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Former Ukraine PM Tymoshenko says she'll run again for president
Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of Ukraine's Batkivshchyna Party, addressing the media during a press conference at the European People's Party (EPP) Congress at the Dublin Convention Centre in Dublin. Tymoshenko, urged Western powers on March 16, 2014 to unite on a hard line against Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Crimea crisis on March 6, 2014. Ms Tymoshenko, released from jail last month after her arch-foe Viktor Yanukovich fled from power, announced on Thursday, March 27, 2014, that she would run again for president in an election on May 25. -- FILE PHOTO: AFP
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KIEV (REUTERS) - Ukrainian former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, released from jail last month after her arch-foe Viktor Yanukovich fled from power, announced on Thursday that she would run again for president in an election on May 25.
"I plan to run for election as president," she told reporters.
Ms Tymoshenko, 53, a powerful speaker known in her heyday for a trademark peasant hair-braid, served twice as prime minister and ran for president in 2010, only to be narrowly beaten in a run-off vote by Mr Yanukovich.
The latter subsequently launched a campaign against Ms Tymoshenko and her allies and she was jailed in 2011 for abuse of office linked to a gas deal she brokered with Russia in 2009.
She served two years of a seven-year term, mainly under prison guard in a hospital in Kharkiv, before being released when Mr Yanukovich fled on February 20 and was subsequently ousted by parliament.
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Slain US teacher hailed for confronting child shooter
Master Sgt. Michael Landsberry, a former Marine who also served in the Nevada Air National Guard and taught math at Sparks Middle School, is shown in this Nevada National Guard photo released to Reuters on October 22, 2013. A US teacher killed by a 12-year-old gunman was hailed a "hero" on Tuesday for confronting the boy, who also injured two other students before turning the gun on himself. -- FILE PHOTO: REUTERS
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US teacher killed by a 12-year-old gunman was hailed a "hero" on Tuesday for confronting the boy, who also injured two other students before turning the gun on himself.
The shooter, who has not been identified, used a Ruger 9 mm semi-automatic handgun which he had taken from home in the early Monday school shooting in Sparks, Nevada, according to police.
The boy's motive for the shooting, the latest incident adding to a hefty toll of fatal gun crimes in America, was unclear.
"Everybody wants to know why. That's the big question, the answer is - we don't know right now," said Sparks Deputy Police Chief Tom Miller, adding that officers were actively investigating what had occurred.
Giving more details of the shooting, Washoe County School District Police Chief Mike Mieras praised mathematics teacher Michael Landsberry, a 45-year-old former Marine who had served in Afghanistan.
"After the first student was shot, Mr Landsberry calmly walked toward the shooter, putting his hands up in a motion to try to stop the individual's actions," said Mr Mieras.
"Mr Landsberry's heroic actions, by stepping toward the shooter, allowed time for other students in the playground area to flee," Mr Mieras added.
Deputy Police Chief Miller said the shooter's family is cooperating and that the crime scene has been expanded to their home. Officers have not ruled out bringing charges against his parents, because of the weapon used.
The two students injured, both also 12 years old, are "stable and recovering," said Miller, adding that one victim was shot in the shoulder and the other in the stomach.
The incident has stirred some debate about America's lax gun controls, an issue that gained global and national attention - but little subsequent reform - last December after a massacre at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, which killed 26 people, including 20 youngsters.
"The unthinkable has happened yet again," said Nicole Hockley, mother of six-year-old Dylan Hockley who was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, responding to the Nevada shooting.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the children of Sparks Middle School, who ... came face to face with violence that no child should ever experience," she added in a statement.
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Connecticut Innovations Provides $1 Million in Venture Financing to Discover Video LLC
Connecticut Innovations (CI), the state’s quasi-public authority responsible for growing Connecticut businesses through innovative financing tools and assistance, today announced that it has provided $1 million in venture financing to Discover Video LLC o
Wallingford, CT(18 Jul 2012)
Connecticut Innovations (CI), the state’s quasi-public authority responsible for growing Connecticut businesses through innovative financing tools and assistance, today announced that it has provided $1 million in venture financing to Discover Video LLC of Wallingford, Conn., through its newest funding vehicle, the Venture & Mezzanine Debt Fund. The new funding will enable the company to expand its sales and marketing capabilities, grow its customer pipeline, and further develop its technology and products.
Discover Video provides video streaming equipment and services to broadcasters, schools, corporations and government entities for live and on-demand video webcasting. Its products include multimedia video encoders, decoders, transcoders, media servers, priority video alert systems, video/digital signage and mobile broadcasting kits.
“CI established the Venture & Mezzanine Debt Fund to fill an unmet need in the marketplace – to help growth-stage technology companies obtain important capital for expansion,” said Claire Leonardi, chief executive officer and executive director of CI. “We are excited that Discover Video is receiving one of the first investments through this new fund. The fund is another example of a CI initiative designed to address the Malloy administration’s goal of accelerating high-tech growth in Connecticut.”
Discover Video has developed world-class encoding, streaming and video delivery technologies that make it extremely easy and inexpensive for virtually anyone to become a live video broadcaster and to convert one form of video to another. Connecticut schools such as Cheshire High School, East Windsor High School, South Windsor High School and Weston Middle Schoolhave already deployed the technology to deliver live “morning announcements” and video-on-demand to classrooms, iPads® and other mobile devices.
“It is no secret that the economy has made it more difficult to start and grow a business. The state’s efforts to spur growth among early-stage technology companies are extremely well timed. We’ve already hired two people and will be adding more thanks to this most recent investment,” said Rich Mavrogeanes, president and chief technology officer of Discover Video.
Discover Video is led by a team with extensive experience in media and the Internet. The company was founded by Rich Mavrogeanes and Michael Savic. Rich is a serial entrepreneur with more than 35 years’ experience in the technology industry. He previously founded VBrick Systems and grew the company into a major player in the video streaming industry, achieving #1 market share in the enterprise video business. Michael is vice president of marketing and has over 25 years’ experience with Connecticut-based technology companies. Rich and Michael are joined by industry veterans Joseph Chordas and Kevin Shively, among others.
State Senator Len Fasano said, “I am delighted that a successful entrepreneur is growing another high-tech company in Wallingford. This group has helped generate many jobs in town through their previous venture, VBrick Systems. Discover Video promises to do the same.”
“It is important that we support our local businesses,” State Representative Mary G. Fritz (D-Cheshire/Wallingford) said. “Hopefully, the funding will help Discover Video to grow and create additional job opportunities at a time when we must continue to work together to improve our economy.”
About Connecticut Innovations Inc.
Connecticut Innovations (CI) is a quasi-public corporation providing equity, debt and bond financing and other forms of financial assistance to companies in all stages of the business life cycle, from startup to later stage. CI offers its portfolio companies strategic guidance and collaborations with partners in business, finance, education, government and nonprofit sectors. CI’s initiatives are designed to grow the state’s economic and technology base, and to stimulate business investments and job creation. For more information on CI, please visit www.ctinnovations.com.
About Discover Video LLC
Discover Video was founded by the same founding team that created VBrick Systems and provides video streaming equipment and services to broadcasters, schools, corporations and government entities. The products include lower cost multimedia video encoders, decoders and transcoders, media servers, priority video alert systems, video/digital signage and mobile broadcasting kits. Discover Video’s customers include major corporations, educational institutions, local cable television stations and small businesses. For more information on Discover Video, please visit www.discovervideo.com.
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Julie Cunningham – interview: ‘I had the experience for many years of feeling like an object that was spun around and I don’t want to feel like that any more’
Seeking to erase embedded patriarchal structures and fixed gender identities through dance, Julie Cunningham’s choreography is often inspired by feminist texts. Their new work for Art Night 2019 promises to be full of energy – all night long!
by ANNA McNAY
Julie Cunningham (born Liverpool) trained at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London, before working with the renowned Merce Cunningham (no relation) Dance Company in New York for a decade, and later with the Michael Clark Company back in the UK. In 2016, Cunningham received a Leverhulme choreography fellowship and the following year established Julie Cunningham & Company. Openly gay themselves, the dancer-choreographer seeks to erase embedded patriarchal structures and fixed gender identities through dance, ensuring roles are flexible, so that nobody becomes an object to be manipulated. They are currently working on a new performance for Art Night 2019.
Studio International spoke to Cunningham about their training, influences and processes of creation – as well as asking for some insider insight into what will be taking place at Waltham Forest Community Hub in north-east London on the night of 22 June.
Anna McNay: You have had a career as a dancer, training at Rambert School, working with Merce Cunningham and Michael Clark. In 2016, you became the first recipient of the Leverhulme choreography fellowship, intended to help professional dancers become full-time working choreographers. You had, however, been choreographing before this point, I think?
Julie Cunningham: Yes, I’d done little bits. At Rambert School, we were really encouraged to make things, and so it was always a possibility, but I spent a lot of my career dancing for other people and that takes a lot out of you and requires you to commit your body, in a way, to somebody else. It was only when I had a break from working with Michael [Clark] that I had the time to try to do something for myself, and I really enjoyed it and felt like it was something I wanted to do more of and take seriously at this point in my career and life.
Julie Cunningham, m/e. Photo: Chris Nash.
AMc: It has not meant that you have stopped dancing, though, because you dance in your own works now.
JC: Yes, I dance in my own work, and I dance a little bit for other people. I’m still dancing a lot.
AMc: When did you found your company, Julie Cunningham & Company, and how do you select which dancers are going to be part of it?
JC: I only officially started my company two years ago, in 2017, so it’s not been very long. In the beginning, the reason to have a company was quite practical, in terms of having a structure, and a means through which to hire people and pay them. It wasn’t really that I wanted to have a company at first. But now I see it as a useful thing. It’s been a way to get to know different performers. I guess it’s a way to be present in the independent dance scene in London.
AMc: How many dancers are in your company at the moment?
JC: I don’t have a set number of people, but there are a few I work with quite consistently on every project. But for each commission or work that I make, I need a certain number of people.
AMc: Let’s talk about your work. You’ve said elsewhere that “you seek to erase embedded patriarchal structures and fixed gender identities through dance”. Would you say that is the key goal of your choreography?
JC: It sounds somehow very grandiose to say that, but it’s something that I think about, yes. Last year, I wrote a piece while I was reading The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig. It’s a fictional work, but she is really concerned with trying to create a language outside the patriarchal language and structure, which feels like an impossible task, but is very exciting. She plays with the idea of the centre and margins, and that if there’s no fixed centre, then where and what are the margins? I don’t know if that makes sense? With patriarchy, for example, it’s as if patriarchy exists as a central thing and then the rest of society is a structure around it – there are people who are marginal to that centre. So, if this idea of centre, whatever that might be, is always moving, is not a fixed thing, then it affects what might be marginal. Can there even be a margin if there’s no fixed centre? I guess I’ve been trying to think about that in terms of movement and being in space and how to keep something moving, how not to fix it, how not to rely on the same rules or structures that already exist.
AMc: Have you developed specific methods or tropes that you employ to this end, or specific things that you avoid, or consider too traditional?
JC: I don’t think I have specific things, no. I think it’s about trying things out. In terms of dancing, I don’t like it to feel as if each person is only playing one role – I like it to be shifting all the time. It can go back and forth so that nobody is in charge any more. That way there is more equality.
AMc: That makes sense. I read that – presumably as a result of shifting roles – you don’t do lifts.
JC: I do little lifts! But it has to be something that’s shared and something that we can all do, that anybody could do. I think it’s just about not being an object and being objectified as is the case in some more traditional work. I had the experience for many years of feeling like an object that was spun around and I don’t want to feel like that any more. I don’t want anyone else to feel like that. It’s about trying to find ways of working together. That doesn’t mean that we can’t lift or use our bodyweight or whatever, it just means trying to find different ways of doing it, so that it’s not just one person who is the object and another who is the manipulator.
AMc: You say you were made to feel like an object when you were working for these other companies. You’re open about your sexuality and gender identity. Has that ever been a problem for you in terms of your career, or have you faced any prejudice in the dance world?
JC: No, nobody really cared, when I was dancing, what my sexuality was. It didn’t really matter.
AMc: Is it more of an issue for you yourself now then? Something that you want to work with for your own reasons?
JC: No, I just think that it’s more picked up on now, in terms of people asking me about it, since I make work about gender.
AMc: Does that annoy you?
JC: No, it doesn’t annoy me.
AMc: Do you feel that it’s relevant, though, or could anybody be trying to make this kind of work?
JC: I don’t think it’s irrelevant, because it’s my life experience. It’s something that I feel there’s a lack of visibility around, as well, in terms of other female sexualities and different gender identities on stage, particularly in mainstream dance. We just don’t really see alternatives to the heterosexual feminine.
Julie Cunningham, To Be Me, 2018. Photo: Stephen Wright.
AMc: Like girls in pretty tutus …
JC: Yes, but not just that. Even in modern work, it’s skirts and tiny shorts. Can that person not put a pair of trousers on? Just because she’s female doesn’t mean you need to see everything. Similarly, the male dancer doesn’t need to always have a bare chest. I just can’t stand it any more.
AMc: Or very tight tights?
JC: I don’t like that bit!
AMc: No, me neither!
JC: But that’s still what it is like on stage a lot in more mainstream dance.
AMc: Aside from lifts and costumes, how do you go about choreographing a work? What is your starting point? Do you start with an idea, a piece of music, or a text? Or is it that there’s a specific dancer you have in mind for whom you want to create something?
JC: It’s usually an idea or some text that I’ve been reading. Or sometimes it’s music. It’s been a different starting point for each work. Then it’s a case of trying to develop an idea through that reading or music, and trying to explore what movement I want to try and find. Usually, to begin with, there’s myself, and then I add in other people and create the movement. Sometimes I’ve already created it by myself and then I teach it to the other people; sometimes it happens during the time spent with the other dancers, and I work with that.
AMc: You might be talking about what you want and letting them improvise a little and it happens organically?
JC: Yes, sometimes it’s that, and then sometimes it’s more a specific movement that I’m asking them to do.
AMc: What is it that you’re looking for in a piece of music or text to inspire movement? I know you have worked with Kate Tempest’s poetry, as well as with Sarah Kane’s play Crave. Is it something to do with the feelings that are evoked or the rhythm of the way it’s read?
JC: I think it’s a bit of both of those things. With Kate Tempest’s work, I was working with a recording of her reading her poems, so I went with the rhythm of her voice and played a little with the words. With the Sarah Kane play, obviously I didn’t have a recording before we did it, so it came together more as we went along with the four actors reading the parts. It was really nice to have live voices because every show was different as the actors had a different way of delivering the lines. The dancers had to adapt and respond. Then I made a piece called m/y at Sadler’s Wells last autumn, which was also based on text, but I didn’t use any text in it. It wasn’t heard in the performance, which was with music.
Julie Cunningham, m/y, 2018. Dancers Hannah Burfield, Sara. Image courtesy of Julie Cunningham Company
AMc: You just talked about how, with the actors, no two performances were ever the same. You have also said before that the body is inherently unstable and constantly changing, so how can two performances ever be the same?
JC: They’re not. But, with the actors, it was like playing with a live orchestra. You’re dealing with your own body, which is always different, but also with another unpredictable thing, if that makes sense?
AMc: Yes, absolutely. Presumably during the process of rehearsing and training, however, you’re learning to control that changing body and make it stable in a certain way?
JC: I don’t think so. In dance, there’s so much repetition in terms of rehearsal and training that you have a sense of some kind of stability. It’s just that you feel different every day, and, by Friday, it might feel the same as Monday, but then, over the weekend, you change. You are always changing, but there is also some knowing in terms of what you are asking your body to do, because you repeat it, even though it’s not exactly the same. There’s enough there that you know you can rely on.
AMc: So, it’s a bit like having a template for a pattern that you approximate in whatever way you can on that given day?
JC: Yes.
AMc: When you are conceiving of the idea in the first place, do you visualise it in your mind’s eye? Do you have some concept of what it is going to look like?
JC: Usually, yes, I know what I’m going to try and do. Sometimes, it’s really clear and it has to do with the space it might be in. But then I also know that it won’t be like that at all in time – it’s not going to look like that, but I do need to be able to visualise it to some degree or other at the beginning.
AMc: How, then, do you translate what you can see in your mind’s eye into something you can make other people understand and perform for you?
JC: A lot of it is through my own body – I show something and then the dancers respond to it. But I also use words. I think I’m very specific in what I ask for, but I’m not asking for an exact replica of what I do. It’s a certain amount of information that the dancers then translate into their own bodies. That’s why it’s important to work with people I know or who I feel have a certain understanding of things.
AMc: Absolutely. It must be difficult if you do have someone new coming in who doesn’t know the language you use, either verbal or bodily.
JC: Yes, you just have to work differently with them.
AMc: Do your works have a narrative, or else what is the structure that you build them around (when not using pre-existing textual works)?
JC: I wouldn’t say there’s a narrative, as such. There are clear ideas that create their own narrative, but I don’t feel I’m trying to tell a story from beginning to end. It’s more fragmented than that, and it’s somewhere between being ourselves in the experience and layered with the ideas that we’re working on.
Julie Cunningham, m/e. Image courtesy of Julie Cunningham Company
AMc: If you are working with music rather than text, are you always working with a piece that pre-exists, or do you ever have pieces created to go alongside your work?
JC: Both. m/y had music created especially for the piece.
AMc: That must be quite a different experience, in a way, because then you are not responding to the music, rather it is a kind of co-creation.
JC: Yes, it was a nice experience.
AMc: Were you working with a musician you knew already?
JC: Yes, I worked with a composer I had met earlier that year and she also made the sounds for Crave, which was something very different, because the sound was quite minimal in that work.
AMc: Going back to the idea of control over the body, is there still a level of pressure on young dancers to maintain their body and present it in a certain way?
JC: Yes, I think there is in certain areas of dance, but not in all dance. But, yes, certain bodies are preferred or sought or praised.
AMc: In an unhealthy way?
JC: Yes, I’m sure that happens, but I feel I’m independent and set apart from all of that now, really. When I was working in other people’s companies, I was more aware of it. But I’m quite happy not being around it any more.
AMc: You’re creating a work that will be shown as part of Art Night, and what I always wonder is what makes a piece of dance qualify as art as opposed to pure dance? Where’s the line drawn between something that’s shown on a stage, advertised as dance, for a sit-down audience, and then this more informal installation-like dance-form that gets classified as art and takes place in galleries or at art events?
JC: When you know you are going to make a work, you need to know the context of the work. If you know you’re going to make it for the stage, then you have to think in a certain way, whereas if you know it’s going to be performed in a gallery or an alternative space, then you make different decisions. Each has its own restrictions, I suppose, and its own benefits. But when you start to make a work, you need to know the context and the audience in order to make something that feels right.
AMc: Would you say that your work straddles both worlds?
JC: Yes. I don’t really think about it so much. I mean, that’s not true, of course I do, I think about it a lot. But, as a dancer, I’ve always performed in theatres, galleries and museums the whole time, so I never thought it was unusual. I observed how Merce [Cunningham] approached those different things and how we thought about them in the company. I learned a lot from him.
AMc: How did you end up working with him in the first place? He’s such a monumental name in contemporary dance. Did you specifically want to go and work in New York for his company?
JC: When I finished school, I went to New York for the summer and I took class at his studio. I got to know Merce’s assistant Robert, and we kept in touch. I was really interested in the work, and it just happened that they had a place as an understudy, so I went back to New York to take on this role, like an apprentice with the company, and then I got into the company that way. I had always really strongly wanted to dance in that company though, yes.
AMc: What do you think was the most important lesson that you learned from that decade of working with Merce?
JC: There were so many! But mostly just a level of openness. So, instead of saying: “Oh, we can’t do that,” he always said: “What can we do?” He was always looking for possibilities in things that might otherwise feel like they were shutting down. It made me think a bit more about what I can do, not what I can’t do. OK, so I can’t use that space, but maybe we could do something in this space, and that’s going to change the outcome, but that might be a good thing. I learned to look at things positively and not shut them down because it was not exactly how I wanted it to be.
AMc: I think I need to learn that lesson! Ultimately, you left the company because of an injury to your spine, but you did later go on to work with Michael Clark, so presumably everything is fully healed now?
JC: Yes. I just needed to take a year off dancing.
AMc: That kind of thing must be quite frequent among dancers?
JC: Yes, dancers get injured a lot. It’s just part of the deal, really.
AMc: Now you are choreographing, you are dancing, and you have your own company. How would you describe the kind of dancing that you do? Who or what are your key influences?
JC: Well, obviously Merce, and Michael as well, in different ways. I’m quite influenced by visual arts as well, and by theatre. I get a lot of my – I don’t want to say “inspiration” because I really hate that word! – but a lot of my fuel or things that feed me from visual art and theatre, rather than dance. I think it’s quite rare for me to find something there that really gets to me in the same way. I don’t know why, maybe it’s because I’m a dancer and it’s almost too close or something …
AMc: Do you go to see other dance performances, though?
JC: Oh, yes.
AMc: But you also go to the theatre and to galleries.
AMc: Let’s move on to Art Night. Can you tell me something about what you are choreographing for the event? Is it a specific piece that you are going to perform throughout the night, or is it more of a workshop?
JC: I’m trying to bring together a lot of things. I’ve been reading a lot of Gertrude Stein and I feel that is a big influence on what I’m trying to do for Art Night. It’s something about the energy. I don’t know if you’ve read The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, but it’s very energetic. Stein and Toklas are always moving around, going to visit people or being visited, it’s very over the top – they never stop. There’s a very strong drive and energy. I wanted to do something that had a lot of energy. It’s maybe a bit excessive in terms of energy, what I’m trying to do, but I want to try and make as many things as I can, so I might just keep going and going until the end of Art Night. Some of it might be things that we’ve done earlier, and some of it maybe things that we do afresh on the night as well.
AMc: Will the audience be participating in any way, or will it be entirely a performance?
JC: There’s one bit where I have an idea and the audience can participate if they want to, but otherwise I think we’ll be doing stuff. I want it to feel quite informal in a way, like you have come over to our house, and we’re doing our work, and you’re just there with us.
AMc: Where will it be taking place?
JC: It’s in Walthamstow village, in north-east London, in a hall called the Community Hub.
AMc: Have you been to the venue as part of your research to aid in conceptualising what you want to do?
AMc: So you’re building it, in part, around the venue?
AMc: You’re also collaborating with a musician again.
JC: Yes, I’m working with a musician called JD Samson, but I’m also going to use recordings of music by different people, so it’s going to be quite eclectic.
AMc: Is the event – the night – going to be documented?
JC: I know that we’re planning something, but I don’t know exactly what. There might be some filming, but it’s quite a long night!
AMc: Have you attended Art Night previously?
JC: Yes, and so I’m very excited about being part of this one.
AMc: I can imagine. It’s quite different from anything else in the art calendar, because you never know who is going to come in when. It might be an art audience, it might not. There are going to be so many events happening that night, and so many people out and about. Why should someone bother coming into the Community Hub to see your performance rather than going on to some other event?
JC: Oh, I don’t know!
AMc: I’m asking for your sales pitch here!
JC: OK. Because we’ll all be dancing and having a good time!
• Art Night is taking place at venues around Waltham Forest, the London Borough of Culture 2019, and King’s Cross, London, on the night of 22 June 2019.
• Julie Cunningham’s m/y will be being performed as part of the Napoli Teatro Festival, in Naples, Italy, on 3 July 2019.
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Finding Dorothy
Elizabeth Letts's enchanting historical novel, Finding Dorothy, beautifully combines the 1930s story of a beloved film with the real-life story of a woman in the late 19th century.
In 1938, 77-year-old Maud Baum, widow of L. Frank Baum, wheedles her way into the production of The Wizard of Oz, based on her husband's famous book, determined to keep the movie in line with Frank's vision. On set, she hears a song about a rainbow that she knows Frank would love, yells when she sees Emerald City painted green and meets a 15-year-old girl named Judy, whom she is determined to protect, since she couldn't protect the real Dorothy.
In a parallel narrative, Maud is a 10-year-old child in 1871 New York State. Her mother, Matilda, is a well-known suffragist and friend of Susan B. Anthony (Auntie Susan, to Maud). Maud grows up to be a strong, independent woman and one of the first female students to attend Cornell University. She meets Frank, they marry, travel far and wide with Frank's theater company and later settle in South Dakota to raise their family.
The author moves back and forth between the two stories, often directly connecting the dots between what's happening on the set of the movie and the details of Maud and Frank's lives that made their way into The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Seeing these connections is delightful and the behind-the-scenes look is fascinating, but Maud's life story is just as compelling as the Hollywood one. --Suzan L. Jackson, freelance writer and blogger at Book By Book
by Elizabeth Letts
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Health service for Sunderland and South Tyneside signs forces-friendly pledge
A health group has signed a pledge to be a forces-friendly employer.
By Sue Kirby
Thursday, 09 May, 2019, 10:12
CHoICE Managing Director Ian Makinson signing the Armed Forces Covenant alongside Major Terry McDermott-Moses, with, left to right, Warrant Officer 1 Den Mustard, David Eccels, Gary McLafferty, Mark Stouph, Brian Hughes-Mundy, Mark Hope and Nathan Gibson.
CHoICE Ltd, which provides facilities, pharmacy and other operational support services for South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, has signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
The covenant represents a promise by the nation that those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly.
It focuses on helping members of the armed forces community to have the same access as any other citizen to everything from healthcare, education and starting a new career, to financial assistance and having a home.
As well as signing The Armed Forces Covenant, CHoICE has also signed up to Step into Health, developed in conjunction with The Royal Foundation and Walking With the Wounded to provide a dedicated pathway for the armed forces community to access the numerous career opportunities available in the NHS.
CHoICE Managing Director Ian Makinson said: “We support and assist the NHS - one of the country’s great institutions - in providing healthcare services, and we felt it was only right that we should demonstrate that we recognise the contribution made by service men and women, past and present, to the country and to our company.
“We know that we can benefit from the wide range of unique training, skills and experiences that reservists and veterans can bring and we already have good links with the armed forces.
"We employ a number of veterans and we actively support staff who are members or who wish to join the reservists or cadet forces, ensuring they can take leave to train and supporting them during deployment. We also show flexibility to our employees who have partners in the armed forces.”
Nathan Gibson, a clinical engineer with CHoICE, is a member of the reserves, currently serving as a Lance Corporal with 3 Troop, 299 Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers.
Nathan said: “CHoICE and, in particular, my manager and colleagues in clinical engineering, have been incredibly supportive of my Army reservist career over the years – from accommodating training nights and annual 10-day training camps, all the way to supporting a six-month deployment to Africa."
Mark Hope, who served overseas with the Royal Military Police, said: “I feel supported in my career after the armed forces and I look forward to being able to offer advice and experience to service personnel who are considering a career in facilities management.”
Gary McLafferty, the Ministry of Defence’s Director of Engagement at the North of England Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Association, said: “A growing number of organisations across the North East are making the pledge, which demonstrates their armed forces-friendly status and commitment to supporting their employees who are reservists or who are ex-military.
"It is important that, whilst we continue to improve support for service leavers and their families who face particular challenges after leaving, we also recognise and celebrate that most veterans leave enriched by their service and offer a variety of unique skills to an employer.”
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Compiled by: Engineer Afsaneh Cooper
Jesus Prophesy about Muhammad
Introduction:
In the Qur'an, in a passage describing the annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus ('a) is described as a Word from God: "O Mary! Verily Allah gives you the glad tidings of a Word from Him; his name is the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, eminent in this world, and in the Hereafter of those near [to God]" (3:44)
The context in which this ayah was revealed was one of inter-religious encounter. It is said that the Christians of Najran sent a delegation to the Prophet of Islam (s) at Makkah to question him about the teachings of Islam concerning Jesus ('a), and God revealed the above and other ayat of Surat Al 'Imran in response. The response is not only not a denial of Christian teachings, although the divinity of Christ is clearly rejected, but also an affirmation of much believed by Christians as well, even the designation of Christ as logos: 'O People of the Book! Do not go to extremes in your creed, and do not say of Allah but the Truth. Verily, the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, is only an apostle of Allah and His Word which He conveyed unto Mary, and a Spirit from Him (Qur'an 4:171) So in addition to being called the Word of God, Jesus ('a) is also called a Spirit of God and in some of the narrations reported in the Shi'i tradition, this title is used.
Of course, the interpretation of the logos in Christian theology differs markedly from the interpretation of the kalimah by Muslim scholars. For the Christian, according to the Gospel of John, the Word was God and the Word became flesh.' For the Muslim, on the other hand, the Word is creature, even while it is the creative principle, for it is in God's utterance of the word 'Be'. That creation takes place. To call Christ the Word of Allah is not to deify him, but to verify his status as prophet. Because of his high status as prophet, Jesus ('a) becomes a complete manifestation of God, one who conveys the message of God, one who can speak on behalf of God, the Word of God Jesus ('a) becomes the Word of God not because of an incarnation whereby his flesh becomes divine, but because his spirit is refined to such an extent that it becomes a mirror whereby divinity comes to be known. The temple is holy not because of any inherent sanctity in the structure, but because it is the place of the worship of God.
The differences between Islamic and Christian thinking about Jesus ('a) are as important as they are subtle. Both accept the virgin birth, although it is ironic that a growing number of liberal Christians have come to have doubts about this miracle while Muslims remain steadfast! Among the other miracles attributed to Jesus ('a) in the Glorious Qur'an are the revival of the dead and the creation of a bird from clay, but all of the miracles performed by Jesus ('a) are expressly by the permission of Allah. Just as in the miracle of his birth, Jesus ('a) came into the world by a human mother and divine spirit, so too, his miracles are performed as human actions with divine permission. In this regard the error of the Christians is explained by Ibn 'Arabi as follows:
"This matter has led certain people to speak of incarnation and to say that, in reviving the dead, he is God. Therefore, since they conceal God, Who in reality revives the dead, in the human form of Jesus, He has said, They are concealers [unbelievers] who say that God is the Messiah, son of Mary. (5:72)" [1]
The point is that one can find God in Jesus ('a) without deifying him, and furthermore that deifying Jesus ('a) is really an obstacle to finding God in Jesus ('a), for in the deification one ceases to look in Jesus ('a) for anything beyond him. It is as if one were to become distracted from a message by focusing one's attention on the words through which it was conveyed.
To the above point it may be added that not only does the doctrine of the incarnation prevent one from finding God in Christ ('a), but it also prevents one from seeing Christ ('a) the man, because his imagined divinity gets in the way.
One of the central questions of Christian theology is: "Who was Jesus Christ?" The formulation of answers to this question is called Christology. In this area of theology, Christians have debated the significance of the historical Jesus as opposed to the picture of Jesus presented in the traditions of the Christian Churches and the Biblical understanding of Jesus. The time has come for Muslims to begin work in this area, as well. Through the development of an Islamic Christology we can come to a better understanding of Islam as contrasted with Christianity, and Islam in consonance with Christianity, too. Indeed, the first steps in this direction are laid out for us in the Qur'an itself, in the verses mentioned above and others. Contemporary work toward an Islamic Christology is scarce.
Christian authors have tended to stress the salvific function of Jesus ('a) which seems to have no place in Islam, and given this, the Christians ask one another whether Christ ('a) can be the savior of Muslims and others who are not Christians. Christians should be reminded that Muslims accept Jesus ('a) as savior, along with all the other prophets, for the prophetic function is to save humanity from the scourge of sin by conveying the message of guidance revealed by God. The important difference between Islam and Christianity here is not over the issue of whether Jesus ('a) saves, but how he saves. Islam denies that salvation is through redemption resulting from the crucifixion, and instead turns its attention to the instruction provided in the life of the prophets ('a).
Muslims, on the other hand, have tended to produce polemical works showing how much of what is in the Bible is consistent with the Islamic view of Christ ('a) as prophet rather than as a person of the Trinity. Some interesting work along these lines has been initiated by Ahmad Deedat in South Africa. More profound insights into the differences between Islam and other faiths, including Christianity, may be found in the writings of Frithjof Schuon, Shaykh 'Isa Nur al-Din Ahmad, who presents the beginnings of a genuine Christology from a sufi perspective in his Islam and the Perennial Philosophy.[2] There is also a valuable collection of stories about Jesus ('a) culled from the writings of various Muslim mystics, Jesus in the Eyes of the Sufis. [3] Some of the items reported in this work have their origins in the narrations attributed to the Shi'i Imams ('a) presented below.
These days there is much discussion of dialogue between different faith communities. Conferences have been held for this purpose in the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as in Africa, Europe and the United States. Perhaps one of the best ways Christians can find common ground for discussion with Muslims is to become familiar with the portrait of Jesus ('a) presented in Islamic sources, the most important of which are the Qur'an and hadith, and as for the latter, no matter what one's religious orientation, it must be admitted that the narrations handed down through the Household of the Prophet (s) deserve careful attention. For those of us who have the honor of being counted among the Shi'ah, the importance of what has been related by the Ahl al-Bayt weighs especially heavily, as it should, according to the famous hadith al-thaqalayn", in which the Prophet (s,), in the last year of his life, is reported to have said:
"Verily, I am leaving with you two weighty things (thaqalayn): the Book of Allah and my kindred, my household, for indeed, the two of them will never separate until they return to me by the Pond [of Kawthar on the Last Day]."
Perhaps some Christians will be dismissive of what is said of Jesus ('a) in the Islamic narrations because the main debate about contemporary Christology among Christians is whether research about the historical Jesus ('a) is relevant to religion, or whether knowledge of Jesus ('a) requires attention to the role he plays in the Church and in theology. The Islamic narrations, coming centuries after the life of Christ ('a) (and in some cases more than a century after the life of Muhammad [s] will likely be dismissed by liberal Christians in pursuit of a portrait of Jesus ('a) based on the standards of historical research currently accepted in the West. The neo-orthodox Christian claims that the Savior is not to be found in history, but in the Church, so it will not be surprising if he displays no interest in what Islam has to say about Christ ('a). However, the Christian may find that the Islamic perspective illuminates a middle ground between the historian's emphasis on the natural and the ecclesiastical emphasis on the supernatural. The humanity of Jesus ('a) is evident in the narrations of the Shi'ah, but it is a humanity transformed, a perfected humanity, and as such there is no denying its supernatural dimension.
The Muslim always seems to appear as a stranger to the Christian, but perhaps it is from the stranger that the Christian can best come to know his savior. The crucifix has hung in the Church for so long that it becomes difficult for the Christian to find significance there. The attraction of the quest for the historical Jesus is that it provides a fresh look at the subject, even if that quest is marred by naturalistic presumptions inimical to the religious outlook. By trying to see Jesus ('a) as the Muslim sees him, the Christian may find his savior come to life, lifted up to God in his own inner life rather than crucified. [4]
If we have given reason for Christians to study the narrations of the Shi'ah about Jesus ('a), the question of the value of such study for Muslims remains. Some might wonder why, when we have the Qur'an and Sunnah, we should be especially interested in Jesus ('a). To begin with, Jesus ('a), along with the prophets Noah, Abraham, Moses, Peace be with them, and Muhammad (s) has a special status in Islam as one of the greatest prophets, the ulu al- 'azm, the prophets who brought the divine law. What was revealed to the last of them, (s), is a confirmation of what was revealed to the others. The truth of the revelation is not to be found in its particularity but in its universality, and we come to understand this best when we understand the teachings of all the prophets ('a). Is this not why so much attention is given to the previous prophets in the Qur'an?
All of the prophets ('a) have brought a gospel of love, love of God and love of neighbor and love even for the meanest of His creatures. So, in the reports narrated below we find Jesus ('a) giving some of his food to the creatures of the sea. At the same time, however, this love is not to be confused with a sentimentalism which would prevent the execution of the divine law. Jesus ('a) found fault with the Pharisees not because of their regard for the exterior forms of religion, but because of their disregard for its interior forms, that is, because of their hypocrisy. [5]
The words of the Spirit of Allah reported in the selections that follow are primarily concerned with morals. These are Christian morals and at the same time Islamic morals. Today Christendom is in a state of moral upheaval. Peculiarly modern ideas of what is right and wrong have found their way into the theologians' understandings of ethics. Significant areas of agreement are difficult to find. The simple morality taught by Jesus ('a) and which continues to be emphasized in Islam resonates in the narrations of the Shi'ah. While excessive asceticism is forbidden, we are to turn, like Jesus ('a), away from the world to find refuge in God.
From the following narrations we not only become reacquainted with the moral teachings of Jesus ('a) and with his character, but we also discover what the dear friends of Allah, the Household of the Prophet (s) found it important to transmit about him, and thereby we get a glimpse into their moral teachings and characters, too.
Muhammad Legenhausen
Maxims of Jesus ('a)
Divine Omnipotence:
1. It is said that Jesus the son of Mary ('a) was sitting and an old man was working with a small shovel tilling the earth. Jesus ('a) said: "O Allah! Extract his desire from him." The old man put down the small shovel and slept for an hour. Then Jesus ('a) said: "O Allah! Return the desire to him." Then he stood up and began to work. Jesus ('a) asked him about it. He said: "When I was working my soul said to me: 'How long will you work, being that you are an old man?' Then I put down the small shovel and slept.' Then my soul said to me: 'By Allah! You have no alternative but to live as long as you remain.' Then I stood up with my small shovel." (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 329)
2. It is reported that Abu 'Abd Allah [Imam Sadiq] ('a) said: "The Devil [iblis, the devil who tempted Adam and Eve. Cf. Qur'an 2:34; 7:11; 15:31; 38:74] said to Jesus the son of Mary: 'Does your Lord have the power to put the earth into an egg without reducing the size of the earth or enlarging the egg?' Then Jesus ('a) said: 'Woe unto you, for weakness is not attributed to Allah. Who is more powerful than He Who makes the earth subtle and makes the egg great?' (Bihar al-anwar, iv, 142)
3. It is reported that Imam Sadiq ('a) said: "Iblis came to Jesus ('a), then he said: 'Do you not claim that you can revive the dead?' Jesus said: 'Yes.' Iblis said: 'Then throw yourself down from the top of the wall.' Then Jesus said: 'Woe unto you! Verily the servant does not try his Lord.' And Iblis said: 'O Jesus! Can your Lord put the earth in an egg while the egg remains in its form?' Then he said: 'Verily impotence is not attributed to Allah, the Supreme, but what you said cannot be.' " (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 271)
Of Human Poverty:
4. One of the Imams is reported to have said: "It was said to Jesus the son of Mary ('a): 'How did you begin the morning, O Spirit of Allah?' He said: 'I began the morning with my Lord, the Blessed and Supreme, above me and the fire (of hell) before me and death in pursuit of me. I do not possess that which I hope for and I cannot avoid what I hate. So which of the poor is poorer than me?' " (Bihar al-anwar, lxxvi, 17)
The World and the Hereafter:
5. Jesus ('a) said: "O assembly of disciples! I have thrown the world prostrate before you, so do not lift it up after me, for one of the evils of this world is that Allah was disobeyed in it, and one of the evils of this world is that the next world is not attained except by abandoning this one. So pass through this world without making it your home, and know that the root of all wrong is the love of this world. Many a vain desire leaves a legacy of lasting sorrow." (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 327)
6. [Jesus ('a)] said: "Blessed is he who abandons the present desire for the absent promise." (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 327)
7. Jesus ('a) said: "Who would build a house on the waves of the sea? This world is that house, so you should not take it as a dwelling.'' (Bihar al-anwar," xiv, 326)
8. Jesus ('a) said: "Woe to the companion of the world! How he dies and leaves it and how he relies on it and it deceives him, and how he trusts it and it forsakes him! Woe unto those who are deceived! How that which is repugnant encompasses them and that which is beloved separates from them! And that which is promised will come to them. And woe to those whose endeavors are only for the world and error. How he will be disgraced before Allah tomorrow!"
(Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 328)
9. Jesus, Peace be upon him, is reported to have said: "How can one be of the people of knowledge if the next world is shown to him while he remains involved in this world, and what harms him is more desirable to him than what benefits him?'' (Majmu'at at warram, i, 83)
10. It was said to Jesus ('a): "Teach us a deed for which Allah will love us." He said: "Detest the world and Allah will love you. (Tanbih al-khawatir, i, 134)
11. It has been reported by Mujahid from Ibn 'Abbas from the Apostle of Allah, may the Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him and with his folk: "Verily, Jesus. Peace be upon him, passed a city which had come to ruin and whose foundations had collapsed. He said to some of his disciples: 'Do you know what it is saying?' One said: 'No.' Jesus, Peace be upon him, said: 'It says: "Verily, the true promise of my Lord has come. My rivers have dried up, though once they were full; my trees have withered, though once they were in bloom; my castles are in ruins and my residents have died. Then, oh, these are their bones within me, and their property that was gained lawfully along with their ill-gotten gains are in my belly, and the inheritance of the heavens and the earth is only for Allah." '" (Adab al-nafs, I, 122)
12. The Messiah, Peace he upon him, said to the Apostles: "Verily, the eating of barley bread and the drinking of plain water today in this world is for he who would enter heaven tomorrow." (Adab al-nafs, ii, 225)
13. It is reported that Abu 'Abd Allah [Imam Sadiq], Peace he upon him, said: 'Jesus the son of Mary, may the blessings of Allah be upon him, said: 'You work for the sake of this world while it is not by work that you are provided for in it. And you do not work for the sake of the next world, while it is only by work that you will be provided for in it. Woe be unto you, evil learned ones ('ulama)! You take your wage and neglect works. Soon the worker's work will he accepted, and soon you will be driving forth from the narrowness of this world toward the darkness of the grave. How can one be knowledgeable who is on the way to the next world and yet his face is turned towards this world, and he likes the things that harm him more than the things that benefit him?' ' (Al-Kafi, ii, 319)
14. Jesus ('a) said: "The love of this world and the next cannot come together in the heart of a believer, like water and fire in a single vessel." (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 327)
15. It is reported that Abu 'Abd Allah [Imam Sadiq], Peace be upon him, said that Jesus, Peace be upon him, said: ''It is hard to get any good thing whether it is of the world or the hereafter. As to the good things of this world they are hard to get because there' is nothing of it which as soon as you extend your hand to get, some profligate does not grab first, while the good things of the other world are hard to obtain because you do not find any helper who may help
you to obtain it.'' (al-Kafi viii, 144)
16. When Jesus passed by a house whose inmates had died and others had taken their place, he said: " woe to your owners who inherited you! How they have learned no lesson from their late brothers." (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 329)
17. Jesus ('a) said: "This world and the next one are rivals. When you please one of them you displease the other." (Bihar al-anwar, lxxiii, 122)
18. It has been reported that Abu 'Abd Allah, Peace he upon him, said: "The world took the form, for Jesus ('a), of a woman whose eyes were blue. Then he said to her: 'How many have you married?' She said: 'Very many.' He said: 'Then did they all divorce you?' She said: 'No, but I killed all of them.' He said: 'Then woe be to the rest of your husbands! How they fail to learn from the example of the predecessors!'
19. It is reported that 'Ali ibn al-Husayn [Imam Sajjad], Peace be upon him, said: "The Messiah, Peace be upon him, said to his Apostles: 'Verily, this world is merely a bridge, so cross over it, and do not make it your abode.' '' (Bihar al-anwar xiv, 319)
20. I heard Imam Rida ('a) say: "Jesus the son of Mary, may Allah bless him, said to the apostles: 'O Children of Israel! Do not grieve over what you lose of this world, just as the people of this world do not grieve over what they lose of their religion, when they gain this world of theirs.' " (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 304; al-Kafi. ii, 127)
21. Jesus ('a) said: "Do not take the world as a master, for it will make you its slave. Keep your treasure with one who will not squander it. The owners of the treasures of this world fear for its ruin, but he who owns the treasure of Allah does not fear for its ruin.'' (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 327)
22. Jesus ('a) said: ''In truth I say unto you, just as one who is sick looks at food and finds no pleasure in it due to the severity of the pain, the companions of this world find no pleasure in worship and do not find the sweetness of it, for what they find is the sweetness of this world. In truth I say unto you, just as an animal which is not captured and tamed becomes hardened and its character is changed, so too when hearts are not softened by the remembrance of death and the effort of worship they become hard and coarse, and in truth I say unto you, if a skin is not torn, it may become a vessel for honey, just as hearts, if they are not torn by desires, or fouled by greed, or hardened by pleasures, may become vessels for wisdom.'' (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 325)
23. It was said to Jesus ('a): "[Would it not be better] if you got a house?" He said: "The remains which are left from those before us is enough for us.'' (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 327)
On Wisdom
24. It is reported that Jesus ( 'a) said: ''O assembly of scholars ( 'ulama)'. Just as the sovereigns have abandoned wisdom, leaving it to you. So you should abandon sovereignty, leaving it for them.'' (Adab al nafs. i, 134)
25. And it was said to him [Jesus ( a)]: "Who trained you?" He said: "No one trained me. I saw the ugliness of ignorance and I avoided it.'' (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 326)
26. The apostle of Allah [Muhammad] (s) said: "Jesus the son of Mary ('a) stood up among the Children of Israel and said: 'O Children of Israel! Do not speak with the ignorant of wisdom, for otherwise you do injustice with it, and do not keep it from its folk, for otherwise you do injustice to them, and do not help the unjust with his injustice, for otherwise your virtue becomes void. Affairs are three: the affair whose righteousness is clear to you, so follow it: the affair whose error is clear to you, so avoid it'. and the affair about which there are differences, so return it to Allah, the Almighty and Glorious." (Faqih, iv, 400)
27. Jesus the son of Mary ('a) said: "O assembly of Apostles! I have a request of you. Fulfill it for me." They said: "Your request is fulfilled, O Spirit of Allah!" Then he stood up and washed their feet. They said: "It would have been more proper for us to have done this, O Spirit of Allah!" Then he said: "Verily, it is more fitting for one with knowledge to serve the people. Indeed, I humbled myself only so that you may humble yourselves among the people after me, even as I have humbled myself among you." Then Jesus ('a) said: "Wisdom is developed by humility, not by pride, and likewise plants only grow in soft soil, not in rocks.'' (Bihar al-anwar, ii, 62; Al-Kafi, vi, 37)
28. Al-Sayyid ibn Tawus, may Allah have mercy on him, said: I read in the Gospel that Jesus ('a) said: "I tell you, do not worry about what you will eat or what you will drink or with what you will clothe your bodies. Is not the soul more excellent than food, and the body more excellent than clothes? Look at the birds of the air, they neither sow nor reap nor store away, yet your heavenly Lord provides for them. Are you not more excellent than they'? Who among you by worrying can add a single measure to his stature'? Then why do you worry about your clothes?'' (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 317) [6]
Self-knowledge'
29. It is reported by Mufaddal, one of the companions of Imam al-Sadiq ('a), from Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, Peace be upon him, in a long hadith, that he said: "Jesus the son of Mary, Peace be upon our Prophet and upon him, used to spend some time with the disciples and advise them, and he used to say: 'He does not know me who knows not his soul, and he who does not know the soul between his two sides, does not know the soul between my two sides. And he who knows his soul which is between his sides, he knows me. And he who knows me knows He Who sent me.' " (Adab al-nafs, ii, 213)
On Prayer and Worship:
30. Jesus ('a) said to a worshipper, "What do you do?" He answered, "I worship." He ('a) said, "Then who provides for you?" He said, "My brother." He ('a) said, "Your brother is more of a worshipper than you are!" (Adab al-nafs, i, 215)
31. I asked Abu 'Abd Allah [Imam Sadiq ('a)] about the best thing by which the servant may draw near to his Lord and what is most beloved by Allah, the Almighty and Glorious. He said: "I know of nothing, after knowledge (ma'rifah), better than the ritual prayer (salat). Do you not see that the good servant Jesus the son of Mary ('a) said: 'And He enjoined on me the ritual prayer (salat) and the alms tax (zakat) for as long as I live.'?" (Al-Kafi, iii, 264)
32. It is reported that Imam Sadiq ('a) said: "Jesus the son of Mary ('a) passed by a group of people who were crying. He asked why they were crying. It was said to him that they were crying for their sins. He said, they should pray about them and they will be forgiven." (Bihar al-anwar, vi, 20)
Pride of the Sanctimonious:
33. Jesus ('a) said: "O group of Apostles! How many lamps the wind has put out, and how many worshippers pride has corrupted.!" (Bihar al-anwar, lxxii, 322)
On Chastity:
34. Imam Sadiq ('a) said: "The Apostles met with Jesus ('a) and said to him: 'O teacher of the good! Guide us!' He said to them: 'Verily Moses the interlocutor of Allah ('a) commanded you not to swear by Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, falsely, and I command you not to swear by Allah falsely or truly.' They said: 'O Spirit of Allah! Guide us more!' Then he said: 'Verily Moses the prophet of Allah ('a) commanded you not to commit adultery, and I command you not to talk to yourselves about adultery, let alone to commit adultery. Verily one who talks to himself about adultery is like one who sets fire to a house that is decorated so the smoke damages the decor, even though the house is not burnt.' (Al-Kafi, v, 542)
35. Jesus (a) said: "Never stare at that which is not for you. If you restrain your eyes you will never commit adultery; and if you are able to avoid looking at the garments of women who are not permitted for you, then do so." (Majmu'at al-Warram, i, 62)
36. It is reported that Imam Sadiq ('a) said: "Jesus the son of Mary ('a) said, 'When one of you sits in his house, he should have clothes on. Verily, Allah has allotted modesty for you, just as He has allotted your sustenance."" (Bihar al-anwar, lxxi, 334)
Looking at the Bright Side:
37. It is reported that he [Jesus ('a)] passed by a carcass with his disciples. Then the disciples said: "How putrid the smell of this dog is!" Then Jesus ('a) said: "How intense is the whiteness of his teeth!" (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 327)
Hope and Fear:
38. It is reported that Abu 'Abd Allah [Imam Sadiq] ('a) said: "Jesus the son of Mary ('a) sent two of his companions on an errand. Then one of them returned thin and afflicted and the other fat and chubby. He said to the one who was thin: what did this to you, that I see you this way?' He said: 'The fear of Allah.' And he said to the other who was fat: 'What did this to you, that I see you this way?' He said: 'A good opinion of Allah.' " (Bihar al-anwar, lxx. 400)
39. It is reported from Imam Sadiq, Peace be upon him, from his father that he said: "Jesus, Peace be upon him, used to say: 'Regarding the terror which you do not know when you will encounter [i.e. death], what prevents you from preparing for it before it comes upon you suddenly?' (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 330)
Of Advice and Advisers:
40. And he (Jesus ('a)) said: "How long will you be advised without taking any advice? Certainly you have become a burden to the advisors." (Adab al-nafs, i, 175)
41. [Imam] al-Sadiq, Peace be upon him, said: "Verily, a man came to Jesus the son of Mary, Peace be upon him, and said to him: 'O Spirit of Allah! I have committed fornication [or adultery, sex between a man and woman not married to each other, in Arabic: zina] so purify me.' Then Jesus ordered the people to be called so that none should be left behind for the purification of so-and-so. Then when the people had been gathered together and the man had entered into a hole, so as to be stoned, the man in the hole called out: 'Anyone for whom Allah, the Supreme, has a punishment should not punish me.' Then all the people left except for John and Jesus, Peace be upon them. Then John, Peace be upon him, approached him and said to him: 'O sinner! Advise me!' Then he said to him: 'Do not leave your self alone with its desires or you will perish.' John, Peace be upon him, said: 'Say more.' He said: 'Verily, do not humiliate the wrongdoer for his fault.' John, Peace be upon him, said: 'Say more. He said: 'Do not become angry.' John, Peace be upon him, said: 'That is enough for me.' " (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 188)
Goodness Imperishable:
42. Jesus ('a) said to his companions: "Accord great regard for the thing which is not eaten by the fire." They said: ''What is that?" He said: "That which is good (al-ma'ruf)." (Bihar al-anwar. xiv, 330)
Charity:
43. Imam Sadiq ('a) said: ''Verily, when Jesus the son of Mary ( 'a) passed along the shore of a sea, he threw a piece of his bread into the water, Then some of the disciples said: 'O Spirit of Allah and His Word! Why did you do this when that was your food.' He said: "I did this in order that some animal among the animals of the sea may eat it, and the reward of Allah for this is great.' (Tahdhib, iv, 105)
Moderation in Food and Sleep:
44. Jesus ('a) said: "O Children of Israel! Do not be excessive in eating, for those who are excessive in eating are excessive in sleeping, and those who are excessive in sleeping are deficient in praying, and of those who are deficient in praying, it is written that they are negligent." (Sharh Nahj al-balaghah, xix, 188; Adab al-nafs. i, 189)
45. Jesus the son of Mary ('a) stood up among the Children of Israel to preach. He said. 'O Children of Israel! Do not eat before you become hungry and when you become hungry eat but do not eat your fill, because when you eat your fill your necks become thick and your sides grow fat and you forget your Lord" (Bihar al-anwar lxvi, 337)
The blessed and the wretched:
46 It is reported that [Imam] Ali (a) said: "Jesus the son of Mary (a) said: ''Blessed is he whose silence is contemplation (fikr). whose glance is an admonition, whose house suffices him and who cries over his mistakes and from whose hand and tongue the people are safe.' '' (Bihar a1-anwar xiv, 319)
47. Jesus said: "How can someone benefit himself while he trades himself for all that is in this world, then he abandons that which he has traded as inheritance to others and destroys himself. But blessed is the man who purifies himself and prefers his soul to everything of this world.'' (Bihar al-anwar xiv, 329)
48. I heard Imam Sadiq ( 'a) say: ''Christ ( 'a) said to his disciples: 'If you are not lovers and my brothers, you must accustom yourself to the enmity and hatred of the people, otherwise you will not be my brothers. I teach you this that you may learn it; I do not teach you so that you may become proud. Verily, you will not achieve that which you seek unless you give up that which you desire, and by enduring patiently that which you detest. And guard your gaze for it plants lust in the heart, and it is sufficient to tempt one. Happy are they who see that which they desire with their eyes, but who commit no disobedience in their hearts. How far is that which is in the past, and how near is that which is to come. Woe to those who have been deluded when what they loathe approaches them, and what they love abandons them, and there comes that which they were promised. There is lesson in the creation of these nights and days. Woe to those whose efforts are for the sake of this world, and whose achievements are errors. How he will be disgraced before his Lord! And do not speak much about anything other than the remembrance of God. Those who talk much about things other than God have their hearts hardened, but they do not know it. Do not look at the faults of others as if you have been appointed to spy over them, but attend to the emancipation of your own selves, for you are slaves, possessed. How much water flows in a mountain without its becoming soft, and how much wisdom you are taught without your hearts becoming soft. You are bad slaves, not pious slaves, nor of those who are noble and free. Indeed you are like unto the oleander: all who see it wonder at its flowers, but when they eat from it they die. Peace be unto you.' (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 324)
Of wealth and Property:
49. It is reported that Jesus ('a) found fault with property and said: ''It has three characteristics.'' It was said: ''And what are they', O Spirit of Allah.''' He said: ''One acquires it illegitimately, and if it is acquired legitimately, it keeps one from spending it in its right place, and if one spends it in its right place, its management keeps one from worshiping one's Lord." (Bihar al-anwar xiv 329)
50). It is reported that the Commander of the faithful [Imam Ali], peace be upon him, said: "Jesus the son of Mary, Peace he upon him, said: 'The dinar is the illness of religion, and the scholar (al-'alim) is the physician of religion. So if you see that the physician brings illness upon himself, distrust him, and know that he is not to advise others.' " (Bihar al-anwar. xiv, 319)
On Company:
51 Imam Ali ('a) said: "Jesus the son of Mary ('a) said: 'Verily the evil doer is infectious, and the associate of the wicked is brought down. So beware of those with whom you associate.' " (Al-Kafi, ii, 640)
52. It is reported that Abu 'Abd Allah [Imam Sadiq], Peace he upon him, said: The Apostle of Allah, may the Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his progeny, said: 'The Apostles said to Jesus, Peace he upon him: "O Spirit of Allah! With whom should we keep company?" He said: "He the sight of whom reminds you of Allah, the speech of whom increases your knowledge, and the works of whom make you desirous of the other world." ' " (Al-Kafi, i, 39)
The Incorrigible Fool:
53. It has been reported that Abu 'Abd Allah [Imam Sadiq], Peace be upon him, said: 'Verily, Jesus the son of Mary ('a) said: 'I treated the sick, then I healed them by the permission of Allah, and I cured those born blind and the lepers by the permission of Allah, and I treated the dead and revived them by the permission of Allah, and I treated the fool, but I could not correct him' Then it was said: 'O spirit of Allah. What is a fool?' He said 'He is one who is admirable in his own view to himself, He who considers all merit to be for him and not against him, and who finds all rights to be for himself and does not find against himself any right. Such is the fool for whom there is no way to cure him.'" (Bihar al anwar, xiv, 323)
The Heart's Sickness:
54 And Jesus the son of Mary said: "There is no sickness of the heart more severe than callousness, and no soul is more severely affected than the one that goes without hunger, and these two are the halters of expulsion [from divine mercy] and abandonment." (Bihar al-anwar, lxvi, 337)
55. Verily, Jesus ('a) said: "Why do you come to me clothed in the garments of monks while your hearts are those of ferocious wolves? Wear the clothes of kings, but soften your hearts with fear." (Bihar al-anwar, lxxiii, 208)
Anger and Its Source:
56. It is reported that Abu 'Abd Allah [Imam Sadiq] ('a) said "The disciples said to Jesus the son of Mary ('a): 'O teacher of the good! Teach us what is the most severe of things.' Then he said: the most severe of things is the wrath of Allah.' They said: 'Then what prevents the wrath of Allah?' He said: 'That you not be wrathful.' They said: 'What is the source of wrath?' He said: 'Pride, haughtiness and contempt for the people.' '' (Bihar al-anwar, xvi, 257)
Five Evils:
57. It is reported that Abu 'Abd Allah, [Imam Sadiq], Peace be upon him, said: "The Messiah, Peace be upon him, used to say: 'He who has many worries, his body becomes sick; he who is ill-tempered, his self becomes his torment; he who often talks, often stumbles; he who often lies, loses his worth; he who quarrels with men, loses his manliness.' (Bihar al-anwar. xiv. 318)
Evil scholars:
58. Imam Sadiq ('a) said: Jesus the son of Mary, Peace be upon our Prophet and his progeny and with him. said: Woe unto the evil scholars! How the fire inflames them!' (Al-Kafi, i, 47)
Satan's Clientele:
59. Jesus ('a) met Iblis who was driving five donkeys. Loads were upon them. Jesus ('a) asked him about the loads. Iblis said, "They are for trade, and I am looking for buyers." Jesus ('a) said, "What is the merchandise?" Iblis said, "One of them is injustice." He ('a) asked, "Who buys it?" He said, "Rulers. And the second is pride." He asked, "Who buys it?" He said, "Village chiefs. And the third is envy." He asked, "Who buys it?" He said, "The learned. And the fourth is treason." He asked, "Who buys it?" He said, "Those who work for merchants. And the fifth is trickery." He said, "Who buys it?" He said, "Women." (Bihar al-anwar, lxiv, 196)
The Richest of All Men:
60. Jesus, Peace be upon him, said: "My hands 'are my servant and my feet are my mount; the earth is my bed, a stone my pillow; my blanket in the winter is the east of the earth and my lamp in the night is the moon; my stew is hunger and my motto is fear; my garment is wool and my fruit and my basil what grows from the earth for wild beasts and cattle. I sleep while I have nothing and I rise while I have nothing, and yet there is no one on earth wealthier than I" (Bihar al-anwar, xvii, 239)
Seeking God's Pleasure:
61. And Jesus ('a) used to say: "O apostles, love God through hatred of the 'disobedient, and approach God by distancing [yourselves] from them, and seek pleasure by their displeasure." (Bihar al-anwar xiv, 330)
Criterion of Mutual Relations:
62. It is reported that Imam Sadiq, Peace be upon him, said: "Jesus the son of Mary, Peace be upon them, said to some of his companions: 'Do not do to others what you do not like others to do to you, and if someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him your left cheek too.[7] (Bihar al-anwar, x, 287).
Others Opinion of Oneself:
63. The Messenger of God (s) said: "Jesus the son of Mary ('a) said to John the son of Zachariah, 'If something is said of you which is true, then know that it was a sin that you had committed, so ask God's forgiveness for it, and if something is said of you which is not true, then know that a good deed will be recorded for you for this, for which you did not have to labor.' " (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 287).
On Having a Good Opinion of God:
64. Al-Sayyid ibn Tawus, may God have mercy on him, said: "I read in the Gospel that Jesus ('a) said: 'Who among you gives his son a stone when he asks for bread? Or who hands out a snake when asked for a cloak? If despite the fact that your evil is well-known you give good gifts to your sons, then it is more fitting that your Lord should give good things to one who asks." (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 318; Sa'd al-su'ud, 56) [8]
Inner Chastity
65. Jesus ('a) said: "You heard what was said to the people of yore, 'Do not commit adultery,' but I tell you, he who looks at a woman and desires her has committed adultery in his heart. If your right eye betrays you, then take it out and cast it away, for it is better for you that you destroy one of your organs than cast your entire body into the fire of hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it away, for it is better for you to destroy one of your organs than that your entire body should go to hell. (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 3l7) [9]
The Life and Acts of Jesus ('a)
66. It is reported that Imam 'Ali ('a) said in one of his sermons: "If you like, I will tell you about Jesus the son of Mary, Peace he upon him. He used a stone as his pillow, wore course clothing and ate rough food. His stew was hunger and his lamp in the night was the moon. His cover in the winter was the east of the earth and its west. His fruit and his basil is that which grows from the earth for the cattle. He had no wife to try him, and no son to grieve him. He had no wealth to distract him, nor greed to abase him. His mount was his feet and his servant was his hands." (Nahj al-balaghah, Sermon 158)
67. Imam Musa al-Kazim ('a) said: "John the son of Zachariah ('a) cried and did not laugh, and Jesus the son of Mary ('a) laughed and cried; and what Jesus did was more excellent than what John did." (Al-Kafi, ii, 665)
68. Jesus, Peace he upon him, served a meal to the Apostles, and when they had eaten it, he himself washed their hands. They said: "O Spirit of God! It would have been more proper for us to wash yours!" He said: "I did this only that you would do this for those whom you teach." (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 326)
69. It is reported that Abu 'Abd Allah [Imam Sadiq], Peace he upon him, said: "Verily, Jesus the son of Mary, Peace be upon him, came to the tomb of John the son of Zachariah, Peace he upon him, and he asked his Lord to revive him. Then he called him, and he answered him and he came out from the grave and said to him: 'What do you want from me?' And he said to him: 'I want you to be friends with me as you were in this world' Then he said to him: 'O Jesus! The heat of death has not yet subsided, and you want me to return to the world and the heat of death would return to me. So he Jesus left him, and he returned to his grave.' " (Al-Kafi iii, 260)
70. Jesus, Peace he upon him, passed by a grave whose occupant was being chastised. Then he passed it the following year when he was not being chastised. He said: "O Lord! I passed through this town last year and he was being chastised, and I passed through it this year while he is not being chastised." Then God revealed to him: "O Spirit of God! Verily one of his children matured and removed obstacles from a road and sheltered an orphan. Then I forgave him for the deeds of his child." (Al-Kafi. vi, 3)
71. Imam Sadiq ('a) was asked: "Did Jesus the son of Mary raise anyone from the dead, so that he ate and had a livelihood, and continued his life for a term and had off spring?" He said: "Yes, he had a friend who was a brother to him in God. And when Jesus passed by, he would go to visit him. And Jesus ('a) would spend a while with him. Then he would leave with salutations of Peace unto him. Once his mother came out to him [Jesus] and she said to him: 'He died, O Apostle of God!' He said to her: 'Would you like to see him?' She said: 'Yes.' He said to her: 'I will come tomorrow to raise him with the permission of God. The next day he came and said to her: 'Accompany me to his grave.' So they went to his grave. Jesus ('a) stopped and then he called on God. Then the grave opened and her son came out alive. When his mother saw him and he saw her, they cried. Jesus ('a) felt compassion for them and said to him: 'Would you like to remain with your mother in the world?' He said: 'O Apostle of God! With eating and a daily bread and a term, or without a term and a daily bread?' Then Jesus ('a) said to him: 'Of course with daily bread and a term. You will live for twenty years, marry and father a child.' He said: 'Yes, in that case.' " [Imam Sadiq] said: "Then Jesus ('a) returned him to his mother and he lived for twenty years, married and fathered a child." (Bihar al-anwar xiv, 233).
72. Abu al-Layth said in his commentary of the Qur'an: "The people asked Jesus ('a) in ridicule: 'Create a bat for us and put a soul in it, if you are one of the truthful. Then he took some clay and formed a bat and breathed into it. Then it suddenly flew between the sky and the earth. The clay was molded and breathed into by Jesus, but the creation was by God, the Supreme. And it is said that they asked to create a bat because it is more wonderful than other creatures. (Bihar al-anwar, lxiv, 322)
73. Al-Sayyid ibn Tawus, may God have mercy on him, said: "I read in the Gospel that Jesus ('a) boarded a ship and his disciples were with him, when suddenly there was a great confusion in the sea, so that the ship came near to being covered by the waves. And it was as though [Jesus ('a)] was asleep. Then his disciples came to him and awakened him and said: 'O master! Save us so that we do not perish.' He said to them: 'O you of little faith! What has frightened you?' Then he stood up and drove away the winds, and there was a great stillness. The people marveled, and said: 'How is this? Verily the winds and the sea obey him.' " [10] (Bihar al-anwar xiv, 266)
74. It is reported that a woman from Canaan brought her invalid son to Jesus, Peace he upon him. She said: "O Prophet of God! This my son is an invalid. Pray to God for him." He said: "That which I have been commanded is only the healing of the invalids of the Children of Israel." She said: "O Spirit of God! Verily the dogs receive the remnants from the tables of their masters after the meal, so, avail us of that which may benefit us of your wisdom." Then he supplicated God, the Supreme, asking for permission. Then He gave His permission, and he made him well. (Bihar al-anwar xiv, 253)
75. It is reported that Jesus ('a) passed by a man who was blind, leprous and paralytic, and Jesus heard him giving thanks and saying: "Praised be God Who has protected me from the trials with which He afflicts most of men." Jesus ('a) said: "What trial remains which has not visited you?" He said: "He protected me from a trial which is the greatest of trials, and that is unbelief" Then Jesus ('a) touched him, and God cured him from his illnesses and beautified his face. Then he became a companion of Jesus ('a) and worshipped with him. (Bihar al-anwar, lxxi, 33)
God's Words Addressed to Jesus
76. Imam Ja'far Sadiq ('a) said: "Among things with which God, the Blessed and Exalted, exhorted Jesus ('a) was: 'O Jesus! I am your Lord, and the Lord of your fathers. My Name is the One (al-Wahid), and I am one (Ahad) and single (Mutafarrid) in creating all things. All things are My handiwork, and all My creations shall return to Me.' " (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 289)
77. It is reported that Abu 'Abd Allah [Imam Sadiq] ('a) said: "Jesus the son of Mary ('a) ascended [to heaven] clad in garments of wool spun by Mary, woven by Mary, and sewn by Mary. When he was brought up to heaven it was called: 'O Jesus! Cast off from yourself the finery of the world.' "(Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 338)
78. God confided to Jesus the son of Mary ('a): "O Jesus! Cut yourself off from fatal desires and part with every desire that keeps you away from Me, and know that you are near me at the station of a trusted Apostle (rasul), so beware of Me." (Tuhaf al- 'uqul, 375).
79. It is reported that one day Jesus, Peace be upon him, came upon severe rain and thunder, so he sought a place of shelter. He saw a tent at a distance, and came to it. There he saw a woman in it, so he turned away from it. Suddenly, he saw a cave in a mountain, and when he arrived there he saw a lion in it. So he rested his hand against the cave, and said: "My God! Everything has a shelter, but You put no shelter for me." Then God, the Supreme, revealed to him: "Your shelter is in the abode of My Mercy. By My Greatness, on the Resurrection Day, verily, I will marry you to a hundred houris created by My hands, and verily for your wedding I will lay out a feast for four thousand years, each day of which is like the lifetime of the entire world. And I will command a crier to cry out: Where are the ascetics of the world? Be present at the wedding of the ascetic Jesus the son of Mary!" (Bihar al-anwar xiv, 328)
80. One of the Imams [Imam Sadiq or Imam Baqir] said: "Verily, a man of the Children of Israel exerted himself for forty nights. Then he called God, but He did not answer him. Then he came to Jesus complaining to him and asking him to pray. So Jesus purified himself and prayed to God, the Supreme. Then God revealed to him: 'O Jesus! Verily, he came to me by a door other than that by which one should come. Verily, he called Me while there was doubt about you in his heart. So had he called Me until his neck broke or his fingers had fallen off, I would not have answered him.' "(Al-Kafi, ii, 400)
81. God said to Jesus: "O Jesus! Verily I have granted unto you the poor and made you merciful towards them. You love them and they love you. They are pleased with you as a leader and guide, and you are pleased with them as companions and followers. These are two of My qualities. Whoever meets Me with these [qualities] meets Me with the purest of deeds which are dearest to Me." (Bihar al-anwar lxxii 55)
82. God revealed to Jesus ('a): "Be to the people like the ground below in meekness, like the flowing water in generosity, and like the sun and the moon in mercy, which shine on the good and the sinner alike. (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 326)
83. God revealed to Jesus: "Say to the Children of Israel: 'Do not enter any of My houses without lowered eyes and clean hands. And inform them that, verily, I will not answer the prayer of any of them while any of My creation is oppressed by them.' " (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 327)
84. God the Supreme revealed to Jesus: "O Jesus! I have honored nothing in creation like My religion, and I have bestowed nothing on it like My mercy. Wash your exterior by water and cure your interior by good deeds, for verily you shall return to Me. Get ready, for that which is approaching, and let me hear from you the sounds of sorrow." (Al-Kafi)
Of Knowledge and us Seekers:
85. Verily God the Supreme said to Jesus: "Honor those who possess knowledge and know of their excellence, for verily their excellence over that of all My creation - except for the prophets and messengers - is like that of the sun over the stars, and like that of the Hereafter over this world, and like My excellence over all things." (Bihar al-anwar, ii, 25)
86. Verily God revealed to Jesus: "Indeed, you must be receptive to exhortation! Or you will be ashamed before Me to exhort the people." (Irshad al-qulub)
87. God the Supreme said in the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel: "Woe unto those who have heard the knowledge but have not sought it. How they will be gathered with the ignorant into the fire! And learn the knowledge and teach it, for even if knowledge does not bring you felicity, it will not bring you wretchedness, and even if it does not raise you, it will not lower you, and even if it does not enrich you, it will not Impoverish you, and even if it does not benefit you, it will not harm you. And do not say, 'We fear lest we should know but not act', but say, 'We hope to know and to act.' And knowledge intercedes on behalf of one who has it, and it is for God not to disgrace him. Indeed, on the Resurrection day God will say: 'O assembly of the learned ('u1ama')! What is your opinion of our Lord?' Then they will say: 'It is our opinion that He will have mercy upon us and forgive us.' Then the Almighty will say: 'Indeed, I have done so. Indeed, I have entrusted you with My wisdom not because I wanted evil for you, but because I wanted good for you. So enter among My good servants into My garden (paradise) by My mercy.' " (Bihar al-anwar, i, 186)
The Remembrance of God:
88. Imam Rida, Peace be upon him, said: "Engraved on the ring of Jesus, Peace be upon him, were two sentences from the Gospel: 'Blessed is the servant who remembers God for His sake, and woe unto the servant who forgets God for his own sake.' " (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 247)
89. God, the Great and Almighty, said to Jesus ('a): "O Jesus! Remember Me within yourself and I will remember you within Myself, and remember Me publicly and I will remember you publicly in a public better than that of men. O Jesus! Soften your heart for Me and remember Me much in solitude, and know that My pleasure is in your fawning over Me, in an animated and not in an impassive manner." (Al-Kafi, ii, 502)
Humility and the Etiquette of Prayer:
90. Among things that were revealed by God to Jesus is: "Do not call upon Me except by praying humbly to Me and with all your heart. Then verily when you call upon Me thus I will answer you." (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 290)
91. God revealed to Jesus ('a): O Jesus! "Give Me the tears of your eyes, and the humility of your heart, and stand beside the tombs of the dead, and call to them aloud that you may be advised by them, and say: 'I will join you with those who join you.' (Bihar al-anwar, lxxxii, 178)
92. God the Supreme revealed to Jesus: "When I give you a blessing, receive it with humility, [and] I will complete it for you." (Bihar al-anwar, xiv, 328)
93. [Imam] Ja'far reported that his father ('a) said: "Najashi the king of Habashah [Ethiopia] sent for Ja'far the son of Abu Talib and his companions. When they arrived before him, he was sitting in the dust in his house with worn garments.... Ja'far ibn Abu Talib said to him: 'O pious king! What is the matter, that I see you sitting in dust in worn garments?' He said: 'O Ja'far! We find in that which was revealed to Jesus ('a): "Verily, it is God's due from His servants that they show humility when they are shown favor." So, when God showed His favor by His prophet, Muhammad (s), I showed this humility to God.' " He [Imam Ja'far] said: "When that news reached the prophet (s), he said to his companions: 'Verily, giving alms brings abundance, so give alms and God will have mercy on you, and humility elevates one's station, so be humble and God will elevate you, and forgiveness increases dignity, so forgive and God will grant you dignity. (Bihar al-anwar, xviii, 417)
An Advice to Rulers:
94. A Christian primate (Jathiliq) visited Mus'ab ibn Zubayr [who was a governor during his brother's caliphate] and spoke words that angered him. He [Mus'ab] raised a cane against him, then left him until his anger subsided. He [the primate] said: "If the emir permits me, I would tell him something revealed by God to Christ ('a)". He (Mus'ab) turned to him, and he (the primate) said: "Verily, God revealed to Christ, 'It is not fitting for a sultan to become angry, for he commands and is obeyed, and it is not fitting for him to be hasty, for nothing eludes him, and it is not fitting for him to be unjust, for injustice is repulsed by him.' " Then Mus'ab became embarrassed and was pleased with him. (Adab al-nafs, ii, 69)
On Lying and Hypocrisy:
95. It is reported from the Gospel: "Beware of liars who come to you in sheep's clothing while in reality they are ravenous wolves. You shall know them by their fruits. It is not possible for a good tree to bear vicious fruit, nor for a vicious tree to bear good fruit." ('Uddat al-da'i, l52). [11]
96. God said to Jesus, Peace be upon him: 'O Jesus! Yours must be a single tongue in secret and in public, and likewise your heart. Verily, I warn you of yourself, and I suffice as the All-aware.[12] It is not proper that there be two tongues in a single mouth, nor two swords in a single scabbard, nor two hearts in a single breast, and likewise two minds." (Al-Kafi. ii, 343)
[1] Ibn al 'Arabi, The Bezels of Wisdom (Fusus al-hikam). tr. R. W. J. Austin (Lahore: Suhail, 1988), p.177.
[2] Frithjof Shuon, Islam and the Perennial Philosophy (Lahore: Suhail, 1985).
[3] Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Jesus in the Eyes of the Sufis (London: Khaniqahi-Nimatullahi Publications, 1983).
[4] We are reminded by the Glorious Qur'an: "O Jesus, I will take you away and lift you up to me..." (3:54)
[5] Cf Matt. 23:25.
[6] Cf Matt 6.25-34:
25.Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
26. look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or Store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feed~ them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28. And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
29. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of
30. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31. So do not worry, saying, 'what shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
32. For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things ""ill be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (NIV)
[7] This is perhaps one of the most widely misunderstood of the sayings of Jesus ('a). For it does not seem to he intended in the general ascribed to it, for that would amount to encouraging aggression, oppression and wrong doing. Turning the other cheek can however be an effective way of putting to shame the other side. An episode related by Muhammad Husayn Azad about Imam Bakhsh Nasikh, one of the masters of Urdu poetry, suggests how it can be used as an effective deterrent. Once someone had sent as a present some spoons made of crystal glass for the poet. These were considered a novelty in those days, and were quite beautiful. One day a young man belonging to some noble family came to visit Nasikh. Seeing the spoons he asked him about where he had got them and how much they had cost. Then he picked up one of them and held it admiringly. Thereafter as they conversed, to keep his idle hands busy he began to tap the spoon on the ground. The fragile thing that it was broke into two pieces. immediately Nasikh picked up another spoon and placed it in front of the youth with the remark, "Now play with this one!" (Mawlana Muhammad Husayn Azad, Ab-e hayat (Calcutta: 'Uthmaniyyah Book Depot, 1967), p.434)
[8] The corresponding verses of the Bible are Matt 7:9-11, which in the New international Version (NIV) are translated as follows:
9 Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, How much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
[9] The corresponding verses of the Bible are Matt. 5:27-30, translated in the King James Version (KJV) as:
27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shall not commit adultery:
28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
[10] Cf. Matt 8:23-27 (KJV):
23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, inasmuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful', O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
But the men marveled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
[11] Cf. Matt 7:15-16, 18 (KJV):
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
[12] Cf. Qur'an 17:17; 25:58.
