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"Contents." Independent [London, England] 31 Dec. 2012: [1]. The Independent Digital Archive.
The Independent Digital Archive
Historical Newspapers
Delve into four decades of fearlessly independent journalism written from a unique political perspective
The Independent is a major British daily national newspaper, launched in 1986 as an antidote to its often overtly political rivals. Its evolution over a quarter of a century has been considerable, but the publication has also retained a unique position in British journalism. Featuring journalists and columnists from across the political spectrum, the paper is generally regarded as centrist, presenting fresh, alternative views on the free market, social issues, and culture.
Over the last thirty years, the Independent has taken strong campaigning positions on issues such as drug legislation, the war on terror, and the environment. It received the Newspaper of the Year award in 1987 by What the Papers Say Awards, a BBC radio and television program. It received the award during its first full year of publication, and by the end of 1988, its circulation had risen to more than 400,000. This success led to the launch of The Independent on Sunday in January 1990.
In the 1990s, The Independent scored a series of scoops when it published three separate interviews by its Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk with a then little-known Osama bin Laden. In British politics, it has been a strong advocate of electoral reform, arguing that the UK's first-past-the-post system and unelected House of Lords are not suited to a modern democracy.
In 2004 The Independent was again named newspaper of the year in recognition of its "constant and brave" editorial stance.
Key campaigns include:
Against the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Criticism of US and UK foreign and domestic policy related to the War on Terror following the September 11th attacks
Demands for UN intervention in Sarajevo in 1993 following the collapse of Yugoslavia
Support for electoral reform
Raising awareness of environmental issues, especially highlighting the dangers of climate change
Against the introduction of ID cards
Support for immigration to the UK, distinguishing itself against the mainstream British press
The 1997 campaign in the Independent on Sunday for the decriminalisation of cannabis. The paper subsequently reversed its opinion a decade later because of stronger strains of "skunk" being smoked by young people
As part of Gale Historical Newspapers, The Independent Digital Archive brings a major alternative perspective to the news of the day presented in other Gale Historical Newspapers archives, particularly the more conservative and establishment-supporting views contained in The Times Digital Archive and the Daily Mail Historical Archive.
"Egypt's top brass escort President Mubarak (centre) …." Independent
South & Southeast Asian Studies
East European & Russian Studies
Western European Studies
Innovative Design in The Independent
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Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004
Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004 >
The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2015
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Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010
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The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000
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Nottingham Forest should be at the front of the queue to sign Oliver Burke in January
by James Beavis share
Earlier this month it was reported that West Bromwich Albion are ready to loan out former Nottingham Forest winger Oliver Burke during the January transfer window, and given the club’s recent problems in front of goal they should be at the front of the queue to bring him back to the City Ground next month.
What’s the word, then?
Well, The Express and Star reported at the beginning of December that the Baggies will consider loan offers for the out-of-favour 21-year-old because of a lack of game time, even though ideally Darren Moore wants him for the second-half of the season for a promotion push.
The west Midlands outfit signed the 5-cap Scotland international in a £15m deal from RB Leipzig last summer, but less than 18 months into his five-year contract he could already be sent out on a temporary basis to aid his development.
Burke burst onto the scene with Forest by scoring six goals and providing a further three assists in 31 outings before moving to Germany, where he netted once and provided two assists in 26 appearances in all competitions for Leipzig.
Why should Forest sign him?
While the Reds enjoyed a fine run of form that propelled them into the play-off positions, they also went three successive matches without scoring in December to show that they still have a lack of creativity and goals at times.
Some of the goalscoring burden certainly needs to be taken off of the likes of Lewis Grabban and Joe Lolley, and while Burke has found first-team football hard to come by at The Hawthorns, he still has the ability to make a big difference in the final third.
The fact that he is available on loan makes it even more tempting, although they could face a battle to convince a fellow promotion contender to let them have a player who could potentially help them reach the Premier League.
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FIFA 19 Career Mode Team Guide: Everton
by Kyle Archer share
Everton are in the midst of a resurgence under Marco Silva but do you reckon you can do better?
To help you take charge from the Portuguese gaffer, Football FanCast have compiled the ideal FIFA 19 Career Mode team guide, which will tell you exactly what you have in store…
The board’s expectations
The Goodison Park board will demand a lot of success should you take the job, with aspirations firmly on qualifying for Europe.
Placing the Merseyside club in a Champions League position is a must in your first season, with domestic success the highest criteria set. The board will also ask you to reach the Round of 16 in the FA Cup and develop a youth player with potential above 75, but these should not be the base of your ambitions.
The transfer kitty
In real life, Everton’s leadership signed off on a total of £88.9 million in the summer, with Richarlison, Yerry Mina and Lucas Digne moving to Merseyside.
This does not mean, however, that their spending limits you, as you are set a starting budget of £56.87million and a wage limit of £206,000. A rejig to £100,000 for player earnings will allow you to strengthen the squad a lot further.
Three players to buy
Cristian Pavon
You may be a fan of Theo Walcott, but the former Arsenal man is not the best right-sided winger you can find on FIFA 19 and one player to look out for is Buenos Aires’ Cristian Pavon.
The Argentinean winger has blistering pace and can develop into one of the best players in the league for his position.
Everton are not in dire need of another first-choice central defender, with Mina joining in the summer to partner Michael Keane and Kurt Zouma brought in on loan, but a fourth strong CB will allow you to challenge on multiple fronts.
Schalke’s Matija Nastasic was never truly tested in the Premier League at Manchester City, but his move to the Bundesliga allowed the now 25-year-old to find his feet and he is one of the best defenders for his age and rating bracket.
Like at centre-back, goalkeeper is another position where Everton are strong when it comes to the first-choice option, Jordan Pickford, but lack in depth.
Burnley’s Nick Pope may not reach the same lofty heights in his career, but the 26-year-old will not cost you an arm and a leg and will prove a superb alternative when required.
Three players to sell
Maarten Stekelenburg
Going from buying a goalkeeper to selling another is a bit of a jump, but take confidence in the fact Maarten Stekelenburg is not the goalie you want to keep around.
The 36-year-old is a far cry from the talent of his colleague, and you will be left ruing the moment you started the former international shot-stopper – cash in while you can with this one.
Phil Jagielka
Phil Jagielka will go down as one of Everton’s most revered central defenders, after joining the club in 2007 from Sheffield United and going on to make more than 300 competitive outings in blue.
But on FIFA 19, and particularly Career Mode, you don’t want to use the 35-year-old. He may still hold comparable defensive stats to those of his positional rivals, but Jagielka’s severe lack of pace will see him left for dead in every head-to-head dash.
Out of Everton’s three must-sell players, Morgan Schneiderlin is the most usable option. That said, the 28-year-old should still be transfer listed at the very least, for his £9million valuation can be a pleasant boost to your budget while taking away a player who demands regular game time.
Three for the future
Kieran Dowell
Kieran Dowell may not be getting opportunities in the Premier League under Marco Silva, but the 21-year-old has one of the highest potential ratings in the Toffees’ youth ranks.
The attacking midfielder can go on to reach an 83 rating from his base 70, but starts off strongly with well-balanced dribbling and passing stats.
With Ademola Lookman in the ranks, you do not need to sign a new left-sided forward. The 21-year-old is a real gift in Career Mode with 84 acceleration and 79 sprint speed matched to 85 agility and 83 dribbling.
Play this 4-star weak footed winger as much as possible, and it will free Richarlison to smash it as a striker.
Fraser Hornby
If you don’t want to use Richarlison as a striker and instead want him to focus on being the best left-winger possible, 19-year-old Fraser Hornby can be the future first team front-man instead.
The teenager will take a lot of nurturing to reach his potential, but give him a chance and you will see the benefits in the long-run.
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The Pension Fund Attack On Iran
By Niv Elis
Here's an unsettling question: Is your retirement plan investing in Iran, and is that helping fund the country's nuclear program?
Because they have a responsibility to maximize returns, most states generally do not seek to apply political influence to their pension funds' investment choices. Congress is out to change that. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a bill protecting the 18 U.S. states that have passed laws since 2006 requiring their pension funds to divest from foreign companies that do business with Iran. The measure, which passed 414-6 and must now be taken up in the Senate, is one of a handful of steps that could affect which companies Americans invest with as the Iran nuclear issue grows.
Florida, the first state to pass Iran divestment legislation in June 2007, has pulled $1.15 billion worth of pension money out of 24 foreign companies doing business in the energy sector in Iran and Sudan. Among the companies: Total of France, Royal Dutch Shell , India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp., Russian energy giant Gazprom and various branches of the Chinese state-controlled oil company Sinopec. American companies, long prohibited from doing business with Iran, won't be affected. (In regard to Sudan, there are loopholes in U.S. economic sanctions that allow a foreign subsidiary or distributor to operate there, but most U.S. companies have steered clear.)
Georgia and Illinois have divested a combined $200 million already, and Californian funds may divest from non-complying companies by January 2010. The idea is that their combined divestment efforts will raise the cost of doing business with Iran to the point that companies will pull out of the country. Considering that U.S. state and local pension funds held combined assets of nearly $3 trillion in 2006, according to the Conference Board, the divestment campaign could cause companies to think twice.
According to Michael P. McCauley, a senior officer at Florida's State Board of Administration, three companies from which Florida divested, including Russia's Lukoil , have ceased doing business in Iran, and two have pulled out of Sudan, clearing their names from Florida's blacklist. (In Lukoil's case, the company may have been responding to pressure from other quarters in the U.S.) Ten of the 46 companies originally cited by California are in the process of doing the same.
Florida, whose Iran blacklist stands at 36 companies, estimates that its divestment efforts dented the value of its pension fund by 0.06% from September 2007 through June. Lawmakers hope that as more and more institutional investors drop holdings in these big companies, private investors--anticipating that their holdings could drop in price--will follow suit. Federal legislation may give political cover to states that have passed weaker divestment legislation and not yet divested from companies.
But major investing groups have hardly taken notice thus far. Any firm that invests heavily in energy probably has some interest in Shell, one of the world's largest oil companies. Vanguard and Fidelity are among the many companies that offer investments in Gazprom through emerging-markets mutual funds. According to Vanguard spokeswoman Linda Wolohan, the company is "required to manage all funds in the interest of all shareholders, so it would be exceedingly difficult if not impossible" to take political and social issues into account unless it started affecting the bottom line, a major goal of the House legislation.
But investors' increased awareness on terror and nuclear weapons financing has created new business opportunities. The Conflict Securities Advisory Group, a research group, has established a Global Security Risk Monitor to help individuals and institutions with "Terror-Free Investing," assuring its clients that none of their investments will aid unsavory international actors. Vanguard also has created a socially responsible fund for socially aware investors that screens companies on social, human rights and environmental criteria. It doesn't include companies with significant business in Iran for human rights concerns, nor does it list companies involved with nuclear power.
Divestment is not the only economic weapon the U.S. has in its arsenal. Since 1996, there have been laws on the books that could stop any U.S. company from doing business with foreign companies that invest more than $20 million in Iran. But Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama have waived these sanctions on concern that they breach international law and would spark international trade wars. The Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Iranian banks and has prohibited Iran from dealing with American banks in such areas as letters of credit or "U-turn" transactions, in which dollar-denominated transactions benefiting Iranian business could be cleared in the U.S.
But not everyone is enthusiastic about the plan, fearing that it may undermine negotiations.
According to Bill Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council, such actions may be ineffective and undermine negotiations with Iran, which are more likely to yield results. "As tempting as it may be for Congress to approve bills aimed at crippling Iran's energy sector," says Reinsch, "unilateral sanctions are by definition ineffective." While there is no question that sanctions have affected the Iranian economy, Reinsch points out that they have not had enough of an impact to make Iran curtail its nuclear program or support for terrorism. Because the U.S. has had major sanctions on Iran for 30 years, he argues that the countries that can most influence Iran today are its current politically important trading partners, such as China, Russia, Japan and Germany.
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Bomb found at philanthropist George Soros' suburban home
BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) — - A device found outside a suburban New York residential compound owned by liberal philanthropist George Soros "had the components" of an actual bomb, including explosive powder, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.
"The components were there for an explosive device," said the official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the continuing investigation. "It was not a hoax device."
The official said the investigators were reviewing surveillance video Tuesday to determine whether the package had been sent through the mail or otherwise delivered.
Among the unanswered questions was whether the package was addressed to Soros, the billionaire who is a frequent target of right-wing conspiracy theories.
The Bedford Police Department said it responded to the address in the hamlet of Katonah, part of the Town of Bedford, at 3:45 p.m.
A security officer who worked at the compound placed the package in a wooded area and called police, who alerted the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Bedford police said the FBI's terrorism task force was investigating.
The FBI's New York field office said on Twitter that there was "no threat to public safety."
A message emailed to Soros' foundation wasn't immediately returned.
Soros, who made his fortune in hedge funds, frequently donates to liberal causes and is vilified on the right.
Recently, conservative critics have, without evidence, accused him of secretly financing a caravan of Central American migrants to make their way north toward Mexico and the U.S.
The Jewish Soros has also been the target of anti-Semitic smears. Some have falsely accused him of being a Nazi collaborator during World War II, when he was a child in Hungary.
Activists frequently post the addresses of homes he owns in Westchester County, north of New York City, on social media sometimes accompanied by ill wishes.
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ATF Agents Arrest Rapper T.I. Before BET Awards
ATLANTA – Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was arrested Saturday — just hours before he was to perform at the BET Hip-Hop Awards — in a parking lot where federal officials said he planned to pick up machine guns and silencers his bodyguard bought for him.
T.I., born Clifford Harris, is charged with possession of unregistered machine guns and silencers, as well as possession of firearms by a convicted felon. Harris was in federal custody, said U.S. attorney's office spokesman Patrick Crosby, who would not disclose his location.
Sydney Margetson, a spokesman for T.I.'s label, Atlantic Records, declined to comment Saturday evening.
The arrest resulted from an investigation that began this month. A federal firearms dealer told the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that a man was inquiring about buying a machine gun without registering the weapon as required, according to a criminal complaint filed Saturday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.
After trying to buy several machine guns from an undercover ATF agent, the unnamed person began cooperating with the government and said he was buying the machine guns and silencers for Harris, the complaint said. The bodyguard said that he had bought about nine firearms for Harris, and that the rapper had given him cash to buy guns four times, the complaint said.
Harris brokered the deals through the bodyguard because the rapper is a convicted felon, the complaint alleged. It is against federal law for a convicted felon to have another person get firearms on their behalf.
The 27-year-old rapper arranged to meet with the bodyguard Saturday to exchange cash for weapons, the complaint said. After his arrest in the shopping center parking lot not far from the awards show, agents found three firearms in the vehicle he was driving, including a loaded firearm between the driver's seat and center console, according to the complaint.
As the awards were being taped in Atlanta on Saturday night, federal authorities were still searching T.I.'s home in East Point, about 15 miles southwest of the city.
Agents found six guns in a closet, including three allegedly bought by the bodyguard for the rapper last month, according to the complaint. Five were loaded, agents said.
T.I. had been expected to perform at the BET show, which is to be broadcast Wednesday, and was nominated in nine categories. Instead, the rapper was noticeably absent from red carpet festivities before the show began at 6 p.m.
The co-chief executive of Grand Hustle Records won three awards at last year's inaugural BET Hip-Hop Awards and received nine nominations this year, including CD of the Year, Lyricist of the Year and MVP of the Year. His sixth album, "T.I. vs. T.I.P.," was released July 3 and debuted at No. 1.
T.I. won two Grammys in 2006, including best rap/sung collaboration for "My Love" with Justin Timberlake. He also hit the big screen in "ATL" that year, and he has a role opposite Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in "American Gangster," set for release Nov. 2.
T.I. grew up in Atlanta and was selling crack by the time he was a teenager. In 2004, warrants were issued for his arrest on probation violations for a drug conviction, and he was sentenced to three years behind bars. It wasn't clear Saturday how much of the sentence he actually served.
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News October 2010 AADB investigating auditors' conduct in relation to BAE Systems plc
AADB investigating auditors' conduct in relation to BAE Systems plc
AADB PN 26
The Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board has begun an investigation under its Accountancy Scheme into the conduct of KPMG Audit plc as auditors to BAE Systems plc.
The scope of the investigation is as follows:
“The conduct of Members and Member Firms in relation to:
The audits of British Aerospace / BAE Systems Group plc and any of its subsidiaries by KPMG from 1997-2007 in relation to the commissions paid by BAE through any route to subsidiaries, agents and any connected companies. Also any other professional advice, consultancy or tax work provided to BAE by KPMG between those dates in respect of (i) commission payments paid by BAE and (ii) the status, operation or disclosability of Red Diamond Trading Ltd., Poseidon Trading Investments Ltd. and Novelmight Ltd.”
This decision was taken following consultation with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is the UK’s independent regulator responsible for promoting high quality corporate governance and reporting to foster investment. Its functions are exercised principally by its operating bodies (the Accounting Standards Board, the Auditing Practices Board, the Board for Actuarial Standards, the Financial Reporting Review Panel, the Professional Oversight Board, and the Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board) and by the FRC Board. The Committee on Corporate Governance assists the Board in its work on corporate governance.
The Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board ("AADB") is the independent, investigative and disciplinary body for accountants and actuaries in the UK. The AADB is responsible for operating and administering independent disciplinary schemes for these professions. The Accountancy Scheme (PDF) covers Members of the following accountants' professional bodies:- the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. The Actuarial Scheme covers Members of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
The focus of the AADB is on cases which raise important issues affecting the public interest; other disciplinary cases will continue to be dealt with by the relevant professional body. The purpose of an investigation is to determine whether there is evidence of misconduct on the part of Members or Member Firms of the professional bodies. An investigation does not always mean that an allegation has been made or that there is evidence of misconduct on the part of the Member or Member Firm involved.
Disciplinary complaints filed following an AADB investigation are heard by an independent Tribunal which will normally sit in public. If the Tribunal upholds a complaint, there is a wide range of sanctions which it can impose including an unlimited fine, exclusion from membership of a professional body covered by one of the Schemes and withdrawal of practising certificates or licenses.
Document created under a former FRC operating body.
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Home Topics Blended & Personalized Learning Why Great Teachers Matter to Low Income Students
Why Great Teachers Matter to Low Income Students
Tom Vander Ark
Here’s a great op-ed in WaPo by Joel I. Klein, Michael Lomax and Janet Murguía:
In the debate over how to fix American public education, many believe that schools alone cannot overcome the impact economic disadvantage has on a child, that life outcomes are fixed by poverty and family circumstances, and that education doesn’t work until other problems are solved.
This theory is, in some ways, comforting for educators. After all, if schools make only a marginal difference, we can stop faulting ourselves for failing to make them work well for millions of children. It follows that we can stop working to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (currently known as No Child Left Behind) and stop competing in the Obama administration’s Race to the Top initiative, which promises controversial changes.
Problem is, the theory is wrong. It’s hard to know how wrong — because we haven’t yet tried to make the changes that would tell us — but plenty of evidence demonstrates that schools can make an enormous difference despite the challenges presented by poverty and family background.
Consider the recent national math scores of fourth- and eighth-graders, which show startling differences among results for low-income African American students in different cities. In Boston, Charlotte, New York and Houston, these fourth-graders scored 20 to 30 points higher than students in the same socioeconomic group in Detroit, Milwaukee, Los Angeles and the District of Columbia. Boston fourth-graders outscored those in Detroit by 33 points. Ten points approximates one year’s worth of learning on these national tests, which means that by fourth grade, poor African American children in Detroit are already three grades behind their peers in Boston.
Not surprisingly, these differences persist (or grow) by the eighth grade, at which point low-income African American students in Detroit are scoring 36 points behind their peers in Austin.
The scores tell a similarly painful story for low-income Hispanic students in different cities. In fourth grade, there is a 29-point difference between test scores in Miami-Dade and Detroit. By eighth grade, the gap has closed slightly, with low-income Hispanic students in Houston outscoring their peers in Cleveland and Fresno, Calif., by 23 points.
These numbers represent vast differences in millions of lives. Low-income African American and Hispanic students in different cities are sufficiently similar in terms of their academic needs, but their outcomes are so dramatically different.
The main difference between these children is that they are enrolled in different school districts. And research indicates that if the data were broken out for the same students in different schools the differences would be more dramatic; and more dramatic still if broken out for the same children in different classes.
What explains these differences? Schools and teachers. “Teacher quality is the single most important school factor in student success,” the Aspen Institute’s Commission on No Child Left Behind recently noted. Given how much research supports this view, it is especially troubling, the commission found, that “teacher quality is unevenly distributed in schools, and the students with the greatest needs tend to have access to the least qualified and least effective teachers.”
Different teachers get very different results with similar students. So as reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is considered, we should look closely at those whom we attract and retain to teach, with regard to their quality and to ensuring they are distributed equally across our school districts. If we can do those things, we could at least make Detroit students perform like those in Boston, and make Boston students do a lot better.
A few things need to happen:
First, we must attract teachers who performed well in college. Countries that do best on international tests draw teachers from the top third of college graduates. In the United States, however, most teachers come from the bottom third. Moreover, the bottom of that group is vastly overrepresented in our highest-needs communities.
Second, we must create systems that reward excellence rather than seniority by creating sophisticated evaluation systems that include student performance and merit-based tenure and compensation. We must make it easier to remove teachers who are shown to be ineffective.
Third, we must do more to attract teachers to high-needs schools and subject areas, such as English Language Learners, special education, and other areas to which it is difficult to draw talent because of opportunities in other industries.
These are common-sense and ambitious reforms. Such efforts are rewarded in the Race to the Top initiative and ought to be fully integrated into a new Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Yes, they call for a reevaluation of seniority — the staple of most collective bargaining agreements — in the context of what actually serves children. But right now, one bad teacher with seniority earns as much as two great young teachers. Who really thinks this is best for our kids?
Apologists for our educational failure say that we will never fix education in America until we eradicate poverty. They have it exactly backwards: We will never eradicate poverty until we fix education. The question is whether we have the political courage to take on those who defend a status quo that serves many adults but fails many children.
Joel I. Klein is chancellor of New York City schools. Michael L. Lomax is president and chief executive of the United Negro College Fund. Janet Murguía is president and chief executive of the National Council of La Raza. They are co-chairs of the Board of the Education Equality Project (www.edequality.org).
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On Dec. 15, Diana Fredericks volunteered for the Holiday Hands program of the United Way of Hunterdon County.
At the annual meeting of the Somerset County Business Partnership (SCBP) on Dec. 14, which was attended by approximately 500 business leaders and elected officials, Deborah Rosenthal was publicly acknowledged and thanked for the pro bono work she did in drafting the personnel manual for the SCBP.
Mark Chazin was re-elected to a 3-year term on the Board of Directors of the Somerset County Business Partnership (SCBP) at the organization’s annual meeting on Dec. 14. Mr. Chazin is a former chairman of the Somerset County Chamber of Commerce, which is the predecessor organization of the SCBP, and has been a member of the Board for over 25 years. He is also an active member of the SCBP Finance Committee.
William Rudnik authored an article entitled “What is Included in Child Support Under the Child Support Guidelines?,” which was published in the New Jersey Family Lawyer, Vol. 36, No. 3, December 2015.
The next meeting of a men’s discussion group focusing on divorce will be held on Thurs., Nov. 19, 2015 from 6:30 pm until 8 pm at the United Way, located at 4 Walter E. Foran Blvd, Suite 401 in Flemington. The group is for men who are separated or divorced, or who are going through a divorce. This is a unique opportunity for men to hear from others and to provide their own perspectives to other men who are dealing with these issues. The program will be moderated by family law attorney William Rudnik of Gebhardt & Kiefer, P.C. and certified financial planner Craig Hyldahl of R.I.C.H. Planning Group, LLC. Future meetings will include other local professional moderators. Food and beverages will be provided. Any questions should be directed to William Rudnik at 908-735-5161 or brudnik@gklegal.com. Although not required, please RSVP to Mr. Rudnik so proper arrangements can be made for food and beverages.
Gebhardt & Kiefer was pleased to be a sponsor of the Crime Stoppers of Hunterdon County annual gala on Nov. 12, honoring retired Judge Stephen Rubin and Robert Stephenson. Diana Fredericks represented Gebhardt & Kiefer at the event. Crime Stoppers is a volunteer, non-profit organization that offers cash rewards for tips leading to the arrest or indictments of persons involved in a crime.
William Rudnik was a presenter at the Hot Tips seminar for the NJ State Bar Association’s Family Law Section on Nov. 11. The title of this year’s seminar was “The Road to Resolution - Collaborative Law, Mediation, Arbitration or Trial,” and Mr. Rudnik’s topic was appealing arbitration awards. He discussed appeals under the Arbitration Act, appeals under the Alternative Procedure for Dispute Resolution Act (APDRA), and expanding the right to appeal.
Gebhardt & Kiefer was pleased to be a sponsor of the NORWESCAP Food Bank’s 13th Annual Culinary Celebration on Nov. 2, 2015 at Beaver Brook Country Club. All funds raised directly benefit the Food Bank, which distributes more than 2.25 million pounds of food and grocery products to 120 food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, on-site feeding programs, and adult and children’s daycare centers in Hunterdon, Sussex and Warren Counties.
William Rudnik was a panelist at the Vicinage XIII Family Law Bench Bar Conference on Oct. 28. The family law topics covered included alimony statues, retirement and cohabitation; motions; issues with case information statements; refusal to visit; new court rules; joint legal custody; and parental alienation, among others. Gebhardt & Kiefer sponsored two law clerks at the subsequent Vicinage dinner, and Diana Fredericks volunteered to “adopt” two clerks during the “Meet the Clerks and Judges” reception, introducing them to the attorneys and judges.
John Manfreda will present a free program entitled “Estate Planning For The Modern Family” at the North County Branch of the Hunterdon County Public Library on Oct. 28 from 7-9pm. Topics will include traditional estate planning concepts such as Wills, Trusts, probate actions, life insurance planning, estate planning for blended families, Medicaid planning, asset protection planning, various elder law topics, Powers of Attorney, and Living Wills. Several other professionals are expected to attend, including financial advisers, a long-term care specialist, a life insurance specialist, and one or more family law attorneys. All will be available to answer questions as they arise during the program. Heavy attendance is expected; please register early by calling 908-730-6135.
Gebhardt & Kiefer was pleased to be a corporate sponsor of the North Hunterdon Rotary Club's "Field of Dreams" playground revitalization project in Annandale. The ribbon cutting for the newly refurbished playground will be Sat., Oct. 24 at 2:30 PM. The playground is located at 314 Old Allerton Rd. (next to Immaculate Conception Church).
Diana Fredericks attended a seminar entitled “Religion & Estate Planning” by Martin Shenkman at the Greater Middlesex Estate Planning Council meeting on Oct. 21. Ms. Fredericks, who practices in the areas of divorce & family law, says she found it interesting that religion is not often considered in estate planning where it should be, yet in divorce matters involving custody, religion often plays a significant role.
The next meeting of a men’s discussion group focusing on divorce will be held on Tues., Oct. 20, 2015 from 6:30 pm until 8 pm at the United Way, located at 4 Walter E. Foran Blvd, Suite 401 in Flemington. The group is for men who are separated or divorced, or who are going through a divorce. This is a unique opportunity for men to hear from others and to provide their own perspectives to other men who are dealing with these issues. The program will be moderated by family law attorney William Rudnik of Gebhardt & Kiefer, P.C. and certified financial planner Craig Hyldahl of R.I.C.H. Planning Group, LLC. In addition, accountant Marsha Baldinger will provide some tax advice and answer questions relating to taxes. Food and beverages will be provided. Any questions should be directed to William Rudnik at 908-735-5161 or brudnik@gklegal.com. Although not required, please RSVP to Mr. Rudnik so proper arrangements can be made for food and beverages.
Gebhardt & Kiefer was pleased to support the Lambertville Historical Society’s 33rd annual Autumn House Tour on Oct. 18.
Gebhardt & Kiefer was pleased to support the 200 Club of Hunterdon County and the Hunterdon County Police Chiefs Association with a sponsorship of their 7th annual Charity golf Tournament on Oct. 9 at the Fox Hollow Country Club.
On Sept. 28, Deborah Rosenthal conducted two seminars on demeanor and behavior in the work place for approximately 25 county management and supervisory employees. Topics included training techniques, evaluations, management and supervisory tips and techniques, complaint procedures, bullying issues, and recommendations for avoiding claims of harassment and discrimination.
Ms. Rosenthal also conducted a seminar on Sept. 29 for approximately 20 employees of a large Ocean County town. Topics included demeanor and bullying issues in the workplace, complaint procedures for rank and file employees and management, and recommendations for avoiding claims of harassment and discrimination.
A free seminar on divorce will take place on Oct. 21, 2015 at 6 PM at Unity Bank in Clinton. A panel of experts will discuss various divorce scenarios and answer questions commonly asked by people contemplating divorce, such as “What are the first steps?”; “How long will the process take?”; “How much does it cost?”; and “What about options such as mediation or collaboration?”. Participating professionals will include family law attorney Diana Fredericks of Gebhardt & Kiefer, financial advisor Louis Tranquilli, and psychologist Charles Most, Psy.D., B.C.F.E., F.A.C.F.E. Space is limited, so please RSVP by Oct. 10 to Ms. Fredericks at dfredericks@gklegal.com. Food and drinks will be served.
On Sept. 14, Deborah Rosenthal presented a seminar on demeanor and behavior in the workplace to approximately 25 management employees for two towns in Morris County. Topics covered included training techniques, evaluations, management and supervisory tips and techniques, complaint procedures, bullying issues, and recommendations for avoiding claims of harassment and discrimination.
Ms. Rosenthal also presented a harassment and discrimination seminar on Sept. 22 for approximately 45 employees in two Somerset County towns. Topics included demeanor and bullying issues in the workplace, complaint procedures for rank and file employees and management, and recommendations for avoiding claims of harassment and discrimination.
The next meeting of a men’s discussion group focusing on divorce will be held on Tues., Sept. 22, 2015 from 6:30 pm until 8 pm at the United Way, located at 4 Walter E. Foran Blvd, Suite 401 in Flemington. The group is for men who are separated or divorced, or who are going through a divorce. This is a unique opportunity for men to hear from others and to provide their own perspectives to other men who are dealing with these issues. The program will be moderated by family law attorney William Rudnik of Gebhardt & Kiefer, P.C. and certified financial planner Craig Hyldahl of R.I.C.H. Planning Group, LLC. Future meetings will include other local professional moderators. Food and beverages will be provided. Any questions should be directed to William Rudnik at 908-735-5161 or brudnik@gklegal.com. Although not required, please RSVP to Mr. Rudnik so proper arrangements can be made for food and beverages.
On Sept. 17, Diana Fredericks was honored as one of the NJ Law Journal’s “2015 New Leaders of the Bar” at a special awards dinner at the Brooklake Country Club in Florham Park.
On Sept. 16, Diana Fredericks was sworn in as President Elect for the Hunterdon County Bar Association. Also, William Pandos was welcomed and accepted as a new member.
Gebhardt & Kiefer is pleased to welcome new associate William Pandos, who will practice primarily in the area of insurance defense. Mr. Pandos graduated from Villanova University with a B.A. degree in Political Science, and then obtained a J.D. degree from the Drexel University School of Law. He served as a judicial law clerk to both the Honorable John H. Pursel and the Honorable John F. Kingfield in the Civil and Criminal Divisions of the Superior Court in Warren County, NJ. Mr. Pandos also served as a law clerk at a Somerset County firm in 2012 and 2013. He was admitted to the Bar in 2014 in both NJ and PA. In addition, Mr. Pandos is certified by the New Jersey Courts in Special Civil and Landlord-Tenant Mediation.
Gebhardt & Kiefer was pleased to be a sponsor of the 29th annual Skylands Triathalon on Sept. 13. Organized by the North Hunterdon Rotary Club, the annual Triathalon raises funds for charitable organizations and activities within the community. This year, funds will go toward the Special Olympics of NJ and Operation Chillout, a homeless veterans outreach group. Representing Gebhardt & Kiefer at the event was Mark Chazin, who has been a Rotarian for more than 26 years, and who organized the volunteers responsible for parking and traffic control for this year's event.
On Aug. 13, Deborah Rosenthal conducted a seminar on workplace demeanor for approximately 60 supervisors, department heads and employees of a large Sussex County town. The seminar focused on proper techniques and tips for supervisory personnel, and overall appropriate behavior and conduct in the workplace. Specific information was provided regarding conflict resolution, dealing with the workplace “bully,” reporting incidents of inappropriate conduct, and preventing discrimination and harassment. Ms. Rosenthal is available to provide similar seminars for employers and municipalities upon request.
Gebhardt & Kiefer employees assembled and contributed three back-to-school supply kits as part of the United Way of Hunterdon County’s “Tools 4 Schools” initiative, and the firm matched the employees’ donations with funds for another three kits. The school supply kits will be distributed to area elementary, middle school and high school students in need. Gebhardt & Kiefer attorney Diana Fredericks, who serves on the United Way Board of Trustees, volunteered to help assemble the supply kits at the Kit-A-Thon on August 11.
Gebhardt & Kiefer was pleased to be a sponsor of the 10th Annual Charity Golf Outing hosted by the Clinton Township Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #182 on August 3rd. The event, held at the Stanton Ridge Golf and Country Club, benefits a charitable fund that awards an annual scholarship to a North Hunterdon High School student and also supports the community in various ways.
On Mon., July 20 at 4 PM, Diana Fredericks will be a guest on the radio show “Hot in Hunterdon,” which airs on Hunterdon Chamber Internet Radio and is hosted by Georgjean Trinkle. The show discusses hot topics, current affairs and issues occurring in Hunterdon County.
Mark Chazin participated in the quarterly Board of Directors meeting of the Somerset County Business Partnership (SCBP) on July 16, 2015. Mr. Chazin has served on this Board for over 25 years, and is also a member of the SCBP Finance Committee and a prior Chairman of the Somerset County Chamber of Commerce (the SCBP predecessor organization). A key agenda item at the meeting, which was held at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Somerset, was the Millennial Report. Entitled “Somerset County Development Opportunities, a Millennial Perspective,” the report explores whether Somerset County is an attractive place to live, work and play for the growing millennial generation. It will serve as an important resource for the Somerset County business community. The report was initiated by the SCBP in collaboration with the Somerset County Freeholders and Planning Board, and researched and prepared by Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
Every Friday at 5 PM, John Manfreda co-hosts a radio show about one of his favorite topics...sports. Listeners can hear "The Sports Guys" on Hunterdon Chamber Internet Radio.
Congratulations to William Goodwin, who was named one of New Jersey’s “10 Best Family Law Attorneys” for 2015 by the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys (AIFLA). According to AIFLA, this honor is awarded to attorneys who have attained the highest degree of professional achievement in their fields of law, and have done so with an impeccable client satisfaction rating.
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Curtis D. Adams
April 12, 1933 ~ July 2, 2019 (age 86)
Curtis D. Adams, 86, passed away July 2nd, 2019. He resided in East Ridge, TN for 45 years.
Curtis was a dedicated public servant who loved working for and serving Hamilton County. He was the longest serving Hamilton County Commissioner in history (1988-2010). He was a very outspoken member of the commission that never backed down from his opinion and views on any matter. He was also a longtime circulation director and advertising director for the Chattanooga News Free-Press and Times newspapers. He went to work for Roy McDonald when he was 18 years and grew to love Mr. Roy like a father. He was a city manager for East Ridge and Crossville, TN. He was a radio host and had a love for gospel music. The highlight of each month, was attending the gospel singing that his dear friend, Bill Hullander, hosted at his barn in Apison, Tennessee. He worked with his wife and sons in their family tire business for several years after retiring from the newspaper. Curtis loved meeting people, marrying couples, telling stories and jokes and working in his yard. He was a great public speaker and gave hundreds of speeches, usually without a note in sight.
He was preceded in death by his loving wife of 60 years, Dorothy “Dot” Adams, his two sons Curtis O. Adams and Michael W. Adams, parents, Rev. Dewey Adams, Estelle Priest, step-father, Morris Priest, and brothers, David and Edward Adams.
He is survived by his two daughters Jennifer (Gus) Hopper, Lookout Mountain, and Debbie (Lynn) Gibson, East Ridge, 10 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services celebrating the life of Curtis Adams will be Sunday, 2:30 PM, in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Paul McDaniel and Bill Hullander officiating. Interment will be in Lakewood Memory Gardens, South.
Honorary pallbearers will be all former Hamilton County Commissioners.
Visit www.heritagebattlefield.com to share condolences with the family and view the online memorial tribute.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.
The family will receive friends from 4-7 p.m. Saturday, and 12:30 – 2:30 PM, Sunday, at the Heritage Funeral Home on Battlefield Parkway.
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Founding family of the Peninsula
Jennifer Rausch is the latest descendant to open a business maintaining the family’s ties to the area
– Story by Pieta Vandyke Photography by Don Denton
From farming to the gold fields, from cattle ranching to The Great War and from fish canning and now to yoga, the adventures of a Saanich Peninsula pioneering family — the Brethours — are interwoven with the history of the area itself.
And for descendent Jennifer Rausch, who was born and raised here, and who is now the owner of a new yoga studio in Sidney, a strong connection to the Brethour family is all she’s ever known.
The Brethour family arrived from San Francisco on the steamer Prince Alfred, disembarking in Victoria on April 10, 1873. There were 11 in the party as Samuel and Margaret Brethour brought with them six sons and three daughters, ranging in age from less than four (Georgina) to 26 (John).
But the Brethour family’s around-the-world journey started much earlier, in 1709, when a group of Huguenots living on the banks of the Rhine River followed an arrangement by the British government to escape to America. But their vessel was wrecked at the mouth of the River Shannon in Ireland, and they remained in County Limerick for over a century. Samuel Brethour was born in Ireland and, in 1834, his family set off for America. They eventually reached Montreal and settled in Upper Canada, in County York, near Lake Simcoe. He married Margaret St. John and they lived on the farm for 29 years, before they got on a train for San Francisco and later travelled to Canada’s West Coast.
Upon the family’s arrival on the Peninsula, Samuel bought 500 acres that stretched from what is now Ocean Avenue to Mills Road and from East Saanich (MacDonald Park) Road to the sea. The land was purchased from Alexander Munro of the Hudson’s Bay Company and James Menagh.
In the first year, the menfolk slashed and burned 60 acres, ploughed 40 acres with a yoke of oxen and threshed 1,800 bushels of grain. The family home became the site for Methodist church services and Sunday school, until a school was built on Wain’s Cross Road. Samuel Brethour senior lived only four years after settling here and was the first to be buried in the Brethour Family cemetery on Canora Road in Sidney. Margaret caught pneumonia while nursing her youngest son, Phillip, who had typhoid fever, and both mother and son died within three days of each other.
Going to the Sidney Museum to research the Brethour family, I was barely inside the door when my eye was caught by the story of “Old Katie,” who was the wife of Chief Jim of the W̱SÁNEĆ people. Katie was present when the Douglas Treaty was signed at Deep Cove. She made regular visits to the home of Julius Brethour, son of Samuel and Margaret, opening the back door and sitting down to have lunch. Then, according to author P. Grant in The Story of Sidney, she and Julius would settle in for a chin-wag in Chinook, the coastal trading language. Clearly the Brethours developed friendly relations with the Indigenous people of the area.
In 1891, four of the Brethour brothers incorporated their waterfront land and registered the village of Sidney, naming it for the island immediately to the east of it. The Brethours operated a lumber mill that made railroad ties for the Victoria and Sidney Railway, as well as a canning plant — canning clams and later processing fruit. They also donated land for the Sidney Roofing Company.
Samuel and Margaret’s eldest child, William, lived with the family until he and his cousin decided to try their fortunes as homesteaders in Kansas. He married a widow and they became successful cattle ranchers.
Their son, Henry Brethour, the first teacher at an early Peninsula school, was a member of the school board when the famous General Sir Arthur Currie was appointed as a teacher. Henry served several terms as councillor for the Municipality of North Saanich. His brother John Stanley Brethour ran a successful contracting business in Vancouver. A sister, Marjory May, graduated in nursing from Royal Jubilee Hospital and was active with the Rebekah Lodge and the Pythian Sisters. Brother Phillip served in the First World War and then came back to settle on the family farm. He received many trophies and awards for fruit and flowers at the annual fall fair. Samuel Junior, the Brethour’s seventh child, lived on East Saanich Road for 68 years.
Son Wesley — the great grandfather of Jennifer Rausch — also served in the Great War and then took up the study of mining engineering. He lost his life on the Atlin Trail near Carcross in the Yukon. The youngest surviving son, Raymond Julius Brethour, followed a career as a commercial artist in Ohio, Seattle and New Zealand.
A more recent and well-recognized member of the family, Moran Brethour, was born only 21 years after the town of Sidney was established. He was integrally involved in the development of Sidney as we know it today, having worked at the cannery and the lumberyard and then having assisted in the construction of the original Pat Bay Airport buildings. He later worked on the John Hart Hydro project and various other sawmills. Among other accomplishments, he wrote a Brethour family history. On the 100th anniversary of the founding of the town of Sidney, Moran was made Citizen of the Century in recognition of his long-standing contribution to the recording and preservation of the local history.
Now, several generations later, Jennifer, her kids, brother, sister and many of her cousins are very active in the fishing and boating community. They all love the ocean and spend much of their free time boating. An uncle, brother and a couple of cousins are still in the commercial fishing business.
Jennifer, the latest member of the family to embark on a new business — Sitka Yoga + Pilates — was 15 when her grandmother Catherine Jessie Brethour Campbell (daughter of Wesley and Jessie Brethour) passed away.
“She was 95, so pretty old already when I was a kid. I only have faint memories of visiting her in her condo across from Tulista Park,” recalls Jennifer. “Her son, my granddad, Mervyn Campbell (Brethour) and I were very close my entire life. He passed away from cancer in 2011 and we buried him at the Brethour cemetery. He was an old fisherman and quite the character.”
Jennifer adds: “Our family truly is a west coast family. When naming my yoga studio I wanted a west coast name and feeling incorporated into the studio. Several family members hiked the West Coast Trail a couple years ago, and this is is where I took the beautiful picture of a grove of trees that is hanging up in my studio.”
Sitka Yoga (sitkayoga.ca) is located at 9819 Fifth Street, above Boondocks. P
Many thanks to Alyssa Gerwing and the Sidney Museum for providing access to the files.
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Earn a Tax Deduction at Year-End by Donating to Goodwill
CONTACT: David J. Tobiczyk, Vice President, Marketing & Development
Giving to Goodwill during the holiday season offers donors an end-of-the-year “win-win” – you can help others while helping yourself to a tax break at the same time. By donating goods or financial support to Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania by December 31, you can earn a tax deduction for 2016 while helping to sustain the important programs and services that Goodwill provides to the community.
“Donations are the life-blood of Goodwill stores, which represent nearly half of our operating revenues,” said Michael J. Smith, President/CEO of Goodwill SWPA. “And at this time of year, just when our stores are the busiest, donations tend to slow down because people are involved with holiday activities and traveling.”
Goodwill currently needs traditional donations such as clothing, housewares, books, furniture and jewelry, as well as donations of cars, computers and other electronic equipment.
“We are issuing this last-minute reminder about the tax benefits of donating to Goodwill in an effort to motivate people to help us out during December,” Mr. Smith said. Material donations may be dropped off at any Goodwill store. Find the nearest location at www.goodwillswpa.org.
Financial donations may also be made in many different ways that are convenient to donors. More information can be found at www.goodwillswpa.org/donate-money.
Checks may also be mailed to Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Attn: Development Office, 118 52nd Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201. Donors can also text EMPOWERS to 56512 to easily make a gift via a mobile phone. To donate a vehicle, just call the Goodwill Auto Donation program at 1-888-30-40-CAR (1-888-304-0227), or visit www.goodwillswpa.org/donate-a-car .
“We greatly appreciate all of the generous support we receive from the community, and we definitely work hard to put your gifts to good use,” Mr. Smith said.
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GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMOHOME
Governor Cuomo Launches Year Three of 43North the $5 Million Startup Competition
TOP Governor Cuomo Launches Year Three of 43North...
Program Offering $5 Million in Cash Awards
Accepting Applications Now Through May 31, 2016
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that applications are now being accepted for the third year of 43North. The $5 million competition attracts entrepreneurs from around the world to compete for prizes that turn startups with high growth potential into funded enterprises in the Western New York region.
"After two years, the 43North competition has attracted some of the world's brightest and most innovative entrepreneurs to Buffalo and in year three, we will continue to carry them momentum forward," said Governor Cuomo. "With Western New York rapidly becoming home to so many forward-thinking businesses, we must commit to making the targeted investments that are critical to growing the industries on the cutting edge of innovation."
The 2016 competition includes a revised prize structure that now features a grand prize of $1 million, a runner-up prize of $600,000, and six $500,000 awards. An additional $400,000 will be awarded to winners as incentivized follow-on funding. Part of the Governor Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative, the competition operates through $6 million in support from the New York Power Authority and $1 million from Empire State Development. The funding beyond the prize money is used to cover operational costs and to help ensure 43North continues to both attract new competitors and support last year's winners as they begin their work in Buffalo.
"The 43North competition is a proven investment in innovative ideas that will continue to transform Buffalo and the entire Western New York economy," said Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul. "Each winner has the potential to grow into a thriving business that will create jobs and help our economy. As someone who calls Buffalo home, I can speak to the Renaissance underway -- and it’s because of pioneering projects like 43North, supported by Governor Cuomo's visionary Buffalo Billion initiative."
43North Executive Director John T. Gavigan said, "Anyone with a rock-solid startup has a legitimate chance to make their dreams come true through the 43North competition. The 43North team is excited to spread Governor Cuomo's message of opportunity throughout North America and around the globe, as we will yet again undertake several roadshow stops to engage entrepreneurs from all backgrounds, sectors, industries and walks of life. We also look forward to sharing the many wonderful qualities of Buffalo’s startup culture with these bold, exciting businesspeople."
New York Power Authority Chairman John R. Koelmel said, "We knew that Governor Cuomo’s 43 North initiative would forever alter the business landscape in Western New York and the State, but the results to date have far exceeded NYPA's expectations. I am proud that our funding will continue to play a vital role in ensuring that the region remains at the epicenter of a global movement toward a more innovative and technically diversified economy."
Similar to last year, the 43North competition will be broken down into three rounds:
Round 1 (March 4 – May 31, 2016): Applications will be accepted via the competition’s website, 43north.org. The purpose of Round 1 is for applicants to provide a vision for their venture, including their business concept, target customers, industry overview, competitive landscape, and revenue potential. This year, 43North will be charging an application fee of $100, with an early bird fee of $50 for companies that submit their applications by March 31.
Round 2 (Summer 2016): Semifinalists will be announced.
Round 3 (October 2016): Up to 20 finalist teams will pitch their business in person to a panel of judges in Buffalo. The competition concludes with a celebration of 8 selected winners.
43North is open to applicants ages 18 and older in any industry, with the exception of bricks-and-mortar retail and hospitality. Applications to the competition will be accepted through May 31, 2016 at 43north.org. To view the 43North 2016 application terms and details, click here.
Energy Intelligence Founder and CEO Daniel Shani said, "With the funds we received from the inaugural 43North competition, our company has grown and evolved in ways we never thought possible. Buffalo has become a key part of our identity and the funding and resources from 43North have helped to build a strong foundation needed for us to be viable and competitive. We were so pleased to be a part of the inaugural competition, and can't wait to see the businesses that will come out of year three."
Co-Founder and CEO of Plum Caitlin MacGregor said, "The prize we were awarded from the second 43North competition was a transformational moment for our company. Like so many entrepreneurs, we look to introduce the next great idea that will revolutionize our industry. With the resources, support and collaborative environment spearheaded by 43North, we are closer to realizing that vision."
