on e-cigarettes often encourage smokers to continue using more-harmful traditional cigarette products.
Research & Commentary: Randomized Trial Finds E-Cigarettes Are a More Effective Smoking Cessation Tool than Nicotine Replacement Therapy
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/research--commentary-randomized-trial-finds-e-cigarettes-are-more-effective-smoking-cessation-tool-than-nicotine-replacement-therapy
In this Research & Commentary, Lindsey Stroud, a state government relations manager at The Heartland Institute, examines a study in The New England Journal of Medicine that shows e-cigarettes and vaping devices are twice as effective as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in helping smokers quit using tobacco cigarettes. Nearly 700 participants were studied during a 52-week period. Researchers found that 18 percent of e-cigarette users reported abstinence, compared to 9 percent of those using NRT. Stroud wrote that “these latest findings provide more valuable information on the public health role that e-cigarettes and vaping devices provide for the 38 million cigarette smokers in the United States,” and she implores policymakers to regulate these devices in a way that promotes, rather than prohibits, their use.
Research & Commentary: Vaping Taxes Do Not Deter Youth Use of E-Cigarettes
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/research--commentary-vaping-taxes-do-not-deter-youth-use-of-e-cigarettes
In this Research & Commentary, Lindsey Stroud, a state government relations manager at The Heartland Institute, examines the effects of Pennsylvania’s 2016 40 percent wholesale tax on youth vaping. Using data from the Pennsylvania Annual Youth Survey, Stroud finds the tax did not curb youth e-cigarette use, and from 2015 to 2017, youth use of e-cigarettes increased in Pennsylvania. Stroud cautions lawmakers to avoid enacting taxes on e-cigarettes in an effort to address youth e-cigarette use.
Nothing in this Research & Commentary is intended to influence the passage of legislation, and it does not necessarily represent the views of The Heartland Institute. For further information on this and other topics, visit the Budget & Tax News website, The Heartland Institute’s website, our Consumer Freedom Lounge, and PolicyBot, Heartland’s free online research database.
The Heartland Institute can send an expert to your state to testify or brief your caucus; host an event in your state; or send you further information on a topic. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if we can be of assistance! If you have any questions or comments, contact Lindsey Stroud, a state government relations manager at Heartland, at lstroud@heartland.org or 757/354-8170.
Alcohol & Tobacco Taxes
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Alcohol & Tobacco: E-Cigarettes/Vapers Alcohol & Tobacco: Taxes Alcohol & Tobacco: Smuggling/Black Market
Lindsey Stroud
Lindsey Stroud joined The Heartland Institute in 2016 as a Government Relations Coordinator. In 2017, Lindsey was named State Government Relations Manager.
lstroud@heartland.org
Testimony Before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Health
Research & Commentary: Flavor Ban Restrictions Would Vaporize Tobacco Harm Reduction in California
Testimony before the Albany County Legislature
The Leaflet: Lawmakers Should Embrace Tobacco Harm Reduction Devices
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Anna Paquin - Biography
Although a TV commercial and a role as a skunk in a school play were Anna Paquin's only acting experience before she was cast in The Piano, her performance in the 1992 flick left no doubt where her talents lay. Her supporting performance brought the 11-year-old an Oscar, and the distinction of being the second-youngest winner of the trophy ever.
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The daughter of PE teacher Brian and his English teacher wife Mary, Anna was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on July 24, 1982. The family moved to New Zealand in 1986, where she grew up alongside older siblings Andrew and Katya.
Her stage debut came aged seven with a brief appearance in a school play as a skunk - "I leapt on stage and then skipped off" - but a career as an actress was not in her plans. "I wanted to be prime minister of New Zealand," she says. "Or, failing that, a lawyer."
Though mostly educated Down Under, Anna who was a keen musician, playing the viola, cello, and piano completed her high-school education in Los Angeles, where she moved with her mother, brother and sister after their parents divorced.
A part in a TV commercial led to her auditioning for the role of Holly Hunter's daughter in The Piano, a role which, to her amazement, she secured, despite competing against 5,000 applicants. An even bigger surprise came when she learned her performance has been recognised with a best supporting actress Academy Award. "I was in a state of shock," she admits. "I thought I was going to sit in the audience clapping with everyone else while some other actor went up to get the award. Instead, I was the one going up there, in front of hundreds of people."
In the wake of her Oscar win high-profile movie offers came in thick and fast. In 1996 she starred as a young Jane Eyre in the movie of the same name, and shortly after appeared in Fly Away Home.
Taking a hands-on approach to her career, Anna chooses each new project independently and is keen to ensure each one brings a new challenge. She extended her horizons with 1999 romantic comedy She's All That before taking on the role of Rogue in the X-Men trilogy, alongside fellow Canadian Shawn Ashmore, Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman.
Despite her Hollywood success, Anna lead a fairly normal life unlike many other young starlets. She's found time to hone her French-language skills and enjoys hobbies such as running, swimming, downhill skiing, reading and knitting while continuing to earn plaudits for her acting skills. In 2008 there was further recognition of her talents when she received her second Golden Globe nomination for her role in TV movie Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.
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Can Judges Ration with Compassion? A Priority-Setting Rights Matrix
Christopher Newdick
How should courts supervise health service resource allocation? Although practice varies widely, four broad approaches can be represented on a matrix comparing, on two axes, (a) individual-community rights and (b) substantive-procedural remedies. Examples from each compartment of the matrix are discussed and, although the community-procedural approach is recommended as a general rule, a range of other responses within the matrix may also be desirable.
All over the world, public welfare services are struggling as “structural adjustment” reduces the resources available to public authorities.[1] In the past, governments could raise domestic taxes to respond to welfare demand. Now, their revenue-raising capacity is diminishing, especially from the wealthiest and most mobile sources.[2] Instead, governments are turning to international credit to support public services.[3] Today, private investors’ rights to bond repayments compete for priority over public rights to social welfare.[4] As demand for care accelerates, both from older patients living longer with chronic illness and younger ones suffering from our “obesogenic” environment, the tax-state is also becoming the debt-state.[5] While the subject of this article is health care, its context is of mounting pressure on health care systems precisely as demand for care is expanding faster than ever. While we may endorse the World Health Organization’s strong advice for governments to increase public investment in health and health care, the future for public services is more probably of greater austerity.[6] And as competition for limited resources intensifies, judges are more likely to be called upon to resolve the tension. How should they do so? What logic separates the choices before them, and what are the implications for patients and systems as a whole of the judicial policies adopted? In particular, is the “judicialization” of health care a help or a hindrance, friend or foe?[7] We discuss (a) framework issues common to claims made upon public welfare systems everywhere, and (b) a resource allocation rights matrix to assist clarity in the debate.