Selected, edited and translated by
Mahdi Muntazir Qa'im and Muhammad Legenhausen
Vol 13. No. 3.- 4
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Hope Solo Looks to Revive Career Abroad, Eyes USWNT 2019 World Cup Place
American goalkeeper Hope Solo is looking to resume playing and says she has had offers to play overseas.
AMSTERDAM (AP) – American goalkeeper Hope Solo is looking to resume playing and says she has had offers to play overseas.
Solo was handed a six-month suspension and her contract with U.S. Soccer was terminated last year following the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after she called Sweden's team ''cowards'' for their defensive style of play against the Americans.
Since the abrupt break in her career, the 36-year-old Solo has focused on recovering from shoulder replacement surgery.
''Let's be clear, a goalkeeper peaks a little bit later in their career, so I feel like I have many years ahead of me if that opportunity arises,'' Solo said in an interview Monday. ''I'm very happy with my career should I walk away from the game today, but I'm not one to retire. I have not retired.''
Even before her Olympic outburst, Solo was at odds with American soccer leadership as she lobbied for women's players to earn equitable salaries to the male national team players.
''My contract got terminated because of my fight for equal pay with the United States Soccer Federation,'' Solo said. ''I'm not sure until the lawsuit is over, that anything will change that. In the meantime I've had great opportunities and great contract offers to go back overseas and play. Possibly you'll see me overseas next year.''
Especially as Solo, who played in Sweden and France in 2004 and 2005, said her ''shoulder is doing great.''
''I have a completely metal arm now - I'm bionic,'' she said. ''I'm better now than I have been in the last 10 years so I'm pain free and I have more range of motion. I'm very happy with my health right now and I'm very happy with my fitness. I'm ready to get back.''
Solo, who was voted into the World XI team by fellow players in March, still hopes to be back in the United States side for the World Cup title defense in France.
''I've always wanted to play in the 2019 World Cup,'' Solo said. ''I'm in the best shape of my life in terms of my shoulder. I feel great. Should they (the United States) welcome me back then I will be in the goal competing and hopefully bringing back another World Cup trophy, but it's highly unlikely they are going to ask for me to come back. But I'm here guys.''
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Over 50s dating app Lumen launches new social feature to combat loneliness
By Stephen Fenech On May 7, 2019
For men and women over 50 looking for love and companionship there an app for that – it’s called Lumen – and it has just launched a new social component to allow members to join groups based on mutual interests.
Lumen is the first-ever dating platform for over 50s. It was launched in September 2018 and provides a safe and age-appropriate environment for older men and women.
Research has shown loneliness among over 50s is on the rise.
One thirds (30 per cent) of Australians over 50 say their feelings of loneliness are mainly a result of being single.
Others put it down to losing touch with friends (37 per cent) and that they are no longer working (35 per cent).
These over 50s have tried combating loneliness by meeting new people, getting out of the house more often, using social media, starting new hobbies and meeting new people through existing friends.
Lumen has now launched the new Lumen Social which will allow the more than 700,000 members to join groups based in interests in five popular areas – travel, sports, home and garden, TV and film, food and drink and meet and greets.
This feature is designed to connect via group chats with the goal of making new friends who share their interests.
“From day one, our mission at Lumen has been to create meaningful connections that can genuinely change the lives of the over 50s – be it through love, or simply just through a sense of community,” says Lumens co-founder and CEO Antione Argouges.
“At the same time, we know that loneliness amongst this age group is an issue, and as a tech company, we see an opportunity to help tackle this.
“From today, we’ll be rolling out Lumen Social – a feature that enables members to make new friends and meet like-minded people around the topics of Travel, Sports, Home & Garden, TV & Film, Food & Drink and many more to come.”
Lumen is available now in the App Store and the Google Play Store.
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Keely’s Camp
Fast Girls
Keely Kelleher, one of the athletes who represent Tecnica/Blizzard, grew up in Big Sky, Montana, with a strong mother and older sister (Brenna, who won the 2001 World Junior freestyle kayaking championship at age 18). But throughout her career and seven years with the U.S. Ski Team, she found precious few female role models among those who coached her. After retiring from competition in 2010, she set about doing something that had never been done before in North America: create serious camps dedicated solely to girls. Her staff was all women. Her fellow coaches were friends and exteammates from the U.S. team (my “wing girls,” Keely says). The idea was both simple and profound: “I wanted to give back some of the stuff that had accumulated in my head. I wanted to create a camp dedicated to all the things I would have loved to have had growing up.”
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Rising accordionist Anthony Ortiz Jr. dies at 24
Nancy Flores
Aug 7, 2017 at 12:01 AM Sep 22, 2018 at 1:18 AM
Aug. 4 update:
Memorial services will be held Aug. 8-9 at Mission Funeral Home on East Cesar Chavez. Visitation will be Aug. 8 from 1-9 p.m. with a rosary recitation at 7 p.m. Funeral services will be at noon on Aug. 9 followed by a committal at 1 p.m. at Assumption Cemetery.
A GoFundMe page to help the family cover $15,000 in medical expenses has been created. Donations can be made at gofundme.com/47rjrm8.
From July 31:
Austin’s music community is mourning the loss of musical prodigy Anthony Ortiz Jr., who died this week after a 10-month battle with cancer. He was 24.
Once Ortiz Jr. learned how to play the accordion as a 10-year-old, he never looked back. The rising accordion star went on to master the instrument, perform in mariachi and country bands and earn a loyal fanbase.
"He picked up music so quick," said his father, Anthony Ortiz Sr. "It was amazing."
The Austin High School graduate came from a long line of musical talent. His great-grandparents were migrant farm workers who sang and played the violin. Ortiz Jr.’s grandfather, Lupe Ortiz, gained fame in the Texas music scene of the 1960s with the band "Shorty and the Corvettes."
In an interview with the Accordion Americana Project, Ortiz Jr. credited his father for influencing his musical style. "I taught him one song," Ortiz Sr. said. "But he soon exceeded me and became my teacher."
Ortiz Jr., an Austin Community College student, played with the family mariachi band Mariachi Corbetas with his father and grandfather. He also performed as a member of the country band Crooks.
"To us, he was the shining example of optimism, youth, happiness, love, unbending friendship, humor and most of all, good will," the band wrote on its Facebook page.
RELATED: Big Squeeze Accordion Competition
In 2008 and 2009, Ortiz Jr. was a finalist in the statewide accordion competition the Big Squeeze, which features accordion players under 21 who play everything from Tejano music to zydeco. His skills also were highlighted in a film about the competition.
The squeezebox savant connected with the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center while competing in the Big Squeeze and he soon taught the accordion to children at the center’s summer camps. In 2012, the MACC honored Ortiz Jr. with an Award of Excellence in the emerging artist category.
"We will always cherish his memory and the invaluable impact he made at the ESB-MACC as an artist, teacher and friend," the cultural center said in a statement. "We are heartbroken."
Last year, Ortiz Jr. wrote a message in a crowdfunding site created by his friends to raise money for his treatment. The site also allowed him to share health updates.
"Those of you who know me," he wrote, "know that music is my number one passion, and I can’t wait to get back on the stage to perform." Ortiz Jr. signed his name and added "aka Mr. Squeezebox" next to it.
Friends, fans and family have filled Ortiz Jr.’s social media pages with remembrances praising his energy, enthusiasm and passion for music.
Memorial services at Mission Funeral Home on East Cesar Chavez are pending.
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Fairfield Man Arrested After Attempt to Flee on Foot & More Fairfield Police News
David Caporizzo, 32, Fairfield David Caporizzo, 32, Fairfield Credits: Passaic County Sheriff's Office
FAIRFIELD, NJ — A 32-year-old Fairfield man who attempted to flee from a member of the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office while in Paterson gave up after tripping and running out of breath, according to Paterson Sheriff Richard Berdnik.
According to Berdnik, the incident began at about 10 a.m. on Sunday when the suspect, later identified as David Caporizzo pulled out of Triangle Village parking lot at a high rate of speed, nearly striking the officer who was patrolling on Fair Street at the time. Caporizzo is said to have first started a traffic pursuit around the block before he exited the vehicle and ran.
According to police, the suspect attempted to throw a clear plastic bag over a fence, but it dropped directly to the ground due to its light weight. A small amount of crack cocaine was retrieved, and Caporizzo was taken into custody, Berdnik reported.
Back in Fairfield, several arrests were made during the month of June that included various charges of theft, drug possession and more.
Theft of Cell Phone Results in Incarceration of Fairfield Man
Steven Spry, 58, of Fairfield was recently arrested for after an individual contacted the Fairfield police to report that he had left an iPhone (valued at approximately $1200) in the back seat of an Uber that he had just been driven in. According to police, the individual tracked the phone using a GPS app to a Lebeda Drive West address in Fairfield.
Officers James Ciampi and David DeCarlo were dispatched to the residence to investigate further. Prior to their arrival, additional information was received from the Uber driver indicating that he had just dropped an individual off at a Lebeda Drive West residence and that this same individual had found a cell phone in the rear seat of the car and had taken it into the residence, according to police, who also noted that the Uber driver provided a description of the individual.
According to police, Spry opened the door when officers arrived and matched the description given by the Uber driver. Police said he initially denied finding phone in the rear of the car, but later changed his story—stating that he did find a phone in the Uber car but thought it might be his girlfriend’s phone. However, according to police, his girlfriend had not been in the Uber and the phone that was found did not resemble hers. Spry then turned the phone over and officers confirmed that it belonged to the victim, according to police.
Spry was placed under arrest and transported to headquarters for processing. According to Fairfield police, the charges were reviewed by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, and it was determined that he should be transported to the Essex County Jail pending court action.
Massachusetts Couple Charged in Theft from Vending Machines
William Silvia, 34, and Kathryn Boudreau, 22, both of Massachusetts, were arrested in Fairfield for two counts each of theft, criminal mischief and possession of burglar tools, and Boudreau was also charged with possession of a prescription legend drug, after Officer Nicholas Cocchi and other Fairfield officers were dispatched to the Comfort Inn, located at 286 Route 46 East, to investigate a report of a male and female arguing in the lobby.
According to police, officers had been investigating a theft from vending machines at the LaQuinta hotel located at 38 Two Bridges Road just prior to being dispatched to this call. Police also noted that a witness at LaQuinta provided a description of a male and a female as the suspects in that case, and that these two individuals were suspected in a number of similar vending machine thefts in area jurisdictions.
When the officers arrived at the Comfort Inn, they observed an unoccupied vehicle with its engine running that was parked in the hotel’s rear parking lot. At this point, Cocchi and Officer David DeCarlo observed a male and female running away from the hotel eastbound in the parking lot of the adjacent Dunkin Donuts parking lot, according to police. Both suspects stopped when asked and were identified as Silvia and Boudreau.
According to police, Cocchi immediately realized that these two individuals matched the exact descriptions that he had received earlier as well as a BOLO alert of unknown suspects from a past vending machine theft in Parsippany. At this time, both suspects were detained for further investigation.
As the investigation continued, officers recovered four capsules and one tablet from Boudreau’s pants pocket for which she had no prescription. According to police, it was also discovered that Silvia had an active warrant for his arrest issued by Mahwah Municipal Court.
After both were placed under arrest, officers observed several coins scattered in plain view about the interior of the vehicle as well as a pry bar lying on the floor. At this time, the vehicle was impounded for further investigation so that a search warrant could be obtained. According to Fairfield police, the officers also found that the suspects were in possession of approximately $533 in cash.
Check of Suspicious Vehicle Results in Arrest of Two Morristown Men
Lucas Cardona-Isaza, 21, of Morristown, was arrested for possession of less than 50 grams of marijuana and possession of a more than three-quarter ounce canister of a chemical irritant, and Oscar Naranjo-Bedoya, 36, also of Morristown, was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia, according to Fairfield police.
Police Officer Felipe Maldonado was on patrol in the parking lot of the LaQuinta hotel, located on Two Bridges Road, when he observed a 2019 white Jeep parked in the lot with two occupants. According to the officer, suspicious activity from the occupants made him decide to investigate the vehicle, which was occupied by Naranjo-Bedoya in the driver’s seat and Cardona-Isaza in the front passenger seat.
Further investigation revealed that Naranjo-Bedoya was wanted by the Morris County Sheriff’s Department and was placed under arrest without incident, according to police. Cardona-Isaza was also placed under arrest after police discovered a canister of chemical irritant in his pants as well as a small amount of suspected marijuana. According to police, a few items of drug paraphernalia were also recovered from the passenger compartment of the vehicle.
After being charged, Cardona-Isaza was released on his own recognizance pending court action and Naranjo-Bedoya was turned over to the custody of the Morris County Sheriff’s Department.
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7 Touching Books to Help Kids Understand Death and Grief
Use these titles to help you better explain difficult topics such as death, illness, and grief to your child.
By Christie Burnett
This is the book list parents hope they will never need, but it's an important one nonetheless. These books are valuable resources for talking to children about love, illness, death, and the stages of grief — all of which are abstract concepts that can be difficult for children, especially young ones, to grasp.
The seven titles on this list can also offer support and comfort to children experiencing the overwhelming emotions of losing someone in their own life.
1. In his signature simple style, Todd Parr explores the range of emotions and responses when we experience loss in The Goodbye Book. Parr guides young readers through the feelings most commonly felt when struggling with a goodbye, with the reassurance that with time things will get better, and a reminder that they are always loved.
2. Wherever You Are My Love Will Find You by Nancy Tillman is a beautiful, heartfelt exploration of the unconditional love that a parent has for a child, even when they cannot be together. While death is not explicitly mentioned, this book is a lovely resource for offering reassurance to children who have experienced the loss of a parent.
3. I’ll Always Love You by Hans Wilhelm explores the love between humans and their pets through the story shared by a young narrator about his dog, Elfie, and their life together. The book shows the boy caring for Elfie as she ages and his family’s grief when she dies of old age. The boy is sad that Elfie is gone but consoles himself that his dog always knew how much she was loved.
4. The Invisible String by Patrice Karst is a comforting story about two siblings who learn that everyone has an invisible string connecting them to everyone they love — anywhere, anytime — through separation, anger, and even death. "Even though you can't see it with your eyes, you can feel it deep in your heart, and know that you are always connected to the ones you love."
5. Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs by Tomie dePaola shares a tender story of love and care for an elderly relative through the eyes of a young boy named Tommy. We see Tommy helping his grandmother care for his 94-year-old great-grandmother, and the close bond he shares with both women. When his great-grandmother (and later his grandmother) dies, the story shows Tommy’s reactions to the deaths of these beloved family members.
6. Ida, Always by Caron Levis shares the beautiful story of two city zoo polar bears, Gus and Ida, and their feelings when Ida becomes sick with an illness that cannot be healed and later dies. It beautifully explores the turbulent range of emotions felt when a loved one becomes terminally ill, with a focus on making the most of the time we have left with sick loved ones. This is one of the most poignant books about love and loss I have read.
7. I Miss You: A First Look at Death by Pat Thomas explains what we know about death and grief in a simple, factual manner. It outlines reasons why people die, introduces what a funeral is, and explores the difficult feelings and emotions of saying goodbye and missing someone very much.
I am such a huge fan of using books to open or continue discussion with kids about difficult topics. Given how overwhelming and confusing the experience of death can be for a child, each of these thoughtfully composed books deserves a place on our home bookshelves.
Featured Photo Credit: © laflor/iStockphoto
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High School History Teacher in Studio City
Job Title: High School History Teacher in Studio City
Location: San Fernando Valley
Start Date: 8/1/18
Contact Name: Candice Coker
Contact Email: apply@scoot.education
Job Published: July 10, 2018 11:30
We're searching for a highly-ambitious and career driven educator to teach High School History for the 2018-2019 school year. The position is at an independent, coeducational, K-12 Episcopal day school located in the Studio City that serves a diverse population of students.
Position Requirements
Minimum 3 years of experience with students, families, and History curricula at the high school level.
Bachelor's degree in History, Master's preferred
Patience and creativity when working collaboratively with a range of constituent groups, including students, families, faculty, staff, and administration from diverse backgrounds (religious, ethnic,
socio-economic etc.)
Strength in both written and oral methods of communication
The teacher should demonstrate a willingness to grow and evolve as an educator and maintain a flexible attitude.
Salary Range: competitive with neighboring independent schools
Type: Full-time
Benefits: In addition to highly competitive compensation, they offer a comprehensive array of quality benefits to support employees health and enhance their lives with additional wellness programs and initiatives.
THE SCHOOL IS…
guided by the Episcopal tradition of open inquiry and spiritual formation and seeks faculty who are devoted to the pursuit of academic excellence and to the nurturing of decent, loving, and responsible human beings.
This school's mission is a COMMUNITY OF INQUIRY committed to ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE and to the nurturing of DECENT, LOVING, AND RESPONSIBLE human beings.
The school seeks faculty who are dedicated to the developmentally appropriate education of the whole child; who are interested in learning as well as teaching; who
connect their responsibilities with the philosophy and purpose of the school; who teach to empower as well as to inform; who are comfortable with questions as well as with answers; who can work with direction, focus, humor and dignity within the complexities of a diverse school environment; and who will be dedicated to promoting and maintaining an inclusive school community.
Margo Hohsfield
Senior Education Consultant
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Students Speaking Out
Enough is Enough Luncheon
sdcrimestoppers
ARCO Gas Station Burglaries
Unknown Suspect Wanted for Commercial Burglary Series;
Suspect Image Captured by Surveillance Camera
Up to $1,000 Reward Offered
San Diego County Crime Stoppers and investigators from the San Diego Police Department’s Southeastern Division are asking for assistance from the public to help identify and locate an unknown suspect wanted in connection with at least two different commercial burglaries at the same Arco gas station.
Detectives said the first case occurred on April 5, 2013, at approximately 4:30 a.m. and the second case occurred on April 18, 2013, at approximately 4:50 a.m. In both cases, a White or light skinned Hispanic male entered the Arco gas station located at 4333 Home Avenue. While the clerk was in the back room, the suspect ripped the lottery ticket dispensers from the counter and ran out of the store. The suspect was last seen getting into the passenger side of a dark colored sedan, possibly a late model Honda Civic, and fleeing the scene. Within several hours of both burglaries, the suspect cashed the winning stolen tickets at the following convenience stores all located in the Spring Valley area of San Diego: 7/11 @ 900 Grand Avenue, 7/11 @ 2800 Bancroft, Horseshoe liquor @ 900 Grand Avenue, and Bancroft Market & Liquor @ 3600 Bancroft.
Suspect: White or light skinned Hispanic male, 18-20 years old, 5’7”-5’9” tall, Thin build wearing a hunting cap. See images of suspect attached to page 2 of this release.
Vehicle Description: Dark colored (possibly black) late model sedan (possibly a Honda Civic.)
Anyone with information on this case should call SDPD Southeastern Division at (619) 527-3500 or the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (888) 580-8477. Crime Stoppers is offering up to a $1,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to an arrest in this case. Anonymous email and text messages can be sent in via www.sdcrimestoppers.com.
Media inquiries about the case can be directed to Lt. Kevin Mayer at (619) 531-2675.
Media inquiries about Crime Stoppers can be directed to Officer James Johnson at (619) 531-1500 or Deputy Adriana Uribe at (619) 531-1547.
For information leading to an arrest, you could receive up to a $1,000 reward and remain anonymous. The qualification of any person(s) for the reward and the amount of the reward for any person(s) so qualifying will be determined by San Diego County Crime Stoppers, Inc, in its sole discretion. The amount of all rewards given shall not exceed $1,000. Information must be received on the tip line, (888) 580-8477.
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https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Center-gives-runaways-peace-but-now-finds-itself-1298496.php
Center gives runaways peace, but now finds itself in need
Youth oasis will disappear under budget cuts
By JOHN IWASAKI, P-I REPORTER
Published 10:00 pm PST, Monday, January 26, 2009
The Secure Crisis Residential Center at 1102 E. Spruce St. is among the nine facilities in danger of being cut from the state budget.
Photo: Grant M. Haller/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
His grandmother called him an "ongoing runaway," a boy who first fled his troubled home when he was 11 and repeatedly vanished over the next four years.
Police sometimes delivered him to Spruce Street, a Seattle facility that houses 12- to 17-year-old runaways for up to five days while trying to reunite them with their families or foster parents.
"It was the first program that actually opened doors for us and gave us peace as parents and grandparents," said Inge Martin, grateful for several services that Spruce Street made available for her grandson, who turns 15 next month.
The staff is "amazing," the boy said in a handwritten note about his experience, "and without them, lots of kids would still be on the streets."
Spruce Street and eight other facilities like it, called Secure Crisis Residential Centers, face elimination by state budget cuts, some of which are under way and others that have been proposed by Gov. Chris Gregoire for the Department of Social and Health Services.
Five of the centers -- in Everett, Bremerton, Port Angeles, Wenatchee and Yakima -- which together have 31 beds, will close by Feb. 15. In addition, Spruce Street, the largest center and the only one in King County, has lost funding for three of its 15 beds.
Spruce Street and centers in Vancouver, Kennewick and Spokane, with 29 total beds, would close June 30.
Eliminating all nine centers would save $9.4 million in 2009-2011, the largest single proposed cut in Children's Administration, part of DSHS. (About $1.2 million will be saved in the current budgeting period with the Feb. 15 closures and cuts.)
"If funding was cut, these kids would remain on the street," said Maggie Faust, director of Spruce Street, which has served 5,971 youths since opening in 2000. "As a result, we'd see more kids dying and committing crimes to get their basic needs met."
Of those housed at Spruce Street last year, 85 percent had drug or alcohol problems and 10 percent were involved in prostitution, Faust said.
The centers, which together served 3,097 youths in the most recent fiscal year, were created in 2000 as part of the "Becca Bill," which allows the state to temporarily hold teen runaways, among other provisions.
While at the centers, youths adhere to a strict schedule, undergo drug tests and may be referred for mental health services. They receive food, clothes, case management, safe sex guidance and, with the help of mediators, meet with their families.
Spruce Street is under contract with Children's Administration, whose portion of the proposed DSHS budget for 2009-2011 would be about $1.2 billion, a $6.7 million increase -- less than 1 percent -- from the current biennium.
The cost of maintaining services in Children's Administration would rise by $50.3 million, but the increase was tempered by proposed cuts of $43.6 million, topped by eliminating the centers.
Until Spruce Street opened, Seattle police usually took runaways and street youths to the King County Juvenile Detention Center.
Those youths "just don't rise to the level of the hardened criminal," said Detective Harry James, a veteran of the vice unit. "They needed guidance. They didn't need to be thrown in with a guy who just knifed somebody on the street."
The centers were considered expendable in a tight budget climate for several reasons, said Glenn Kuper, spokesman for the Office of Financial Management.
He said the centers rate low in the process the state used to examine its spending and were one of the few programs in Children's Administration that did not receive federal matching dollars.
Also, "some good alternatives are available for those who are being served," Kuper said, such as semi-secure crisis residential centers.
While the loss of the centers would be "unfortunate," said Randy Hart, interim assistant secretary of Children's Administration, "these are very difficult times and tough decisions have to be made."
The second-largest proposed cut in Children's Administration would be to 40 positions, including 17 at agency headquarters and 23 in the field.
The headquarters cuts are more managerial than clerical, with the reverse true in the field, Hart said. In some cases, managers would drop down a position and go into the field as a social worker.
The loss of 40 positions would save $8.4 million.
About $7.3 million in savings would come through reducing support services to families, including those where youths are addicted to drugs and causing difficulties at home.
Social workers would have less technical support, with the number of chemical dependency specialists dropping from 26 to eight.
Contracted family reconciliation services would be limited to those families who do not have the means to pay for the service.
Currently, the state helps families in conflict with their adolescent children without regard to income. About 1,200 fewer families are expected to be served under the new rules.
Children's Administration also would save $4.4 million by eliminating pilot and training programs for trauma mitigation and sex abuse recognition, and foster care services for youths 18 to 21. Two positions in these programs would be cut.
For Martin, the survival of Spruce Street is her main concern.
"If not for the staff there, (her grandson) would be totally lost," she said.
"He's participating in treatment for anger management and is full time in school, getting A's and B's. It's still a day-at-a-time process."
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Birdwatching in Tanzania
With some of the world's most diverse environments, Tanzania is a mecca for birders
With a resident population in excess of 1,388 different bird species, and many more that come down and up here from Europe and Southern Africa, Tanzania is probably one of the greatest places on the planet for birders. From the gigantic Marshall eagle to the delicate sunbird, the elusive Shoebill to the omnipresent Marabou, there is certainly something to please any keen twitcher!
Part of the reason that Tanzania has such vast numbers and varying species is down to the wide array of differing topographies and microclimates that exist in the country. Below we have run through a few of these in the main tourism locations…but….for the adventurous, it is also possible to head further afield to really try and find a few rarities (the shoebill in the central western wetland complex of the Moyowosi-Kigozi, for example)
The Eastern Arc Mountains and the Tanzania-Malawi Endemic Bird Area
The ancient range of mountains, that dissect Tanzania from its north eastern edge to its south western edge, and that take in the Mountain ranges of Pare and Usumbara in the north, and Udzungwa and Mahenge in the south, are the oldest in East Africa and home so some of the greatest endemic biodiversity in the world.
Due to their isolation approximately 10 million years ago, the Estern Arc Mountains became a haven for all types of flora and fauna and, today, this is one of the last places on the planet where it is possible to encounter truly endemic species and, for the truly intrepid birder, some totally new species.
Probably the most important of the reserves within the EBA is the Udzungwa Range National Park which is located to the north of the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania. This park is home to many of the countries main endemic species. The nearby, Amani Nature Reserve is, however, a more accessible haven for those wanting to try and see these rarities.
Birding In the North of Tanzania
The national parks to the north of Tanzania have been formed through the moving together of two tectonic plates and, as such, this is an area that is both barren and fertile in equal amounts. The main National Parks of the Serengeti, Lake Manyara and Tarangire are very good for large raptors and scavengers, but, if you are looking to get away from the “flock” then please see a few additional areas below:
The Momella Lakes – located in the north of Arusha National Park, these lakes are fed by underground streams and are a mecca for water birds in particular. Species commonly seen here include flamingo, pelican, little grebe and a variety of herons, ducks and waders are also common.
Lake Natron – fed by underground springs and the Ewaso Ngiro River, Lake Natron is one of the famous Rift Valley Lakes and sits to the north of the Ngorongoro Crater, on the border with Kenya. This inhospitable region or caustic waters and parched earth is the main breeding ground for East Africa’s 2.5 million or so lesser flamingo who rally here in the summer months of August and September. As a sheer spectacle on its own, it is something worth seeing.
Rubondo Island – situated in the southern reaches of Lake Victoria, Rubondo Island is an oft forgotten corner of Tanzania and, only now, is it becoming more developed and connected once more. This island has many great features but one of these is that, with its forested and freshwater habitats, it is very popular for bird species of all kinds.
Birding In the South of Tanzania
As with the northern parks of Tanzania, the main parks of the Selous Game Reserve and Ruaha National Parks are superb birding destinations in their own right. Please see a little information on the Selous and a couple of other destinations that are less well known:
The Selous Game Reserve – with most of the main camps in the park being located along the winding Rufiji River, the Selous is a superb park for seeing all number of bird species ranging from the fish eagle to the malachite kingfisher and the secretary bird.
Amani Nature Reserve – as mentioned in the section above on the Eastern Arc Mountains, the Amani Nature Reserve is probably one of the most exciting and accessible areas for birding in southern Tanzania and, for those looking to see any of Tanzania’s endemic species, it is a must visit.
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With a resident population in excess of 1,388 different bird species, and many more that come down and up here from Europe and Southern Africa, Tanzania is probably one of the greatest places on the planet for birders. From the gigantic Marshall eagle to the delicate sunbird, the elusive Shoebill... More...
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Better buses replace dumped rail link
June 12, 2002 — 10.00am
A $10 million initiative to cut bus travel times between Melbourne Airport and the city by almost half was announced today by the Victorian government.
The move follows the scrapping of costly plans to build a rail link to the airport.
The government dumped the rail plan in January after a feasibility study showed the link would have cost the government up to $450 million over 10 years in subsidies to a private operator.
Improved bus services to the airport were a more cost effective solution, Transport Minister Peter Batchelor said today.
Mr Batchelor said new high-tech buses would be operating along the 25 km route by the end of the year under the initiative with bus operator Skybus.
He said trip time would be cut to about 20 minutes during peak times, through improvements to the Tullamarine Freeway, and by using smart technology to give buses priority during the peak.
"The package represents a cost-effective solution to delivering high-quality public transport services to the airport to better meet the needs of local, interstate and international travellers," Mr Batchelor said.
The state government will contribute $3 million to the initiative, while Skybus will fund the balance.
Mr Batchelor said the government had approved a $1 increase to the current $12 Skybus fare to help Skybus finance the investment.
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As flames consumed Notre-Dame, fire brigade chaplain helped save treasures
By James McAuley
April 17, 2019 — 10.45am
Paris: There was little time to waste. The wood-and-lead roof was a crackling inferno overhead. The flames were now snaking down though the majestic woodwork inside the Notre-Dame cathedral.
Fire fighters working at the burning Notre-Dame cathedral. Credit:AP
Very soon - just minutes maybe - the fire would begin threatening the artwork, liturgical items and priceless religious relics tucked throughout the warrens and alcoves of the cathedral.
Firefighters rushed in, looking for whatever they could grab and carry to safety. The fire department chaplain - his glasses reflecting the orange flames - demanded to join them.
Then a human chain took shape. It included Parisian officials, church caretakers, and the Reverend Jean-Marc Fournier, the chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade who, just hours earlier, had been preparing events for Easter week.
"We made a human chain, with our friends from the church . . . to get, as quick as possible, to get all the relics," Paris' Deputy Mayor for Tourism, Jean-Francois Martins, told CBS This Morning."
Father Fournier, the Fire Department Chaplain who saved the Blessed Sacrament and Crown of Thorns from the Notre-Dame Cathedral fire. Credit:twitter.com/CatholicArena
Among the items they salvaged, said French Culture Minister Franck Riester, was the crown of thorns followers believe was worn by Jesus before his crucifixion and a tunic once donned by Saint Louis in the 13th century - while Notre-Dame was being built.
Fornier was previously a military chaplain who served in Afghanistan. In 2015 he comforted victims of the Bataclan theater terror attack.
Both of those items are now in safekeeping at Paris city hall nearby, and would ultimately join a convoy others soon to be taken to the Louvre Museum, Riester announced.
Etienne Loraillere, the editor of France's KTO Catholic television network, said the chaplain Fournier has a key role in saving the crown of thorns and other items. Fornier was previously a military chaplain who served in Afghanistan, and in 2015 comforted victims of the terrorist attack on the Bataclan theatre in Paris after attacks across the city that claimed 130 lives.
Sophie Grange, a spokesman for the Louvre Museum, said that it was not yet clear how many objects the Louvre would be receiving or how long they would stay.
Other objects, however, were undeniably lost in the fire. These include fragments of the remains of Saint Genevieve and Saint Denis, portions of which were installed in 1935 in architect Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc's 19th-century spire, which collapsed at the height of Monday's blaze.
Debris inside Notre-Dame Cathedral as investigators begin a probe into the cause of the fire. Credit:EPA
Historians emphasised that the cathedral itself was an emblem - and even a crucible - for a certain architectural style and the advancements that came with it. Notre-Dame was perhaps the iconic gothic aspiration, said Samantha Herrick, a historian of medieval France.
"A lot of features of this church, while not unique, were new at the time," she said. "Stained glass was new, flying buttresses were new, Gothic architecture itself was new. This was a site of innovation."
Flames and smoke rise from Notre-Dame Cathedral as it burns in Paris. Credit:AP
For the moment, the most pressing question is the state of the cathedral's sprawling stained glass masterpieces - and particularly the three massive, multicoloured rose windows originally installed in the 13th century and heavily restored 600 years later. Despite these subsequent restorations, the windows still contain some of their original medieval elements.
Images showed that the rose windows technically remained intact, but the condition of the materials was far from certain. "Clearly, they were damaged, but to what degree we don't yet know," said Karine Boulanger, an specialist in stained glass at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
"We can see they are still in place, but we don't know in which state they are in, at least in a detailed manner," she said.
"Even if the fire didn't come all the way down into the cathedral itself, the heat itself was very intense. And the heat will have impacted the glass, as well as the material that keeps the glass panels together."
The architect Jean de Chelles designed and constructed the northern transept between 1245 and 1260. De Chelles then began the construction of the southern transept in 1258, but it was achieved by Pierre de Montreuil in the 1270.
For experts, what makes the monumental rose windows installed in the course of this construction unique is that there are few examples of medieval stained glass in Paris, at least outside of Sainte-Chappelle, a jewel box of a chapel in the shadow of Notre-Dame on the Ile de la Cite.
But particularly dazzling is the scale of the rose windows. The north rose, for instance, reaches more than 12 metres in diameter, and south rose roughly more than 18 metres, taking account of its additional skylight.
Herrick noted that the particular way in which portions of the cathedral collapsed were a testament to its Medieval identity, particularly vis-a-vis Notre-Dame's lead roof.
"Ironically there's something ironic about that, as Medieval sources were constantly complaining about cost of keeping up lead roof," she said. "Fires were constantly happening in the period, and the things most likely to fall in that period were the roofs."
Late Monday, President Emmanuel Macron called for Notre-Dame to be rebuilt. And almost immediately, some of France's wealthiest families pledged their support. Bernaud Arnault, Europe's richest man and the chief executive of the LVMH luxury conglomerate, pledged €200 million ($315 million); François Pinault, another luxury magnate, pledged €100 million.
The estimated costs for renovating the cathedral are currently estimated at €180 million ($251 million).
But the donation pledges from wealthy private sources led to some criticism of the French state, which some felt should shoulder more of the burden to preserve such an important piece of national and religious cultural heritage.
In the words of Olivier Gabet, the director of Paris' Musee des Arts decoratifs: "If Notre-Dame is a symbol of France, of its history, of its art, it is also the property of the state. In that sense, if we can only rejoice in the generosity of great donors, we could only be proud that the State undertakes to finance this restoration fully, in these troubled times."
After the flames were put under control, a cross was still standing alone - but intact - in the chancel surrounded by charred walls.
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Wiltshire Council leader to step down after 16 years
Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 12:00am
The leader of Wiltshire Council is stepping down after 16 years in the role.
Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE has today (21 May 2019) confirmed that she will step down as Wiltshire Council leader following 16 years in the role.
Baroness Scott has said that she will step down from her role on 9 July 2019.
She was appointed the leader of the then Wiltshire County Council in 2003 and when the authority moved to unitary status in 2009 she was voted to lead the new organisation.
Baroness Scott was appointed an OBE in the 2010 New Year’s Honours for services to local government.
Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE said: “It has been my true privilege to serve as council leader for 16 years but the time now feels right to pass the mantle, and special responsibility, onto someone else.
“As you would expect in local government it’s been challenging at times but what has got me up early every morning, and the reason I got into politics in the first place, is the drive and determination to try my absolute best on behalf of the people and communities of Wiltshire.
“I feel I am leaving the council in a good position and I’d like to thank all the staff and all members and partners. It has been an enormous pleasure and privilege to work with you all.”
The new leader will be elected at Full Council on 9 July.
Baroness Scott will continue in her role as councillor for By Brook.
Bristol pupils take to the skies at Gloucestershire Airport
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Gloucester man fined for flytipping
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Kings Quarter is set to take another step forward as councillors consider giving the go-ahead to demolishing the Bruton Way Car Park.
South Western Railway community programme celebrates first birthday
A special programme run by South Western Railway that helps vulnerable people build confidence on the train is celebrating its first birthday.
RMT members begin five days of strike action on South Western Railway network
The latest round of strike action on the South Western Railway network is beginning today.
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All Hail Orion
You may have noticed recently that NASA has announced the name of the craft that will form the backbone of the programme to return to the moon, they're calling it Orion.
Most people are aware of NASA's Apollo spacecraft that took part in their last lunar missions, they first delivered man to the moon. Orion will hopefully become as famous as it's older brother for not only returning to the moon, but establishing a longer term presence there, and then heading for Mars.
Lockheed Martin has won the contract to build the vessels, which includes Orion, but also covers Ares 5 rocket to carry the lander and departure stages and the Ares 1 which will boost Orion into space. Between them they will take over the role of ferrying people and equipment to our lunar body from the legendary Saturn V.
I really do admire the Americans for dumping the money and manpower into this venture, at a time when political will and public opinion seems unsure about space flight.
I've long been a believer in the potential of space, not just for the resources it can offer, but also as tool to inspire, create awe and draw different people's together, not to mention re-light interest in the sciences. I also think it would be wise for the human race to not have all it's 'eggs' in one basket when global disaster comes calling. Whether it be a meteorite, a rogue asteroid, a supervolcano, a superbug, global warming, cosmic radiation or something else we have seen evidence of how easily a species can be killed off.
We're smarter than any that have gone before and if any species could survive it would probably be us, but populating other planets or celestial bodies spreads the risk. We won't accomplish that with Orion, it's a long-term goal, but we need to make a start and Orion might just be the first step.
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Canadian Linda Evangelista belongs to the class of the highest paid supermodel legends. During the peak of her career in the late 1980s and 1990s, Evangelista stood with Cindy Crawford and Christie Brinkley as the most famous and sought after in their profession. She has walked the runways of the world’s premier fashion shows and adorned over 600 covers of all leading fashion magazines. Now in her 40s, Evangelista is still going strong and is part of Chanel’s Spring/Summer 2012 eye-wear campaign.
The Roman Catholic was born May 10, 1965 in St. Catherines, Ontario to Italian immigrants. Her father worked for General Motors and mother was a bookkeeper. She has two brothers. Evangelista aspired to modeling since the age of 12 and humbly began posing for local department store ads. At 16, she entered and lost the Miss Teen Niagara pageant but caught the attention of a talent scout for the Elite Modeling Agency.
Her mother would not allow her to call the scout’s phone number until completing high school. The 18-year-old signed with Elite and moved to New York City. Her stay was brief and she moved to Paris in 1984. It is common practice for fledgling models to be sent to Europe for seasoning and building a portfolio. Evangelista struggled for several years doing a lot of catalog assignments.
Things turned around in 1986, when noted photographer Peter Lindbergh agreed to shoot her. Lindbergh suggested she get her hair cut in what would become her trademark short bobbed style. Until then, there was nothing special setting Evangelista apart from the crowd. At her peak, the blue-green eyed brunette stood 5’9″ with a 121 lbs. 34B-24-35 frame. That hairstyle made all the difference.