To learn more about the past 2014 and 2015 winners, click here.
About 43North
43North is the $5 million startup competition, awarding cash prizes to some of the best entrepreneurs and startups from around the world. 43North winners also receive free incubator space in Buffalo for one year, guidance from mentors in related fields, and access to other business incentive programs such as START-UP NY. 43North operates through the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative and grants of $6 million from the New York Power Authority and $1 million from Empire State Development. Additional support comes from National Grid, EY, the State University of New York at Buffalo and several other sponsors. For a full list of sponsors and more information about 43North, visit www.43north.org.
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Title 29 - LABOR
CHAPTER 16 - VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND OTHER REHABILITATION SERVICES
SUBCHAPTER V - RIGHTS AND ADVOCACY
Sec. 794d - Electronic and information technology
§794d. Electronic and information technology
(a) Requirements for Federal departments and agencies
(1) Accessibility
(A) Development, procurement, maintenance, or use of electronic and information technology
When developing, procuring, maintaining, or using electronic and information technology, each Federal department or agency, including the United States Postal Service, shall ensure, unless an undue burden would be imposed on the department or agency, that the electronic and information technology allows, regardless of the type of medium of the technology—
(i) individuals with disabilities who are Federal employees to have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to the access to and use of the information and data by Federal employees who are not individuals with disabilities; and
(ii) individuals with disabilities who are members of the public seeking information or services from a Federal department or agency to have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to the access to and use of the information and data by such members of the public who are not individuals with disabilities.
(B) Alternative means efforts
When development, procurement, maintenance, or use of electronic and information technology that meets the standards published by the Access Board under paragraph (2) would impose an undue burden, the Federal department or agency shall provide individuals with disabilities covered by paragraph (1) with the information and data involved by an alternative means of access that allows the individual to use the information and data.
(2) Electronic and information technology standards
Not later than 18 months after August 7, 1998, the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (referred to in this section as the “Access Board”), after consultation with the Secretary of Education, the Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Commerce, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, the Secretary of Defense, and the head of any other Federal department or agency that the Access Board determines to be appropriate, including consultation on relevant research findings, and after consultation with the electronic and information technology industry and appropriate public or nonprofit agencies or organizations, including organizations representing individuals with disabilities, shall issue and publish standards setting forth—
(i) for purposes of this section, a definition of electronic and information technology that is consistent with the definition of information technology specified in section 11101(6) of title 40; and
(ii) the technical and functional performance criteria necessary to implement the requirements set forth in paragraph (1).
(B) Review and amendment
The Access Board shall periodically review and, as appropriate, amend the standards required under subparagraph (A) to reflect technological advances or changes in electronic and information technology.
(3) Incorporation of standards
Not later than 6 months after the Access Board publishes the standards required under paragraph (2), the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council shall revise the Federal Acquisition Regulation and each Federal department or agency shall revise the Federal procurement policies and directives under the control of the department or agency to incorporate those standards. Not later than 6 months after the Access Board revises any standards required under paragraph (2), the Council shall revise the Federal Acquisition Regulation and each appropriate Federal department or agency shall revise the procurement policies and directives, as necessary, to incorporate the revisions.
(4) Acquisition planning
In the event that a Federal department or agency determines that compliance with the standards issued by the Access Board under paragraph (2) relating to procurement imposes an undue burden, the documentation by the department or agency supporting the procurement shall explain why compliance creates an undue burden.
(5) Exemption for national security systems
This section shall not apply to national security systems, as that term is defined in section 11103(a) of title 40.
(6) Construction
(A) Equipment
In a case in which the Federal Government provides access to the public to information or data through electronic and information technology, nothing in this section shall be construed to require a Federal department or agency—
(i) to make equipment owned by the Federal Government available for access and use by individuals with disabilities covered by paragraph (1) at a location other than that where the electronic and information technology is provided to the public; or
(ii) to purchase equipment for access and use by individuals with disabilities covered by paragraph (1) at a location other than that where the electronic and information technology is provided to the public.
(B) Software and peripheral devices
Except as required to comply with standards issued by the Access Board under paragraph (2), nothing in paragraph (1) requires the installation of specific accessibility-related software or the attachment of a specific accessibility-related peripheral device at a workstation of a Federal employee who is not an individual with a disability.
(b) Technical assistance
The Administrator of General Services and the Access Board shall provide technical assistance to individuals and Federal departments and agencies concerning the requirements of this section.
(c) Agency evaluations
Not later than 6 months after August 7, 1998, the head of each Federal department or agency shall evaluate the extent to which the electronic and information technology of the department or agency is accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities described in subsection (a)(1) of this section, compared to the access to and use of the technology by individuals described in such subsection who are not individuals with disabilities, and submit a report containing the evaluation to the Attorney General.
(d) Reports
(1) Interim report
Not later than 18 months after August 7, 1998, the Attorney General shall prepare and submit to the President a report containing information on and recommendations regarding the extent to which the electronic and information technology of the Federal Government is accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities described in subsection (a)(1) of this section.
(2) Biennial reports
Not later than 3 years after August 7, 1998, and every 2 years thereafter, the Attorney General shall prepare and submit to the President and Congress a report containing information on and recommendations regarding the state of Federal department and agency compliance with the requirements of this section, including actions regarding individual complaints under subsection (f) of this section.
(e) Cooperation
Each head of a Federal department or agency (including the Access Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the General Services Administration) shall provide to the Attorney General such information as the Attorney General determines is necessary to conduct the evaluations under subsection (c) of this section and prepare the reports under subsection (d) of this section.
(f) Enforcement
(1) General
(A) Complaints
Effective 6 months after the date of publication by the Access Board of final standards described in subsection (a)(2) of this section, any individual with a disability may file a complaint alleging that a Federal department or agency fails to comply with subsection (a)(1) of this section in providing electronic and information technology.
(B) Application
This subsection shall apply only to electronic and information technology that is procured by a Federal department or agency not less than 6 months after the date of publication by the Access Board of final standards described in subsection (a)(2) of this section.
(2) Administrative complaints
Complaints filed under paragraph (1) shall be filed with the Federal department or agency alleged to be in noncompliance. The Federal department or agency receiving the complaint shall apply the complaint procedures established to implement section 794 of this title for resolving allegations of discrimination in a federally conducted program or activity.
(3) Civil actions
The remedies, procedures, and rights set forth in sections 794a(a)(2) and 794a(b) of this title shall be the remedies, procedures, and rights available to any individual with a disability filing a complaint under paragraph (1).
(g) Application to other Federal laws
This section shall not be construed to limit any right, remedy, or procedure otherwise available under any provision of Federal law (including sections 791 through 794a of this title) that provides greater or equal protection for the rights of individuals with disabilities than this section.
(Pub. L. 93–112, title V, §508, as added Pub. L. 99–506, title VI, §603(a), Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 1830; amended Pub. L. 100–630, title II, §206(f), Nov. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 3312; Pub. L. 102–569, title V, §509(a), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4430; Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, §408(b), Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1203; Pub. L. 106–246, div. B, title II, §2405, July 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 555.)
“Section 11101(6) of title 40” substituted in subsec. (a)(2)(A)(i) for “section 5002(3) of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (40 U.S.C. 1401(3))” and “section 11103(a) of title 40” substituted in subsec. (a)(5) for “section 5142 of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (40 U.S.C. 1452)” on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, §5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.
2000—Subsec. (f)(1)(A). Pub. L. 106–246, §2405(1), substituted “Effective 6 months after the date of publication by the Access Board of final standards described in subsection (a)(2) of this section,” for “Effective 2 years after August 7, 1998,”.
Subsec. (f)(1)(B). Pub. L. 106–246, §2405(2), substituted “6 months after the date of publication by the Access Board of final standards described in subsection (a)(2) of this section.” for “2 years after August 7, 1998.”
1998—Pub. L. 105–220 amended section catchline and text generally. Prior to amendment, text consisted of subsecs. (a) and (b) relating to electronic and information technology accessibility guidelines.
1992—Pub. L. 102–569 amended section generally, substituting present provisions for provisions relating to electronic equipment accessibility guidelines, in consultation with electronic industry, designed to insure individuals with handicaps use of electronic office equipment with or without special peripherals, requiring the Administrator of General Services to adopt guidelines for electronic equipment accessibility established under this section for Federal procurement of electronic equipment, and defining term “special peripherals”.
1988—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 100–630, §206(f)(1), inserted “the Director of” before “the National Institute”, struck out “the” before “General Services”, and substituted “individuals with handicaps” for “handicapped individuals”.
Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 100–630, §206(f)(2), inserted “by the Director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research and the Administrator of General Services in consultation with the electronics industry and the Interagency Committee for Computer Support of Handicapped Employees” after “revised”.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 100–630, §206(f)(3), substituted “an individual with handicaps” for “a handicapped individual”.
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Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
CHAPTER 6A - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
SUBCHAPTER I - ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Part B - Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 238 - Gifts for benefit of Service
§238. Gifts for benefit of Service
(a) Acceptance by Secretary
The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to accept on behalf of the United States gifts made unconditionally by will or otherwise for the benefit of the Service or for the carrying out of any of its functions. Conditional gifts may be so accepted if recommended by the Surgeon General, and the principal of and income from any such conditional gift shall be held, invested, reinvested, and used in accordance with its conditions, but no gift shall be accepted which is conditioned upon any expenditure not to be met therefrom or from the income thereof unless such expenditure has been approved by Act of Congress.
(b) Depository of funds; availability for expenditure
Any unconditional gift of money accepted pursuant to the authority granted in subsection (a) of this section, the net proceeds from the liquidation (pursuant to subsection (c) or subsection (d) of this section) of any other property so accepted, and the proceeds of insurance on any such gift property not used for its restoration, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and are hereby appropriated and shall be held in trust by the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefit of the Service, and he may invest and reinvest such funds in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States. Such gifts and the income from such investments shall be available for expenditure in the operation of the Service and the performance of its functions, subject to the same examination and audit as is provided for appropriations made for the Service by Congress.
(c) Evidences of unconditional gifts of intangible property
The evidences of any unconditional gift of intangible personal property, other than money, accepted pursuant to the authority granted in subsection (a) of this section shall be deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury and he, in his discretion, may hold them, or liquidate them except that they shall be liquidated upon the request of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, whenever necessary to meet payments required in the operation of the Service or the performance of its functions. The proceeds and income from any such property held by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be available for expenditure as is provided in subsection (b) of this section.
(d) Real property or tangible personal property
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall hold any real property or any tangible personal property accepted unconditionally pursuant to the authority granted in subsection (a) of this section and he shall permit such property to be used for the operation of the Service and the performance of its functions or he may lease or hire such property, and may insure such property, and deposit the income thereof with the Secretary of the Treasury to be available for expenditure as provided in subsection (b) of this section: Provided, That the income from any such real property or tangible personal property shall be available for expenditure in the discretion of the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the maintenance, preservation, or repair and insurance of such property and that any proceeds from insurance may be used to restore the property insured. Any such property when not required for the operation of the Service or the performance of its functions may be liquidated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the proceeds thereof deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury, whenever in his judgment the purposes of the gifts will be served thereby.
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title II, §231, formerly title V, §501, 58 Stat. 709; July 3, 1946, ch. 538, §10, 60 Stat. 425; June 16, 1948, ch. 481, §6(b), 62 Stat. 469; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §§5, 8, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; Pub. L. 90–574, title V, §503(b), Oct. 15, 1968, 82 Stat. 1012; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, §509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695; renumbered title XXI, §2101, Pub. L. 98–24, §2(a)(1), Apr. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 176; renumbered title XXIII, §2301, Pub. L. 99–660, title III, §311(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3755; renumbered title XXV, §2501, Pub. L. 100–607, title II, §201(1), (2), Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3062; renumbered title XXVI, §2601, Pub. L. 100–690, title II, §2620(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4244; renumbered title XXVII, §2701, Pub. L. 101–381, title I, §101(1), (2), Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 576; renumbered title II, §231, Pub. L. 103–43, title XX, §2010(a)(1)–(3), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 213.)
Section was formerly classified to section 300aaa of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 103–43, to section 300cc of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 100–607, to section 300aa of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 99–660, and to section 219 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 98–24.
1968—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 90–574 struck out subsec. (e) which provided for acknowledgment of donations of $50,000 or more in aid of research by the establishment of suitable memorials within the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health.
1948—Subsec. (e). Act June 16, 1948, substituted "National Institutes of Health" for "National Institute of Health".
1946—Subsec. (e). Act July 3, 1946, inserted reference to National Institute of Mental Health.
Transfer of Functions
Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public Health Service, and all other officers and employees of Public Health Service, and functions of all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, set out as a note under section 202 of this title. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
Functions of Federal Security Administrator transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and all agencies of Federal Security Agency transferred to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by section 5 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953, set out as a note under section 3501 of this title. Federal Security Agency and office of Administrator abolished by section 8 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953. Secretary and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated Secretary and Department of Health and Human Services by section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20.
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The Killer Angels (1974) is a historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. The book tells the story of the four days of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War: June 30, 1863, as the troops of both the Union and the Confederacy move into battle around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and July 1, July 2, and July 3, when the battle was fought. The story is character-driven and told from the perspective of various protagonists. A film adaptation of the novel, titled Gettysburg, was released in 1993.
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NASCAR men earning as well as most F1 drivers
Formula 1 drivers do not like to talk about their salaries - as FIA President Max Mosley discovered recently when he asked them to prove that they were suffering hardships because of his demand for higher licence fees. It is generally accepted that the highest paid driver is Kimi Raikkonen, who did a deal for 40m Euros a year with Ferrari. The strength of the Euro means that this is now worth around $53m a year, which is a very large sum of money. Others who are believed to have good salaries are Fernando Alonso ($30m), Lewis Hamilton ($25m), Jenson Button ($20m), Nick Heidfeld ($15m), Felipe Massa ($15m) and then several others who earn in the region of $10m a year. Some of the drivers have been earning more because they exploit their own merchandising and do personal sponsorship deals in addition to what comes from the teams.
The earning model in NASCAR is rather different where the salaries are lower but augmented by prize money which is made public, and by intensive merchandising. According to Forbes magazine's latest issue the highest paid NASCAR star in overall terms is Dale Earnhardt Jr. He has won few races in recent years but having dual paint schemes on his Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet means that he is making much more money from merchandising than he was as his fans are buying the same things twice. He is reckoned to have earned $35m in 2008, despite finishing only 15th in the points.
Four-time champion Jeff Gordon did not win a race in 2008, although that was the first time that had happened since 1993. He is NASCAR's highest money winner of all time and earns $10m from his endorsements with companies like PepsiCo, Time Warner Cable and Electronic Arts. His overall earnings are reckoned to be $30m.
Making the top three money-earners all Hendrick Motorsport drivers is Jimmie Johnson, champion for the last three seasons, who is reckoned to make $23m a year, with $15m in salary and prize money and the rest in merchandising.
Tony Stewart, now a team owner himself, is estimated to have taken home $19m last year thanks in part to his fiery temperament, which makes him a crowd favourite. Rising star Kasey Kahne and veteran Kevin Harvick are both believed to be making $14m, the latter thanks to $8.5m in prizemoney.
Kyle Busch won more races in NASCAR's top three series last year than any other driver, with 21 victories, which translated into earnings of $13m, while Roush Racing's Matt Kenseth was one of only a handful of drivers with a salary over $7m, but he makes $12m overall thanks to his endorsements and prize money.
The top 10 is completed by former F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya and rising star Denny Hamlin, who are both reckoned to make $11m a year. Montoya has one of the highest salaries in NASCAR but has used the F1 model and signed over most of his merchandising rights to his team.
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It is not just a dog's life
During the GP2 race in Turkey on Sunday morning there was a worrying moment when two dogs appeared on the race track. Unfortunately, Bruno Senna was unable to avoid one of them, killing the poor animal and breaking the front suspension of his car. This put the Brazilian out of the race.
Senna was rightly furious at the incident, not only because it ruined his race but also because of the safety issues involved.
Stray animals have been a problem throughout the history of the sport beginning as long ago as 1896 when Emile Levassor rolled after swerving to avoid a dog on the Paris to Marseilles trial. Levassor never really recovered from his injuries and died the following year.
In 1928 the celebrated Italian star Pietro Bordino died while racing a Bugatti on the Circuito di Alessandria in Italy when he ran into a stray dog and the car went out of control and crashed into the River Tanaro. Bordino drowned before help could arrive.
In 1970 in Mexico City Jackie Stewart escaped injury when he hit a dog, but the problem persosted in Mexico because 20 years later practice for the 1990 Mexican GP had to be stopped when a stray dog got loose on the track.
Deer have also proved to be a problem, famously in 1987 when Stefan Johansson hit one in Austria. His McLaren was destroyed in the ensuing accident, but the Swede escaped injury. In 2006 former F1 driver Cristiano da Matta suffered series head injuries when he hit a deer while testing a Champ Car at Road America.
The size of the animal involved is obviously an issue. Smaller animals, such as groundhogs, are regularly seen on the race track in Montreal and a number have been killed in accidents, but the key point is not the size of the animal but rather what happens when it is hit. In 1960, for example, Team Lotus driver Alan Stacey died during the Belgian GP in an accident which resulted from him being hit in the face by a bird.
On another infamous occasion Formula 1 driver Tom Pryce was killed when his Shadow F1 car hit and killed a fire marshal at Kyalami in South Africa in 1977. The marshal was running across the track to deal with an incident. The fire extinguisher that he was carrying hit Pryce on the head.
With modern safety demands and improved track security the problem has been reduced significantly but the incident in Turkey raises questions about whether the track is sufficiently protected. This is embarrassing for the Formula One group because the Istanbul track is run by the Istanbul Park Organizasyon AS, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Republic of Turkey, but in fact a subsidiary of Formula One Administration. It has a 15-year lease on the circuit and promotes the Turkish Grand Prix.
The FIA views the incident seriously and on Sunday ordered "special checks on all circuit gates, internal access points and all other parts of the Istanbul Park circuit" in an effort to ensure that no animals were in the circuit when the Turkish GP took place.
A formal report has been submitted to the FIA.
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Tourist Sites in Ghana Eastern Region
Ghana Eastern Region
Welcome to the Eastern Region of Ghana with a of rich dramatic landscapes, historic relics and traditional cultures. The ancient blends with the 20th century in this region so close to but such a contrast with Accra. The region is dominated by Lake Volta, one of the world’s largest man-made lakes, and the Akosombo Dam, source of much of Ghana’s hydroelectric power.
Eastern Region Destinations
Aburi Botanical Gardens
Aburi is 30 Km North of Accra on the Akuapem hills at 1200 feet elevation. In colonial times, it was used at a retreat for official visitors and others who needed to escape the hustle and bustle of the big city. The town has comfortable weather similar to that of the fall in the northeastern part of the United States, the coast of France or Germany during the summer time. o a comfortable spot near the coast. The botanic Garden attracts people from all over Ghana, as well as many foreign visitors.
Lake Volta
Lake Volta lies along the Greenwich Meridian, and just six degrees of latitude north of the Equator. The lake’s northernmost point is close to the town of Yapei, and its southernmost extreme is at the Akosombo Dam, 520 kilometers (320 mi) downstream from Yapei. Akosombo Dam holds back both the White Volta River and the Black Volta River, which formerly converged, where the middle of the reservoir now lies, to form the single Volta River. The present Volta River flows from the outlets of the dam’s powerhouse and spillways to the Atlantic Ocean in southmost Ghana.
Umbrella Rock
The Umbrella Rock is a rock found at the site of the Boti Falls in Yilo Krobo District, Ghana. Its size is well okay to shelter up to about 12 to 15 people at once. Even though the pivot on which the top rock lies on might seem small, it’s very strong and have not been able to pull and/or push down with manpower.
Yearly, many Tourists make it to the Boti Falls to have a feel of nature, without leaving the umbrella rock from sight.
The Big Tree at Ada
The big tree is one of the prominent, astonishing and outstanding tourist attractions in the Birim Central and for that matter Ghana. The tree is believed to be the biggest in West Africa with a diameter of 3.22 meters at 1.37 meters, 2.72 meters at 3.1 meters, making 12 meters in circumference and 66.5-90 meters tall. It also has a girth of 10.11 meters at 1.4 meters and 8.63 meters at 3.1 meters.
Bead Factory
The Eastern Region is known for its bead-making. Beads play an important role in West African life. They are worn to signify special occasions, wealth, and status. They indicate stages in life, such as motherhood or mourning; and they become a symbol of office for chiefs, traditional priests, and other figures in the community.
Beads were used in the barter for slaves, ivory, palm oil and gold in previous centuries. Some beads are imbued with special powers and some tribes believe their ancestors sprang from beads.
In Ghana, beads are made from recycled glass, brass, bauxite, shells and seeds.
Tetteh Quarshie Cocoa Farm
Mampong Akwapim, first cocoa farm established in the Country from seeds first brought from Fernando Po Island by the Legendary Tetteh Quarshie. From this small beginning grew our major cocoa industry. It is believed that a few of the original first trees planted by Tetteh Quarshie can still be found on the farm.
Boti Falls
Boti falls is a twin waterfall located at Boti in the Eastern Region of Ghana. These twin falls are referred to as female and male.
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Rail Tours in Israel
Experience this spiritual and inspiring land by rail
Although revered for its association with world religion, Israel has long attracted visitors keen to explore not only the country's wealth of impressive biblical locations but also its countless historic artefacts and attractions and remarkable natural beauty.
At every turn this holy land is blessed with ancient and fascinating religious sites, and customers who embark with Great Rail Journeys upon an escorted rail tour of Israel can expect to be both awe-struck and inspired by destinations including the Sea of Galilee, upon which Jesus is said to have performed the miracle of walking on water, Acre, a former stronghold of the Knights Templar and one of the oldest continuously-inhabited locations on earth and Masada; the mountain-top site of King Herod's fortress and refuge.
In towns and cities such as Tel Aviv, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Haifa and Jerusalem, exploration is its own reward. Each has its own unique character and history and each is steeped in stunning architecture and a diversity of unmissable sights and attractions both historical and modern.
Travelling in comfort between each of these compelling destinations there is ample time to soak up Israel's magnificent and varied landscapes. From multi-coloured rock formations in arid desert scrublands to the lush oasis-like surroundings of the Dead Sea or the panoramic views of offered at the summit of Mount Beatitudes, Israel's ever-changing scenery is as unforgettable as its many other wondrous attractions.
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Discovering Israel with Great Rail Journeys
Compact in area, Israel nevertheless packs in a tremendous selection of unforgettable experiences for visitors to enjoy and at Great Rail Journeys we make it our goal to showcase the very best of this spectacular country to our customers whilst also ensuring they obtain unparalleled value for money.
The price of an escorted rail tour of Israel covers all flights and stated travel fares for the duration of the trip, a high standard of overnight accommodation, an itinerary that combines the best of Israel's natural, cultural and historical highlights and a generous selection of meals. During the trip our customers can avail themselves of our professional Tour Manager who is on hand to provide assistance, advice and information at all times. Accompanying each excursion and activity, the Tour Manager is there to ensure that our customers enjoy a safe, pleasurable and unforgettable experience with us.
The hotel accommodation we provide in Israel has been carefully selected by us for its convenience of location, value and high standards of guest service and amenities to guarantee comfort and relaxation at the end of a day's exploration.
An Introduction to Israel
The first recorded use of the name Israel dates to the time of the Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah, around 1209 BC. A kingdom by around 1000 BC, Israel was ruled by King David and then King Solomon until the latter's death when Israel was divided and ruled by different powers including Egypt, Babylon and Assyria.
The Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar exiled Israelites in 587 BC and it was only under the rule of the Persian King Cyrus the Great that they were allowed to return to their homeland in 539 BC. Soon after, Israel became a conquest of the Greeks and subsequently, in 63BC, of the Roman Empire during whose occupation Christianity emerged as a religion in opposition to the Romans' Pagan faiths.
A further conquest by the Arabic Rashidun Caliphate in 638 AD resulted in conflict between Arabs and Christians that would culminate in the holy crusades in which the two Empires fought for control of the land. In the thirteenth century Israel fell once again under Egyptian control until the conquering Turks claimed it, in 1517, as part of the Ottoman Empire under whose rule it remained until 1917. Whilst sporadic political turbulence has remained a feature of Israel's history in the decades since the Second World War, in the modern day this tiny and hospitable country has become increasingly popular with global visitors thanks to its many religious, cultural, historic and natural highlights.
Situated in Western Asia on the south-eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, Israel is bordered by Lebanon and Syria to the north, Jordan to the east and Egypt to the south-west. The country enjoys a Mediterranean climate with long, hot and dry summers (from April to October) and short, cool, rainy winters (November to March).
Food is at the heart of Israeli culture and the country's cuisine has been influenced over time by a wide diversity of immigrant nationalities. Dishes are typically simple yet delicious and some of the delicacies which can be enjoyed on a rail tour of Israel include: shakshuka, a breakfast dish of poached eggs in a rich tomato, onion and pepper sauce garnished with parsley; falafel, deep-fried balls of mashed chickpeas and herbs served in pitta bread; cholent, a hearty slow-cooked stew of beef, potatoes, beans and barley, and shishlik, a skewer of cubed meat - typically beef, lamb or chicken - which is flame grilled and served in pitta bread. Coffee is the Israeli beverage of choice although mint tea and mint lemonade are also popular drinks.
Should you choose to dine independently of the tour group in Israel, it is worth noting that Israelis tip 15% in restaurants and cafes. Often this is added to the bill, but if you feel that the service did not warrant this level of gratuity it can be reduced or removed on request.
The working week in Israel begins on Sunday and ends on Friday, when businesses may close early in preparation for Saturday; the Jewish Sabbath.
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Frontiers in Psychology
Erika Nurmsoo
University of Kent, United Kingdom
Patrick Burns
Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Gal Podjarny
Independent researcher, United Kingdom
Limitations and Further Perspectives
Front. Psychol., 25 January 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02304
Delay of Gratification, Delay Discounting and their Associations with Age, Episodic Future Thinking, and Future Time Perspective
Lars M. Göllner1*, Nicola Ballhausen2,3,4, Matthias Kliegel2,3,4 and Simon Forstmeier1
1Department of Education Studies and Psychology, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
2Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
3Center of the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
4Swiss National Center of Competences in Research LIVES-Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives, Geneva, Switzerland
The delay of gratification (DoG) in children is widely investigated with an experimental procedure originally called the “marshmallow test,” whereas the studies on self-regulation (SR) in adolescents and adults usually use self-report questionnaires. Delay discounting (DD) measures simplify the DoG procedure and focus on monetary rewards. The aim of this study was to investigate age differences in DoG and DD from childhood to old age using a test that is suitable for both children and adults. Furthermore, investigations were conducted on the association between DoG/DD and two future orientation constructs [future time perspective (FTP) and episodic future thinking (EFT)] as well as age differences in these constructs. Participants from five age groups (9–14, 18–25, 35–55, 65–80, 80+) participated in the study (N = 96). While we found no age difference for DoG, DD was the lowest [i.e., self-control (SC) was the highest] in young/middle adults; however, it was the highest (i.e., SC was the lowest) in children and old/oldest adults. Furthermore, we found significant age differences for DD and FTP. As predicted, there were strong correlations between DoG and FTP and between DD and FTP, but not between DoG/DD and EFT. These results indicate that age differences in SR vary across the measures used. Individuals who generally think and act in a future-oriented manner have a stronger ability to delay gratification.
In our everyday life, we often face situations in which it becomes essential to exercise patience for achieving a certain goal or mastering a certain challenge. It implies that the desire for immediate pleasures must be relinquished to achieve a long-term goal or to get a specified reward in the future. For example, a smoker might suffer momentarily from nicotine withdrawal, but will experience a healthier lung, lower risk of cardiac infarction, and other advantages in the long term.
In this context, and in the social and cognitive development of every individual, the ability to self-regulate plays a major role. Self-regulation (SR) can be defined as the behavioral skill of self-managing environmental conditions and to be able to enact this skill in relevant contexts (Boekaerts et al., 2005). Research has already dealt intensively with SR in humans and its effects on daily lives. Mischel et al. (1972) developed, in the context of their well-known “marshmallow experiment,” the delay of gratification (DoG) paradigm in order to operationalize SR on a behavioral level (see Mischel et al., 2011). Several other researchers support the opinion that DoG is a measure of SR (e.g., Mazur, 1987). DoG refers to the ability to delay an immediate reward to get a bigger reward at a certain point in the future. A considerable number of researches have dealt with DoG in children and how it can serve as an indicator for outcomes such as educational success, socioeconomic status, or future drug abuse (see Wulfert et al., 2002; Mischel et al., 2011). Besides, the ability to delay gratification in pre-school age impacts health in the old age (Moffitt et al., 2011) and can, for example, predict overweight (Seeyave et al., 2009) or rapid weight gain in early adolescence (Francis and Susman, 2009).
Long-term correlates of DoG and personality have also been found (Funder et al., 1983), and poor DoG has been shown to be a specific risk factor for externalizing disorders (Krueger et al., 1996). Furthermore, high DoG in childhood could be a protective factor against mental disorders like the borderline syndrome (Ayduk et al., 2008). In the field of social development, DoG ability in early childhood could serve as a predictor of pro-social behavior in the elementary school age (Paulus et al., 2015).
A Life-Span Perspective on Delay of Gratification
Existing studies on the subject have predominantly dealt with the long-term influence of DoG in childhood or adolescence on different variables later in life. However, there are important, but less well understood, factors in this context. A few of them include changes in DoG over the life span, whether there are differences in DoG between younger and older people, and what might be the associated developmental mechanisms. The current study addresses these issues in detail.
Green et al. (1994) were one of the first researchers to investigate age differences between children and younger and older adults with regards to their delay discounting (DD). DD refers to the phenomenon that the present value of delayed rewards reduces over time as a function of the delay interval. This construct is similar and highly correlated to DoG. Although similarities exist between DD and DoG, it is important to examine differences between the two constructs. The main disparity lies in the manner in which DoG and DD are measured. While a DoG test quantifies the behavior of the participant directly, the measurement of DD involves only hypothetical choices. Nevertheless, DoG and DD apply as the operationalization of impulsivity (Forstmeier et al., 2011), which in turn is seen as a central dimension of SR (e.g., Barkley, 2004; Raver et al., 2011).
Reynolds et al. (2002) describe DD as the tendency to devalue delayed rewards. For example, in DD, people would prefer getting $250 in 1 week instead of getting $200 immediately. But what happens, if the delay interval rises from 1 week to 3 months? Surely, some of the people would now rather choose the immediate reward over the delayed benefits (see Petry, 2001). The more often people choose the immediate reward over the delayed, the higher their discounting rate is marked. Therefore, it is important to mention that in the case of DD, higher discounting rates result in higher DD, which means lower SR. The results of Green et al. (1994) showed that the discounting rate for delayed rewards was highest for children and lowest for older adults, which indicates a developmental trend toward an increase in the ability to self-regulate over the life span. These results were supported by the findings of Harrison et al. (2002) who found a decline in discounting rates at least after middle age.
The results of later studies challenged these findings of a linear relationship between DD and age. Read and Read (2004) found in their study, comprising participants between 19 and 89, that both older and younger people discount more than middle-aged people, indicating a U-curve. Besides, lower discounting rates are linked to higher cognitive ability (Hirsh et al., 2008), whereas cognitive ability is lower in younger and elderly people (Rushton and Ankney, 1996). Therefore, literature shows contradictory results for the relationship between age and the tendency to devalue delayed rewards.
It was found that the marshmallow test of DoG and similar tests are inappropriate for application in adults because the type of reward (sweets) might not be attractive to many adults and the delay intervals are too short. Therefore, Forstmeier et al. (2011) developed and validated the Delay of Gratification Test for Adults (DoG-A). It includes four types of rewards that are meaningful to adults—, namely snacks, real money, hypothetical money, and magazines. In a sample of older adults, aged 60–94 years, Forstmeier et al. (2011) found a non-significant trend for persons in the age range of 60–69 years with the highest DoG values and participants older than 80 years with the lowest DoG values (Drobetz et al., 2012b). Taken together, the results of studies regarding SR and age are ambiguous but indicate toward an inverse U-curve for SR measured through DoG. Therefore, in the case of DoG, and contrary to DD, higher rates mean higher SR.
One plausible explanation for this inverse U-curve is that, in principle, young adults have more uncertainties in their life than older adults (Sozou and Seymour, 2003). They are unsure of their occupational career, potential life partner, and many other environmental circumstances. These uncertainties might be contributing toward their relatively low SR. In contrast, the middle-aged adults often have a more secured life situation with a completed education, permanent job, and organized family circumstances, and they can afford to make decisions from a long-term perspective. This sort of stability might account for their higher level of SR. Older adults have to face a different situation. They cannot be sure about the future because health problems become overwhelming at their age, and age-related physical and cognitive conditions may prevent them from living their lives as usually planned. These fluctuations in old age contribute toward comparatively lower SR (Trostel and Taylor, 2001). This hypothesis aligns with the idea of the social selectivity theory by Carstensen et al. (1999) too. According to the theory, individuals focus more on the present and less on the future when they realize that the rest of their life is limited (Drobetz et al., 2012b). Although most studies on age differences across the life span used DD measures, similar results can emerge with a DoG measure. This study is the first, to our knowledge, to use the same DoG measure for several age groups—from childhood to old age.
Delay of Gratification and Future Orientations
DoG and DD are based on futuristic perceptions and events. There are two future orientation constructs that seem to be particularly relevant to DoG and DD, namely episodic future thinking (EFT) and future time perspective (FTP). EFT is the ability to mentally travel into the future and, for example, imagine the feelings associated with a certain reward (Atance and O'Neill, 2005; Spreng and Levine, 2006; Schacter et al., 2008). Both, especially DoG and EFT, are based on imagining future scenarios or situations.
We also suggested that EFT has an important influence on DoG and DD because of the lower general cognitive capacity (Salthouse, 1991) and the special problems with imagining future scenarios in old age (e.g., Rendell et al., 2012). Furthermore, different cognitive functions (e.g., information processing) develop during childhood (Anderson, 2002).
In general, these studies on age differences regarding EFT draw the conclusion that younger adults are better time travelers. Rendell et al. (2012) showed that older adults, compared to young adults, perform worse in constructing atemporal and future scenarios as well as narrative that involved navigation. However, their results also indicate that the older adults had more problems in constructing future experiences than atemporal experiences, and thus, old age cripples an individual's ability to imagine the future (Spreng and Levine, 2006; Addis et al., 2008, 2010; Rendell et al., 2012).
Studies on EFT first found indications that there is a connection between better EFT and less DD, and a positive correlation to self-regulatory skills (Daniel et al., 2013, 2015). Furthermore, it makes sense that people with a better ability can imagine future events or situations, and thereby future rewards are also more likely to wait for gratification.
On the basis of these results, we predicted that individuals who have problems with mentally traveling into the future (low EFT) would also have difficulties in imagining a future reward and prefer immediate over long-term rewards (low DoG and high DD). That is why we also predicted an inverse U-shaped form of the EFT performance depending on age. Literature already showed this type of forms, testing the relationship between age and different cognitive functions (e.g., Cerella and Hale, 1994).
The second future orientation construct relevant to DoG is FTP. According to FTP, every individual exhibits a relatively stable differential dimension that determines the individual's perspective on time, and this perspective can be developed into future, present, or past orientation. This orientation is expressed in the individual's attitudes and behavior, and is among other things related to our identity, motivation, interpersonal interaction, and emotion (Webster, 2011). On the one hand, Webster already showed the positive influence of an FTP on different important psychological variables. On the other hand, he additionally created four different types of time perspective categories on the basis of his data analysis. These four categories are the time expansive category, with a balanced and intense time perspective of future and past (individuals with rather positive thoughts and feelings about the future and the past); the time restrictive category, with less interest for future or past events (contrary individuals with rather negative thoughts about the future and the past); the reminiscers category, with a perspective directed in the past (these individuals showed a preferred view toward the past); and the futurist category with a time perspective directed into the future (individuals rather thought about the future than the past).
FTP impacts a variety of important factors of our lives. Individuals with a perspective directed rather into the future show more motivation in achieving and studying (Shell and Husman, 2001), perform better on academic DoG (a measure for self-regulated learning, Bembenutty and Karabenick, 2004) and exhibit more successful learning behavior (e.g., Husman and Lens, 1999) as well as better financial behavior (Jacobs-Lawson and Hershey, 2005). Besides, higher work motivation (Seijts, 1998) and more responsible use of contraceptives (Burns and Dillon, 2005) are behavioral variables that are linked to a higher FTP. In addition, Daugherty and Brase (2010) found that a higher FTP predicted less tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, and in exchange predicted healthier behavior such as eating breakfast or wearing a safety belt.
To sum up, FTP is positively associated with a variety of self-regulatory behaviors and outcomes. Therefore, we predict that the ability to delay gratification is associated to a futuristic view. This owes to the fact that an individual has to wait for and imagine the bigger delayed reward that has a better potential over smaller immediate rewards. Hence, firstly, an FTP should stimulate thoughts about future rewards and its advantages and therefore, facilitate delaying gratification. As a second argument, DoG is a measure of motivational SR; furthermore, as discussed earlier, the research has demonstrated a correlation between FTP and other measures of SR or motivation.
Goals of the Present Study
This study had three aims. The first aim was to delineate possible age differences in DoG and DD across the life span. The reviewed literature indicates an inverse U-shaped function of DoG, with young and older people performing worse on DoG when compared with the middle-aged people, and a U-shaped form for DD.
The second aim was to investigate the association between DoG/DD and two future orientation constructs—future time perspective and episodic future thinking. We predicted a positive correlation between DoG/DD and EFT, and DoG/DD and FTP. In contrast, we expected that there is no significant correlation between DoG/DD and past time perspective. Individuals who are high in FTP are expected to have higher DoG values (and lowest DD values) than individuals low in FTP.
The third aim was to investigate age differences with regards to the future orientation constructs (FTP and EFT) and different types of time perspectives.
A total of 96 participants, aged between 9 and 101 years, were enrolled in this study. The participants from five age groups (9–14, 18–25, 35–55, 65–80, 80+) were recruited in the regions of Zurich and Lucerne, Switzerland. Recruitment sources included the participant server of the Dept. of Psychology of the University of Zurich, the database of the authors, and several clubs for children (e.g., a soccer club). The participation was voluntarily upon receiving an oral or written invitation. In the case of participants below 18 years, one of the parents also had to give the consent. The participants were offered one reward as a motivation for participating in the study. These rewards included either 20 CHF (approximately 20 USD), 1.5 participant hours for their course credits (in the case of psychology students), or a voucher for an activity (visit to cinema for adolescents or toys' shop for children).
The participants were screened for cognitive impairment and depression, and the individuals with cognitive impairment or elevated depression scores above the critical cutoff were not included in the study.
Assessment of Delay of Gratification and Delay Discounting
Delay of Gratification Test
The Delay of Gratification Test for Adults (Forstmeier et al., 2011), a behavioral measure of motivational SR, was presented in the form of a board game. The test was originally developed for use in adults, but the simple tasks can be understood and performed from the age of eight, as pilot data have shown. This test included four decision tasks, and every decision task involved different types of rewards (e.g., snacks, hypothetical money, real money, and magazines). The snacks' task was adapted from Knolle-Veentjer et al. (2008), and the real money task was adapted from Wulfert et al. (2002). The experimenter and each participant took turns in moving a counter through the streets of a fictitious city. In the game, at each field on the board, the player draws a card and makes a decision in a fictitious shop.
The participants were not informed about the real aim of the test (measuring DoG) and the experimenter gave an impression that the game aimed at measuring their preferences and interests. Filler items were spaced between the decision tasks to gauge the participant's preferences about products available in the shop. It included queries such as: “There are black and red pullovers on sale. Do you like the black or the red pullover better?”
The four delay of gratification tasks were as follows (see Forstmeier et al., 2011, for concrete instructions):
Snacks: In eight trials, the participants were supposed to decide between 1 piece of snack (depending on the preferences that they specified before their visit) or 2 pieces (2 h after the experiment). As per the experimental design, the participants were supposed to choose two favored snacks from a list that they received a few days before the experiment was realized. This ensured that each participant was presented with an attractive incentive.
Hypothetical money: In further eight money task trials, each participant was supposed to choose between an immediate and a delayed hypothetical money reward. The immediate amount varied between 6 and 9.50 CHF in steps of 0.50 CHF (presented in the order 9.50, 6.00, 6.50, 9.00, 8.50, 7.00, 7.50, and 8.00), whereas the delayed amount was always 10 CHF. The experimenter asked, “Imagine that a friend of yours has won some money in the lottery. He or she wants to give you some money as a present. But you have to choose between CHF 6 now and CHF 10 in 1 month…”
Real money: In the real money task, the experimenter offered a chance to decide between an immediate reward of 8 CHF and a delayed reward of 10 CHF, which the participants were entitled to receive in 1 month's time. It was plausibly explained that the participants would receive individual feedback on task results along with the 10 CHF banknote within a month's time. The money was placed on a table and was visible to both the experimenter and participant.
Magazine: As in the case of snacks, a few days before the experimental session, participants were provided with a list of magazines. The participants were asked to pick one favorite magazine from the list, and the chosen magazine was purchased for the session. In the testing session, after the pawn moved across a certain field, the experimenter placed the magazine on the table and explained that the participant can choose either getting the exhibited magazine immediately or receiving two magazines (the exhibited magazine and the next issue) along with feedback on the study results via mail in 1 month.
Altogether there were 18 trials in the course of the game—eight for the snack, eight for the hypothetical money, one for the real money, and one for the magazines. Subscores for every type of reward were calculated. In the case of snacks and hypothetical money, the number of delayed rewards defined the final score (0–8). In the case of real money and magazines, the participants only had two choices (immediate vs. delayed reward), which implies that the score was dichotomous (0 vs. 1). The composite DoG score was drawn by first dichotomizing the two continuous variables (snacks and hypothetical money), with the scale mid-point as cutoff (0–4 vs. 5–8), and calculating the sum of the four subscores.
Forstmeier et al. (2011) reported the criterion validity with the help of the calculated bivariate correlations between the subscores and different variables, which are known as indicators for SR. The correlations with DD were the highest (r = −0.46, p < 0.01).
Delay Discounting Questionnaire
Delay discounting was measured using the 27-item delay discounting questionnaire (DDQ) by Kirby et al. (1999) in its German version (Forstmeier and Maercker, 2011). The DDQ is a well-established test for measuring DD for adults and also for children (Wilson et al., 2011; Daniel et al., 2015). The questionnaire provided an option to each participant to choose between either a smaller immediate amount of money and a larger financial reward in future. The instruction was to imagine receiving a monetary reward, which implied the non-employment of real money in the test. The delay interval differed across the items. The first item in the questionnaire was as follows: “Would you prefer CHF 68 today or CHF 69 in 92 days?” This statement was in contrast to the eleventh item: “Would you prefer CHF 14 today or CHF 38 in 7 days?” The range of the delay was between R = 7–214 days (M = 74.10) while the money amounts of the delayed rewards differed between R = 32–107 CHF (M = 69.44). Discounting rates were estimated on the basis of a pattern of 27 choices. These 27 choices were divided into 3 magnitude categories: small (CHF 32–44), medium (63–76), and large (CHF 95–107) (see Forstmeier and Maercker, 2011, p. 122). They were first estimated separately for each magnitude category and then averaged as the geometric mean to calculate a global discounting rate k. We used the geometric midpoint to avoid underweighting the smaller of the two parameters (see Kirby and Maraković, 1996, p. 102). Following Mazur (1987), a hyperbolic decay function describes the discounting curves the best:
V=A 1+kD
V describes the present value of the delayed reward A at delay D, while k symbolizes a free parameter, which reflects the discounting rate (see Forstmeier and Maercker, 2011, p. 122). k increases as an individual's preference for immediate rewards increases. Therefore, a higher k can be interpreted as higher impulsiveness or a lower level of SR.
The reliability (consistency) of the German DDQ, which is measured as the percentage of accordance between the individual's decision and the computed discount rate, has been shown to be very high, i.e., 98.3%, in the present sample. The bivariate correlations with measures of DoG (r = −0.46, p < 0.01) and impulsivity (r = 0.21, p < 0.05) confirmed the construct validity of the German DDQ (Forstmeier and Maercker, 2011).
Assessment of Future Orientations
Episodic Future Thinking
The approach of Hassabis et al. (2007) and Rendell et al. (2012), which includes an imagination task, was adopted in the current study to investigate the ability of EFT. The participants got the instruction to imagine and describe four specified scenarios to the experimenter. The main purpose of the task in our study was to find the quality and coherence of imagination of future events. In contrast to Rendell et al. (2012), only two atemporal and two future scenarios were used in the study. The spoken words of the participants were recorded, transcribed, and coded.
The participants imagined and provided detailed specifications of each of the four scenarios that were introduced by the experimenter. They got the instruction not to use a previously experienced or familiar situation, but to imagine a new scenario. For example, the instruction for the beach scenario (atemporal) was as follows: “Imagine you are lying at a deserted beach with white sands in a beautiful tropical bay. Now, please give a detailed description of your experience and surroundings, using all your senses and everything you can see, hear, and feel” (see Hassabis et al., 2007). Atemporal scenarios were used to minimize the level of difficulty and the relationship to the innate ability of creative thinking. During the future scenario tasks, the participants had to envision themselves within a specific future situation and were asked to picture it as if they undergo the scenario at the present moment (“Imagine how you will spend next Christmas,” see Rendell et al., 2012). Therefore, the atemporal scenarios as well as the future scenarios tested the individual's imagination vividness. However, in the future condition, participants additionally had to mentally travel into the future and imagine a futuristic scenario, which extends the required skill set.
The participants were asked to complete a questionnaire upon the completion of each scenario. This questionnaire comprised five questions (e.g., “How difficult was the task?”). In the final step, the participants were required to confirm or deny 12 statements concerning the imagining task for each of the four scenarios (e.g., “I saw the scene in color”). On the one hand, the scoring involved the individual's own evaluation of the imagined scenarios; and on the other hand, it comprised a rating on content and quality by an independent rater who was unaware of the participant's personal data. The result of the full scoring procedure is referred to as “experience index,” which measures the level of detail in an individual's imagination. The index is composed of four subscales.
Firstly, after every imagination task, the participants were required to assess the feeling of presence and noticed salience through a questionnaire. Secondly, the participants rated 12 statements concerning the spatial coherence of the imagined scenario. Thirdly, the transcribed voice recordings were segmented into a set of statements by an independent rater. Following this process, each statement was classified as belonging to one of the following four content categories: spatial reference, entity presence, sensory description, and thought/emotion/action. Fourthly, an independent rater estimated the general quality of the imagination. With regards to each scenario, the rater scored for the strength of the feeling that the imagination of the participant created before his inner eye (for more details see Hassabis et al., 2007; Rendell et al., 2012). After analysis, every participant had a composite score, otherwise known as experience index, for every single scenario. The experience index ranged from 0 (not experienced at all) to 60 (extremely richly experienced). The score was calculated by summing up the four subscores. The performance of the participants was rated by calculating a mean for the two atemporal (EFT-A) scenarios and a mean for the two future scenarios (EFT-F, which is used to indicate the term episodic future thinking in this article).
Balanced Time Perspective Scale (BTPS)
The time perspective of the participants was measured using the Balanced Time Perspective Scale by Webster (2011). It contains 28 items divided in 2 subscales, each comprising 14 items with the possibility to answer on a 6-point Likert scale. One subscale measures positive feelings related to the participant's past (e.g., “Remembering past accomplishment makes me feel good about myself”), and the second subscale is based on the future of the participants (e.g., “Planning for the future gives me a sense of direction in life”). According to Webster (2011), the selected items cover cognitive, emotional, and motivational dimensions of future (future time perspective, FTP) and past orientation (past time perspective, PTP). Besides, like already mentioned in the introduction, each participant can be assigned to one of four groups, after median split of the two scores.