Framework issues
Before turning to the rights matrix, what are the “framework” issues common to claims arising within public welfare systems generally? Assuming the decision-maker is an authority with duties to serve the public, the following three factors are surely axiomatic.
Opportunity costs engage rights
Because demand for care generally exceeds the public resources available, investment in one part of the system may require disinvestment from another. Judgments about resource allocation are not based on objective equations or immutable logic, but on a balance of ethical, legal, therapeutic, social, and economic values about which reasonable people differ. The term “commissioning” captures the responsibility to promote the interests not just of individuals (the usual priority of bioethics), but of whole communities of people over the longer term. It expresses concern for social citizenship in which we all share common interests with a community of others.[8]
For health care commissioners, this involves decisions about the opportunity costs involved in promoting social and economic rights. For example, how should we allocate resources between neonatal care, pediatric care, orthopedic care, oncology, and cardiology care? Should patients wait for hospital care for 18 days, 18 weeks, or 18 months? Should we focus less on individual patients after illness has struck, or promote community health before people become ill? These are crucial questions in bioethics (although they have been “almost totally ignored”), but they also engage rights.[9] We require responses that recognize social and economic rights as enforceable positive rights yet devise remedies that respect the “public” dimension of the claim in terms of opportunity costs.Positive rights are justiciable
Judges must surely retain supervisory authority over competing claims of this nature. The challenge is to find the proper balance between judicial usurpation of executive authority on the one hand and a complete abdication of judicial responsibility on the other.[10] This suggests that, although positive rights remain within judicial supervision, appropriate remedies must differ from those available for civil and political rights claims. Whereas civil and political rights are enforceable impartially and generally by us all, social and economic rights engage issues of distributive justice between people who may have competing interests, where the needs of the most underprivileged are often prominent. This distinction suggests that whereas civil and political rights are amenable to substantive judicial enforcement, social and economic rights give rise to different concerns. For the latter, procedural remedies are more often appropriate to accommodate the politics inherent in promoting social welfare policy.[11] In the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Justice Albie Sachs explained the difference in a case concerning the allocation of scarce lifesaving kidney dialysis. An individual rights approach was insufficient to solve the problem. When others also have legitimate interests in the same resource, the court must reflect our human interdependence by accommodating the competing rights and interests of other people. This is not to undermine or dilute the notion of rights, rather:
When rights by their very nature are shared and interdependent, striking appropriate balances between equally valid entitlements or expectations of a multitude of claimants should not be seen as imposing limitations on those rights…, but as defining the circumstances in which rights may most fairly and effectively be enjoyed.[12]
Take the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In respect of civil and political rights, the same principles of freedom of speech apply throughout Europe, east and west, irrespective of the differences in gross domestic product (GDP). Thus, despite the differences in national wealth, German and Romanian citizens should enjoy the same rights of freedom of expression, assembly, and religion. However, this is not true of social and economic rights. Inevitably, access to public health, housing, education, and social welfare differs significantly throughout Europe. This is not to say that social and economic rights do not exist in countries with a smaller GDP, or that their courts cannot enforce them. Rather, their legitimacy must be recognized within these constraints, without ignoring the rights of other people. The High Court of Israel refers to them as “budget-dependent rights” in which “the scope and extent of realization of the right to health and medical treatment is subject to the economic capability of the state and the resources at its disposal.”[13] Unless we acknowledge this difference, an individualist approach to social and economic rights will damage precisely the communities and public institutions most in need of protection.[14] The concern is not that social and economic rights are non-justiciable; it is how best to avoid the collision with “negative rights” so as to respond properly to everyone’s needs, rather than the needs of articulate litigants in particular.
Access rights are equality rights
The state treads a delicate line between protecting liberty on the one hand and promoting equality on the other. If the starting point is “individualistic” and premised on the belief that the state is a necessary evil needed only to protect civil and political rights (as with Thomas Hobbes and John Locke), then the conclusion will differ radically from those who believe we are born into communities with social rights, mutual interests, and shared obligations of citizenship (as with Aristotle and Jean-Jacques Rousseau). Take an example that has troubled a number of health care systems. Concern is expressed that the public interest in a fair public health service is undermined if wealthier patients can jump the queue for services by accessing faster or better treatment through private care. Resources otherwise available to the public may be diverted into private practice, and the integrity of public sector care may be diluted. Waiting times in the public system may lengthen, the numbers of doctors and nurses in the wards may shorten, public support for the service may decline, and the ethical commitment to equality may be compromised. Confidence in the system may be undermined so that the service loses credibility.