Her career soared into supermodel status. At 22, she married Elite executive Gerald Maria in 1987 and their union lasted until 1993. After separating from Maria, Evangelista began a six-year relationship with actor Kyle Maclachlan. They had met on set in 1992 when shooting an ad for Barney’s. They became engaged in 1994 and separated in 1998.
Evangelista has escaped some of the negatives trappings of the modeling game by making a point of avoiding drugs. She decided to retire and settle down to a “normal” life. In 1999, she became pregnant by French footballer Fabien Barthez, but the baby was stillborn at six months. That unfortunate tragedy spun her into depression and she emerged by returning to modeling. Evangelista roared back after three years absence at 36 by appearing on the cover of Vogue in 2001.
On October 11, 2006, 41-year-old Evangelista gave birth to son Augustin James. She kept the father’s identity secret for several years. The revelation came in 2011, when French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault was named the father. That made tabloid news because Pinault is married to actress Salma Hayek and Evangelista is seeking $46,000 in monthly child support.
Now with DNA Model Management, Evangelista remains a successful age defying model and worked on campaigns for major fashion names like L’Oreal (2007) and Prada (2008). A lifetime achievement honor was bestowed upon her at the 1997 VH1 Fashion and Music Awards. Evangelista was honored by her country when making the Canadian Walk of Fame in Toronto.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjær Biography
Ole Gunnar Solskjær is a Norwegian-born football coach and former player. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, family life, football career, and achievements.
Nick Name: Super-sub, The Baby-faced Assassin
Nationality: Norwegian
Famous: Football Players Norwegian Men
Sun Sign: Pisces
Born Country: Norway
Born in: Kristiansund
Famous as: Football Manager
Spouse/Ex-: Silje Solskjær
father: Øyvind
mother: Brita Solskjær
children: Elijah Solskjær, Karna Solskjær, Noah Solskjær
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Kniksen of the Year
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Order of St. Olav
Silje Solskjær
Alexandre Lacaz...
Ole Gunnar Solskjær is a Norwegian-born football coach and former player. He is one of the most popular and successful football players in the history of ‘Manchester United.’ He made his career debut in 1990, under Norwegian club ‘Clausenengen’ (CFK), at the age of 17. His performance led him to be picked by ‘Manchester United’ for its 1996–1997 season. During his time with the club, ‘Manchester’ won three ‘Premier Leagues’ consecutively and six in total. The team also won the ‘Intercontinental Championship’ in 1999. Ole was named the “Baby-faced Assassin” after he scored the winning goal against ‘Bayern’ in the ‘UEFA Champions League.’ He remained with ‘Manchester United’ for more than 10 years before he announced his retirement due to injury in 2007. Ole was the highest goal-scorer of ‘Manchester United’ as a substitute. He started his career as a coach in the ‘Manchester United Reserves’ in 2008. He joined ‘Molde’ and ‘Cardiff City’ before he joined ‘Manchester United’ as a caretaker manager in 2018. He will be joining ‘Molde’ again in May 2019, as the caretaker manager. He is the youngest recipient of the ‘First Class Knighthood of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olev.’
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Ole Gunnar Solskjær was born on February 26, 1973, in Kristiansund, Norway, to Øyvind and Brita Solskjær.
His father was a Greco-Roman wrestler and had won a championship during his time. Ole, too, started learning Greco-Roman wrestling but stopped soon after.
He gradually drifted away from wrestling but developed a keen interest in football. Soon, he started training for the same, looking for a professional opportunity in the sport.
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Solskjær made his debut for ‘CFK’ in 1990, at age 17. He finished his final season in 1994, with more than half of the total of ‘CFK’s goals in his favor.
He scored 115 goals in his 109 matches for the club. He was later signed by the club ‘Molde’ for NOK 200,000.
He made his debut for ‘Molde’ on April 22, 1995, against ‘Brann’ and scored twice, leading his team to win. His scored a hat-trick in his next match, against ‘Viking.’
He played his first European game against ‘Dinamo-93 Minsk’ in the ‘UEFA Cup Winners' Cup’ qualification game. With his score in the second leg, ‘Molde’ qualified for the ‘UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.’
Ole scored 20 goals in 26 matches in his first season with ‘Molde.’ He began his 1996 season with a defeat against ‘Rosenborg’ but scored a hat-trick in his next match, against ‘Moss.’
In his last match for ‘Molde,’ Ole scored the fourth goal. He finished the season with 41 goals in 54 games. He was then signed by ‘Manchester United.’
He joined ‘Manchester United’ on July 29, 1996. When Ole made his debut for ‘Manchester United,’ he was a “nobody” in the giant club. Yet, he became one of the best bargains of the season. He made his debut on August 25, 1996, against the ‘Blackburn Rovers,’ as a substitute, and scored his first goal within 6 minutes.
He won his first ‘Premier League’ title under ‘Manchester United’ and also became the top-scorer of the club for the season. He scored 18 ‘Premier League’ goals in 33 appearances in his first season.
In 1999, he scored the winning goal against ‘Bayern Munich,’ leading his club to win the ‘UEFA Champions’ League’ and secure the “treble.” The media nicknamed him the “Baby-faced Assassin” due to his aggressive game and his innocent face.
This win turned him into a football star and put him in the league of the most valuable players of his club. His score in the last 12 minutes in a match against ‘Nottingham Forest’ that season was also impressive.
He finished the season with 12 league goals in 19 matches. He also played in the 1998 ‘FIFA World Cup’ and the 2000 ‘UEFA Euro.’ He won his first ‘Intercontinental Cup’ after defeating ‘Palmeiras’ 1–0 in November 1999. ’Manchester’ also won the ‘Premier League’ after defeating ‘West Ham’ 7–1.
In his 2000–2001season, he scored a total of 10 league goals in 31 matches. ’Manchester’ also won the ‘Premier League’ that year. It was the third consecutive ‘Premier League’ win for them.
In his next season, Ole scored another hat-trick, in a 4–0 win against the ‘Bolton Wanderers.’ He finished the season with 17 league goals in 30 appearances but lost the ‘Premier League’ title to ‘Arsenal,’ also known as “the Gunners.”
Ole’s first goal of the 2002–2003 season was against ‘West Bromwich Albion.’ He scored 16 goals in the season, and due to David Beckman’s injury, Ole also captained some matches in the season.
Following this, he remained out of matches until 2004, because of an injury, and returned to play in the 2004 ‘FA Cup Final,’ which his club won. However, he had to go through a knee surgery and had to miss the 2004–2005 season completely.
His fans added “20 LEGEND” on the banners, since his jersey number was 20. This was meant to support him and encourage his comeback. Ole returned on December 5, 2005, against ‘Liverpool.’
Unfortunately, he got his cheek bone broken by Ugo Ehiogu on March 8, 2006, in a match against ‘Middlesbrough.’ As a result of the injury, he had to stay away from matches for the rest of the season.
He returned to ‘Premier League’ on August 23, 2006. Soon, he scored his first ‘Premier League’ goal in 3 years. He continued scoring goals throughout the season until he sustained a minor knee injury again.
He returned to the game on March 31, 2007, in a match against the ‘Blackburn Rovers.’ He played his last match against ‘Chelsea,’ in the 2007 ‘FA Cup Final,’ which his team lost.
On June 5, 2007, an announcement stated that Ole would have to go through a minor surgery but he would not be able to return to the field, and thus, would be retiring from professional football. He received a standing ovation from the crowd when he walked on the pitch to bid goodbye to his fans on September 4, in a game against ‘Sunderland.’
At the time of his retirement, Ole was the highest goal-scorer of ‘Manchester United’ as a substitute, with 28 goals off the bench.
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In 2008, Ole was appointed as the manager of ‘Manchester United Reserves’ during the summer. Under him, the team won the 2007–2008 ‘Lancashire Senior Cup.’
In 2010, he was made the manger of ‘Molde’ but suffered a defeat in the first match. However, he won the ‘Tippeligaen’ twice, consecutively. In 2014, he joined ‘Cardiff City’ as its manager but left after a few months.
He continued as a manager with ‘Molde’ and finally joined ‘Manchester United’ as a caretaker manager in 2018. He will return to ‘Molde’ as its caretaker manager in 2019.
In 2008, he was honored with the ‘First Class Knighthood of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olev.’ He also won ‘Kniksen Awards’ four times: in 1996, 2007, 2011, and 2012.
He won the ‘Peer Gynt Prize’ in 2009 for his social work and his contribution to football. In 2010, he was named one of the richest coaches in British football by ‘Sunday Times.’
He was named the ‘Premier League Manager of the Month’ in January 2019.
Ole is a married man, and during his stint in England, he lived in Bramhall with his wife, Silje. The couple has three children: Noah, Karna, and Elijah.
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Sugar deadline extended 24 hours as Perdue talks Canadian dairy
News | June 6, 2017
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday extended the deadline for resolution of the U.S.-Mexican sugar conflict by 24 hours in hopes of finalizing a deal.
Reuters reported that a deal has been struck, but that the sugar industry is divided.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who was in Canada, told reporters by telephone that he hopes that the American Sugar Alliance, which represents U.S. cane and beet growers, “comes around and understands” that what has been proposed is in the interest of the U.S. and others.
Applying the punitive tariffs that the U.S. could impose in retaliation for Mexico subsidizing sugar and dumping it in the U.S. would complicate other markets, Perdue said.
Phillip Hayes, a spokesman for the American Sugar Alliance, said in an email, “The U.S. negotiating team, led by Commerce Secretary Ross, should be commended for their hard work to bring Mexico’s subsidized sugar industry into compliance with U.S. trade laws. We are hopeful that an agreement can be struck to finally end the injury caused by Mexico’s dumping and unfair trade practices. There are several important issues that remain unresolved, and we are committed to working with the Department of Commerce over the next 24 hours in hopes of finalizing modified suspension agreements.”
Perdue said he told Canadian officials that they should end their Class 7 milk, which he said has enabled Canadian producers to overproduce milk solids and create blends that have lowered prices on world markets.
Before Canada established Class 7 milk, U.S. producers were exporting ultra-high-filtered milk to Canada, Perdue noted. The secretary said he told the Canadian officials the U.S. does not propose to try to manage or get involved in Canada’s domestic supply of dairy products, but that he believes Class 7 is “unfair” and undercutting an industry that grew up in the U.S.
But Perdue also said the purpose of his trip today was not to enter into “deep” negotiations with Canadian officials. He also said he discussed the issue of Canadian classification of U.S. wheat and considers it an easily resolvable problem.
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Hot Seat: Michael Chan on Being an Actor in Hong Kong
By Jefferson Mendoza | June 18, 2019
Born and raised in Canada, Michael Chan first got bitten by the movie bug working alongside movie star Wesley Snipes. He went on to study filmmaking and graphic design, but his dream of becoming an actor haunted him and he kept questioning whether acting was what he really wanted to do instead. He relocated to Hong Kong, where his parents were born, in 2005.
Since his relocation, Chan has attended acting classes at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and Hong Kong Film Academy and stunt classes at Hit Hut Cinematic Action studios.
Chan has appeared in several Hong Kong, American, and Indie film projects. Besides being an actor, he has also worked as a stunt performer, model and host.
In this video, Chan reveals five things that he has learned about being an actor in Hong Kong.
From our Hot Seat series.
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Fitness to practise procedures
The GMC's statutory purpose is to protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public by ensuring proper standards in the practice of medicine. It has 'strong and effective legal powers designed to maintain the standards the public have a right to expect from doctors'.
The number of complaints reported to the GMC surged over recent years, but complaint numbers are now dropping back; complaints reduced by 13% between 2012 and 2017.
The great majority of complaints to the GMC are closed without action on the doctors' registration. However, a GMC investigation is a source of great anxiety to any doctor who is under scrutiny.
Here we give an overview of the GMC's fitness to practise (FTP) procedures.
Initial handling
An initial triage is carried out to consider whether a complaint or enquiry raises a question about a doctor's fitness to practise.
Those which do not relate to fitness to practise are closed immediately - for example, cases about late appointments or disagreements about content of medical reports.
Some complaints that do not raise serious concerns would not require a full investigation unless they formed part of a pattern of similar concerns. The GMC refers those complaints to the doctor's responsible officer (RO) or employer.
If you have any concerns about a complaint that has been passed to your responsible officer, you are very welcome to seek MDU advice.
Provisional enquiries
Since 2014, the GMC has carried out provisional enquiries (PEs) at the triage stage in cases that meet certain criteria. In 2017, 40% of the cases not closed immediately or referred back to employers were subject to provisional enquiries. These enquiries can be undertaken quickly as the GMC needs only a few pieces of information to help it decide whether to close a complaint or open a full investigation.
Nearly 70% of such cases are closed without a full investigation.1
Complaints requiring full investigation
In 2017 most complaints to the GMC (around 65%) were made by members of the public. Complaints to the GMC are also made by employers, the police, doctors, other healthcare groups and organisations. The GMC also identifies potential concerns about doctors from other sources, such as the media. And doctors sometimes need to self-refer to the GMC.
The GMC does not usually investigate complaints relating to events that took place more than five years before the date of the complaint, unless it believes this would be in the public interest, in the exceptional circumstances of the case.
If a complaint is to be investigated, the GMC will write to the doctor with a copy of the complaint. At that stage, the doctor has an opportunity to respond but is not obliged to do so. There are pros and cons to responding, depending on the circumstances of each case.
If you have received a letter from the GMC about an investigation and provisional enquiry, please contact the MDU as soon as possible.
Investigation stage
GMC investigators gather information about the case, such as medical records and statements, and may obtain an expert report.
The GMC may make any enquiries needed to investigate whether the doctor's fitness to practise is impaired. It also has the power to order an assessment of a doctor's performance, health or knowledge of English. A doctor who fails to comply may be referred to an FTP tribunal for non-compliance.
A team is selected from the panel of performance assessors to assess the standard of the doctor's professional performance. The assessment will normally include peer review - including a visit to the doctor's place of work and knowledge-based and practical assessments.
The doctor will have an opportunity to comment on information provided to the team by others and on the outcome of the assessment.
The assessment team will report on the standard of the doctor's performance.
The GMC may also invite the doctor to be examined by two medical examiners. Their reports on the doctor's physical or mental condition will also state whether they believe the doctor is fit to practise, either generally or on a limited basis, and make recommendations for the management of the case.
If concerns relate to the doctor's knowledge of the English language, the GMC may direct the doctor to undertake an assessment of their knowledge of English.
Decision by case examiners
If, after initial investigation, the GMC believes there may be a case to answer, it will send the doctor a letter setting out the allegations it believes it needs to investigate further, asking the doctor to comment on them and to provide any additional information that may assist the GMC with the investigation. The doctor has only 28 days to respond to this letter.
If you have received a letter setting out allegations but have not yet contacted the MDU, it is vital that you do so as soon as possible to seek help with a response.
The GMC expects doctors to show insight into the gravity of what has happened and demonstrate they have taken action to remedy any deficiencies identified by the complaint. This is known as remediation and can have a positive influence on the outcome of the case. The GMC invites some doctors to attend a meeting with a case examiner and GMC lawyer, at which the doctor can be accompanied, to hear about the allegations and what sort of evidence the GMC might want to see in the doctor's response. The meeting is not mandatory. If you receive an invitation to such a meeting, please let us know immediately.
Whether or not there has been a meeting the case examiners will consider all the evidence, including the doctor's response, and will apply the 'realistic prospect' legal test. That means that only cases with a realistic prospect of establishing that the doctor's fitness to practise is sufficiently impaired to justify action on registration will be referred to an FTP tribunal hearing.
Outcome of the investigation
At the end of the investigation, the GMC case examiners may decide to conclude the case against the doctor with no further action or a letter of advice. Of investigations concluded in 2017, 52% were closed with no further action and 17% with a letter of advice.2
Other possible outcomes at the case examiner decision stage are:
a warning
referral for adjudication before an FTP tribunal
undertakings (where an assessment of health or performance has been carried out).
In some cases where the case examiners believe the facts do amount to impaired fitness to practise but an FTP tribunal would not erase the doctor, the case examiners may also offer undertakings.
The GMC has power to issue warnings. It may do so where it decides that the allegations do not justify referral to an FTP tribunal, but there is evidence to suggest the doctor's behaviour or performance has fallen below acceptable standards and warrants formal censure.
The doctor will be asked to provide comments for the GMC to consider before it decides whether to issue a warning and on what terms. Where the doctor chooses not to comment or does not dispute the facts alleged, and is taken to have accepted the warning, two case examiners may agree a warning is appropriate.
The complaint will proceed to an oral hearing of the investigation committee where:
the doctor does not accept the warning, or
if the case examiners consider it appropriate to do so, or
they cannot agree on whether a warning is appropriate on the evidence before them.
The investigation committee may decide:
to conclude the case, or
where information provided to the investigation committee casts a fresh light that suggests the case is of sufficient seriousness, to refer it for adjudication by an FTP tribunal.
In practice, oral hearings are rare. They are held in public unless there is an overriding public interest reason to hold them in private, for example if there are any health matters that must remain confidential. Warnings will be disclosed to the person or body who brought the allegation to the attention of the GMC, and to doctors' employers, or any person or body for whom they provide medical services.
Warnings will be published and disclosed to all enquirers for five years. After that time, the warnings will be removed from public view but will remain available to employers.
Reviews of decisions
In exceptional circumstances, the GMC Registrar may decide that it is in the public interest to review a decision by the GMC to conclude a case. This happens rarely, and only when there is new information which casts a substantially different light on the allegation, or when an apparent error is discovered in the handling and/or consideration of an allegation which led the GMC to reach an inappropriate decision.
Interim orders
A case that raises serious concern about safety of patients or others can be referred to the interim orders tribunal (IOT) at any stage. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) is a separate body responsible for both IOT and FTP hearings.
The IOT may decide that a doctor should be suspended or that conditions should be imposed on a doctor's registration on an interim basis in order to protect patients, or in the interests of the public or the doctor, while an FTP investigation is underway. IOT hearings will generally be held in private.
There may be very short notice of a decision to refer a case to an IOT, so it is vital that you tell the MDU immediately if you are being referred there.
Suspensions or conditions imposed by the IOT are reviewed every six months and will usually remain in place for up to 18 months if takes that long for the GMC to undertake a full investigation into the allegations. They may be extended by a High Court order.
Adjudication stage and FTP tribunals - MPTS
FTP tribunals are held by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS). This is an operationally separate part of the GMC, designed to provide separation between the investigation/prosecution of complaints, and adjudication.
Once a doctor is referred to an FTP tribunal, the case management stage begins. There is usually a case review, generally a telephone conference, between the GMC and the solicitor instructed by the MDU. It will often take several months for a case to progress to an FTP tribunal hearing, during which time the GMC will investigate further and may seek expert evidence, as may the MDU.
FTP tribunals have between three and five members. In addition to the chair, who might be medical or non-medical and may be legally qualified (a Legally Qualified Chair, or LQC), there must be at least one medical and one non-medical tribunal member. Relevant legal points are addressed during hearings by the LQC or a Legal Assessor. Hearings before the FTP tribunal are intended to be 'holistic', in that allegations will be brought forward based on all the evidence obtained during the investigation stage including health and performance assessment reports, and any allegations relating to the doctor's health, performance or conduct, or based on a caution, conviction or determination.
The FTP tribunal has three stages. First, the evidence is heard and the panel must determine whether or not the facts of the case are found proved. If the facts are not found proved, the case will not go to the second and third stages. Second, if the facts are admitted or proved, the FTP tribunal must decide whether the doctor's fitness to practise is impaired. It is the doctor's fitness to practise at the time of the hearing that is relevant, though the nature of the original misconduct will be taken into account. The panel will have to take into account any evidence of remediation including assessing the success of doctors' efforts to reform.
If fitness to practise is found to be impaired, the FTP tribunal must then decide what, if any, sanction should be applied to the doctor's registration. In doing so, the tribunal must take into account the protection of patients, public confidence in the medical profession and the need to uphold standards of medical practice. The tribunal may take into account mitigating factors such as a demonstration of insight by the doctor and any steps that the doctor has taken to address the problem. Evidence of this may be provided through testimonials from colleagues, patients and others.
The FTP tribunal can take the following actions:
Accept written undertakings from the doctor
Impose a period of conditions on a doctor's registration
Suspend the doctor's registration for a specified period
Erase the doctor's name from the medical register. This will not happen where the allegations relate solely to the doctor's health.
If the doctor's fitness to practise is not found to be impaired, the FTP tribunal may decide to issue a warning, if appropriate.
Of 195 FTP tribunals completed in 2017, 76 resulted in suspension and 62 resulted in erasure of the doctor's name from the register1.
The proportion of erasures is low. If erased, a doctor will be able to apply to have his or her name restored after five years. However, a doctor must be able to demonstrate fitness to practise in order to be restored, and erasure usually marks the end of a medical career.
Attendance at hearings
Doctors are expected to attend hearings at the MPTS. If not, the committee or tribunal may proceed to hear the case in their absence.
Please contact the MDU as soon as possible if you are asked to attend a hearing.
Publication of decisions
The decision reached by an investigation committee, interim orders panel or FTP tribunal, together with reasons, will be notified to doctors, their employer and any person or body who made the complaint. The decision will also be published. The sole exception is in relation to confidential information about the doctor's physical or mental health.
Where the case is closed with no finding of impairment and no warning, the GMC will remove all information about the IOT from the public record of the doctor's fitness to practise. However, where the IOT has suspended the doctor and there is later no finding of impairment and no warning, the IOT information will be removed from the doctor's FTP record but the entry on the register will show that they were not on the register for the period of suspension. The Medical Act 1983 s41a requires the GMC to record suspension by an IOT in this way.
Appeals: GMC and Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care
The GMC has power to appeal MPTS decisions to the High Court if considered to be unduly lenient and it is necessary for the protection of the public to do so. The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care can also join such an action.
Insight and remediation
Demonstrations of insight into the causes of the incident that led to the complaint, and providing evidence of remediation to put things right, can be powerful ways for a doctor to demonstrate they are fit to practise.
A GMC study of cases that were considered by FTP tribunals (but not cases relating to health or convictions) showed that evidence of insight correlated with whether a doctor was erased or given a less serious sanction. Doctors who showed insight and said sorry were ten times less likely to be erased than those who did not.
GMC FTP investigations are stressful for doctors and we would encourage any MDU member receiving notification of a complaint to the GMC, even if the complaint is to be passed by the GMC to the responsible officer or treated as a provisional enquiry, to make contact with the MDU as soon as possible and before responding.
We are experts in assisting doctors at the GMC, and it is never too soon to ask for help.
68% of preliminary enquiry cases were closed without full investigation between introduction in 2014, and the end of 2017. The state of medical education and practice in the UK 2018, GMC.
Of investigations concluded in 2017, 8.6% (117) resulted in warnings. SOMEP 2018, GMC.
Chapter 2, The state of medical education and practice in the UK 2014, GMC.
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Demi Doesn't Define Feminism
by Gab Sisino SUNY Binghamton Mar 1, 2016
Tweeting your support to someone doesn't make any true difference in the world, sorry Demi. Following Kesha's filing for an early termination of her contract with Sony Music--claiming that she was sexually, verbally, emotionally, and physically abused by producer, Dr. Luke--the court declared there was a lack of sufficient evidence. The aftermath of the verdict has resulted in a slew of celebrities taking to Twitter to show their support for the singer--celebrities except for Taylor Swift. You wouldn't think this is a big deal, but to some, it's a travesty.
People called Taylor out, saying she was only a feminist when it was in her favor. Instead of tweeting her support though, Taylor donated $250,000 towards Kesha's legal expenses. This didn't cut it for Demi Lovato, who angrily tweeted, "Take something to Capitol Hill or actually speak out about something and then I'll be impressed".
But here's the thing, Taylor wasn't trying to impress anyone, she was just trying to support a friend. Sexism in the entertainment industry isn't a new thing, but right now, it's in the limelight. Taylor has spoken out on feminism many times, but her not doing so this time doesn't mean she's a fake. In fact, Taylor didn't even publicly announce that she was making the donation; it was Kesha's mom who took to Twitter to share the news, thanking Swift for being so generous towards her daughter. Taylor wasn't doing it so that people would tell her how amazing she was. She did it because she believes in supporting one another by actually taking action.
Yes, it's great that you're speaking up for something you believe in, but if you're only going to put down other women for not following suit, you're no better than the people who go around victim blaming. If you're going to speak out for feminism, then you should be supporting every other woman who stands by your side, no matter how great or small their actions are. How can we expect men to treat us as equals if we can't even treat each other as equals?
The events that have transpired with Kesha should be used as a inspiration for woman who are dealing with harassment in the work place. She stayed quiet for a long time because she was afraid, but when she finally spoke up, she found support in tons of amazing women and is now starting a new chapter in her life recording music on her own.
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California Cannabis Enterprises, Parent Company of Glass House Farms, Glass House Brands, Retailers The Pottery and Bud & Bloom and Others, Announces the Appointment of Its Chief Operating Officer
California Cannabis Enterprises (CCE), a fully vertically-integrated cannabis company and one of the top five largest cultivators in the U.S. via its subsidiary Glass House Farms, announced the appointment of Daryl Kato as its Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective immediately. Kato, the former chief financial officer (CFO) and board director at Nissin Foods USA and finance manager for confections and snacks at Nestle USA among others, will be a key member of CCE's executive team, reporting directly to CCE Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kyle Kazan.
"With an aggressive plan for continued growth and a commitment to expand our family of companies and world-class brands, attracting top talent like Daryl will give us a competitive advantage as the cannabis marketplace expands and matures," said CCE CEO Kyle Kazan. "We are entering a new era and Daryl's proven track record with some of the largest, best known multinational companies will help us accelerate growth and increase our portfolio's value as we continue to scale. We look forward to working with him and others as we build out one of the most valuable vertically-integrated cannabis and brand-enabler companies in the world."
Daryl will help oversee CCE's company-wide operations as well as drive profitable growth across the company's vertically-integrated platform, which includes:
Glass House Farms: A California, earth-friendly, controlled-environment cultivator of premium flower, high-end genetics, pre-rolls, extracts and expanding product lines and top five largest cultivators in the world;
Glass House Farms Manufacturing: Manufacturing solutions provide medical-grade extracted cannabis products to meet today's growing market demands;
Retail: The Pottery and Bud & Bloom, which serve customers throughout Southern California, providing a variety of high-quality medical-grade and adult-use cannabis, extracts, infused products, vaporizers, apparel and more; and
Glass House Brands and Brand-Enabling Partnerships: Glass House Brands, Roam Escapes and others, along with partnerships with celebrities and influencers such as recently signed American singer-songwriter, musician and actress Jenny Lewis, reach and drive engagement across existing and new mainstream cannabis consumers.
Kato brings nearly two decades of experience leading and driving revenue, profitability and shareholder value across multiple consumer packaged goods sectors. Most recently, Daryl served as chief financial officer and board director at Nissin Foods USA, the creators of the original instant ramen and one of the largest prepackaged food companies in the world. Prior to Nissin Foods USA, he co-founded and grew a digital out-of-home advertising company to more than $5 million in annual sales and led the successful asset sale of the company in 2015. Daryl also comes to CCE having completed major business transformation initiatives with international giants such as Nestle Professional, Farmer Brothers, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Deloitte.
"I'm proud to join a company that is dedicated to bringing innovative and pioneering solutions, services, products and brands to the cannabis industry and is setting some of the highest quality, safety, and sustainability standards across its entire supply chain," said California Cannabis Enterprises COO Daryl Kato. "The cannabis industry still has some hurdles to overcome, which will require thoughtful operational vision and execution to ensure long-term, profitable growth. I can't imagine a more exciting place to be right now. I'm ready to help CCE integrate and strategically grow its portfolio into one of the most valuable cannabis brand-enabler companies in the world."
For more information, please visit http://www.cacannabisenterprises.com/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/calcannabisenterprises/.
About California Cannabis Enterprises, Inc.
One of the top five largest cultivators and vertically-integrated cannabis companies in the world, California Cannabis Enterprises, Inc. (CCE) is setting a new bar for what cannabis done right means. CCE's family of environmentally, community-conscious cannabis companies, brands and product lines span across the entire cannabis industry's ecosystem and include Glass House Farms, Glass House Brands, Roam Escapes, retailers The Pottery and Bud & Bloom and others. As the cannabis industry's leading brand-enabler, celebrities, artists, athletes and influencers turn to CCE to create powerful partnerships that reach new audiences and drive consumer engagement. Currently, CCE is rapidly expanding its family of companies, product lines, brands and number of employees, and is expected to see sizable growth throughout 2019 and beyond. For more information, visit http://www.cacannabisenterprises.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/company/calcannabisenterprises/.
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TMP Architecture Hires Seven Professionals
Bloomfield Hills, Mich., October 9, 2014 — TMP Architecture, Inc. is proud to announce that seven professionals have been hired to join the firm’s Bloomfield Hills and Portage offices.
Stephanie Choate, Matt Guinta, Bradley Pitt, Doug Milburn and Anna Whiteside join TMP’s architectural department. Emily Beuschel and Cecilia Escobar have joined the firm’s interior design group. Five will work in TMP’s Bloomfield Hills office, with Milburn and Escobar based in the Portage office.
Stephanie Choate, an intern architect with TMP, holds both a Master of Architecture degree with Distinction and a Bachelor of Science/Architecture degree from the University of Michigan. Choate, a Milford resident, was the recipient of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Huron Valley Undergraduate Scholarship in 2011 and received the Susan L. Johe Scholarship in 2010.
Matthew Guinta has over four years of architectural experience, and comes to TMP after time with Harley Ellis Devereaux. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from University of Detroit Mercy, and is an associate member of AIA. Matt is a resident of Ferndale.
Bradley J. Pitt, LEED AP BD+C has over ten years of architectural experience. He graduated from Lawrence Technological University with Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Architecture degrees. Pitt is a Troy resident, and previously worked for Stantec, Yamasaki Associates and Kingscott. Pitt is a LEED Accredited Professional who brings extensive K-12 and higher education architectural experience to TMP.
Douglas L. Milburn is a Kalamazoo resident and holds a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies degree and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Doug has over ten years of architectural experience, and was formerly employed by Urbana, IL-based Isaksen Glerum Wachter, LLC. He is an associate member of AIA.
Originally from South Carolina, Anna Whiteside graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Architecture degree, and received her Master of Architecture degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She currently resides in Bloomfield Hills. Anna’s former employers include Technical Group, Inc. and Blu Homes.
Emily Beuschel majored in Interior Design and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Central Michigan University. She is a Royal Oak resident and was formerly employed by Art Van Furniture as an interior designer, and as an intern with Americana Design Company. Beuschel joins TMP’s Bloomfield Hills interior design department.
Cecilia (“Ceci”) Escobar, an interior designer, holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree from Central Michigan University and a Master of Arts degree from Michigan State University. She is a LEED Green Associate and was a student designer with MSU’s Engineering and Architectural Services division. Escobar joins TMP’s Portage office.
TMP has offices in Bloomfield Hills and Portage, Michigan, producing a variety of projects for college/university, K-12 educational and municipal clients. Some of the firm’s current work includes a new middle school for Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, the new Student Recreation Center at Presidential Village at the University of Alabama, and new facilities for the University of Michigan’s South Athletic Campus.
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Waseda’s Business School Is Leading the Field
June 22, 2015 by Alec Jordan
Waseda’s business school is changing the way Japan does business.
For many, pursuing an MBA is a chance to open new horizons and make major steps in one’s career. It is an environment where one can acquire management skills, learn more about the ins and outs of the entrepreneurial experience from professors who have lived it, and develop one’s network of business contacts.
But it’s also a very personal decision, and one that needs to be weighed on many levels: what are the strengths and specializations of the program? Are there unique aspects to the program which I can only get here? Does the program fit my schedule? How much will it cost?
These were a few of the questions that were on our mind when we made a visit to the Waseda Business School (WBS). With roots going back to 1973, WBS has established its place as the top business school in the country. It is one of the largest programs in Japan, drawing around 200 students each year, and it also offers a considerably diverse range of MBA programs, from a full-time, two-year international MBA—offered in English and Japanese—to an evening program for people who are staying at their present jobs. In collaboration with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, it is also a host of the innovative and prestigious Waseda–Nanyang Double MBA.
Setting a Course to Business Success
This year marks another milestone in WBS’s history, as it will be combined with the Graduate School of Finance Master’s program into new WBS. From September 2016, the new WBS will offer a full-time English-based Master of Science in Finance program, which aims to train global professionals with expertise in finance. As Kazunori Suzuki, Professor of Finance and Director of the Research Institute of Financial Studies, explained, this will bring another level of rigor to the WBS, one that will help its students learn how to think quickly, critically, and fearlessly: “One of our main focuses at the program is to help our graduates learn how to recognize connections and patterns. So we want them to get a strong background in economic and business theory, so they can quickly adapt new business models and practices when they are needed. But ultimately, it’s not just about the theory: we’re looking to help our graduates become the types of managers who will be able to question themselves as well as the theory.”
Of course, the faculty is the heart of any successful academic program, and as Professor Reiji Ohtaki pointed out, the faculty’s breadth of experience represents a particular strength of WBS. Among those leading the classrooms can be found entrepreneurs, veterans of the consulting industry, and professors with academic backgrounds in human resources, finance, and management strategy.
Ohtaki explained that one of the ways that students benefit from this breadth of teacher experience is the Seminar (a.k.a. “Zemi”) system. Throughout the MBA program, students will belong to one Zemi, led by a professor. The Zemi meets weekly for discussion and debate, allowing deeper interactions with the lead professor and fellow students in a small group setting. According to the focus of the Zemi’s lead professor, students will find themselves interviewing top Japanese CEOs about the challenges and rewards that they have experienced while helping their companies globalize, or preparing financial analyses in order to present consulting reports to a client.
These Zemi activities provide students with the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in the field, but they also allow students to experience Japanese culture in more informal, but equally informative, ways. As Ohtaki explains, the close relations fostered in the group over time result in quite a variety of different experiences: “My ‘crazy’ Zemi actually climbs to the top of Mt. Fuji every year in late July—it’s an adventure that teaches leadership as well as followership. Other professors have their Zemis do ta ue, or rice planting, with their groups, a hands-on experience that really underscores the collaborative labor that has been such a major influence on Japanese business practices.”
Diversity in the Classroom, and in the Japanese Workplace
In addition to the diverse backgrounds of its teachers, the School has attracted its share of noteworthy students, who continue to reflect well on the School after they graduate. One of them is Masami Komatsu, representative director of Music Securities, a microinvestment platform that links individual investors and local businesses. The former drummer and composer was a speaker at the World Economic Forum at Davos. Other prominent students include the third-generation head of the Hoppy Beverage Company, Mina Ishiwatari, and Yosuke Mitsusada, founding partner of Asuka Corporate Advisory.
WBS is also remarkable for the diversity of its international student population. The English-based program that begins in September is 65 percent international—many are from East Asia, but students come to its classrooms from as far afield as Uzbekistan. Almost all of them are drawn to the opportunity to learn about Japanese business culture and practice, and many of them are looking to join the Japanese workforce. As Professor Suzuki notes, this is a perfect fit with the business climate in Japan: “Given the accelerated pace of globalization, Japanese companies need more international staff at the head office level. Firms have been hiring Japanese-speaking foreigners already, and this trend is rapidly growing with MBA graduates as well. I am sure that our graduates can become key drivers of the globalization of these companies.”
And, Suzuki adds, the benefit is not just for the many international students who are drawn to the opportunity to move into rewarding positions with Japanese companies. It’s also for Japanese businesspeople as well, who stand to learn from the mindset of their international colleagues: “One of the things that the Japanese culture needs to develop is the willingness to be more confrontational and aggressive when it comes to business. I don’t necessarily like to use the word ‘fight’—of course in business, you all shake hands at the end—but it is very important to be able to express oneself, and try to lead your organization to the maximum benefit. It’s part of the idea behind Tokyo Governor Masuzoe’s initiative to revitalize the Tokyo market, and with its newly enhanced finance faculty and Master of Science in Finance program, WBS can be a part of that initiative.”
In addition to the rich offerings at Waseda, students in the international MBA program also have the opportunity to study at one of WBS’s many affiliated institutions. Many students take advantage of this worldwide network of business schools and do coursework at one of 30 different schools in Asia, Europe, and the US. In addition, the Waseda–Nanyang Double MBA has students studying in Tokyo and Singapore, earning degrees from both schools in 14 months.
WBS has accomplished much in a short time. But as an independent school, Waseda has always been able to make rapid change and reform since its founding at the end of the 19th century. And although times change, it seems that Waseda’s historical aims—producing an enlightened citizenship and leaders who would see towards the modernization of Japan—are being put into practice daily in the contemporary world of international business.
To find out more about how WBS can help you reach the next step in your professional and personal goals, visit wasedamba.jp
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Founded in 1882 by Shigenobu Okuma, a giant figure in the modernization of Japan, Waseda University has long been a school that encouraged its students to go against the grain and think freely. Despite—or perhaps, because of—this rebellious streak, you can find Waseda grads among the highest echelons of culture, business, and politics—alums include former Prime Ministers, CEOs of some of Japan’s top companies, academic researchers in a variety of fields, and stars of stage and screen. Year after year, it is ranked among the top universities in the country, including its business school, which dates back to 1973.
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African Lion – The truly King of the Jungle from Africa
August 22, 2018 by Hasna Nelida
If we wonder which animal deserves to be the king of the jungle, the answer must be Lion. Even it has the predicate as the King, in fact, Lion includes in the cat family. Perhaps, you think that the lion is not as cute as the cat, don’t you? Indeed, the lion is the large version of cat. It is a muscular and rounded head animal. Its tail has a hairy tuft on the tip. It will be easier to differentiate between the male and female lion. It is because their body shape is different. Males are always larger than the female lion. Besides, the male lion also has the dense hair which is called as manes. This mane will make us easier to recognize this creature. There are many types of Lion in the world. One of them is the African lion. This article will discuss more African Lion.
The brief description of Lion Animal
Lion is one of the cat species. It is a big muscular cat with rounded head and ears. The weight of Lion usually ranges between 150 up to 250 kg. The habitat of this animal is in the savannas or grasslands. But, you will not be able to find this animal in a dense forest. You will be easier to find the lion in Africa, Eurasia, and America. Unfortunately, the population of Lion decreases by 43% in Africa. The cause of the declining population is the habitat loss. Besides, they also have the conflict with the human.
african lion image is taken from wikipedia.com
Unlike other big cat species, Lion animal is diurnal. It means this animal is active in the day. But, when they are threatened, they will be able to adapt to be active during the night. Lion has become the animal symbol in every culture. No doubt, we can find many sculptures or paintings about Lion. In France, the carving, as well as the painting about the lion, are found 17.000 years ago. It means the ancients believe that the lion is a powerful animal. Besides, you can even find the lion picture on the national flag. Singapore even uses Lion as the symbol of its country.