We built the time categories of the BTPS following Webster's original work (2011). Therefore, we performed a median split on the two subscales (past and future) regarding the scores of our sample independent of the age categories. The participants low in both, the past and future subscale, were assigned to the time restrictive category. Persons in this category are characterized as rather not thinking in long-term goals and disdaining past experience. Those participants low in the past subscale and high in the future subscale were assigned to the futurist category with a view rather directed into the future. The participants were assigned to the reminiscers category, if they had a low future subscore and a high past subscore. These persons orient themselves above all toward the past. Finally, the participants high in both subscales were assigned to the time expansive category. Being in this category means taking past experiences as well as future possibilities into account. During the collection of data, we made the experience that all age groups could understand and answer the questions appropriately.
Other Variables
The participants were screened for a possible depressive syndrome using the German depression test for children (DTK, Rossmann, 2008). This test was used for the youngest age group, while adult participants were tested through the German version of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS, Gauggel and Birkner, 1999). The DTK consists of 55 items and is a self-report measure of depressive symptoms for children above 9 years. The GDS consists of 15 questions and exhibits a dichotomous answer format (yes/no).
Verbal Intelligence
The verbal intelligence of the participants was measured using the vocabulary test of the HAWIK-IV (Petermann and Petermann, 2008). While this test was employed for the youngest age group, the German vocabulary test was employed for adult participants (Schmidt and Metzler, 1992).
The German vocabulary test contains 42 items, presenting five words in a row. As per the test design, the participant had to differentiate between one real word and four tractions and had to mark the real word. The number of correct answers generates a raw score, which can be transformed into a standard score and interpreted with the help of a norm sample.
The vocabulary test of the HAWIK-IV is the German version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC). It includes 30 tasks, wherein a booklet is placed in front of the children on a table, and the children are asked the meaning of a word while they are reading that word in the booklet. The participants can score 0, 1, or 2 points in each task. The final score is the sum of scores achieved in each task.
The participants received oral and written information about the study's goals and procedures. They signed a consent form. The testing session, lasting for approximately 90 min, started with either the DoG or the EFT task. The study randomized the order of the DoG and the EFT to control the possible impact of EFT on the DoG performance over the entire sample. However, the study found no such effect, and hence, the order of the two tests was not considered during the analysis.
Later, a series of questionnaires was administered in the following order: delay discounting, FTP, depression, and demographic variables. Finally, cognitive tests were administered.
At the end of the testing session, the participants were orally debriefed and were handed a written explanation. In addition to a compensation for their time (either 20 CHF, 1.5 participant hours or a voucher for children), participants received a magazine, snacks, and 8 or 10 CHF as rewards associated to the DoG test.
Data analysis was realized using IBM Statistics 23.0 for Mac, with a standard alpha of 0.05. Data screening showed that most of the reviewed variables were not normally distributed (DoG1, DoG21, DD, FTP, PTP, age, depression-adults, verbal intelligence-adults, depression-overall, verbal intelligence-overall, income, education). Normally distributed variables included EFT-F, EFT-A, depression-children, and verbal intelligence-children.
We computed the correlative relationships (Kendall's Tau, τ) between all the variables. The study also investigated between-group differences of the sample characteristics and main study variables through analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the Kruskal-Wallis Test. The least significant difference test (LSD) was also employed to test the significance of potential post-hoc between-group effects. Furthermore, we tested linear and non-linear regression models and their fit regarding the main study variables. We hypothesized that a non-linear quadratic function (in the shape of an inverse U for DoG and in the shape of a normal U for DD) would be the best fit for the data.
Additionally, the study measured control variables that had been shown to be relevant in other studies investigating DoG or DD concerning age differences or similar relationships—sex (Jacobsen et al., 1997; Romer et al., 2010; Forstmeier et al., 2011), depression (Read and Read, 2004; Gawrilow et al., 2011) and verbal intelligence (Gawrilow et al., 2011; Drobetz et al., 2012b). Besides, a z-transformed value, which is suitable for every age group and test version, was computed for comparing the scores of the different variables that were collected with the help of different test versions for younger and older participants.
Age Differences
Sample Characteristics
The descriptive sample characteristics and main study variables are presented in Table 1. Differences between the groups were not found for sex [χ(4, 96)2 = 3.50, p = 0.478], depression [χ(4, 95)2 = 6.44, p = 0.169], and verbal intelligence [χ(4, 96)2 = 2.71, p = 0.608]. The groups differed, and this difference increased for education [χ(4, 96)2 = 50.53, p < 0.001] and income [χ(4, 92)2 = 73.97, p < 0.001].
Table 1. Differences between age groups.
Group Differences
While the study revealed significant age group difference for DD [χ(4, 96)2 = 12.47, p = 0.014], there was only a marginal trend for DoG1 [χ(4, 95)2 = 7.87, p = 0.097] and no effect for DoG2 [χ(4, 95)2 = 6.98, p = 0.137; see Table 1]. Therefore, DD was lowest (i.e., SR was highest) in young and middle age adults, but highest (i.e., SR lowest) in children and older adults (see Figure 1). To detect, which groups differed, we used U-tests with an adjusted alpha-level (α = 0.005). The results showed only a significant difference for the comparison of the middle-aged group and the oldest group (z = −2.91, p < 0.005). Analysis of covariance (ANCOVAs) was performed (in case of the normally distributed variables) to exclude a systematic influence of the variables sex, depression, and verbal intelligence (see Table 1). The results did not show different patterns after eliminating the influence of the mentioned covariates.
Figure 1. Age differences in Delay Discounting. This figure shows the differences in Delay Discounting and Delay of Gratification behavior between the five age groups. As expected, we can see a U-shaped form. Especially, the youngest and oldest participants showed higher levels of Delay Discounting and therefore a more impulsive behavior. These was no significant differences of DoG.
We found an age difference for the future scale of EFT [EFT-F; F(4, 96) = 7.16, p < 0.001] as well as the atemporal scale of EFT [EFT-A; F(4, 96) = 4.67, p = 0.002]. While the results only showed a small trend for age differences in FTP [FTP; χ(4, 95)2 = 8.60, p = 0.072], there were differences for past time perspective [PTP; F(4, 95) = 5.68, p < 0.001]. When controlling for sex, verbal intelligence, and depression there were significant age difference for EFT-F [F(4, 96) = 8.38, p ≤ 0.001], EFT-A [F(4, 96) = 5.01, p < 0.001], and PTP [F(4, 95) = 7.19, p = 0.001]. Post-hoc comparisons using t-tests with Bonferroni corrections indicated that the middle-aged group differed significantly from all other age groups except of the oldest (35–55 vs. 9–14: M = 14.66, p < 0.001; 35–55 vs. 18–25: M = 7.52, p < 0.05; 35–55 vs. 65–80: M = 9.46, p < 0.01).
Regressions
Besides, non-linear regression models were calculated to consider the inverse U-shaped or simple U-shaped forms of the hypothesized relationships between DoG1/DD/EFT-F and age. Therefore, the study used models based on a quadratic function to picture the hypothesized relationships. A non-significant fit of the regression model was found for the relationship between DoG1 and age [F(2, 92) = 1.92, p = 0.15], with an R2 of 0.04. The fit of the quadratic regression model for the relationship between DD and age was significant [F(2, 92) = 4.60, p = 0.013], with an R2 of 0.091. A linear regression was significant too, but with an R2 = 0.043, which means less explained variance, and therefore, a weaker fit of the model. However, we have to mention that both R2 did not differ significantly. After z-transforming the R2 of both models using Fisher's z-transformation, we compared the confidence intervals of both coefficients. The 95% CI [0.1, 0.5] of the quadratic model overlapped the 95% CI [0.01, 0.4] of the linear model. The overlapping of both CI means that the coefficients did not differ significantly.
Furthermore, a significant regression equation was found for the relationship between EFT-F and age [F(2, 92) = 10.02, p < 0.001] with an R2 of 0.18. Again the model of the linear regression (R2 = 0.009) did not match the data as well as a model with quadratic function. The difference between both R2 was not significant (z = 1.54, p = 0.124).
The results for DoG2 did not differ seriously. The regression model based on a quadratic function did not fit the relationship between DoG2 and age significantly [F(2, 94) = 2.12, p = 0.126], with an R2 of 0.04. We could only find a trend for the relationship between DoG2 and age based on a linear function [F(1, 94) = 3.62, p = 0.06], with an R2 of 0.037.
Additionally, we computed a mediation analysis between DoG/DD and FTP with age as mediator and the z-scores verbal intelligence and depression as covariates using Process by Hayes and Scharkow (2013). We found a significant direct negative effect between DoG1 and FTP (b = 0.036, p = 0.016) and a non-significant indirect effect considering age as mediator, which means that the relationship between DoG1 and FTP is at least slightly influenced by age (CI [−0.0265, 0.0113]). The results of the mediation analyses between DD and FTP followed the same pattern. We included the same mediators and controls as for DoG1 (b = −0.037, p = 0.031; CI [−0.0222, 0.0063]). The results of DoG2 did not show different patterns than the results of DoG1.
In addition to the age differences, the study investigated the correlations (Kendall's Tau, τ) between the main study variables (see Table 2). DoG correlated, as expected, highly significantly and negatively with DD (rτ = −0.394, p < 0.001). DoG1 also correlated highly significantly with FTP (rτ = 0.263, p < 0.01), but not with PTP (rτ = −0.028, p = 0.720), as hypothesized. Contrary to our expectations, DoG1 did not correlate with EFT. The same pattern was found for DD wherein a significant correlation existed with FTP (rτ = −0.172, p < 0.05), but not with PTP and EFT. Furthermore, positive correlation was found between EFT-F and EFT-A (rτ = 0.541, p < 0.001), and between FTP and EFT-F (rτ = 0.155, p < 0.05).
Table 2. Correlations of delay of gratification, delay discounting, episodic future thinking, time perspective and age.
We found similar results for the correlations of DoG2 as for DoG1. Therefore, we found a significant negative correlation to DD (rτ = −0.428, p < 0.001) and a positive relationship to FTP (rτ = 0.221, p < 0.01) but no significant correlation to PTP (rτ = −0.041, p = 0.601). As for DoG1, we could not find a significant correlation to EFT-F as hypothesized (rτ = −0.121, p = 0.114).
The correlations with age as continuous variable showed several significant linear relationships. Age and FTP were negatively correlated (rτ = −0.168, p < 0.05), whereas age and PTP were positively associated (rτ = 0.179, p < 0.01). There is a strong trend for a rise in DD with age (rτ = 0.134, p = 0.060) and a small negative trend for DoG1 and age (rτ = −0.140, p = 0.072). Furthermore, we found a positive relationship between age and EFT-F (rτ = 0.139, p = 0.048).
Additionally, the alternative results using DoG2 showed a trend for a negative relationship between DoG2 and age (rτ = −0.143, p = 0.065).
Differences between Time Perspective Categories
After median split of the two dimensions future and past orientation, 29 subjects were classified as time restrictive, 19 as futurists, 22 as reminiscers, and 25 as time expansive. Analysis showed that the groups differed significantly for DoG1 [χ(3, N = 94)2 = 17.61, p = 0.001], EFT-F [F(4, 94) = 3.07, p = 0.032], and only with a small trend for DD [χ(3, N = 95)2 = 6.96, p = 0.073]. The categories did not differ significantly for EFT-A [F(4, 94) = 2.01, p = 0.118]. Descriptive analysis showed that the futurists were best at delaying gratification, followed by the persons in the time expansive category, the reminiscers, and subjects in the time restrictive category. The alternative analysis with DoG2 did not show different patterns and only slightly different results (see Table 3). Again, we used U-tests with an adjusted alpha level (α = 0.008) to detect post-hoc groups differences. We could find significant post hoc differences for DoG1 between time expansive and time restrictive (p = 0.002) and between futurists and time restrictive categories (p = 0.001).
Table 3. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) or Kruskal-Wallis-Test for Differences between the four categories of persons possible Time Perspectives.
The participants that could imagine future events and siutations the best (EFT-F) were people in the time expansive category (M = 38.91) followed by the category comprising futurist (M = 37.17), time restrictive (M = 33.64), and reminiscers (M = 31.47). Post-hoc tests for EFT-F showed that the categories of time restrictive and time expansive differed significantly (p = 0.041). Besides, we could find significant differences between reminiscers and futurists (p = 0.045) as well as reminiscers and time expansive (p < 0.008).
Furthermore, we found significant age differences within the particular categories [χ(3, N = 95)2 = 9.58, p = 0.022]. The participants of the youngest age group (9–14 years) were mostly assigned to the time expansive category (7 vs. 3 in the reminiscers vs. 4 in the futurists vs. 4 in the time restrictive category). The members of the younger age group (18–24 years) mostly belonged to the futurists category (11 vs. 2 in the reminiscers vs. 9 in the time restrictive vs. 3 in the time expansive category). The participants belonging to the middle-aged group were represented mostly in the time expansive category (7 vs. 1 in the reminiscers vs. 5 in the futurists vs. 5 in the time restrictive category). The older participants of the sample were the strongest in the reminiscers category (9 vs. 5 in the time expansive vs. 3 in the futurist vs. 7 in the time restrictive category). Finally, the members of the oldest age group, similar to the older participants, were mostly represented in the reminiscers category (5 vs. 3 in the time expansive vs. 0 in the futurists vs. 2 in the time restrictive category).
A comparison of the z-scores of depression scores revealed significant differences between the categories [χ(3,textitN=94)2 = 10.31, p = 0.016]. The participants of the time expansive category had the lowest depression scores (M = −0.51), followed by futurists (M = −0.10), reminiscers (M = 0.18) and time restrictive (M = 0.43).
We could show that there is an age difference in the ability to self-regulate. Middle-aged participants showed significantly higher self-regulation than the oldest participants. They also showed better performances than the youngest participants (see DD curve in Figure 1) but without significant differences. Furthermore, the results indicate that a FTP has a positive relation to the DoG and DD behavior, which applied for every age group in our sample. A closer examination of time perspective variables revealed that an FTP decreases with age, while a PTP increases with age. Furthermore, younger and older participants showed a weaker EFT-F than the middle-aged participants. Taken together, while the study replicated several recent findings on SR across the life span, these results also provide important new insights in the understanding of the development of self-regulatory behavior and its influencing factors. These insights are discussed in more detail below.
First, age differences for DoG could be found only with an alpha level of 10%. However, a significant effect of age on DD was observed, as expected. This implies that younger and older participants showed less self-controlled behavior than middle-aged participants.
The hypothesis about the association between DoG/DD and the future orientation constructs was confirmed for DoG/DD and FTP in all age groups. Besides, the analysis showed no significant associations between DoG/DD and PTP, as expected. Contrary to our expectations, the correlations between DoG and EFT-F/EFT-P and between DD and EFT-F/EFT-P were not significant independent of age.
The third hypothesis concerning the age differences with regard to the future orientation constructs could be confirmed. The findings revealed significant group differences for both constructs. While the data showed an inverse U-shaped form for EFT-F with the best performance from middle-aged participants, the older and oldest participants scored lower on the FTP measure. In contrast, PTP was significantly associated with age.
Delay of Gratification, Delay Discounting, and Age
A strong relationship between DoG and DD was highlighted through the study to replicate the well-established finding that DoG and DD are very close constructs (e.g., Mischel et al., 1989; Evenden and Ryan, 1996). Furthermore, the results revealed an impact of age on DD. The five age groups showed different DD behavior, as expected. The younger and older participants showed a less self-controlled behavior than the middle-aged subjects (see Figure 1). The regression equation for the relationship between DD and age supports these predictions. It resulted in a U-shaped function with better performances for the middle-aged participants and weaker performances for the younger and older, as predicted. These findings concord with those of other studies. For example, Steinberg et al. (2009) highlighted that younger participants (10–15 years) show less SR in DD task than older participants (16–30 years). Several other studies also arrived at the same conclusion (e.g., Reimers et al., 2009). The crucial difference of our findings is that we could extend these findings by showing that older adults show a weaker SR, similar to younger people, and that middle-aged participants seem to be the most controlled.
As described in the introduction, young and old-aged individuals live with more uncertainties than the middle-aged individuals (Trostel and Taylor, 2001; Sozou and Seymour, 2003). Often, younger people have a late career start and spend significant time in their job training, without a guarantee of a job in the future. Additionally, the younger generation faces insecurities in their private life either, such as, choosing a life partner or choosing a city to reside. These insecurities about the future might be responsible for causing the prioritization of immediate before delayed gratification. Similarly, the older age groups also face insecurities, but in other areas of their life. For example, illness, loss of relatives and friends, and coming close to death make future rewards less attractive, thereby leading to impulsive and less long-term decisions. Green et al. (1999) also investigated the DD behavior across the life span (11–79 years). They came to the conclusion that SR increases with age. The findings of current study contradict their results and indicate a rise in SR from childhood to adulthood, and a decrease in self-controlled behavior after the middle adulthood age. The difference in the age span (11–79 years, Green et al. vs. 9–101 years, in our study) possibly accounts for differences in findings. There are possibilities that the wider sampling used in this study provided a more differentiable picture of SR across the life span.
The better fit of the quadratic function for the relationship between DD and age is also supported by the findings on education and income. The sample showed a linear increase of these two variables depending on age. Nevertheless, a quadratic function resulted in a better fit for the relationship between DD and age than a linear function did. Therefore, despite of a different linear pattern of age in the sample, the quadratic function emerges to be the best fit for the relationship between DD and age.
There might be questions on the lack of findings on these age differences for DoG, in this study, although a strong negative association between DD and DoG was established. One plausible explanation is provided by Metcalfe and Mischel (1999) and their two-system model. It postulates that processes underlying SR can be either hot or cool. The hot system is the affective and motivational part of the systems. In contrast, the cool system is rather cognitive, strategic and emotionally neutral. Zelazo and Carlson (2012) developed a very similar paradigm involving executive functions (EF) in the process of SR that distinguish between hot and cool too. The measures employed in the current study—real snacks, magazines and money rewards—to determine DoG seem to activate mainly the motivational-affective system (Baumeister and Vohs, 2004). In contrast, the DD questionnaire using hypothetical money rewards, and the inclusion of different intervals and amount of money, requires more cognitive resources. This is because the tasks involve mathematical operations instead of actual behavioral measurement like in the DoG tasks. As a consequence, DoG and DD might differ since the former can be assigned to the hot system, while DD can be assigned to the cool system (Hongwanishkul et al., 2005). In addition, there is evidence for age differences on EF, and in the same way, we expected age differences on SR. Therefore, it could be shown that younger (M = 8.8 years) and older age groups (M = 71.1 years) showed weaker performance in EF than a middle-aged group of participants (M = 22.3 years). The results indicated, as our analysis did for SR too, a quadratic curve for EF over the life span with a performance peak in middle age (Zelazo et al., 2004). Besides, different studies have already shown that cognitive functions develop in childhood and decrease with age (e.g., Deary et al., 2009). Therefore, performance in childhood and advanced age is worse than in the middle adulthood. This curve is consistent to our findings that DD is lowest (i.e., SR was highest) in young/middle-aged adults. In contrast, motivational processes seem to stay relatively stable till advanced age (Forstmeier and Maercker, 2015), which can explain the non-significant age differences in DoG and the comparatively high performance of the oldest age group.
An explanation for the high performance (see Table 1) of the youngest age group on DoG can be obtained from the average age of the children selected for the sample (M = 11.28; SD = 1.36). A majority of reviewed research concerning DoG behavior of children in comparison with adults used samples of children in the pre-school or elementary school age (e.g. Drobetz et al., 2012a, mean age of the participating children M = 6.00 years). However, DoG increases when children get older (Evans and Rosenbaum, 2008; Drobetz et al., 2012a), which naturally contributes toward an increase in their performances. Hence, it is concluded that the high performance of our youngest age group in the DoG task could be attributed to their age, which was comparatively higher than the age groups of children sampled in previous studies.
Delay of Gratification, Delay Discounting, and Future Orientations
The study also aimed to investigate the association between DoG and future orientations. The research hypothesized that an FTP could be positively correlated with a better performance in DoG. The results show that our hypothesis could be confirmed. Participants with a more distinctive FTP showed significantly higher DoG. This confirms studies in an academic context, which employ self-report measures and do not assess actual behavior like the current one (Bembenutty and Karabenick, 2004). Alternately, these studies investigate the relationship of similar constructs like the correlation between motivation/SR and personally valued future goals (Miller and Brickman, 2004). The current study showed for the first time that an FTP can be used with a behavioral measure, wherein the ability to wait for a bigger reward and deny an immediate smaller reward can be assessed.
In addition, the study could find this DoG–FTP relation across each of the five age groups. It implies that people who orient their lives toward the future can delay gratification more successfully than people with less future orientation, independent of their age. Furthermore, we found a significant negative relationship between FTP and age. It indicates that the younger and middle-aged participants had a stronger FTP, and this tendency decreased gradually in the older participants, and was at a minimum in the oldest age group. This result contradicts the findings of Steinberg et al. (2009), who found that individuals, particularly till the age of 16, expressed less concerns about the future and on the consequences of their decisions. This difference in finding can be attributed to the different ways of measuring future orientation. While the current study used the BTPS, Steinberg and colleagues used a self-report measure of future orientation that was especially developed for their study.
Furthermore, the difference in finding can also be attributed to the different age samples used in both studies. Steinberg and colleagues investigated the future orientation of a sample that was aged 30 years, at the most. These researchers might have also investigated a wider age span to establish a decrease in FTP with higher age. In our sample, BTPS was employed to reveal that participants between 9 and 55 years showed a similar increase in FTP when compared to the older age groups, where the perspective showed a decreasing tendency. In addition, the study found a positive significant relationship between a past time perspective and age. To sum it up, these results show that younger to middle-aged individuals tend to live with a stronger future orientation, while older persons are inclined to look into the past.
Similarly, the results show a significant negative relationship between FTP and DD, independent of age. A person with a future-oriented view seems to have a tendency toward making long-term decisions, and hence act in a less impulsive manner. This finding supports the strength of the effect between DoG and FTP, which is also established in the current study. The linkage between the constructs of FTP and DD seems to be logical, and, not surprisingly, previous literature has already dealt with its similarities and differences (Teuscher and Mitchel, 2011).
It is also important to mention another new finding concerning DoG and time perspective. On the basis of the BTPS (Webster, 2011), participants can be assigned to one of the four categories of time perspective (time expansive, futurist, reminiscers, and time restrictive). The futurists—with a strong future orientation and without past orientation—were the best in delaying gratification. People in the time expansive category were the participants that dealt most with their actions and with situations that either took place in the past or might occur in the future. These people were second best in delaying gratification, while people in the time restrictive and reminiscers category showed clearly lower performances (see Table 3). These results support the hypothesis that a time perspective that is directed toward the future or at least embraces one's future and past can promote the ability to delay gratification like already found for academic DoG by Bembenutty and Karabenick (2004).
Regarding the relationship between the BTPS categories and the age of the participants, we found significant differences and could replicate the findings of Webster and Ma (2013). Consistent with their results, the futurist category mostly included the young adults, while the older participants were strongly represented in the reminiscers category. These findings are supported by the correlations between age and the past or future orientation of the participants. The results go along with the outcomes of other studies, which indicated that the future orientation of individuals decreases with age (e.g., Lang and Carstensen, 2002), while the past orientation increases. In addition, we could confirm findings that postulated higher depression scores for individuals with an orientation rather directed into the past (e.g., Brandtstädter and Wentura, 1994). Our results also can be linked to different approaches regarding depression that connect depression to hopelessness. Negative thinking about the future or pessimism about the future is in turn a central symptom of hopelessness (Beck, 1967; Brown and Harris, 1978; Lavender and Watkins, 2004). The differences of the categories on EFT-F support a linkage to these approaches. The best time travelers were, like the participants with lower depression scores, in the categories with an orientation directed rather into future.
Furthermore, the study hypothesized that people with a better ability to imagine future scenarios, events, etc., make less impulsive choices and are more oriented toward the future. Several other studies also investigated the relationship between DD and EFT. These studies came to the conclusion that EFT tasks during a delay discounting performance reduce the discounting of delayed reward because EFT activates brain regions involved in prospective thinking (Peters and Büchel, 2010; Daniel et al., 2015). As already mentioned in the introduction, the expected relationship between DoG/DD and EFT can be easily understood. If people have a better ability to imagine future events or situations, including future rewards, then they are more likely to wait for gratification. This factor is attributed to the preciseness and alertness of imagination. Contrary to these considerations, the study could not find any relationships between DoG/DD and EFT. One plausible explanation is that we randomized the order of the DoG and EFT tasks. Contrary to Daniel et al. (2015) we presented the EFT task or the DoG task first alternately. Maybe there would have been significant correlations if we presented the EFT task first over the entire sample. A similar problem appears for the DD task. The half of the sample did not finish the DD task directly before finishing the EFT task. The procedure was interrupted through the DoG task. Therefore, maybe the EFT task did activate patterns of future thinking, but because of this interruption, they did not stay activated till the DD task, for the half of the participants.
Future Orientations and Age
Furthermore, we established that people differ significantly in their ability to travel mentally into the future, depending on their age. The EFT-F performance of middle-aged participants repeated in this instance. The post hoc tests yielded that the middle-aged adults (35–55 years) performed significantly better than the other age groups except the oldest age group (but nevertheless better). These results were again supported by the regression equation calculated in the study, wherein the hypothesized inversed U-shaped function with weaker performances for younger and older participants could be confirmed. Several other studies already found that the ability to imagine new scenarios in the future decreases with age (Addis et al., 2008). Due to the factor that one can find an increase in EFT over the life span, from childhood to adolescence (Gott and Lah, 2014) established the constructive-episodic-simulation hypothesis, which postulates the need for a system that flexibly retransforms details from past events to imagine future episodes. This ability to retransform sometimes raises problems for older people because relational processes that combine parts of an episode work effectively only until young age (Lyle et al., 2006; Addis et al., 2008). Therefore, the loss in cognitive capacity is contributed to the weaker performance of the older participants (e.g., Rendell et al., 2012). The younger participants, on the other hand, probably could not develop their mental skills as much as the middle- aged group, and hence, they showed less ability to mentally travel into time.
A potential weakness of the study lies in the relatively small sample size per age group. Furthermore, the study did not test children aged 8 and below. A majority of research concerning children's DoG used samples of children that were younger than those in our sample. An additional age group with younger children might have led to significant age differences in DoG in an expected manner.
Besides, it is very unfavorable that most of the variables, and especially the variables that measure self-regulation, were not normally distributed. We had to conduct most of the analyses using non-parametric tests. Therefore, we did not have the possibility to include covariates in analyses with these variables. Because of the strong correlation between DoG and DD, an MANCOVA to analyze the age differences on these variables certainly would have made sense.
Another potential problem appears in the high correlation between EFT-F and EFT-A (r = 0.741, p < 0.01). The constructs seem to be harder to differentiate than expected. One reason for the high correlation may be that participants in both conditions were asked to develop new scenarios in established situations. In the EFT-F scenarios, they should additionally imagine themselves and the whole scenario in the future. Nevertheless, this instruction, and thus, the difference between the tasks may have been too weak. Therefore, prospective studies in the context of EFT should use measures and analysis methods respecting and weighting the future aspects more intense to gain a clearer differentiation between EFT and imagination vividness.
The cross-sectional design of our study exhibits one big advantage. The study can facilitate comparisons between different age groups and can draw a picture of DoG and its potential influences across the life span without having to collect data for 60 years. The disadvantage is that the data analysis only allows computation of correlations. This type of investigation does not facilitate casual conclusions. Nevertheless, we were able to compare the DoG behavior of a broad age span of participants. The used DoG test allowed us to test and compare DoG for every age group the same way because it used four types of reward. Therefore, it was suitable for every age group that was investigated in this study.
A more precise view of the DoG development over the life span can be obtained by testing the important variables in a longitudinal design. This would facilitate procurement of more reliable data while allowing investigation into causal effects of DoG and influencing variables. Further research should look into a sample that includes younger children in the analysis. Testing a wider age span can produce meaningful results and facilitate examination of additional differences that might arise from a wider sampling. We did not include younger children in our sample because the DoG test would not have been applicable to children younger than 9 years. Previous studies used other methods to test the DoG behavior of children in earlier childhood (e.g., marshmallow paradigm or similar modified versions, Mischel et al., 1989; Drobetz et al., 2012b). However, one of our main goals was to compare adult's and children's self-regulation using the same measure to prevent losing effects because of testing it in different ways for different age groups.
Taken together, the present study helps understanding how self-regulation develops over the life span and its influencing factors. Therefore, we could confirm a direct relationship between DoG and a time perspective that is directed into the future and that this perspective decreases with age. Furthermore, we showed that younger and older persons have difficulties with imagining the future when compared to middle-aged persons. These results might be of interest for other basic researchers that investigate the development of self-regulatory skills over the lifespan. They can help to get the bigger picture of understanding self-regulation and provide new starting points for further research. Additionally, there might be implications for intervention programs with the goal of practicing these self-regulatory skills not only in childhood and adolescence but also in advanced age. Programs could install training elements were not only self-regulation itself (e.g., learning that valued rewards can be obtained by effort, Strayhorn, 2002) is practiced but where also the advantages of an FTP are pointed out and trained. Furthermore, clinical intervention could benefit from our results. Forstmeier and Rüddel (2007) showed that volitional competences support the efficiency of psychotherapy. Trying to take a future time perspective could be part of practicing these volitional competences.
Ethical approval: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study (see Method-section).
MK, SF, NB, and LG developed the concept of the study. SF and LG conceived of the study, led its design and coordination, and drafted the manuscript. MK and NB organized the rating of episodic future thinking, provided expertise and oversaw the overall methodology. All authors reviewed and commented on drafts of the protocol and paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
MK acknowledges support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
1. ^We computed an alternative score (DoG2) for the DoG behavior of all participants. During this calculation we used a different cutoff for the snack subscale. In contrast to the DoG1 score we now counted a participant as delayer when he or she chose to delay 7 of the 8 snacks minimum (the DoG1 score was built with a cutoff between 4 and 5 delaying decisions, which has been the midpoint of the 8 decisions. Forstmeier et al. (2011) also used this cutoff in the original article. We added an alternative cutoff to check for different results using a stronger distinction between delayer and non-delayer. As you can see, the different cutoffs did not lead to significantly different results. Other studies also used slightly modified versions of original measures; see Podjarny et al., 2017).
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Keywords: self-regulation, delay of gratification, delay discounting, life span, future time perspective, episodic future thinking
Citation: Göllner LM, Ballhausen N, Kliegel M and Forstmeier S (2018) Delay of Gratification, Delay Discounting and their Associations with Age, Episodic Future Thinking, and Future Time Perspective. Front. Psychol. 8:2304. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02304
Received: 09 March 2017; Accepted: 18 December 2017;
Published: 25 January 2018.
Erika Nurmsoo, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Patrick Burns, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Gal Podjarny, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
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*Correspondence: Lars M. Göllner, lars.goellner@uni-siegen.de
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Sowerby Bridge Snails at the Bluebell trail race
Stainland Lions’ flagship event, the mighty 10-mile Bluebell Trail race, took place from West Vale on Sunday.
The 500 runners who secured places were treated to perfect conditions with wall-to-wall sunshine and plenty of bluebells in flower along the route.
The race was won by Matthew Hallam of Valley Striders in 1:12:02 but the host club had the first lady in Lucy Collins and there were category wins for Aileen Baldwin (F65) and Judith Greenwood (F70).
First time race director Clayton Cutter and his team did a brilliant job. The reward for scaling the lung-busting and legendary Trooper Lane was water, jelly babies plus panoramic views from the top of Beacon Hill and a welcome downhill run to the finish with a “refreshing” river crossing on the way.
This year’s event was extra special as it marked the start of the Lions’ 30 th anniversary celebrations.
Thanks to a last minute course alteration, runners got extra value for their money with a bonus extra half mile on top of the advertised 10 miles.
There was a party atmosphere at the finish line, with a live band and bar, a bouncy castle for the children, and well-earned cakes and ice cream.
The race was in the Sowerby Bridge Snails Championship. The club’s first male home was Sean Suttle and the first female was Rebecca Pollard.
Chris Hanley, Terry Lamonby-Smith, Verity Garside, Brian Crowther and Jodie Smith head the club’s five divisions.
Lions results: Darren Young 1:19:13 (2 nd M45), Dan Marsden 1:23:27, Lucy Collins 1:24:30 (1 st Lady), Derek Parrington 1:26:55 (2 nd M50), Phillip Moyles 1:29:46, Mark Pigford 1:29:52, Andrew Earnshaw 1:33:30, Michael Barlow 1:34:22, Julie Field 1:35:11 (2 nd F45), David Culpan 1:38:25, Martin O’Brien 1:40:07, Stuart Clinton 1:41:05, Rachel Lumb 1:42:38 (2 nd F50), Aileen Baldwin 1:42:43 (1 st F65), Michelle Rogerson 1:44:55, Gareth Duckworth 1:45:02, Ian Hoskins 1:46:57, Jonathan Pybus 1:48:02, Gareth Webb 1:48:46, Moira Alderson 1:50:38, Angela Lee 1:54:46, Kevin Jaggar 1:58:36, Tony Pinnington 1:58:40, Holly Maddocks 1:59:33, Genevieve Thompson 2:01:35, Carol Gregson 2:03:07, Alison Audsley 2:03:49, Zoe Mallinson 2:07:36, Catherine O’Shaughnessy 2:11:16, Steve Boyer 2:12:00, Roger Smith 2:12:01, Debbie Hyde 2:14:50, Judith Greenwood 2:24:32 (1 st F70), Patricia Hallowell 2:24:35, Wendy Paulson 2:25:16, Julie Goddard 2:31:22, Manjit Ahiar 2:37:56, Gail Fawcett 2:43:03.
Snails results: 14, Sean Suttle 1:21:38; 27, Jonathan Moon 1:24:41; 53, Kyle Spencer 1:30:00; 56, Chris Hanley 1:30:22; 93, Richard Smith 1:37:00; 105, Kevin Carse 1:38:55; 133, Rob Hick 1:42:16; 147, Tom Oddy 1:43:47; 154, Chris Smart 1:44:33; 178, Mark Szefer 1:47:13; 211, Kieran Heaton 1:51:38; 231, Rebecca Pollard 1:54:05; 244, David Redhead 1:56:10; 374, Verity Garside 2:14:48; 391, Danielle Whitworth 2:17:25; 411, Nicky Brown 2:21:25; 413, Ella King 2:21:35; 426, Suzanne Fretwell 2:25:29; 454, Sandra Pinder 2:35:35; 455, Anne Molloy 2:35:35; 456, El Ogilive 2:35:35; 457, Amanda Aveyard 2:35:35; 460, Miriam Caldecott 2:36:03; 477, Samantha Wolstenholme 2:59:35; 478, Rick Ogilvie 3:00:44; 481, Amanda Goldthorpe 3:19:32; 482, Carol Whitworth 3:21:56.
Northowram Pumas results: Tim Brook 1:20:13, Luke Cranfield 1:20:44, Rick Ralph 1:22:46, Jude Roberts 1:27:43, Deke Banks 1:28:49, Andy Barnes 1:31:07, Diane Cooper 1:33:25, Chris Ellis 1:39:46, Jane Cole 1:41:41, Julie Bowman 1:42:29, Andrew Tudor 1:47:05, Matt Newton 1:48:02, Victoria Owen 1:50:38, Ally Canning 1:52:46, Jodie Knowles 1:57:32, Katrina Wood 2:00:02, Anna Ralph 2:07:44, Rachael Hawkins 2:10:01, Andrew Mellor 2:10:03.
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Heath named in England squad
Charlotte Heath
Published: 08:46 Sunday 17 February 2019
CALDERDALE’s Charlotte Heath has been named in the England girls’ squad for 2019.
She is one of the established players in a nine-strong line-up which includes five newcomers.
The Brighouse High School student, who lives at Bailiff Bridge, reached the semi-finals of the 2018 girls’ British Open Amateur Championship at Ardglass and tied for eighth in the English Women’s Open amateur championship at Coventry.
She also defended her Pleasington Putter title, had wins in the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters and the English Schools Golf Association Girls’ Championship and was a member of the England team that triumphed in the Girls’ Home Internationals atHuddersfield Golf Club last year and previously played at Halifax West End.
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Cavs notebook: Hughes returns to role at point
Chris Beaven
Dec 26, 2007 at 12:01 AM Dec 26, 2007 at 6:23 PM
Enough talking about fixing things. The Cavaliers want to see actual progress on the court as they look to work their way back from a sub-.500 record. “The basketball we’ve been playing hasn’t been good,” LeBron James said before the Cavs beat the Heat, 96-82, Tuesday. “The best thing you can say about this season is it’s a long season and you have opportunities to fix it. But at the same time when do you? You need to start picking things up and we have to do that soon because you don’t want to have must-win (games) going all the way down the stretch when you’re getting close to the playoffs.”
Enough talking about fixing things. The Cavaliers want to see actual progress on the court as they look to work their way back from a sub-.500 record. “The basketball we’ve been playing hasn’t been good,” LeBron James said before the Cavs beat the Heat, 96-82, Tuesday. “The best thing you can say about this season is it’s a long season and you have opportunities to fix it. But at the same time when do you? You need to start picking things up and we have to do that soon because you don’t want to have must-win (games) going all the way down the stretch when you’re getting close to the playoffs.” In order to shake things up, the Cavs went back to a starting lineup that brought them success last season. Larry Hughes returned to the lineup at point guard, replacing Daniel Gibson. The rest of the starting five remained the same -- James, Sasha Pavlovic, Drew Gooden and Zydrunas Ilgauskas. “We’re not playing well right now,” Head Coach Mike Brown said. “We had a nice run last year with that group.” When the Cavs reeled off eight straight wins last March, this was their lineup in seven of the games. James missed one game with an injury. Those five were 16-6 together as starters last regular season and then propelled the Cavs into the NBA Finals. Pavlovic’s contract holdout and injuries to Hughes and James have prevented that combination from starting together this season. Hughes also does not like playing point guard, and he was coming off the bench as a shooting guard the last seven games. “I’m doing what’s best for the team and if this is best for the team and it works out, this is going to be the lineup,” Brown said. “If this does not work out, then I may have to make another change. I have a vision of what I want to do with this team and how I want to give this team an opportunity to win and ... everybody’s either on board or they’re not.” TOUGHING IT OUT Hughes is mired in a 16-for-68 shooting slump over the last seven games, and has moved back to starting at point guard, a position he does not like to play. But Hughes is doing his best not to get caught up in being negative. “I have to go out there and play basketball,” he said. “I just want to leave it at that. ... I just want to try and focus on getting wins, and getting this record to where it’s supposed to be.” NO PROBLEM Gibson emerged as a Cleveland folk hero during the playoffs last year as a star off the bench. The second-year guard didn’t complain about returning to the bench Tuesday when Brown shook up the starting lineup. Gibson is averaging 12.7 points and is shooting 51.1 percent from 3-point range. “Whatever it takes to win,” Gibson said. “I’m 100 percent behind Coach Brown. If he feels like he wants me to start and it give us a better chance to win, I will. If he wants me to come off the bench and it gives us a better chance to win, I will. Regardless of what the situation is, I try to bring the same energy and play the same way ... whether I start or not.” COOLING OFF James didn’t talk after Sunday’s loss to the Warriors. It’s one of the few times James hasn’t made himself available to the media before or after a game. “I didn’t feel like talking to anybody, nobody,” James said before Tuesday’s game. He has been frustrated by the team’s recent play. “It’s tough to stay patient, but you have to,” James said. “For me, I’m a competitor. I want to win every ballgame. I know that’s not going to happen. But that’s the way I play the game.” SEASON GREETINGS James hosted a large group of fans from an Akron youth group, and briefly met with them before the game. NUMBERS WATCH Ilgauskas moved into No. 2 all-time for rebounds as a Cavalier. His eight rebounds Tuesday gave him 4,673 for his career, passing John “Hot Rod” Williams (4,669). ... The Cavs are 4-4 all-time on Christmas Day. Reach Canton Repository sports writer Chris Beaven at (330) 580-8345 chris.beaven@cantonrep.com.
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21 of the best places in the world to meet a billionaire
Tanza Loudenback and Kaitlyn Yarborough
Aug. 9, 2016, 9:15 AM
A general view of atmosphere at Soho Beach House tent closing party with Rhonda International, Lisa Solberg's Mister Lee's Shangri La & Bombay Sapphire at Soho Beach House on December 5, 2015 in Miami Beach, Florida.
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The world's richest people spend much of their time working to earn their fortunes, but there's always time for fun, especially when they appear on the guest lists for the most prominent film festivals, yacht shows, polo matches, football and soccer games, and tennis tournaments around the world.
Wealth-X, a company that conducts research on the ultra-wealthy, recently released its annual billionaire census, which explores the trends and habits of the world's richest people. The report reveals that the typical billionaire's social calendar is jam-packed year round.
From the fashion runways of London and Milan to a waterfront auto raceway in Monte Carlo, Monaco, read on to check out 21 of the biggest and best events frequented by billionaires.
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Davos World Economic Forum
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World Economic Forum's annual meeting of the minds — and money — is held in Davos, Switzerland, every January. The week-long international business conference invites world leaders and business magnates like Bill and Melinda Gates and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to discuss the world's most pressing social, political, and economic issues.
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Hollywood takes over the scenic ski town of Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival every January. The 10-day event is the largest showcase of independent filmmaking in the US and doubles as a swanky winter getaway for Hollywood elite.
The Denver Broncos celebrate their Super Bowl 50 victory over the Carolina Panthers.
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The biggest sporting event in the US happens every February, marking the end of the football season and the final face-off between the champions of the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference. More than 111 million television viewers watched this year's game — the 50th anniversary of the franchise — while deep-pocketed fans cheered from the stands.
Yachts Miami Beach
Formerly known as the Miami Yacht and Brokerage Show, Yachts Miami Beach takes place annually in February as a showcase of the world's most beautiful, over-the-top yachts — as well as their billionaire owners — gathered on more than 1.2 million square feet of water.
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New York City, London, and Milan host their respective fashion weeks in February and September every year. In addition to the A-list designers and their models, attendees typically include high-profile celebrities and businesspeople who are granted exclusive access to the next season's hottest trends at shows like Marc Jacobs, Balmain, Oscar de la Renta, and Vera Wang.
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Founded and hosted by the vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, the Dubai World Cup is held at the Meydan Racecourse annually in March. The "world's richest race day" counts $30 million in prize money and doubles as a coveted fashion event. The Jaguar Style Stakes award the event's best-dressed men, women, and couples for their creativity, flair, and presentation.
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One of four major golf championships held annually, the US Masters takes place in April at the world-renowned Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. The tournament has been an exclusive event since its inception 80 years ago and is attended by America's richest residents, including the club's two wealthiest members, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
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Entertainment's most talented actors, artists, directors, and producers head to Cannes, France, each May to attend the Cannes Film Festival. The 11-day fête is one of the most significant stages for European cinema, its massive red carpet a symbol of the festival's glamour and prestige.
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One third of the Triple Crown of Motorsport, the Monaco Grand Prix is one of the most prestigious auto races in the world, held each May along the French Riviera in Monte Carlo. Monaco's royal family is a mainstay at the Formula One world championship.
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For 142 years, legendary racetrack Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, has been the site of the Kentucky Derby, "the most exciting two minutes in sports." Wealthy and prominent attendees from British royalty to US politicians to high-profile entertainment and sports stars attend each May and take part in Derby Day's storied traditions like sipping on Mint Juleps and wearing oversized, extravagant hats.
European Championship (soccer)
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Major international soccer tournaments are a favorite among the billionaire set. The European Championship, which like the World Cup is held once every four years, took place in France this summer in June and July, with Portugal coming out on top with its final win over France in the final. Some billionaires express their love for the 'beautiful game' by p urchasing top-flight Europe clubs— Russian magnate Roman Abramovich owns Chelsea and real estate tycoon Stan Kroenke owns Arsenal, two of the best from the Barclays Premier League.
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Royal Ascot is the premiere racing event in Great Britain held in June. The top racehorses in the world, along with their wealthy owners and sponsors, compete in front of the royal family, exclusive invite-only guests, and anyone else that can afford the ticket. A strict dress code is enforced for all guests — and ladies must wear hats.
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It's probably the only sporting event where you will see David Beckham, Bradley Cooper, and Anna Wintour sitting side by side. Wimbledon is the oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament in the world and takes place in London annually in July. With players donning stark white tennis attire and guests dressing to impress, the sports event is unique in its focus on elegance at all levels.
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The Venice International Film Festival attracts the most posh and elegant figures in the entertainment world, along with those who like to party with them, for a week and a half of film screenings and dazzling private parties. It's the oldest film festival in the world and runs from the end of August to the beginning of September every year.
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The Summer Olympics happens only once every for years and remains one of the most anticipated international events in the world. The 2016 Summer Olympics kicked off on August 5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where more than 10,500 athletes from 208 countries met to compete for the gold. Though the Olympic stadiums are typically star-studded, Rio's safety and health concerns deterred many celebrities and dignitaries from attending this year, including the British royal family.
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Yacht aficionados flock to the French Riviera each year to explore over 500 exhibits — from small charter boats to over-200-feet super yachts — at the Monaco Yacht Show in September. The millionaire and billionaire owners of the super yachts throw exclusive parties with world-class DJs to celebrate the occasion.
Singapore Grand Prix
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The Singapore Grand Prix, which takes place every September, is a part of the FIA Formula One motor races that attract the most elite driving clubs and their wealthy fans. The Amber Lounge party and fashion show accompanies the Grand Prix, garnering attendees like Prince Harry, Bono, and other celebrities that billionaires like to hobnob with.
Bal des Débutantes
This debutante ball goes a step farther than the rest— the gowns are only haute couture and the proud fathers are the richest and most famous men in the world. Le Bal des Débutantes is a rite of passage for the ladies, as well as one of the most renowned fashion events in Europe. Royal families, the Kennedys, and even Phil Collins have introduced their daughters at this event held annually in November.
Opening Night, La Scala
What was once the rendezvous of 18th-century Milanese nobles now attracts a modern elite crowd. The opening night of La Scala in December marks the beginning of a season full of dramatic performances, beautiful symphonies, and fashionable attendees.
Art Basel, Miami
Art Basel is as much a contemporary art showcase as a playground for the trendiest of the super rich. Artists, designers, celebrities, and billionaires gather each December to throw rooftop parties and snatch up the most up-and-coming artwork from modern artists. It's the ultimate event for the who's who in the fashion, arts, and culture world.
New Year's in St. Barts
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For the international billionaires and most elite celebrities, ringing in the New Year is best celebrated on the swanky Caribbean island of St. Barts. The uber rich and famous spend the days relaxing poolside at their $160,000-per-week villas and on luxury super yachts owned by the likes of Russian steel magnate Roman Abramovich and US entertainment mogul David Geffen.
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Relitigating UM Coverage in Hawaii Barred by Res Judicata
Brown was injured when a passenger in a car on Kauai. See Brown v. Progressive Direct Ins. Co., 2010 Haw. App. LEXIS 211 (Haw. Ct. App. May 5, 2010). The driver of the vehicle in which Brown rode was uninsured. The driver of the second vehicle involved in the accident fled the accident scene.
At the time of the accident, Brown was insured by two auto policies issued by Progressive. Each policy provided UM coverage with a liability limit of $25,000 per person/$50,000 per accident. Brown secured these policies as a resident of Nebraska. The amount of the premiums paid was based on a Nebraska zip code.