Both the province of Quebec and the state of Israel responded to this problem in broadly similar ways. In Quebec, regulations made the market for private health insurance unlawful so as to protect the integrity of the public health care system. In Israel, since 1996, patients had been permitted to make extra payments to public hospitals to purchase the right to see the doctor of their choice. As in Quebec, this created a conflict between a right to buy care in a free market on the one hand and the principle that patients should be treated equally according to their need, by the staff best qualified to do so, on the other. So the attorney general of Israel declared the practice illegal in 2002.[15] Both of these social policy responses were challenged. The difference in judicial reaction is illuminating. In Chaoulli v Attorney Generals of Quebec and Canada, the Canadian Supreme Court held that individual rights effectively “trump” public policy concerns, at least until there was cogent evidence that substantial harm would be done otherwise.[16] It struck down the Quebec regulation for infringing the private rights of individuals to enter the market for health insurance by obliging people to wait longer for treatment in the public system. By contrast, in Kiryati v. Attorney General, the Supreme Court of Israel was troubled by a scheme which permitted public health services to be supplemented by private payments. Public hospitals should treat patients equally, according to their need rather than their ability to pay.[17] Yet permitting wealthier patients to divert doctors from other, more needy patients undermined this ideal. Thus, the court upheld the attorney general’s decision as a legitimate measure promoting the fundamental principles of the public health care system in Israel.[18]
Tushnet says of the Canadian decision that it is based on “an unstated assumption that the default remedy is always reversion to the institutions of the private market economy.”[19] Hutchinson criticizes the decision in similar fashion:
Chaoulli… is energised by a political ideology which encompasses, amongst other things, that individual entitlements are more important than social responsibilities, that negative liberty is to be promoted at the expense of positive liberty, that people’s capacity to exercise their rights is a matter of choice rather than circumstance and that legislatures… are the breeding grounds of capricious and arbitrary decision-making… This political vision… is highly individualistic and anti-state…[20]
Courts more comfortable protecting individual liberty will be challenged by policies that constrain economic rights in order to promote equality and social citizenship. Nevertheless, it is surely axiomatic that public health systems should promote everyone’s interests equally, and we need to be candid that these matters of distributive ethics often involve political compromises.[21] The commitment to equality should have regard for the needs of particular patients today, but also to the sustainability of the system for those who need treatment in the future. It is to the balance between political priorities and legal rights that we now turn.
A priority-setting rights matrix
With these framework issues in mind, how should fair and equitable systems of health care resource allocation be designed? Ways of answering this question can be visualized on a rights matrix created from two axes contrasting: (a) on the vertical axis, the distinction between individual and community rights and (b) on the horizontal axis, the distinction between procedural and substantive remedies. This produces four conceptions of rights inherent in claims to public welfare. In its report on universal health coverage, WHO invites us to create “a vision for the future… because the paths countries choose towards universal coverage will necessarily differ.”[22] The matrix responds to that invitation by identifying the logic of the fundamental choices that confront us, the crucial differences between them, and the broad range of merits, or otherwise, of each. Some systems favor one compartment of the matrix rather than another, but many (including the UK system) comfortably occupy more than one compartment, depending on the circumstances of the individual case. The matrix is created as follows and we examine each compartment in turn.
Community-procedural rights and remedies
Rights in the community-procedural segment of the matrix are concerned to scrutinize the “reasonableness” of decision-making and, if successful, to refer the decision back to public authorities to be reconsidered in the light of the court’s guidance. This describes the accountability for reasonableness (“A4R”) approach to priority setting.[23] The “right” is a guarantee of a fair and reasonable procedure. It is not a right to treatment itself. As the South African Constitutional Court has said, “Courts are ill-suited to adjudicate upon issues where court orders could have multiple social and economic consequences for the community” and impact adversely upon others whose interests are not known to the court.[24] Recognizing the opportunity costs inherent in public health promotion, the objective is to ensure that fair procedures have identified relevant matters and weighed and balanced them properly.
Procedural rights must be more than mere promises of good intentions. For example, Thames Valley National Health Service (NHS) commissioners have had a procedure in place for almost 20 years to balance these claims within a non-statutory “priorities committee,” by means of policy recommendations to local health care commissioners. The committee is subject to standing procedures on membership, regularity of meetings, cross-section of expertise, quoracy, voting rights, submission of evidence, and so on. The committee of 30 people includes NHS clinicians and managers as well as a lay chair, legal advisor, and ethical advisor, and reviews treatments that local stakeholders submit for consideration.[25] The committee is guided by a clinical effectiveness team, which produces a meta-analysis of the clinical research available in respect of treatments under consideration. This health technology appraisal is paid for by contributions from the Thames Valley commissioners, although the priorities committee’s work is unpaid.
As a means of generating fair, consistent, and transparent decisions, the committee is guided by the Thames Valley Ethical Framework of eight principles: (1) equity, (2) health care need and the capacity to benefit, (3) evidence of clinical effectiveness, (4) evidence of cost effectiveness, (5) the costs of the treatment and opportunity costs, (6) community needs, (7) national policy directives and guidance, and (8) exceptional cases.[26]The committee has created a suite of policy guidance to assist local health authorities which, in the majority of cases, CCGs adopt without modification. The guidance supplements National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) technology appraisals and covers a range of treatments from assisted conception to gender reassignment, percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation, lung metastases, bone-anchored hearing aids, and aesthetic/cosmetic surgery.[27] In each case, local clinicians are invited to submit evidence to the committee in writing and in person. This generates productive dialogue between decision-makers at the patient and community levels and broad cooperation between clinicians and resource allocators. Applying the ethical framework, the committee may recommend that commissioners purchase treatment for the community or decide that the treatment is low priority because, for example, it is too expensive, the clinical evidence is poor, or better treatments are already available. A low-priority treatment is not normally funded unless individual patients will derive significant clinical benefit (see below). The current Thames Valley Priorities Committee commenced work in 2013 and has developed around 70 policy recommendations. Its predecessor, the South Central Priorities Committee, developed more than 100. Policy recommendations are constantly reviewed and updated. Because NHS commissioners must follow NICE’s guidance (as discussed below), the priorities committee does not consider topics previously appraised there. The Thames Valley system is less sophisticated (and less expensive) than a NICE technology appraisal, but it is based on the same logic and purpose.[28] Systems like this confer community-procedural rights and remedies to the extent that their recommendations and processes command respect and recognition in judicial review.