Scientific Classification of African Lion
After knowing about the general description of the lion. We can start discussing about African Lion. In fact, there are many types of lion based on their origin. For instance, there are American lion and African lion. Each type or species of Lion must have the typical characteristics. The characteristics include the body shape, habitat, or the living method. Before talking further about the characteristics of African Lion, let’s see the scientific classification of African Lion. The complete classification can be seen from this following table.
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Carnivora
Suborder Feliformia
Family Felidae
Subfamily Pantherinae
Genus Panthera
Species P. leo
Subspecies P. l. leo and P.I. melanochaita
Common Name African Lion
Scientific Name Panthera leo
Type Mammals
Diet Carnivores
Group Name Pride
Weight 265 to 420 lbs
From the table above, we can see that Lion is a mammal. So, it gives birth to its baby. The baby or the child of the lion is called as Lion cub. As a carnivore, Lion always hunts its prey. The unique fact about Lion is that the hunter is not the male lion. Even they live in groups, the female lion will hunt the prey. Furthermore, Lion is the only cat species which lives in the group. The group of Lion is known as Prides. It is the family group. Usually, every pride has three male lion, a dozen female lions, and their cubs. All the members of one pride are related. So, all of them are the family. The female lion always stays with this group as long as its life. In contrast, the young male lion will leave this pride. Then, they will create their own pride.
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The Kinds of African Lion
African is the suitable habitat for Lion. It is because this continent has the wide area of grassland. When someone mentions the African Lion, you must think that it is only one kind of Lion. But, you are definitely wrong. African Lion consists of some species. The classification of African Lion is based on its habitat. For your information, there are five kinds of lion animal in Africa. They are Barbary Lion, West African Lion, Central African Lion, Southern Lion, and White Lion. The complete explanation about each species of Lion can be seen in the following paragraph.
Barbary Lion.
The Barbary lions are the extinct Lion African lion subgroup. Indeed, the Barbary lion is also known as the Nothern lion. It means you can find the Barbary lion in the northern part of Africa. The habitat of the Barbary lion spreads from Egypt to Atlas mountain. Unfortunately, the population of the African lion in this northern part is extinct. This issue can occur because of the excessive hunting. The population of this Barbary lion was in Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, and Libya.
Unfortunately, this Barbary lion has been extinct in the middle of 19 century. This North African lion is also known as the Egyptian lion, Berber lion, or Atlas lion. The characteristics of the North African Lion are as the following.
The fur of this lion has the greyish tawny color.
The male lion has the long and dark manes. This mane extends over the lion’s shoulder and their belly. Besides, the length of the manes is about 8 up to 22 cm.
The length of the male body varies from 2.3 to 2.8 meters. Besides, the length of the female lion is about 2,5 meters.
Barbary lion is bigger than other types of the lion.
The average weight of North African lion reaches 300 kg.
West African Lion
As like its name, the West African lions live in the west part of Africa. The status of this West African lion is critically endangered. Nowadays, the population of this lion is less than 250 lions. The scientific research shows that the West African lion is related to North African lion, Central African, and the Asian lion. No doubt, the population of that lion is classified under the same species, P.I.leo. Curious about the characteristics of West African Lion? Check out some points below.
The color of West African lion varies from the light yellow to the dark brown color.
It has the rounded ears as well as the black tail.
The length of the male West African lion is around 2.47 to 2.84 meters.
The weight of the male is about 148 up to 190 kg.
The female West African lion is smaller.
Central African Lion.
Central African lions still exist today. We can find this Central African lion in Sudan, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, and the Central African Republic. The Phylogeographic research states that Central African lion is the subgroup of the Northern African lion. It is because The Central African lion is genetically close to the population of North as well as West African lion. This group of the lion has two subspecies, they are P.I melanochaita and P.I.leo. the population of the Central African lion is as the following.
There are 100 up to 400 lions live in Benoue National Park, Cameroon. Besides, another lion group lives in Waza National Park.
There are 150 up to 500 lions live in the Central African Republic.
Besides, in the Congo, there are 175 lions. They live in Garamba National Park.
Southern Lion.
The Southern lion has the scientific name as Panthera leo melanochaita. This African lion lives in the East and Southern part of Africa. Unfortunately, the Southern African Lions are extinct in Eritrea, Lesotho, and Djibouti. But, since the 21st century, the population of the Southern lion has increased in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. However, the population of this species declines in the East African country. The cause of this declining is the habitat loss and the prey base. Besides, the local people also kill this animal for the livestock. The characteristics of Southern African lion can be seen from the explanation below.
The Southern African lion or P.I melanochaita is from the Cape of Good Hope. No doubt, this lion is also known as Cape Lion.
It is easy to distinguish Southern lion with other African lions. It is so since it has the black manes. Besides other lions may have the brown manes.
The color of Southern lion varies from the light yellowish to the dark brown color.
The average length of the Southern male lion is 2.47 up to 2.84 meters.
The average weight of the male lion is about 148 up to 190 kg.
The female Southern African lion is smaller than the males.
White lion.
Have you ever seen a white lion? In fact, the white lion is the rare genetic condition. This condition is called as Leucism. This genetic disorder is caused by the double recessive allele. But, this lion has the normal pigmentation in their skin and eyes. You can only find the white lion in Timbavati Private Reserve in Eastern South Africa. Besides, it also can be found in Kruger National Park. The white lion is moved from its wildlife in 1970. The scientist records that there are 17 births in five prides in 2007 up to 2015. Unfortunately, people attack this white lion during the hunts. Thyen, they use this lion as the trophies.
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Lion Characteristics, Behavior, Pride, and Hunting
In this section, we present some facts about Lion. The more you find out about this animal, the more surprised you are with the fact about Lion. Check out some points below to explore about this King of the Jungle.
Lion characteristics.
It is easier to distinguish the male lion and the female lion. It is so since only the male lion has manes. What are the manes? It is the dense long hair which encircles the lion head. This hair makes the male lion easy to recognize. The female does not have these manes. This way, the appearance of female lion resemble as the tiger. Furthermore, the body of the male African lion is bigger than the female.
Lion behavior.
Lions always live in a group. Each group always consists of some male lions, a large number of the female lion along with the young lions. Male and female lions have their own duty in the group. The responsibility of male lions is to defend the territory. Usually, each pride has 100 square miles. Usually, the habitat of the lion includes the grassland, open woodland, or scrubs. The male will give the sign of their territory by using their urine. Sometimes, the male lions will roar in order to warn other pride. Besides, the male lion will chase off other animals that approach their territory.
Besides, the duty of female lions is different. The female lions are responsible to hunt the prey. They usually hunt the deer, zebra, antelopes, and other animals.
Lion Hunting behavior.
As stated before, the primary hunter of the lion’s pride is the female lions. Usually, the female lions work together to hunt. They attack the wildebeest, zebra, antelope, or deer in the open grassland. Some preys can run faster than the African lion. So, they have to work in the team in order to get the prey. Once they get the animal they hunt, the female lions will share the kill. The young lion will not help the prey hunting activity until they are one year old.
Lion’s habitat.
Lion can be found easily on some continents. For instance, you can find this animal in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Africa lion is the most popular one. However, their existence is threatened. So, you can only find the African lion in the sub-Saharan of Africa.
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Reader’s Guide to the New DC Universe
Reader’s Guide to the New DC Universe Addendum: Saying Hello to the New Six
Tim Callahan
Wed Feb 8, 2012 5:00pm 3 comments 2 Favorites [+]
Yesterday, I wrote a light lamentation on the six DC Universe titles that will reach their end with issue #8, and I mentioned that six new ones would take their place, in the 52 rotation.
Now it’s time to take a look at what’s coming in the six new series, to reflect on what we know about them and to play the speculation game: which of these new series are worth checking out right away, which ones are worth waiting for, and which ones are completely skippable?
The most prominent of the new six is the long-awaited return of
.
The Concept: The Batman “brand is franchised globally in preparation for a major international threat,” says the press release. Really, it’s a direct continuation of Grant Morrison’s Batman run which has brought the caped crusader to the edges of sanity, catapulted him back in time, and returned him to the present where he has assembled an international Bat-army, a global team of operatives to take the battle to the evil-doers, rather than wait for crimes to occur.
Because of delays on the artistic side, and then the line-wide reboot in September, this series was put on hold, paused before the story had been completed, with a Batman Leviathan one-shot hitting the stands right before the end of last year.
But, from all indications, this is just Morrison picking up where he left off, with his son Damian at his side as Robin and Damian’s mother, Talia al Ghul, recently revealed to be the mastermind behind the international terrorist threat.
The Creative Team: Grant Morrison’s Action Comics relaunch has been disappointing so far, but his multi-year Batman run has been one of the highlights from DC ever since it first began. It’s such a highly-regarded series that it somehow gained amnesty in the line-wide reboot, where everything else was wiped clean, and only Batman and Green Lantern kept their previous continuity basically intact (and one of those series has been written by the Chief Creative Officer of the company, while the other is from the keyboard of Grant Morrison).
The scheduled artist is Chris Burnham who brings his meticulous pencil work to a series that’s full of hidden mysteries and small moments that turn out to have great importance later. He can sometimes push his character work toward the hammy, but as he showed on his work on the previous incarnation of this series last year, particularly in the spotlight issue on the Native American Man-of-Bats, he can craft a gritty, oddball superhero world as well as the best comic book artists working today. With the lead time he’s gotten on this series assuming he was able to continue churning out pages after the project was paused last year he might even be able to draw every issue that comes out, and that would give the series the consistency it lacked last time it appeared as a monthly.
Recommendation: Buy it! Morrison and Burnham have proved themselves individually, and they proved themselves together last time they collaborated on issues of a comic with the very same title as this one. Morrison’s entire Batman run is worth digging back into, but even if you were starting with the relaunch of Batman Incorporated, you would likely find it one of the best monthly comics on the shelves.
The Concept: The second-most-interesting of the six new series is this dark reimagining of the classically goofy “Dial H for Hero” concept. The original serialization appeared in the House of Secrets anthology from DC in the 1960s, with Robby Reed and his magical rotary dial that gave him the ability to turn into random superheroes whenever he dialed H-E-R-O.
The popular Ben 10 cartoon series is a riff on this old premise, with super-powered aliens subbed in for costumed superheroes. While that variation achieved great popularity with American and international audiences, the “Dial H for Hero” non-franchise has popped up in American comics every now and again but has never actually been close to what we might call popular.
I’ve always had a fondness for the various incarnations though, particularly the 1980s version from Adventure Comics where reader-submitted superhero ideas made it onto the page whenever Chris King and Vicky Grant dialed the magic word. Writer Will Pfeifer and Kano also brought a fresh take on the series in the 2000s, in a comic titled H.E.R.O. In that most-recent version, which lasted for 22 strong issues, the magical dial bounced from victim to victim, seemingly granting immense power, but always at a price.
The new Dial H series seems to tread closer to the waters of the Will Pfeifer comics than the Silver or Bronze Age variations, with writer China Mieville exploring “the psychological effects on an everyman who accidentally gains powers to become a hero.” Seems like a dark Vertigo-esque version of what has come before.
The Creative Team: The major draw here, and the just-as-major wild card, is writer China Mieville. Mieville is, of course, a fantasy/sci-fi superstar novelist who has only dabbled in comics before. Dial H will not only be his first ongoing comic book series, but it will be his first published full-length comic book story. He’s only previously had a short in an anthology and a chapter in a Hellblazer anniversary issue.
He has, reportedly, written half a dozen (or more) full scripts to a Swamp Thing series intended for Vertigo, but that series was cancelled because of the plans for the reboot, so not a single page of that commissioned work ever saw the light. He worked with Vertigo chief Karen Berger on that project, and she’s also editing this new Dial H series, which will be the first DCU series she has directly edited in nearly two decades.
Anyway, he’s an excellent prose writer, but that rarely translates to “excellent comics writer.” Maybe it will this time.
I’m not much familiar with the work of Brazilian artist Mateus Santoluoco, but from what I’ve seen of his Lethal Legion miniseries from Marvel, he will bring an expressive angularity to this series, and a penchant for dripping darkness.
Recommendation: I say buy it purely on the pedigree of China Mieville and the quality of his work in genre fiction. But it’s not an enthusiastic “buy it” with double exclamation points. The series sounds like it might be too ponderous, or too Alan-Moore-lite. But Mieville has a sharp enough intellect to pull it off, if he doesn’t let the story collapse under its own weight. So don’t hesitate to drop the series if it looks to be heading toward hyper-serious inaction.
The Concept: The Justice Society, the world’s first super-team, is back! But not as they were, and not on Earth. Okay, they’re on Earth, just a parallel version of the DCU, where costumed mystery men fought in WWII and
maybe some other things are different as well.
The truth is that we still know almost nothing about this series other than its title, its creative team, and something about a darkness defeated, and a society of heroes rising up to fight against a new threat.
This is the same series that was rumored to be part of the initial DC relaunch, but back then it was merely known as “Justice Society,” and by shifting the title to the more provocative Earth 2, it all of a sudden opens up more possibilities about what the series might emphasize. Sure, it will still likely be about a group of men and women who wear costumes and fight bad guys, just like the great WWII superheroes of yesteryear, but it’s an entire parallel reality. Anything could happen, unbound by the continuity of the rest of the DC 52.
The Creative Team: Writer James Robinson has been back in comics for half a decade, but he hasn’t come close to producing work of the quality that we saw on his landmark Starman run in the 1990s. His work on the current Shade miniseries has been his best of his recent stuff, and that bodes well, as does the fact that he’s particularly good when delving into DCU history. He has a fondness for the relics of the past, and it shines in his comics.
Artist Nicola Scott is a fine superhero artist who can portray emotion and action with equal facility. She’s a clean storyteller, with a confident style. She won’t do anything groundbreaking, but she’ll get the job done with flair.
Recommendation: Buy it! If I had to gamble, I’d wager on this series being one of the most entertaining out of DC’s whole line up. If Robinson and Scott do what they do best, this will be a comic full of action and romance and mystery and tragedy. It has a shot at being the kind of pure comic book experience that the clean-slate New DCU was designed to allow, but with the Justice Society at its center it will also have a chance to engage with the now-wiped-away past of the contemporary heroes. I don’t expect great depth to Earth 2, but if it ended up being more than traditional superheroics I wouldn’t be a bit surprised either.
World’s Finest
The Concept: Huntress—daughter of the Batman and Catwoman from another Earth—and Power Girl Supergirl from a parallel reality “struggle to find their way back to Earth 2.” It’s a nice premise, playing around with the DC multiverse, and providing an opportunity for a female buddy comic that brings the Batman and Superman families together for a story that’s potentially cosmic in scope.
Ever since Crisis on Infinite Earths, Huntress and Power Girl have floundered, with writers trying to wedge them into a single-Earth continuity in which they never belonged. The Huntress is just a vigilante with a tiny crossbow, unless she has the benefit of being the daughter of Batman and Catwoman. Power Girl is just a blonde with a memorable costume, unless she has a connection to Krypton. With those characteristics stripped away from them, post-Crisis, the characters always flailed around for relevance. Some of their comics may have been good particularly some of the Huntress stuff from Birds of Prey or the Power Girl series as drawn by Amanda Conner but the direction of this new series seems far more appropriate to their origins.
The Creative Team: Paul Levitz, creator of both Huntress and Power Girl, back when he used to write about their adventures in the old-timey Earth 2 of the All-Star Comics “JSA” strip of the 1970s, has been brought back in to chronicle their new adventures. And 1980s icons George Perez and Kevin Maguire will take turns with the art.
Levitz, former President and Publisher of DC Comics, has plenty of experience with the characters, of course, but while his impressive work on the Legion of Super-Heroes series two or three decades ago garnered him appropriate respect for his deft characterizations and structural ambition, he hasn’t been able to write much of interest since leaving the DC HQ to retire back into the role of a freelancer. As much as I’ve been eager to praise Levitz past work, his return to the Legion of Super-Heroes has been lightweight and decidedly unspectacular, and his recent scripts for the Huntress miniseries have been consistently flat and perfunctory.
George Perez and Kevin Maguire are incredible talents, of course, but the kind of stuff they’ve been producing in recent years (namely Superman and My Greatest Adventure) haven’t been worth reading at all.
Recommendation: Skip it. If everyone starts to shout about how unexpectedly good this comic is, you can always pick up the collection or hop over to Comixology and get caught up on what you missed. But that isn’t likely to happen. It’s far more likely that it will struggle to make it to issue #12, and Perez and/or Maguire will struggle to meet a few deadlines during that time. There’s a precedent for that.
G.I. Combat
The Concept: DC brings back “The War that Time Forgot,” which, were it to be turned into a movie, would simply be called “Tanks vs. Dinosaurs.” Originally a product of the venerable 1960s and the mind of war comics impresario Robert Kanigher, “The War that Time Forgot” appeared as a recurring strip in Star-Spangled War Stories, and if you read the collected Showcase reprint volume of those tales, you’ll find that they’re written for a very different audience then we would expect today. Each story, particularly during the first year, was written as if the readers or writer had never read any previous issues, and as if the military had never communicated back to headquarters that they’d found an island filled with dinosaurs. Each story was, basically, “Hmm
strange island, not on any maps, holy smokes! We’re being attacked by dinosaurs! [Insert clever fight sequence/escape route] Whew! We’re lucky to have made it out of there alive.”
Eventually, Kanigher started to build some continuity in the strip, and added new twists like G.I. Robot (get this: a soldier, that’s a robot!) and the first, non-super-powered Suicide Squad.
Still, dinosaurs vs. army men is a fun concept, and when Bruce Jones resurrected the idea with a time-travel-meets-Lost twist in 2008’s The War that Time Forgot 12-issue series, it seemed like a series worth reading. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. It was like watching someone else play chess while making up new rules as they played.
“The War that Time Forgot” in some form will be the lead feature of this new G.I. Combat series, with rotating back-ups featuring other DC wartime characters and concepts “The Unknown Soldier” (secret ops, in disguise!) and “The Haunted Tank” (a racist Civil War general’s ghost, in the modern day! Or WWII or something!)
The Creative Team: The “War that Time Forgot” strip will be written by J. T. Krul and illustrated by Ariel Olivetti. Krul relaunched both Green Arrow and Captain Atom for the New 52 last fall, and while the latter was a bit of a slog, but perfectly readable, the former was one of the worst of the relaunch titles. He has yet to write anything that I’ve actually enjoyed. And Ariel Olivetti, who once drew comics a decade ago with a scratchy line and 2000 AD-style grittiness, now tends to use collage and screenshot backgrounds to go along with his digitally-painted character work. He has done spectacular work at times, but he’s also done some gaudy, jarringly inconsistent work. We’ll see which Olivetti shows up for this series.
The back-ups will be written by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, and John Arcudi, and drawn by Dan Panosian and Scott Kolins. I’d rather see any of those guys take over the lead story, honestly.
Recommendation: Skip it. I’m more curious about the back-up stories than I am about what Krul and Olivetti will do with the lead feature, and I don’t see anything here that will give G.I. Combat a better chance of audience appeal than the two already-cancelled DC war comics. Unless it’s the dinosaurs. Maybe the dinosaurs alone will be enough to make this series vaguely interesting.
The Concept: Okay, out of the new six, this is the only one that isn’t a relaunch or a reboot of something that came before. There’s no 1960s-era “Ravagers” back-up strip from Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane. Perhaps there should have been. Kurt Schaffenberger would have knocked it out of the park.
But here’s what we know about The Ravagers: “this series finds four superpowered teens on the run and fighting against the organization that wants to turn them into supervillains.” And the press release indicates that it’s a spin-off from the current Superboy and Teen Titans comics.
So here’s what we can piece together: the series will likely star Rose Wilson, daughter of Deathstroke, the Terminator, a female mercenary who currently appears in Scott Lobdell’s Superboy. Rose Wilson used the Ravager identity pre-reboot, and was a regular enemy/ally of the Teen Titans for a solid 20 years. Now, she’s an agent of the shadowy N.O.W.H.E.R.E. in Lobdell’s comics, and we can only assume that she’ll break free from her masters and hit the road with some other N.O.W.H.E.R.E. operatives and/or captives.
Former Gen 13 member Caitlin Fairchild also appears in the Lobdell comics, and it’s likely that she could be one of the “Ravagers” in the title of the series.
The Creative Team: Though clearly an offshoot of Scott Lobdell’s current DC work, this series will be written by former Marvel editor/writer Howard Mackie. Mackie is most well-known for his 1990s take on Ghost Rider, though rampant speculation also presumes that he was the writer of the Brotherhood series, which was credited only to a writer known as “X.” Mackie comes from the same tradition as Lobdell both 90s X-Men title veterans and while he won’t likely do anything fresh with The Ravagers, he will provide plenty of old-school action and pathos, I’m sure.
The artist is Ian Churchill, another veteran creator who rose to prominence on X-Men related comics of the 1990s. He has a post-Rob Liefeld, post-Jim Lee style that pushes into more expressive territory than either, but he’s also less of a stylist in his compositions.
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Steve's Off the Beaten Track Safaris:
#2 The Wild West (Katavi & Mahale)
In this series on Africa travel, we asked our founder, Steve, to list the mind-blowing, do-able, journeys in Africa which he has been on and which he thinks you simply have to go on to get that expedition feeling! In this installment, Steve chats about his love for western Tanzania. Scroll down to listen to the podcast, read the full interview, or see our summary of Steve's recommendations. Our writer, Claire, asks the questions.
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Steve's Off The Beaten Track Safaris: #2 The Wild West (Katavi & Mahale)
When it comes to off the beaten track safaris, two destinations cracked the nod in Steve's mind - two very different-feeling places in western Tanzania. Katavi and Mahale are memorable for different reasons. Katavi is dry and hard for the creatures that live there - a marvel of that life exists there.
Mahale, on the other hand, is located in green and misty mountains - and a forest which is home to a pocket of primeval life. Read more about Steve's experiences of these off the beaten track destinations, travel tips, and what to pack for a safari to these wild parts of Tanzania.
We’re carrying on with our series of off the beaten track safari destinations. So what cracks the nod for number two?
STEVE: It’s one which I call “The Wild West” which is Western Tanzania. I did an article for our Safari Life magazine on the one part of it. So “cruel-Tavi” is what I call it – Katavi National Park – and then “magical Mahale” which is the Mahale Mountains on Lake Tanganyika. Greystoke Mahale’s the camp. Both camps are run by Nomad, a really cool company. So those would be my next on the list. They’re pretty incredible places to go to – very different. So I don’t know if you want me to go straight ahead and tell you why.
I think why is probably the biggest question that everyone would have. Why should people go there? For those that haven’t heard of it, what makes it special?
STEVE: Because, when you’re talking about off the beaten track, this really is off the beaten track. It’s hellishly difficult to get to. You have to fly in a light aircraft flight from Arusha somewhere. I can’t even recall what the place was called, but you have to refuel on the way there, so that’s how far it is. It’s right in the south-western corner of Tanzania.
I think the reason why I’m mentioning it as a combination, if you go at the right time of year which would be August, September, October which is the end of the dry season, you get this almost contrast between the two places. Katavi, as I say, is a pretty cruel place at that time of year. It’s very, very dry; very, very barren. All the rivers dry up to the point where the Nile Crocodiles end up living in caves. It’s prehistoric. It’s Africa on steroids. You almost land there and have this feeling of your eyes going a little bit wider. I wouldn’t go so far as saying that you feel like prey, but it’s just this mind-blowingly intense place because of the lack of water at that time of year. And then the contrast then is Mahale.
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You go from this dry, barren, stark place to this intense green range of mist-shrouded mountains
You fly west from Katavi to Mahale, so you go from this barren, stark, dry area with crocs living in caves and a massive pool of hippos. There’s only one source of water left, so you have probably one thousand hippos – and remember they’re territorial animals – having to co-exist in this big mud bath and they don’t look happy. They look as grumpy as they possibly can be and hippos in water look grumpy normally but, in mud under the baking October sun, not happy campers. And we found lions on that trip which had killed a baby hippo. It’s tough Africa. It’s incredibly beautiful, but it’s tough.
You fly west from Katavi and I can recall that, the first time I saw the mountains, it was almost like a scene from like a Vietnam movie or something when you’re flying along. I actually just said to the pilot – because the Mahale Mountains are very high mountains on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika – “Out of interest, we know that there are chimpanzees. It’s one of the best places to see chimpanzees, but I’ve always been fascinated by forest elephants and the species of elephant that actually live there aren’t actually forest elephants. They’re normal savannah elephant.” As I asked the pilot, it was like something from a Jurassic Park movie, the clouds parted and this herd of about twenty elephants bathed in this rich red mud walked up under an opening on this hill as we flew over. I just looked down and thought, “How is that even possible?”
So you go from this dry, barren, stark place to this intense green range of mist-shrouded mountains on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Then the excitement really mounts because I remember the pilot then going and saying to us all – because I was with a group – “I don’t really like this landing.” So, if your pilot doesn’t really like this landing, we were all asking, “Well, what do you mean you don’t like the landing?” He said, “Well, because, on the one side, you’ve got the mountains and the landing strip goes from the mountains and it ends in the lake. So, if you get it wrong, you’ve got to dive down the mountains – depending on the wind – and land and stop before the lake” and I think we got that real adventure feeling even just sitting in the plane and the take-off from there was similar. We were pretty heavy because there were lots of us in the plane and kit and all that and – his name was Julian – he turned around and said, “Well, I hope we make this”. Again! I was like, “What do you mean you hope we make this?"
Anyway, so it really is a contrast. Both places are incredibly wild and you almost get that idea that it’s a bit like combining Okavango with the Namib. It’s the same sort of feeling but it’s almost the opposite because the Namib’s spectacular – it’s got mountains and things – but the Okavango’s dead flat. Well, Katavi’s pretty much dead flat so the safari area or the dry area is dead flat and then the Mahale Mountains are obviously proper mountains. So there’s that same sort of contrast and I just love that contrast from no water to I think Lake Tanganyika’s the deepest lake in the world or second or something – I don’t know – but it’s just a contrast of places within about an hour or two’s flight away. It’s phenomenal.
You land at the airstrip in Katavi and immediately you get nailed by a swarm of what I call Messerschmitts – tsetse flies. They hand you a cow tail and you’re like, “What the hell? What’s this for?” and they almost give you a look of, “Just wait”. The camp there is a classic. It’s not basic, but a proper tented camp. If you go and look at photos of it, it’s my idea of what a safari camp should be.
Sorry, just to go back for a second, they give you this cow tail. Are they expecting you to beat your way through the tsetse flies?
STEVE: You’re basically beating yourself. You’re basically hitting yourself as hard as you can every time a tsetse fly lands. This is in pre-Rid insect repellent days but, really, the tsetse flies start at Katavi – and, in fact, there are tsetse flies at Mahale which we’ll chat about later – so you land, tsetse flies. I was probably lucky, but we had the most phenomenal guide. You know, he’s one of those “don’t judge a book by its cover” type of people. We met the guy. I can’t remember his name, unfortunately. He had teeth missing and I thought, “What’s going on here?” but I’ve never, ever, ever in my life had a guide that good. He was off-the-scale amazing. So that obviously added to the experience. So you’re in this dramatic landscape and I remember him driving along and we stopped suddenly and I went, “What?” and he said, “Fiery-necked nightjar on that branch.” Well, which branch? We were in a forested area. It turned out it took me – no word of a lie – ten minutes to find it through my binoculars, staring at the branch and the branch wasn’t two metres from the road. It was about twenty metres from the road. I went, “How the hell did you see that?” I don’t know if it’s something he’s familiar with, but he said, “No, I saw it. That branch was different.”
Anyway, that experience is not a Land Rover safari. As I said, we found lions which had killed hippo. It’s just – I can’t really put my finger on it – cruel is the word. It’s cruel but it’s got this attraction to it. It’s raw. That’s the word. It’s a raw, raw place to go to and, being under canvas adds to that raw experience. There are lots of other camps obviously but Chada’s the one I’ve been to – Chada Katavi. It’s on the main floodplain and it fills up with water quite a bit during the wet season and then the dry season, June to October, by the end of October, it’s just mayhem because the animals are weak, the lions are having a feast.
The birding there is incredible if you go from the end of November and that guide of mine was the best birding guide I’ve ever had. He was pointing at parrots over his shoulder while driving. I was like, “How did you see that? I mean, did you hear them?” It’s not bad. I just sat there going, “Jeepers, dude”.
One of the big things to do there is to go on walks. We went for a walk the one day and one of the ladies in our group asked to go to the loo. So, as the guide would do, he went and found a tree but he didn’t go and look at the tree properly. So she went behind the bush and she came out a bit meekly going, “I don’t think I can use that tree.” He said, “Why?” She said, “Come and look” and there was a four-metre Nile Crocodile lying in the tree and this is miles from water. So some of the crocs live in these huge caves. I think she was a female. I don’t know if she was trying to go somewhere but, because it’s so hot, they’ve got no energy so they just lie there. They probably haven’t had water. They probably haven’t fed. They go into an almost reverse hibernation because obviously hibernation is when it’s cold, but this is like a hot hibernation. You know what it’s like when it’s really hot and you’ve got no energy. So you’re like, “What on earth? There’s a croc under a tree. What?” We then went to go and look at the croc caves and I’ve got this photograph which is in the Safari Life story of us standing over the cave. So the cave’s beneath us. It’s just a cave in the riverbank and there are monster crocodiles there. I think the bigger crocs dominate the caves. I don’t know if that’s true or not. Looking down in to the cave, some of the smaller crocs were looking up at me and I don’t know how crocs think, but I think the words in its eyes were, “Please crumble. Please, would you mind crumbling?” and he looked up and his eyes were this intense green. I just took a step back and just went, “No, that wouldn’t be fun – to fall into a pit of about ten crocs. Goodbye.” Anyway, so that’s the Katavi. I can say it’s raw and cruel, but I don’t know if Katavi’s a place I can really capture. I get goose bumps thinking about it. It’s partly excitement, but it’s partly a little bit of, “Whoa, okay” and it’s so far off. It’s a pretty difficult place to get to.
Well, it’s just a long flight. Difficult isn’t you need to walk for ten years to get there, but it’s a longish flight so it’s not on the traditional Tanzanian circuit. In Tanzania, you have the northern circuit which is Serengeti and Manyara and Tarangire and then you have the southern circuit which is Selous, Ruaha and those are quite close to Dar es Salaam, so people often go there but the west just isn’t on the way to anywhere else, so very few people go there but by God is it worth going to. Wow, you’ve seen it all. You’ve got to go.
Mahale, on the other hand, was completely different. The only other similarity were the tsetse flies. It was a bit disconcerting because it’s a freshwater lake obviously. You arrive at this airstrip. You’ve gone from the dry to the wet – and I’ll try and be as short as possible, but I could talk for years on this place – you arrive and you “survive” the landing in inverted commas (but not really), you get out, and then, to get to the camp, you then get on to a motorised dhow and there’d been a big storm the night before so there was a cobra or something dead in the water and there are villages and stuff just outside the park – it must be a park; I think the mountains are protected. So, having seen the elephants on the top, also very excited, then you go on this trip – I can’t remember if they gave us drinks now – but you then come around the corner and there’s Greystoke.
If you go and look at pictures of Greystoke, it’s like Robinson Crusoe. It’s just this weirdly shaped palm frond camp which is almost, for want of a better word, looks like it’s in the middle of the jungle. It looks like it’s been devoured by the jungle. And we arrived and the whole thing was chimps but, as an example, you lie on the beach. You can’t because there’s tsetse flies. I don’t know if they are seasonal or not. I went to go and get something out of the storeroom and the guy said, “Oh, be careful. There are three snakes that live in there.”
It’s crawling, teeming with stuff but the main attraction at Greystoke and the reason why people go there is to go and see the chimps. There’s a chimp research project going on there. Chimps are mad. I was about to say that they’re like humans without whatever it is that stops us from doing stuff, but we’ve probably done worse stuff than chimps. So you start off with this talk by one of the researchers and there’s a whole book on the chimp families and, you know, the alpha male killed his mom, raped his sister, killed his brother. You’re just reading thinking, “What on earth?” and they really are pretty excessive – again, by what standards, I’m not really sure, but they’re pretty intense animals.
The whole focus is you go on walks and you get given masks so you don’t give them any human diseases. You can hear them screaming and shouting in the trees. They tell you, when you see a chimp, put your eyes down and keep your hands next to you and don’t run because a chimp is small but it’s been doing pull-ups its entire life, so they are phenomenally strong. I’m not trying to scare people, but I’ve heard stories of them pulling people’s thumbs off. They are very, very strong. Don’t even think two ways about it. They might be up to your knee but they’re insanely strong.
So the first chimp we saw charged past us down the path almost screaming and what’s incredible to see, having read the book about chimps, is their different personalities. There was the old guy who was chilled and just looking at the world and they’re a phenomenal species to go and see. I would fly there just to go and see them. It’s just amazing watching them and how they interact and play. I guess it’s more intelligent baboons or hairier humans. I don’t know.
Take a great pair of binoculars because you’ll bird until you’re blue in the face
You’ve obviously given us some ideas of things people should do there. Are there any other experiences that you recommend people have?
STEVE: I think I’ve mentioned all of them, but it would be Land Rovers and walking. I think time of year for Katavi makes a difference, so go there when it’s dry and hot. Go there when it’s a little bit extreme. It’s beautiful and green in summer. I wouldn’t want to know what the tsetse flies are like in summer, but go when it’s at its “worst”. Bird. Take a great pair of binoculars because you’ll bird until you’re blue in the face. If you do go in the green season, then after November all the migrants arrive. And then, for Mahale, it’s walking. I think they’ve got kayaks. You can take kayaks out. We went snorkelling. There are some beautiful freshwater fish. Again, it was just a bit weird being bitten on my back while I was snorkelling by a tsetse fly. I didn’t really expect that. Oh, and the boat guys were also fishing while we were snorkelling and we had freshwater fish sashimi on the boat. It was amazing. Part of the experience is also that flight in between. So there’s not really an activity that they wouldn’t offer to you that you should go, “We need to do that”. So that covers all the activities.
You’ve also just mentioned binos as something that everyone should take. What else do you recommend that people take with them to make the most of the experience, for the utmost comfort and enjoyment of it?
STEVE: So all the usual safari stuff – a pair of 10x42 binoculars and kit and gear and bags and whatever – but I was thinking about it the other day and I think I would put it down to, because of the tsetse flies, definitely take bug repellent shirts like BUGTech™.
Definitely take the RID™ spray, but also take the roll-on because, in the tests we’ve done – in southern Tanzania funnily enough, in Ruaha, where some camps close because the tsetse flies are so bad and they burn elephant dung in the Land Rover and the guys do everything – we did a test. We got the scientific how-to from RID™ in Australia and the roll-on Rid, Tropical Strength, for the first hour gave just about 100% protection. We’ve heard similar reports from people who have been to the Zambezi. So, to be honest, I haven’t actually tried it out myself for tsetse flies, but I’m sure I can plan a trip.
So BUGTech™ shirt, the RID™ spray and the roll-on, and then, because walking is such a big part of the experience, I would take that new Selous Bag of ours because it’s got belt loops so it can attach to your belt or you can wear it as a backpack or you can wear it as a satchel. I would take it and wear it on my belt. Because Katavi is so hot, you want to be carrying water, so you can put a water bottle in there, your binos, your insect repellent. It’s just a very convenient bag for walking. So, for both Mahale and Katavi, I would take that Selous Bag.
RID is no longer available in the UK and EU, but we do now sell the best selling independent Australian repellent, called Bushman, which is available for our UK and EU clients to use on safari.
And then the shoes? Are there any particular shoes that you would recommend?
STEVE: Probably, for men, probably something like the Merrell Moabs. Yeah, definitely take comfortable walking shoes; as I say, like the Merrells. Take something like that.
Any final thoughts on the destination? Anything that you’d like to say as a closing remark?
STEVE: It’s one of those places where almost the best remark is just to have a distant look in your eyes, like a dreamy look if someone asks you what it’s like and just go, “Gee, I don’t know”. It’s incredible. I can’t really describe why and I think that almost sums it up. It would be easy to say, “Just go. Just do it” but go knowing what it’s like but also be prepared to be – not a little bit nervous – but be prepared to be blown away by the experience because it has a rawness to it.
It sounds off the beaten track, but it also sounds completely unusual. It doesn’t sound like anything else.
STEVE: No, it doesn’t and it’s weird because the environment is almost southern African in terms of it’s more open plains, but I’ve probably only had a similar feeling at Mombo in Botswana where there’s an intensity to it. Maybe that’s what it is. It’s like the intense west; not the wild west, although wild west probably would describe it if you imagine chimpanzees running around with holsters and a pistol. I think, if you had to ask someone why they wanted to go there and they just looked towards the horizon for a while with a half-smile on their face, if you could interpret that, then that’s exactly why you should go.
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Sounds Of Liberation
Vibraphonist Khan Jamal's group travelled to at New York City’s Columbia University to record it
An album of previously unheard recordings by Philadelphia group Sounds Of Liberation is about to be released. Founded in the early 1970s by vibraphonist Khan Jamal, Sounds Of Liberation featured Billy Mills, Dwight James, Monnette Sudler, Omar Hill and William Brister aka Rashid Salim, with saxophonist flautist Byard Lancaster joining a year later.
Sounds Of Liberation initiated happenings in schools, prisons and community centres throughout Philadelphia. In 1972 they self-released New Horizons (reissued as Sounds Of Liberation by Dogtown, and again in 2010 by Porter Records), In 1973, the group, along with their manager George Gilmore, travelled to New York City for a follow-up recording session at Columbia University, the outcome of which can be heard on the five tracks making up Untitled (Columbia University 1973), all composed by Jamal, Lancaster and guitarist Sudler.
Prepared by the group members in collaboration with Peter ‘Max’ Ochester of Brewerytown Beats Records, the LP features a cover by their original artist Leroy Butler. There will also be a limited edition deluxe version including extra photos and flyers.
Untitled (Columbia University 1973) is released on 3 May by Dogtown Records.
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The Department of Management and Marketing is one of the constituent departments of the Faculty of Business. The Department offers a full range of programmes leading to the awards of Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Science, and Bachelor of Business Administration. The Department currently has around 40 full-time academic staff. The Department is committed to excellence in teaching, research and service to the community.