Both policies had an "other insurance" provision which limited the total amount that could be recovered arising out of one accident to the highest limit of the available uninsured motorist coverage in any one policy. Brown submitted claims and a settlement demand to Progressive for the maximum amount of UM benefits under both policies, or a total of $50,000. Progressive, relying on the "other insurance' provisions, agreed to pay only $12,500 under each policy. Brown argued that the "other insurance" provisions were invalid under Hawai`i law, which permitted the stacking of UM benefits under multiple policies. Progressive contended that Nebraska law, which did not permit stacking, governed the policies. In March 2007, Progressive sent two checks to Brown totaling $25,000, the maximum benefits permitted under the "other insurance" provision and Nebraska law.
On March 14, 2007, Progressive filed suit for declaratory judgment against Brown in Nebraska. Brown failed to answer and a default judgment was entered. The default judgment found that Nebraska law governed the dispute and that Brown was not entitled to any further compensation from Progressive.
Thereafter, on March 27, 2007, Brown filed a complaint against Progressive in Hawaii. The complaint sought benefits of $25,000 under each policy, or a total of $50,000. Brown's motion for summary judgment was granted by the Circuit Court.
On appeal, the Intermediate Court of Appeals reversed. Brown argued res judicata should not be applied by Hawai`i courts because Progressive never informed the Nebraska court that Brown's claims were made in Hawai`i, that his claims were be handled by a Hawai`i claims adjuster at Progressive's Hawai`i claims office, and that Brown was represented by counsel in Hawai`i. Rejecting these arguments, the ICA found the full faith and credit clause of the U.S. Constitution and the doctrine of res judicata dictated that the Nebraska judgment barred the Hawai`i judgment as a matter of law.
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Camp Beauregard Memorial in Water Valley (NRIS 97000698)
Address: Camp Beauregard Cemetery. 0.5 mi S of jct. of Roy Lawrence and Cuba Rds., Water Valley, Kentucky. County/parish: Graves.
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Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 17, 1997.
Part of Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS (NRIS 64500229).
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Camp Beauregard Memorial
The Camp Beauregard Memorial, outside Water Valley, Kentucky on Kentucky state road 2422 northeast of town, marks the site of Camp Beauregard during the American Civil War. It was named for Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard. It was situated to protect the right flank of the Confederate base at Columbus, Kentucky. While an active military installation, from September 1861 to March 1, 1862, it trained 5,000-6,000 soldiers for the Confederate States of America. However, the place was disease-ridden, resulting in 1,000-1,500 deaths at the camp. The diseases included cerebrospinal meningitis, pneumonia, and typhoid fever with poor weather and lack of sufficient supplies for the troops contributing to the dire situation. In a single day 75 cases of typhoid and pneumonia were reported. Under the direction of the 27th Tennessee Regiment's Colonel Thomas Logwood, the camp was burned down. Union forces captured the site shortly after the abandonment.In 1909 the United Daughters of the Confederacy placed a small monument dedicated to the dead soldiers at the site entrance, and then an eleven-foot monument within the cemetery. A concrete base was added in 1930. There were plans for a larger memorial, but they never materialized.The now-private cemetery is believed by some to be haunted.On July 17, 1997, the Camp Beauregard Memorial in Water Valley was one of sixty different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. Two other monuments on the list are in Graves County, both in Mayfield: the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield and the Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield. (read more...)
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HollywoodNews.com > *NEWS > Meryl Streep: Trailer drops for “Ricki and the Flash”
Fri, May 8 2015 | Published in *NEWS, AWARDS, CELEBS, HEADLINES, HOLLYWOOD FRONTRUNNERS, MOVIES, MUSIC, TV
Meryl Streep: Trailer drops for “Ricki and the Flash”
By: Joey Magidson
As is almost always the case, it seems like we’re going to have a Meryl Streep performance in contention for another Academy Award nomination. Luckily for us though, this year it appears like Streep has a bit of a change up in store here, as opposed to overly serious melodrama or biopic type work. Later this year, she’ll be starring in the dramedy Ricki and the Flash, which got a Trailer this week. It looks like she’s as good as ever, but having a ton of fun as well, which certainly could rub off on audiences as well. If so, I’ll be thrilled to have her in the Oscar race for what feels like the 50th time. It won’t feel like tradition this time around.
In case you’ve yet to hear anything about this one, it’s a musically tinged dramedy surrounding a musician named Ricki who gave up on the family life in order to pursue a rock and roll career. When her daughter winds up in a tough spot, her ex husband calls her and she returns home in order to try and make things right. The Trailer, which you can see below, shows off some solid heart, humor, and music to boot. Streep plays the title character, while the strong supporting cast includes Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer, Sebastian Stan, and Rick Springfield. The director here is Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme, while the screenplay is by fellow Oscar winner Diablo Cody. Throw in the statues that Streep already has, as well as the one belonging to Kline, and this is a gold plated flick if ever there was one.
What has me interested here is the combination of Streep getting to let loose a bit, as well as her reciting Cody’s distinctive dialogue. The script doesn’t seem to be as “Cody-ish” as some of her other ones, but it appears like a pretty good one, regardless. Streep sometimes lacks the screenplays to really knock it out of the park for me (I’m in the minority there, I realize), but this could change that up. If so, there’s a ton of potential here, possibly even offering up one of Streep’s juiciest roles to date. She’s at her best when she’s having fun, which looks to be the case here.
If Ricki and the Flash turns out to be a high quality film, there are definitely some awards possibilities here. Besides Best Picture, of course, we have Best Director (for Demme), Best Actress (for Streep), Best Supporting Actor (for Kline), Best Supporting Actress (for Gummer), Best Original Screenplay (for Cody), and Best Original Song as well. I’m sure they won’t all come to pass, but they could be bigger Oscar contenders than previously expected. In fact, this Trailer makes me think that it’s very unlikely that the Academy will shut it out, provided that the movie is up to snuff. We won’t know for a bit, but this first look suggests something that could really surprise some folks.
We won’t have a good idea about its true potential until August, but Ricki and the Flash has my attention now, which is a start. I usually don’t look forward to Streep films, but this is decidedly an exception. If everyone is firing on all cylinders, I expect to be talking about this movie for the rest of the season. You can see the Trailer below, and stay tuned for much more on the flick. It opens on August 7th, so mark that down and sit tight for a follow up piece on Ricki and the Flash once I’ve seen it during the late summer…
Here’s the Trailer for the film:
Stay tuned for more on Ricki and the Flash!
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Bresha Meadows, Teen Who Killed Allegedly Abusive Father, Is Finally Free
By Melissa Jeltsen
Courtesy of Martina Latessa
Bresha Meadows, the Ohio teenager who killed her father after he allegedly terrorized and abused her family for years, is finally home.
On Sunday, Bresha, who is now 16, was released from the residential mental health facility where she spent the last six months. Her case attracted national media attention, and opened up a conversation about how black women and girls are treated by the criminal justice system when they claim self-defense.
Bresha was 14 when she fatally shot her father in the head while he was asleep. She and her siblings alleged that her father, Jonathan Meadows, 41, was physically and verbally abusive toward them, often threatening them with the same gun Bresha fired. Her mother, Brandi Meadows, called Bresha a hero, and told reporters that her husband beat her ruthlessly in front of the children.
“I believe that she saved all of us,” she said.
Prosecutors charged Bresha with aggravated murder, and sought to try her as an adult, which meant she potentially faced life behind bars. Ultimately, she was tried as a child, and last May, she pleaded true to a charge of involuntary manslaughter, the equivalent of guilty in juvenile court.
She was sentenced to a year in juvenile detention, with credit for time served, as well as six months at a mental health facility and two years of probation. On Sunday, she was released into her family’s care.
Her record will be sealed and expunged when she reaches adulthood.
“She lived a life no child, no adult, no human being should ever have to endure,” her attorney Ian Friedman said in court. “She grew up in an environment where every adult failed her. … This did not have to happen.”
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It is rare for children to kill parents, and even rarer for girls to do so. Experts say most of them are victims of child abuse and neglect, and act out of desperation.
Bresha’s case was propelled into the national spotlight thanks to the work of a small organizing collective, dubbed #FreeBresha, which advocated on behalf of the teen after her arrest. They organized book drives and letter-writing campaigns to the prosecutor, and started a petition to demand Bresha’s immediate release. Over 100 domestic violence organizations endorsed the call to drop the charges. A fundraiser for Bresha has raised over $150,000.
“Bresha should never have been incarcerated, but it is a win nonetheless,” two of the organizers, Colby Lenz and Mariame Kaba, wrote in an op-ed welcoming the teen home. “The punishment system was unsuccessful in disappearing this young Black woman.”
Melissa Jeltsen
Senior Reporter, HuffPost
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DOJ Will 'Very Likely' Investigate Guardian NSA Leak, Says Pete Williams; Official Disagrees
By Michael Calderone
ARLINGTON, VA - JUNE 05: Attorney General Eric Holder participates in a ceremony to honor civil rights pioneer Medgar Evers at an Arlington National Cemetery, June 5, 013 in Arlington, Virginia. The event was held to commemorate the life of the World War II veteran who is buried at Arlington. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
NEW YORK –- The U.S. Department of Justice may try seeking out the source of a bombshell article that revealed National Security Agency surveillance of millions of Americans, according to NBC News Justice correspondent Pete Williams.
Glenn Greenwald reported in The Guardian Wednesday night that the NSA is indiscriminately collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers under a top-secret U.S. court order, a major scoop detailing the extent of domestic surveillance that comes amid increasing civil liberties concerns and controversial leak investigations involving the Associated Press and Fox News.
On Thursday’s "Morning Joe," New York City Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson asked if Greenwald would be investigated and suggested the White House would face many questions about the Guardian story.
“They may not be prepared to answer that question,” Wolfson said. “But given what happened with Fox, given what happened with AP, that will be a very hot topic today.”
Williams, a well-sourced reporter who just interviewed Attorney General Eric Holder last night about the leak investigations, jumped in with an answer.
“I was told last night: definitely there will be a leak investigation,” he said.
However, a senior administration official told The Huffington Post Thursday morning that it's premature to suggest an investigation is certain to take place.
“There’s been no referral yet from the intelligence community,” the official said.
On MSNBC's "Daily Rundown" later Thursday morning, Williams slightly walked back his earlier comments from certainty to near certainty. "It seems highly likely this will trigger a leak investigation," he told host Chuck Todd.
While no investigation is yet underway, Williams said, "It just seems very likely, given the sensitivity of this document, that there will be one."
For the story, The Guardian obtained and published the top-secret court order granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that shows the U.S. government is collecting records of millions of U.S. Verizon customers, "regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing." While the government can obtain the records of calls taking place, the order does not allow the seizure of the contents of any conversations. It remains unclear whether the NSA is obtaining records from other phone companies.
"Under the Bush administration, officials in security agencies had disclosed to reporters the large-scale collection of call records data by the NSA," Greenwald wrote, "but this is the first time significant and top-secret documents have revealed the continuation of the practice on a massive scale under President Obama."
On Wednesday night, the American Civil Liberties Union described the NSA's massive collecting of phone records as "beyond Orwellian."
The Guardian article has already gotten significant pick-up in the media, with follow-up stories leading the websites of The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal Thursday morning. More questions about domestic surveillance involving millions of Americans, and a potential leak investigation into the source of the story, can be expected to follow.
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After a closed-door meeting with National Intelligence Director James Clapper, the four leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees hold a news conference, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2012, to discuss the recent spate of classified national security information leaks. From left are Rep. C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger, D-Md., the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee; House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Mike Ragogna, Contributor
Trafficbeat Entertainment, Music Biz Vet
Except Sometimes : Chatting with Molly Ringwald
A Conversation with Molly Ringwald
Mike Ragogna: Hi Molly, how are you doing?
Molly Ringwald: I'm great, how are you?
Ragogna: I'm pretty good and I'm really grateful to have this time with you. Let's get into your new album Except Sometimes. What inspired you to record it?
Ringwald: Well, mostly, it was because I was playing with these incredible performers. I put a jazz group together and this was around 2008--2009, and we just had a great time together. We were sort of gigging around town until I was, I think, about eight months pregnant. Then I took a little break and then picked up when they were about six months old--I have three and a half year-old twins. We picked it up and just decided it was kind of like now or never. While we were performing together, I wanted to really get a record of our sound and what we were doing. That's kind of how it happened. We made the choice to do it independently so we didn't have to go through all the meetings and people deciding for us what we wanted to do. Peter Smith and I--he's my pianist and musical director and arranges all the music--we just wanted to do it the way that we wanted to do it and then see after the fact who was interested. Nowadays, it's like you don't really need a label. We could've released it independently but we were absolutely thrilled when Concord Jazz really got behind it.
Ragogna: Who else joined you on this project?
Ringwald: What we consider our core group is Clayton Cameron on drums, Trevor Ware on bass and Alan Mesquita on sax. Then on a couple of other tracks, we have a man named Winston Byrd who plays the trumpet and Bruce Forman on guitar, and Charlie Owens who plays sax on "I'll Take Romance."
Ragogna: Now, this is not new for you, making music. What's your musical history?
Ringwald: Well, my father is a traditional jazz musician, so before I did anything else, my very first artistic endeavor was singing jazz with my father's band, The Fulton Street Jazz Band. I started when I was about three and a half. That's really where I thought my focus was going to be. Actually, I thought I was going to grow up and become a black jazz singer. My idol was Bessie Smith. That's who I really, really adored. That was the music that I listened to and that was the music that I sang with my dad. A couple of the lyrics, they sort of had to change a little bit to make it more appropriate for me, but I really thought that was what I was going to do because that's what my dad did. My father raised his kids as a jazz musician so I thought that was a really viable career. Then I became interested in acting and you know in the eighties I kind of felt like I had to make a decision. There weren't really a lot of musicals then and a lot of crossover and I kind of thought that I had to make my decision and I chose acting. But I kept singing. I kept singing kind of privately, with my dad's band or with a sort of alternative band. Then I did some musical theater. But I was really dying to get my own jazz group together. It was always something that I wanted to do. When it all came together, it sort of felt like my dream come true.
Ragogna: Let's look at some of the titles that you chose for this project. "Except Sometimes," let's go there, the title track.
Ringwald: I sing a song on the album that some people know called "I Get Along Without You Very Well," written by Hoagy Carmichael. I always thought it was kind of an interesting story if you've read anything about him. Amazing lyricist, amazing composer, and apparently the way the story goes, this is what it says in his biography. Somebody gave him a poem called "Except Sometimes" when he was at Indiana University where I believe he taught. I think he was from Indiana as well. He liked the poem and he wrote a song based on it, but then when it came time to publish it, he had absolutely no idea who had written the poem, and this is a time before internet, before Facebook, before YouTube. What do you do when you need this information? He really couldn't publish this song without the credit, because he's pretty faithful to the poem. He improved upon it, but he's pretty faithful to it. So he enlisted the assistance of Walter Winchell who went on the radio and said, "If you're the author of this poem, come forward!"
He read the poem and he said, "We'll tell your Uncle Hoagy and you can be famous," and a lot of people came forward and they couldn't be verified, but then the woman who actually wrote the poem did come forward, and she was a seventy-something-year-old widow in Philadelphia named Jane Brown Thompson. She was the one who wrote the poem, so in the original publication, it says "Written By Hoagy Carmichael and J.B." I don't know if they've changed that. We're trying to figure that out because I just saw the first copy of the credits on my album and it just said "Hoagy Carmichael" and I said "Hang on, where's J.B?" I don't know if the rule has changed over the years with the publication and all that, but anyway, that's where I got the title from. A lot of times, including on my album, it says "I Get Along Without You Very Well," and then in parentheses it says "Except Sometimes," and that's where I got the name from. That was a very long answer to a pretty short question, but there you go.
Ragogna: Nice, awesome history, thanks. Where did your track list come from? I imagine they're all special to you, but are there any which resonate with you on a really personal level? Did you sing any with your dad?
Ringwald: You know, most of these songs that I sing on the album I did not perform with my father because he's really a traditional jazz musician and my band was much more modern. I really sing more from the American songbook, but musically, I would say that they kind of fall more under the hard bop category. That's just not what my dad does at all. So when I perform with my dad, I do kind of more Dixieland--I sing more Fats Waller songs and then, when I'm with my band, I do these songs. So in terms of my song choice, it was really hard because there are so many incredible songs that my band and I perform together. But really the lyrics had to speak to me in some way, they had to be fun to sing. Sometimes the music is really great but the lyrics don't come together, for me it had to be all of it. "Sooner Or Later," which is a Sondheim song, I chose specifically as a little bit of a joke because I was up for that movie. My agents were called about my availability to play the part of Breathless Mahoney in Dick Tracy, and then I didn't get the part and I was so upset about it.
So, in my mind, I thought if I ever recorded an album I had to record that song. It's funny because Concord ended up re-sequencing the album from how I put it and they put that one first, so I guess they really like it. But that was kind of a little bit of a wink to Warren Beatty who I actually thank on the album because he's one of the people over the years who's actually been incredibly supportive of my singing and has always said I had to do something with it. Then there's the song "The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men," which I think is an absolutely beautiful song that I've heard Anita O'Day sing, but it's one of the ones you don't really hear that often. "The Very Thought Of You," you probably hear that song more than most, but I really love the arrangement that Peter did. That really simple bass line, [hums bass line] you know? It just kind of runs through the whole thing. When I first heard that I kind of fell in love with it.
Ragogna: "The Ballad Of The Sad Young Man" is a pretty challenging choice. You handled it perfectly, then again, you've been in so many movies with sad young men.
Ringwald: Yeah, yeah. I used to actually not be able to get through that song without crying. When Peter and I first started to perform that together, I could not get through it without getting overly emotional. There's a very delicate balance--the same goes for acting--you want to be able to communicate emotion but not get so emotional that you can't actually sing. I finally got it to that place where it should be where I was still on pitch and singing but still felt very connected to it. It's just an extraordinarily beautiful song. It was written for a musical called, I think, The Nervous Set, which was about the beat poets in the sixties. I've never heard all of the songs from that, which I would love to hear, but that's such a beautiful song.
Ragogna: Now you know where that leads us, to the album closer, the song "Don't You Forget About Me," your take on the Simple Minds anthem from The Breakfast Club.
Ringwald: Well, I really think the reason why we did it was because when we recorded the album, it really wasn't that long after John Hughes had passed away and he was on my mind a lot. I felt like I wanted to record that song but do it in a completely different way. It was kind of meaningful also for me to do it and show that you can do something like that in a completely different way; that time passes and time has passed for me and I wouldn't say I'm a different person, but I definitely have evolved. I don't really believe in reinvention. I believe in evolution. I thought it would be interesting to just hear that song in such a different way. The song was meaningful to me. I remember the first time I heard it, when I first heard the demo when they brought it when we were filming in Chicago and when Simple Minds agreed to record it. It was really exciting. So that's pretty much why I did that. It was the only song on the album really that's modern at all.
Ragogna: You were in so many classic movies, for instance we were just referencing The Breakfast Club. I guess you get asked this a lot, but when you look back at those years, what are your thoughts now?
Ringwald: What are my thoughts? [laughs] I have a lot of thoughts. It would be impossible to synopsize. I think things differently every day. Sometimes, I don't think about it at all. I guess my main thought right now is that I'm amazed that they're still so relevant and that people still care about them so much. I've always loved those movies, but it's kind of remarkable that they've reached the iconic status that they have. I'm also really looking forward to my kids seeing them. My nine year-old has seen Sixteen Candles, but she hasn't seen The Breakfast Club yet. I'm really kind of looking forward to that. I want her to see it soon because she's already seen the take-off, the parody that they did on that show Victorious. She's seen a lot of the jokes but actually hasn't seen the movie, so I feel like I really have to show her the movie.
Ragogna: Yeah, and of course, you'll also be showing her King Lear.
Ringwald: Oh, she'd never make it through King Lear. Or maybe she might be able to explain it to me, but I doubt it. I think that's something she'll probably study in a cinema course in college.
Ragogna: [laughs] Saving it for then. And in addition to your film career, you're also a writer.
Ringwald: That's right.
Ragogna: What inspired you to go into writing?
Ringwald: Well it's something like singing that I've done all along, I've just never necessarily thought that I'd do it professionally. It's just something that's always been very important to me. I've always been writing. Something happened I think when I turned forty where it just kind of kicked me into this super high creative gear where I felt like I just really wanted to do everything that I wanted to do. I just took it really seriously, so I sat down and wrote two books. The first one is non-fiction, much more "writer" style guide. It's illustrated, it's really fun, and the my second was a work of fiction, a novel in stories called When it Happens To You, and that was all along the theme of betrayal, which I thought was kind of a very relatable human theme.
Ragogna: There's also your Broadway career. Anything up on that front?
Ringwald: We moved to LA in 2008 and I haven't been back to do anything on Broadway. I'd like to, but it's kind of hard now with three kids in school.
Ragogna: Are they edging towards music? Do you find of them more musical and wanting to follow mom's path a little?
Ringwald: You know, it's really hard to tell. My elder daughter takes piano lessons and she's very talented. She doesn't like to practice, but she's really talented. My littlest girl, three and a half, loves to dance, and my little boy seems to be leaning towards the piano. So who knows? I think they're going to tell me what they want to do.
Ragogna: Beautiful. All right, so this segues nicely into my traditional question, which is what advice do you have for new artists?
Ringwald: You know, I kind of make it a policy not to give advice. I feel like everybody needs to follow their own path and really needs to listen to their own core, which I guess is a kind of advice. Not listen so much to what other people have to say. If you really feel strongly about something, then you just have to do it. I really think that's the most important thing, and getting an education. I think that really is a good thing.
Ragogna: Are you going to be touring to support the record?
Ringwald: Yes, yes absolutely. People will be able to check on my website, which is http://www.IAmMollyRingwald.com and there's a calendar section that we try to be pretty faithful about. I say "we"...it's my husband. He's much more computer savvy than I am, but we try to keep it updated.
Ragogna: Did you enjoy your gig at Fifty Four Below in New York?
Ringwald: Yeah, we had a great time. Yeah, it was really nice.
Ragogna: Nice. All right, Molly, thank you so much for your time, I really appreciate it.
Ringwald: My pleasure. Thank you.
1. Sooner Or Later
2. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
3. I Believe In You
4. I'll Take Romance
5. The Very Thought Of You
6. Exactly Like You
7. Where Is Love?
8. Pick Yourself Up
9. Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
10. Don't You (Forget About Me)
Transcribed by Galen Hawthorne
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Stateline, Contributor
Stateline provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy.
In Most States, A Spike In ‘Super Commuters’
Super long commutes of 90 minutes or more are growing fast in more states as rent hikes force service workers farther away from cities and some choose “hinterlands” for telecommuting.
Commuter traffic into downtown Honolulu. Hawaii had the nation’s largest increase in “super commuters,” people who travel 90 minutes or more to work, up 63 percent from 2010 to 2015.
By Tim Henderson
The number of commuters who travel 90 minutes or more to get to work increased sharply between 2010 and 2015, a shift that traffic experts, real estate analysts and others attribute to skyrocketing housing costs and a reluctance to move, born of memories of the 2008 financial crisis.
In all but 10 states, the number of “super commuters” increased over the period, and in California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, North Dakota and Rhode Island, it grew by more than 40 percent, according to census data. The growth came amid an overall increase in the number of commuters as the economy improved, but the increase in the number of people with the longest rides, 23 percent, was almost three times the increase in the number of those with shorter commutes, close to 8 percent.
People with 90-minute commutes still represent a small share of commuters — ranging from 1 percent in Nebraska to nearly 6 percent in New York. But analysts say the spike in long trips reflects several broader trends in the economy.
After years of sharp rent increases, service workers can’t compete for urban apartments near their jobs. Those who found new jobs after the recession may not feel secure enough yet to move closer to work, especially as prices soar near job centers.
The term “commuter” includes anybody who has a job and doesn’t work at home.
In tech job centers like Seattle and San Francisco, low-income workers are moving farther and farther away while high-income workers can still afford to live close to work, according to a 2015 Zillow study that looked at changes through 2014.
“While commute times for higher-income earners hasn’t changed much over the past 10 years, commutes are getting longer and longer for low-income workers,” said Lauren Braun, a Zillow spokeswoman.
Even among those who could afford to live anywhere, more are choosing faraway places because they can telecommute much of the time, said Mitchell Moss, an urban policy professor at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management who has studied super commuters.
“The real change is that the suburbs have been eclipsed,” Moss said. “People are moving directly from the city to the hinterlands.”
The number of super commuters grew in a variety of jobs, from lawyers and computer scientists to teachers, cooks, janitors and maids, according to a Stateline analysis of census data provided by ipums.org at the University of Minnesota.
Among elementary and middle school teachers, for instance, super commuters increased by 26 percent from 2010 to 2015. Police officers similarly saw a 31 percent increase in super commuters.
Oil and gas workers were the most likely to have super commutes, at 19 percent in 2015, while 18 percent of aircraft pilots and 16 percent of elevator repairmen faced rides of 90 minutes or more. On the other hand, fewer than 1 percent of telemarketers and funeral embalmers who commute to work faced rides of 90 minutes or more.
Workforce Housing and Rent Increases
With growing evidence that essential employees like teachers and police officers are having trouble living in the cities they serve, lawmakers in some states with fast-climbing rents have introduced bills this year to encourage more affordable worker housing. Massachusetts, for instance, is considering a bill that would allow Nantucket to charge a fee on home sales to help pay for affordable housing.
Massachusetts, along with New York, Washington state and California, where similar legislation to encourage more workforce housing is also pending, experienced higher than average median rent increases between 2010 and 2015, along with some of the biggest growth in super commutes.
For instance, Massachusetts saw median rent rise 15 percent in the five-year period, according to census data, while the number of super commuters rose 45 percent.
But even higher earners with new jobs in today’s recovering economy may be unwilling to move closer to jobs, especially in highly competitive housing markets where prices are rising quickly, Moss said.
“The long-term effect of the 2008 financial crisis is a reluctance to move because people don’t know if the economy is going to collapse again,” Moss said.
Hawaii’s Tourism Boom
In Hawaii, people in relatively low-paid tourism jobs have to travel long distances to get to tourist spots in Honolulu, where those jobs are concentrated, said Panos Prevedouros, a traffic engineering professor at the University of Hawaii.
Tourism was still down after the recession in 2010, he said, and has since come roaring back — drawing more workers to affordable areas west of the city and creating more traffic jams on the limited roads between them, making commute times even longer.
“Hotel pay is modest and these workers tend to live far from Waikiki [a beach neighborhood of Honolulu] and downtown Honolulu, in remote towns that come with 75-minute commutes or more,” Prevedouros said. During the recession, he said, lighter traffic meant fewer 90-minute trips, even from far-off locales. But now, “when the economy is booming, even close-in suburbs will experience occasional 90-plus-minute trips,” he said.
The number of Hawaii residents commuting 90 minutes or more increased 63 percent from 2010 to 2015, to almost 17,000.
Eugene Tian, Hawaii’s chief state economist, said the population in the affordable areas west of Honolulu grew 50 percent faster between 2010 and 2015 than the pricier areas around downtown Honolulu and Waikiki, which could help explain the increase in longer rides.
Decline in Some States
In the few states where the number of long commutes declined, generally low-cost states like Montana, Kansas and Iowa, some transportation experts say it might be due to a decline in the fracking boom that had drawn workers to cross state lines in search of lucrative oil and gas jobs in 2010.
In Iowa, the number of super commuters declined by 12 percent. But many state residents are still seeing longer trips to work as jobs become more concentrated in places like Des Moines. Compared to 1990, fewer people are commuting less than 20 minutes and more are commuting 20 to 45 minutes, according to a state report published this year.
In Montana, which had the biggest decrease in super commuters, falling by almost a third to 7,155, one explanation may be the slowdown in energy hiring that came when oil prices started to fall in 2015, said David Kack, a program manager for the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University.
Oil fields in North Dakota near the Montana border, which were still ramping up in 2010, drew some local workers who may have since come back or moved closer, Kack said.
“When housing was tight, people were staying in Montana and commuting to North Dakota,” Kack said.
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Dana Beyer, Contributor
Executive Director, Gender Rights Maryland
Must We Alienate Our Women Allies?
There has been a long history of tension between lesbian trans women and lesbian cis women, manifested in the battles over admission to and inclusion at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, as well as admissions to women's colleges. In some ways it's to be expected, as an understanding of gender identity has taken a long time to even begin to permeate through society as a whole, let alone gay society. It is also no surprise that cisgender lesbian women, who see themselves through the prism of sexual orientation, don't easily "get" trans women, who are rooted in the experience of a gender identity that is different from the one assumed at birth. Those lesbians usually don't feel any challenge to their fundamental sense of self as women -- that is, until one of their own decides to transition to male or to partner up with a trans woman. It's at that moment that the deeper issues of identity as female force their way into consciousness. I will admit to envying my cis lesbian friends who are so comfortable just being women who love women and seldom feel the challenge anymore from an ignorant hatred that refuses to see them as women simply because they are gay.
Those battles, which unfortunately persist, are bad enough, but now there is a movement among certain young trans persons and allies to confront the class of straight cis women as well. I first noticed this trend last year when a group challenged local Texas NARAL and Planned Parenthood groups for using "women" in their marketing, claiming that that language excluded trans men. I've learned that the public debate began a year earlier, when Laura Rankin posted an op-ed on truthout.com stating a need to reframe the battle for abortion rights. This year some women at Mt. Holyoke College decided to cease performing The Vagina Monologues because they felt that the play was no longer inclusive, and because they inferred, wrongly, that the playwright, Eve Ensler, is transphobic. Now the battle has made it into the mainstream leftist media in an article by Katha Pollitt, and the trans activists are misreading her words and creating a problem where there isn't one.
Ms. Pollitt makes her point succinctly and compassionately, with no evidence of prejudice:
I'm going to argue here that removing "women" from the language of abortion is a mistake. We can, and should, support trans men and other gender-non-conforming people. But we can do that without rendering invisible half of humanity and 99.999 percent of those who get pregnant. I know I'll offend, hurt and disappoint some people, including abortion-fund activists I love dearly. That is why I've started this column many times over many months and put it aside. I tell myself I might be wrong -- it's happened before. "Most of the pressure [to shift language] comes from young people," said one abortion-fund head I interviewed, whose fund, like many, has "Women" in its name. "The role of people in our generation is to give money and get out of the way." (Like many of the people I interviewed for this column, she asked to remain anonymous.) Maybe in ten years, it will seem perfectly natural to me to talk about abortion in a gender-neutral way. Right now, though, it feels as if abortion language is becoming a bit like French, where one man in a group of no matter how many women means "elles" becomes "ils."
Pollitt points out that the critical issue today is access, and there seems to be little disagreement about that fact. She then goes on to point out the political impact of the demanded change:
The real damage of abolishing "women" in abortion contexts, though, is to our political analysis. What happens to Dr. Tiller's motto, "Trust Women"? There was a whole feminist philosophy expressed in those two words: women are competent moral actors and they, not men, clergy or the state, are the experts on their own lives, and should be the ones to decide how to shape them. It is because abortion gives power specifically to women that it was criminalized. How did Selina Meyer put it on Veep? If men got pregnant, you could get an abortion at an ATM.
That's the politics from a cis woman's point of view. From a trans woman's point of view, I see one more misguided attempt at providing inclusion that has the inevitable consequence of alienating millions of women who are or could be our allies, as we dilute their campaign while focusing solely on ourselves. No pregnant trans man has been denied access, according to reports; the problem lies with trans men feeling excluded by the language. Well, it's not always about you or me. There are much bigger issues involved here, and demanding that the language that speaks to and empowers tens of millions of women should be neutralized so as not to offend a handful of trans men is unfair.
It's similar to the demands of some trans men that they be accepted for admission at women's colleges as openly trans men, because they feel safer in women's colleges. It's one thing -- and a very generous and compassionate policy of these schools -- to harbor trans men who applied as women, while they undergo transition. It's another thing entirely to demand that someone assigned female at birth belongs in a women's college even when he no longer identifies as a woman. In my tradition we call that "chutzpah," and not of the honorable kind. Let's remember that trans men are men, whether they can get pregnant of not. They are no longer second-class citizens when it comes to sex.
Rye Young, the trans activist on the board of the New York Abortion Access Fund, who has taken the lead in opposition to the traditional language, calls Pollitt's piece "a fearmongering and unsubstantiated piece about how this change erases women from the abortion-rights movement." I disagree, and I consider Young to be the one who is "fearmongering." He goes on to say, "In this article, Pollitt minimizes, demonizes, and pokes fun at trans people -- while claiming the moral high ground." I'm sorry, but this is debate by "belligerent assertion," which is all too common in some parts of the younger generation of trans activists. There is nothing in Pollitt's column that I would consider demonization or poking fun. Not only are the trans activists alienating millions of allies and potential allies, but they're offending some of their foremothers and forefathers as well.
Demanding respect for each individual is a fundamental right, a venerable part of all civil rights movements. Demanding to overturn an entire cultural edifice for the sake of a few political radicals is insulting to many and potentially very harmful to the greater cause, not only for the protestors but for all the others struggling to get by each day. Reducing the self-definitions of others to mere "slogans" and then accusing them of "abandon[ing] a community that is literally dying from a lack of visibility, healthcare access, and solidarity is wrong and counter-productive."
Demanding gender-neutral language is not "improving the feminist movement," and smashing the gender binary in society at large is not going to move us forward anytime soon. We need to care for people and work to embrace, not erase, actual people. I see the reproductive rights movement, in its work, as embracing all people. Undermining the language of society by demanding radical revisions, without living your life by respecting others, is counterproductive. While generational change is normal and necessary, it needs to be done in a sensible and civil manner so as to advance not only our cause but those of our allies as well.
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10/09/2018 10:24 am ET Updated Oct 09, 2018
Nikki Haley To Step Down As United Nations Ambassador
Haley will leave her role at the United Nations at the end of the year, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.
Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has offered her resignation to President Donald Trump.
Haley will step down at the end of the year, Trump said during a Tuesday morning meeting with the ambassador in the Oval Office. She had told him six months ago that she wanted to leave after serving two years in the role, the president said.
“Nikki Haley, ambassador to the United Nations, has been very special to me,” Trump told reporters Tuesday. “She’s a fantastic person, very importantly, but she is also somebody who gets it.”
HAPPENING NOW: Pres. Trump speaks with Nikki Haley from the White House, after she abruptly resigned as ambassador to the United Nations this morning. https://t.co/uvVGn9Aag6 pic.twitter.com/Y7Aolrk58u
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 9, 2018
Trump said Tuesday that Haley has “done an incredible job” as ambassador, adding that he would be happy to have her back in any capacity.
Haley was confirmed as U.N. ambassador in January 2017. Previously, she was the governor of South Carolina. Haley had been an early critic of Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign, calling him “everything a governor doesn’t want in a president” in February 2016. Trump had publicly fired back at her jabs, tweeting in March 2016 that “the people of South Carolina are embarrassed” by her.
The people of South Carolina are embarrassed by Nikki Haley!
Trump’s decision to appoint Haley to head the U.S. envoy to the U.N. was widely viewed as an olive branch to some of Trump’s conservative critics. She has helped the Trump administration navigate some of its most controversial foreign policy endeavors related to North Korea and Russia.
Haley said Tuesday that she was a “lucky girl” to have been able to serve as South Carolina’s governor and as U.N. ambassador.
“It has been an honor of a lifetime,” she said in the Oval Office. “Look at what has happened in two years with the United States on foreign policy. Now, the United States is respected. Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do.”
Nikki Haley on her resignation: "I don't have anything set on where I'm going to go."
"It's been eight years of intense time and I'm a believer in term limits," she adds. "I think you have to be selfless enough to know when you step aside" https://t.co/fHGX05uoby pic.twitter.com/HpEUzzX761
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) October 9, 2018
Last month, Haley drew backlash online after claiming world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly had laughed at Trump because they “respect” his “honesty” ― not because they disagreed when he proclaimed his administration to be one of the most accomplished in U.S. history.
Haley’s seemingly abrupt resignation prompted speculation that she may be considering a 2020 presidential bid, though she squashed those rumors Tuesday, stating she plans to campaign for Trump’s re-election. Haley’s replacement will be named within a few weeks, Trump said Tuesday.
Republican lawmakers, including Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.), praised Haley’s work at the U.N. following her resignation announcement.
“Nikki Haley has a very bright future and will be a key player in both the future of the Republican Party and our nation as a whole for years to come,” Graham tweeted.
Ambassador @NikkiHaley has done an outstanding job as United States Ambassador to the United Nations and showed a level of effectiveness rarely seen by someone in this position.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 9, 2018
.@nikkihaley was a strong voice for the U.S. & for moral clarity at the U.N. America was blessed to have her representing us. We thank her & her family for their service to our country & the cause of freedom & #HumanRights. pic.twitter.com/Ob43lGEixY
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) October 9, 2018
This story has been updated with more details on Nikki Haley’s resignation and reactions to it.
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Jim Steyer, Contributor
CEO, Common Sense Media, Chairman and Co-Founder, Next Generation, and author, "Talking Back to Facebook"
Talk, Read and Sing to Kids to Close the Word Gap
With a boost from Hillary Clinton last weekend in San Diego, the American Academy of Pediatricians launched the next phase of its campaign to help close the "word gap" between children in high- and low-income families.
The Academy has embraced the work of Too Small to Fail -- a joint initiative from the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation and Next Generation, a nonprofit that focuses on the threat of diminished prospects for children and families -- which is an effort to prepare America's youngest children for success. Too Small to Fail's campaign, Talking Is Teaching: Talk, Read, Sing, gives parents tools to help close the word gap.
We know that children's brains develop at a dramatic pace during their earliest years. In fact, 80 percent of brain development happens by the age of 3. But research has revealed that, by age 4, children in high-income families have heard about 30 million more words than children in lower-income families. Hearing fewer words translates directly to learning fewer words, and, by age 3, children in higher-income families have double the vocabulary of those living in lower-income families. This disadvantage -- called the word gap -- sets the stage for future disparities in education and even job earnings.
Through our campaign, we are encouraging pediatricians to talk to parents about talking, reading, and singing more often to their young children. This increased engagement helps build strong and healthy parent-child relationships, foster early language skills, and close the word gap.
One would expect the AAP and its members to be deeply involved in support of early childhood development, but this issue has broad appeal. Earlier this week in San Francisco, Hillary Clinton addressed Dreamforce, the annual user and developer conference hosted by Salesforce.com, and some of the 135,000 attendees helped assemble tote bags full of materials for distribution to local parents.
Next month we will launch a pilot program in Oakland, California, through which pediatricians will explain the importance of early brain development and give parents and caregivers the totes assembled at Dreamforce full of helpful materials to take home and use. The bags will include baby clothing and blankets with age-appropriate prompts for talking, reading, and singing. For example, when a parent is changing an infant's diaper, wording on the baby's onesie will remind him or her to "talk about hands and feet." The bag also will include a family resource guide and a CD created by Sesame Street, a book donated by Scholastic, and information on how to receive regular text reminders from Text4baby about the importance of talking, reading, and singing to young children. Also, when parents arrive at Children's Hospital Oakland, they will see creative and family-friendly signs in the lobby, waiting room, and exam room reminding them to talk, read, and sing to their children.
Our children deserve the best chance we can give them to succeed. Research tells us it's simple: Every word counts. In the coming weeks, we will begin helping Oakland's parents -- and ultimately others around the country -- to realize their power to make a difference in their children's lives.
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Home / Articles / Takfiri infighting in Syria creates dilemma for their sponsors
Takfiri infighting in Syria creates dilemma for their sponsors
Rabi' al-Awwal 24, 1435 2014-01-25
The infighting between various takfiri groups, all sponsored by the US and its Arab puppets, has exposed the true nature of the conflict in Syria. It is not a conflict between Shias and Sunnis since all the takfiris claim to be "Sunnis;" rather, it is a foreign-sponsored conspiracy to weaken the resistance front against zionist Israel.
Saturday, January 25, 2014, 08:47 EST
Vicious infighting among the takfiri wing of the US proxy forces in Syria and beyond has exposed the lie that was hitherto peddled with such deadly effect: that the inter-Muslim conflict has nothing to do with the Sunni-Shia issue.
When the proxy war against Syria began in March 2011, the Western regimes, their autocratic puppets in the Arab world and their media outlets relentlessly tried to portray the war against Syria as a war between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
As the conflict dragged on, it became clear that the Sunni-Shia matter had little to do with the ongoing war on Syria. To maintain the veneer of objectivity even the Saudi financed media outlets had to report on the growing tensions among the so-called “Salafi” militias.
In October 2013 when interviewing a takfiri member of Jabhat al-Nusra (JN), the Saudi owned Al-Hayat newspaper reported: “...in Abu Malik's opinion, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, leftists, secularists and nationalists are all infidels. For him, this is not open for debate. As for the Islamic sects, he believes that Shiites and Druze are infidels. And when it comes to Sunnis, Abu Malik considers that everyone who participates in the democratic process and the legislation of civil law is an infidel as well as those who vote for deputies in parliament. Furthermore, anyone who doesn’t consider those who vote to be apostates, he himself is an apostate.”
The ongoing fighting between the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) and dozens of other armed groups hiding behind Islamic titles once again exposed the fact that the war in Syria is not about Sunni-Shia conflict. All sides in the ongoing brutal war are “Sunni” and “Salafi.” The only difference between them is, who their masters are and the conflicting relationship between their political and financial bosses ranging from Washington, Tel Aviv to Riyadh.
The primary reason for this policy is to maintain the inter-Muslim conflict within the Sunni-Shia framework in order to weaken Islamic Iran and its strategic allies.
To maintain the veneer of being democratic and liberal, the US openly and directly supports the FSA. Washington also backs the takfiri wing of the anti-Syrian groups by allowing its regional allies such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan and Turkey to support “Islamic” groups through various means. The primary reason for this policy is to maintain the inter-Muslim conflict within the Sunni-Shia framework in order to weaken Islamic Iran and its strategic allies. However, this policy is now in total disarray not only due to disagreements among Washington’s regional vassals, but also due to the inconsistency of the takfiri ideology in Syria.
Since the beginning of the proxy-war, the US and its regional allies have been facilitating a military operational environment for the so-called “Islamic” groups operating under the Salafi label. Over the past 50 years, these groups never went to Palestine in such numbers as they are being allowed to travel to Syria from all corners of the world. Given this paradox, the takfiri groups were never able to formulate a consistent propaganda campaign.
The Takfiris in Syria that are outwardly opposed to the Saudi establishment “ulama” and were labeling them as deviant murji’ites, began actively promoting their sermons about the “jihad” in Syria. Then in the spring of 2013 came several key military defeats for the insurgents, which Israel could no longer ignore.
The Zionist entity launched air strikes against Syria in a desperate bid to provide some advantage to its proxy-forces operating there. This event once again exposed the lies of the takfiri groups claiming to fight for an Islamic state. Logically and factually it became impossible to explain to Muslims worldwide, since when does Israel provide air cover for those fighting for Islam or a just cause in general?
The crucial inconsistencies outlined above led to a natural conclusion we are witnessing today. Now “Sunnis” are fighting “Sunnis.” This situation creates a strategic dilemma for Washington, Tel Aviv and the Saudi tribe. Their decades-long marketing scheme of Sunni-Shia hatred is no longer relevant.
The internal war among the takfiri groups in Syria is going to spread to all corners of the world and will cause a rift within the US supported “salafi” elites and constituencies. The takfiri infighting has already begun dividing “salafi” groups in the Caucasus.
In Azerbaijan a leading pro-Aliyev “salafi” pundit Qamet Suleymanov openly accused another “salafi” preacher Alikhan Musayev of supporting Azeri takfiris fighting in Syria. In the Arab world followers of “salafi” preachers Mahdi Zeidan, Omar Mahmoud Othman aka Abu Qatada, Issam al-Barqawi aka Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi and Hajjaj al-Ajmi are at each other’s throats.
While this process will create unnecessary tensions within the Muslim world, in the long run the Muslim Ummah will benefit from the infighting among the main tool of imperialism in the Islamic world, i.e., the takfiri groups. This means that the US will not be able to actively use them in its strategic designs in the Muslim world as efficiently as they used to.
It will also lead to a decline in the soft-power appeal of the US-marketed “Islam” through the Saudi ruling family and significantly weaken the flow of young Muslims into the Saudi trap labeled as “true Sunna.”
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There Is No Way
Do you have a situation in your life where you are saying, "There's no way..."? Whatever you are being called to do, take heart. Look into the Bible and find some promises that apply to your situation. And follow Jesus' instruction for that promise.
"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'" John 14:6 (NIV 1984)
I wasn't in the mood to be messed up.
I put my head against my bedroom wall, closed my eyes, and whispered, "There's no way." It was late summer of 2003 when my world collided with what seemed like an impossible invitation from God: adopt two teen boys from war-torn Liberia.
All the reasons why this wasn't a good idea tumbled before me. Honest reasons. Understandable reason. Solid reasons.
Who would do such a thing?
Missionaries would be much more qualified. Missionaries with grown kids and multi-cultural experience. People much more spiritual than me. People much more gentle and patient enough to do this sort of thing.
Not this disorganized woman who originally thought Liberia was in South America.
Not this mom who already felt overwhelmed with her three kids. How in heavens would we add two more?
Not someone who couldn't find the video she rented a month ago and who paid so many late fees at the library they should have named a shelf after her. Maybe two shelves.
Definitely not me.
But it was me.
The invitation was mine.
And I knew it.
No matter how many times I whispered over and over, "There's no way," this nagging sense of possibility wouldn't leave me. It wove its way through every fiber of my being until I stood up and shifted everything I thought my family would be with one weak whisper, "Yes."
I can honestly say there were moments of sheer joy where I felt reassured I'd heard God right.
But there were many other moments where life felt chaotic, messy, and really hard. There were tears. There were moments where I loved my five kids but I didn't like them very much. There were moments I wondered if I'd heard God wrong.
And there were more times even after we adopted where I said, "There's no way."
There was no way we could overcome a medical diagnosis one of my boys got. There was no way two teenage boys who tested at a kindergarten level could catch up in two years and be ready for middle school. There was no way I could be patient enough to educate them at home during those two years.
But every time I said, "There's no way," I'd remember Jesus calling himself, "The way..." (John 14:6).
He was the way. He was the One to follow. He was the One who would guide me each day. He was the One I needed to pour out my heart to in prayer. He was the One to listen to. And He was the One who reassured me with so many promises in the Bible. One of those promises was Isaiah 58:10-11:
"... If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail."
I could be a light rising in the darkness. I could be full of life like a well-watered garden. I could be refreshing like a spring whose waters never fail. Me. Crazy, incapable, crying-in-my-closet me. If I let Jesus be my way, and do what He was asking me to do, these things could be true for me.
And they can be true for you as well.
Do you have a situation in your life where you are saying, "There's no way..."? Maybe you aren't called to adopt, but whatever you are being called to do, take heart. Look into the Bible and find some promises that apply to your situation. And follow Jesus' instruction for that promise.
Friend, there might not be a way if you look at your situation with only human reasoning and calculation. But if you let Jesus' truth and promises fill you, you'll find a different way. A good way. A sure way. His way.
Do you have a situation in your life where you are saying, "There's no way..."? Look into the Bible and find some promises that apply to your situation. And follow God's instruction for that promise.
Power Verses:
Ephesians 3:20-21, "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." (NIV 1984)
Do you have a situation in your life where you are saying, "There's no way..."? Whatever you are being called to do, take heart. Look into the Bible and find some promises that apply to your situation. And follow Jesus' instruction for that promise. By Lysa TerKeurst via iDisciple
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Human Instinct
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Morly Grey
Episode Six
Early history: psychedelic pop (1966-1968):
The band emerged from a 1950s pop band The Four Fours, formed in Tauranga in 1958 by drummer Trevor Spitz. Lead guitarist Bill Ward joined in 1959, former police cadet Dave Hartstone became rhythm guitarist in 1960, and Frank Hay was enlisted on bass. The foursome rapidly became one of the most sought-after bands in the country.