Judicial review in the UK often favors this community-procedural approach. It acknowledges the constraints on the judiciary in terms of accountability and technical capacity, yet subjects the decision-making process to proper scrutiny in respect of the factors considered and the transparency of the process. In England, the NHS Constitution has codified the “hard-look” judicial review principles developed by the courts so they are binding throughout the NHS. Today, the NHS Constitution describes patients’ procedural rights to transparent and accountable decision making.[29] This is a good example of “destabilisation rights” in which judicial intervention provokes a reconsideration of long-standing policies which have never been subject to critical re-evaluation.[30] As Tushnet says, recognizing strong social rights but enforcing them only through weak (that is, non-substantive) remedies may be attractive for developing “human capital” in social welfare rights and a constructive relationship with public authorities.[31] This defers to reasonable systems for decision making. The High Court of Israel took the same view in a challenge to a decision-making tool applied to assist decisions about expensive cancer treatment where the clinical evidence was incomplete. Conceding the breadth of reasonable views surrounding these questions, it said:
It is not up to us to recommend the adoption of one system of prioritization over another, as long as the current criteria comply with the provisions of the National Health Insurance Law, and are based on relevant and reasonable considerations.[32]
Importantly, however, procedural review is complicated at the extremes. At one extreme, “hard look” scrutiny could be so intense as to browbeat decision-makers into conceding every claim. If every case is referred back to be reconsidered, then public authorities may be so intimidated by the courts that they concede every challenge. Clearly, this would be a sham; it would be in effect a substantive-rights response. The proper balance in UK law has been shaped by the case of R v North West Lancashire Health Authority, ex parte A, D & G, in which applicants for sex reassignment surgery succeeded in judicial review because the public authority failed to demonstrate that its refusal to fund the treatment had considered all the relevant circumstances fairly.[33] For example, it had demanded clinical evidence of effectiveness from randomized controlled trials when none were likely to be available for such a small cohort of patients, and it had failed to take into account the patients’ own particular needs. Instead, it introduced a blanket ban on sex reassignment surgery. The court overturned the ban because a rational decision-making framework should have considered such questions.[34] Crucially, recognizing the nature of the treatment, it did not order that treatment be funded. Rather, it insisted upon fair and transparent systems for decision making.
At the other extreme, some jurisdictions prefer procedural review so weak as to render decision making unchallengeable. For example, the Supreme Court of Ireland has refused to go beyond a declaratory remedy. In TD v Minister for Education, education and health authorities had given specific undertakings to the High Court that particular children’s health and education services would be provided. However, the undertakings were not performed for many years and the matter was returned to the court for a mandatory remedy.[35] The trial court found that the timetable for implementation had been subject to “culpable slippage” through “manifest inefficiency,” which led to “the quite scandalous situation which has now obtained for years.”[36] The court ordered that the minister “lives up to his word and carries it into effect… within the time scale specified…” It stated that it was not making or influencing policy; rather it was requiring the public authorities to adhere to policy of its own making. However, the Supreme Court of Ireland emphatically rejected this response and set aside the mandatory order. Chief Justice Keane said “the granting of an order of this nature is inconsistent with the distribution of powers between the legislative, executive and judicial arms of Government mandated by the Constitution.” Even though the order simply enforced the executive’s own policy, it was unacceptable for precluding its right to vary and flex the policy without judicial approval. Justice Murray said the consequence of a mandatory declaration “would be to undermine the answerability of the Executive” with the danger that a minister “would be bound to respond that his hands were tied by an Order of the High Court…” Democratic judicial review, he said
does not… give the Courts jurisdiction to exercise rather than review Executive or legislative functions. Judicial review permits the Courts to place limits on the exercise of Executive or legislative power not to exercise it themselves. It deals with the limits of policy, not its substance.[37]
But this declaratory-only response may be so ineffective as to rob the right of any meaning.[38] Although it exposes the authority to public opprobrium and may lead to better administrative standards in the long run, it does nothing for the litigants in question and may appear to render pointless the considerable time and expense of litigation. Clearly, then, application of the community/procedural response must be alive to these dangers at the extremes.
Also, many courts hesitate as the political and financial dimensions of the complaint expand. We have noted how health care systems are struggling from austerity driven by the politics of neoliberalism. In an English case, for example, a public authority challenged the sufficiency of its annual financial allocation from the central government treasury. The House of Lords rejected its claim. The challenge was to the exercise of political judgment. Deferring to the authority of Parliament, the Law Lords said that it was constitutionally inappropriate to quash financial planning guidance by the secretary of state, implicitly approved by Parliament: “these are matters of political judgment for him and for the House of Commons. They are not matters for judges.”[39] Even with this procedural review, therefore, courts struggle to adjudicate between the “polycentric” claims of competing government departments.[40]
Individual-procedural rights and remedies
A comprehensive resource allocation system must also be capable of reassuring individual patients as to its competence and, essentially, its compassion and humanity. A necessary consequence is that a general policy not to fund a treatment must be supplemented by a procedure for reviewing individual patients who possess plausible evidence that their circumstances merit an exceptional response. This is an individual-procedural right in the sense that it cannot guarantee access to treatment irrespective of cost. Yet it can reassure individuals that their individual circumstances have been considered properly in a way that is not possible when decisions are made at the community level. The argument is not that the patient has an exceptional illness. Rather, it is that the patient’s circumstances are such that they will derive significant benefit from a treatment not normally visible under the assessment made within the community-procedural approach.
Individual-procedural rights applications should be exceptional. Exceptional cases have opportunity costs of their own: inescapably, “exceptionality” procedures require considerable commitment from doctors and managers with other demands on their time. For this reason, the patient and doctor present evidence that this patient is likely to derive significant clinical benefit from this treatment. For example, principle 8 of the Thames Valley Ethical Framework promises that:
There will be no blanket bans on treatments since there may be cases in which a patient has special circumstances which present an exceptional need for treatment. Individual cases are considered by each respective CCG [Clinical Commissioning Group]. Each case will be considered on its own merits in light of the clinical evidence. CCGs have procedures in place to consider such exceptional cases through their Individual Funding Request Process [IFR].
This is supported by a system in which exceptional funding applications are submitted as Individual Funding Requests, together with supporting clinical evidence, to an IFR panel. This system was challenged in AC v. West Berkshire Primary Care Trust.[41] The applicant was a male-to-female transgender patient who had received the treatment recommended locally. The patient had received hormone therapy intended to develop breast tissue, but remained dissatisfied with her body shape. Accordingly, she applied for prosthetic breast enlargement. However, the IFR panel rejected the application because this treatment is not available to women generally and it would be unfair and inconsistent to offer it to this patient as an exceptional case. Was it fair to compare this patient’s rights with those of the general community of women with similar concerns or, as she argued, should her position be compared to the much smaller number of transgender women undergoing male-to-female transition? There is merit on both sides, but the court found for the health authority and endorsed the reasonableness of its refusal to fund this treatment in fairness to the larger community of “natal” women (as the court described this group).