The management discipline of the Department of Management and Marketing of the University invites applications for faculty positions in management (Strategic Management, Human Resource Management, and Organization Theory) at the ranks of Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. Management faculty members in our Department regularly publish in top-tier journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes and other premier outlets. Research-focused applicants interested in joining our vibrant and growing research team are strongly encouraged to apply.
Please visit the website at http://www.polyu.edu.hk/mm for more information about the Department. Applicants are invited to contact Dr Liu Wu (Associate Professor of Management) through email of wu.liu@polyu.edu.hk, for further information about the post.
The appointees will be required to (a) engage in top-level scholarly research in their areas of expertise; (b) supervise research students; (c) compete for Hong Kong Research Grants Council funding; and (d) teach at the undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels.
Applicants should have an earned doctoral degree at the time of appointment or be close to receiving it.
Preference will be given to those with a focused research orientation and the potential or demonstrated ability to publish in high quality scholarly journals. Applicants may be considered for the rank at Associate Professor depending on experience and qualifications.
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The compensation package, teaching loads, and research support are highly competitive. Initial appointment for Assistant Professor will be on a fixed-term gratuity-bearing contract. Re-engagement thereafter is subject to mutual agreement. An appropriate term will be provided for appointment at Associate Professor level. For general information on terms and conditions for appointment of academic staff in the University, please visit the website at http://www.polyu.edu.hk/hro/TC.htm. Applicants should state their current and expected salary in the application.
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RON DERBY: Like SA, Anglo American has a lot of living to do
05 May 2019 - 00:08 By Ron Derby
There'll always be a certain romance in the story of the more than 100-year-old Anglo American, its founding family, and its relationship with the South African tale that's still being written.
Along with Eskom, it has been arguably the most important company in the industrialisation of this country.
Today, while we all fret about the future of the younger, 1923-founded electricity firm, it wasn't long ago that we were wondering whether Anglo would reach its centenary.
The Ernest Oppenheimer-founded mining company emerged battered and bruised after the last global recession, which saw commodity prices plummet from their record highs. While China's insatiable appetite for raw materials would remain to offset the groggy growth plaguing certain geographies in the West, the good old days of the "super-commodity cycle" were over.
Since then, there have been many questions about Anglo's future, especially as it is — more than any other global mining giant — largely exposed to the story of us.
This story includes calls from certain quarters of the governing party for the mines to be nationalised — inspired, no doubt, by those looking to bail out their peers, who had fallen into debt because of some horrendous empowerment dealings, and the higher electricity and wage costs that came with heightened tensions across the country's platinum fields.
The likes of BHP Billiton, meanwhile, whose roots are in this country, long ago managed to untangle itself from South African risk, and its access to oil made it a better bet for investors.But Anglo has always prided itself on being among the top three producers in all the minerals it mines. Because of this, it has always been a company whose rivals have been on the lookout for a potential play.
In mid-2009, Xstrata, which would subsequently be swallowed into Glencore, proposed a merger of equals with Anglo.
Xstrata, then led by Mick Davis, a former chief financial officer of Eskom, argued that companies of similar size and future earnings should combine to create efficiencies and benefit from the commodity diversification enjoyed by that benchmark of a miner, Billiton.
The proposal was rebuffed by Anglo's board and, by the end of the year, had been withdrawn.
In his life outside Xstrata, some five years later, with a war chest of just under $5bn, there were rumours that Davis had made an offer to acquire some of Anglo's Chilean copper mines, Brazilian nickel mines and some of its coal operations.
The timing for the bid — if there was one — was impeccable because, not too long after, Anglo's Mark Cutifani announced that it was reducing its size from 45 assets to 16.
Markets loved the idea, but for romantics, such as myself, it was a sad tale.
Anglo, so central to the story of this country, with still much to do in our ongoing transformation journey, was set to become a shadow of its former self.
There weren't many strong, black-owned, or, at least, black-controlled miners that could participate in the fire sale, so I just thought these assets would fall to the person or company with the fattest wallet.
Enter Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal, who proposed a merger between Anglo and his resources company, Vedanta, much in the same vein as Xstrata had done at the height of the global recession.
Rebuffed as well by the board, he has since gone on to become Anglo's biggest shareholder.This has led many to speculate that a full-on assault was imminent.This would have definitely been the case but for two things: first,commodity prices picked up since Cutifani announced that 2016 strategy, and, second, he changed strategy after seeing the likes of Anglo American Platinum and Kumba Iron Ore benefit from the change in commodity markets.Since Cutifani announced that all-too-depressing strategy in February 2016, Anglo's shares have gained over 51%.If there's still a bid to come from Agarwal, it will be much more complicated - and costly — for the billionaire. There would be a premium demanded by shareholders. It seems to me that, much like Davis, he has missed his chance to seize the prize of South African mining.Cutifani, thanks to a rise in commodity prices, changing strategy and a bit of luck, may have just outsmarted this play for the miner. Anglo looks to live another day, but I am in no doubt there'll be another play.Or perhaps Agarwal has another card to play. I'm rather doubtful.• Derby, a former Business Times editor, hosts Power Business on Power FM..
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London City Airport (6 mi)
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Tower of London (Unesco heritage, 7 mi)
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The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London and north of the River Thames. It is in the eastern part of London and covers much of the traditional East End. It also includes much of the redeveloped Docklands region of London, including West India Docks and Canary Wharf. Many of the tallest buildings in London are located on the Isle of Dogs in the south of the borough.
Located at 51.5167, -0.05 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Metropolitan Borough of Stepney
The Metropolitan Borough of Stepney was a Metropolitan borough in the County of London created in 1900. In 1965 it became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Located at 51.519, -0.0427 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London, History of Tower Hamlets, 1900 establishments in the United Kingdom, 1965 disestablishments, Districts abolished by the London Government Act 1963
Queen Mary, University of London
Queen Mary, University of London (informally Queen Mary, QMUL or QM) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. With roots dating back to 1785, Queen Mary was formed by the merger of four historic colleges, and since joining the University of London in 1915 has grown to become one of its largest colleges.
Located at 51.5231, -0.0402778 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Mile End Park
Mile End Park is a park located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a linear park of some 90 acres, and was created on industrial land devastated by World War II bombing. It lies on land to the east of the Regent's Canal and in the north, is separated from the southern edge of Victoria Park by the Hertford Union Canal. A plan existed from the end of the war to create the park, but extensive development did not begin until the end of the millennium.
Located at 51.5261, -0.0375 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
Parks and open spaces in Tower Hamlets
St Clement's Hospital
St Clements Hospital was a Victorian mental health hospital in Mile End, in the East End of London. It closed in 2005.
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Mile End Stadium
Mile End Stadium, also known as the East London Stadium, is a multi-sports stadium situated in Mile End Park, east London, England. The stadium comprises an athletics stadium and a number of floodlit Astroturf football pitches and basketball courts. Many of the facilities are being refurbished at the moment. The new sports complex with a 25m swimming pool has been refurbished.
Located at 51.519, -0.0334222 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
Sport in Tower Hamlets, Athletics venues in London, Football venues in London
Tower division
The Tower Division was a liberty, a historical form of local government, in the ancient county of Middlesex, England. It was also known as the Tower Hamlets, and took its name from being under the special jurisdiction of the Constable of the Tower of London. The name "Tower Hamlets" was subsequently used for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets created in 1965. The Tower Division was one of four divisions of the Hundred of Ossulstone.
Located at 51.52, -0.04 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
Hundreds and divisions of Middlesex, History of Tower Hamlets, History of local government in London (early)
Stepney Causeway
Stepney Causeway is a street in Stepney, in the East End of London. It runs north-south between the A13 road (Commercial Road) and the B126 Cable St. It is crossed by a railway bridge carrying the Docklands Light Railway and c2c line out of Fenchurch St. The street is particularly associated with Thomas John Barnardo, who opened his first shelter for homeless children at No 18.
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Burdett Road railway station
Burdett Road railway station was a railway station on Burdett Road, Mile End, London. It was located on the London and Blackwall Extension Railway which linked the London and Blackwall Railway (L&BR) from Fenchurch Street at Stepney with the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) and London, Tilbury and Southend Railway at Bow. It was jointly owned by the L&BR and ECR, and opened on 11 September 1871.
Located at 51.5182, -0.03126 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
Railway stations opened in 1871, Railway stations closed in 1941, Former Great Eastern Railway stations, Disused railway stations in Tower Hamlets
Limehouse Library
Limehouse Public Library in Limehouse, London was first proposed for construction in 1888, but the required finances could not be raised until 1900 when J Passmore Edwards was approached for assistance. He subscribed a sum of £5000, and he subsequently laid the foundation stone on October 19 of that year. The library was opened to the public in November 1901 by The Mayor of Stepney. More recently usage of the Grade II listed building fell, and it eventually closed in 2003.
Library buildings completed in 1901, Libraries in Tower Hamlets, Public libraries in London
Lakeview Estate
Lakeview Estate is a housing estate in Bow, east London designed by Berthold Lubetkin. It was built on a site damaged by bombing in World War II, on Grove Road between Old Ford Road and the Hertford Union Canal. The estate opened in 1958. It overlooks the lake in Victoria Park.
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Half Moon Theatre
The Half Moon Theatre Company was formed in 1972 in a rented synagogue in Alie Street, Aldgate, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Half Moon Passage was the name of a nearby alley. The founders, Michael Irving and Maurice Colbourne, and the artistic director, Guy Sprung, wanted to create a cheap rehearsal space with living accommodation, inspired by the sixties alternative society. The Half Moon Young People's Theatre and Half Moon Photography Workshop were also founded at the theatre.
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Ragged School Museum
The Ragged School Museum is a museum in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The museum was opened in 1990, in the premises of the former Dr Barnardo's Copperfield Road Ragged School. The school opened in 1877 to serve the children of Mile End with a basic education. It closed in 1908, when the London School Boards were sufficiently established to take over the work. The museum is housed in three canal side warehouses at 46-50 Copperfield Road.
Museums established in 1990, Childhood, Education in Tower Hamlets, School museums, Museums in Tower Hamlets, History museums in London, Local museums in London, 1990 establishments in England
Coborn Road railway station
Coborn Road railway station was a station built by the Great Eastern Railway on the main line out of London from Liverpool Street. It was opened in 1865 to serve the surrounding Bow area. It was resited slightly to the west in 1882, and it was closed in 1946. Much of its former catchment area has been taken over by Bow Road on the District Line, Mile End on the District line and Central Line and the DLR's Bow Church.
Disused railway stations in Tower Hamlets, Former Great Eastern Railway stations, Railway stations opened in 1865, Railway stations closed in 1946
Arbour Square
Arbour Square is a late Georgian square in Stepney, in the borough of Tower Hamlets, east London, England. It is located just off the Commercial Road (A13) approximately one mile (1.6 km) east of the City of London. The square is currently laid out as a formal garden with mature trees and planting and is surrounded on two sides by elegant early 19th century townhouses. Arbour Square was laid out as a garden enclosure in 1819.
Squares in Tower Hamlets, Grade II listed buildings in London
Mile End Hospital
Mile End Hospital is a hospital in east London, adjacent to the Mile End campus of Queen Mary, University of London. Services are provided by NHS Tower Hamlets. For more information, see
Hospitals in London, Health in Tower Hamlets, Buildings and structures in Tower Hamlets
Matt's Gallery
Matt's Gallery is a contemporary art space situated on Copperfield Road in Bow, east London. Director, Robin Klassnik, opened the gallery in his studio in 1979 on Martello Street, before moving premises to Bow in 1993. The gallery is named after Klassnik’s dog, Matt E. Mulsion.
Located at 51.5194, -0.035874 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
Art museums and galleries in London, British art dealers, Contemporary art galleries in the United Kingdom, Culture in London, Art galleries established in 1979, 1979 establishments in England
Adams House (London)
Adams House is the name given to the offices in the only remaining structure of the Anchor Brewery on the corner of Mile End Road and Cephas Avenue, in east London. The residential part of this Grade II listed building is known as Charrington House after the brewery that once owned the site. The two blocks are linked through the basement.
Buildings and structures in Tower Hamlets, Brewing in London
Stepney Green Maths, Computing & Science College
Stepney Green is an 11 to 16 boys comprehensive school of 800 students. It is situated in the heart of the historic East End of London and adjacent to the developments in Docklands, it serves the local community, which is mainly Bangladeshi in origin. It has a well-equipped library, including 30 computers and a good range of fiction and reference books/material (currently, the library is undergoing repairs, so there is a temporary library near the hall) .
Boys' schools in London, Comprehensive schools in Tower Hamlets, Mathematics and Computing Colleges in London, Science Colleges in London
Cranbrook Estate
The Cranbrook Estate is a housing estate in Bethnal Green, East London designed by Berthold Lubetkin. The site, which is east of Bonner Street and north of Roman Road, was called Cranbrook after the central street. "Terraced houses, workshops, and one large factory were replaced by a figure of eight called Mace Street, which echoed the diagonals of the street pattern to the north. " The first blocks were opened in 1963.
Globe Road and Devonshire Street railway station
Globe Road railway station, sometimes called Globe Road and Devonshire Street railway station was a station on the site on the main line into Liverpool Street station. It was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 1 July 1884 when they decided to quadruple the then two track main line section, and was situated close to the site of Devonshire Street railway station, which had closed in 1840. The station only had two platforms which were served by the newly constructed line.
The Troxy is an art deco theatre and concert venue at 490 Commercial Road in Stepney, in the East End borough of Tower Hamlets, London, UK.
Grade II listed buildings in London, Art Deco architecture in London, Former cinemas of London, Theatres in Tower Hamlets, Mixed martial arts venues
Locksley Estate
Locksley Estate is a council housing estate in Limehouse, London, built by the London County Council (LCC) and now owned by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LBTH).
Buildings and structures in Tower Hamlets, Housing estates in London
Tollet Street
Tollet Street is a small road in Stepney, East London. It is formerly the home to George Lusk, leader of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee.
Stepney City Farm
Stepney City Farm is a city farm located in the district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in London's East End. It is situated on Stepney Way with its entrance on the roundabout leading onto Stepney High Street and Belgrave Street towards Limehouse. The farm was established in 1979 when local residents, schools, churches and community groups were consulted and a small patch of land was secured for the farm's use. The site has been through several incarnations since the 17th century.
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Samsung Smart TV 2014 Review - Conclusions Review
John Archer, April 21, 2014 9:00 am BST
Page 1 Samsung Smart TV 2014 Review
Page 2 Set Up and Performance Review
Page 3 Conclusions Review
One rather impressive advantage Samsung’s Smart TV system has over any current rival is its upgradability. If you buy one of the brand’s higher end TVs you’ll be able to upgrade it either by swapping out its external connections box (if it’s one of Samsung’s UHD models) or by adding a slot-in Evolution Kit that will enable this year’s TVs to get the ‘brains’ of Samsung’s 2015 (and potentially beyond) models.
In fact, if you have one of last year’s F7000, F8000 or F9000 Samsung TVs, you can upgrade your set with the vast majority of the smart features discussed here by adding one of the upcoming 2014 Evolution kits or new One Connect boxes.
Should I buy a 2014 Samsung Smart TV system?
Samsung’s latest Smart TV system is still the most sophisticated we’ve tested to date, and when it comes to content quantity it’s also, for now at least, ahead of the pack. However, this 2014 iteration is more of an evolution than a revolution, feels like it’s a work in progress in some areas, and can still feel a bit inscrutable – especially in the first few hours of use.
This would be fine if everyone else was standing still, but they’re not. Sony 2014 Smart TV system is a big improvement on its previous efforts, LG has a new and exciting system based on the Web OS operating system (See: LG WebOS TV) and Panasonic has an interesting tie-in with the Freesat Freetime system that means some of its TVs will enjoy a YouView-style catch-up EPG. And, of course, there’s still the likes of Apple TV, Roku and other add-on boxes to consider.
If you care about the smart TV side of things, then, it’s probably worth waiting just a small while to see how these rivals shape-up when we review them in the coming weeks.
There remains much to admire with Samsung’s latest Smart TV engine – especially its presentation, running speed and recommendations system. But it only delivers a relatively small step forward from last year’s engine, potentially exposing it to the exciting-looking new Smart TV systems on their way from LG and Panasonic.
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Advocates sue to block US policy on children seeking asylum
by: MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 2, 2019 / 06:52 PM UTC / Updated: Jul 3, 2019 / 01:00 AM UTC
FILE – In this Feb. 19, 2019 file photo, youngsters line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla. Advocates for immigrant children are suing to block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy that they say would erode legal protections for thousands of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the U.S. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Advocates for immigrant children are suing to block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy that they say would erode legal protections for thousands of unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the U.S.
A federal class action filed Monday in Maryland claims a May 31 memorandum issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services dramatically curtails asylum provisions for unaccompanied immigrant children.
Plaintiffs’ attorneys are seeking a temporary restraining order benefiting all asylum seekers affected by the policy change, which was scheduled to take effect June 30. Their lawsuit claims the memo violates a 2008 law that protects children entering the U.S. without a parent or other legal guardian.
USCIS spokesman Daniel Hetlage said in an email Tuesday that the agency doesn’t comment on pending litigation. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its acting secretary and USCIS and its acting director are named as defendants in the suit.
Attorneys from Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., Kids in Need of Defense, the Goodwin Procter LLP law firm and Public Counsel are representing four children who are named plaintiffs identified only their initials.
Plaintiffs’ attorneys believe this is the first case to challenge this new policy, according to Goodwin Procter spokesman Konstantin Shishkin.
Asylum applicants typically must file their petitions within one year of entering the U.S, but the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 exempts unaccompanied children from that deadline, according to the lawsuit. The 2008 law gives unaccompanied children the right to pursue asylum relief through a “child-friendly, non-adversarial process” administered by USCIS, the suit says.
But the new USCIS policy requires asylum officers to “redetermine” whether an applicant met the legal definition of an unaccompanied child when they filed, “even if that filing date was years ago, when the prior policy was in effect,” the lawsuit says. The previous policy, in place since 2013, didn’t require applicants to show that they had filed within one year or qualified for an exception to that deadline.
“Under the new policy, they will be deprived of their right to seek asylum before USCIS, and will face an adversarial process in which a DHS prosecutor subjects them to cross examination and advocates for their deportation,” the suit says.
According to the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, more than 46,000 unaccompanied immigrant children have been released to sponsors in the U.S. between October 2018 and May 2019. The numbers for June have yet to be released, but the tally is expected to increase.
The class action comes as the federal government struggles to deal with thousands of Central American migrants who are arriving at the border in search of asylum. The surge has overwhelmed the system, backing up immigration courts and crowding shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border where advocates and members of Congress have raised concerns about the conditions.
In Texas, a 12-year-old migrant girl reported that she and her 6-year-old sister were held inside a Border Patrol station where they slept on the floor and were treated badly.
The class action’s four plaintiffs are described as a 17-year-old who fled Guatemala after he witnessed a killing and now lives in Maryland; a 20-year-old who fled to Los Angeles after his parents were killed in Guatemala; and two 20-year-olds who fled El Salvador to escape persecution based on sexual orientation and now live in Maryland. All of the 20-year-old plaintiffs were teenagers when they filed their asylum applications.
Associated Press reporter Susan Montoya in Albuquerque, New Mexico, contributed to this report.
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Meet Brig. Gen. Laura Yeager, first woman to lead Army infantry division
A brigadier general who led Black Hawk helicopters in Iraq will become the first woman to lead an Army infantry division.
Meet Brig. Gen. Laura Yeager, first woman to lead Army infantry division A brigadier general who led Black Hawk helicopters in Iraq will become the first woman to lead an Army infantry division. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/09/first-female-brig-gen-laura-yeager-lead-army-infantry-division/1401950001/
John Bacon, USA TODAY Published 2:55 p.m. ET June 9, 2019 | Updated 4:27 p.m. ET June 9, 2019
U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Laura L. Yeager. (Photo: Joint Task Force North)
Brig. Gen. Laura Yeager will assume command of the California National Guard’s 40th Infantry Division in ceremonies later this month at the Joint Forces Training Base, Los Alamitos.
"I think it's an exciting time for the California National Guard," Lt. Col. Jonathan Shiroma told USA TODAY. "She's been a battalion commander, a brigade commander and now a division commander. She's earned it."
Yeager, taking the reins from retiring Maj. Gen. Mark Malanka, will take charge of a force of more than 10,000 soldiers.
She began active-duty service in 1986 after receiving her commission as a second lieutenant from the Reserve Officer Training Corps at California State University Long Beach. She completed military helicopter training in 1989 and then served as a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter aeromedical evacuation pilot.
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Yeager, who left active duty after eight years when her first son was born, later continued her military career in the California Army National Guard.
In 2011, she deployed to Iraq as the deputy commander of the Guard’s 40th Combat Aviation Brigade. She was promoted to brigadier general three years ago and began making history a year later when she was named as the first woman to lead Joint Task Force North with Northern Command at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Yeager, whose father is a retired major general, said then that she joined the military to make money for college.
“I walked by one of those recruiting posters and said, ‘I can do that,’ ” Yeager said. “I think my father was more surprised than anyone that I joined.”
The 40th Infantry Division has a rich history. Founded in 1917, its soldiers have fought in World War I, World War II and the Korean War. More recently, 40th ID soldiers have deployed to Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and numerous other locations around the globe. In March, the division headquarters returned to U.S. soil after successfully completing a train, advise and assist mission in Afghanistan.
Now its leadership falls to Yeager.
"She's an outstanding leader, and many of her subordinates who worked with her in the past are looking forward to working with her again," Shiroma said.
Contributing: David Burge, El Paso Times
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Donald Trump targets globalization and free trade as job-killers
GOP candidate offers trade-related jobs plans during Tuesday visits to Pennsylvania, Ohio.
Donald Trump targets globalization and free trade as job-killers GOP candidate offers trade-related jobs plans during Tuesday visits to Pennsylvania, Ohio. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/297GbFd
David Jackson, USA TODAY Published 6:02 a.m. ET June 28, 2016 | Updated 7:46 p.m. ET June 28, 2016
Donald Trump took aim at U.S. free trade deals in a speech delivered in Western Pennsylvania. AP
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at Alumisource, a metals recycling facility, in Monessen, Pa., on June 28, 2016.(Photo: Keith Srakocic, AP)
MONESSEN, Pa. — While attacking Hillary Clinton and other career politicians, Donald Trump took aim Tuesday at two other prominent election targets: globalization and free trade.
"Globalization has made the financial elite who donate to politicians very, very wealthy ... but it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache," Trump told supporters during a prepared speech targeting free trade in a nearly-shuttered former steel town in Pennsylvania.
In a speech devoted to what he called "How To Make America Wealthy Again," Trump offered a series of familiar plans designed to deal with what he called "failed trade policies" — including rejection of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with Pacific Rim nations and re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico, withdrawing from it if necessary.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee also said he would pursue bilateral trade agreements rather than multi-national deals like TPP and NAFTA.
In addition to appointing better trade negotiators and stepping up punishment of countries that violate trade rules, Trump's plans would also target one specific economic competitor: China. He vowed to label China a currency manipulator, bring it before the World Trade Organization and consider slapping tariffs on Chinese imports coming into the U.S.
Clinton and other politicians, meanwhile, "watched on the sidelines as our jobs vanished and our communities were plunged into depression-level unemployment," Trump said in a dusty old aluminum plant in Monessen, part of what was once known as "The Steel Valley" along the Monongahela River.
Trump takes another trip to western Pennsylvania
Echoing his mantra of "America First," Trump vowed to use only American steel — and aluminum — on U.S. road, bridge, and construction projects, employing only American workers.
Trump attacked both Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, for past support of trade deals, including TPP. He also hit them over China's admission to the World Trade Organization.
Hillary Clinton says she now opposes the Pacific Rim trade agreement and other "bad trade deals" that are hurting U.S. workers. Pledging to appoint a "trade prosecutor" during a speech in Ohio this week, Clinton vowed to go after "unfair trade practices like when China dumps cheap steel in our markets or uses weak rules of origin to undercut our car makers."
A prominent Clinton supporter — Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio — called Trump a hypocrite, saying he has benefited from trade deals that have helped him sponsor clothing lines made in other countries. While Clinton has offered a “detailed plan to boost American manufacturing," Brown said Trump has "high-priced accountants" who are "cashing checks from products that he’s had manufactured in other countries.”
During his speech in a warehouse stacked with pallets of aluminum parts, Trump said Clinton came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership only "when she saw my stance," and predicted that she would still sign the trade pact if elected to office.
"Her whole career, she has betrayed the American worker," Trump said.
Trump also pushed the trade issue at a rally Tuesday evening in St. Clairsville, Ohio, near the coal-rich West Virginia state line.
Speaking to fans at the Ohio University Eastern Campus, Trump said China and other countries are taking advantage of the United States. "They're just not treating us right, folks," he said.
Trump also described the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal as "a rape of our country" by special interests.
Trade and other global issues are resonating in blue-collar areas of Pennsylvania and Michigan, states that have gone Democratic in six straight presidential elections, as well as Ohio, generally considered a must-win for any Republican candidate.
Trump "talks about the economy only in the language of globalization," said Daniel W. Drezner, professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. "It's globalization that's wrecking the American economy, and that's how I'm going to fix it," he said of Trump's rhetoric.
Drezner added: "It's a question as to whether people will actually vote on that."
In western Pennsylvania, people have "endured incredible economic hardship" as manufacturing jobs move overseas, said Joseph DiSarro, who chairs the political science department at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pa. Trump's message is well-received there, DiSarro said, adding that "globalization has really brought on unfair competition to the American worker" as businesses move jobs to low-wage, low-regulated countries.
In addition to the impact of globalization on trade, Trump has also criticized aspects of multi-lateral alliances like NATO and has said that European and Asian nations are not paying enough for U.S. defense assistance.
Polls show Clinton expanding her lead over Trump
Analysts said that Trump tends to ignore the benefits of a globalized economy, including easier and increased movement of goods and services across borders that leads to greater selection and cheaper prices for consumers. The loss of manufacturing and industrial jobs owe more to automation — machines — than trade, Drezner said.
International alliances, meanwhile, have helped keep the peace.
Elizabeth Warren at Clinton event: Trump is 'money grubber'
Clinton has said that other countries would retaliate against Trump's plans, leading to higher taxes and prices for U.S. consumers: “There’s a difference between getting tough on trade, and recklessly starting trade wars. The last time we opted for Trump-style isolationism, it made the Great Depression longer and more painful.”
Trump aides say last week's vote in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union is another sign that people across the world are rebelling against globalization.
Trump's speech in Pennsylvania found a receptive audience among many of the invited guests, many of them local Republicans.
"I think we should not allow our companies to manufacture overseas," said Carol Jacobelli, 75, a retired tax accountant from Trafford, Pa. "I hope Trump can find ways to stop it."
Emily Zboyovsky, 76, a retired real estate broker and lifelong resident of Monessen, said free trade is only one problem. Ineffective politicians and bad policies have also helped shutter steel towns, she said, adding that she likes Trump "because he's not obligated to anybody."
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who also attended the speech, predicted "a lot of Democrats" in depressed areas of Pennsylvania and beyond will respond to Trump's message, both about trade and Clinton.
"She is a globalist," he said.
Kevin Hassett, director of research for domestic policy with the American Enterprise Institute, said the problem is not globalization so much as some of the people who support globalization — namely, government officials and bureaucrats like those in the United States and the European Union. "The academic elite who think they know better," Hassett called them.
Among Trump supporters and others, Hassett said, "there is a view that people are losing control of their government."
Contributing: Deirdre Shesgreen
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Commodore Theatre
Behind-the-Scenes-Tour
Read this, and you'll never look at the Commodore Theatre the same way again.
Because you could watch movies here for years without realizing the place holds a veritable "Where's Waldo?" of hidden images and memorabilia.
Like a tribute to one of Disney's best-loved classics (the one with seven vertically-challenged miners).
Or a painting of the man who ordered the dropping of the first nuclear bomb. Or a working 1940's phone booth.
Or a hidden portrait of the Theatre's legendary owner, Fred Schoenfeld.
But thanks to our recent "Manager's Tour" with Fred himself, those secrets are now yours...
Fred, a Boat-Load of Money, Pocahontas, and More at the Commodore Theatre
We loved our private tour of the amazing theatre!
Known as just "Fred" to the Commodore Theatre's faithful patrons, Fred is one of those focused, colorful characters who lives and breathes his passion-- in his case, the movies.
Restoring the Commodore Theatre was a labor of love for him, spending literally years of his own sweat and time (and yes, huge amounts of money) to restore what had once been a run-down, unoccupied theater to its original, 1940's glory.
But oh, it's been worth it.
Since Fred has written an excellent overview of the Commodore Theatre's history and restoration, I'm including a link to his own words...
Guess where the artist of this beautiful mural hid his name?
So next time you're at the Commodore Theatre, and you're waiting for your juicy burger, delicious onion rings, and Health Bar Pie (yum!), here's what to look for...
Start with the wall murals which flank the stage. Thanks to Fred's attention to detail, they are similar to the originals from the 1940's.
Painted by hand using charcoal pencils and acrylics, then airbrushed on the fabric, they took the artist 18 months to complete!
Examine these incredibly-detailed murals up close. The mural on the left represents Hampton Roads industries, including shipping, ship-building, and the military.
The right-hand mural is equally full of detail and surprises...
Look carefully: The artist hid his own name on the side of one of the vehicles. And two of the ship-yard workers are actually likenesses of guys who helped Fred during the restoration process.
The mural on the other wall--which represents the history of the United States and famous Virginians-- is even more detailed.
Keep an eye out for Pocahontas chatting with Captain John Smith, George and Martha Washington out for a stroll, and a determined Abraham Lincoln striding up some steps.
A close-up of Abraham Lincoln.
Look really carefully just below the exit sign in this mural and you'll see a six-inch immortalization of another famous American president: Harry Truman.
In keeping with a lifetime spent being the man behind the scene, Fred declined to let me take his photo. But you can still see him in the form of the man in the blue suit and top hat in this mural.
When you get up to "powder your nose" in the Ladies' or Mens' Room, be sure to look down. The beautiful Terrazo floors are the same ones put down 65 years ago. Surprise: They're really colored concrete. (Who knew concrete could look so good?)
Tucked into a corner, you'll see a working, 1940's phone booth. Note the skinny width and folding doors. With everyone walkikng around with cell phones glued to their ears, it's hard to believe phone calls were once considered private conversations...
Even the ceilings are beautifully-detailed.
There was one stop on our tour I simply can't do justice to: The projection room. Frankly, it was rather over my "non-technie" head (literally).
Here's the part that floored me: Movies are still delivered to theaters and shown on those huge reel-to-reel machines. Yeah-- you know, those old-fashioned ones using film?
Go figure. I just figured they popped in high quality DVDs and somehow projected them onto a screen.
Educated as an electrical engineer, Fred was trained by people who cut their teeth during the Silent Era of film-making. And he was personally trained by "Star Wars" and "THX" creator George Lucas.
My poor camera doesn't do justice to this hand-painted tribute to Walt Disney's Snow White in the lobby.
So he truly knows his stuff, inside and out. And that's why seeing a movie at the theatre is more than just a matter of glitz. It's the probably the best movie viewing experience you'll ever have.
That's because when you go to the Commodore Theatre, you're in the hands of a master.
On a side note: If you have time to kill before your dinner and movie, take a stroll through the Trinity Episcopal Church courtyards, located next door to the Commodore. It's a lovely little garden with a variety of gravestones, many dating to the Revolutionary War.
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Waidner Research Lab
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Dr. Lisa Waidner, a Research Assistant Professor at the University of West Florida, has a Ph.D. from the College of Marine Science at the University of Delaware.
Before she joined UWF in 2016, Waidner had the unique opportunity to work in several small biotechnology companies in the capacity of genetic engineering, phylogenetics, and directed evolution to improve biofuel and bioenergy-producing microorganisms. Her academic mentors were Richard Karpel (UMBC, M.S. program), David Kirchman (Delaware, Ph.D. program), Thomas Hanson (Delaware, post-doctoral), and co-mentors Robin Morgan and Joan Burnside (Delaware, post-doctoral fellowship).
Her findings have been published in the Environmental Microbiology, the Journal of Shellfish Research, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Virology, Environmental Virology, and Enzyme and Microbial Technology. Publication topics include aspects of molecular microbial ecology, Marek’s disease, viroplankton population ecology, and crab populations near the mouth of the Delaware Bay.
Waidner’s current research interests are in environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, and bioremediation in oceans, coastal waters, inland bays and rivers. These studies include developing a better understanding of global elemental cycles, as well as ‘applied’ bioremediation research.
Her work uses model bacteria called the aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs (AAP), which are a diverse group of proteobacteria that may be involved in light-stimulated uptake of dissolved organic matter and of point-source pollution and legacy contaminants. Cultured and uncultured AAP are used in molecular biological, microbiological, and ecological studies on this diverse group of freshwater, estuarine, and marine bacteria.
Dr. Waidner has taught classes in Introduction to Bioinformatics and Environmental Genomics; and she is currently a UWF Instructor for Genetics Lab and the DIS course, Molecular Techniques and Lab Skills. She is now working with graduate students and undergraduates to characterize unique AAP bacteria from coastal and inland waters in and around the Pensacola Bay system.
What To Expect in STEAM2018
Carrie analyzed the distribution and abundance of photoheterotrophic microbes in three transects of the Escambia River-Pensacola Bay estuary-Gulf of Mexico. We are now writing up results for publication.
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After tweeting his mother’s death, NPR’s Scott Simon has written the book of her life
Review of "Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime" by Scott Simon
Scott Simon with his mother, Patricia Lyons Simon Newman. (Courtesy of Scott Simon)
By Carlos Lozada
Carlos Lozada
Book critic
UNFORGETTABLE: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime
Flatiron Books. 244 pp. $24.99
When Scott Simon began tweeting pain, love and conversation from his mother’s deathbed in an intensive-care unit in July 2013, he turned personal grief into collective emotion. Sharing painful moments and insights — “I just realized: she once had to let me go into the big wide world. Now I have to let her go the same way” — Simon broke ground in the uses of social media. He was alone with his mother for most of those days at the hospital. Yet millions sat vigil with him, sobbing and laughing at the life and wisdom of 84-year-old Patricia Lyons Simon Newman.
Now, with “Unforgettable,” Simon reveals not the possibilities of social media but its limits. However intimate those 140-character bursts, they seem inadequate compared with the skilled unspooling of this memoir about growing up alongside his mother in their beloved Chicago and of caring for her in the final breaths.
Simon, host of NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday,” has not just filled in the story — he has told a new one. His tweets were about a son’s love for his mother in the face of inevitable death; his book is about a mother’s love for her son in the face of unavoidable loneliness.
“My mother was glamorous,” Simon explains. She modeled for hairspray and Chevys; she worked in nightclubs and dated mobsters; she sold clothes at upscale Michigan Avenue shops; she was an ad agency receptionist in the “Mad Men” era. At the same time, “my mother was a working girl,” he writes. She was divorced and single; she and Simon shared a cramped one-bedroom apartment; she skipped meals for herself so she could make the rent, give her boy plenty of snacks and throw him James Bond-themed birthday parties.
She did it on her own because her former husband, Simon’s father, had been a comedian intent on drinking himself to death. They had a “breathless, reckless kind of romantic kamikaze love,”Simon recalls, but there had come a moment when Patti had to leave, and take Scott, if they were to survive. “It’s one thing to fall in love with someone who drinks,” Patti told her son, “and another thing to wake up with him, day after day.” Instead, she filled their lives with truly great friends and mostly good men. Long stretches of “Unforgettable” show Simon and his mother reminiscing about them.
Patti’s female friends — Simon’s “aunties” — were hostesses, dancers, lounge singers, women linked by their “mistakes, good times, lonely nights, and hard-won laughs.” Simon recalls the sights, sounds and smells of their impromptu parties: “evenings with lots of snorts and laughs, olives and cheddar cheese on rye crackers, the stroke of matches, the tinkle of ice, compact makeup mirrors folded with a snap, high heels under the coffee table, crinkled cocktail napkins with lipstick smudges, earrings pulled out and resting on a coaster, Tony Bennett on the turntable.”
These women taught him to be a “classy guy” — perhaps because they’d suffered more than a few classless ones. “They passed what they learned on to me,” Simon writes. “They gave me something to steer toward.”
Patti married twice more, an Irish mother with three Jewish husbands. After Simon’s father died came a Lincoln scholar, whom she outlived, and a retired furniture executive, whom she did not. In between, Patti attracted plenty of attention. “For most of my boyhood,” Simon recalls, “my mother was unmarried, pretty, funny, and popular.” A wiseass boy still loyal to his father, he did his best to unsettle Patti’s boyfriends. “Lovely, weren’t they?” Patti says. “They sure were,” Simon answers simply.
(Flatiron)
And many were. But Simon also recalls a muffled argument in their living room, a slamming front door and his mother entering his room. “ ‘I don’t think we’ll see Bill anytime soon,’ she said, and in her sigh and the silence that followed I finally heard that my mother was lonely.” The loneliness peaked when Patti fell in love with a married man who came to their home Thursday evenings and slipped Simon some cash to go to the movies. One night, Simon returned to find his mother, semi-conscious, alongside an empty bottle of sleeping pills and a note by the phone.
In the ICU decades later, Simon asks about the suicide attempt. “I guess I was desperate,” Patti says. “Desperate. I told Phillip we couldn’t go on. But he kept coming back. And I kept taking him back. I felt I had to do something to remind us that we were playing with fire.”
Simon didn’t call an ambulance that night. Instead, he dialed the doctor who provided Phillip’s weekly alibi (a supposed card game). Simon didn’t want his mother humiliated. “Wordlessly, we kept each other’s secrets,” he writes. “We were mother and son. We knew where to hurt each other and how to protect each other.”
Trying to protect her at the end, Simon battles the absurdities of modern health care. When Patti is first hospitalized, they struggle to get answers. “I walk in for a blood test, and I wind up like this,” she complains. “People stick pins into me, and put a tube in my chest, and never tell me what’s going on.” Only when the palliative care team “circles the bed,” Simon writes, do he and his mother realize there are no answers they would want to hear.
Simon dedicates the book to “those kind, loving souls in hospitals who do so much for those we love,” but he has only certain souls in mind. “There was a difference between the care my mother got, hour to hour, from nurses and technicians, who were invariably considerate, gentle, and selfless,” he writes, “and that of most of her doctors, who were . . . invisible.”