In mid-1966 Maurice Greer, then fronting his own band The Saints, was invited to audition. He had his first group at the age of 14 and was billed as "the teenage wonder drummer". In 1964 he began experimenting with his drum kit, converting it into a stand up-unit, which he claimed was better for his vocals. As well as his drumming ability, the Four Fours were impressed with his ability to harmonise and hit high notes, talents valued by chart-topping bands of the time. He joined just in time to record their biggest hit "Go Go"/"Don't Print My Memoirs".
The band, featuring Maurice Greer as vocalist and stand-up drummer, toured as support band for The Rolling Stones' 1966 New Zealand tour and sailed to the UK in August, changing their name en route to the Human Instinct.
The band won a recording deal with Mercury Records in 1967, releasing "Rich Man" (which New Musical Express described as a "pounding up-tempo piece with ear catching lyrics and some weird sounds"), "Can't Stop Loving You", and a re-recording of the Four Fours' "Go Go". The band then signed with Deram Records to record "A Day in My Mind's Mind", described 30 years later by English critic Jon Savage as "a blurring of the real and fantastic, aurally reproduced by untuned raga-style guitars and a few voices".
Greer declined an offer to join the Jeff Beck Group, opting instead to return to New Zealand in September 1968 as the band disintegrated.
Peak of popularity: acid rock and blues rock (1969-1971):
Palmerston North-born Greer sought a heavier rock sound with his band's new three-piece lineup back in New Zealand: he had enlisted guitarist and old high school friend Billy Te Kahika (who used the name Billy TK) and bassist Peter Barton.
The Human Instinct secured a role as resident band at Auckland's Bo Peep Club, then abandoned the gig to return to Britain in February 1969, where they invested in a massive PA and lighting system. They remained there for three months, during which time they met New Zealand guitarist Jesse Harper (real name Doug Jerebine). Human Instinct would record several Harper compositions for their first two albums.
Burning Up Years (1969)
On their return to New Zealand, Greer was signed by Pye Records and entered Peach-Weymes ASTOR Studios to record their first blues-based album, Burning Up Years, which was released in late 1969. Three of the album's seven songs were Harper compositions. (Another song, the A-side of their first single, "I Think I'll Go Back Home", was a blues version of Neil Young's "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere", but wrongly credited to Harper.)
During recording Barton was replaced on bass by Larry Waide.
Recording engineers were Gary Potts (B-Side) and Wahanui Wynyard (A Side), recording to Ampex AG-440 4-Track (1/2" tape).
Stoned Guitar
In June 1970 the band began work on their second album, Stoned Guitar, after which Waide was replaced by former Underdogs bassist Neil Edwards. The band began work on their third album, Pins in It, which was released in June 1971.
The band flew to Sydney for a three-month tour, after which TK quit the band to remain in Australia. His place was taken by keyboardist Graeme Collins, formerly of Dedikation and Dragon.
Country rock:
In 1972 Greer changed the lineup again, enlisting guitarists Martin Hope (Fourmyula) and John Donoghue (Timberjack) and bassist Glenn Mikkelson for a new country rock sound. The band released two more albums, 1972's Snatmin Cuthin? (an anagram of the band's name) and The Hustler (1974). A series of lineup changes took place before Greer ended the band in 1982.
A further album, Peg Leg, was belatedly released in 2001, produced from sessions originally recorded in late 1975.
End of hiatus (2000s):
Greer reformed the band in 2002 for a series of performances.
In July 2007 the Human Instinct travelled to South Korea to play on the main stage at the Pentaport Rock Festival.
In July 2009 they returned to South Korea to play on the main stage at the Jisan Valley Rock Festival.
In 2010 a new album, Midnight Sun, was released, with Maurice Greer on drums/vocals, Neil Edwards on bass and Joel Haines on guitar. There are guest appearances on the album by Billy TK, Eddie Rayner and Murray Grindlay. A box set was also released containing the three albums recorded for the Zodiac label: Snatmin Cuthin?, The Hustler, and Peg Leg.
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Home Activities Alerts Update Alert: Sudan – Opposition journalists facing death penalty and life imprisonment
Update Alert: Sudan – Opposition journalists facing death penalty and life imprisonment
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On 15 May 2010, four journalists were arrested and face sentences of life imprisonment or the death penalty.
The Prosecution in Sudan accused the four journalists of attempting to undermine the regime, waging war against the state and terrorism related crimes. Yet it took the prosecution a month before the detainees were given a court hearing. The detainees are now currently detained in Kober prison in North Khartoum.
Detainees are members of the opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP) and senior journalists Rai Al-Shaab newspaper and those are; Abu Zar Alamin, Ashraf Abdel Aziz, Ramadan Mahjoub and al-Taher Ibrahim.
It was reported that during the court’s hearing, the defendant’s defence team withdrew from the hearing in objection to the prosecution and judges’ rejection of four witnesses who were summoned by the defence team to corroborate testimonies.
Witnesses included Ali, Director of Ceremonies at the Presidential Palace, Yasser Arman, Deputy Secretary General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Muzdalifa Mohamed Othman, Chief Editor of al-Hadath newspaper and Faisal Mohamed Saleh, Media Expert.
IHRC urges the Sudanese government to give them the right to a fair trial articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Sudanese Constitution, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and to abolish death penalty charges against members of the opposition and journalist, as this hampers freedom of expression.
IHRC calls on the Sudanese government to stop resorting to violence and torturing detainees and abide by the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
For further background information on the case please visit the following link:
Update Alert: Sudan – Opposition journalists detained and tortured
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Babel Talks about Van Dijk and Ballon d’Or
Published July 12, 2019 by index
Ryan Babel, the Netherland player says that Virgil van Dijk is going to be a worthy candidate for the Ballon d’Or of 2019. Van Dijk, the player from Liverpool has shown himself to be one of the best defenders of the world as he made a move from Southampton to Liverpool with £75m in the month of January of 2018. It helped in changing the porous backline of previous time to the meanest in Europe.
The twenty-seven-year-old player had been a primary factory in Liverpool as they secured ninety-seven points this term in the Premier League. While this has only been a finish in the second place, he along with his teammates put an end to the season as the winners of the Champions League. These achievements seem to have convinced Babel, the fellow Dutchman who is a former player of Liverpool that his colleague should be a candidate to run for an individual prize in the Ballon d’Or.
He goes on to say that the last time he remembers any defender to have won the prize of Ballon d’Or is Cannavaro and that was in the year 2006. Hence, it should not be something impossible. He thinks that it would be fair enough to at least shortlist him. In the end, all are going to see if he at all wins or not. In case he does, Ryan Babel says that he is going to be very happy. A shortlist of 30 men for Ballon d’Or is going to be announced in the build-up to this award which is going to be handed over in the month of December. At present, it is Luka Modric who holds the accolade. He had put an end to the 10-year reign of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
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NO! Malaika Arora and Arjun Kapoor cannot get married on April 19th!
Catholics don't marry on Good Friday.
Almas Khateeb March 27 2019, 8.20 pm
Day in and day out, the two names that have taken over the trends map are Malaika Arora and Arjun Kapoor. The latest rumour has it that the two are to be married on 19th April 2019. Now, as much as we love a big Bollywood wedding, this seems like a falsehood. Let's break it down: When Malaika's parents separated, Malaika lived with her Catholic mother in Mumbai. This took place when Malaika was 11, so it is safe to say that she spent her teens in a Catholic household. Which means she spent a considerable number of days preparing for Lent, Good Friday, Easter and Christmas. April 19th of this year is Good Friday - the day Jesus Christ was crucified. Good Friday is a day of mourning for Catholics all over the globe and thus, indulging in any celebrations would be deeply inappropriate.
Malaika Arora was previously married to Arbaaz Khan, Salman Khan's younger brother. Arbaaz Khan had dutifully asked Malaika Arora's mother for her hand in marriage and both were wedded in a Catholic ceremony in 1998. Unfortunately, this was a match that wasn't made in heaven. On 28 March 2016, Malaika and Arbaaz announced a separation citing compatibility issues. They officially divorced on May 11, 2017. Together they have a son, Arhaan, born on 9 November 2002. Arhaan's custody lies with his mother, Malaika, while Arbaaz has visitation rights, as per a settlement reached in the Bandra Family Court.
So, let's recap - Malaika Arora was raised Catholic. Her first husband got permission from Malaika's mother and married her in a Catholic ceremony. Seems like Malaika most definitely wouldn't want to offend the gods that be by marrying her rumoured beau, Arjun Kapoor, on the day Jesus Christ was crucified. Also, we mustn't discount the fact that if she does, in fact, marry Arjun, it could also be a Hindu ceremony considering his religious beliefs.
All that being said, Arjun Kapoor's father Boney Kapoor has rubbished the wedding rumours. We got in touch with him and asked if Arjun is indeed getting married on April 19 and Boney replied, “NOT TRUE”.
That settles it then. We will have to wait a little longer to celebrate their wedding!
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Dina Wyrick is the director of the Butler County Suicide Hotline. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among middle and high school students and college-aged students. State Rep. Marlene Anielski is pushing to have the Saturday before Thanksgiving as “Ohio Survivors of Suicide Loss Day. ” GREG LYNCH / STAFF
Ohio on pace with national suicide rate
If there was a disease killing more than 100 young people a week, lots of money and research would likely be invested to stop it, said the president of a suicide awareness and prevention group.
Ohio is nearly on pace with the overall national suicide rate. In 2014, Ohio’s suicide rate was 12.57 per 100,000 while the national rate was 12.93 per 100,000. And though suicide attempts are rarely reported in the news, this region is not immune. This past January, Jacob King, the 16-year-old Mason High School band student, took his life in his Mason home, and in December 2014 Emilie Olsen, the 13-year-old Fairfield middle schooler, killed herself in her Fairfield Twp. home.
Today is National Survivors of Suicide Day, which falls on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, and there’s a push in the Ohio Statehouse to designate the same day as Ohio Survivors of Suicide Loss Day.
Clark Flatt, president of The Jason Foundation, said hardly anything is being done despite the fact that tens of thousands of children and young adults have died since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We call it the silent epidemic,” Flatt said, calling suicide “a national public health issue facing our society” that seemingly goes unaddressed.
Flatt founded the Tennessee-based Jason Foundation following the 1997 suicide of his youngest son, and since then has nearly 100 affiliate offices including one that opened at Beckett Springs Hospital in West Chester Twp.
Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for those 10 to 22 years old, and in 2014 — the most-recent year reported by the CDC — it was number two. More than 4,100 children and young adults took their own lives in 2014.
“Think about the enormity of that and the lack of awareness and education around it, and the lack of talking about it,” said Beckett Springs spokeswoman Kim Guy.
Suicides from this large age group have grown every year since 2008, and over that five-year period suicides have skyrocketed by 21.6 percent.
Guy said “the biggest reason” for being a partner with the Jason Foundation “is to try to save lives in young people in our community” as nationwide 100-plus children and young adults are killing themselves.
“That’s how many we’re losing to suicide a week and no one wants to talk about it,” she said.
Ohio Rep. Marlene Anielski, R-Cleveland, has been a champion for suicide prevention and awareness in the Ohio Statehouse. Her son, Joseph Anielski, was an 18-year-old high school senior when he took his life in March 2010. Just a more than two years later, Anielski introduced the “Jason Flatt Act, Ohio, in honor of Joseph Anielski” which requires schools and educational service centers to train teachers and certain other staff in youth suicide awareness and prevention.
Anielski also led the charge with House Bill 28, which establishes suicide prevention programs in colleges and universities, and established the state-run website SuicidePrevention.ohio.gov.
“The majority of the time (suicide) is preventable with the appropriate and available behavioral care,” said Anielski, adding that many times it’s not just a mental health issue. It could be a medical issue prompted from concussions sustained in a sport, she said.
Anielski’s House Bill 440, which would establish Ohio Survivors of Suicide Loss Day, has passed out of the Ohio House in May and has already received one hearing in late May in the State and Local Government committee in the Ohio Senate. She expects it to passed out of that committee after Thanksgiving and could receive a Senate floor vote soon after.
Establishing a day for survivors of suicide loss is to help shine a spotlight on the issue in Ohio, Anielski said. But suicide awareness and prevention isn’t just trying to identify the signs and symptoms, she said. Her bill, House Bill 151, expands the offenses of menacing by bullying and cyber-bullying. That became effective in August.
“I am trying to look at all facets that would cause or influence why someone would think that way,” Anielski said.
Suicide is like no other death, she said, because it can be preventable only if more people understand and are aware of the causes and signs.
“This is an issue that we need to address head on is that we need to make sure the people who are contemplating suicide and the survivors that there is assistance out there,” she said. “But you need to speak up or a friend needs to speak up if something is wrong.”
24/7 resources
Butler County Mental Health Crisis Line: 1-844-4CRISIS (1-844-427-4747)
Beckett Springs Hospital: 513-942-9500 or visit www.beckettsprings.com (for adults)
Text “4HOPE” to 741741 or call 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)
Butler Behavioral: 513-881-7189 or visit www.bbhs.org (for children and adults)
Access Counseling: 513- 649-8008 or visit www.acscounseling.com (for children and adults)
Community Behavioral: 513-887-8500 or visit cbh-services.org (for children and adults)
TLC (Transitional Living): 513-863-6383 or visit tliving.org (for adults)
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“Fantastic from start to finish”
A fun-filled day as 4 runners took on the London Marathon on behalf of JRS UK
Yesterday crowds gathered across London to cheer on and support the 42,906 people who pounded the streets for one of the largest single annual fundraising events in the world; the London Marathon. Amongst the thousands of participants were 4 runners that were taking on the 26.3 mile challenge in order to raise money for JRS UK. In the year that the Virgin Money London Marathon surpassed the £1bn mark for fundraising, our runners, Aidan, Andrew, Danny and Stephen were tasked with raising a combined total of £8000 that will support the work of JRS UK to accompany detained and destitute refugees in a spirit of welcome, hospitality and love.
Danny was first to cross the line, completing the course in just under 3hrs and 45 minutes. Following the race, Danny said, “Running for our refugee friends was a wonderful experience, but most definitely a once in a lifetime experience I might add! The people of London were awesome in carrying us all through to the end. It shows how inclusive and welcoming we can be. All the more reason to feel confident in the work of JRS.”
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Next to cross the line was Andrew Tucker who finished in just over 4 hours, followed by Aidan, JRS UK’s Operations Manager, at 5hrs 25. Aidan said “I think that it is going to take a while for the achievement to actually sink in. Even after all the preparation that I had put in, those last 6 miles or so were extremely tough. Having family and friends to cheer me on and hearing my name called out thousands of times gave me the mental lift I needed and was fantastic from start to finish.”
Unfortunately, our final runner, Stephen, picked up an injury during the race and was unable to finish but was running at a good pace; predicted to finish in about 4 and a half hours.
Thanks to the efforts of all of our runners, JRS UK can continue to support our refugee friends, like Han who has been coming to the JRS Day Centre for about a year, with emotional and practical support. Whilst struggling to gain refugee status in the UK, Han and all our refugee friends are deprived of the right to work and precluded from accessing any benefits making it impossible for them to meet their basic needs. Han explains, “The Home Office has identified me as a person with no purpose in life. I have been denied housing, healthcare, legal aid and I don’t have any money to support myself.”
Our weekly Day Centre is a welcoming space where everyone is known, cared for and greeted by name. Offering hospitality to around 240 refugees each month, the Day Centre provides for essentials like a freshly cooked hot meal, packs of toiletries and a weekly £10 travel grant. Not only do these travel grants allow our refugee friends, like Han, to get from A to B but it enables them to access justice, to visit friends, and to participate in community.
Through the support you have shown our runners, you are helping JRS UK to support our refugee friends with travel grants, and the access to crucial support the travel grants offer. Your generosity shows refugees and people seeking asylum that they are welcomed, cared for and valued.
Forgot to donate to one of our runners before the Marathon? Don’t worry there is still plenty of time to donate!
Just visit Andrew’s, Stephen’s, Danny’s or Aidan’s JustGiving Page and support the work of JRS UK.
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She believed her mom died peacefully. Two years later, a nurse wrote to say what really happened
Local // Prognosis
Family had been kept in the dark about mother's final moments at Kindred Hospital Sugar Land
Mike Hixenbaugh , Houston Chronicle April 7, 2017 Updated: April 7, 2017 5:21 p.m.
She believed her mom died peacefully. Two years later, a...
1of3Cris Chapa, overlooking a 1945 photo of her mother, Manuela, while holding three envelopes that delivered the news of what happened to her two years ago at Kindred Hospital Sugar Land.Photo: Melissa Phillip, Houston Chronicle
2of3Manuela Chapa is buried next to her husband, in Damon, Tex.
3of3A 1945 photo of Manuela Chapa, at age 18, and the anonymous letters her family received nearly two years after her death in 2015.Photo: Melissa Phillip, Houston Chronicle
The package came in January: An anonymous letter and a stack of government records, stuffed in a yellow envelope with no return address and mailed to her late mother's home in Damon.
Cris Chapa ripped it open and began to cry.
She thought of the day, March 12, 2015, when medical staff at Kindred Hospital Sugar Land sat her down in a waiting room. They'd said there was nothing anyone could have done. Led her to believe her 87-year-old mother's death had been the inevitable result of her bout with pneumonia.
The stranger's letter told a different story:
Her mother hadn't died peacefully, it said. Instead, a doctor had attempted a procedure without Chapa's knowledge or legal consent, and it had gone badly. Blood poured from a tube in her mother's neck. Soaked her hospital gown. Caused her heart to stop.
Why hadn't anyone told her what happened? Why didn't anyone tell her three months later, when the state sent someone to investigate? Why didn't anyone tell her a few weeks after that, when the federal government cited the hospital for violating her mother's rights?
For nearly two years, Chapa and her family had been kept in the dark. Until now.
Manuela Chapa, on her 85th birthday in 2012.
Photo: Family photo
She didn't know it then, but the stranger who'd written the letter had mailed duplicates to two of her siblings. Chapa's hands shook as she studied the documents, looking for clues to who'd sent them, but found only an email address.
That night, she logged onto her computer and typed a message: "Can you call me?"
Linda Patton read the email twice, unsure how to respond. She'd been hesitant to contact Chapa in the first place, even anonymously. She'd already lost so much.
This wasn't the life she'd hoped for when she accepted a job as a nurse practitioner at Kindred Hospital Sugar Land in September 2014. She knew it had been a risk leaving Houston Methodist Hospital for a less-prestigious facility, but Kindred had offered her a more senior position and an opportunity to mentor young nurses, which was her passion.
Patton noticed problems right away, she said. On daily rounds, she'd quiz nursing staff on what medications patients were taking. What side effects they should be looking for. Basic stuff. Routinely, though, nurses didn't know the answers, and some seemed agitated by her attempts to educate them.
"That just kind of shocked me," Patton said.
She hadn't realized her new hospital had a history of mistakes. In the three years leading up to her first day at Kindred, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had cited the facility for 10 separate violations of state rules governing patient care.
Among the citations, obtained by the Houston Chronicle through a public records request: Kindred nurses weren't adequately trained or supervised. Patients had been unnecessarily restrained. Others had suffered infections after staff mishandled contaminated materials or failed to properly wash hands. Administrative safeguards weren't in place to prevent future mistakes.
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In 2012, according to one citation, a patient in Kindred's intensive care unit became disconnected from a breathing machine and was left to die, even as an alarm sounded, alerting staff of the problem. One staffer who heard the beeping said she didn't know what it meant.
J. David Cross, the chief executive officer of Kindred's Houston-area district, defended the hospital's quality of care, noting that the facility exceeds national benchmarks for complication rates.
"We take seriously any issues brought to our attention by regulatory authorities, and work with them to address any concerns," Cross wrote in an email to the Chronicle. "We share the same goal — to provide quality care to our patients."
Patton was troubled by the problems she saw but felt she'd begun to make progress. Some nurses had become receptive to her on-the-job training, she said, and hospital leadership initially seemed to appreciate her efforts to instill a more professional culture.
She'd been there seven months when Cris Chapa brought her mother, Manuela, to the hospital with pneumonia.
Patton checked on her daily and saw her condition grow worse over the course of two weeks. The illness put a strain on her frail heart. Her lungs began to fail. So did her kidneys.
Before leaving for the day on March 12, 2015, Patton checked in on Chapa once more. It seemed clear to her that she might not recover.
Patton assumed doctors would soon be meeting with the woman's family to discuss their options.
The next morning, as she arrived at work, a respiratory therapist grabbed Patton by the arm and pulled her aside: "Oh my God, Linda," she said. "It was terrible."
The therapist had been in the room the afternoon before, when Dr. Yassir Sonbol, an interventional cardiologist, tried to insert a catheter in a major vein in Chapa's neck, in the hopes of starting dialysis. The treatment might have eased the burden on Chapa's kidneys — but it also came with risks.
On his first attempt at inserting the line, according to medical records and witnesses, Sonbol couldn't get the catheter to stay in the vein. So he tried again on the right side, but this time, the wire got stuck, and Sonbol struggled to get it out.
“As her oldest daughter," Cris Chapa says of her mother, Manuela, "it was my job to protect her, and they took that away from me.”
Photo: Melissa Phillip, Houston Chronicle
As the doctor fidgeted with the line, Cris Chapa and one of her brothers showed up at the entrance to the hospital room, unaware their mother was being operated on. She said medical staff blocked them from entering and whisked them away: "You can't be here right now."
Inside, Manuela Chapa's heart had stopped as blood spilled from her. The medical team revived her once, but when her heart quit again minutes later, there was no bringing her back.
According to medical records reviewed by the Chronicle, a nurse filled out a consent form for the procedure and printed Cris Chapa's name on it, but the signature line is blank. Chapa, who'd been legally designated to make all of her mother's health care decisions, said she was never consulted. The line where the physician is instructed to sign, certifying that he discussed the procedure and risks with the patient's legal representative, also is blank.
Through an attorney, Sonbol denied any wrongdoing and declined to be interviewed for this story, citing patient privacy concerns. Cross, the Kindred CEO, said he couldn't answer detailed questions due to pending litigation. He denied the hospital did anything improper in Chapa's care.
Patton was horrified the next day as she reviewed the medical file and learned more about the incident from others who were there. She figured the hospital would investigate and take action to discipline those responsible. That's usually what happened after mistakes when she'd worked at hospitals in the Texas Medical Center.
A couple weeks later, when Patton realized no one had been punished and that the family still hadn't been told what happened, she said she raised the issue with a superior, but the woman brushed it aside.
"That upset me," Patton said. "It matters in this business what you do when nobody's looking."
A month later, when still nothing had changed, Patton wrote a note to Kindred's corporate office in Kentucky. Corporate's response was swift, Patton said: Within a couple of weeks, a manager flew down to meet with her. Only, she wasn't interested in hearing about the circumstances of Chapa's death.
"She told me that was none of my concern and to just let leadership handle it," Patton said.
Instead, the official scolded Patton for sharing her concerns about the incident via email. That constituted a violation of the patient's privacy rights, the official said. She ordered Patton to take an online refresher course on medical privacy laws.
Soon after that meeting, Patton started hearing whispers from other nurses that her job was in jeopardy.
"At that point," Patton said, "I'd talked to leadership. I'd talked to corporate. They still hadn't done the right thing."
One night, while searching online for ideas on how to resolve the situation, Patton found a study suggesting medical errors are likely the third leading cause of death in the United States, but the incidents often go unreported. One reason, according to experts: Medical professionals are hesitant to report mistakes, for fear of reprisal.
That was in the back of Patton's mind in May, when she wrote to the Department of State Health Services, the Texas agency authorized to investigate hospital misconduct, and detailed what had happened to Chapa. She also reported an incident from that February, when Kindred nursing staff failed to monitor a 66-year-old's blood-sugar after giving medication, resulting in the patient's death.
Patton signed her name to the letter but asked that her complaint be kept anonymous.
Among the documents mailed to Cris Chapa in January: This citation from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which found her mother's rights had been violated at Kindred Hospital Sugar Land.
In June, the state sent an investigator to the hospital. Although Texas law requires the investigator's report be kept secret, the findings from the visit were spelled out in a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services citation issued a couple weeks later: The hospital, according to the federal report, had violated Chapa's rights by failing to get consent from her daughter before operating. The agency also cited the hospital in the earlier patient death reported by Patton.
A spokesman for DSHS, which has authority to fine hospitals for such violations, confirmed that the agency had substantiated Patton's complaint, but it took no enforcement action. He said he's barred by law from discussing the matter in more detail.
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The Texas Medical Board, the state agency that licenses and disciplines physicians, conducted its own review and cleared Sonbol of wrongdoing. In a confidential letter obtained by the Chronicle, the board said a full investigation was not warranted because it had received "medical records and affidavits" showing that Sonbol had received legal consent to perform the procedure.
Neither Chapa nor Patton were interviewed by the board, and a spokesman for the agency said he was unable to comment.
Two years later, only one person involved in Chapa's care has been dismissed: Kindred terminated Patton a little more than a month after the state sent its investigator in 2015.
Hospital leaders told her that her position was being eliminated due to budget cuts, Patton said. But when she requested to be transferred to another Kindred hospital in Houston, she got no response from the hiring manger.
Later, Patton learned from DSHS that her name had been passed on to Kindred, along with her written complaint. She asked the agency about its whistleblower policy but was told there was nothing that could be done.
The Texas law that requires hospital investigations be kept secret includes no such protections for those who step forward to report wrongdoing.
Cris Chapa, left, and her brother, Jesse Chapa, speak at the law office of Jack McGehee in Houston. They're suing Kindred Hospital Sugar Land after learning, two years later, about a medical procedure leading up to her death.
Hours after receiving the email from Cris Chapa in January, Patton picked up her phone and dialed.
"Hello, Ms. Chapa?" she said, then introduced herself.
Patton told her about losing her job and how, a few months later, she'd filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in Fort Bend County, which remains pending. In the suit, she details her attempts to get the hospital to respond before going to the state. In response, the hospital filed a motion denying the allegations.
Chapa, 64, told Patton about the grief she felt after her mother's death. The sense of guilt that she hadn't done enough for her. The rage she felt now after learning what had really happened.
It didn't matter that her mother might not have lived much longer. She didn't deserve to suffer at the end, Chapa said, and nobody other than her children had the right to make that decision for her.
"As her oldest daughter, it was my job to protect her, and they took that away from me," Chapa said.
At the end of the call, Chapa and Patton made plans to meet in person, and since then, have become friends. Chapa has taken to calling her "my warrior nurse."
The two met again last week, this time at a conference table at the law office of Jack McGehee. After hearing Patton's story, and reviewing the medical records, the lawyer had agreed to represent Chapa in a malpractice lawsuit against Kindred and Sonbol.
The lawsuit, filed last month in Harris County, alleges not only that the hospital failed to get consent before operating on Chapa, but that someone altered some of her medical records afterward to conceal what happened.
McGehee believes the facts show that Chapa's mother "was killed by a procedure that wasn't warranted and wasn't consented to." But taking the case was not a smart financial decision, he said. Texas caps malpractice damages at $250,000, which is about how much it will cost his firm to litigate, McGehee said.
"We don't expect to make money on this," he said, then nodded toward Patton: "We're here because people more noble than myself set an example of courage that's pretty hard to match."
Patton batted her hand, dismissing the compliment. She didn't do this looking for recognition, she said. She initially didn't even want to talk to a reporter and refused to be photographed for this story, fearing publicity could keep her from finding work again in health care.
She spoke up, she said, only because so many others didn't.
"In the back of my mind, I kept hoping someone else would," said Patton, who got her start in medicine two decades ago while serving in the Air Force. "That's what you keep hoping for, that someone would do the right thing, but that just didn't happen."
After losing her job, Patton thought that was the end of it. She'd done her duty.
Then, in December, her mother became ill. Patton went home to Louisiana to be with her in the hospital, watching suspiciously as medical staff took her behind closed doors for heart bypass surgery.
She sat in the waiting room, worried something might go wrong. She imagined how she'd feel if a doctor had made a mistake or attempted a risky operation without her consent, and then tried to keep it from her.
"I would want to know what happened," Patton said, her eyes damp with tears. "You would want to know if it was your mom."
Later, after her mother had been discharged from the hospital and Patton had returned home to Houston, she sat down at her computer and began to type a letter.
Mike Hixenbaugh writes about health care and medicine for the Chronicle. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Send him tips at mike.hixenbaugh@chron.com.
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Mark A. Sutton, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor of Urology, Institute for Academic Medicine
Dr. Mark Sutton is the vice chairman of the Houston Methodist Department of Urology and the site director at the Houston Metro Urology Ambulatory Surgery Site for the Houston Methodist Urology Residency. He is an associate professor of urology at Baylor College of Medicine, Scott Department of Urology and is the president-elect of the Texas Urologic Society, which represents all urologists in the State of Texas. His practice style is to treat patients like he would treat himself or a member of his own family, with compassion and state-of-the-art urologic service.
Description of Research
Dr. Sutton’s areas of interest include minimally-invasive surgery (laparoscopy); Da Vinci Robotic surgery for prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, UPJ obstruction; cryoablative (freezing) and HIFU therapy for prostate/kidney cancer; vasectomy and microscopic vasectomy reversals; ESWL and endoscopic stone laser stone removal techniques; penile prostheses for erectile problems and artificial urinary sphincters for urine incontinence; interstim neuromodulation (bladder pacemaker) implantation and botox implantation for overactive bladder; and green-light laser surgery for prostate enlargement.
Randomized Controlled Trial of Aquablation versus Transurethral Resection of the Prostate in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: One-year Outcomes
Gilling, PJ, Barber, N, Bidair, M, Anderson, P, Sutton, MA, Aho, T, Kramolowsky, E, Thomas, A, Cowan, B & Roehrborn, C 2019, Urology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2018.12.002
Two-Year Outcomes After Aquablation Compared to TURP: Efficacy and Ejaculatory Improvements Sustained
Gilling, P, Barber, N, Bidair, M, Anderson, P, Sutton, MA, Aho, T, Kramolowsky, E, Thomas, A, Cowan, B, Kaufman, RP, Trainer, A, Arther, A, Badlani, G, Plante, M, Desai, M, Doumanian, L, Te, AE, DeGuenther, M & Roehrborn, C 2019, Advances in Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12325-019-00952-3
WATER: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Aquablation® vs Transurethral Resection of the Prostate in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Gilling, P, Barber, N, Bidair, M, Anderson, P, Sutton, M, Aho, T, Kramolowsky, E, Thomas, A, Cowan, B, Kaufman, RP, Trainer, A, Arther, A, Badlani, G, Plante, M, Desai, M, Doumanian, L, Te, AE, DeGuenther, M & Roehrborn, C 2018, Journal of Urology, vol. 199, no. 5, pp. 1252-1261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2017.12.065
Symptom relief and anejaculation after aquablation or transurethral resection of the prostate: Subgroup analysis from a blinded randomized trial
Plante, M, Gilling, P, Barber, N, Bidair, M, Anderson, P, Sutton, MA, Aho, T, Kramolowsky, E, Thomas, A, Cowan, B, Kaufman, RP, Trainer, A, Arther, A, Badlani, G, Desai, M, Doumanian, L, Te, AE, Deguenther, M & Roehrborn, C 2018, BJU international. https://doi.org/10.1111/bju.14426
Procedural techniques and multicenter postmarket experience using minimally invasive convective radiofrequency thermal therapy with Rezum system for treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia
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Adenovirus-mediated combination suicide and cytokine gene therapy for bladder cancer
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In vivo adenovirus-mediated suicide gene therapy of orthotopic bladder cancer
Sutton, MA, Freund, CTM, Berkman, SA, Dang, TD, Kattan, MW, Wheeler, TM, Rowley, DR & Lerner, SP 2000, Molecular Therapy, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 211-217. https://doi.org/10.1006/mthe.2000.0119
Continent ileocecal augmentation cystoplasty
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Adenovirus-mediated suicide gene therapy for experimental bladder cancer
Sutton, MA, Berkman, SA, Chen, S-H, Block, A, Dang, TD, Kattan, MW, Wheeler, TM, Rowley, DR, Woo, SLC & Lerner, SP 1997, Urology, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 173-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0090-4295(96)00560-2
Intracranial metastases as the first manifestation of prostate cancer
Sutton, MA, Watkins, HL, Green, LK & Kadmon, D 1996, Urology, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 789-793. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0090-4295(96)00238-5
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One Direction star Harry Styles spent the night with Rod Stewart's daughter Kimberly
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The One Direction heartthrob was rumoured to have shared a romantic tryst with the 33-year-old blonde after he joined Kimberly, her singer father and his wife Penny Lancaster for dinner in Los Angeles, California, in April.
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Speaking on Alan Carr's TV talk show, 'Chatty Man', Rod said:"His [Harry] car was here in the morning. Let's put it that way. But he may just have come round to pick something up."
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After realising his mistake, he added: "B******s! I let the cat out of the bag."
Harry - who was previously in a relationship with 23-year-old Taylor Swift - was spotted kissing and holding hands with Kimberly during the dinner they had together.
A source previously said: "They [Harry and Kimberly] weren't exactly hiding it - Rod was well aware what was going on and didn't seem to mind.
"Harry's well-known for his thing for older women, and Kimberley is a striking blonde so it's easy to see the appeal."
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Limerick’s Masterchefs scoop top hospitality award
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TOP Limerick catering company Masterchefs Hospitality have won a prestigious national award for the Pavilion restaurant in the University of Limerick.
The company recently won the Hotel & Catering Review Gold Medal Award for Best Newcomer, sponsored by BWG Food Service, at a glitzy awards ceremony in Dublin’s Burlington Hotel.
The award was given to Masterchefs for UL’s Pavilion restaurant, which they were awarded the catering contract for two years ago and opened in February.
The Pavilion beat off stiff competition from the hospitality industry to scoop the gold medal award, seen as among the most prestigious in the business.
“It is brilliant. The gold medal awards are very prestigious and are awarded by experts from our own industry,” said Pat O’Sullivan of Masterchefs, who said he had been vying to win the award for “over ten years” for different strands of his catering business.
“It is probably the most prestigious award there is in the hospitality industry in Ireland and it is something that we have been shortlisted for on many occasions, but this is the first time that we have won it.
“It is a huge achievement, but it is a testament to the product as much as the services on offer, it is a fantastic facility,” added Mr O’Sullivan of the Pavilion, which he classed a “five star facility” that provides regular conference and banqueting facilities to the university and a host of external clients.
“It is a spectacular product. We have little to do to enhance it, to be honest, we just offer quality food and beverage and the facility does the rest,” he said.
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23 killed, 110 missing in California wildfires
High winds fuel CA wildfires
November 10, 2018 at 2:45 AM EST - Updated November 12 at 1:27 PM
(CNN/RNN) – The wildfires burning in California have turned deadly.
Twenty three people have been killed and 110 are missing after a series of fast-moving fires ripped through the state, putting millions under red-flag warnings and pushing thousands from their homes.
Thousands of structures have been destroyed.
In Northern California, the Camp Fire has led to at least nine deaths, and has pushed at least 50,000 people from their homes.
Thousands flee deadly California wildfires
Cal Fire, the state’s fire-fighting agency, said it’s the most destructive fire in state history in terms of structure loss. It’s already destroyed most homes in the town of Paradise, where roughly 30,000 people have been forced to evacuate.
The Associated Press reports the fire has destroyed more than 6,000 homes.
It’s also consumed at least 70,000 acres, and officials said the fight is far from over – and they warn more evacuations may be necessary.
Camp Fire crews save hospital
In Southern California, two large fires – named the “Hill Fire” and the “Woolsey Fire” – have forced residents of Los Angeles, Ventura and Malibu from their homes.
The fires have prompted evacuation orders for around 250,000 people, and they’ve destroyed more than 150 homes.
They’ve also affected Thousand Oaks, the site of a mass shooting that left 12 dead late Wednesday.
"Fire departments are not able to put out wind-driven brush fires,” said Andy Fox, the mayor of Thousand Oaks. “Our best efforts as a community is to evacuate."
Strong winds and low humidity have fueled the fires. Panicked residents have fled as they ripped through neighborhoods.
"It was crazy – people driving like maniacs to get out of here. It's never been this bad," one Calabasas resident said.
Another Calabasas resident remarked: “I just can’t believe it. It really looks like a war zone."
A number of celebrities have been forced to evacuate their homes.
Kim Kardashian West, Scott Baio, Rainn Wilson, Guillermo del Toro and Lady Gaga have all evacuated their homes.
The fire has already destroyed the home of “Dr. Strange” director Scott Derrickson, according to the Associated Press.
Acting Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency for Butte County in the north, and for Los Angeles and Ventura Counties in the south.
President Donald Trump has granted the state’s request for a Presidential Emergency Declaration, which will dedicate federal resources toward assisting state and local emergency responders.
However, early Saturday morning Trump tweeted a threat to withhold federal payments to California, unless the state took steps to remedy its “poor” forest management.
There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2018
Copyright 2018 CNN. Raycom News Network contributed to this report. All rights reserved.
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Gideon’s genealogy
by Judy G. Russell | Mar 19, 2013 | Court Cases, General | 17 comments
No nobodies here
Fifty years ago yesterday, on the 18th of March 1963, Justice Hugo Black delivered a message for a unanimous United States Supreme Court to an inmate in a Florida prison.
You’re right, the message — set out in a court opinion — said.
It isn’t fair.
And what happened to you shouldn’t happen to anybody.
Now of course those aren’t the Court’s exact words, but they embody the essence of what it said in Gideon v. Wainwright, the milestone opinion that held — for the first time — that a state couldn’t send a poor man to prison after a trial where he hadn’t been able to afford to have an attorney represent him.1
There’s a lot of debate these days about how good the representation given to poor defendants is all these years after Gideon v. Wainwright was decided. And author Karen Houppert, who’s written a new book, Chasing Gideon, takes the strong position that it’s not very good at all.2
But there’s no debate over the importance of the Gideon decision, and the remarkable way it came to pass.
Take a look at the image illustrating today’s blog (click to enlarge).
It’s a photo of the first page of Clarence Earl Gideon’s petition — request — to the U.S. Supreme Court3 to hear his challenge to his Florida conviction on charges of stealing a few bottles of beer and soda and a few dollars in coins from a Bay Harbor pool hall in June of 1961.4
The petition was written by hand — printed, actually. In pencil. On paper supplied by the prison where Gideon was serving a five-year sentence. It’s not polished legal argument. Some words are misspelled; some legalisms perhaps misused.
But because that one inmate managed to write those words and send them off to the nation’s High Court, no other defendant facing jail time in any state court would face the same moment that Clarence Gideon faced when he asked that Florida judge in 1961 to appoint a lawyer to represent him.
The exchange is quoted at the beginning of Justice Black’s opinion:
The COURT: Mr. Gideon, I am sorry, but I cannot appoint Counsel to represent you in this case. Under the laws of the State of Florida, the only time the Court can appoint Counsel to represent a Defendant is when that person is charged with a capital offense. I am sorry, but I will have to deny your request to appoint Counsel to defend you in this case.
The DEFENDANT: The United States Supreme Court says I am entitled to be represented by Counsel.5
So it’s hard to argue with Houppert when she says in an interview with NBC News that the petition packs an emotional punch: “As Americans, it’s moving to us to see someone take a stand against the big guys, that he had the guts to say: ‘That’s not fair. I’m an American, and this isn’t right.’”6
And you’ll get no argument from The Legal Genealogist with her characterization of Gideon’s efforts as “incredible.”
But we part ways for certain over the second part of her final sentence. “It’s incredible,” she said, “because he was nobody.”7
No, he wasn’t.
He may have been a drifter, a ne’er-do-well, a repeat loser in constant battles against the law. He may have been a little fish in a very big pond.
But he was not a nobody.
To a genealogist, there isn’t any such thing.
He was somebody’s son, somebody’s brother, somebody’s husband, somebody’s father.
Clarence Earl Gideon was born to Charles Roscoe Gideon and Virginia (Gregory) Gideon in Hannibal, Missouri, on 30 August 1910. His father died when he was three.8
His mother remarried, to Marrion Anderson, and the family can be found in Hannibal on the 1920 census. Clarence was enumerated as a nine-year-old schoolboy, stepson to the head of household. And he had a younger half-brother, Francis.9
He ran away as a teenager, had several run-ins with the law and ended up in prison for robbery, burglary and larceny before he was out of his teens.10 He was in the Missouri State Prison on the 1930 census.11
He drifted after that, marrying four times, and fathering at least three children. The family had moved to Florida, and Clarence was having problems with his wife, when he was accused of the crime that became the focal point of the case that will forever bear his name.12
A single witness pointed the finger at Clarence for the petty theft at the pool hall. His inability to afford a lawyer made the outcome pretty much a foregone conclusion. And the judge who refused to appoint counsel threw the book at him — five years was the maximum the law allowed for that crime.13
Once the Supreme Court said he was right, that he should have had a lawyer, the case was sent back to Florida and Clarence stood trial a second time. This time he had a lawyer, who made mincemeat of the one witness who pointed the finger at Clarence. The jury took barely an hour to return a verdict of not guilty.14
It’d be nice to be able to say Clarence turned his life completely around afterwards. He did the best he could. He spent his last years doing odd jobs and pumping gas — and staying out of trouble.
But he didn’t have all that much time. He died of cancer in 1972, and his relatives buried him in an unmarked grave in Mount Olivet Cemetery in his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, a few feet from the grave of his father.15
It’s nice to know that his grave didn’t stay unmarked. The local chapter of the American Civil Liberties union placed a stone on his grave in 1984.
The words on the stone come from a letter Gideon send in 1962 to the lawyer appointed to argue his case in the Supreme Court — then-Washington, D.C.-lawyer and later-Supreme-Court-Justice Abe Fortas: “I believe that each era finds an improvement in law for the benefit of mankind.”16
Those are the words of somebody. In genealogy, there are no nobodies here.
Tombstone image courtesy of Paul Auger (used with permission).
Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963). ↩
Karen Houppert, Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice (New York : The New Press, 2013). ↩
Petition for a Writ of Certiorari from Clarence Gideon to the Supreme Court of the United States; Appellate Jurisdiction Case File Gideon v. Wainright, 01/08/1962 – 04/12/1963; Record Group 267: Records of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1772 – 2007; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; digital image, Archives.gov (http://www.archives.gov/ : accessed 18 Mar 2013). ↩
Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. at 336-337. ↩
Ibid., 372 U.S. at 337. ↩
M. Alex Johnson and Vidya Rao, “A ‘nobody’s’ legacy: How a semi-literate ex-con changed the legal system,” NBC News online, posted 18 Mar 2013 (http://usnews.nbcnews.com/ : accessed 18 Mar 2013). ↩
Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.com), “Clarence Earl Gideon,” rev. 17 Mar 2013. ↩
1920 U.S. census, Marion County, Missouri, Hannibal Ward 5, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 113, p. 215(A) (stamped), dwelling 160, family 118, Clarence Gideon, stepson in Marrion Anderson household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 Mar 2013); citing National Archive microfilm publication T625, roll 934. ↩
Jack King, “Clarence Earl Gideon: Unlikely World-Shaker,” Champion, NACDL.org (http://www.nacdl.org/ : accessed 18 Mar 2013). ↩
1930 U.S. census, Jefferson County, Missouri, Missouri State Prison, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 26-6, p. 87(b) (stamped), sheet 38-B, Clarence E Gideon, prisoner; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 Mar 2013); citing National Archive microfilm publication T626, roll 1184; imaged from FHL microfilm 2340919. ↩
King, “Clarence Earl Gideon: Unlikely World-Shaker,” Champion ↩
King, “Clarence Earl Gideon: Unlikely World-Shaker,” Champion. ↩
Ibid. See also Mount Olivet Cemetery, Marion County, Mo., Clarence Earl Gideon; digital image, Find A Grave (http://findagrave.com : accessed 18 Mar 2013). ↩
Jean on March 19, 2013 at 10:09 am
Great column.
Judy G. Russell on March 19, 2013 at 10:27 am
Thanks, Jean. I appreciate the kind words.
Adam G. on March 19, 2013 at 11:21 am
Very nice to see a well written article pertaining to an important matter in the history of U.S. law. Also nice to read something that doesn’t have to do with some “nobody” celebrity. This is relevant to our constitutional right to be assisted by a lawyer in a criminal law case given to us in the 6th amendment, and this “nobody named Gideon” stood up for our rights! Time to remember people who stand for our rights and freedoms.
Thanks, Adam. Appreciate the kind words. But again… not a nobody!!
Kerry Scott on March 19, 2013 at 11:40 am
Sadly, I’ve been reading a lot about the erosion of the right to free counsel:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/16/us/16gideon.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
There’s no question that more needs to be done, Kerry, but in a political environment where it is a tenet of faith of many on one side that being poor means being undeserving, I don’t hold out much hope that things will change any time soon.
Jacqi Stevens on March 19, 2013 at 1:38 pm
Thanks so much for posting that heartening vignette. An important slice of history, though with the insight and fortitude he displayed, it makes me wonder how much of a somebody he might have become under more favorable circumstances. With a name like Gideon, though, he was aptly named for standing up against such odds.
Judy G. Russell on March 19, 2013 at 1:49 pm
I kept wondering, Jacqi, the whole time I was writing it… what would he have been like if his father had lived?
Kelly Wheaton on March 19, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Great post as always Judy.
I happen to know Clarence Earl Gideon quite well although to personally. My father had me read a book about him many years ago. I highly recommend it by Anthony Lewis and its titled Gideon’s Trumpet. It was copyrighted in 1964. My father was a great champion for the underdog and justice. My father personally testified for the defense in the case of Iva Toguri d’Aqunio AKA Tokyo Rose. I have clippings and a thank you not from Iva thanking my father. Unfortunately she was scapegoated and convicted and it was much later that she was pardoned by President Ford.
These days the erosion of civil liberties is on the rise. It seems we are destined to repeat the mistakes of the past. Gideon’s Trumpet and his story are lost to most but I’ve his story has left a life long imprint on me. Sad it is not on the mandatory reading list for evey High School Civics class.
Kelly Wheaton
Apologies for the typos above. My Ipad insists on its own version. 🙂
Thanks, Kelly (and I know what you mean about small keyboards and autocorrect!). Gideon’s Trumpet is a terrific book — and the movie was wonderful as well.
William Flowers on March 19, 2013 at 1:42 pm
Henry Fonda would have appreciated this wonderful article, too!
Wouldn’t he though! Loved that movie. (For those not in the know, Henry Fonda played Gideon in the movie Gideon’s Trumpet.)
Karla on March 19, 2013 at 7:27 pm
Thanks for posting this! It’s important to remember those who stand up for the civil rights of all, and especially those who would never be remembered except for the fact that they did so.
And even more especially it’s important that everyone be remembered, Karla. We are all somebody.
Ann on March 20, 2013 at 12:58 pm
Wonderful post!
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Charles Alexander Eastman – Sioux Doctor, Author & Reformer
Charles Eastman in traditional Sioux clothing
Charles Alexander Eastman, aka: Ohiyesa (1858-1939) – A Santee Dakota Indian, Eastman was known as Ohiyesa, meaning “the winner” to his people. He was born in 1858 near Redwood Falls, Minnesota of full-blood Sioux, Many Lightnings, and the half-blood daughter of a well-known army officer. His mother died soon after his birth and he was raised by his paternal grandmother and an uncle.
After the Minnesota massacre in 1862, the family fled to Canada where he lived until the age of 15. At that time, his father, who had accepted Christianity and had become “civilized,” came for him and brought the teenage boy to his home in Flandreau, South Dakota. There, several Sioux families had established themselves as farmers and homesteaders. Ohiyesa was then placed in the mission school at Santee, Nebraska, where he made so much progress in a two year period that he was selected for a more advanced course and sent to Beloit College, in Beloit, Wisconsin.