By contrast, in Otley v Barking and Dagenham PCT,[42] the applicant was a lung cancer patient who had not responded well to the normal treatments. She had paid for experimental treatment with Avastin, more with a view to extending her survival by a matter of months than in expectation of a cure. Otley argued that she should have access to Avastin paid for by the NHS on evidence that her biochemical markers following treatment indicated that it might extend her life and that she was young compared to other lung cancer patients. The court said that her response was sufficiently exceptional and the experimental treatment was preferable. Similarly, in SB v. NHS England,[43] the patient was a boy suffering from phenylketonuria (PKU) and autism. Untreated PKU damages intellectual development, and for most children it is effectively managed through a low-protein diet. However, the patient’s autism made a consistent dietary regime impossible and he argued that this made him an exceptional case (of about 0.03 percent of the population). The court agreed that NHS England was duty-bound to consider whether the patient should have exceptional access to sapropterin dihydrochloride (Kuvan), and referred the case back for reconsideration. Although this remedy is strictly procedural, its substantive implications for the defendants are obvious.[44]
These cases illuminate also how UK courts generally accept that exceptionality should rest on clinical evidence, rather than personal or social circumstances. For example, in R (on app Longstaff) v Newcastle NHS PCT, the patient suffered from hemophilia and had an understandable distrust of human blood products following his brother’s death from contaminated blood. However, with the improvement in techniques for removing blood viruses, his request to be treated with more expensive, genetically modified blood products was rejected because it was not clinically necessary.[45] Similar “exceptionality” discussions have occurred in cases of terminally-ill mothers who have requested treatment to extend their lives so that they might spend as much time as possible resettling their young children.[46] These troubling cases obviously cause considerable concern.
Community-substantive rights and remedies
NICE provides an example of community-substantive rights. The institute was introduced as a political expedient to encourage greater consistency among health authority commissioners in England who were otherwise free to differ from one another. This created disquiet because it could give rise to different policies governing access to treatment between health authorities. Consistency has improved after regulations were introduced requiring commissioners to purchase all the treatments NICE recommends in its technology appraisal guidance (TAG).[47] NICE has published over 300 TAGs, and patients may seek judicial review to enforce entitlement to the listed medicines.[48] This political initiative is having increasing community impact as NICE expands its work. NICE also publishes non-mandatory recommendations and these too may have a substantive impact on community rights. In Rose v. Thanet CCG, NICE published non-binding recommendations concerning the freezing of human reproductive material for patients undergoing chemotherapy.[49] The defendant health authority failed to adopt the guidance because it disagreed with it, although it could not present persuasive reasons why. The court held this to be irrational. NICE is an internationally recognized authority; if a health authority intends to depart from its non-mandatory guidelines, it is entitled to do so if it can advance cogent reasons for its decision. The case was referred back to be reconsidered. Here too, although a procedural response, the community-substantive implications for the defendants are obvious because evidence of the quality the court demanded was unlikely to be available.
Judges may also create community-substantive remedies on their own initiative. For example, in Minister of Health v Treatment Action Campaign, the Constitutional Court of South Africa ordered the state to remove restrictions on patients’ access to the drug nevirapine, a treatment to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, but left to government discretion how best to make it available.[50] So too, in a case involving large numbers of homeless people claiming constitutional rights to housing and shelter, the court ordered, without prescribing specific standards, that the defendants:
within four months of the date of this order to deliver a report or reports under oath, stating what steps it has taken to comply with its constitutional and statutory obligations as declared in this order, what future steps it will take in that regard, and when such future steps will be taken.[51]
Recognizing the political challenge raised by opportunity costs, this returns the matter to legislative policy-makers for a solution.
Similarly, the German Constitutional Court in the Asylum Seekers’ Benefits case of 2012 considered the levels of welfare available to support asylum seekers. Welfare levels had not increased since 1993, and the court noted that inflation had eroded the real terms value of those benefits by 30%, rendering the level of subsistence incompatible with a “dignified minimum existence.”[52] Although the court imposed a constitutional duty upon government to recalculate the benefits, it expressly left the ways and means of doing so to the discretion of parliament. The judges recognized the substantive rights of an entire class represented by these litigants and insisted on a response equally available to the entire group. In this way, it encouraged policies which grappled properly with the public dimension of the challenge. So too in the UK in the asylum seeker case of Limbuela. Government passed regulations which made it impossible for those who delayed their application for asylum to work or to obtain social welfare. The case involved an applicant for asylum who applied outside the time limits, without access to food, or shelter and who often slept rough, outside at night in the cold and wet. The House of Lords found that the action of the state amounted to degrading treatment in breach of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. It decided that substantive social welfare had to be provided to everyone in these circumstances pending the resolution of their application for asylum.[53]
Perhaps the most ambitious attempt to introduce community-substantive rights has been from the Colombian Constitutional Court in a case that sought to set up new structures around the health care system, emphasizing the role of equality, accountability and participation.[54] Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in India promotes a similar community-substantive approach.[55] Judicial commissioners may be appointed to collect evidence and make recommendations to the court, but this too, while successful in some areas, is confronted by challenges.[56] For example, in PIL to reduce female infanticide and feticide the Supreme Court of India observed that “neither the State Governments nor the Central Government has taken appropriate actions for its implementation” (despite robust statutory regulations banning the practice).[57] Public authorities were ordered to implement the regulations, monitor their implementation, make quarterly returns of progress, take appropriate action, conduct public awareness campaigns, and introduce and enforce a code of conduct for public authorities. The public authorities were required to return to the court within three months to report on their progress. Similar action has been taken in respect of enforcing rights to education, health, and freedom from sexual harassment. Entering into collaboration to enforce existing regulations of significant public interest, based on reason and transparency, provides a good example of the power of PIL to encourage change.[58] On the other hand, the substantive-community response of PIL has not improved the systemic under-investment in health care by successive Indian governments.[59]
Individual-substantive rights and remedies