Those doctors huddle over laptops in hallways, rarely speaking to Patti. Simon clashes with a chronically absent pulmonologist, learns late that earlier radiation treatments could have weakened his mother’s lungs and loses it when doctors wait too patiently for medications from the hospital pharmacy. “I don’t know why everyone is so reluctant to talk to the pharmacist,” he snaps at the young residents. “I talk to powerful people for a living. Should I go down there?”
Anyone who has watched a loved one ebb away, surrounded by blinks and beeps, recognizes the indignity, solemnity and tedium. As the hours pass, Patti and Simon debate the Catholic Church, sing Broadway duets and dissect “Casablanca” (Patti insists that Ilsa loved Victor, not Rick). But then, at one moment, Patti thinks she sees her own mother beckoning. She closes her eyes and tries to will herself across, until she opens them again and sinks into her pillow. “Oh hell,” she says. “My mother never helped me anyway.”
True. Years earlier, Patti’s mother, trapped in a spiritless marriage, killed herself. Simon, his father and his mother found her with two empty bottles, one the morning Scotch, the other sleeping pills. “She left me all alone,” Patti says. “With a little boy and a husband drinking himself to death.” That’s not her only legacy. “Suicide puts a fly in your head,” Patti realizes. “It’s always buzzing around.”
This book is about family secrets revealed — not because they don’t matter anymore, but because a moment arrives when they’re all that matter and secrecy no longer does.
As Patti slips her bonds, she speaks out: “Help. Me.” Simon leaps from his mat. “In that horrifying and exquisite moment, I held my mother as I have held my children. I tried to look without blinking into her bottomless brown eyes. I told her, ‘I’m here. Look at me. Give me everything. Every fear, every pain. Leave them with me. I’m your son.’ ”
This is not when you first feel a hot, thick tightness rising in your throat. It is when you realize that the tears have been flowing for some time, easing your way through a book that easily matches its title.
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Carlos Lozada Carlos Lozada is the nonfiction book critic of The Washington Post. He received the 2015 National Book Critics Circle's citation for excellence in reviewing and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2018. Follow
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Court rules pension law unconstitutional
By Associated Press, WBKO News Staff |
Posted: Thu 10:45 AM, Dec 13, 2018 |
Updated: Thu 7:41 PM, Dec 13, 2018
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP/WBKO News Staff) -- The Kentucky Supreme Court has struck down a pension law that prompted thousands of teachers to protest at the state Capitol.
Kentucky has one of the worst funded public pension systems in the country. The state is at least $38 billion short of the money it needs to pay benefits over the next three decades.
In April, Republican Gov. Matt Bevin signed a law that made changes to the pension system that would mostly affect future hires. Thousands of teachers protested, forcing the closure of more than 30 school districts.
Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear sued to block the law. On Thursday, the court ruled the law unconstitutional because the legislature didn't vote on it three times over three separate days as the state constitution requires.
Shortly after 11:30 Central time, Bevin held a press conference.
"Every time we put money into shoring up a system that people have allowed to continue leak, because 151 said we're going to at least put a band-aid at the bottom of the bucket," said Bevin. "And now, we've had a Supreme Court rip that band-aid off, so now, you're going to continue to see the hemorrhaging."
"We now have, on this sad day in Kentucky -- this financially irresponsible and sad day in Kentucky -- we now have not even the possibility of stopping that bleeding," continued Bevin.
Beshear released a statement on the decision, saying in part: "Today’s unanimous (7-0) ruling is a landmark win for every teacher, police officer, firefighter, social worker, EMS and all our hardworking public servants. It fully and finally voids the illegal cuts to their retirement, and clearly states that the governor and General Assembly violated the Constitution."
13 News spoke with some Barren County educators, who were relieved with the Supreme Court's decision, and are encouraging the state legislature to find the funds to pay for the pension.
"Work with members of the legislature to find common ground and a way to move forward," said Bo Matthews, the superintendent of Barren County Schools. "And in the meantime, we've got to continue to find a way to value those that have chosen to serve in public education."
"But first and foremost, the state needs to continue funding their portion," added Kelley Ross, a Barren County High School English teacher. "And they need to go back and fund the parts they have not. All of us in the pension system have paid our part."
Ross said dealing with the pension crisis last year was distressing and discouraging, with hopes that the next legislative session will be better than the last.
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By Don C. Brunell
Christmas Wreaths Help Ease Pain
Christmas is a difficult time for anyone grieving the death of a loved one. It is especially hard when they were slain in the line-of-duty while protecting our country.
It hit home again last month when Army sergeants Eric Emond, 39, Brush Prairie, and Leandro Jasso, 25, Leavenworth, were killed in Afghanistan. Both were experienced, elite soldiers who had served multiple tours in combat zones.
Normally, the fallen are remembered on Memorial Day, but thanks to a Maine family and more than 800,000 donors and volunteers, more than 1.8 million Christmas wreaths were laid on the tombstones of our fallen soldiers, sailors and airmen this December.
Since the program started in 1992, more than 1,600 burial grounds across the nation have been involved. Additionally, this year, 9,400 wreaths went to the Normandy American Cemetery located in Colleville-sur-Mer, France.
Thousands of family, friends, military personnel and volunteers helped place the wreaths, which is therapeutic.
In Washington State, 24 cemeteries from Walla Walla to Port Orchard took part and there are were 50,000 veterans’ graves on which wreaths were placed. More than half went to Tahoma’s National Cemetery in Kent.
In Vancouver, Brad Carlson’s family, owners of Evergreen Memorial Gardens, worked with the Lewis and Clark Young Marines to raise funds. This year they sponsored a record 2,000 wreaths—more than triple the 2017 total—and Vancouver Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle led the ceremony.
Joyce Durrant, Spokane, helped organize the placement of 1,000 wreaths at Washington State Veterans Cemetery, Medical Lake. She told KHQ-6 News their family goal is to remind us that our military and their families pay a heavy price defending our freedoms and we should not forget them.
Wreaths Across America (WAA) is a privately-funded charity that accepts no government money. It is strongly supported by more than 100 trucking companies, whose drivers voluntarily load their semi-trailers and fan out across America. They absorb all of the delivery costs, and the American Independent Trucking Association contributes $50,000.
In Washington, D.C., thousands of volunteers lined the road waving flags as the caravan of trucks rolled into Arlington National Cemetery.
Founded in 1971, Worchester Wreath Co. of Harrington, Maine, is a family-owned business which grows balsam fir. It has become one of the largest wholesalers of holiday balsam products, providing fresh Maine wreaths, trees and centerpieces.
WAA sprang from a Worchester gesture in 1992, when they shipped surplus wreaths to Arlington National Cemetery to be placed on headstones in an older section---the most forgotten part of the burial grounds.
After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, interest in the project spiked. In fact, the Pentagon, which was struck by a jetliner on that day, is within eyesight of Arlington. In 2005, when WAA appeared on the internet with a sobering photo of thousands of snow-covered wreaths on Arlington headstones, interest and donations mushroomed.
The good news is, at a time when each U.S. Citizen is saddled with a $65,774 potential payment on our national debt (which, at last check, was over $21.3 trillion,) WAA is independently funded.
Morrill Worchester told the Bangor Daily News his first trip to Arlington National Cemetery helped him remember those who gave everything to keep America free. Today, the Wreaths Across America program helps us remember.
The wreaths provide some comfort to the families and friends of America’s fallen. They also remind us not to forget those suffering with life-long mental and physical disabilities due to military service.
As a special note this Christmas: In today’s terrorist infected world, we should include our law enforcement officers, emergency responders and firefighters in our thoughts and prayers. They too are in harm’s way every day.
(DON C. BRUNELL is a business analyst, writer and columnist. He retired as president of the Association of Washington Business, the state’s oldest and largest business organization, and now lives in Vancouver. He can be contacted at [email protected]).
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Resolution on Protecting Democracy and the Public Interest from Secret Trade Agreements
The 31st Triennial Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, meeting 22-24 April 2015 in The Hague, the Netherlands:
Expresses concern that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) encompass most of the world’s economy and affect 1.5 billion people, yet are being negotiated in secret between governments and corporate lobbyists;
Believes these agreements enable the transfer of wealth from public to private sectors, putting investors’ rights over the rights of people, communities and nations;
Rejects the Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), which puts corporations on an equal footing with national governments, whereby foreign multinational corporations can bypass domestic courts to sue a national government in a secret international court, claiming national laws adversely affect their profits;
Condemns the “Regulatory Coherence” provision, whereby each TPP country and the EU Commission under the TTIP must adjust their regulations to match provisions of the agreement, meaning many nations will be forced to lower their standards;
Believes these agreements will exacerbate global warming and extreme weather events by increasing long-distance transport of goods, through moving jobs and manufacturing to countries with low labour standards and environmental laws;
Believes these agreements will adversely impact families and workers by lowering safe food, agricultural and chemical use standards, decrease affordable generic medicine and healthcare, privatise and increase the cost of essential public services, challenge government protections for workers, consumers, and the environment, and reject financial regulation;
Calls for the immediate public release of the complete texts of the TPPA and TTIP;
Calls for the rejection of the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions; and
Demands fair trade based on human rights, democratic principles and social, economic, gender and climate justice.
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Sylvester graph
There is a unique distance-regular graph with intersection array {5,4,2;1,1,4}. It has 36 vertices and spectrum 51 216 (–1)10 (–3)9. It is known as Sylvester's double six graph.
The full group of automorphisms is Aut S6 with point stabilizer AGL(1,5)×2.
This is the graph on the 36 interior points of PG(2,9) with a conic, adjacent when orthogonal. (This shows the full group PGammaO(3,9).)
This is also the graph on the 36 words of weight 6 starting with 1 in perfect ternary Golay code, where two such words are adjacent when their Hamming distance is 9.
This is also the graph induced on the 36 vertices far away from an edge in the Hoffman-Singleton graph.
This is also the graph on the 36 pairs (ovoid,spread) in GQ(2,2), where (O,S) is adjacent to (O',S') when the unique point in both O and O' lies on the unique line in both S and S'.
The distance-3 graph is the 6×6 grid.
The Sylvester graph is the subgraph of the Hoffman-Singleton graph consisting of the vertices at distance 2 from an edge.
Since the Higman-Sims graph can be split into two copies of the Hoffman-Singleton graph and the Gewirtz graph is the graph consisting of the vertices at distance 2 from an edge in the Higman-Sims graph, it follows that the Sylvester graph is also a subgraph of the Gewirtz graph.
The Sylvester graph is also a subgraph of the Cameron graph
Maximal cocliques:
size #
6: 12
10: 5112
11: 720
Of the 1540 maximal 9-cliques, 400 occur in a partition of the pointset into four maximal 9-cliques (each in ten such partitions), and there are 1000 such partitions. Of those 400, 40 meet the maximal 6-cocliques in either 0 or 3 (form a 3×3 grid) and 360 have intersections of sizes 0 (4×) 1 (2×) 2 (2×) 3 (4×).
Substructures belonging to the maximal subgroups of the automorphism group:
a) A partition of the vertex set into four 9-cocliques of 3×3 type. There are 10 of these, forming a single orbit. The stabilizer of one is 32:D8, with vertex orbit size 36. (A partition of the 6×6 grid into four 3×3 grids inducing cocliques.) In the PG(2,9) model, these are the points of the conic.
b) A maximal 6-coclique. There are 12 of these, forming a single orbit. The stabilizer of one is S5, with vertex orbit sizes 6+30. (These are the grid lines - cliques in the distance-3 graph.) In the PG(2,9) model, these are the icosahedrals.
c) A pair of 12-cocliques. There are 30 of these, forming a single orbit. The stabilizer of one is S4 × 2 with vertex orbit sizes 12+24. The subgraph induced on the 12 is 6K2. The subgraph induced on the 24 is cubic of girth 6. Given a 12-coclique C, the remaining 24 vertices split into 12 vertices with two neighbours in C and 12 vertices with three neighbours in C, and the latter again form a 12-coclique. (These are the pairs of parallel grid lines.) In the PG(2,9) model, these are the orthonormal bases. The graph induced on them by having nonempty intersection is the unique generalized octagon GO(1,2), the incidence graph of GQ(2,2).
d) A vertex. There are 36 of these, forming a single orbit. The stabilizer of one is 10:4 with vertex orbit sizes 1+5+20+10. In the PG(2,9) model, these are the interior points.
e) A pair of edges at distance 3. There are 45 of these, forming a single orbit. The stabilizer of one has order 25 with vertex orbit sizes 2+8+8+8+8+2. (These are grid squares that induce 2K2.) In the PG(2,9) model, these are the exterior points. The graph induced on them by the orthogonality relation is the unique generalized octagon GO(2,1).
[BCN], Section 13.1A.
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2020 EU budget: Council agrees its position
EU ambassadors yesterday agreed the Council's position on the 2020 EU draft budget. Once formally adopted by the Council, this will serve as a mandate for the presidency in negotiations with the European Parliament.
In total, the Council's position for next year's budget amounts to €166.8 billion in commitments and €153.1 billion in payments. Compared to 2019, this is an increase of +0.6% in commitments and +3.3% in payments.
The increase in payments reflects the acceleration of programme implementation towards the end of the multiannual financial framework for 2014-2020. It should allow for budgetary commitments to be paid in sufficient time to avoid the accumulation of outstanding bills, in particular in cohesion policy, where the implementation of programmes continues at an accelerated pace.
The agreed figures are based on the premise that the UK will continue to participate fully in the financing and implementation of the EU budget until the end of 2020.
Kimmo Tiilikainen, State Secretary, Ministry of Finance of Finland, chief Council negotiator for the 2020 EU budget yesterday said:
Next year's budget is the last under the current multiannual financial framework. Member states want it to be realistic and fit for purpose. The Council's position provides for adequate payment levels and funding for key priority areas, such as growth and jobs, climate action and the management of migration. At the same time, it includes targeted adjustments to the Commission's proposal and leaves sufficient margins for unforeseen needs. The agreement reached today will provide a solid basis for negotiations with the European Parliament.
Continued support for growth and jobs
Strengthening the European economy remains a key priority for member states.
The Council therefore continues to support the reinforcement of programmes under the "Competitiveness for growth and jobs" heading, which would receive €24.0 billion in total, or +2.72% compared to 2019.
The biggest increases in the 2020 budget would concern European satellite navigation systems (EGNOS and Galileo: €1.2 billion, or +74.75%), the energy strand of the Connecting Europe Facility (€1.2 billion, or +24.94%) and the European Solidarity Corps (€166 million, +15.88%). In all these cases the Council has supported the funding levels proposed by the Commission.
Increases are also foreseen for the EU's flagship programmes Horizon 2020 (€12.8 billion, or +3.73%) and Erasmus+ (€2.8 billion, or +2.49%), as well as for COSME, which supports SMEs and entrepreneurship, and the European Defence Industrial Development Programme, which will help to pave the way for the European Defence Fund for the 2021-2027 period (+7.06% and +4.08%, respectively).
The "Economic, social and territorial cohesion" heading, gets a boost of +€633.6 million, which represents an increase of +2.23% compared to 2019.
Other priority areas
The Council also backs a reinforcement of the LIFE programme, which provides funding for environment and climate action (€580 million, or +3.85%).
In total, nearly 20 % of the EU budget spending would be dedicated to tackling climate change, in line with the EU's target for the 2014-2020 period.
In the area of migration, additional resources are budgeted for the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) (€101.4 million, or +32.4% compared to 2019) to set up a standing corps of 10 000 border guards by 2027.
To strengthen civil protection, increased funding by €156.2 million is provided for the Union Civil Protection Mechanism, which helps member states deal with natural, technological and man-made disasters.
As regards external action in “Global Europe” heading, the overall decrease of commitments compared to 2019 is explained by the end of the period for budgetary commitments related to the Facility for Refugees in Turkey.
The Turkey lines of the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA II) have again been adjusted downwards compared to the financial programming, to bring them to 2019 levels. The relevant funds have been reallocated, including as increased support for the Western Balkans.
Limits to administrative expenditure
As regards administrative expenditure, the Council has taken a stringent approach. While all institutions benefit from an increase of their annual budget for 2020 due to statutory and contractual obligations, adjustments have been made to the Commission's draft budget, in particular to stabilise staffing levels. Non-salary expenditure is kept frozen at 2019 levels, with minor exceptions.
The Council takes the view that any additional needs in the field of administrative expenditure should be covered mainly by re-prioritisation.
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Original article link: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2019/07/10/2020-eu-budget-council-agrees-its-position/
Turkish drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean
The Council adopted the following conclusions on the Turkish drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Four new substances added to the Candidate List
The Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) for authorisation now contains 201 substances.
Imports of hormone-free beef: EU-US agreement confirmed
The Council has adopted a decision on the signing of an agreement between the EU and the US on the allocation to the US of a share in the TRQ for high quality beef regarding the importation of beef from animals not treated with certain growth-promoting hormones.
EIOPA consults on the harmonisation of national insurance guarantee schemes
Tthe European Insurance and Occupational Pension Authority (EIOPA) has launched a consultation on its Advice on the harmonisation of national insurance guarantee schemes across the Member States of the European Union.
The EU and the USA have delivered on a significant element of the Joint Statement agreed by Presidents Juncker and Trump in July 2018. The positive transatlantic trade agenda established in the Joint Statement includes a commitment from both sides to reduce barriers and increase trade in a range of sectors, including pharmaceuticals.
Airbnb cooperates with EC and EU consumer authorities improving the way it presents offers
The EC has announced that, as a result of negotiations with Airbnb, the platform has improved and fully clarified the way it presents accommodation offers to consumers, which is now in line with the standards set in EU consumer law.
European Institute of Innovation and Technology: EC proposes strategy for 2021-2027
The EC has proposed an update of the legal base of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) as well as its new Strategic Innovation Agenda for 2021-2027.
EC approves GlaxoSmithKline's acquisition of Pfizer's Consumer Health Business with conditions
The EC has approved, under the EU Merger Regulation, the acquisition of Pfizer's Consumer Health Business by GlaxoSmithKline. The decision is conditional upon the global divestment of Pfizer's topical pain management business carried out under the ThermaCare brand.
EIOPA issues opinions on governance and risk management of pension funds
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has published four Opinions to assist National Competent Authorities (NCAs) in the implementation of the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provisions - the IORP II Directive.
Nationals from Colombia and Peru apply for asylum in the EU+ in record numbers
In May 2019, the monthly number of applications for international protection lodged in the 30 EU+ countries (EU Member States plus Norway & Switzerland) remained stable at around 57 000. However since the start of the year, some 287 500 applications have been lodged, which is 14 % more than in the same period last year.
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400 Attend Blood Drive Held In Wounded Officer's Honor
More than 400 people attended a blood drive Saturday in honor of a Manchester police officer who was shot and wounded earlier this month, according to The American Red Cross.Officer Dan Doherty is recovering after being shot five times during a pursuit March 21. Myles Webster, 22, of Litchfield, has been charged with attempted murder.The Manchester Policeman's Wives Association approached the American Red Cross about holding a blood drive in Doherty's honor. The drive was held from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at McDonough Elementary School in Manchester.It usually takes 12 weeks to organize such an event, but organizers were able to prepare the event in 8 days, officials said.The average mobile blood drive sees 60 people and collects 50 units of usable blood, officials said. Organizers said 326 units of usable blood were collected Saturday.Doherty is recovering at Catholic Medical Center and is improving every day, friends said.
MANCHESTER, N.H. —
More than 400 people attended a blood drive Saturday in honor of a Manchester police officer who was shot and wounded earlier this month, according to The American Red Cross.
Officer Dan Doherty is recovering after being shot five times during a pursuit March 21. Myles Webster, 22, of Litchfield, has been charged with attempted murder.
The Manchester Policeman's Wives Association approached the American Red Cross about holding a blood drive in Doherty's honor. The drive was held from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at McDonough Elementary School in Manchester.
It usually takes 12 weeks to organize such an event, but organizers were able to prepare the event in 8 days, officials said.
The average mobile blood drive sees 60 people and collects 50 units of usable blood, officials said. Organizers said 326 units of usable blood were collected Saturday.
Doherty is recovering at Catholic Medical Center and is improving every day, friends said.
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NewsProperty
news, property,
For the first time in the Global Liveability Index’s history, Austria’s capital, Vienna, ranks as the most liveable of the 140 cities surveyed by The Economist Intelligence Unit. Melbourne had spent a record seven consecutive years at the head of the survey. Although Melbourne and Vienna have registered improvements in liveability over the last six months, increases in Vienna’s ratings, particularly in the stability category, have been enough for the city to overtake Melbourne. The two cities are now separated by 0.7 of a percentage point, with Vienna scoring a near-ideal 99.1 out of 100 and Melbourne scoring 98.4. Two other Australian cities feature in the highest rankings: Sydney (fifth) and Adelaide (tenth), while only one other European city – Copenhagen in Denmark – made the top 10, coming in at ninth, after its score increased by 3.3 percentage points since the last survey cycle. The rest of the top-ranked cities are split between Japan (Osaka in third place and Tokyo in joint seventh, alongside Toronto) and Canada (Calgary in fourth, and Vancouver and Toronto in sixth and seventh respectively). Osaka climbed six positions over the past six months, based on improvements for quality and availability of public transportation, as well as a consistent decline in crime rates. The Economist said upwards movement in the top ranked cities is a reflection of improvements seen in stability and safety across most regions in the past year. Whereas in the past, cities in Europe have been affected by the spreading perceived threat of terrorism in the region, which caused heightened security measures, the past six months have seen a return to normalcy. Ranking movements are more related to how cities compare to each other rather than changes in liveability in the cities themselves. Although four cities have fallen from the top ten over the past year—Auckland (from eighth to 12th), Perth (from seventh to 14th), Helsinki (from ninth to 16th) and Hamburg (from 10th to 18th)—none of these have seen a fall in their overall scores during this period. Auckland actually registered a minor improvement. Damascus in Syria was at the bottom of the list, with Dhaka in Bangladesh and Lagos in Nigeria close behind. For the survey, each city is assigned a rating of relative comfort. Over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories are judged: stability (including threat of unrest), healthcare (availability and quality), culture and environment (including weather, censorship, sporting facilities) , education (availability and quality), and infrastructure (roads, energy, water etc).
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August 21 2018 - 2:19PM
Melbourne loses its title
For the first time in the Global Liveability Index’s history, Austria’s capital, Vienna, ranks as the most liveable of the 140 cities surveyed by The Economist Intelligence Unit.
After seven years, Melbourne has lost its title of Most Livable City, as ranked by The Economist.
Melbourne had spent a record seven consecutive years at the head of the survey.
Although Melbourne and Vienna have registered improvements in liveability over the last six months, increases in Vienna’s ratings, particularly in the stability category, have been enough for the city to overtake Melbourne.
The two cities are now separated by 0.7 of a percentage point, with Vienna scoring a near-ideal 99.1 out of 100 and Melbourne scoring 98.4.
Two other Australian cities feature in the highest rankings:
Sydney (fifth) and Adelaide (tenth), while only one other European city – Copenhagen in Denmark – made the top 10, coming in at ninth, after its score increased by 3.3 percentage points since the last survey cycle.
The rest of the top-ranked cities are split between Japan (Osaka in third place and Tokyo in joint seventh, alongside Toronto) and Canada (Calgary in fourth, and Vancouver and Toronto in sixth and seventh respectively).
Osaka climbed six positions over the past six months, based on improvements for quality and availability of public transportation, as well as a consistent decline in crime rates.
The Economist said upwards movement in the top ranked cities is a reflection of improvements seen in stability and safety across most regions in the past year.
Whereas in the past, cities in Europe have been affected by the spreading perceived threat of terrorism in the region, which caused heightened security measures, the past six months have seen a return to normalcy. Ranking movements are more related to how cities compare to each other rather than changes in liveability in the cities themselves.
Although four cities have fallen from the top ten over the past year—Auckland (from eighth to 12th), Perth (from seventh to 14th), Helsinki (from ninth to 16th) and Hamburg (from 10th to 18th)—none of these have seen a fall in their overall scores during this period.
Auckland actually registered a minor improvement. Damascus in Syria was at the bottom of the list, with Dhaka in Bangladesh and Lagos in Nigeria close behind.
For the survey, each city is assigned a rating of relative comfort. Over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five broad categories are judged: stability (including threat of unrest), healthcare (availability and quality), culture and environment (including weather, censorship, sporting facilities) , education (availability and quality), and infrastructure (roads, energy, water etc).
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Látogasson el hozzánk
Holles Family
Politician, Soldier and Sailor
Francis Holles
Francis Holles was buried in the chapel of St Edmund in Westminster Abbey. He has a free standing monument, by sculptor Nicholas Stone, consisting of a stone circular pedestal with festoons of flowers upon which Francis is depicted as a life-size seated figure in Roman armour, his left hand resting on an oval armorial shield. The figure is derived from the Medici monument by Michaelangelo in Florence. The inscription reads:
What so thou hast of Nature, or of Arts, youth, beautie, strength, or what excelling parts, of mynd and boddie, letters, arms and worth, his eighteen yeares, beyond his yeares, brought forth then stand and read thyself within this glas how soon theise perish, and thy selfe may pas. Mans life is measured by the worke, not dayes, no aged sloth, but active youth hath prayse
Below is some Latin which can be translated:
Francis Holles, a brave youth, who returning from making a campaign in the Netherlands, died 12 August in the year of our Lord's age 1622 and of his own the 18th; his afflicted father, John Earl of Clare, to this his valued, and lamented son, erected this monument.
The shield shows a coat of arms which includes the arms of Holles (Ermine, two piles meeting in base, sable), Chetwood, Denzel and Cresely.
Sir George Holles
The monument to Francis's uncle Sir George Holles is on the wall in the chapel of St John the Evangelist. Again by the sculptor Nicholas Stone it consists of an alabaster and stone standing monument with a pedimented base and a pedestal on which is a more than life-size statue of Sir George in Roman armour, holding a large shield. On the base is a relief of a military engagement, probably the battle of Nieuport in Belgium, where he fought as Major General under his uncle Sir Francis Vere (who is buried nearby). The Latin inscription can be translated:
To George Holles, Kt., sprung from a most renowned Anglo-British family: from his youth up, so dedicated to the military arts that he seemed to be born a child of the camp. After he had performed in Belgium all such military service as might become one of high birth, he was appointed supreme leader of his people, and publicly proclaimed Major General. Departing peacefully from the northern purlieus of the capital, it was his wish that here he might be set, in a most honourable rivalry, beside Francis Vere, his commander and kinsman: the links [created by] their [shared] dangers were [even] greater than those of consanguinity. John, his brother, Earl of Clare, placed [this] here, deeply sorrowing, for a deeply deserving brother. He lived for 50 years, 3 months and 4 days. He died on 19th May 1626
"Anglo-British" may imply a Celtic origin ie. probably an Irish connection, as John Holles was Earl of Clare.
Sir Frescheville Holles
Frescheville was born 8th June 1642, the only son of Gervase Holles and his second wife Elizabeth (Molesworth). A major in the Westminster militia he also commanded a privateer called the Panther. George Monck, duke of Albemarle, recommended him for the navy and he was later knighted after a successful action, although he lost an arm. He married Jane Crome (nee Lewis). While serving in the third Anglo-Dutch war he was killed at the battle of Sole bay on 28th May 1672 and was given a splendid funeral in the Abbey. He was buried in St Edmund's chapel but his grave is unmarked - in his will he had planned an impressive memorial for himself!
John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
His towering monument of white and other marble stands in the north transept, near the entrance door, although he was buried, by his own wish, in the chapel of St John the Evangelist near his great-grandfather Horace, Lord Vere of Tilbury. The monument is signed by the architect James Gibbs and the sculptor was Francis Bird assisted by J.M. Rysbrack. The duke's effigy is in armour with loose drapery and he looks upward, holding in his hands a coronet and a baton. On either side are the standing, life-size, figures of Wisdom, with a pillar, and Sincerity, with a mirror. The architectural background consists of two columns, pilasters and two seated angels, with an heraldic achievement. The inscription reads:
To the memory of JOHN HOLLES DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, Marquis and Earl of CLARE, Baron Haughton and Knight-Companion of the most Noble Order of the Garter, whose body is here deposited under the same roof with many of his noble ancestors and relations of the families of VERE, CAVENDISHE and HOLLES, whose eminent virtues he inherited; and was particularly distinguished for his courage, love to his countrey and constancy in friendship; which qualities he exerted with great zeal and readiness, whenever the cause of religion, his countrey, or friends required him. In the reign of Queen Anne he filled with great capactiy and honour the several employments of Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and Privy Councellour, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the counties of Middlesex and Nottingham, and of the county of the town of Nottingham and of the East and North Ridings of the county of York, Lord Chief Justice in Eyre North of Trent, and Governour of the town and fort of Kingston upon Hull; to all which titles and honours his personal merit gave a lustre, that needed not the addition of the great wealth which he possessed. He was born the 9th of January 1661/2 and died the 15th of July 1711. He marryed the Lady Margaret, third daughter and heir to Henry Cavendishe Duke of Newcastle, by whom he left issue one only child, the Lady HENRIETTA-CAVENDISHE HOLLES HARLEY, who caused this memorial of him to be here erected in the year of our Lord 1723
John was a son of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare, and his wife Grace (Pierrepont). He succeeded his father as Earl in 1689. While stag hunting at his home at Welbeck Abbey he was thrown from his horse and died. His daughter Henrietta married Edward Harley (later Earl of Oxford) and she was buried in the Newcastle vault on 26th December 1755, with Edward who was buried there on 25th June 1741.
Sir Francis Holles, son of Denzil, 1st Baron Holles of Ifield, was married in the Abbey to Lucy Carr on 22nd August 1661.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 for John and Sir Frescheville
Politician; soldier; sailor
North Transept; Chapel of St Edmund; St John the Evangelist
John Holles monument
Francis Holles monument
George Holles monument
Relief on George's monument
Alured Clarke
Writer and Priest
I feel very privileged to work here. I take so much pride in working for a beautiful place like the Abbey, it’s unique.
Alex - Abbey Marshal
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Intelligence For Your Life with John Tesh, Connie Sellecca and Gib Gerard Extend Partnership with Westwood One
By Michael Whittenburg September 26, 2016
Multi-year Agreement for “Intelligence for your Life” Radio and Westwood One
NEW YORK, NY, September 26, 2016 – Westwood One and Intelligence For Your Life with John Tesh, Connie Sellecca and Gib Gerard has renewed their partnership in a new multi-year agreement that will bring the Intelligence for your Life radio programs to listeners and advertisers for years to come. Westwood One has exclusively represented the programs for 15 years.
Tesh’s Intelligence for your Life radio show — airing on more than 280 stations and hosted by Tesh, with appearances by Gib Gerard, and Intelligence For Your Health hosted by Connie Sellecca — discusses everything from the secrets to improve relationships and personal growth to the best tricks to boost brainpower, longevity and even ways to keep pets happy and healthy. It’s information with purpose that listeners call “life coaching on the radio.” Their best-in-class audio programs and their Facebook audience, which typically reaches 20 million fans per week, are the perfect complement to Westwood One’s roster of highly popular programming.
“’Intelligence For Your Life’ with John, Connie and Gib is a huge brand, with big personalities who are masters at connecting with listeners,” said Suzanne Grimes, President, Westwood One and EVP, Marketing, Cumulus Media. “They engage their fans with real compassion and kindness. They’re an important member of the Westwood One family and we are proud to extend our relationship with them. “
Says Tesh, “Westwood One believed in our show from the very beginning… even when we only had 6 stations. They are family. We have a unique relationship with their sales and marketing team that enables us to provide our stations and advertisers with branded content and endorsements that have become huge differentiators in a crowded marketplace. The scale and diversity of Westwood One is unmatched in this industry.”
For syndication and affiliate relations information, contact Scott Meyers, Executive Producer, Executive VP Entertainment, The TeshMedia Group, at Scott@MeyersMedia.com or call toll-free at 888-548-8637.
About John Tesh
With an impressive career that spans 39 years, John Tesh is known worldwide as a leading and respected figure in the entertainment and broadcasting industries. Tesh has won 2 Emmys for his TV news reporting along with an AP award for investigative journalism. In addition, Tesh has been awarded four additional Emmys and two Grammy nominations for his music compositions. Millions of listeners tune in to the syndicated radio show each week to hear him impart in-depth “intelligence for your life”- – tips on how to earn your boss’s trust, fight jet lag, get out of debt and find your life’s calling .
About Connie Sellecca
Connie Sellecca, a Golden Globe nominated actress, currently hosts the nationally syndicated “Intelligence for Your Health” radio show, the first brand extension from ?IFYL?. Sellecca has starred in dozens of major network television movies and series, including Hotel, Greatest American Hero, P.S. I Luv U, and Second Chances and has produced television programs including the made for TV movie A House of Secrets and Lies (in which she also starred). Over her career Sellecca has represented major brands including Pantene, Clairol, Avon, and Revlon and has been featured on numerous magazine covers. As a respected businesswoman and entrepreneur, Sellecca developed her own clothing line and skin care line (Sellecca Solution). Sellecca says she brings both her professional experience and life-experience as a wife, mother of two, and grandmother of two to the new syndicated TV series.
About Gib Gerard
Gib Gerard is a television and film actor, producer and host who has starred in such movies as God’s Country, The Wild Stallion and All About Christmas Eve. As the millennial expert on the ?Intelligence For Your Life’ TV show, Gib shares the more quirky, trendy segments of the show with a comedic flare from his training in The Groundlings and live stage experience. Gerard also appears on the “Intelligence For Your Life” radio programs each day.
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Marie Antoinette love
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
Queen of France (1774–1793) as the wife of Louis XVI. She was tried and executed during the French Revolution.
noun Someone with an extravagant and luxurious lifestyle, often at the expense of those who lack food, clothes, or shelter.
noun queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular; her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), French queen.
Without a word Marie Antoinette turned, and clasping him in her arms, was comforted.
Ten Boys from History
We didn't cut off that poor creature's head whom they called Marie Antoinette to install Her
The Companions of Jehu
And even on the normally benign Mumsnet it was described as a "Marie Antoinette moment".
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
“Yes,” he said, nodding at me with half-closed eyes, “the murder of a dog—an unfortunate creature called Marie Antoinette.”
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
To paraphrase Marie Antoinette, "Let them eat $5 hot dogs."
Dave Astor: Damn Yankees and Their Pricey New Stadium
One room was even called the Marie Antoinette room, and the bedstead of this apartment, which is to-day in the possession of the descendants of Colonel Swan, is still known as the
The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees
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“The Bible of the working class”
Submitted by Matthew on 5 October, 2017 - 10:44 Author: Martin Thomas
Click here to download whole pull-out as pdf
Karl Marx’s book Capital was published 150 years ago, on 14 September 1867, the fruits of over fifteen years’ study.
Marx was then fairly well-known in the European and US workers’ movements, through his activity in the First International, founded in September 1864. His Communist Manifesto of 1848, which had become a rarity since revolutionary socialist activity receded in the early 1850s, had been republished and translated, and was circulating well.
Capital appeared first in a German edition. There was no “Marxist” group in Germany at the time — in fact, the word “Marxist” was as yet known in no language — but the General German Workers’ Association founded by Ferdinand Lassalle in 1863 had members who respected Marx. Wilhelm Liebknecht, an old comrade of Marx and Engels from the revolutionary upheavals of 1848, had returned to Germany from English exile in 1862. With August Bebel, he would found the Social Democratic Workers’ Party in 1869.
For the first few months, Marx and Engels exchanged exasperated comments about how slow responses to Capital were, and how poorly Liebknecht was publicising it. Bit by bit the pace quickened. The first translation, in Russian, was published in 1868. A French translation, which Marx supervised and amended closely, appeared in 1872. The English translation did not appear until 1887, so early English Marxists like William Morris had to study the French edition. A second German edition, with a sizeable Afterword from Marx, came out in 1873; a third one, soon after Marx’s death in 1883; a fourth one, supervised by Engels, in 1890.
With the growth and spread of working-class socialist parties in all the developed capitalist countries after the foundation of the Second International in 1889, the book was translated and read more and more widely. As early as 1886, Engels called it “the Bible of the working class”. From the West Coast of the USA to the eastern parts of the Tsarist empire, workers (many of whom had been granted by the state only primary-school education) and students gathered in groups to
study and discuss the book, chapter by chapter, sentence by sentence.
Unlike the Christian Bible, Capital was based on critical thinking and on painstaking empirical research. It was packed with such economic statistics as Marx could lay his hands on, and probably more “empirical” than any other general book on economics. Its superiority over other texts in political economy lay not only in that but in its method and approach, and in the fact that it studied capitalist society not as an “economic model” but as an integral whole (economy, society, ideology) and in historical perspective. In the academic and literary world, indeed, Capital has won Marx a place as a reference figure, to be respected if not applauded, in historical studies, sociology, politics, and philosophy. Oddly, in economic studies it has fared less well.
Almost exactly at the time Capital was published, orthodox economics was taking a new turn, developing new mathematical techniques for analysing price movements on the basis of supply and demand, and sidelining the study of the connections between market exchanges and allocations of labour which Marx had continued from Adam Smith and Ricardo.
Engels wrote scornfully in 1888: “The fashionable theory just now here is that of Stanley Jevons, according to which value is determined by utility... and on the other hand by the limit of supply (i.e. the cost of production), which is merely a confused and circuitous way of saying that value is determined by supply and demand”.
In fact developments from the theory of Jevons (and Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, Walras, Pareto, and others) gained sway even in some socialist circles before the end of the 19th century. Walras himself was a sort of socialist. They continue to dominate orthodox economics today, despite many critiques from within the orthodoxy which undermine their bases. The idea, inescapable from Marx’s perspective, that wage-labour is exploitative and alienating even if wages are relatively high, has been too hot to handle.
Some elements of Marx’s economic thinking were, however, taken into the mainstream by John Maynard Keynes in 1936. “The great puzzle of effective demand”, wrote Keynes, had “vanished from economic literature” after the early 19th century and “could only live on furtively, below the surface, in the underworld of Karl Marx”.
Keynes seems never to have studied Marx much, and in his half-sneering acknowledgement classified Marx with cranks and mavericks, but in fact a whole strand of “Keynesian” economics is a redevelopment of ideas developed by Marx but ignored by orthodox economics for decades.
Ever since Marx, most Marxist writers have been preoccupied by political, historical, and philosophical questions, and given relatively little time to the economics. From the late 1920s through to the 1970s or 80s, there was a contingent of “Marxist economists” in and around the Communist Parties churning out “Marxist economics”. But this economics-written-to-order tended to discredit Marxism, for example by its tortuous attempts to claim right into the 1960s that working-class living standards in Europe were declining in absolute terms.