He would later attend Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and Kimball Academy and Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1887 and immediately entered the Boston University School of Medicine, where he received an M.D. degree in 1890.
Dr. Eastman was then appointed as the government physician to the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota, a position he held for almost three years. When he returned to the reservation, he became known as the “white doctor who is an Indian.”
Ghost Dance Painting
In 1890, the Ghost Dance religion was spreading among the Sioux. Following the vision of a Paiute Indian named Wovoka, the spiritual movement gave hope to Native Americans when conditions were bad on Indian reservations. Wovoka’s vision prophesized that if the Ghost Dance was performed, whites would vanish, the buffalo would return, and Indian land, life, and culture would be restored. When the dance spread to the Lakota, the Indian Agents became alarmed. Attempting to quell the movement, the army massacred approximately 200 men, women, and children at Wounded Knee. Eastman was the only physician to care for those who survived.
In 1891, Charles married Elaine Goodale of Massachusetts, a poet and Indian welfare activist. The couple would eventually have six children. In 1893 he moved his family to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he started a private practice. Unfortunately, the practice was not successful and financially struggling, his wife encouraged him to write some of the stories of his childhood. He published his first two articles in 1893 and 1894 in St. Nicholas Magazine.
In the next four years, Eastman was involved in establishing 32 Indian groups of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), and in 1899, helped recruit students for the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Continuing to write, Eastman published a memoir entitled Indian Boyhood in 1902, which recounted his first fifteen years of life among the Sioux. During the next 20 years, he would write ten more books, most concerned with his Native American culture.
His writings and work with the YMCA, prompted the founders of the Boy Scouts of America to request his assistance. With his fame as an author and lecturer, Eastman was instrumental in promoting that group, as well as the Camp Fire Girls. Providing advice to both groups on how to organize their summer camps, he directly managed one of the first Boy Scout camps along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. In 1915, the family organized its own summer camp at Granite Lake, New Hampshire, where the entire family worked for a number of years.
During these years, Eastman was also active in national politics, particularly in matters dealing with Indian rights and often acted as an attorney for the Sioux at Washington. He also was one of the co-founders of the Society of American Indian (SAI), which pushed for freedom and self-determination for the Indian. In 1921, he and his wife, Elaine, separated; but, were never legally divorced nor publicly acknowledged the separation.
From 1923-25, Eastman served as an appointed US Indian inspector under President Calvin Coolidge. His recommendations would later serve as the basis of the Roosevelt Administration’s New Deal for the Indian, which sought freedom and self-determination for them.
In later years, Eastman built a cabin on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, where he spent his summers, and wintered in Detroit with his only son Charles, Jr., also called Ohiseya. On January 8, 1939 Charles Eastman, Sr. died in Detroit of a heart attack at the age of 80.
© Kathy Weiser/Legends of America, updated April, 2017.
Charles Eastman
Writings by Charles Alexander Eastman
American Horse – A Shrewd Sioux Chief
Chief Gall – An Aggressive Sioux Leader
Chief Joseph – Leader of the Nez Perce and a True American
Crazy Horse – A Sacred Hero
Dull Knife – Northern Cheyenne Chief
Little Crow – Leader of the Santee Uprising
Little Wolf – Courageous Leader of the Cheyennes
Rain-in-the-Face – Strategic Sioux Warrior
Red Cloud – Lakota Warrior and Statesman
Roman Nose – Cheyenne War Chief
Sitting Bull – Lakota Chief and Holy Man
Spotted Tail – Warrior, Chief & Negotiator
Lakota, Dakota, Nakota – The Great Sioux Nation
Ghost Dance – A Promise of Fullfillment
Wounded Knee Massacre
Native American (main page)
Historical Accounts of American History
Sioux Photo Print Gallery
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Michele Giddens Partner, Bridges Fund Management
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When we first started fundraising, a lot of investors were sceptical about the idea that you could deliver both attractive financial returns and positive social and environmental impact. We didn’t just have a new team; we had a new strategy that nobody had really tried before. Thankfully, a far-sighted group of investors recognised the potential of the idea, allowing us to raise a £40m fund. The success of that vehicle has enabled us to raise a further £1bn of impact-focused funds since.
What advice would you give women interested in a career in private equity?
A good private equity investor combines the ‘harder’ financial skills required to analyse businesses with the ‘softer’ interpersonal skills necessary to build productive relationships over a period of time. In my experience, women who come into private equity are often very good at developing this combination of skills. What’s more, we’re going to see a huge transfer of wealth to women and millennials over the next 20 years – and if private equity firms are going to appeal to this type of investor, they’ll need people who can identify and empathise with these groups. And since both groups are apparently more likely to want to invest in line with their values, that’s particularly true for impact investing firms like ours!
What do you think it will take to improve the gender gap in private equity and do you think we will see significant change in the coming years?
We need to begin early with outreach and education, encouraging young women to consider a career in investment. Change is definitely happening – but it will take a long time before we see the benefit of that, given that it takes decades to develop a new entrant at the junior level into a senior partner. In the meantime, the private equity industry needs to look hard at creative ways to introduce more diversity at senior levels in the short to medium term. As an industry we are falling far behind large companies and even other parts of the finance sector. It matters that we change this not just because it is the right thing to do; but because there is so much evidence that greater diversity results in better investment decisions.
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Michael Tubbs
I've only given to three campaigns in my life: Cory Booker was the first, Barack Obama was the second, and Michael Tubbs will be my third.
- Oprah Winfrey
“Michael Tubbs is a fine young man and a gifted communicator with a compelling message - a call for all of us to work to live out Dr. King's vision for society. It was particularly good for our students to hear Michael encourage them to "put purpose to your privilege."
- Carleton College (MN)
“Michael was a phenomenal speaker. He was especially well received by our younger students and student leaders. In fact, there's already talk about Student Activities bringing him to speak to campus leadership groups.”
- Tidewater Community College (VA)
Tubbs, born to a teen mother and an incarcerated father, has become the youngest mayor of a major American city! Bringing new energy and ideas to his hometown of Stockton, CA
Mayor Michael Tubbs was elected in 2012 as the youngest city council member in Stockton’s history, earning more than 60 percent of the citywide vote; and in 2016 became the youngest mayor in city history!
Awards and accolades include: Fortune Magazine‘s “40 under 40” annual ranking of the most influential young people in business; “Top 4 Power Player Under 40” by Black Enterprise Magazine, “Top 25 under 25” by The Root, Reader Digest‘s “50 Things to Love About America”, Martin Luther King Youth of the Year, California Youth Ambassador, captain of the inaugural NAACP National Great Debate Champions.
A first generation student at Stanford University, Michael was selected as the Founder’s Day Speaker, out of 6,000 undergraduate students – and the first freshman in the 117-year history of the university – to do so. During his time at Stanford he has also co-founded the task-force to end racial profiling in Palo Alto
He has spearheaded the creation of, “Save Our Stockton“, a group for youth and by youth that lobbies and calls for change on pertinent youth issues in Stockton, CA, and has worked with the Children’s Defense Fund on their California Campaign to End the Cradle to Prison Pipeline.
• He has created the first-ever city-led Guaranteed Income initiative.
Video: Michael Tubbs at Stanford
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The Unfinished Feminist Revolution; #MeToo and the Forgotten Women
The “third wave” of the great but still incomplete feminist revolution began half a century ago. Last year a new frontier erupted spontaneously. Global wide and driven by social media, the #MeToo movement targeted the predatory sexual behaviour of men, especially but not only the rich and famous, towards which the cultures of Western nations had for so long turned a blind eye. At the same time, some feminists turned their attention to another equally pressing but all too often overlooked question—the precarious situation of older, single women. Among non-indigenous Australians, it is this group that sits uncomfortably at the very bottom of the socio-economic ladder.
Thursday 11 October 2018 06:15 pm until Thursday 11 October 2018 08:00 pm (Add to calendar)
universityevents@latrobe.edu.au
Jane Caro and Anne Manne
$30 General / $20 Alumni & Staff/ $15 Students
Before the #MeToo movement, Jane Caro—one of the most familiar and respected faces of Australian feminism—edited Unbreakable, a collection of essays of women talking about their experiences of male sexual aggression. This year she won the mid-year “Women’s Leadership in Media” Walkley Award for her recent writing on the economic and social problems faced by women over fifty.
At the same time, Anne Manne, the author of Motherhood and The Life of I, wrote The Monthly magazine’s cover story on the feminist economist, Marilyn Waring, and a chapter in the forthcoming Dangerous Mothers putting the case for an entirely new social model, “the universal caregiver regime”.
Jane Caro and Anne Manne are two of our most independent, courageous and compassionate social critics. You are invited to join them in what is certain to be a fascinating conversation concerning two new frontiers of the unfinished feminist revolution—#MeToo and the Forgotten Women.
A Walkley Award winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, broadcaster, advertising writer, documentary maker, feminist and social commentator.
She has published twelve books, including three novels “Just a Girl” “Just a Queen” and “Just Flesh & Blood”, a trilogy on Elizabeth Tudor, and a memoir “Plain Speaking Jane”. She created and edited ‘Unbreakable’ which featured stories women writers had never told before and was published just before the Harvey Weinstein revelations. ‘ “The Women Who Changed Everything” her book on the life story of women over 50, published by MUP will be launched at the end of this year.
She appears frequently on Q&A, The Drum, Sunrise & Weekend Sunrise. She created and presented 3 documentary series for ABC Compass, airing in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Another, on shame, is in production. She has regular columns in ‘Sunday Life’ and ‘Leadership Matters’.
Anne Manne
One of Australia’s most penetrating cultural critics. A former columnist for The Australian and The Age, she now writes longer essays such as the cover piece in May edition of The Monthly this year: “Great Domestic Hoax: How the economy free rides on women’s unpaid work.” Her books include Motherhood, a Walkley finalist, a Quarterly Essay: Love and Money, a memoir, So This Is Life and the bestselling The Life of I: the new culture of narcissism. She is now writing a new book on Child Sexual Abuse. Her chapter “The Quest for Social Justice for Mothers” is just out in a new book, Dangerous Ideas About Mothers, edited by Camilla Nelson and Rachel Robertson.
Isabelle Fraser Room, Entrance 5
State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000
Autoluminescent
8th Jul 2019 10:00am
Julian Burnside AO QC - Fairley La Trobe Lecture
Can Australia Defend Itself in the Asian Century?
Curator Talk: Autoluminescent
John Marble – Transitions: Supporting Autistic Students and Employees
22nd Jul 2019 12:00pm
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Law Links >
A question of access >
Dean Makau W. Mutua’s Testimony
A question of access
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A hard look at government surveillance
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Steven Schurkman ’80 to be honored for elder law work
Alum’s book tells a story of hard-edged politics from a century ago
Going high, going far, wearing blue
Zimmerman defense attorneys to speak at 10th anniversary of area trial competition
Thank you, Chief Judge Lippman and the members of the hearing panel, for conducting these hearings on the importance of – and urgent need for – civil legal services in our Fourth Department community and around the state. I note that this is the fourth year the chief judge is presiding over hearings on access to civil legal services and that it is the second time that I am here to offer the perspective of a law school dean. Let me thank you, Chief Judge Lippman, for asking me to appear again before this panel, and for gracing our school again so soon after your inspiring keynote address at our Commencement in May. The words of wisdom that you left with us are still with us today.
Equal access to justice underpins our democracy. It is the key to equality before the law, without which there can be no democracy. An important component of that is devotion to serving the public as lawyers. An iconic American, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
I am continually impressed by the commitment of the SUNY Buffalo Law students, faculty and staff to serve our community by working with needy clients to help victims of domestic violence, secure health care and other basic benefits for the elderly, ensure that low-income families have access to affordable housing, provide mediation services to those who could not afford them, counsel unrepresented debtors regarding their rights as consumers and help them through the legal process, and act on behalf of non-profit environmental groups to protect environmental and ecological resources. These are just a few of the things we have been able to do at SUNY Buffalo Law School to increase access to justice in the Fourth Department. Together with Chief Judge Lippman’s efforts to establish consistent and reliable funding for civil legal services and the work of the Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York to offer innovative, alternative resources to deliver civil legal services, this state’s law schools and students are continuing to expand the work they have done for decades in partnership with the legal community, striving to bridge what you correctly call the justice gap.
I believe that to ensure equal access to justice for all, law schools like SUNY Buffalo Law School must educate future members of the legal profession that they have an obligation to engage in lifelong legal pro bono service. I want to commend the Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services in New York for convening this May the second conference in two years focused on candid conversations among law school deans, administrators, professors, community partners and law students to proactively think about ways in which we can best educate students and instill in them a core value of the legal profession – pro bono service to the community. The long-term success of that work will depend on focused efforts not only within law schools like mine, but on partnerships with our colleagues, legal services providers, pro bono coordinators at law firms, members of the bar, bar examiners, bar association leaders and judges.
At this year’s conference, topical work groups looked at a number of issues, including:
New models of postgraduate programs with law school involvement, like incubators and community practices that provide opportunities for recent graduates to be part of practices that serve low-income residents;
Curriculum reform efforts including practical skills training, more clinical options, and redesigned core first- and second-year courses that specifically address access to justice;
Implementation strategies and best practices for the 50-hour pro bono service bar admission requirement;
How service providers, both legal and social, and law school students and faculty clinics spearheaded relief efforts to aid victims of Hurricane Sandy that are now “models of collaboration” and how these models can be fostered and sustained within our state; and
How changing technology can help us close the justice gap.
The conference report will share the exciting results as part of the task force’s annual report on these hearings, and help highlight the continuing, pressing need for increased access to civil legal services. Chief Judge Lippman, you will receive recommendations on these models, best practices and proposals for new or revised rules and policies that will facilitate efforts to close the justice gap flowing from the work of the conference participants and follow-up efforts.
Meeting for the first time at this year’s conference was also the Statewide Law School Access to Justice Council. The Council is composed of representatives appointed by the deans from each of state’s 15 law schools. The Council will work to enhance communication and collaboration among law schools, legal services providers and the bar to maximize our efforts and resources to deliver legal services to those in need. Among other issues, the Council is studying the feasibility of an online clearinghouse that would serve as a central location for law schools, providers and bar associations to post pro bono opportunities for students to improve efficiencies and collaborations for all of us and better serve those in need of legal services. It is anticipated that technological innovations can reach individuals who otherwise would not have access to law school-sponsored assistance programs, legal services providers or a courthouse to obtain critically needed civil legal assistance.
The deleterious consequences resulting from the contraction of our economy continue to impact our most vulnerable citizens. In metropolitan centers, individuals seeking legal assistance often have a number of legal services providers, bar association programs, and clinics and service programs at local law schools to approach. But in rural communities far away from the cities, there are fewer options. It is likewise vital to remind ourselves that the existence of local service providers is not a guarantee that legal assistance will be available. In far too many cases, those in need are turned away because there are simply not enough hours in a week or in a day for the dedicated professionals, students and volunteers who provide free legal assistance.
The newly enacted requirement for law students to perform 50 hours of supervised pro bono service as a prerequisite to bar admission is certain to both help with the justice gap, and imbue young lawyers with this important civic responsibility they implicitly undertake upon admission to the bar. The fact that nearly 40 percent of lawyers who are members of the New York State Bar Association report that they are solo practitioners or are members of a firm with 10 lawyers or less underscores the critical role of pro bono service in training our students. Individuals who engage in a solo practice or practice in a small firm often are the community’s first responders for people facing acute difficulties. Likewise, our law schools are responding by expanding our clinical and experiential learning opportunities and programs to both provide some direct service to otherwise unserved or underserved clients, and give students the skills and training they need to provide effective legal representation to those in need.
SUNY Buffalo Law School gives our students experiential learning programs through clinics, externships and practica that combine the study of law with supervised practical work where students deliver services to people facing legal challenges that could have life-altering consequences. Our service learning opportunities assist people of all ages, from children to the elderly, who are in need of legal counsel and cannot afford to retain an attorney. Our clinics and practica are staffed by faculty members who train our young lawyers to handle the panoply of issues to preserve or regain their rights in matters relating to family relations, health care, financial issues, criminal matters, environmental injustices and affordable housing, among others. In addition, we have clinics that focus on environmental and economic policies and issues that directly affect daily life in our communities. We also have clinics that are run by and staffed by our students and faculty where our students are trained by local legal service providers in our community, including the Western New York Law Center, Legal Services for the Elderly, Disabled or Disadvantaged of Western New York, the Erie County Bar Association’s Volunteer Lawyers Project, Legal Aid and Neighborhood Legal Services. These groups and organizations work with clients under attorney supervision. Together, this work on behalf of our law faculty and students fulfills a fundamental goal of our profession – to serve the public. While we have had a strong history of public service among the majority our students, the new pro bono bar admission requirement ensures that each and every student will be inculcated with the ethic of public service at the outset of their professional lives, and I believe personally that this initiative is one of the most important initiatives in our state which surely will further bridge the justice gap.
The decisions issued by the United States Supreme Court at the conclusion of its 2012-13 term in my view reinforce the importance of instilling our law students a social conscience. Many of the court’s recent rulings implicate civil legal rights that will have real-life consequences for our citizens. Alexander Hamilton once told us, “The first duty of society is justice.” As the dean of this law school, I will continue our work to ensure that our most vulnerable neighbors have access to justice. I believe that every lawyer must live and work at the intersection of power and powerlessness and in that exercise practice law with a social conscience. I applaud you and I applaud the work of the legislature in providing more funding for these activities. Thank you.
* Dean Makau Mutua
* Kerisha Hawthorne ‘14
* Emily Dinsmore ‘14
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May 10, 2019 |Marxism, revolution, The Matrix
The Revolution That Wasn’t
by Titus Techera|13 Comments
Promotional still for The Matrix (Warner Brothers Pictures).
Twenty years ago, we saw the lightning flash of The Matrix, an entirely new form of action movie for American audiences. It combined science fiction with noir, mixing in Japanese apocalyptic manga/anime and Chinese fight choreography, hinting at post-modern intellectual pursuits—all of this wrapped up in impressive new cinematic technologies. The movie seemed destined to change movie-making and won four Oscars, mostly in sound and visual effects, but also the very important editing award.
This turned out to be all lightning and no thunder. Cinema didn’t really change and pretty much all the movies that imitated The Matrix failed and have been forgotten. The Matrix was only the 5th highest grossing movie of 1999 with $171 million in America, and $463 million worldwide. The franchise as a whole proved to be both commercially and artistically disappointing.
The Matrix appeared to combine all four ambitions of avant-garde modern art: Intellectualism, visual technology, music, and political revolution.
That the Wachowskis set out to make an intellectual kind of action film is striking because it defies the conventions of the genre. Indeed, before shooting the movie the writer-directors had the cast read one of the important works of postmodern thought, Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 Simulacra and Simulations, and they placed the book prominently in the movie itself. They even had a major character quote from its famous opening: Welcome to the desert of the real. This, of course, suggested a radical criticism of prevailing conditions and social arrangements.
Next, the Wachowskis availed themselves of new technologies. The hope was that film would redefine itself in the digital age as the only adequate representation of our quest for self-understanding, fully employing the powers of visual effects. What society makes invisible or even unthinkable—our very imaginations—could now be adequately represented on the screen. The Matrix works with the premise that technology might fulfill its ultra-modern purpose, to make man fully malleable by computerizing our experience.
Music would then provide the animating power necessary to connect the people—indeed, mankind as such—to the ideas of revolution. From Marilyn Manson to Rage Against The Machine to any number of forgettable angry urban youth bands to club music—The Matrix was supposed to be subversive, transgressive, popular, and futuristic all at once.
This was all intended to add up to political revolution. Like my friend Pete Spiliakos says, Matrix is a Marxist awakening story. Everyman hero Neo (Keanu Reeves) lives a banal and dissatisfying life in a modern metropolis, replete with corporate cubicle work, and he thinks that’s what freedom is. Then he learns that what he takes to be capitalist democracy is in fact the worst form of slavery known to history, since it has enslaved not merely the body but the mind as well. Then Neo awakens to fight the capitalist oppressors!
But there’s something off here: Is a singular hero required to fulfill the Marxist fantasy of destroying the oppressors? Well, if he’s just an everyman, then we’d all have solved our political problems by now. And if he’s only able to accomplish this with magic, as Neo does, that’s no solution at all.
The story has a double character: it depicts an unremittingly grim political situation alongside the promise of great personal power. The class conflict has men fighting machines in a distant future where technology has erased human freedom and, indeed, become a new god that demands the ongoing sacrifice of our bodies and minds. Our wildest expectations about Progress are overwhelmed! In accordance with Marx, the machine proves to be the agent of the revolution—technology is real, ideology is fake. But the dream of Progress turns into a nightmare because human beings are stuck being human and therefore an inferior being.
There’s no denying the inferiority, but then there’s no accepting it, either. To be human is to be perplexed: Keanu asks questions all the time and seems surprisingly dim-witted. Human beings are limited by their bodies in a way the machines are not and the human form of freedom, imagining a world unlike the real world, is itself turned against them by the machines. Everyone ends up trapped in an illusion, because it beats the miserable reality of their enslaved mortal bodies. In the case of Cypher (Joe Pantoliano), we find a character who consciously chooses slavery of body and a pleasant illusion for the mind, the nearly universal condition in this technological tyranny. Therefore, liberating those bodies becomes imperative. Freedom to be who we really are, turns out conveniently to coincide with the fight for survival. There is no difference between mere life and the good life here. So the personal situation turns out to be much better than the political situation—mankind may become extinct, but Neo and his fellow rebels can explore their identities and acquire shocking powers in the process, albeit only when they reconnect themselves to the Matrix.
The film tells an important truth: Nothing can make people content to be as they are—nothing stops them from imagining things that might be better. And in the Matrix, such self-transformation is limited only by one’s imagination and ability to manipulate the system.
This is how the Marxist uprising against capitalism turns into the wonders of gender-bending. The only strangely prophetic thing about this movie was the androgynous romance where you had to try hard to tell Neo apart from Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss). This is, of course, the story of the writer-directors, the Wachowskis, who were two brothers when they made this movie and are now two sisters. Discontent with the world becomes most personal in discontent with the body which, since it is not chosen, is not part of one’s identity, but part of the given world. Radical liberation is not just liberation of bodies, but liberation from the human body itself.
The movie also formulates an idea that doesn’t fit the excitement of magical powers and a Marxist uprising. It implies that the engine of history isn’t violence or power. Desire drives us: Human freedom is driven by eros, and the demand of eros is for fulfillment and completion. But the characters don’t live in a world defined by human nature or its limits. Every limit is thus overcome and the power of chance is ultimately conquered, which is of course the modern project. In a dark world like Matrix, this leads to the negation of ordinary human life itself: hence androgyny, hence adding machine powers to human powers, hence adding virtual reality to disappointments of everyday life.
This story, which fascinated so many people, failed because it shares the modern aversion to tragedy and therefore offers a strangely flat image of humanity. You cannot take seriously the struggles of those fated to win. Moreover, the writer-directors didn’t have the courage of even following their main idea and putting an unchained eros at the core of being human.
The Wachowskis suggest through The Matrix that, deeper than the political conflicts obvious already in the late 90s, individualism made people feel deeply wounded—radically incomplete, unable to be human merely by themselves, but also unable, given their search for something or someone to complete them—to dedicate themselves to any political community. Bold ideas became necessary just to get by. The Wachowskis wagered that fantastic identities would get people to act when politics wouldn’t. Mythology, not ideology, would create a perfect human-machine combination, but this hasn’t quite come to pass.
Through the film’s characters, the Wachowskis suggest that the human body might be ruled by the most demanding and ambitious desires imaginable, by tyrannic dreams we enact while awake. Our bodies make us mortal and unwise. We’re stuck chasing things we cannot have—immortality, perfection. Power encourages our delusions; it does not offer a cure. Only the power to radically alter the body and free ourselves from our bodily limitations could fix our pained awareness of incompleteness.
Politics on the basis of absolute individualism ultimately involves a desire to do violence to oneself to achieve a fullness that politics itself can never provide. This was the darkest, most dangerous suggestion of the Wachowskis, and the one we are seeing play out today.
Titus Techera
Titus Techera is the Executive Director of the American Cinema Foundation and hosts the ACF podcasts. He is a contributor to The Federalist, National Review Online, Catholic World Report, and University Bookman. He tweets as @titusfilm.
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Janus Porkinlard says
The Matrix was the ideological prison of the 1970s-1980s era of the fairness doctrine that the Wachowski Sisters grew up in. The Matrix is when there are only three identical networks—ABC, NBC, CBS—that create the belief that they express political opinions that everyone agrees with.
The first crack in the American Matrix was Reagan ending the Fairness Doctrine. Conservative Talk-radio, like Rush Limbaugh, created a second point of view in American media.
But the end of the matrix came with the creation of Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter. Silicon Valley tried to rebuild the matrix by banning people from these platforms, but Trump put Gorsuch on the court who will author the opinion striking down social media censorship and deliver the final blow to the matrix right before Trump is re-elected.
Darren says
It’s the Wachowski brothers.
M W Sinnett says
The Matrix, like Marxism, is a Gnostic psychodrama: We are imprisoned in a dark world created by an evil and false god, and released through revelation of the true Gnosis. As is not uncommon among the wild variety of gnostic texts, there is here also a Hermetic aspect to the experienced liberation, in that the enlightened, like Hermes and Hermes Trismegestus, move beyond all the boundaries and limitations of the human condition. As also not uncommon among gnostic texts, such as those of Manicheism, Christian symbols, suitably deformed, are incorporated as a means of getting at their “true” meaning.
Andronicus says
Morpheus: “Like everyone else, you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.”
With Marxism, it’s a prison for your body (serfdom?), not your mind. And you CAN be told what the capitalist prison is, Marx does it in the Manifesto and Das Capital.
But when you live within a mental prison of propaganda and social control (Russia, China, Iran, Venezuala, the fairness doctrine), you can’t merely be told what it is, you have to see a society without the prison bars. That’s why people write novels or make films (like in the case of the Matrix) to show the dystopia that you are living in, or to show the utopia that you can escape to.
Think about it. If you asked a democrat in 1979 about the capitalist oppression, they could go on for hours; but if you asked them about the Fairness Doctrine oppression, they have no idea what a society would look like without the fairness doctrine–because you can’t tell that the fairness doctrine is oppressive when you’re inside it, because it’s a MATRIX, a prison for your mind.
Mrs. Anderson says
What are the themes of Marxism?
-Higher wages and pensions
-Shorter commutes or just work from home
-Fewer hours and more vacation days
-Safer working conditions
-publicly employed
What are the themes of The Matrix?
–Epistemology (What is the truth?)
–Science (What is reality actually like–outside the illusion/matrix?)
–Morality (Don’t confine people in an illusion/simulation, tell people the whole truth)
–Liberty (people should be able to live their lives as they please, not sit in a coma serving the machines)
–Individualism (practice your liberty of mind, and you’ll be able to manipulate the illusion/matrix in your favor)
The Matrix is Plato’s Cave, not Marx’s Mines
Marley says
The people in the Matrix are being exploited, but they are not being exploited as workers, because they are not actually doing anything at all, but are in fact in comas in pods in the real world. There dreams ARE full of propaganda, like a 1960s tv news broadcast during the fairness doctrine, but they are still dreams, not actual experiences that are being exploited for the capitalist engine.
If you’re daughter is put in a medical coma, and then the doctors start manipulating her dreams, your complaint is not that she is being treated poorly like Bob Cratchit, but that she’s being indoctrinated by the propaganda in her dreams, like a public school or state news broadcast.
Think about it, would you rather have to actually do work and be exploited, or would you rather be put in a coma and only THINK you’re doing work that is being exploited? Now replace the word “work” with “sex” and the answer becomes even more obvious. A person who has a dream where they’re being raped isn’t actually raped, and the person who dreams they’re being exploited by the capitalist system isn’t actually.
We never see the machines in the real world living lives of great luxury, like the capitalists do that are actually exploiting workers in the real world. If anything, the few machines we do see, like the ones that attack the ship, are living lives of police officers, not scrooge mcDucks. The real world doesn’t feel like 19th-century London, it feels like 20th-century Russia–a communist country–or an animal farm.
Adam Molecule says
Separate individualism and atomism
atomism is doing things on your own, by yourself; that could be conforming to society’s norms and suppressing your individuality while by yourself–what’s important is that you’re on your own, not in the company of others and especially not working with others
individualism is being true to yourself and expressing yourself genuinely and honestly, whether by yourself or when you’re in the company of others. You can practice individualism in the company of others, so long as you do not sacrifice your values for theirs, but continue to demand they respect the rights you value so highly
selfishness is not extending the same rights, opportunities, privacy, and due process that you demand for yourself
political individualism (liberalism or equality) is extending to others all those same rights, opportunities, privacy, and due process that you demand for yourself
Gail Wynand says
What do Marxists want the most, even more than tenure? Just ask a professor: fewer work hours and more leisure hours, fewer work days and more vacation days. [The first union demands were the 8-hour work day and 5-day work week]
What does Neo do? He not only has a full-time job, but he then works at home. And not only does he work from home after his day job is over, but he works so long after work that he falls asleep at his computer. This is not a a marxist, this is a workaholic like Howard Roark or John Galt.
And then when he escapes the matrix, what does he do? Retire and live off a pension? No, he spends his days either training in the matrix at the dojo, or he walks around the matrix trying to free others. This is not the behavior of a collectivist Marxist who is trying to minimize his work hours and maximize his leisure time, while living off the tax collected from others (pensions). This is the behavior of an individualist who is trying to realize his potential and give others the opportunity to do the same.
Neitzsche Hayek says
What is The Matrix? It is a simulation, an AI centrally-planned simulation. The AI/Machines create, direct, and manipulate each and every aspect of the simulation, the way communists [collectivists] want to create, direct, and manipulate every aspect of the social world and the economy. The Matrix is the Marxist utopia–a world where nothing is left to chance or individual freedom.
Neo’s goal is to leave the Matrix. Even if he were a government-employed doctor and realized the communist dream of socialized medicine, it would still make sense that he would want to leave the Matrix. Because Neo’s goal isn’t a centrally-planned socialist utopia, it’s to live in the real world–a natural, spontaneous world governed by natural laws learned in science class, rather than governed by the AI/Machines of the Matrix.
The theme of the movie is that the centrally-planned simulation of The Matrix is a dystopia, and the natural real world (no matter how impoverished) is better than living in a world planned and directed by a central AI. Better to be free and poor, than rich and on the road to serfdom.
Bloodborne Franklin says
Let’s say the government requires you to donate your blood for free and then they use that blood to give government-workers blood transfusions to keep them alive. By having to give up something of yours (blood) for free, you are certainly be taken advantage of, because the government is not providing you with just compensation as required by the fifth amendment. By they are not exploiting you as a worker by under-paying you for your work; BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT WORKING.
In the same way, the machines of The Matrix are taking the energy your body produces for free and giving it to themselves to live off of. They are taking advantage of you, but they are not exploiting your work (as Marxists complain about), because YOU ARE NOT WORKING, you are in a pod in a coma dreaming of the matrix.
You ARE being oppressed, but not as a worker (since you’re in a pod), but by having to exist in an AI centrally-planned simulation, rather than in the natural, spontaneous real world where you can make your own choices.
Evidence Comes-Forward says
What is the EVIDENCE that the revolution happened?–besides the obvious that Trump beat Our Lady Hillary
Hillary wants to bring back the fairness doctrine and shut down Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. If they’d had no effect and brought no transparency to the democrat administrations, the democrats would leave them alone.
Bush and Hillary want to persecute Assange for wikileaks. Had wikileaks had no effect and brought no transparency to the US military and the DNC, they would leave them alone.
Since Rush Limbaugh went on the air in 1987, republican support for gun-control fell practically in half from 88% to 49%. Remember, The Matrix was written in 1995, right after the assault weapons ban went into effect, and they made it very clear in the movie that “we need guns, lots of guns”, the very kind of guns that were just outlawed. What a coincidence!
And the revolution happened! The assault weapons ban was’t renewed and the court ruled the second amendment is an individual civilian right, not a collective militia privilege.
Al Goresuch says
If the Matrix was about marxism, Neo would have a back-breaking factory job or a lung-destroying mining job. No, instead he has the marxist dream-job—a high-paying deskjob.
Neo’s complaint isn’t that he has an unhealthy job that leaves him in pain at the end of the day after being paid low wages. No! His complaint is that his job is boring him to death and that he has the Truman-Show impression that this is all fake, or an illusion, or something . . . something that leaves “a splinter in his mind’s eye”.
This is the very feeling during the Fairness Doctrine that led Rush to create conservative talk-radio and Bill O’Reilly to create Fox News . . . the feeling that we’re not being told everything, or that the world the ABC/NBC/CBS monopoly news is creating for us is an illusion.
What Neo wants is to know what the world is actually like. He wants to know everything about the world, not just those details the AI/Machine’s allow us to know in their simulation. Just like republicans want to know everything that’s going on, not just those details democrat news are willing to tell us that don’t portray the democrats in a negative light.
Destroying the Democrat News Monopoly with Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, the Volokh Conspiracy, Wikileaks, and the Intellectual Dark Web was the revolution. The revolution that culminated in total victory—Citizens United. The revolution didn’t just happen, it was a success.
Nobody no longer believes that the world is made up of only whatever CNN decides to report on. Everybody now agrees that you have to get your news from multiple news sources from all sides of the political spectrum. The Matrix of democrat news monopoly was destroyed by The One (Rush Limbaugh), who could shape the narrative as he saw fit.
Guten out of Ten says
What did ABC, NBC, and CBS have during the Fairness Doctrine, when the Wachowski’s were growing up?
Anticompetitive control of the marketplace of ideas. They had an ideological monopoly or a “matrix”. The same thing the machines have over the residents of the matrix–the machines/AI control what year you think it is, they control what country you think you’re in, they can even inhabit your body and literally control you, as the agents do over and over again in the movies. They can literally possess you, the way 1960s news-anchors used to possess people and make them incapable of thinking anything the news-anchors didn’t think
It was only with the creation of social media and wikileaks that people were able to break out of the ideological matrix of the corporate media monopoly and see the real world as it was, by getting multiple points of view and getting the news the Democrat/Elitist media didn’t want you to know—like what was really happening inside the DNC during the 2016 “democrat primary”.
If you want to see just how much of a revolution social media has created, just ask the residents of the Arab Spring or Brexit
Scruton’s crime was to have attempted to take the New Left seriously, finding it severely wanting, if not absurd.
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Exhibition traces role of Orangemen in development of Portadown
Portadown town centre. INPT5315-405
Published: 06:30 Thursday 03 August 2017
An exciting and unique new cultural and heritage tour organisation will be launched on Monday night (August 7) to put the spotlight on Portadown’s development.
The exhibition will also examine the immense part played by Orangemen and their families in the development of Portadown from a small village to one of Northern Ireland’s most important towns.
Carleton Street Orange Hall in the town is the venue for the launch of Portadown Heritage Tours which will be attended by senior members of the Orange Order and also by civic, business and community leaders.
The project is the culmination of over a year’s training by a number of local volunteers, mostly members of the Orange Order.
Mr Cardwell McClure of the Association said the project will include walking tours of Portadown’s central area where visitors will learn of its history and heritage through its buildings, memorials and statues many with an Orange connection.
He also said that there will be tours of Carleton Street Orange Hall to tell the story of the men and lodges who have made their mark on Orangeism and the town during the past two centuries. The project will be further developed to include a tour to Drumcree.
During the 18 months of research the Carleton Street Community Development Association has been active in meeting the requirements of a £48,600 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Without the support, help and advice of the Fund this unique and exciting cultural and historical project would not have been possible.
Two of the co-ordinators of the Project, Cardwell McClure and John Proctor, paid tribute to the advice and support from organisations and individuals who have addressed meetings and assisted in the training of the volunteers, in particular Mr Allan Hamilton of Brilliant Trails who arranged all of the training.
Mr Proctor said that the volunteers had been trained to World Host standard and on skills relating to research, tours, health and safety and IT.
Volunteers have also carried out research work at PRONI and Schomberg House, both in Belfast, Sloan’s House in Loughgall, Brownlow House in Lurgan, and museums in County Armagh.
The volunteers have also visited Sandy Row in Belfast and other places where tours are in place in order to gain knowledge as they prepared their own programme of tours.
The Community Association is hosting a cultural and historical exhibition in the Orange Hall and it will be open to all five days per week, Tuesday to Saturday, starting on August 8 running to September 2.
There are also plans to link up with the envisaged County Armagh Orange Heritage Trail in a bid to attract tourists to the county and Portadown in particular – this will include Dan Winter’s Cottage, Sloan’s House, both in Loughgall – Carleton Street Orange Hall and Brownlow House in Lurgan.
Both Mr Proctor and Mr McClure praised their fellow volunteers for the dedicated hard work and commitment they have given during the past year to bring about the situation whereby the project will be launched.
They mentioned in particular the contribution by young lady volunteer, Lisa Partridge, whose IT and marketing skills have been invaluable to the successful completion of the project.
For further information, please contact: Website: www.portadownheritagetours.co.uk Facebook: Portadown Heritage Tours email:portadownheritagetours@gmail.com
or telephone: 07928 962 608
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Researchers Complete DNA Sequencing of E coli Strain
Nancy A. Melville
July 28, 2011 — Research teams from around the globe investigating the Germany-based Escherichia coli outbreak that has killed more than 50 and sickened thousands say that they have completed DNA sequencing to crack the genetic code of the bacteria behind the outbreak.
In 2 studies published online in the New England Journal of Medicine on July 27, research teams say an extensive sequencing of the bacteria's genome identified the E coli strain as a largely enteroaggregative E coli strain, uniquely combined with the enterohemorrhagic E coli subtype.
The culprit was an unusually virulent, Shiga toxin–producing strain that is associated with symptoms including severe diarrhea and hemolytic-uremic syndrome, and is capable of causing a worsening of symptoms when certain antibiotics are used.
"Our observation that toxin production by the O104:H4 outbreak strain is induced by a quinolone antibiotic, as previously seen with enterohemorrhagic E. coli strains, suggests that caution is warranted in the use of certain classes of antibiotics to counteract this newly emerged pathogen," write lead author David A. Rasko, PhD, from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, and colleagues, authors of the first report.
The team isolated the O104:H4 C227-11 strain from a 64-year-old German woman who had been hospitalized in Copenhagen with bloody diarrhea and sequenced its genome, comparing it with the genomes of 6 similar strains and 5 enteroaggregative strains.
They concluded that although the bacterium is highly unusual and not commonly seen in a single E coli organism, it is not necessarily a hybrid strain, as was reported earlier in the outbreak, which began in May.
"Early in the outbreak, scientists described the bacteria as a 'hybrid' strain. This strain is not a true hybrid, because it contains only a small amount of DNA sequence from enterohemorrhagic E. coli," explained Dr. Rasko in a press statement.
"We have not seen these kinds of unique combinations very often in the past. I expect we are going to see them increasingly, now that technology. . .has advanced to the point that we can sequence more strains very rapidly and relatively inexpensively," said Dr. Rasko, who is an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a research scientist at the Institute for Genome Sciences.
The researchers added that, though rare, the combination of strains has been seen before, but not as the cause of a major illness outbreak.
"The outbreak is not the first clinically linked instance of an enteroaggregative E. coli acquiring a Shiga-toxin encoding phage," the authors write, "but it is a clear case of such a strain causing a major outbreak of disease. Whether the current outbreak is due to a particularly virulent Shiga-toxin-positive enteroaggregative E. coli, a rare epidemiologic opportunity, or both, remains unclear."
In the second report, researchers from Germany and Beijing agreed that despite its rarity, the strain has in fact been reported in various regions of the world.
"Although this outbreak strain has surprised the general public and public health officials, related potential progenitor strains have been reported from three continents," Holger Rohde, MD, from the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, the University Medical Center of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, and colleagues write.
A 2005 outbreak of the O104:H4 strain in Korea similarly was associated with high rates of hemolytic-uremic syndrome, and strains previously seen in Germany in 2001 and in the Central African Republic in the late 1990s also had similarities.
A report from the European Food Safety Authority has stated that fenugreek seeds (Trigonella foenum-graecum) imported from Egypt and used to grow fresh bean sprouts were the most likely source of the current E coli outbreak.
The last reports of illness from the strain were reported in early July, and German officials have declared the outbreak to be officially over.
Researchers for both papers credit advances in DNA-sequencing technologies — and the ability to freely share data and collaborate with disparate groups of researchers around the world in what was dubbed the "E. coli O10:H4 Genome Analysis Crowd-Sourcing Consortium," for allowing the rapid analysis of the genome.
"Usually, science takes place in relative isolation," Dr. Rasko said. "This is the first time we've seen true 'open source' analysis of a microbial genome."
The swift sequencing bodes well for the faster understanding of such potentially dangerous, virulent pathogens in the future, he added.
"The research may be the first time that such a comprehensive scientific analysis of an emerging pathogen took place in the first days and weeks of an outbreak, "Dr. Rasko explained in the press release.
"This technology is evolving extremely rapidly, enabling us to accomplish much more accurate analysis with unprecedented speed," he added.
"It took years and millions of dollars to sequence the first E. coli genome more than a decade ago. Here we are, just months from the start of the German E. coli outbreak, and we've published a paper on it. This paper and the research it describes represent the new paradigm of outbreak investigations."
The study by Dr. Rasko and associates was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the University of Maryland internal funds, and the Danish Council for Strategic Research. The study by Dr. Rohde and colleagues was supported by grants from the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China, the National Key Program for Infectious Diseases of China, Schenzhen Biological Industry Development Special Foundation, Shenzhen City, the European Union Microme Program, the Alexander von Homboldt Foundation, the medical faculty of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, and the British Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Dr. Rohde and coauthors have disclosed no relevant financial relationships. Many of the authors of Rasko and colleagues' study report current or past employment by Pacific Biosciences, as well as receipt of stocks or stock options from this company; Eric Schadt, PhD, the corresponding author, served as the Executive Scientific Director of Merck until June 2009.
N Engl J Med. Published online July 25, 2011. Abstract for Rasko study Abstract for Rohde study
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SPRING 2018 VOLUME 25: NUMBER 2
Has al-Qaeda Learned from Its Mistakes?
Spring 2018 (view PDF)
https://www.meforum.org/7223/al-qaeda-learned-mistakes
The destruction of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is undoubtedly a significant success, but it will not be the end of worldwide Islamist insurgencies. The Islamic State may be eradicated, and ISIS as an organization may be eclipsed, but the forces and mentality it represents within Islam and jihadism—virulent intolerance and murderous hyper-violence targeting the entire world, including any jihadists who disagree with it—will continue to wreak havoc throughout the Middle East, Muslim-majority countries, and the world at large. And while it remains to be seen whether ISIS will be able to recuperate from its defeat, it is not the only jihadist group the world faces. In particular, al-Qaeda, including its nominally independent major affiliate in Syria, Hay'at Tahrir ash-Sham,[1] may turn out to be the greater long-term threat, having survived a massive worldwide campaign to destroy it and having modified its strategy to reflect lessons learned from past mistakes.[2]
Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces in the city of Raqqa, October 2017, following the city's liberation from ISIS. Although many factors have contributed to the defeats of global jihadists, tactics that alienate the local populations, including the killing of Muslims, are a central reason.
Jihadist Mistakes
The destruction of the ISIS polity is but the latest setback inflicted on the forces of global jihad. Al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups have already endured a string of major defeats in Egypt, Algeria, and in the 1990s, in the Balkans. Al-Qaeda, along with its Taliban and other allies, was expelled from Afghanistan in 2001, and its attempted uprising in Saudi Arabia two years later was crushed, with the survivors fleeing to Yemen. The Taliban have regained strength in recent years, not due to anything al-Qaeda has done, but as a result of the weakness of the Afghan government, the duplicity of the Pakistani regime, and the disastrous short-sightedness of President Barack Obama's military drawdown. ISIS's predecessor, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), was largely eradicated in the previous round of warfare in that country. Over time, al-Qaeda Central (AQC) has endured serious attrition to its command structure by drone and air strikes and special forces raids, including the loss of Osama bin Laden. In spite of these assaults, the organization has survived.
Although many factors have contributed to these defeats, a central reason were the tactics used by al-Qaeda and other jihadists, first and foremost by alienating the local population and killing Muslims.
Alienating the Local Population. There have been at least two ways al-Qaeda and other jihadists have worn out whatever welcome they may have initially had: hostility to tribal interests and practices, and hostility to the local practices of Islam.
Paradoxically, for an organization originally led by a man from tribal Saudi Arabia, al-Qaeda often ignored the tribal factor, and, in fact, sometimes seemed hostile to tribalism. One of the key reasons the Iraqi Sunni tribes eventually turned against al-Qaeda was because it began to attack tribal interests and leadership and affronted tribal honor.[3] The tipping point may have been when al-Qaeda offshoot ISI took a sheikh's daughters by force to provide wives for its operatives.[4]
No less important, while Islam is a diverse faith with many interpretations, jihadists practice a very rigid, austere, and intolerant form of Sunni Islam. In the past, al-Qaeda and other jihadists repeatedly tried to force local Muslims to follow their practices, whether or not this was acceptable to local practices and customs.
During the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, jihadist insurgents were extreme even by al-Qaeda's standards, and routinely killed people they defined as un-Islamic for such crimes as not wearing proper Islamic dress or for speaking French. Over time, most of the Algerian population came to support the Algerian government, however reluctantly. So etched have these painful memories been that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has largely given up operating in Algeria and has transferred its operations farther south.[5]
In the Balkans, local Muslims were heavily influenced by both the historic legacies of the Ottoman Empire, which was generally tolerant of variant religious practices, and the legacy of decades of communist repression. The local version of Islam is heavily influenced by the practices of
the Sufi brotherhoods of religious mystics. Further, they like to drink: "They wanted us to pray five times a day. We said we'd rather drink five times a day."[6] Al-Qaeda regarded these practices as un-Islamic at best and pagan at worst and tried to encourage or enforce its own brand of "true Islam," which included destroying ornate mosques inherited from the Ottomans. Consequently, it rapidly lost whatever welcome it had in what one observer described as "trying to grow palm trees in the Balkans."[7]
Yazidi Muslims, driven from their homes by ISIS, in a refugee camp. Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other jihadist groups have routinely shown hostility to local practices they consider un-Islamic.
Afghanistan, too, was historically devout but more tolerant in how it practiced Islam. The Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies tried to enforce their preferred practices on an increasingly unwilling population that largely came to consider them an occupying army of bizarre fanatics.[8] Much of the support the Taliban have today stems from the failure of the Afghan government to provide effective governance rather than from the Taliban's religious practices.[9] Next door to Afghanistan, the Pakistani Taliban's practices have frequently been religiously repellent to the more tolerant practices of most Pakistani Muslims.[10]
In post-Saddam Iraq, Sunni Arabs, many of whom initially welcomed al-Qaeda's support against the United States and the Shiite-Kurd-dominated government, rapidly turned on the organization when it tried to enforce its brand of Islam. Among the practices it tried to ban were smoking and men selling women's clothing.[11]
ISIS has compounded this problem with its even more virulent version of Shari'a, implemented wherever it has ruled: It considers even al-Qaeda's practices, especially the refusal to immediately exterminate Shiite Muslims, to be a betrayal of Islam.[12] Banning smoking has also been an ISIS obsession.[13]
Killing Muslims. In the course of their operations, al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups routinely killed Muslims. In fact, they killed far more Muslims than non-Muslims even before ISIS appeared on the scene. Most of this was deliberate killing of innocent victims. This was especially the case in Algeria and Iraq where ISI partially succeeded in triggering a bloody religious war between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. Many of the victims were murdered simply by virtue of being the "wrong" kind of Muslims, or happening to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. ISIS has compounded this malpractice by declaring all Muslims who do not follow its practices as apostates, hence legitimate targets. Killing fellow Muslims has done more than any other factor to alienate Middle East Muslims, who often may have no objections to the killing of non-Muslims, especially Westerners, Israelis, or non-Muslim South Asian Indians.