Latin American jurisdictions are often cited as the paradigm example of individual-substantive rights. Within this logic, public rights are enforceable as if they are private contractual rights arising within a contract for private health insurance. Community interests are not foremost. In Brazil, for example, it is reported that 97% of the rapidly increasing claims for access to health care are made by individual litigants requesting particular treatment.[60] In one case, the Supreme Federal Tribunal determined that drug eculizumab (Soliris), should be funded for an orphan disease at an annual cost per patient of more than US$400,000.[61] But Latin America is not alone. The European Court of Justice has developed similar, individualized rights to publicly funded health care from the principles governing the free movement of services in the European Union. In a series of decisions, the court has promoted the idea that, as a general rule, patients are entitled to obtain treatment away from their own member state when (i) the treatment is included within the basket of services available and regarded as “normal in the professional circles concerned” and (ii) it cannot be obtained at home “without undue delay.”[62] As it said in R (Watts) v. Bedfordshire PCT, although resourcing restraints are relevant in the extreme event of a “risk of seriously undermining the financial balance of a social security system,” a refusal to authorize treatment in the EU was not justified by waiting lists based on clinical priorities without carrying out, in the individual case in question, an objective medical assessment of the patient’s medical condition.[63] The court continued,
where the delay arising from such waiting lists appears to exceed in the individual case concerned an acceptable period having regard to an objective medical assessment of all the circumstances of the situation and the clinical needs of the person concerned, the competent institution may not refuse the authorisation sought on the grounds of the existence of those waiting lists, [or] an alleged distortion of the normal order of priorities linked to the relative urgency of the cases to be treated.[64]
Here too, by disregarding those not represented before the court, the court blinds itself to the opportunity costs upon the community of patients generally.[65]
The challenge of “individual-substantive” remedies is most sensitive in applications for expensive, “last chance, life-saving,” pharmaceuticals where evidence of efficacy is disputed. Measured on the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) scale, drugs of this nature may do no harm and may even assist a small proportion of patients for a limited time, yet absorb disproportionate resources otherwise available for other patients. Some might defend this as protecting an “existential minimum” commensurate with human dignity. Such an approach may be extended to patients with potentially fatal conditions by permitting substantive rights of access to treatments even when there is incomplete clinical evidence it will be effective. In Nikolaus,[66] the patient suffered Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive and fatal disease for which there is no cure. The German Constitutional Court found that the constitution guaranteed those suffering a life-threatening disease for which there was no generally accepted treatment, access to medically approved treatment, even if a positive influence on the disease was unlikely. However, a single-minded “rule of rescue” which ignores finite public budgets exposes the community to considerable risk.[67] Unrestricted individual-substantive responses are poor examples of Sabel and Simon’s “destabilisation rights,” which encourage a more secure and constructive platform upon which to exercise public duties.[68] The danger is obvious. Lack of restraint over individual-substantive rights, far from encouraging constructive “destabilisation,” could be destructive of the rights of the many.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has taken the opposite view in respect of patients seeking life-saving treatment outside their own health system. In N. v. United Kingdom, the ECtHR reconsidered its “individual-substantive” rights approach previously adopted in D. v. United Kingdom.[69] The case concerned an HIV-positive visitor to the UK who was offered full access to NHS treatment while staying in the country. When her visitor visa expired, immigration authorities sought to remove her, knowing she would be unlikely to receive further treatment in her home state. Retreating from their decision in the case of D., the court declined to insist on a substantive remedy. Instead, it referred to the “search for a fair balance between the demands of the general interest of the community and the requirements of the protection of the individual’s fundamental rights…” It continued,
social and economic differences between countries, entail that the level of treatment available in the Contracting State and the country of origin may vary considerably… [However] Article 3 does not place an obligation on the Contracting State to alleviate such disparities through the provision of free and unlimited health care to all aliens without a right to stay within its jurisdiction. A finding to the contrary would place too great a burden on the Contracting States.[70]
This denial of individual-substantive rights is difficult, but it acknowledges the macro-implications to states of unrestricted rights of access. Unattractive as it is from a patient-centered perspective, it clearly locates its analysis within a community-based approach to rights.
Is judicialization a friend or a foe? The rights matrix illuminates the range of approaches available to courts, their costs and benefits. If we accept the framework issues discussed above, that is, that opportunity costs engage everyone’s rights and a central objective of public welfare rights is to mitigate health inequality, then the logic of the community-procedural approach (“A4R”) is the most compelling starting point to preserve legislative political will and promote community rights. Equally, a number of factors may modify this ideal. Community-procedural approaches are most likely to succeed in an environment of trust and dialogue between health managers and judges, supported by satisfactory priority-setting systems. But this approach cannot always dominate all others. First, even within the community-procedural dimension, individual circumstances sometimes merit consideration for exceptional clinical reasons. Second, especially in serious cases of hardship, a substantive approach to community interests may be justified when entire groups of patients have been left behind. Indeed, as NICE demonstrates, community-substantive rights are also recognized as a response to the “politics” of resource allocation.[71] Lastly, in jurisdictions of limited trust between resource allocators and the judiciary, or where patients’ rights are thought to be inadequate, judges may feel justified to take a more robust, individual-substantive approach both for the benefit of individual applicants and, indeed, to attempt to destabilize the system to kick start improvement. However, as the funds available for public welfare continue to erode relative to demand, there is a serious threat to community interests if the individual-substantive approach becomes the predominant response.
Perhaps it would help if judges were more transparent about which approach they were engaging and why. The matrix illuminates the costs and benefits of judicial policy, and transparency would assist and clarify debate. That said, we should not overestimate the capacity of national courts to respond to these challenges alone for two reasons. First, while the primary concern of this discussion has been priority setting in health care, do not forget health status more generally, and the social determinants of health in particular. Yet this engages the polycentric needs of other departments of state with complimentary responsibility for the environment, employment, food, housing, and education, about which, as we have noted, courts find adjudication very difficult.[72] Second, as the “debt-state’s” obligations to private creditors expands and private investment underpins public welfare finances, the forum for dispute resolution will tend to move away from national judges into the less secure (and vastly more expensive) hands of international arbitrators.[73] The matrix is helpful, but for the future, as concern about health and health care escalates, national courts and, indeed, national politics, may have a smaller role to play.
With the usual caveats, I thank Professors Alicia Yamin, Ricardo Perlingeiro, and Keith Syrett for their helpful discussions during the preparation of this article.
Christopher Newdick is a professor of health law at the University of Reading, Reading, UK.
Please address correspondence to Christopher Newdick. Email: c.newdick@reading.ac.uk.