Since around 1968, there has been a visible current of thinking within, or on the edges of, academic economic theory which refers to Marx and is free from Stalinist diktat. Many of its writers have been able to sustain dialogue and draw useful material from other heterodox economists, such as left-wing Keynesians, or others who refer to the cryptic work of Piero Sraffa, a comrade of Antonio Gramsci’s who in exile from fascist Italy became a professor at Cambridge University and an influence on both Keynes and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
It has been said, and rightly, that too big a proportion of the work of this newer “Marxist economics” is concerned with “more-Marxist-than-thou” interpretation and exegesis of Marx’s writings. But not all the interpretation and exegesis is dross. And serious work has been done on developing the approach and concepts of Marx to deal with new problems. As new green shoots of left politics sprout on the terrain long barren because so poisoned by the decades of Stalinism, we need to rediscover the urgent drive to study. We need to learn which was so big a part of the workers’ movement in the early days of the influence of Capital. We need to make links which will enable the best of “academic Marxism” to fructify active labour movement politics, and political activism to stimulate the best academic writers.
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Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory By Francis Pryor
Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory
by Francis Pryor
Takes us on the author's lifetime's quest: to discover the origins of family life in prehistoric Britain. In this title, the author explores the first nine thousand years of life in Britain, from the retreat of the glaciers to the Romans' departure.
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In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's quest: to discover the origins of family life in prehistoric Britain Francis Pryor's search for the origins of our island story has been the quest of a lifetime. In Home, the Time Team expert explores the first nine thousand years of life in Britain, from the retreat of the glaciers to the Romans' departure. Tracing the settlement of domestic communities, he shows how archaeology enables us to reconstruct the evolution of habits, traditions and customs. But this, too, is Francis Pryor's own story: of his passion for unearthing our past, from Yorkshire to the west country, Lincolnshire to Wales, digging in freezing winters, arid summers, mud and hurricanes, through frustrated journeys and euphoric discoveries. Evocative and intimate, Home shows how, in going about their daily existence, our prehistoric ancestors created the institution that remains at the heart of the way we live now: the family. 'Under his gaze, the land starts to fill with tribes and clans wandering this way and that, leaving traces that can still be seen today . . . Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' - Guardian Former president of the Council for British Archaeology, Dr Francis Pryor has spent over thirty years studying our prehistory. He has excavated sites as diverse as Bronze Age farms, field systems and entire Iron Age villages. He appears frequently on TV's Time Team and is the author of The Making of the British Landscape, Seahenge, as well as Britain BC and Britain AD, both of which he adapted and presented as Channel 4 series.
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2019 Blue Badge Scheme: Everything You Need To Know About The Hidden Disability Changes
Disability, General Interest, Invisible / Chronic Illness, ME Support and Awareness in York - The York ME Community, ME Symptoms, Medical General, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Social
By James Kelly in Contract Hire & Leasing.
The blue badge disabled parking scheme is undergoing its biggest shake-up since it was introduced in 1970, but what exactly will change?
Last month, the Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed that from 2019, people with hidden disabilities will be granted access to the scheme too.
The idea is that people with less obvious health conditions, such as autism, will have the same right to park in disabled bays as those with physical disabilities.
The change comes following an eight-week consultation in January, which concluded that many people with mental health problems struggle with the same travel issues as those with physical disabilities. But what exactly constitutes a ‘hidden disability’, and how will the changes help them?
What are hidden disabilities?
While the catch-all phrase encompasses many health issues, here’s some of the most common:
Link to Blue Badge story
Updated: 13th August 2018 — 7:26 am
Tags: Changes in Blue Badge scheme, Disability Access, ME Support and Awareness in York, myalgic encephalomyelitis, The York ME Community
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Master of Modern Photography
Edited by Peter Barberie with Amanda N. Bock
372 pages, 12 x 13
323 color + 31 b/w illus.
Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE
A fresh account of the career of one of the most important photographers of the 20th century
Through his amazing variety of innovative images, photographer Paul Strand (1890–1976) played a crucial role in establishing the medium's significance as a modern art form. Celebrating the Philadelphia Museum of Art's recent acquisition of the core collection of Strand's prints from the Paul Strand Archive, this stunning book comprehensively reassesses the artist's career in light of current scholarship and critical debates about his work. Featuring more than 250 plates, the catalogue includes many of Strand's iconic early photos such as Wall Street and Blind Woman alongside lesser-known master prints from all phases of his career.
Discussing the artist’s prolific career, from his emergence in Alfred Stieglitz's circle in New York in the early part of the century to his years spent working abroad in places such as Mexico, France, Italy, and Africa, Peter Barberie positions Strand as a remarkably independent modernist whose priorities shifted at several points and often ran counter to prevailing trends. Amanda N. Bock focuses on the years 1930–50, when Strand thoroughly explored the role of politics in modern art and relentlessly sought to identify the greater purposes of photography and filmmaking. The edited transcript from a roundtable discussion among key scholars touches upon many aspects of Strand's various projects from the 1930s to the 1960s. A detailed chronology brings to light new information about the life and work of an extraordinarily important and influential 20th-century photographer.
Peter Barberie is The Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Amanda N. Bock is project assistant curator of photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
(10/21/14–01/04/15)
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid(06/03/15–08/30/15)
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
‘With the recent acquisition of the core print collection of his archive this book comprehensively reassesses the artist’s career.’—Independent on Sunday
'Looking at the 205 images, it’s remarkable to see the breadth of subjects Strand turned his eye to – his abstract studies of nature are particularly beautiful. The additional transcript from a discussion among key curators also makes fascinating reading. A fruitful book for those wanting to delve deeper into photography.'—Anna Bonita Evans, Black & White Magazine
"It’s big and heavy like coffee table photography book should be, but definitely worth your time and money if you don’t already have an earlier Strand collection.”-Eric Alterman, The Nation
"Accompanying the eponymous exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 4, this 372-page opus reframes Paul Strand’s role in American modernist photography. Central is an excellent essay by Amanda N. Bock that focuses on his political work of the 1930s through ’50s. Bock argues that this work—from multimedia documentary and polemical films to books pairing photographs and text—fulfills Strand’s declaration of “the artist who is also a citizen,” who raises awareness, builds community, and creates collaborative art."—Greg Lindquist, The Brooklyn Rail, Top Ten Art Books of 2014
“…this stunning book comprehensively reassesses the artist's career in light of current scholarship and critical debates about his work.”—Elizabeth Avedon, Best Photography Books of 2014
“An amazing compilation of the work by a photographer who was crucial to the medium’s success.”—William O'Connor, The Daily Beast, The Best Gift Books of 2014
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Jane L. Aspinwall; With a preface by Keith F.
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Katherine Ware and Peter Barberie
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Edited by Joel Smith; With essays by Peter Barberie, Kelly
Embracing the Contemporary
The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection
Edited by Carlos Basualdo, with Anna Mecugni
Long Light
Photographs by David Lebe
Peter Barberie
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Black Butler, Vol. 23
Yana Toboso
In the heart of London stands Sphere Music Hall, a venue that enjoys immense popularity amongst the populace. However, the fervour with which its visitors return causes consternation in the mind... FULL DESCRIPTION
In the heart of London stands Sphere Music Hall, a venue that enjoys immense popularity amongst the populace. However, the fervour with which its visitors return causes consternation in the mind of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, who suspects the organisation of cult practices and sends Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his impeccable butler, Sebastian, to infiltrate the hall. They are met with none other than the disgraced erstwhile prefects of Weston College and an otherworldly fortune-teller called Blavat, who takes one look at Sebastian and divines his true nature without faltering...!
Yana Toboso is the creator of the wildly popular series BLACK BUTLER which is currently serialized in Square Enix's magazine MONTHLY GFantasy. Her previous work was a single volume entitled RUST BLASTER.
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← World Challenge Cup Kazan 2017, 11-13 Aug.
RG WORLD CHALLENGE CUP RANKING LIST 2017 →
I. Viner interview “The dying swan” Soldatova is not yet ready. Bet on the Averinas
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At the last stage of the World Challenge Cup in Kazan, the Russian team won all the gold medals, and the sisters of Averina have already won the first double for the first time. With what our team in rhythmic gymnastics will go to the world championship in Italy, which will be held in Pesaro in two weeks, the head coach of the Russian national team Irina Viner-Usmanova told ” Match TV ” Evgeny Evnevich.
– Are you pleased with the performance of the girls at this stage of the World Cup?
– For this performance, an expensive price has been paid. The huge work was additionally complicated by a change in the rules of refereeing, which occurred after the Olympics. Now the judges do not have cards to check on them during the performance of the gymnast, and, unfortunately, few judges at the moment can work well under the new rules. In the individual program of the Averinas, as well as with the Russian team in group exercises, all elements go one by one, without any pauses. This is very difficult to achieve in the preparation of the program, and then it is also difficult to get an appropriate assessment for it.
In general, as they say, the winners are not judged. But if you tell the truth, there is still a lot of work to be done in the twelve days that remained before the World Championships. I saw a lot of things that need to be worked out, completed, so that it was at the level at which Russia should perform.
– How are things with Arina Averina, she admitted in an interview that she came to Kazan not in the best shape, in terms of physical condition. Will it be able to fully recover to the World Championships?
– I think that Arina has already recovered, because she has performed successfully here. Yes, before these competitions we were very careful, and I did not even want to put her on this Cup to save her health at the World Championships. But she said that she feels well enough and is ready to perform. As a result, she took two gold medals in individual finals, plus she became the second in the all-around. The result is very good, but, as I said, there are mistakes over which you need to work.
– Is it worth waiting for Aleksander Soldatova as a part of the Russian national team at the World Championships and in the near future?
– Not yet, not worth it. She also suffered an injury, after which she is being restored, not so much even physically, as morally. She has quite complicated compositions, “The Dying Swan”, which no one else did 16 years old after Barsukova, “Spartacus”, and these things require not only physical, but also moral readiness. While this was not achieved, so far – Averiny.
– Is it possible to say that the spring European Championship was decisive, from the point of view of the leadership of the Averinas in the Russian team?
– At us all competitions are defining, we track performances constantly, and the European championship and the World games, all these starts in execution of Averinas were determinative.
– There have been changes in the composition of the team exercises?
– Yes, the Olympic champion Rio Nastya Tatareva returned, she also had a trauma, we waited, everyone was healed, and now, she had the first start here. She showed herself very worthy.
– Do you plan to perform anywhere else after the World Championships?
– Most likely, we will go to Japan for the AEON Cup. Everything else, as they say: “Night in the Crimea, all in the smoke.” We will not think about this.
Photo: RIA Novosti / Vladimir Pesnya
Relative article: Viner: Soldatova did not manage to recover after the injury to the World Championships in rhythmic gymnastics
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Television has changed remarkably over the past few years. It might be time for your viewing habits to change as well. Unless you enjoy paying more than $100 a month for a cable or satellite subscription you only half use, you’re probably considering joining the growing ranks of consumers who have “cut the cord” and are now getting their favorite TV shows, movies and even live sports through the internet and streaming services. Making this change requires some preparation, though. Here’s a step-by-step guide to the cord-cutting process. And once you're set up, hop on over to The New York Times's site Watching for personalized TV and movie recommendations.
The abbreviation CATV is often used for cable television. It originally stood for Community Access Television or Community Antenna Television, from cable television's origins in 1948. In areas where over-the-air TV reception was limited by distance from transmitters or mountainous terrain, large "community antennas" were constructed, and cable was run from them to individual homes. The origins of cable broadcasting for radio are even older as radio programming was distributed by cable in some European cities as far back as 1924.[citation needed]
Wow, you took it a step further. Even though cutting the cable is temporary, I don’t think my husband would allow it. I think TV is overrated and was paying the $90/month for Internet and cable. I didn’t completely cut cable, but lowered the package to $15/month and supplement with Netflix, which we LOVE! We are still saving about $30/month, so I’m happy.
Many customers may opt for the “cord-cutting” route and purchase streaming subscriptions directly from networks that have shows they like. Many users lean toward this service because it's cheaper and they can trim the fat by removing all the unnecessary programming they don't watch and pay for the ones they do. While this might seem like a good idea on paper, for just a few extra dollars a month, you don't have to limit yourself to just one network, or one free episode on these streaming services. Access all of your favorite shows and networks in a single place with providers like DIRECTV and Spectrum.
In designing our guide, we took all of these factors into account and simplified things, designing five bundles of online television programing—one of which, we think, will suit just about any type of TV viewer. For each bundle, we show you the price, the projected savings compared to the 2014 average basic cable price of $66.61, and how many additional a la carte TV seasons (estimated $30 per show) you could buy before cable would be more cost-effective.
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For example, imagine what the science fiction fan of 2019 will need to do to keep up with the genre’s most prominent franchise content. Star Wars will live on Disney’s new proprietary service, but new episodes of Star Trek (both Star Trek: Discovery and the upcoming Next Generation sequel) are only available on CBS All Access. Meanwhile, The Expanse is exclusive to Amazon Prime. If fans want to watch DC’s superhero shows, as well, that’ll require a DC Universe subscription — although the CW shows featuring DC characters will only be available via the CW app — or, for patient fans who want a commercial-free option, Netflix. If they want to catch up on classic Doctor Who, they’d better have a Britbox membership.
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So for part of the year, Dick and Jane might subscribe to Sling TV because Dick wants to watch baseball on his regional sports network. Jane may want to check out Viceland on the weekend because she’s a huge fan of “Huang’s World”. Later in the year, Hulu with Live TV makes more sense because Jane wants Smithsonian Channel and Dick wants to catch up on episodes of “Atlanta” and “Baskets”.
Television manufacturers have been moving toward “smart TVs” that connect to the internet and provide access to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and the like. The selection of apps on these sets vary depending on licensing agreements made between the manufacturers and the O.T.T. services. (O.T.T. is short for “over the top,” a term applied to any streaming media provider to which a consumer can subscribe directly.) Also, not all of them will let you plug in and get a seamless, cable-like TV experience without any other hardware. The technology and interfaces are certain to improve in the years ahead, but for now, for the best results, you’re better off just investing in a set-top box.
To say PSvue is the best streaming option is to say you have not used any other streaming option. It may have been arguable before they lost the Viacom channels and before their price hike. But after both of those they rank 4th. Directions even without a cloud dave has the best channel selection closely followed by sling. Fubo and Hulu are as good or better than PSVue at this point. I started my cord cutting with PSvue and have used every option in case you were wondering how I came up with my ranking.
Subscribing to these channels allows you to stream shows, either as soon as they air or on-demand after the fact. You can also stream movies, comedy specials, documentaries and even specialty sports events, just like what you get on the cable channel. The price tags are not for the faint of heart, since each one is just as expensive (if not more so) than a comprehensive streaming service.
If you subscribe to DirecTV Now, you can add HBO for $5 per month. Same goes for adding Cinemax — $5. Showtime or Starz will cost you an added $8 per month. It doesn’t matter which channel bundle you subscribe to, so you can even just get the 60+ channel bundle for $35 per month. Parent company AT&T has offered this deal since 2016, and there’s no indication that it is going away anytime soon.
I have been looking for cost effective ways to watch television. I can tell you that we pay $200.00 per month in a bundled package. We do not subscribe to any premium channels either. I have a question for you ? So if I buy one of those DVD players that can go online which would be your suggestion for the best program for me ? My husband loves hunting and fishing shows. Amazon does not have those type of shows. I would appreciate your help. Thanks for putting this info out there.
Remember the days when you could watch network television for free? (those under 25, ask your parents). Well those channels are still available at no cost...if you have an antenna. And no, we're not talking about the clunky rabbit ears of old. Antennas have changed substantially in looks and performance over the last several years. Breakthroughs in technology spurred by development of the tiny but powerful digital antennas in smartphones have been adapted to the realm of TV reception. The result? "TV antennas today are 10% of the mass they were decades ago," says Richard Schneider, president of Missouri-based manufacturer Antennas Direct. "And the move to an all digital transmission that the FCC mandated back in 2009 has put those TV signals in a higher frequency which means a better signal with less noise".
Already mentioned in another thread, but, SlingTV has good sports coverage -- otherwise, we use OTA for, e.g. PBS -- but, beware that the SlingTV WebOS client (runs on LG 4K TVs) is unreliable with some sports channels. (With others, it works fine ?!) The SlingTV WebOS client needs to be robustified. SlingTV works fine via web/chrome/Windows10 and on IOS.
For more package options (and more channels) with Charter Spectrum, you’ll have to bundle with internet and phone service. Those bundles come at a fair price though, and include free installation (normally $35), WiFi set up (typically $10), and DVR service ($13 per month). That’s a potential savings upwards of $200 in one year. Spectrum also includes HD channels free of charge.
Comcast reported a loss of 275,000 subscribers in the third quarter of 2010, bringing the total for the calendar year to 625,000. The company said most of these losses were not from people leaving for another service. Moffett pointed out that cable companies needed to offer lower-cost packages,[7] but a survey by Strategy Analytics revealed financial considerations were not the primary reason. People were not satisfied with what they could get, and online sources had a wider array of content. The survey showed that 13% of cable subscribers intended to cancel service in the next year. Slightly more than half were under the age of 40, and nearly all had a high school education. Two-thirds had or planned further schooling, and just over half earned at least $50,000 a year.[8]
If you prefer to self-install and troubleshoot your own technology, Cox Communications’ website makes that possible. Its vast resource library offers educational how-to videos on setting up, using, and troubleshooting your services. If you have a problem, just select your issue in its search tool, and it’ll direct you to the right instruction manual.
Amazon Fire TV. Similar to Roku, Amazon Fire TV comes in both box format and stick format and runs on the Amazon Fire OS that is built on top of Android. This gives it access to Amazon's app store, and while it doesn't have quite the ecosystem of Apple TV, you can use it to both play games, watch TV and boot up other useful apps like Pandora Radio, Spotify, TED, etc.
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That’s right, Amazon—it’s not just for shopping. It’s a major contender in the online streaming market. A membership to Amazon Prime Video gives you access to a wide selection of popular movies and TV series, plus a bunch of Amazon original series. And if Prime Video doesn’t include the show or movie you want as part of your package, you can usually pay per season or episode, or just rent it.
The “retention desk” at Optimum kept going successively lower. First $62, then after a long hold while they were “processing my cancellation”, came back with $45 for a year at 60 MBPS – down from the 100 MBPS package they had in their standard package. I said they had to get to $40 for a year or $45 for 2 years or I was gone, but they could cut me to 50 MBPS or “even lower” – that the DSL speed was fine for my needs. We ended at an impasse and I said cancel me. It was like the guy got huffy and hung up on me.
You will be getting live TV from all of the major broadcast networks through your TV antenna. This includes 47 of the top 50 TV shows! If you are currently using a DVR from your pay-TV provider and have become accustomed to being able to pause and rewind live TV, record your favorite shows to watch later and skip commercials, you will want a DVR for your TV antenna.
Some broadcasters have elected to embrace the concept of cord-cutting by establishing subscription-based over-the-top content offerings of their own, such as HBO Now.[22][23] Alongside the 2014 launch of CBS All Access, Les Moonves stated that there was a "very strong possibility" Showtime would also offer an OTT service—a plan which would be realized in June 2015.[24][25][26] On March 31, 2016, Canadian sports channel Sportsnet (owned by media and telecom conglomerate Rogers Communications) announced an OTT service offering its four regional feeds and two main national channels.[27]
Netflix is a great place for binge-watching entire seasons all at once. But unless it’s a Netflix original series, you’ll just have to wait until a season finishes airing to get started. But hey, no commercials! Accessing the service shouldn’t be a problem either. You probably have 10 devices in your house right now that came preloaded with the Netflix app. But if you want to use Netflix on more than one device at once, you’ll have to upgrade to the Standard ($10) or Premium ($12) plan.
People living in remote valleys of the country came up with an innovative idea to solve their reception problems. They put up antennas on hilltops and ran cable wires into their house for better reception. The cable providers are currently using the same technology for offering a variety of channels and programs that meets the individual needs of every customer.
We haven’t mentioned customer service with other cable TV providers, but we think we should emphasize that Xfinity customer service is known for being especially terrible. We understand if you’re not surprised—Xfinity has earned its reputation. However, many of us still use Xfinity because it’s the best of what’s available (most people have access to only one or two cable TV providers in their area).
The services that we have recommended above are what we call aggregate services, meaning they provide content from many different sources and are going to provide cord cutters with the best value. There are lots of what we call stand-alone streaming services, media companies who charge a monthly fee for you to access JUST their content, and more are popping up every day.
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Just because you subscribe to cable or satellite doesn't mean you have to use the provided set-top box. In an effort to become part of the cord-cutting landscape, many of the major cable and satellite providers, who double as internet service providers, let users subscribe and then access all programing via apps rather than the cable box or even the tuner in the TV.
Some cable TV providers require you to commit to a long-term contract while others don't. The length and terms of your contract will vary by the provider you choose and your location. Typically, you can expect the contract length to range from 1 to 3 years. For instance, DIRECTV's contracts are two years long, while Xfinity's range from one to two years depending on the plan that you choose. On the other hand, Spectrum will never make you sign a contract.
Prime ($8.99/mo., $119/yr.): If you shop a lot on Amazon, it’s already worth it to pay the hundred bucks a year (or $12.99/mo.) for Prime, which includes the streaming Prime Video service, the Prime Music service, some free Kindle books and free two-day shipping on many products. If you’re not big on yearly commitments, you can still get just the video service for $8.99 a month.
Like PlayStation Vue, AT&T's DirecTV Now has several tiers, starting with $35 a month, going to $50 for 80+ channels, $60 for 100+, and $70 for 120+. That does include Viacom stations and all the networks except CBS; the priciest plan offers up multiple Starz-related channels; HBO and Cinemax are here but for $5 per month extra each; Showtime is $8 per month extra.
When you start adding Paks ($10–$16 per Pak per month) on top of your base service charge, your monthly price starts to go up pretty quickly. It’s nice to start so low, but don’t expect to get out at the advertised price. Also, keep in mind, most Paks are limited to the Contour TV package, so if you’re looking for more options, you’ll be starting at a higher base price.
When it comes to MLB, NBA, NHL, Golf, NASCAR and College Sports, they are not as easy to come by. Each will air some national programming on broadcast TV throughout the year and you'll get those from your TV antenna. However, if you regularly follow these sports on Cable network channels and don't want to give that up, your options as a cord cutter are somewhat limited and sometimes costly. We will explore some options in the Streaming Services section below.
While Netflix ($8-12 per month), Hulu ($8-12 per month) and Amazon Prime ($119 per year) are the most recognizable streaming services, they are not the only ones available. In fact, traditional streaming services — wherein you pay a monthly fee to consume as much content as you like on-demand — are only a small part of the market. Depending on how much you're willing to spend (from nothing up to hundreds of dollars per year), you can get just about anything you used to enjoy on cable.
Also, a little note, because my family uses ATT Unlimited for their cell phone service. I only pay $10/month for DirecTV Now. And every other package that I may want to try is $25 less than the general public (e.g. the "Just Right" package for me would cost $25, vs. $50 for the general public; the "Go Big" package is $35 for me, $60 for most others). Also, the premium channel HBO only costs me and anyone else just $5 more per month. I haven't experienced the "inconsistent video quality [and] a suboptimal interface" that you describe, but then again, I have 1 Gbit speed for my Internet connection. Even if I didn't have that speed, I think for the price of $15/month with live TV, and HBO to boot, it's a great deal, and DTV Now is getting better month-by-month. Yes, DVR is in beta, but it is going to happen.
You don’t have to give up TV entirely to put some savings away. If you like traditional cable, satellite, or fiber TV, consider bundling or going with a smaller channel lineup. If you need only basic local channels, try out OTA TV. And if you’re looking for more flexibility than cable television can offer, see if you can affordably go the streaming live TV route.
I like new Roku Streaming Stick+ quite a bit and have one set up on the TV in my bedroom. I spent several days testing it out with a couple of TVs around my house. The Streaming Stick+ is geared for 4K HDR, but can be used with TVs that only stream 1080p. I found it to be really solid with streaming Netflix and Amazon Video even when far away from my WiFi router. If you’re looking for lower priced streamer, then check out the new line of Roku media players. If any of them are out of stock at Amazon, you can buy them directly from Roku. Roku is currently offering a free trials of DirecTV Now and HBO Now with an activation of a new Roku device.
You might think that local news and cable news would be easy to find via your set-top box, but even if you get a live TV subscription, it may be missing your local channels, and it may not have your preferred cable pundits. (Fox News, for example, isn’t available on every service.) Hulu With Live TV will get you a lot of what you need with minimal hassle, but do check out your local line-up on the Hulu website first.
Roku. While Apple and Amazon might be household names, Roku quietly delivers the best overall service for those who want to dump cable. Roku was one of the first to develop a box dedicated to streaming video, it supports a wide variety of streaming services, and best of all, it is a neutral manufacturer so it works with almost any television or service. You can buy Roku as a stick, which is a small key-like device that your stick into your TV's HDMI port, or a more-powerful box.
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Sex dolls provide us with a comfortable experience The oldest career goal is to bring more money to the legal system. The stigma of being arrested for patronizing sex workers is much worse than ever. A torso with a head but no arms or legs can be considered a doll. Any other reproduction of a human sexual organ or body part is a sex toy, not a Japanese sex doll. https://www.urdolls.com/tpe-doll-c-1.html More and more men and women of different ages and status buy silicone dolls as a way to satisfy sexual desire and fantasy as a human partner. That's why TPE sex doll and silicone love dolls are becoming more popular and interesting, but they are still the main cause of controversy. Why do people choose dolls? The 45-year-old Japanese businessman explained why he decided to buy his doll. "Men hope that one person can hear their voice without complaining that they are coming home from work." Like other men, although he has been married for many years, he still finds happiness in his dummy. Mini Flat Chest TPE Sex Doll Here are some of the characteristics of TPE sex dolls: non-allergic, unfortunately, you may have an allergic reaction to previous sex dolls, letting you stop using them. Use TPE play toys and fix with materials that do not cause any form of allergies. A man who has been married for many years can find the joy and satisfaction of a doll that can't talk or move, which sounds strange. “I have a lot of customers who really come to me. They only want a doll for comfortable use. I think it’s great. I think in that case, I am completing me by providing comfort to someone when they need it. "Work really surprised me because I know a lot of people, they look at the industry and think it's dirty, or just all pornography, but it's not the case. These dolls can be inflatable or solid and made of different types of plastic and silicone. As the world changes, more people of different generations and backgrounds begin to explore the joys of the world and no longer think about what others might think of. https://www.urdolls.com Often these are life-size replicas of the entire person, from about 4 feet to about 6 feet high, weighing from 20 to 100 pounds. Sex dolls and sex workers have gained satisfaction through sex workers and have now risen to a new level of taboo, including sites like this and raids from massage parlours around the world. What is a sex doll? Sexual dolls, also known as love dolls, are "anatomically correct" human, female or male replicas described in the film "Lars and The Real Girl." Sex doll manufacturers make replicas of death partners to fight loneliness: 'I provide comfort' http://urdolls.gaatverweg.nl/2019/07/can-sex-dolls-fight-sexual-abuse/ https://telegra.ph/Why-Are-Sex-Dolls-So-Lifelike-Now-07-15
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Asked By: urdolls in Maldives Resorts - 27 days ago
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Will you date a sex doll robot? At the same time, one-third of American adults will date their robots if they have a chance. In a few seconds, the image produced 1.7 million favorite content, more than 336,000 comments, thousands of shares on social media. And the madness of the world from celebrities to fans. ” https://www.urdolls.com/d-cups-sex-doll-c-25.html Some of the original D cup sex doll were invented by Dutch sailors in the 17th century and they needed to be isolated at sea during long trips. In 2019, we don't believe that new features will appear, but the existing features will be improved - artificial intelligence, facial movements, etc. The West Midlands County jade will receive the first pornographic replicas next week. In an interview, she said: “The interest rate is very high. We have already booked a lot of TPE sex dolls. When it comes to the Japanese venue, he added: “The service will be developed in a hotel, customers can initially be in 4 different models. Choose between. It is now possible to experiment with future sex. Live the most exciting dates with your favorite anime characters. The climate is ripe. This is just business. I will introduce a doll in my life, this is my bag. Another photo taken under water, a life doll in a red dress stared at the camera. Further photographs depict the true image of a silicone-like doll, whether lying on a double bed or a female sex doll next to each other on two double beds. Other photos show a doll similar to the eccentric singer/composer Lady Gaga, who will star in the new movie A Star Is Born with actor Bradley Cooper. But I know someone has done this - they come from all walks of life. I know that some people may raise their eyebrows, but I don't care. No one else puts food on my desk. According to a survey released this week, an astonishing 21% (one-fifth) of British people admit that they are willing to have sex with robots. What do people want to do with these sex doll robots? According to our survey. The first five answers are as follows: let them clean / cook - 45%. Conversation - 41%. Let them do my job - 38%. Have sex with them - 21%. Participate in sports - 12%. Sex and relationship psychology The authoritative authority Dr. Skoll said that "sex technology" is already developing rapidly. The sex doll robot brothel opened in Japan because men need bisexual threesomes. The site added: "The first time in Nagoya! Brought the world's first surreal sex doll brothel. https://www.urdolls.com It may be bisexuals, or heterosexuals, who want to experience anal sex, rather than interacting directly with flesh-and-blood men. Porn stars from around the world traveled to Birmingham for a 3D scan, and their images were sent to China for making dolls in China. Reference link: https://www.progettovesuvio.it/blogs/180/342/sex-doll-is-a-sex-partner-sized-sex-toy http://m3proinc.com/urdolls/blog/918/sex-dolls-can-provide-rental-services
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2016-01-07 02:38:36 Post No.44614779
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Anonymous 2016-01-07 02:38:36 Post No. 44614779 [Report] [View thread]
Planning on starting a game for Toon soon, so, ya yuks got any advice for me?
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Anonymous 2016-01-07 02:50:49 Post No.44615019
Anonymous 2016-01-07 02:50:49 Post No.44615019 [Report]
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silly voiced undead BBEG is a must
Brush up on your toon mannerisms.
Watch the classic technicolor cartoons, primarily Warner Brothers. This'll give you a better idea of the general logic and settings to expect.
The rest is pretty much up to what exactly you want to run.
Okay, so, I'm planning on it being episodic, you know, each session having little to do with each other, heck, I'm going to allow them to switch characters each session if they feel like it.
That said, I have in mind one session to be Wild West themed, and, if one of them asks if there's an Indian village, I'm going to give them an Indian village... as in, actual Hindu Indian. Sounds good for a gag?
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Alright guys I have two or more wishes in ADAD, I want to wish for a Vorpral sword withought being screwed over. How can I do this?
Btw the wishes are coming from a luck blade, it works the same as the 9th lvl spell
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I wish that my current sword becomes a vorpal sword, while remaining uncursed, unchanged in appearance and wieldiness and remaining in my possession.
That's about it. It can still fuck you over but it's about as simple as you can get without dragons saying "That's my fucking sword!"
The realm of the God Emperor 2016-01-07 01:30:26 Post No.44613379
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The realm of the God Emperor Anonymous 2016-01-07 01:30:26 Post No. 44613379 [Report] [View thread]
We know how is the realm of the chaos Gods in the warp.
>Khorne - Brass Citadel
>Slaanesha - Pink Palace
>Nurgle - rot Garden
>Tzeentch - Multidimesional Maze
But how is the realm of the God emperor inside the warp is just like this pic or is something else?
I like to think gold, cermite, aquilas and lightning motifs everywhere.
Below the golden throne, guardsmen and women feast and make merry; weapons close at hand until the final battle.
Sisters of battle and marines fly throughthe air having been transformed into actual angels.
While the inquisition looks down on the mortal realm from the side.
Any Idea for the dead Loyalist Primarchs in the realm of their father.
A sterile monochrome cubic landscape where change almost does not occur. So basically a realm of order and no fun allowed.
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Why is horror so rare a genre in gaming?
Ever play Betrayal at the House on the Hill that has plenty of horror
Horror is hard to pull off because it requires a constant atmosphere. It's difficult to do when things like food/bathroom breaks exist.
Also it requires a sense of helplessness, something that needs some very real constraints on your character. This is accomplished in video games, but is often heavy handed. In table top games it requires a very specific sort of ruleset.
I find it is easiest when you have a player conspirator to help push your players in just the wrong direction. The horror of knowing a decision is final and that you made the wrong one is rather good. Also, body horror is something that can be easily done, but disliked by many groups.
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People hate running away from danger. They want to dive headlong into danger and save the world, not skulk in libraries reading books that drive them slowly insane so the world can last a few more minutes before the inevitable onslaught of unknowable horrors from beyond perception.
Playing an intelligent sword? 2016-01-06 23:49:54 Post No.44611533
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Playing an intelligent sword? Anonymous 2016-01-06 23:49:54 Post No. 44611533 [Report] [View thread]
Are there any ways in 3.5 to play as an an intelligent weapon that possesses a host?
I suppose. I don't have my DM manual with me, but IIRC the rules for creating intelligent objects allows for different power levels, that include starting PC level.
A cool DM will allow it, and an intelligent DM will find ways to make it balanced.
The biggest question IMO is : How do you justify the sword gaining levels ?
On a sidenote, there is a quest about an intelligent sword being run on /tg/ right now >>44610661
Why not just ask your GM and he'll handwave it?
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I the sword just has whatever levels and classes the intelligence has. With a spell like ability to temporarily learn knowledge of the host, but no permanent knowledge of the host.
What if the Lesser Chaos Gods replaced the big 4? 2016-01-06 23:44:09 Post No.44611422
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What if the Lesser Chaos Gods replaced the big 4? Anonymous 2016-01-06 23:44:09 Post No. 44611422 [Report] [View thread]
Malal, Zuvassin, Necoho, and Hashut!
I just wanna see marines of Necoho and Daemons of the Undoer.
I have some scattered ideas for them...like it's either an alternate universe where they ascended in place of the Big 4, or they overthrew them through a combination of their talents.
Zuvassin would be the anti-Tzeentch, his endless weaving plans revolving around giving everyone everywhere the shaft, otherwise really pretty similar. Like a post-Ironic lord of change. His Daemons might be called The Unraveled or something of the like.
Hashut would...
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Pretty sure Zuvassin is the Laughing God wearing a Groucho Marx mask.
Clown or laughter themed daemons or marines
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As anybody else noticed the similarities and symbology of the Chaos Star and the Wheel of Emotions.
Designing Sessions for New Players 2016-01-06 23:24:38 Post No.44611031
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Designing Sessions for New Players Anonymous 2016-01-06 23:24:38 Post No. 44611031 [Report] [View thread]
I'm going to be running D&D 5E for some new players on Thursday and I was curious if you guys had any tips or advice when designing an adventure for new players.
What do you want to run?
Have your players expressed any desire to have a particular type of campaign?
Are you more into combat or roleplay (don't lie; everyone says roleplay initially but quite a large number like the combat sections more)?
What types of enemies are you having?
What classes do the players want to use?
How do you plan to have them meet up? Or is that already going to be established due to the above question?
These are the questions we need answered...
Introduce rules as they become relevant, not all at once. A huge rules dump takes time and confuses them, but you don't need that for and RPG.
First off, character creation and the massive amount of rules will scare people away. Ease 'em into it. Let them know that the book is big because it's filled with so many options; and they only need to pick and understand their own. Help them make and choose their characters by summarizing the different races and classes.
Start with a very generous plot hook, or as /tg/ would call it, railroading. They're new to this, they don't know what the hell to do with being dropped in a tavern in the middle of Faerun.
Have a learning curve. The first...
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Who would win in a fight between Guardsman with full magazine and five milion Tyranids?
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Is there a commissar?
The Commisar is listening very intently to your answer, trooper.
PRAISE THE EMPEROR.
A request for help 2016-01-06 22:35:28 Post No.44610085
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A request for help Peasants 2016-01-06 22:35:28 Post No. 44610085 [Report] [View thread]
Hey there travelers. We have a barley harvest to bring in and we could use some help. Help us and will give you some pork stew, barley bread, beer and a couple pairs of socks.
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You best start believing in highway robberies, you're in one.
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Sure thing, sounds good. What's new in this neck of the woods?
Samurai Sam 2016-01-06 22:39:05 Post No.44610154
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Hey, these are my peasants who gather my barley and your a dishonorable bandit! Now I'm gonna cut your head off with my Katana! DAAAAGH!
CCG creation resources 2016-01-06 22:34:34 Post No.44610070
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CCG creation resources Anonymous 2016-01-06 22:34:34 Post No. 44610070 [Report] [View thread]
Hey /tg/, I like to make CCGs as a hobby and I enjoy exploring different themes and mechanics.
However, when I want to prototype a game, I spend a lot of time mocking up frames in GIMP because I'm terrible at image manipulation. I wondered if some kind anon had a library of generic CCG card frames that I could use. I'm just looking for a grey or single colour bar at the top for a name, and a text box at the bottom with a typeline. Does any kind anon have something like that?
Pic related is what I've been using because it's all I'm capable of making....
Bump for interest
You want something that works in Magic Set Editor?
No, just something that looks decent with a transparency window that I can put art behind and that's not actually copyrighted material.
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Anyone like playing sociopath characters?
Nah, I mostly play Lawful Good these days.
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I'm not constrained by your feeble morality systems.
And I'm not constrained by your feeble emotional intelligence.
World Building thread 2016-01-06 22:05:17 Post No.44609549
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World Building thread Anonymous 2016-01-06 22:05:17 Post No. 44609549 [Report] [View thread]
>This world is entirely salt planes with islands that have small lakes of water on them.
>entirely salt
So /v/?
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>everyone on the planet is really grumpy and gets butthurt about the smallest slight
Much like certain boards WA HA HA.
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Civ thread.
Top row only please, first three votes for race goes.
Rolled 37 (1d100)
Sorry forgot to include forest vote
Second halflings and forest
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Would it really break the game if Wastes had its own land type?
get your radical ideals out of here
Explain further. /tg/ is for plebs after all.
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Wasn't sure where to go for this, so Icame here. I need help, and I'm guessing there may be some experienced storytelers here. I'm soon GMing a game of Edge of The Empire, and I need to think of a way for an NPC who is an Emperor's Hand to abandon their prior obligation as a fanatical secret assassin, and join the PCs as an ally NPC.
Here's my current premise:
The Assassin is on a mission to kill an Imperial Captain who is thinking about defecting. She pays the Hutt the PCs are doing missions for to give her passage on a smuggling ship so that...
Ask the Star Wars General. They've got at least half a dozen NPC's built around that idea.
> choo choo here comes the space train
don't start the game out with this. Have the emperor's hand start out by chasing the PCs, you dummy.
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