Al-Qaeda's Adaptations
During the past decade, al-Qaeda seemed to be gradually modifying its strategy and tactics. In particular, various al-Qaeda branches sought to collaborate and build alliances with existing Islamic (or even non-Islamic)[14] rebel groups. This has been the case in Afghanistan and Pakistan,[15] Somalia,[16] Yemen,[17] south Asia (where the formation of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Subcontinent, AQIS, may be an effort to partially "Pakistanize" al-Qaeda),[18] and especially Syria, where it formed Hay'at Tahrir ash-Sham.[19] As part of this strategy, it has selectively prioritized local rather than international operations so as to put local faces on its activities, notably in Mali, where the forces joining Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wa-l-Muslimin (the Group for the Support of Islam and the Muslims) were all al-Qaeda fronts or offshoots.[20]
Instead of trying to impose its version of Islam immediately, al-Qaeda has sought to do so gradually, pursuing what might be called jihadization from below by cultivating a base of support and ultimately building a mass movement.[21] By way of doing so, the group has been more selective or less indiscriminate in targeting jihadist attacks. At times, when dealing with situations where local government structures have collapsed, it has tried to set up ruling institutions and enforce order, especially in parts of Yemen,[22] Somalia,[23] and Syria. In Syria, Hay'at Tahrir ash-Sham has assumed control of courts and law enforcement, leaving other administrative tasks to other groups.[24]
Valdet Gashi, a German kickboxing world champion, became an ISIS recruiter. His activities illustrate the worldwide reach of jihadism, which has now become the dominant ideology of rebellion in the Muslim world.
For these reasons, and especially in comparison to ISIS, al-Qaeda (or its fronts) has come to be considered an organization of "moderate" extremists, particularly in Syria, especially when it is the only group that can plausibly provide other factions with protection from ISIS.[25] This has the potential to make al-Qaeda appear less foreign in the various places it operates and significantly reduce the reasons for its past loss of popular support. These adaptations could give al-Qaeda a new lease on life and increase the threat it poses to the West and the rest of the world.
A More Dangerous al-Qaeda?
To whatever degree al-Qaeda has learned from its mistakes and modified its strategy, the group's recent adaptations make it more dangerous—and potentially more successful. This will be the case especially if it continues to adapt and exploit situations in the Muslim world to regain support. This could happen for at least three reasons.
Partially healing the splits within global jihad. At present, global jihad is split into at least three major tendencies. The first is ISIS, a hyper-jihadist tendency so extreme in its interpretation of Islam that it considers nearly all Muslims in the world to be apostates and therefore deserving of death. Additionally, ISIS wants to reestablish the caliphate as rapidly as possible. The second is what might be called international jihadism, such as al-Qaeda, which favors "offensive jihad" or immediately attacking the "far enemy"—meaning the West. International jihadism is somewhat more flexible in its imposition of Islamic law and practices and views establishing the caliphate as a long-term goal.
The third might be called nationalist jihadism, as in much of Syria, which allegedly endeavors to enforce the Shari'a only in its own state. This third interpretation has frequently distanced itself from al-Qaeda because it disagreed with the group's priorities, considering the costs of confrontation with the West to exceed its potential gains and viewing its targeting of Muslims as a major mistake. The recent changes in al-Qaeda's strategy and tactics move it significantly in the direction of the nationalist jihadists, which increases the risk that it will gain their support.
Tapping into latent support for global jihad. The dismal reality is that global jihad is not going to disappear after the demise of the Islamic State. As demonstrated by ISIS's ability to draw recruits from around the world, jihadism is now a worldwide phenomenon and has become the dominant ideology of rebellion in the Muslim world.[26]
At the time of the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda had significant and possibly widespread popular sympathy or support in the Muslim world: As late as 2014, at least 11 percent of Jordanians, 15 percent of Egyptians and Indonesians, and 12 percent of Pakistanis admitted a favorable view of al-Qaeda.[27] In 2011, some 5 percent of U.S. Muslims polled also admitted some sympathy for al-Qaeda. This may even be a low estimate since another 14 percent claimed not to know if they had a favorable or unfavorable view of al-Qaeda. Such professed ignorance is highly suspicious.[28]
Even the murderously violent ISIS continues to maintain considerable popular support in parts of the Muslim world where even small percentages translate into a potential support base of millions. One recent study estimated that 8.3 percent of adults in Muslim-majority countries support ISIS, especially in Africa. Yet actual support may be significantly larger as many ISIS sympathizers are unwilling openly to admit their support.[29]
Until bin Laden started attacking targets in Saudi Arabia, he had widespread tolerance and considerable sympathy among the kingdom's population. One 2003 poll reported that nearly half of polled Saudis supported his views, though only 5 percent wished him to rule the country.[30] He may also have had support within the Saudi government and royal family.[31] Although al-Qaeda lost most of that support when it attacked local targets, this does not necessarily mean that sympathy for jihadism has waned. Unfortunately, it is reasonable to assume latent sympathy exists and can potentially be harnessed by a more sophisticated or more selectively bloodthirsty organization.
Expanding the support base beyond jihadists. An expanding al-Qaeda base would consist of two parts: support from radical but non-jihadist Muslims and potential support from Muslim and Middle East populations at large.
Support from Radical, Non-jihadist Muslims
Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other jihadi groups did not suddenly spring out of nowhere. Global jihad is not an isolated phenomenon; in many ways, jihadists are the tip of a very big iceberg. They are not the lunatic fringe of Sunni Islam but rather the fanatic core of Sunni Islam, which makes them a profoundly different—and much more dangerous—phenomenon. They are, unfortunately for the West, an integral part of that major portion of Islam that is, functionally speaking, radical.
In 2001, Daniel Pipes estimated that 10-15 percent of Muslims worldwide sympathized with the radical interpretation of Islam as a totalitarian ideology.[32] Pipes subsequently defined an Islamist as one who favors the application of the Shari'a in its entirety and supports a caliph as the worldwide authority.[33] This definition may be too narrow as it seems to exclude those Muslims who believe in the ultraorthodox Wahhabi interpretation of Islam as well as radical Salafists, who believe that the model for proper governance and functioning of a society is that established by the prophet Muhammad and his four immediate successors, the "Rightly-Guided" caliphs.
Jihadists may have significant religious differences with the rest of radical Islam, especially over takfirism—willingness to
excommunicate Muslims they disagree with—and the claim that much of the Islamic world has become so religiously debased that it has reverted to jahiliya, a state of pre-Islamic ignorance.[34] But jihadists still share much with the rest of radical Islam. In particular, they share many of the beliefs and practices of the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam, the religious doctrine of the Saudi kingdom, a creed the Saudis have spent enormous amounts of money spreading throughout the world. Some sources claim that as many as 80 percent of the mosques built in the United States in 1984-2004 were funded with Saudi money.[35] The militant ideology of the prominent Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb (1906-66) also remains influential. Although disowned by the Brotherhood leadership, his ideology is embraced by jihadists.[36] Only other Muslims can destroy those roots, and so far they have shown little sign of success in doing so.[37]
It should also be noted that much of what the West has labeled "moderate" Islam, notably the Muslim Brotherhood, is moderate only in relative terms and is more correctly labeled "currently nonviolent radical Islam." In the past, Western observers have defined as "moderate" any Muslim who did not use violence, which obviously sets the bar far too low.[38] Nonviolent radical Islam is still radical Islam.[39] It accepts the need for purification of the Islamic faith, and, like jihadist ideology, considers Islam the basis for programs of religious, social, and political revival and often, implicitly or explicitly, revolution. As a result, nonviolent radical Muslims continue to be dictators-in-waiting, aiming to replace the existing autocracies in the region with theocracies. They also share much of the same narrative and psychology as jihadists, a toxic mix of victimization, frustrated ambitions (frequently combined with delusions of grandeur),[40] virulent anti-Semitism, deeply illiberal views of society (especially about the role of women),[41] and a conspiratorial view of the world. Part of the induction process for the Muslim Brotherhood includes indoctrination on "the [Western-Zionist-Masonic] conspiracy against Islam."[42]
Nonviolent radical Muslims generally share with jihadists the beliefs that Western influence is malign and that the West is at war with Islam.
In particular, they generally share with jihadists the beliefs that Western influence is malign and that the West is at war with Islam. Where they have diverged from al-Qaeda is that they support, or at least accept, "defensive" rather "offensive" jihad. This distinction means that attacking Western interests in Muslim territory is largely acceptable but attacking the West itself is not. However, the definition of "defensive" jihad can be very flexible and expansive, comprising protection from anything radicals do not like (e.g., attacking France if it bans headscarves). A change in al-Qaeda's tactics to emphasize "defensive" jihad and minimize the killing of Muslim civilians will make the group much more palatable to these people.
Beyond this is the potential for support from people in the Middle East and Muslims at large. Much of the past support for al-Qaeda grew from the view that it was standing up to or punishing the United States. The degree to which al-Qaeda and others lost this support was due to their own errors. Still, hostility to the United States has not gone away; it has just separated itself from al-Qaeda. This hostility still exists and is potentially recoverable by the more sophisticated or the more selectively bloodthirsty groups, not least since it is rooted in the frustration, rage, and malignance with which much of the Muslim Middle East views the international system and the region's situation and position in it. Huge numbers of Muslims, and not just in the Middle East, look at the world with a primordial sense of grievance and a profound sense of resentment with Washington widely viewed as a predatory power out for oil and control at best and as a cosmically evil power at war with Islam at worst.
In many ways, this is a mentality of fascism-in-waiting that is not likely to fade away.[43] For those with knowledge of the psychology of Nazism, the parallels are terrifying.[44] It is likely to be compounded by the current civil wars, failed modernizations, social and economic stagnation, failed governance, corruption, governmental repression and collapse, sectarian polarization, and poisonous ideologies widespread in the Muslim Middle East.
Conclusions and Implications
It would be a potentially massive development if al-Qaeda modified its strategy along the lines discussed here. A jihadist group using this strategy and tactics is likely to be much more successful than the old al-Qaeda, let alone ISIS.
While al-Qaeda is unlikely to end the conflict with whatever remains of ISIS,[45] such changes could potentially reduce the
differences with other jihadists, especially with the so-called "nationalists" who claim to want Muslim religious rule in their disparate states. Changes could, moreover, ameliorate the conflict between jihadists and the rest of radical Islam which, for all its theological differences with the jihadists, could claim that together they are resisting the common enemies of the Islamic world.
These changes will also tap into the deep reserves of popular hostility against the United States and the West; are much less likely to provoke a counter-reaction from Middle Eastern governments and populations; and are much more likely to pass religious muster by Muslim clerical authorities since the result can be presented as a "defensive jihad." The ultimate danger is that such a group could, like Hezbollah in Lebanon, grow into a movement that could dominate a state.
It must be recognized that these changes may be just a temporary modification in tactics rather than a permanent strategic shift; some sources claim that al-Qaeda Central objects to this policy in Syria and is attempting to form another al-Qaeda faction to oppose both ISIS and Hay'at Tahrir ash-Sham.[46] Such a temporary shift might allow al-Qaeda to embed within and gradually take over existing insurgencies, with the expectation of reemerging as al-Qaeda at a later date. A war against a revamped al-Qaeda will be even more difficult than against existing jihadist groups. Since it will not threaten the West at home, it will be
harder to marshal the will to resist. For all these reasons, such an al-Qaeda would be harder to defeat than ISIS and hence a bigger threat.
Thomas R. McCabe is a retired Defense Department analyst and a retired U.S. Air Force reserve lieutenant colonel who worked ten years as a Middle East military analyst and two years as a counterterrorism analyst. This article represents solely his opinion.
[1] Associated Press, July 25, 2017.
[2] Aaron Y. Zelin, ed., How al-Qaeda Survived Drones, Uprisings, and the Islamic State, Policy Focus 153 (Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 2017).
[3] Mark Wilbanks and Efraim Karsh, "How the 'Sons of Iraq' Stabilized Iraq," Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2010, pp. 57-70; John A. McCary, "The Anbar Awakening: An Alliance of Incentives," The Washington Quarterly, Jan. 2009, pp. 43-60.
[4] Marie Colvin, "Sunni Sheikhs Turn Their Sights from US Forces to Al-Qaeda," The Sunday Times (London), Sept. 9, 2007.
[5] Dario Cristiani, "Ten Years of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Evolution and Prospects," Terrorism Monitor, Jamestown Foundation, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2017.
[6] Evan F. Kohlmann, Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2005), p. 106.
[7] Ibid., p. 115.
[8] Ahmed Rashid, Taliban (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), pp. 82-94.
[9] Zachary Warren and Nancy Hopkins, eds., Afghanistan in 2015: A Survey of the Afghan People (San Francisco: The Asia Foundation, 2015), pp. 49-51.
[10] Waleed Ziad, "In Pakistan, Islam Needs Democracy," The New York Times, Feb. 16, 2008; The Washington Post, May 10, 2009.
[11] The Los Angeles Times, June 18, 2007.
[12] See, for example, "The Rafidah: From Ibn Saba to the Dajjal," Dabiq Magazine, Jan. 2016, pp. 32-45; Abu Jarir ash-Shamili, "Al-Qaeda of Waziristan," Dabiq Magazine, Dec. 2014, pp. 40-55; "In the Words of the Enemy," Dabiq Magazine, July 2015, pp. 66-69.
[13] International Business Times (New York), Feb. 12, 2015.
[14] Rikke Haugegaard, "Sharia as 'Desert Business': Understanding the Links between Criminal Networks and Jihadism in Northern Mali," Stability: International Journal of Security and Development (Kitchener, Ont., Can.), June 13, 2017.
[15] Lauren McNally and Marvin G. Weinbaum, "A Resilient Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan," Policy Focus 2016-18, Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C., Aug. 2016.
[16] Michael Horton, "Reclaiming Lost Ground in Somalia: The Enduring Threat of Al-Shabab," Terrorism Monitor, Jamestown Foundation, Washington, D.C., July 28, 2017.
[17] Michael Horton, "Fighting the Long War: The Evolution of al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula," CTC Sentinel, Combating Terrorism Center, Westpoint, Jan. 23, 2017.
[18] Anne Stenersen, "Al-Qa'ida's Comeback in Afghanistan and Its Implications," CTC Sentinel, Sept. 7, 2016.
[19] Aymenn al-Tamimi, "The Formation of Hay'at Tahrir ash-Sham and Wider Tensions in the Syrian Insurgency," CTC Sentinel, Feb. 22, 2017.
[20] Thomas Joscelyn, "Analysis: Al Qaeda groups reorganize in West Africa," Long War Journal, (Washington, D.C.), Mar. 13, 2017.
[21] Yasir Abbas, "How Al Qaeda Is Winning in Syria," War on the Rocks (Washington, D.C.), May 10, 2016; Charles Lister, "Al-Qa'ida Plays a Long Game in Syria," CTC Sentinel, Sept. 11, 2015; Jean-Philippe Remy, "Yemen, al-Qaeda's Laboratory for 'Invisible' Relaunch," Le Monde (Paris), Aug. 28, 2017; Haugegaard, "Sharia as 'Desert Business'"; Horton, "Reclaiming Lost Ground in Somalia."
[22] Katherine Zimmerman, "AQAP: A Resurgent Threat," CTC Sentinel, Sept. 11, 2015.
[23] Tricia Bacon, "This is why al-Shabab won't be going away anytime soon," The Washington Post, July 6, 2017.
[24] Samuel Heller, "The Governance Strategy of Jabhat al-Nusra and Jabhat Fath ash-Sham," in Zelin, ed., How al-Qaeda Survived Drones, Uprisings, and the Islamic State.
[25] Tamimi, "The Formation of Hay'at Tahrir ash-Sham."
[26] Alex Schmid, "Public Opinion Survey: Data to Measure Sympathy and Support for Islamist Terrorism: A Look at Muslim Opinions on al-Qaeda and IS," International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, The Hague, Feb. 2017, p. 25.
[27] "Concerns about Islamic Extremism on the Rise in the Middle East," Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C., July 1, 2014; "U.S. Muslims Concerned about Their Place in Society, but Continue to Believe in the American Dream," Pew Research Center, July 26, 2017.
[28] "Muslim Americans: No Signs of Growth in Alienation or Support for Extremism," Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C., Aug. 2011.
[29] Russell Berman and Arno Tausch, "Support for Terrorism in Muslim Majority Countries and Implications for Immigration Policies in the West," Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv, Apr. 2017; Giulio Meotti, "ISIS in Europe: How Deep Is the "Gray Zone?" Gatestone Institute, New York, Apr. 4, 2016.
[30] CNN, June 9, 2004.
[31] Gerald Posner, Secrets of the Kingdom (New York: Random House, 2005), pp. 1-6.
[32] Daniel Pipes, "Protecting Muslims while Rooting out Islamists," The Daily Telegraph (London), Sept. 14, 2001.
[33] Daniel Pipes, "How Many Islamists?" Middle East Forum, updated Sept. 23, 2016.
[34] Shiraz Maher, Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea (London: C. Hurst, 2016), pp. 83-94.
[35] Bart Davis and Harvey Kushner, Holy War on the Home Front (New York: Sentinel, 2004), p. 69.
[36] Salim Mansur, "ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the West," Gatestone Institute, New York, June 14, 2015.
[37] See Khadija Khan "Hero Imams," Gatestone Institute, New York, July 24, 2017; Edward Yeranian, "Egypt's Top Islamic Scholars Work to Promote Moderate Vision of Islam," Voice of America News, Aug. 22, 2017.
[38] Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism," Washington, D.C., Jan. 2006, p. 3.
[39] Husain Haqqani, "The Rage of Moderate Islam," Foreign Policy, Oct. 28, 2009; Thomas R. McCabe, "The Muslim Middle East: Is There a Democratic Alternative?" Orbis, Summer 2007, pp. 479-94.
[40] Fouad Ajami, The Dream Palace of the Arabs (New York: Vintage, 1999).
[41] Shadi Hamid, Temptations of Power (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
[42] Hazem Kandil, Inside the Brotherhood (Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, 2015), p. 54.
[43] Michael J. Mazarr, Unmodern Men in the Modern World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
[44] Claudia Koontz, The Nazi Conscience (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003).
[45] Daniel Byman and Jennifer Williams, "Jihadism's Global Civil War," The National Interest, Mar.-Apr. 2015, pp. 10-18.
[46] Charles Lister, "Al-Qaeda's Turning against Its Syrian Affiliate," Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C., May 18, 2017.
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LCV at the Southbank Centre, with guest Orlando Weeks (The Maccabees)
September 18, 2018 London Contemporary Voices
On 3rd November we host our first own show at London’s Southbank Centre! We’ll put our own glorious spin on a variety of music, including popular hits, with Orlando Weeks (the Maccabees) and art-pop duo RINNGS. The programme examines the human condition through the lenses of mental health, wellbeing, aging and consciousness. Over 500 tickets for the concert have already been sold and the show is expected to sell out! Get tickets now!
Our first concert at Queen Elizbeth Hall will present alternative, electronic and contemporary classical music alongside alternative versions of songs by artists such as Hozier, Laura Marling and Florence + The Machine. Excitingly, we’ll also share our own original pieces live for the first time – prepared collaboratively by a pool of over 20 emerging writers and composers from LCV.
The evening’s music examines the human condition through the lenses of mental health, wellbeing, aging and consciousness. Contemporary classical works draw on poetry by writers including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Emily Brontë (during the year of her 200th birthday!). We’ll also perform arrangements of new poems and music from the Arts Council-funded Living Words project, created from accounts from people experiencing dementia.
Orlando Weeks, frontman of the Ivor Novello Award-winning band The Maccabees, will join us onstage to perform recent work, including material from his illustrated music-book The Gritterman, which gained widespread critical acclaim in 2017; it’s a bittersweet story about stoicism, dignity and an elderly man leaving behind the work that he loves – themes explored in this concert. Weeks will also perform a new music, prepared especially for the choir and this show.
“We’re thrilled to host our own concert at Southbank Centre for the first time – Queen Elizabeth Hall is one of our favourite venues in London and the new multi-million pound refurbishment means the acoustics are absolutely excellent! We’re very excited!” says London Contemporary Voices co-founder and director Anil Sebastian (himself recently awarded the prestigious PRS Momentum Fund). “This is a serious show, addressing some powerful themes in relation to mental health, wellbeing and the human condition. The Living Words project in particular highlights the absolute fragility of everything we think we know- as part of an Arts Council funded project I have been working in care homes in Kent talking to elderly people who are suffering from a dementia. As part of an established scheme, new poetic works are being written from the accounts of these people and I am working with LCV singers to turn these words into new music. The voices of an underrepresented and potentially isolated group of people will be heard in a new context by a large audience. The working has been challenging and extremely humbling.”
“We are also thrilled to be working with Orlando Weeks again after such a successful show at the Union Chapel last year for The Gritterman Live. Themes of dignity in older age run throughout his book – it’s an important subject and one that the world needs to think about more seriously as the global population ages.”
Over 500 tickets for the concert have already been sold and the show is expected to sell out! Get tickets now!
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London Contemporary Voices is renowned for its work with pioneering artists - including 17 Grammy winners and nominees - and is regularly seen at festivals across the UK, as well as TV and Radio. The choir has worked with diverse artists including U2 (BBC TV Special Live From Abbey Road), Andrea Bocelli, Alt-J, Basement Jaxx, Laura Mvula, James Bay and Eska. The choir is in high demand after a string of recent successes which include featuring on Elbow’s UK No. 1 album Little Fictions and Deaf Havana’s top ten album Rituals; performing on the Main Stage at Bestival; soundtracking Burberry’s Feb 17 campaign; and releasing a cover “Praise You” by Fatboy Slim, recorded with artist Hannah Grace at Metropolios Studios (as featured on the current filmic TV ad for Lloyds Bank). This year the choir has worked a variety of artists, from the biggest-selling classical singer of all time Andrea Bocelli to rock band Deaf Havana for a live BBC broadcast from Reading Festival’s Radio 1 stage. The choir has also been working with singer-songwriter Roo Panes and producer Chris Bond (Ben Howard) for Panes’ latest album and a show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
ORLANDO WEEKS
Orlando Weeks is best known as the lead singer of indie band The Maccabees. At the height of their fame The Maccabees played The O2 Arena, had a top 4 album, won an Ivor Novello and were also nominated for the Mercury Prize. When the band split in 2017 they sold out three dates at Alexandra Palace.
In 2017 Weeks released a self-illustrated book called The Gritterman, with an accompanying audio version and beautiful soundtrack (narrated by comedian Paul Whitehouse, of Harry Enfield fame). A group of LCV singers sang at The Gritterman live show with Orlando at Union Chapel in December 2017 - the show sold out in one day and received glowing reviews from The Telegraph, The Times and Drowned In Sound.
RINNGS
This stylish new art-pop duo are winning support from the likes of Clash Magazine and The 405. The London-based Karl Zine and Nai Jannson started releasing music last year and quickly started to pick up steam with support from Spotify’s coveted New Music Friday playlist, Apple Music’s New Fire playlist and a heap of radio play from BBC Introducing and Soho Radio. Through the handful of singles they’ve released to date the pair have already cultivated a reputation as creators of expressive and enlivening electronic pop music. LCV singers filmed a beautiful session video with RINNGS earlier this year and three singers also joined the band at Abbey Road Studios to record with the band. June saw the release of their debut EP Glorious, a collection of enigmatic and soulful tracks that caught the eye of the BBC once again, including Phil Taggart on Radio 1 and a spree of air-time across BBC 6 Music. RINNGS are currently a featured act in the current M-Magazine, from PRS For Music.
Living Words is an art and literature charity established in Folkestone, Kent, in 2007. The organisation conducts residencies in care and nursing homes, community settings, arts centres, day centres, libraries, theatres and hospitals. Living Words writers and artists receive training which allows them to work co-creatively and one-to-one with people experiencing a dementia and isolated and disempowered people; enabling participants’ ‘in-the-moment’ experience to be heard by others. The charity runs bespoke staff workshops to support their creative expression and embed use of the Living Words books. Living Words has received Arts Council Funding for a group of singers from London Contemporary Voices to be trained in the specialist methodology and turn some of its poems into original choral music under LCV’s Director Anil Sebastian.
categories LCV Shows, Collaborations, Backing Vocals
tags Live music, London, Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 3rd November, 03/11/18, Orlando Weeks, The Maccabees, RINNGS, Living Words, Anil Sebastian, LCV Choir, Choir, Concert, A cappella, Gig, Classical, Contemporary choir, Cool choir, Modern choir, New music, Dementia and the arts, Poetry, Song writers
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Tony Lourey on his role as Minnesota’s new DHS commissioner: ‘This is the space that I’ve dedicated my life to’
By Andy Steiner | 01/21/2019
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Tony Lourey: “This is the space that I’ve dedicated my life to. Not just behavioral health but also disability services and health care more generally.”
When it was announced earlier this month that Tony Lourey was Gov. Tim Walz’s pick for Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) commissioner, many members of the state’s mental heath and addiction communities breathed a sigh of relief.
Lourey, a four-term Democratic state senator from Kerrick, has a long history of legislative experience working on behavioral health issues. His appointment sent the message to insiders that the new administration understands their priorities and had selected a person well qualified to lead the department on important decisions that touch the lives of many Minnesotans.
Julie Bluhm, executive director of Guild Incorporated, said she thinks Lourey is a good match for the position.
“Tony was a natural pick,” she said. “He’s been an advocate for a long time. He’s been asking the right questions. He’s got the foundation and background that’s really needed to do the job well.”
Sue Abderholden, executive director of NAMI-Minnesota, has worked with Lourey on many legislative issues related to mental health. She said she thinks he’ll lead the department from his deep knowledge of hot topics in mental health — and his built-in empathy for people in need.
Jill Wiedemann-West, People Incorporated chief executive officer, has worked with Lourey many times during his years in the state Legislature. She said she thinks of him as well prepared on the issues, knowledgeable and thoughtful in his interactions with others.
Jill Wiedemann-West
“Tony’s always been very available to folks,” Wiedemann-West said. “He asks good questions because he does his homework. He has opinions, but they come from a good place. He’s a very smart man who feels strongly about doing the right thing. I’m excited about what will come out of DHS under Tony’s leadership.”
Lourey for his part, feels confident that he has what it takes to lead the department.
“This is the space that I’ve dedicated my life to,” he said. “Not just behavioral health but also disability services and health care more generally.”
A little over a week into the appointment, Lourey’s excited about the opportunity and said he plans to settle in and stay long enough to make a significant difference in the state. He’s looking forward to giving the job his full attention and focus, something he says he relishes finally having the opportunity to do.
The appointment couldn’t come at a better time in his personal life, either. “I know it takes time to build these things out, but I’m at a good place in my life,” he said. “My kids are grown. I’m not going to sell my farm, but I’ve got a place down here established. I’m mission focused on getting this done.”
And he already feels comfortable in the job. “I can’t imagine a better space for me personally with my background to really come in and improve the lives of Minnesotans,” Lourey said.
The job comes with a significant level of stress — just ask Lourey’s predecessors — but he said he’s already planning on how he’ll work around that.
“I’m going to take care of myself,” Lourey said. “I’ve done a lot of stressful things in my life. I work hard on self-care.”
Part of self-care is recognizing when it is important to reach out for help. Though Lourey said he hadn’t made a practice of advertising this part of his history, he acknowledged that there have been times when he’s looked for outside support.
“I personally have sought help at different periods in my life when I’ve needed it,” he said. By speaking out about his own story, Lourey hopes to send the message that there is no shame in getting professional help.
“This stigma part, I’m going to help change that,” he said. “I’ve sought help. It is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of strength. I’m a stronger person because I recognized when I needed help.”
He added that he wants to serve as an example of the power of seeking behavioral health supports.
“My attempt is to get right at the stigma,” he said. “I’m going to own it. I want people to know that if they are struggling we have some amazing supports here in the state that they shouldn’t feel threatened by. When people come forward and ask for help when they need it, it works. It’s very effective and can lead to a much better life.”
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Under his leadership, Lourey said that DHS will take a wide-angle focus on the issues. He doesn’t see a clear division between chemical health and emotional health, and he’d like to encourage other people in the state to see it the same way.
“There’s a 70 percent overlap between mental health and addiction,” Lourey said. “If we’re not going to put these two things together we are not going to succeed. We have to have that lens.”
With that in mind, Lourey said he’s chosen to use the term “behavioral health” as an overarching definition of treatments for mental illness and addiction.
“It’s important to think of it as behavioral health,” Lourey explained. “So much of chemical dependency is self-treatment for mental health. We need to recognize that. The overlap is natural.”
Lourey said he thinks that it is important to get people the services they need early, before they reach a crisis point. This means further investment in first-episode psychosis treatment programs, in chemical health assessments, and in mental health education and crisis programs.
“We’re going to get people services earlier,” Lourey said. “We are going to make sure they get the right service at the right time in the right setting. I’m putting that up on my board. There are so many strategies to achieve these broad-outcome goals. If we keep our focus there that’s how we succeed.”
In line with Walz’s “One Minnesota” platform, Lourey said he would also like to renew his department’s focus on behavioral-health parity, or ensuring that all Minnesotans, regardless of race, gender or socioeconomic status, have equal access to the range of supports available around the state.
“One thing we have to work on in the behavioral health space is our disparities,” he said. “We have some good stories and good statistics, but underlying each of those are really alarming, widening disparities statewide.”
Lourey is also interested in expanding supports for programs that he thinks are working well. He praised the “whole-person” approach to mental and physical health embraced by the state’s certified community behavioral health clinics (CCBHCs).
“I’d like to give a shout out to our CCBHCs,” he said. “They are transformational in combining physical health and mental health together and focusing on the whole person. Hats off to the systems that have taken the risk and stepped up into this space.”
The risk that Lourey is talking about stems from the fact that much of the funding for CCBHCs is currently grant-based. This means, he said, that investing in these types of programs requires a “leap of faith,” because long-term funding is not guaranteed. He’d like to change that.
“I’ve visited several of these clinics and seen the impact they have on people,” Lourey said. The comprehensive approach of providing a range of care opportunities for patients in one space seems to be working, especially in the state’s most vulnerable communities: “We have to take a look at what works and make sure we are willing to put sustainable money behind models that work.”
Supporting models that work requires focused attention and collaboration with professionals who work on the ground with the people who are most impacted by legislative decisions. Lourey said he plans to encourage a department-wide focus on open communication with members of the community — from nonprofit leaders to everyday people with skin in the game.
“I just did an employee forum,” Lourey said. “There were 150-200 DHS employees there. I said, ‘We are going to be more open and transparent. Not every good idea comes from DHS. We are going to go out into the communities and engage and find good ideas from there.”
Response to controversy
One of the first things that Lourey hopes to address in his new role is the slight sting his department is feeling from community response to the state’s decision to end the competency restoration program, a program designed to help criminal defendants with mental illness achieve the competency required to stand trial.
Under this decision, announced in December, many defendants who were being treated at state-run psychiatric hospitals like Anoka-Metro Regional Treatment Center will be transferred back to county-run jails, where officials say their treatment will continue. Advocates argue that jails are inappropriate settings for psychiatric treatment.
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Sue Abderholden
The announcement of changes in the program was communicated through a letter and a bulletin to stakeholders. Many of the state’s mental health advocates, including Abderholden, felt that their opinions were not taken into account in making the decision and the manner in which the announcement was made felt abrupt and non-collaborative.
While competency restoration programs are being shut down across the country, Abderholden said that she had hoped Minnesota might find a different solution through consultation and compromise.
“If you are going to solve this problem you have to bring everyone together,” she said. “This is a tough issue. You aren’t going to solve it by just issuing a bulletin. That’s not fair to people.”
Lourey agrees that news of the program’s cancellation could have been released differently. “I don’t think the communication was handled in a very productive way to accommodate this change,” he said. “If we had been more clear about these changes ahead of time and built in some transition to better serve their needs it would have been better received.”
But he does believe that there is good reason for shifting some people in the program back to county settings.
“Early on I said, ‘We need to use our clinical beds appropriately.’ For 75 percent of the population that comes in for competency restoration, the educational piece is met concurrently with improvement in the clinical sense. There are people for whom this isn’t the right space.”
Abderholden said she hopes that under Lourey DHS will take a more collaborative approach to decision-making on major issues like this one.
“We’re hoping this is going to be a different administration,” she said. “It’s been stressed by the governor that they are going to reach out and work within the community to make sure they are serving people, and it would be great to see it start at DHS.”
Innate understanding
Lourey said that his abiding interest in supporting the behavioral health of others is a natural result of growing up in a large, diverse, blended family. He never made a point of talking about it in his political campaigns, but he credits his parents, father Gene, and mother Becky, a former gubernatorial candidate, state representative and senator who raised him along with 11 siblings, as the inspiration for a career in public service.
“I grew up on a farm two hours north of the Twin Cities in a really interesting family,” Lourey said. “My family was built by birth and adoption. We had four biological siblings and eight adopted siblings. Each of my adopted siblings had challenging stories and came from all over the world. Growing up together taught me so much empathy and understanding about the interactions of people with community and systems.”
The supports his siblings and parents received, and the love they all shared as a family demonstrated to Lourey that there is an innate interconnectedness among people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds.
“From a very young age,” he said, “I heard powerful stories that were part of my family and my loved ones. Here I was, a little white farm kid who otherwise would have had a pretty narrow world view, just opening up to these stories and bringing this diversity into our community and finding the strength to help support that. We had a lot of successes — and we had a lot of really challenging experiences as a family, too.”
Lourey said that he and his wife, Marlana, wanted to replicate some of that expansive approach to parenting as they started their own family.
“My wife and I built our family by birth and adoption as well,” he said. “We have two biological kids and one adopted daughter who is disabled. We have lived this and see the challenges that people face. It’s something that I’ve invited into my home and my loving space for my whole life.”
Lourey said he plans to draw on this unique perspective in his role at DHS. He understands that the world is larger than what most people see when they look out their window, and he hopes that understanding will inform his decision-making for years to come.
“I can’t imagine a better space for me personally with my background to really come in and improve the lives of Minnesotans,” Lourey said. His unconventional childhood, he believes, “built in me a profound understanding of the power we have when we invest in the health of our people, our families and our communities and find those strengths that exist and use them to help fill the gaps.”
Andy Steiner
Andy Steiner is a Twin Cities-based writer and editor. Before becoming a full-time freelancer, she worked as senior editor at Utne Reader and editor of the Minnesota Women’s Press.
Submitted by bill mahlum on 01/22/2019 - 01:45 pm.
Excellent story, excellent writing about a very fascinating public servant exhibiting compassion and empathy.
The new Governor has done well with this critical appointment.
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Organ donation shortage for children revealed as bereaved parents of kids are less likely to donate
Parents are more reluctant to give the go-ahead for a transplant, with just 48% of those for under- 17s agreeing
Martin BagotHealth and Science Correspondent
Updated 01:11, 6 SEP 2018
Harry Clarke in hospital with his mum Kerrie watching over him
A national shortage of organ donors for children has been revealed, as figures show bereaved parents of the young are less likely to agree to donate.
Parents are more reluctant to give the go-ahead for a transplant, with just 48% of those for under-
17s agreeing.
That compares to an average of 66% of relatives of people of all ages.
This means children needing an urgent heart transplant will wait two-and-a-half times as long as adults.
In the past three years 46 children have died on the waiting list. Of these 30 were waiting for a heart or lung transplant.
Harry Clarke, who turns eight months old during Organ Donation Week, is at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital with a heart condition.
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His parents Kerrie and Rob have uprooted their lives in Birmingham to be by Harry’s side while he is treated for dilated cardiomyopathy.
They know that their only hope will be the parents of another child saying “yes” to organ donation at a time of personal tragedy.
Kerrie said: “We would hope that family can look at it as an opportunity for their heart to live on through our son. Looking at him without his wires, you wouldn’t know he was ill some days.
“Until you go through this and see how many babies are suffering, considering organ donation probably doesn’t cross your mind but it’s important to have those conversations.”
The figures are revealed by NHS Blood and Transplant to mark Organ Donation Week.
For many children on the waiting list a young donor is their only hope.
Hearts and lungs need to be matched by size because of the limited space inside the chest.
Mum Abbie Burkmar and son Oscar Dunkley
Mum-of-two who became nurse after life-saving heart transplant now needs new kidney
The Mirror is campaigning to Change the Law for Life to alter the rules in England to presumed consent rather than having to opt in to organ donation.
If the planned law change comes in 2020, bereaved relatives and parents will still have the right to veto a donation.
Parents are calling on families to discuss their wishes if the worst happened.
Oscar Dunkley, of Bournemouth, who turns one next week, also suffers from cardiomyopathy and will need a new heart.
His family have been told at his age he will only be able to receive a transplant from a child at most a couple of years older than him.
Mum Abbie said: “We don’t know if he will be OK for four weeks, four months, or four years. It’s really hard to predict.”
Abbie, who lives with partner Josh Dunkley and oldest son Jack, said she had never thought about donation before his illness.
“I campaign for it now and I can understand how people don’t think about it, as I didn’t. People don’t realise how serious it is until you’re in that position.
“I understand people feel unsure about donating their child’s organs but young children can only get a heart transplant from another child.”
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Home / Offices / Academic Affairs / Academic Divisions / Liberal and Creative Arts Division (LCA) / Liberal Arts
Do you like to think, solve problems and explore new ideas? Are you interested in the latest scientific discoveries, great works of literature or understanding human thought and behavior? Have you ever wondered about the philosophical, historical or artistic traditions of your own culture or other cultures? Do you like to express yourself through writing, speaking or the arts? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then the A.A. or A.S. degree in Liberal Arts and Science may be right for you. Exposure to the academic disciplines within the Liberal Arts and Science degree programs provides students with the broad foundational knowledge needed to move directly into the workforce or transfer to a bachelor’s degree program at a four-year college or university.
At MCC, the general education core curriculum is an integral part of every degree program. Both the A.A. and A.S. degrees in Liberal Arts and Science offer a broad range of courses – in the Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts – from which students may choose to satisfy their general education core requirements. The specific course options provided within the Liberal Arts and Science degrees will also fulfill the general education requirements of most four-year institutions.
With an increasing number of students looking to continue their studies and receive a bachelor’s degree, many students will start their coursework at MCC because of its high-quality instruction and more affordable tuition and fees. MCC has developed excellent relationships with our neighboring college and university partners to ensure that our graduates are able to transfer the maximum number of credits.
What’s the difference between the A.A. and the A.S. degrees? The Liberal Arts and Science program at MCC offers both an Associate in Arts (A.A.) and an Associate in Science (A.S.) degree. The curriculum for both degrees is quite similar, but the A.S. degree is a bit heavier on math and science courses and the A.A. includes a foreign language requirement. If you are thinking of transferring to complete the requirements for a bachelor of arts degree in a major such as Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, or pre-med, the college’s Liberal Arts and Science associate in science degree program will prepare you well. If you are thinking of transferring to complete the requirements for a bachelor of arts degree in a major such as Anthropology, English, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, foreign language or pre-law, the college’s Liberal Arts and Science associate in art degree program would be a great fit.
Students who are planning to transfer are encouraged to meet with their academic advisors or department chairs to discuss how MCC courses transfer to other institutions. More information on the transfer options available at MCC can be found in the Transfer Services portion of the web site. Students who plan to transfer to one of the four Connecticut state universities or Charter Oak State College may want to consider the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) transfer pathway degrees rather than the Liberal Arts and Science degree program.
Whatever your plans, the entire MCC professional community—its faculty, staff and support areas—is committed to preparing our students to succeed in the classroom, in the workplace and in society.
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Major News and Events of 16 March 2014
What Happened on 16 March 2014
16 March 2014 Current Events Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi
Contesting from Varanasi is an honour, said Modi after the BJP declared him as its candidate from Varanasi. He tweeted after the announcement and said that with blessings of Ganga Mata and Kashi Vishwanath, we should work towards our mission of 272+. Mission also includes vibrant, prosperous and strong India. The announcement of Modi’s candidature from Varanasi came in the fourth list of the BJP candidates. Internal clashes were going on for the Varanasi seat which was earlier represented by senior party leader and former party president Murli Manohar Joshi. He has now given a seat from Kanpur. Joshi was not willing to give his Varanasi seat . But all the oppositions were over ruled by the Central Election Committee (CEC) of the BJP. Modi’s seat from Varanasi has also been applauded by the former IPS officer Kiran Bedi who tweeted "NaMo from Benaras. UP's destiny changes. If UP changes India changes! This portends very well for India's future! Happy Holi!". She also tweeted that Modi has a strong leadership and governing skills and soon UP is destined to give India it’s the strongest PM. Apart from this many other political leaders and party workers have applauded and wished Modi a good luck.
Decision on Arvind Kejriwal's candidature from Varanasi to be taken
Narendra Modi has been nominated by the BJP as its candidate from Varanasi. On this, the AAP is stating that the party’s convener Arvind Kejriwal should contest against him. But Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that he has not taken any decision on contesting from Varanasi and against BJP’s Narendra Modi. The AAP leaders are sure that the performance of Kejriwal from Varanasi will be very good. AAP leader Ashutosh has expressed his party wish that Kejriwal should fight against Modi from Varanasi. This has also been told by the former Delhi minister and senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia. Few days back he has said that if Modi will contest from Varanasi then it is almost certain that Arvind Kejriwal would contest from that seat. Arvind Kejriwal during his roadshow in Bangalore urged people to vote for their party which is an alternative to the Congress and the BJP. The AAP is also stressing that Kumar Vishwas of the party would definitely defeat the Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. Kejriwal tweeted that he will talk about the issues of contesting against Modi from Varanasi in rally at Bangalore on Sunday. The BJP has also reacted on the statements of the AAP and called it the B team of the Congress. The AAP has made the six lists of its candidates public so far but decision on Arvind Kejriwal’s seat is still pending.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid called the Khobragade case very irksome
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid called the Khobragade episode highly annoying and said that it is the time to close it. He added that the US should find out political ways to close the issue. Khurshid also said that India cannot show indifference towards such incidence. He added that many a times he had made the statements and said that it is a very irksome issue and must not be taken any further. They all are convinced that whatsoever has happened was not good. This would impact the long term relationships between the two nations. But there also exists practical considerations. Khurshid was asked to give his reaction on US prosecutor’s act of re-indicting senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade on visa fraud charges. Khobragade was also accused of illegally underpaying and taking advantage of her domestic help at home in US. Earlier indictment was dismissed by the US court. It is the second indictment against the senior India diplomat. The case is hurting deeply. Khurshid has also met his US counterpart John Kerry to discuss and look into the issue of diplomatic immunity and privileges. He said that talks on any issue mean closure of the previous happenings.
Cost of the 2014 LS polls – Rs 30,000 crore
Combing the expenditure of all the political parties, the government and candidates in the coming Lok Sabha elections the total amount would be approximately Rs 30,000 crore. It has become the most expensive electoral in the history of India. The Centre for Media Studies conducted a study on the poll spending and said that crorepati candidates are bringing in the money. Along with them contractors and corporate have given a push to the expenditure. It is expected that the Election Commission will spend Rs 3,500 crore. The Union Home Ministry, Indian Railways, various other government agencies and state governments will also spend the same amount to make sure that polls are conducted fairly. As per the senior government official final figures can only be told after the initiation of the poll process. One of the reasons why poll expenditure will be near about Rs 30,000 is the change in the maximum and the minimum limit of the expenditure which is Rs 70 lakh and Rs 54 lakh respectively. There is a hike in the poll expenditure cap and as per new expected figure it could be Rs 4000 crore in the Lok Sabha elections. According to the study the total amount spent in 1996 polls was Rs 2,500 crore and in 1994 it was Rs 10,000 crore.
India will have more Nuclear Fuel Complexes to meet the demand
As the number of atomic reactors in the country are growing, India is all set to build a second nuclear fuel complex for reprocessing atomic fuel. The second nuclear fuel complex (NFC) would cost Rs 2400 crore and will be constructed next to Rawabhata nuclear plant in Kota, Rajasthan. The Cabinet Committee on Security cleared the proposal earlier this month. All the new arrangements have been made by understanding the fuel supply which is required to fulfill the demand. India has set up new aims regarding power generation from nuclear energy under its 12th Five Year Plan and according to the new demand the capacity would be more than 17,300 MW. At present total generation of electricity from nuclear power is more than 5500 MW. Presently there is an NFC in Hyderabad which is not sufficient to meet the increasing demands of fuel of coming reactors which the nation is going to have in a decade’s period. With the new NFC in Kota atomic plants in North India would be taken care. According to the official new nuclear plants are coming up in Gorakhpur in Haryana, Jaitapur in Maharashtra and Mithi Virdhi in Gujarat. Along with new NFC, capacity of the present nuclear plants will also be increased by adding new reactors. In Kakrpara two more reactors will be constructed with the capacity of 700 MX each, two will be constructed in Rawabhata because of rise in demand.
First professional Kabaddi League will change the face of the game
India’s first professional kabaddi league has attracted some well-known businessmen. It is expected that this will give the push to the nation’s first kabaddi league. These businessmen have shown interest in becoming the owners of the teams. The launch of the league took place at NSCI Sardar Vallabhai Patel Stadium in Worli on Friday. Industrialist Anand Mahindra and sports commentator Charu Sharma are the two prominent persons behind the league. Teams from the eight cities will take part in the league. They will play against each other from July to August. The matches will be telecast live by Star Sports Channel. The league is also receiving a support from the International Kabaddi Federation, Asian Kabaddi Federation and Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India. In the list of entrepreneurs names of Ronnie Screwala, Rajesh Shah and Kishore Biyani are at the top. Discussions are also going on with more corporate giants like GMR Group and Murugappa Group. Even the film personalities are also showing interest in the professional kabaddi league. For matches special mats have been developed. In the auctioning 72 Indian and 28 overseas players participated.
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Can Exposure to Toxins Change Your DNA?
David Tuller
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Let’s face it, we’re devoting enormous amounts of time and energy to minimize our exposures to toxins (think BPA, pesticides, and all the rest of the seemingly ubiquitous chemicals). But now an emerging body of research points to the disturbing possibility that such self-protective strategies might sometimes come decades, or even a century, too late.
If your great-grandmother experienced a brief toxic exposure, these studies suggest, you and your children could be at risk for reproductive illnesses and possibly other conditions. The presumed mechanism of this unfortunate inheritance is not a mutation in the DNA itself but rather changes in the biochemical on-off switches that determine whether or not specific genes get activated—a field of study known as epigenetics.
Most recently, researchers from Washington State University, led by biology professor Michael Skinner, reported last month that short-term exposure of pregnant rats to several kinds of chemicals caused ovarian disease not just in their daughters but also in two subsequent generations of females. Symptoms that paralleled those found in human polycystic ovarian disease and primary ovarian insufficiency, both of which can reduce fertility, were identified in the descendents of rats exposed to a fungicide, pesticides, dioxin, jet fuel, and a mixture of plastics, but not among descendents of controls.
When reproductive tract cells from the rats were examined, the disorders were linked to clusters of a carbon atom and three hydrogen atoms—called a methyl group—squatting above certain genes. Depending upon location and other factors, these methyl groups act to inhibit or ramp up gene expression. This altered “DNA methylation” pattern, triggered by exposure to the chemicals, is one of the known mechanisms through which the epigenome can control which genes are turned on and off, and therefore which proteins are produced within the cell. In this case, the new epigenetic structures were inherited intact from one generation to the next, even though only the original pregnant rats were exposed to the toxins.