Competing interests: Author is a member of the Thames Valley Priorities Committee.
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[12]. Soobramoney v Minister of Health, KwaZulu-Natal (1999) 50 BMLR 224, 239.
[13]. See 3071/05 Gila Luzon, [2006] (2) Isr LR 1, [16]. See generally, A. Gross, “The right to health in Israel between solidarity and neoliberalism,” in (eds) C. Flood and A. Gross, The rights to health at the public/private divide – a comparative global study (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
[14]. See R. Hirschl, Towards juristocracy – the origins and consequences of the new constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2007), pp. 154-55.
[15]. See A. Gross in “The right to health in Israel between solidarity and neoliberalism,” in (eds) C. Flood and A. Gross, The right to health at the public/private divide – a comparative global study (Cambridge University Press, 2014), 178-81.
[16]. Chaoulli v Attorney Generals of Quebec and Canada 2005 SCC 35.
[17]. HCJ 4253/02 Kiryati v Attorney General (2009).
[18]. See A. Gross, “Is there a human right to private health care?” (2013) J. Law & Medical Ethics 138.
[19]. M. Tushnet, Weak courts, strong rights – judicial review and social welfare rights in comparative constitutional law (2008, Princeton University Press), p. 260.
[20]. See A. Hutchinson, “Condition critical: the constitution of health care,” in (eds) C. Flood, K. Roach. and L. Sossin, Access to health. access to justice (2005, Toronto University Press), pp. 109-10.
[21]. J. Coggon, What makes health public? (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
[22]. World Health Report – Financing for Universal Coverage (World Health Organization, 2010), p. 91.
[23]. See N. Daniels, Just health – meeting needs fairly (2008, Cambridge University Press).
[24]. Minister of Health v Treatment Action Campaign 2002 (5) SALR 721, 722 (SACC). See also Government of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom 2000 (11) BCLR 1169 (SACC).
[25]. Thames Valley Priorities Committee Annual Report 2016-17. Available at http://www.fundingrequests.cscsu.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TVPC-Annual-Report-2016-2017.pdf. The Committee’s Terms of Reference are at http://www.fundingrequests.cscsu.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/TVPC-ToR-March-2016-final.pdf.
[26] . See http://www.fundingrequests.cscsu.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Ethical-Framework-March-2016-final.pdf.
[27]. Policy Guidance is searchable at http://www.fundingrequests.cscsu.nhs.uk/thames-valley-priorities-committee.
[28]. See C. Newdick, “Accountability for rationing – theory into practice,” (2005) 33, J. Law, Medicine & Ethics 660.
[29]. NHS Constitution, Principle 2a: “You have the right to expect local decisions on funding of drugs and treatments to be made rationally following a proper consideration of the evidence. If the local NHS decides not to fund a drug or treatment you and your doctor feel would be right for you, they will explain that decision to you.”
[30]. C. Sable and W. Simon, “Destabilisation rights: how public law litigation succeeds,” (2004) 117 Harv L Rev 1015. See also, K. Syrett, Law, legitimacy and the rationing of health care, (2007).
[31]. M. Tushnet, Weak courts, strong rights – judicial review and social welfare rights in comparative constitutional law (2008, Princeton University Press), 251.
[32]. 3071/05 Gila Louzon, [2006] (2) Isr LR 1, [28].
[33]. See generally, C. Newdick, Who should we treat? – rights, rationing and resources in the NHS (Oxford University Press, 2005).
[34]. R v North West Lancashire Health Authority, ex p A, D & G (2000) BMLR 148. See also Van Kuck v Germany (2003) App no 35968/97 and against Poland in an abortion case in RR v Poland (2011) App no 27617/04.
[35]. FN v The Minister for Education [1995] IR 409.
[37]. TD v The Minister for Education [2001] I.R. 259, 333.
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[39]. R v Secretary of State for the Environment, ex p Nottinghamshire CC [1986] AC 240.
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[41]. [2011] EWCA Civ 247.
[42]. Otley v Barking and Dagenham PCT [2007] EWHC Admin 1927.
[43]. [2017] EWHC 2000 (Admin).
[44]. Following the Court’s guidance, NHS England reversed its decision and committed £100 per day to fund this treatment, see: “NHS agrees to fund ‘life-changing’ drug for seven-year-old,”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41443330 (29 September 2017).
[45]. R (on app Longstaff) v Newcastle NHS PCT (2004) Lloyds Rep Med 400.
[46]. Rogers v Swindon PCT [2006] EWCA Civ 392 [2006] Lloyds Rep Med 36.
[47]. See now the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) Regulations 2012, SI 2996, reg 34.
[48]. See NICE TAG Static List: https://www.nice.org.uk/about/what-we-do/our-programmes/nice-guidance/nice-technology-appraisal-guidance/technology-appraisal-static-list.
[50]. Minister of Health v Treatment Action Campaign (no 2) (2002) 5 SA 721 (CC).
[51]. City of Cape Town v Neville Rudolph and Others 2003 (11) BCLR 1236 (C), at 56.
[52]. Asylum Seekers Benefits Case (1 BvL 10/10, 2012), para [69], http://www.bverfg.de/entscheidungen/ls20120718_1bvl001010en.html (English translation).
[53]. R (Limbuela) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] 1 All ER 951.
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[56]. S. Fredman, Human rights transformed – positive rights and positive duties (Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 134 and generally.
[57]. Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes v Union of India (2001) 5 SCC 577, under the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act 1994. The order is available at: http://judis.nic.in/supremecourt/imgs1.aspx?filename=20508.
[58]. See generally, C. Foster and V. Jivan, “Public interest litigation and human rights implementation: The Indian and Australian Experience,” [2008] 3 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 1.
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[60]. O. Motta Ferraz, “Brazil: Health inequalities and courts: the social impact of the judicialisation of health,” in (eds) A. Yamin and S. Gloppen, Litigating health rights – can courts bring more justice to health? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 87, 94.
[61]. See Noticias STF, www.stf.jus.br/portal/cms/verNoticiaDetelhe.asp?Conteudo+281232. Given its orphan status, NICE in England has also approved the drug within strict treatment guidelines, see Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinurua-Eculizumab for atypical uraemic syndrome (Nice, 2015, HST Guidance 1).
[62]. Smits and Peerbooms (1999) C-157/99, para 108. See also Muller-Faure and Van Riet (1999) ECJ, C-385/99, para 108.
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[66]. Case BvR 347/98, 6 December 2005.
[67]. A. Yamin and S. Gloppen, litigating health rights – can courts bring more justice to health? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), p. 350. In South Africa, Justice Moseneke noted: “Prohibitive pricing of medicine… would in effect equate to a denial of the right of access to health care.” See Minister of Health v New Clicks South Africa (Pty) Ltd 2005 (2) SA 311, para 661 (CC)(S. Afr) discussed by L. Forman and J. Singh, “The Role of Rights Litigation in Assuring More Equitable Access to Health Care in South Africa,” in (eds) C. Flood and A. Gross, The Rights to Health at the Public/Private Divide (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
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The Audi S4
Krista Rodriguez August 9, 2014 No comments
The top performer in Audi’s A4 line is the S4, which competes with the Mercedes C Class AMG and the BMW M3. The chassis architecture of the S4 is similar to those in the Cabriolet, Q5 medium SUV and A5 coupe. This range offers an assortment of transmission types. There is a six-speed manual, a continuously variable automatic transmission, a six-speed torque converter automatic, and the Dual-clutch transmission (DCT) seven-speed that is called the S Tronic. The seven-speed ‘S Tronic’ DL501 is the latest premium Dual-clutch transmission to be included in the Audi S4 line.
“Audi S4 Roller” by AMV8GTE – Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Audi_S4_Roller.jpg#/media/File:Audi_S4_Roller.jpg
Rather than being configured for transverse installation, this seven-speed ‘S Tronic’ DL501 design is configured for inline mount. This allows it to be used in Audi’s larger vehicles. This means the design may also be applied to the high-performance quattro® Audi models.
S-Tronic, Courtesy: http://www.audi.de/de/brand/de/neuwagen/layer/technologien/s-tronic.html
The S4 owes some of its sophistication to the 333 horsepower V6 engine, its seven-speed Dual-clutch transmission and its all-wheel drive power distribution. Visually, it boasts the same flawless appearance as other vehicles in the Audi line. It looks powerful but stylish, and it has impeccable finishes that contribute to the vision of tasteful luxury.
The experience driving the vehicle invokes a similar quality. The hum of the V6 engine is a medium pitch, subdued when compared to the higher volume and hoarse growl of the old V8 model. In comparison to some models of Jaguar, the supercharger is nearly inaudible. Thanks to the Audi Drive Select, the S4 can adjust the responsiveness of the steering, throttle and suspension. On the seven-speed ‘S Tronic’ DL501 versions of the S4, the vehicle can adjust the responsiveness of the chassis settings to reflect the inclination of the driver and passengers.
Gear shifts are firmer and quicker with the S4. The sensation delivered from the column-mounted paddles during the shifting process is thrilling. During gentle driving or lower revs, the downshift is especially smooth. The S4 operates as though it understands whether the driver is in a hurry or taking a relaxing tour in the vehicle.
Although the difference is not as significant as with some cars equipped with DCT, the gear changes have become sharper. This is because controls have been sharpened in the S4’s Dynamic mode. There are also individual settings available, which is programmed through the MMI controls on the center console.
The S4 offers a pleasant handling balance through its innovations in the engine and the power proportion directed to the rear wheels. This means the S4 is not as loud or heavy in the front as the previous V8 model was. It offers a new rear differential that accelerates the outside wheels around the corners and marks an improved perception of agility.
The car has a mass of 1,700 kg and an acceleration performance of 0-62 mph in 5.4 seconds. The S4 is considered a sports wagon which has five seats. The vehicle typically gets 18 miles per gallon in the city and 28 miles per gallon on the highway. This is an improvement over the six-speed manual, but the DCT does seem to lose a couple tenths in acceleration. The seven-speed ‘S Tronic’ DL501 transmission has clearly combined with the supercharged V6 engine to create a high-performance vehicle that has balance and a more contemporary edge.
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Oklahoma enters the Union
Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory collectively enter the United States as Oklahoma, the 46th state.
Oklahoma, with a name derived from the Choctaw Indian words okla, meaning “people,” and humma, meaning “red,” has a history of human occupation dating back 15,000 years. The first Europeans to visit the region were Spanish explorers in the 16th century, and in the 18th century the Spanish and French struggled for control of the territory. The United States acquired Oklahoma from France in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
After the War of 1812, the U.S. government decided to remove Indian tribes from the settled eastern lands of the United States and move them west to the unsettled lands of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. In 1828, Congress reserved Oklahoma for Indians and in 1834 formally ceded it to five southeastern tribes as Indian Territory. Many Cherokees refused to abandon their homes east of the Mississippi, and so the U.S. Army moved them west in a forced march known as the “Trail of Tears.” The uprooted tribes joined Plains Indians that had long occupied the area, and Indian nations with fixed boundaries and separate governments were established in the region.
During the American Civil War, most tribes in Indian Territory supported the South. With the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, the territory was placed under U.S. military rule. White cattlemen and settlers began to covet the virgin ranges of Oklahoma, and after the arrival of the railroad in the 1870s, illegal white incursion into Indian Territory flourished. Most of these “Boomers” were expelled, but pressure continued until the federal government agreed in 1889 to open two million acres in central Oklahoma for white settlement. At noon on April 22, 1889, a pistol shot signaled the opening of the new land, and tens of thousands of people rushed to stake claims. Those who had already made illegal entry to beat the starting gun were called “Sooners,” hence Oklahoma’s state nickname. The following year, the region was divided into Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory.
In 1907, Congress decided to admit Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory into the Union as a single state, with all Indians in the state becoming U.S. citizens. Representatives of the two territories drafted a constitution, and on September 17, 1907, it was approved by voters of the two territories. On November 16, Oklahoma was welcomed into the United States by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Oklahoma initially prospered as an agricultural state, but the drought years of the 1930s made the state part of the Dust Bowl. During the Depression, poor tenant farmers known as “Okies” were forced to travel west seeking better opportunities. In the 1940s, prosperity returned to Oklahoma, and oil production brought a major economic boom in the 1970s.
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