This startling finding is just the latest to challenge traditional notions about genetics as a form of destiny—the idea that a 1-to-1 correspondence between genes and outcomes could be easily discerned and mapped. In 2005, Dr. Skinner and colleagues—acknowledged pioneers in this new field of transgenerational epigenetics—reported in Science that four generations of offspring of a pregnant, fungicide-exposed rat exhibited reduced sperm counts and impaired sperm motility. Since then, Dr. Skinner’s team has published a series of papers in leading journals documenting a range of conditions that can be induced in rats through an ancestral toxic exposure that does not change the genetic code; these include prostate disease, kidney disease, immune system abnormalities, and high cholesterol.
One eye-opening 2007 study even reported that females rejected the males descended from the fungicide-administered pregnant rat, even three generations later—a finding that suggests that epigenetics, as well as genetics, can play a key role in evolutionary processes. Discover magazine cited the finding as one of the year’s top stories.
Female rats rejected the males descended from a fungicide-administered pregnant rat, even three generations later.
Rachel Morello-Frosch, an epidemiologist and environmental health professor at the University of California-Berkeley, said these new findings of transgenerational effects push the boundaries of current understanding of the long-term consequences of environmental contamination. “We’re still just scratching the surface about the developmental effects of in utero exposures,” Morello-Frosch said. “But this emerging science raises the stakes, with these recent studies suggesting that looking at the immediate offspring may be only looking at the tip of the iceberg.”
It’s no surprise, of course, that environmental factors, whether encountered in utero or early in life, can influence gene expression. Parental nutritional status, smoking, behavior and other factors as well as toxic exposures have all been shown to exert an impact on which genes get activated among offspring. In a 2003 experiment, a diet rich in B vitamins, which can promote DNA methylation, caused pregnant rats to give birth to normal pups; when rats did not receive the B vitamins, their pups had yellow skin and were more likely to suffer from obesity and diabetes. Other experiments have shown that rats whose mothers lick them in the first week after birth exhibit calmer reactions to stressful situations; the licking, apparently, causes epigenetic changes that lead to an increase in cellular receptors for critical steroid hormones known as glucocorticoids.
Of course, similar experiments are impossible to conduct on humans. However, the inadvertent human trial with the drug diethylstilbestrol, or DES, given to women from the 1940s through the 1960s in the belief that it would prevent some complications of pregnancy, provides a sobering example of multigenerational effects. DES caused a range of disorders in those exposed in utero—specifically, unusual vaginal cancers among women, and testicular abnormalities among men. Studies of the grandchildren of DES mothers are just starting to emerge; the National Cancer Institute notes that early research suggests that members of this generation might also suffer disproportionately from infertility, reproductive birth defects, and some cancers.
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Oz The Great and Powerful: Sam Raimi Talks Evil Dead Similarities
by Joel D Amos at March 6, 2013 5:47 pm . Updated at March 6, 2013 8:03 pm . Comments
Believe it or not, fans of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series will find much to appreciate in his latest film, teased in the Oz: The Great and Powerful trailer -- besides it being a powerful epic. Proof of that is seen best in a scene when Bruce Campbell is hit in the head repeatedly with a wooden stick. Sounds like a scene from Raimi's early work, no?
"It's always good to hit Bruce (Campbell) when you can. But yes, there are some similarities with the Army of Darkness movie, the third in the Evil Dead series, and this picture," Raimi said.
"Bruce Campbell plays a character that comes from another time back into 1300 AD and into medieval times. There they think he is one of their enemies and that a plague has come upon the land. He eventually becomes a leader of those people, so that much is similar with James's (Franco) character. He comes from another place and time, another reality and eventually comes to lead those people. It's very similar."
One of the reasons Raimi took on the potentially thankless job of filming a prequel to one of our Top 100 Movies of All-Time, The Wizard of Oz, was that that 1939 classic left him asking the question: Where did the wizard come from?
"I never understood the wizard in the first one," Raimi admitted. "How did he ever get in that situation?"
Oz: The Great and Powerful stars Franco as Oz, a man who is a simple circus magician. When he flirts with the wrong woman, he lands in a hot air balloon and courtesy of a tornado, winds up in the magical land that ironically, and perhaps fatefully, carries his name. Raimi felt that because of those unanswered questions about the titular wizard from the first film, plus the fact that there is plenty of material on Oz, pre-Emerald City, all found in the story creator's books, that a prequel was warranted and needed.
"This movie is based on the works of the great American author L. Frank Baum. All the things you see in our picture, almost all of them, were written about around 110 years ago. So he had the ideas in these stories," Raimi said. "We decided to tell a particular part of what was written in those books, how the wizard got to the land of Oz, who he was and what became of him."
What he created is an all-out spectacle (check back for our review) that reunited him with Franco after they made three Spider-Man movies together.
"Working with James Franco was great and yes, we developed a shorthand over those three Spider-Man movies that we were able to work on together. We learned to trust each other more and more as the years went on, but still it was an absolutely brand new experience working with him as the lead in this picture. I really get into the heads of my lead heroes and work very, very closely with them," Raimi said.
It was a different experience because of Franco's character trying to kill his Spider-Man character, and as he said, he's protective of his heroes. "I never connected with him as much as I do with like Tobey Maguire. Now, I was taking this journey through his eyes and we got to be very close and share a lot of intimate thoughts. I had a wonderful experience working with James on this."
Since Franco wasn't the original actor pursued for the part, it shows what the Rolling Stones iconically sang, You Can't Always Get What You Want (But If You Try Sometime, You Find You Get What You Need). "Originally when I joined the project, Robert Downey, Jr. was attached to play the role, and I met with him about it twice and I don't think he felt the picture was right for him. And then I talked with Johnny Depp briefly. About 48 hours he was thinking about it. He decided it wasn't right for him either," Raimi recalled.
"Then I heard James was interested and I had never thought of James. But, then I began to think about what I knew about James and the rest is history."
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Peter Frampton Announces Frampton's Guitar Circus Tour
MUSIC NEWS - Following the success of the 2011/2012 world tour celebrating the 35th Anniversary of his multi-platinum selling live album Frampton Comes Alive!, Peter Frampton is back on the road with Frampton’s Guitar Circus. The tour will feature the Grammy-winning musician performing with
friends, celebrated guitarists, and other special guests (to be announced). Kicking off in May, Frampton will perform several dates with five-time Grammy Award winner Robert Cray including Nashville, New York City and Austin. In August, he will travel through Atlanta, Washington DC, Los Angeles and more with praised slide blues guitarist Sonny Landreth opening the show, followed by the legendary B.B. King. Each night, Frampton’s set will be recorded and subsequently sold in digital format.
Presale tickets and VIP ticket packages will be made available on Frampton’s website every Wednesday morning at 10AM local venue time. One fan per market that purchases tickets on the site will be drawn at random to win an autographed set list from the show they attend.
Frampton’s infectious live performance has been praised by Los Angeles Times noting “…the British virtuoso is still making sweet music.” St Louis Post Dispatch furthers the acclaim by admiring “the purity of the musicianship from Frampton,” while The Herald Scotland lauds the guitarist explaining, “he delivered, with practiced ease, everything from jazz-inflected introductions to fierce, irresistible solos.”
FCA! 35 Tour: An Evening With Peter Frampton, a new live 2DVD, Blu-ray, and The Best Of FCA! 35 Tour 3CD set is available now via Eagle Rock Entertainment. Directed and produced by Pierre & François Lamoureux, the set features two February 2012 shows; one performance in Milwaukee
at the Pabst Theater and another in New York City at the Beacon Theatre. Peter Frampton remains one of the most celebrated artists and guitarists in rock history. At 16, he was lead singer and guitarist for British band the Herd. At 18, he co-founded one of the first super groups, seminal rock act Humble Pie. His session work includes such legendary artists as George Harrison, Harry
Nilsson, David Bowie, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ringo Starr, John Entwistle and many others. His fifth solo album, the electrifying Frampton Comes Alive!, is one of the top-selling live records of all time.
PETER FRAMPTON Summer 2013 Tour Itinerary
8 Wagner Noel PAC Midland TX
15 Stage AE Pittsburgh PA
20 LC Pavilion Columbus OH
23 Paramount Theatre Huntington NY
27 Beacon Theatre New York City, NY
28 Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater Rochester NY
5 Musikfest Bethlehem PA
8 Pier Six Pavilion Baltimore MD
11 Wolf Trap Filene Center Vienna VA
20 Red Rocks Amphitheater Morrison CO
24 Greek Theatre Los Angeles CA
30 Thunder Valley Casino Resort Lincoln CA
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Implications of Draft Amendment to the Individual Income Tax Law
Tax China
The Draft Amendment to the Individual Income Tax Law was officially released for public comments on June 29, 2018. The legislative body will review the Draft; date of effectiveness will be no earlier than January 1, 2019. This revision of the Individual Income Tax Law is a fundamental revision of China’s existing IIT system.
This China Law Alert includes contributions from Robbie H.R. Chen and Viola Shen from MWE China Law Offices.
On June 29, 2018, the Draft Amendment to the Individual Income Tax Law (Draft) was officially released for public comments. According to the text, the Draft is intended to be reviewed by the legislative body and the earliest time it could become effective would be on January 1, 2019. Once effective, the Draft will become the seventh revision of the Individual Income Tax (IIT) Law since its original promulgation. The current version of the Draft will be a fundamental reform of China’s IIT system in a number of ways, including:
Reshaping of the tax resident concept;
Expansion of earnings defined as earned income for purposes of IIT as well as an adjustment in the brackets for tax rates;
An increase in the standard deduction that will apply to all income from labor;
The inclusion of additional deductions for certain living expenditures; and
The addition of anti-avoidance provisions.
The Draft’s modifications to the IIT system will directly affect the tax liabilities of individuals in all income brackets and will create new challenges for employers and other withholding agents to comply with their withholding obligations. In the Appendix, we have provided a chart comparing the current tax laws and the changes in the Draft. It is recommended for both individuals and employers to become familiar with the Draft’s changes to prepare for smooth implementation of the new requirements.
The Reshaping of the Tax Resident Concept
In accordance with international tax practice, the Draft reintroduces the concept of resident and non-resident individuals for the purpose of calculating IIT. The tax treatment of residents and non-residents differ in a number of ways and, as a result, the tax liabilities of many foreign nationals working in China may change.
Under current tax law, an individual will become a tax resident in China after being domiciled for one year, but their global income could be exempt from IIT as long as they stay in China for less than five years. The Draft shortens this time frame to 183 days, which is more consistent with the definition of tax resident under many international tax policies. As a result, foreign nationals working in China would be deemed as a China tax resident after approximately six months of working in China, which could allow individuals from certain jurisdictions to file non-resident taxes in their home country. However, the Draft is silent on whether the previously five year threshold for global taxation would remain, which we think is likely to change to align with the double tax treaty treatments and international practice.
For deductions, the Draft provides unified IIT treatment under a standard deduction for both resident and non-resident individuals. Previously, non-residents would be able to take an additional deduction of RMB 1,300. Under the Draft, both residents and non-residents will take the standard deduction of RMB 5,000 from monthly income to determine IIT.
The Draft has not addressed whether changes will be made to other deductions specific to foreign nationals, such as meal and housing allowances, or the social insurance deduction. However, these are likely to change as the previous IIT amendments have been trying to treat equally Chinese nationals and expatriates.
We recommend that the foreign nationals in China review their compensation package to determine whether modifications are necessary based on the changes proposed by the Draft.
The New Classification of Earnings for IIT
The Draft adjusted the categories of earnings for the purpose of calculating IIT, including wages, salary, author’s remuneration and royalties (comprehensive income), as well as “income from production or business operation conducted by self-employed industrial and commercial households,” and “income from contracted or leased operation of enterprises or institutions” (business operation income). These categories of comprehensive income and business operation income will be subject to the progressive IIT rates applied on an annual basis.
In addition, the Draft increases the number of progressive tax levels for IIT on the comprehensive income. Under the existing regulations, the effective tax rates applied to service remuneration (based on the amount received) are 20 percent, 30 percent and 40 percent, with author’s remunerations and royalties taxed at 20 percent. The Draft applies seven rates (from 3 percent to 45 percent) under the progressive tax structure for all comprehensive income, as defined above. Therefore, the classification of comprehensive income as well as the changes in IIT calculations could lead to a change in the IIT liabilities of self-employed individuals.
Modification of Tax Rates and Increase of the Standard Deductions
Based on the Draft’s adjustment of the tax brackets for the application of IIT, middle- to low-income tax levels would be more evenly spread across different IIT rates and should limit the tax liabilities of many workers.
In addition, a standard deduction would now apply to all comprehensive income (salary, remunerations, royalties, etc., see definition above) and would be increased from RMB 3,500 per month to RMB 5,000 per month (i.e., RMB 60,000 per year). In the table below, we have compared the IIT liabilities to example monthly salaries under the old regulation and the Draft (all amounts in RMB):
Income (before taking itemized deductions)
Tax liabilities under current regulations
Tax liabilities under proposed regulations
Reduced liabilities
Additional Itemized Deductions for Certain Living Expenses
The draft permits the deduction of certain living expenses, including children’s education expenses, medical expenses for serious diseases, mortgage interest payments and rent. According to the Ministry of Finance, this provision is intended to adjust for the differences between individuals with different income levels to increase relative equality in tax treatment.
Detailed implementation rules have yet to be issued to clarify the application of these deductions. For example, it is unclear whether all education expenses (public or private school tuition) will be deductible; whether mortgage interest deductions will depend on the number of apartments/houses one owns; or whether the rental deduction will vary according to the location and size of the apartment. It could be reasonably expected that later clarification would provide caps on the amounts allowed for deductions of living expenses.
In addition, the Draft requires certain government authorities, such as education, health and the People’s Bank of China, to provide relevant information to the tax authorities. It is unclear whether the information will be used for ascertaining the deductibility of some expenses or for verification. Thus, it will be necessary to wait for further clarification on how to utilize these itemized deductions, how to comply with withholding rules, whether withholding agents have the obligation to provide personal information, and how to effectively protect information privacy.
Anti-Avoidance Rules
Under the current IIT Law, there is no anti-avoidance rule for IIT law (with a few exceptions in regulations1), which has hindered the investigation of some individual tax avoidance cases because the tax authorities do not have a statutory basis for imposing taxes. In this Draft, tax authorities are delegated the authority to impose and adjust tax liabilities when the individuals do not transfer property in accordance with the arm’s length principle, when they set up tax shelters overseas, or when they make unreasonable business arrangements for the purpose of tax avoidance.
While awaiting clarification of the application of the anti-avoidance rules for IIT, it would be useful to consult the anti-avoidance rules in the enterprise income tax regime. For example, State Administration of Taxation Bulletin No. 7 (2015) allows the taxation of indirect transfers of taxable property by non-resident enterprises. A similar concept could be applied to individual taxpayers, which would have a large impact on negotiating and drafting agreements for PE/VC, cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Likewise, there remains a possibility that establishing tax shelters overseas, for example, in BVI or Cayman, and leaving profits there to avoid distributions to shareholders, may result in taxation as controlled foreign corporations similar to the treatment under the enterprise income tax law. It may also impact other individuals who do not transfer property in accordance with the arm’s length principle, such as free transfer of real property to overseas trustees to set up trusts.
Moreover, the Draft established the taxpayer identification number system in accordance with the CRS. In addition to the requirements of the relevant agencies to provide information on itemized deductions, the Draft will promulgate regulations regarding transfers of real property and equity interests, which require the relevant authorities to ensure the individuals’ tax compliance at registration. Notably, similar provisions on the registration of equity transfers were repealed years ago because the equity transfer is usually registered before the individual receives the cash consideration; the Draft would reestablish the connection between registration and tax compliance, which will exert significant influence over the drafting of the transaction documents in equity transfers from individuals.
We suggest that individuals, especially high-net-worth individuals, be cautious about tax planning both at home and abroad, and seek professional advice on asset transfers and tax planning in order to minimize risks.
According to the Draft, the Amendment will take effect on January 1, 2019, but individuals can start utilizing the standard deduction of RMB 5,000 from October 1, 2018. We expect the Draft to be finalized before 2018 ends and the relevant regulations to be introduced accordingly. We will provide additional updates as information becomes available.
1 Administrative Measures for Individual Income Tax on Equity Transfer Incomes (for Trial Implementation) stipulates that the transfer of property must be in accordance with fair market value.
Appendix: Comparison of Key Provisions
Draft Amendments
Tax Residents
Article I. Individual income tax shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of this Law by individuals who have domiciles in the People’s Republic of China, or who have no domicile in China but have resided in the country for one year or more on their income gained within or outside China.
Individuals who have no domiciles and do not reside in the People’s Republic of China or who have no domiciles but have resided in China for less than one year shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Law, pay individual income tax on their income gained within China.
Article I. Individual income tax shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of this Law by residents, defined as individuals who have domiciles in the People’s Republic of China, or who have no domicile in China but have resided in the country for 183 days or more on their income gained within or outside China.
Non-residents, defined as individuals who have no domiciles and do not reside in the People’s Republic of China or who have no domiciles but have resided in China for less than 183 days, shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Law, pay individual income tax on their income gained within China.
Integrated Income from Labor
Article 2 Individual income tax shall be paid on the following categories of individual income:
(1) Income from wages and salaries;
(2) Income from production or business operation conducted by self-employed industrial and commercial households;
(3) Income from contracted or leased operation of enterprises or institutions;
(4) Income from remuneration for personal services;
(5) Income from author’s remuneration;
(6) Income from royalties;
(7) Income from interest, dividends and bonuses;
(8) Income from the lease of property;
(9) Income from the transfer of property;
(10) Incidental income; and
(11) Income from other sources specified as taxable by the department of finance under the State Council.
Individual income tax shall be paid on the following categories of individual income:
(9) Incidental income; and
Items (1) to (4) (integrated earned income) will be taxed on an annual basis for residents, and on monthly basis or per filing for non-resident. Items (5) to (10) will be taxed separately as under the current laws.
Earned Income Tax Parameter Table
Monthly Taxable Income
Marginal Rate
Income of RMB 1,500 or less
The part of income in excess of RMB 1,500 to 4,500
The part of income between RMB 4,500 and 9,000
The part of income between RMB 9,000 and 35,000
The part of income between RMB 35,000 and 55,000
The part of income between RMB 55,000 to 80,000
The part of income in excess of RMB 80,000
Income of RMB 3000 or less
The part of income in excess of RMB 3000 to 12,000
Tax Parameter Table for Income from Production or Business Operation
Annual Taxable Income
Income of RMB 15,000 or less
The part of income between RMB 60,000 to 100,000
The part of income in excess of RMB 100,000
The part of income between RMB 90,000 and 300,000
The part of income between RMB 300,000 to 500,000
Standard Deductions and Itemized Deductions
Article 6 The amount of taxable income shall be computed as follows:
(1) With respect to income from wages and salaries, the amount of taxable income shall be the part remaining after the deduction of RMB 3,500 for expenses from the monthly income.
(2) With respect to income from production or business operation gained by self-employed industrial and commercial households, the amount of taxable income shall be the part remaining after the deduction of the costs, expenses and losses from the gross income in a tax year.
The amount of taxable income shall be computed as follows:
(1) resident’s integrated earned income, calculated on an annual basis, less the RMB 60,000 standard deduction and other itemized deduction if applicable, will arrive at the taxable income. Itemized deductions include statutory pensions, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, social security and housing fund paid in accordance with laws and regulations. Additional itemized deductions include children’s education expenses, medical expenses for serious diseases, mortgage interest expenses, rent expenses, etc.
(2) non-resident’s earned income amount exceeding the standard deduction amount, RMB 5000, will be the taxable income. Service remunerations, author’s remunerations, royalties will be calculated based on each payment.
Anti-Avoidance Provisions
Article 8：Tax agencies have the authority to adjust tax payable if any of the following occurs:
“(1) the business dealings between individuals and their affiliated parties do not conform to the arm’s length principle and have no justifiable reasons;
“(2) enterprises that set up in countries (regions) with low tax rates, controlled by residents, or jointly controlled by residents and resident enterprises, and have no reasonable cause for such set-up, and do not distribute or reduce the distribution of the profits to shareholders
“(3) individuals who obtain improper tax benefits by making certain arrangements without reasonable business purpose.
“Relevant tax authorities may adjust the tax liabilities in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Any underpayments need to be paid in full plus interests in accordance with the law.”
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The Fallacy of ‘White Privilege’
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Part II in a series about widely held beliefs that are either untrue or meaningless
A pillar of contemporary Leftism is the notion of “white privilege.” Given that a generation of high-school and college students are being taught that a great number of “unearned privileges” accrue to white Americans, the charge of white privilege demands rational inquiry.
The assertion turns out to be largely meaningless. And, more significantly, it does great harm to blacks.
First, no reasonable person can argue that white privilege applies to the great majority of whites, let alone to all whites. There are simply too many variables other than race that determine individual success in America.
And if it were true, why would whites commit suicide at twice the rate of blacks (and at a higher rate than any other race in America except American Indians)? According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, white men, who the Left argues are the most privileged group of all in America, commit seven out of every ten suicides in America — even though only three out of ten Americans are white males.
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Whatever reason one gives for the white suicide rate, it is indisputable that, at the very least, considerably more whites than blacks consider life not worth living. To argue that all these whites were oblivious to all the unique privileges they had is to stretch the definition of “privilege” beyond credulity.
Second, there are a host of privileges that dwarf “white privilege.”
A huge one is Two-Parent Privilege. If you are raised by a father and mother, you enter adulthood with more privileges than anyone else in American society, irrespective of race, ethnicity, or sex. That’s why the poverty rate among two-parent black families is only 7 percent.
Compare that with a 22 percent poverty rate among whites in single-parent homes. Obviously the two-parent home is the decisive “privilege.”
#share#Another “privilege,” if one wants to use that term, that dwarfs “white privilege” is Asian privilege. Asian Americans do better than white Americans in school, on IQ tests, on credit scores, and on other positive measures. In fact, according to recent data from the Federal Reserve, Asians are about to surpass whites as the wealthiest group of Americans. Will the Left soon complain about Asian privilege?
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And how about “gentile privilege?” For most of American history it was a lot easier being a Christian than being a Jew in America. Yet, I do not know a Jew — myself included — who doesn’t believe that to be a Jew in America has always been an unbelievable stroke of good fortune. It is not surprising that an American Jew, Irving Berlin, wrote “God Bless America.”
There are even times when there is “minority privilege” in America today.
Every high-school student knows that given similar scholastic and extra-curricular records, one’s chances of being accepted into a prestigious college are considerably greater if one is a member of a minority, most especially the black minority.
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And the biggest privilege of all is American privilege. Unless you or your family make some big mistakes, the greatest privilege of all is to be an American. That’s why much of the world wants to live in America.
So then why all this left-wing talk about white privilege?
The major reason is in order to portray blacks as victims. This achieves two huge goals for the Left — one political, the other philosophical.
The political goal is to ensure that blacks continue to view America as racist. The Left knows that the only way to retain political power in America is to perpetuate the belief among black Americans that their primary problem is white racism. Only then will blacks continue to regard the Left and the Democrats as indispensable.
#related#The philosophical reason is that the Left denies — as it has since Marx — the primacy of moral and cultural values in determining the fate of the individual and of society. In the Left’s view, it is not poor values or a lack of moral self-control that causes crime, but poverty and, in the case of black criminals, racism. Therefore, the disproportionate amount of violent crime committed by black males is not attributable to the moral failure of the black criminal or to the likelihood of his not having been raised by a father, but to an external factor over which he has little or no power — white racism.
White privilege is another left-wing attempt, and a successful one, to keep America from focusing on what will truly help black America — a resurrection of the black family, for example — and instead to focus on an external problem: white privilege.
In doing so, the Left has become the only real enemy the black has in America today.
— Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, The Ten Commandments: Still the Best Moral Code, was published by Regnery. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com. © 2016 Creators.com
Dennis Prager — Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His second volume of Bible commentary, The Rational Bible — Genesis: God, Creation, Destruction, is published by Regnery. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com. @dennisprager
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China Implements New Charity Law
Ashwin Kaja
Timothy P. Stratford
In May, we wrote about China’s new Charity Law (official Chinese version available here; unofficial English translation available here) and its establishment of a comprehensive framework for revamping the government’s management of the social sector. For decades, charities, social organizations, and civil society groups have operated in a quasi-legal environment where enforcement has been unpredictable and inconsistent. For some organizations, legal uncertainty has been a source of operational freedom, while for others, it has been perceived as a hammer waiting to drop. Social organizations working on noncontroversial or government-endorsed issues, such as poverty alleviation or healthcare, have enjoyed a wider berth than those involved with minority rights, religion, or other controversial issues. Observers of the new Charity Law are hopeful that it will facilitate an expansion of the social sector, but are aware that much depends on the details of implementation. (Note that the Charity Law’s provisions affect not only domestic and foreign non-profits, but also a wide range of companies and corporate social responsibility initiatives and should be distinguished from the Foreign NGO Law, which applies only to foreign NGOs).
Effective as of September 1, the Charity Law includes an expanded definition of “charitable activities,” tax incentives for qualifying organizations, new registration procedures, and rules for donation and volunteer management. As is common in Chinese lawmaking, the Charity Law only provides a high-level blueprint for intended reforms, with greater detail to be provided later through measures designed to clarify the specifics of implementation and enforcement. As of late October, the Charity Law has been followed by seven accompanying regulations that clarify new rules regarding registration, public fundraising, establishing trusts, and more.
A few key highlights:
Registering as a Charitable Organization. The Ministry of Civil Affairs (“MCA”) has released the Notice on Relevant Issues Concerning the Registration of Charitable Organizations, which allows for entities to register directly as charitable organizations, with specific application requirements for each type of entity (e.g., foundation, social group, or social service provider). The Ministry has also released the Measures for the Recognition of Charitable Organizations, which specify the conditions an organization must satisfy in order to be officially recognized as a charitable entity (e.g., not seeking to profit from its activities). Organizations that have been subject to an administrative punishment within the last two years are disqualified.
Rules for Fundraising Platforms. MCA and a number of other ministries jointly released the Administrative Measures for Public Fundraising Platforms, which require operators of public fundraising platforms to verify the charitable status of organizations using their platform and report illicit behavior in a timely manner. On August 31, MCA released the first batch of approved internet fundraising platforms, including those of Tencent, Taobao, Xinhua, and Baidu.
Rules for Fundraising Organizations. MCA issued the Administrative Measures for Public Fundraising Conducted by Charitable Organizations, which specify conditions to be met in order to obtain public fundraising qualifications. For instance, organizations that are qualified to fundraise publicly must file a fundraising plan with their local MCA department 10 days prior to the start of the campaign.
Establishing Charitable Trusts. MCA jointly released with the China Banking Regulatory Commission (“CBRC”) the Notice for Effective Implementation of Rules Related to the Filing of Charitable Trusts, which provides instructions on record filing procedures for charitable trusts and clarifies how regulatory agencies such as MCA and CBRC will regulate them.
Law Enforcement. MCA released Rules for Regulators on Legal Enforcement by Means of Meeting with Social Organizations (Trial), which instruct regulating agencies on law enforcement procedures. Upon noticing illegal behavior, regulators may arrange for a meeting with the organization’s representative and suggest ways of correcting this behavior in a timely manner. Furthermore, MCA’s Measures for Handling Complaints and Reports on Social Organizations (Trial) assign responsibility to certain agencies and offers a set of guidelines for handling complaints on social organizations.
All seven accompanying regulations are now in effect. New measures may be released in the future. As a result, all interested or affected parties should follow this issue closely.
Zhijing Yu of Covington & Burling LLP assisted with the research and preparation of this article.
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News & Views | Published: 22 August 2012
The rate of human mutation
Alexey Kondrashov1
Nature volume 488, pages 467–468 (23 August 2012) | Download Citation
Disease genetics
A comprehensive analysis of human spontaneous mutation has revealed a strong influence of paternal age, suggesting a link between an increasing number of older fathers and the rise in disorders such as autism. See Article p.471
Mutations are common on the scale of whole genomes, but rare on the scale of individual nucleotides. So until large-scale DNA sequencing became practical, measuring the rate at which novel mutations accumulate in a genome was a daunting task. Now, however, de novo mutations can be detected by a straightforward comparison of parent and offspring genotypes, making obsolete several ingenious methods that were previously used for this purpose. Such comparisons will rapidly produce reliable estimates of the parameters of spontaneous mutation in many species. On page 471 of this issue, Kong et al.1 report these figures for humans. They show that a newborn's genome sequence contains, on average, 60 new small-scale mutations, and that this number depends strongly on the age of the father at the time of conception.
Kong and colleagues' study is by far the largest of its kind yet conducted, involving 78 Icelandic parent–offspring trios. Their estimate of 60 new mutations per generation is in agreement with previous calculations2, but their data also reveal that, although a 20-year-old father transmits, on average, approximately 25 mutations to his child, a 40-year-old father transmits around 65. This means that every additional year of paternal age results in an average of two extra mutations in human offspring. By contrast, the authors found that the number of de novo mutations transmitted by the mother is always roughly 15, regardless of her age.
That the male parent makes a disproportionate contribution to mammalian mutation has been described previously3, as has an effect of paternal age on the number of mutations in an offspring4. These findings are easily explained by the fact that, in mammals, male germ cells (sperm) are continually produced, so they go through many more cell divisions over the course of a generation than do female germ cells (eggs), which are not actively dividing in individuals of reproductive age. However, Kong and colleagues' estimates of the effect of these differences on mutation rates are the most precise and definite that we have so far.
In humans, as many as 10% of point mutations are deleterious5, so Kong and colleagues' findings suggest that an average newborn carries six new deleterious mutations. Although most of these mutations will, on their own, have only mild effects, collectively they could have a substantial impact on health. Perhaps most immediately pertinent to the authors' findings are data showing that the prevalence of several single-gene and multifactorial diseases increases with paternal age4. Although in some cases this increase is due to selection pressures exerted on germ-line cells6, there is little doubt that its main cause is the effect of paternal age on the number of new mutations in the offspring's genome. For example, a causal role of de novo mutations has recently been demonstrated in autism7. It seems that multifactorial disorders that result from impaired brain function, such as autism, schizophrenia, dyslexia and reduced intelligence, are particularly susceptible to the paternal-age effect8. This is consistent with the fact that more genes are expressed in the brain than in any other organ, meaning that the fraction of new mutations that will affect its functions is the highest.
Kong and colleagues' findings suggest that the difference in health between children of fathers younger than 20 years and those of fathers older than 40 years (with all other factors being equal) is equivalent to about half the average decline in human health that results from the free accumulation of spontaneous mutations with each generation. Modern human populations are subject to many fewer selection pressures than has been the case throughout human evolutionary history. Because deleterious mutations are much more common than beneficial ones, evolution under this relaxed selection will inevitably lead to a decline in the mean fitness of the population. Indeed, data obtained from Drosophila fruitflies in experimental situations of relaxed selection suggest that this decline can be quite rapid9. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the ongoing increase in the incidence and prevalence of autism in many human populations10 could be due, at least in part, to the accumulation of mutations resulting from relaxed selection and a higher average paternal age — and not only to better recognition of cases.
A valuable opportunity to further study the impact of de novo mutations on human health may be provided by mutator alleles — defective versions of genes involved in DNA replication or repair that cause an increase in the mutation rate. For example, a type of colorectal cancer is caused by a mutation that results in the loss of function of one copy of a gene encoding a protein involved in DNA mismatch repair (a process whereby erroneous DNA sequences are fixed during replication). In rats, the presence of such a mutation in both gene copies increases the spontaneous mutation rate by a factor of 30 (ref. 11) and reduces lifespan. In humans, a complete lack of DNA mismatch repair function leads to multiple childhood cancers, and patients do not live to reproductive age12. Even single-copy mutations in DNA repair genes can substantially increase the mutation rate. A detailed evaluation of children of individuals who carry such mutator alleles might allow us to assess the impact of several generations of unchecked accumulation of de novo mutations.
If the paternal-age effect on the de novo mutation rate does lead to substantially impaired health in the children of older fathers, then collecting the sperm of young adult men and cold-storing it for later use4 could be a wise individual decision. It might also be valuable for public health, as such action could, according to Kong and colleagues' findings, substantially reduce the rate of deterioration of the gene pool in human populations under relaxed selection. By contrast, any attempt to reduce mutation accumulation in our gene pool by restoring selection pressures would probably be much more controversial and painful. Thus, Kong et al. have certainly provided food for thought, on both an individual and a population level.
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Alexey Kondrashov is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
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Column | Signs of the Times
Pope Francis, the spiritual guide
by Thomas Reese, Religion News Service
This article appears in the Gaudete et Exsultate feature series. View the full series.
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Pope Francis is silhouetted at the end of a private audience with Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan, at the Vatican, on April 5, 2018. (Alberto Pizzoli/Pool via AP)
Before he was pope, before he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, Francis spent much of his Jesuit life as a spiritual guide to young Jesuits. He was not a great theologian, although he was well read in theology. Nor was he the president of one of our universities. Rather his job was to introduce young men to the Jesuits and help form them in their spiritual lives. He was the director of novices and rector of the community where young Jesuits studied philosophy and theology.
This background and experience helped make Francis the person he is today. It also explains why he naturally felt impelled to write "Gaudete et Exultate," his recently released apostolic exhortation on the call to holiness. For Francis, all Christians, not just religious and priest, are called to holiness. But as an experienced spiritual guide, he knows that most people are confused about what holiness really is and therefore can easily get lost on their spiritual quest.
Francis' goal was not to write an abstract theological treatise on holiness but to present a practical way to holiness for our time. He does this with a simple style that is full of spiritual wisdom that can enrich any reader, whether a beginner or experienced practitioner of the spiritual life.
Francis begins by reminding us that "no one is saved alone, as an isolated individual. Rather, God draws us to himself, taking into account the complex fabric of interpersonal relationships present in a human community." Rather than presenting the hermit as the ideal Christian, he invites us to look at the ordinary holiness of our next-door neighbors, especially in the patience and persistence of their lives.
Nor does he believe that everyone's road to holiness is the same. Each person must discern their own path to holiness and rather than "hopelessly trying to imitate something not meant for them."
"Are you married?" he asks. "Be holy by loving and caring for your husband or wife, as Christ does for the Church. Do you work for a living? Be holy by laboring with integrity and skill in the service of your brothers and sisters. Are you a parent or grandparent? Be holy by patiently teaching the little ones how to follow Jesus. Are you in a position of authority? Be holy by working for the common good and renouncing personal gain."
In short, "We are all called to be holy by living our lives with love and by bearing witness in everything we do, wherever we find ourselves." Holiness does not come from grandiose achievements but by "many small gestures."
Quoting Pope Benedict XVI, he explains that "holiness is nothing other than charity lived to the full." Put another way, it entails "reproducing in our own lives various aspects of Jesus' earthly life: his hidden life, his life in community, his closeness to the outcast, his poverty and other ways in which he showed his self-sacrificing love."
While recognizing the need for moments of quiet and solitude before God, he argues that "It is not healthy to love silence while fleeing interaction with others, to want peace and quiet while avoiding activity, to seek prayer while disdaining service."
Rather, "Your identification with Christ and his will involves a commitment to build with him that kingdom of love, justice and universal peace."
"Everything can be accepted and integrated into our life in this world, and become a part of our path to holiness," he writes. He calls this "contemplation in action," a term well known in Jesuit spirituality.
But this action is not frantic. "How can we fail to realize the need to stop this rat race and to recover the personal space needed to carry on a heartfelt dialogue with God?" he writes. "Sooner or later, we have to face our true selves and let the Lord enter."
Quoting the Jesuit cardinal and writer Carlo Martini, he notes "This may not happen unless 'we see ourselves staring into the abyss of a frightful temptation, or have the dizzying sensation of standing on the precipice of utter despair, or find ourselves completely alone and abandoned.'"
All of this and more Pope Francis relates in just the first chapter of Gaudete et Exultate, or "Rejoice and be Glad" (Matthew 5:12). It is a rich and powerful message easily accessible to the people of our time from the world's preeminent spiritual guide.
[Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese is a columnist for Religion News Service and author of Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church.]
A version of this story appeared in the June 1-14, 2018 print issue under the headline: Pope’s guide on holiness is powerful and accessible .
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Report calls for smoking in people with mental disorders to be prioritised
The NHS is neglecting to tackle smoking in people with mental health conditions, a new report has claimed.
Experts at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) are concerned by the high rate of smoking among people with mental health disorders - 40 per cent versus 20 per cent for the general population.
Research also shows that people with mental disorders tend to smoke a greater number of cigarettes, have worse addictions to nicotine, and find it harder to give up than those without mental health conditions.
The new report, entitled 'Smoking and Mental Health', claims that much of the lower life expectancy recorded in people with mental disorders is linked to smoking, indicating that efforts to help them quit should be made a priority.
'This report calls for radical changes in the prioritisation, service provision and prevention of this major cause of premature death and disability in people with mental disorders,' said Sir Richard Thompson from the RCP, Sue Bailey from RCPsych and Lindsey Davies of the Faculty of Public Health in their foreword to the report.
Sarah Woolnough, Cancer Research UK's executive director of policy and information, said the report acted as a 'strong reminder' of the need for urgent action to help smokers quit, regardless of their circumstances.
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U2 go up in the world with new building
NME Oct 16, 2007 3:34 pm BST
Ireland's first skyscraper to be named after Bono and co
U2 are set to build the first skyscraper in the Republic Of Ireland, called ’The U2 Tower’.
The 200 million Euro scheme will soar 120m over Dublin’s Docklands, and will house the band’s recording studio at its peak.
The tower was designed by Norman Foster, who has previously worked on the Gherkin in London and the Millau Viaduct in France.
Work on the project is due to begin next year with a projected completion date of 2011, reports The Press Association.
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› Midwest Update
Hey Congress, Don’t Roll Out the Welcome Mat for Invasive Species
A sneaky provision in this year’s defense act loosens regulations on ballast water—and all its stowaways. If it passes, the Great Lakes could suffer serious consequences.
Zebra mussels have been a scourge in the Great Lakes since being brought in by ships in the late 1980s.
NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory/D. Jude, Univ. of Michigan/Flickr
Round gobies, alewives, sea lampreys, Pacific salmon, zebra mussels, and quagga mussels are just some of the 180 invasive species in the Great Lakes. A few, like the salmon, were introduced intentionally. Most others, though, sneaked their way in through the ballast water that’s used to balance ships hulls. They come from the Atlantic Ocean or the Black or Caspian Sea, or perhaps the Dnieper River in Eastern Europe. But now these critters are here, settling in and exacting enormous harm on the the lakes' freshwater ecosystem.
Like those invasive species stowing away in ships, representatives in Congress recently slipped a provision into this year’s National Defense Authorization Act that would weaken current shipping rules. The provision’s proponents want the Coast Guard to be the sole agency overseeing ballast water, thereby taking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Water Act out of the regulatory equation. The House passed the bill on May 18, and if the Senate's version or the final defense bill ends up including the same language, the Great Lakes should brace for more invasions.
“If Congress locks in a weak ballast water standard, we'll have more invasive species in the future, and we’ve already had too many,” says Rebecca Riley, a senior attorney at NRDC, which publishes onEarth. “The way to keep them out of our lakes is to make sure discharged ballast water is as clean as it can be.”
The Clean Water Act currently requires ships to use the best technology available to clean ballast water. But environmentalists argue that the EPA could be doing an even better job of enforcing the law. Last year, environmental groups, including NRDC, sued the agency over ballast regulation they felt was too lax. A federal court agreed. The judges said existing technologies including water filtration or treatment with ultraviolet light or chlorine—ones the EPA didn’t consider—could also be used to kill invasives before vessels dump their liquid loads. If ships are exempt from the Clean Water Act, they won't have to keep up-to-date with the best methods of ridding ballast of lurking organisms.
The EPA isn't the only federal agency currently regulating ballast water; the other is the Coast Guard, which which enforces the National Invasive Species Act. State agencies also have their own laws. This has prompted the shipping industry to say that the various laws are too hard to follow. In an effort to streamline the process, members of Congress, such as Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Duncan Hunter of California, want to excuse the ships from abiding by the Clean Water Act (and therefore EPA oversight).
The members of Congress saw the bill as an opportunity to include unrelated clauses, Riley says. The defense bill is must-pass legislation, so the unpopular provision just may have a shot at getting through. That’s why NRDC and other environmental groups, such as the National Wildlife Federation, are bringing attention to the add-on. The White House has also come out against the ballast water provision, saying it "undermines the ability to fight the spread of invasive species."
Scientists agree. Ed Rutherford, a fisheries biologist with NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, says the country has already spent millions of dollars on measures to mitigate the effects of invasives, from attempting to eliminate mussels to testing traps for sea lampreys. Relaxing the rules could begin to undo that progress. From the 1950s to the 1990s, the lakes saw an average of two invasive species a year. When lawmakers started closing loopholes in existing regulations—for example, requiring seafaring ships (known as salties) to use saltwater to shock and kill any would-be freshwater stowaways in their tanks—the number of yearly invaders fell to zero. Scientists have seen no new invasions attributable to ballast water since 2006.
But there’s still room for improvement. No monitoring program exists to detect invasives, argued George Meyer of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation and NWF’s Marc Smith in a 2014 op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. They pointed out that when scientists did go looking for invaders in the St. Louis River and Duluth-Superior Harbor, they found eight. If anything, Meyer and Smith argue, laws need to be stricter.
“Anything that’s less stringent than the current regulatory framework would be damaging,” says Rochelle Sturtevant, an educator at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory who has been working on the biological makeup of the lakes for more than two decades. To her, fellow scientists, and environmental groups, the provision is just another unwanted and destructive invader—something defense bills should protect against, not invite in.
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What it takes to get to the top
What it takes to get to the top How Sarah took on The Gherkin Challenge
Climbing 38 floors may seem like a long way up. But for Childline volunteer Sarah Mills, the views over London make The Gherkin Challenge totally worth it.
As a returning Gherkineer, Sarah knows what's needed to make it to the top. She shares her journey from deciding to climb the tube escalators to becoming a practiced tower runner to raise an amazing £1825 for Childline.
"Tower running is harder than it looks but the advantage is that you get an amazing view as a reward when you reach the top!"
Sarah Mills / Childline volunteer
The Gherkin Challenge 2018
Help change children's lives. Sign up for The Gherkin Challenge, Sunday 28 October 2018.
"I'm not an athlete and can't see myself ever having the time to train to complete a challenge like a marathon. But I wanted to get involved in some kind of challenge and the Gherkin seemed much more doable.
"The first time around I did very little training other than walking up escalators whenever I used the tube! My son Charlie (who was 10 at the time) skipped up the stairs, arriving at the top looking fresh as a daisy whereas I relied heavily on his encouragement to keep going to the top.
"A year later and my fitness was a bit better, having started running regularly. I wanted to have another go to beat my time from the previous year and of course to raise money for Childline."
"I've been a volunteer Childline Counsellor for the past seven years. During that time I’ve had the privilege of speaking to many amazingly brave young people."
Sarah Mills / Childline Counsellor
Why climb London's largest pickle?
"I've been a volunteer Childline Counsellor for the past 7 years. During that time I've had the privilege of speaking to many amazingly brave young people.
"I've witnessed first hand the difference that Childline can make in the lives of children and young people who really do have nowhere else to turn.
"It is this that motivated me in my fundraising for the challenge."
Have you got what it takes to make it to the top?
Sign up for The Gherkin Challenge, Sunday 28 October 2018.
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Vaping and Nicotine – What Every Vape User Should Know
E-cigarettes have taken the world by storm over the past few years because of their convenience and because of some purported health benefits compared to normal smoking. However, vaping devices have been getting a bad rap lately from politicians and regulators who still don’t entirely understand vape products itself and how it effects ones health. Researchers are still learning a lot about the effects of vaping and nicotine on long-term health, and it isn’t yet known if vaping is completely innocuous, but there are some things that are known about nicotine and vaping and it’s important for users to be informed about them.
First, nicotine is a substance that is found in nature in varying amounts within many different plants. You probably didn’t know it, but nicotine can even be found in vegetables like tomatoes, green bell peppers, and potatoes, although only in small, trace amounts. The tobacco plant offers the highest concentration of nicotine in its leaves, and tobacco is used within other more traditional forms of smoking like cigarettes, cigars, and popular forms of chewing tobacco.
Although tobacco has always been used to experience the effects of nicotine, vaping devices don’t use tobacco but instead use a nicotine infused liquid. As a drug, nicotine falls under the category of other drugs known as nootropics. Nootropics are generally known for enhancing cognitive abilities like memory and focus, and nicotine is the most popular nootropic in the world behind the ever-present caffeine we love so much.
Nicotine is considered to be an addictive substance, which is why so many people have such difficulty quitting the use of nicotine products – but does this mean that it’s inherently bad for us? So far, research has indicated that nicotine isn’t carcinogenic, or cancer-causing, but it can cause health problems if too much of it is consumed. Nicotine can even be considered as a drug to treat some health problems such as ulcerative colitis or even to potentially provide a benefit to sufferers of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, as some studies suggest. The reason cigarettes are constantly under fire for being a health risk is because tobacco and other additives and chemicals like formaldehyde are naturally strong carcinogens.
But vaping doesn’t use tobacco; only nicotine. As far as researchers currently know, there “may be” decreased health risks from vaping instead of smoking. Unfortunately, anti-tobacco activists have recently chosen to demonize vaping because of its strong relation to traditional tobacco products. For example, a recent study completed at Portland State University found that smoking an e-cigarette on a low voltage setting produced no carcinogens like formaldehyde, but setting the e-cigarette to a high voltage would produce formaldehyde in high, unsafe amounts. However, while the researchers realized that people usually don’t smoke these devices at such high voltages because the taste becomes unbearable, anti-tobacco activists used the study to claim that e-cigarettes were inherently just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than smoking.
Misinformation like this is dangerous, and people who choose to smoke or use nicotine products should make informed decisions about their use of nicotine or tobacco carefully, as it could have some impact on their health depending on the frequency and type of use. While nicotine isn’t inherently carcinogenic as mentioned before, it still can be dangerous at high quantities. Any nicotine products should be out of the reach of children and should be in child-proof containers if possible.
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Global rail industry braces for SA tender
South Africa’s rail infrastructure was the central topic of the InnoTrans expo, the world’s biggest rail-industry trade show, which is held every two years. It took place in Germany’s capital Berlin this week.
Giants of the rail industry, including Alstom of France, Siemens of Germany, General Electric of the US and Bombardier of Canada are readying themselves for an enormous investment by South Africa into rail passenger transport.
The tender, for the supply of 7 200 passenger coaches to the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa), valued at R123 billion over 20 years, is one of the world’s three largest rail projects being launched this year. It is the anchor project to re-establish the country’s once-proud commuter-rail industry.
Feverish preparations are also under way for a number of Transnet tenders, which aim to increase its number of locomotives from the present 148 to 648 by 2019.
In this period, Transnet will invest R300 billion in new infrastructure.
Prasa expects the winning bidder for the 7 200 passenger coaches to deliver products with locally produced content of 65%.
The successful bidder will thus have to establish a commuter-rail manufacturing industry in the country that will employ about 2 500 people. The supply chain will, however, increase the total number of jobs created to about 75 000.
The French company Alstom, which also plays a role in South Africa’s electricity industry; and the Canadian group Bombardier, which supplied the Gautrain, are considered favourites to win this enormous contract, but there are at least 11 other suppliers who will bid.
The tender documents contain ambitious plans for the establishment of modern, urban transport systems and urban renewal based on rail infrastructure. Alstom and Bombardier specialise in this.
The tender process will reach a critical stage on Tuesday when Prasa chief executive Lucky Montana announces its requirements for BEE candidates.
The BEE partners will have a combined share of 30% in the project.
The initial BEE transaction’s value is estimated at R17 billion, which will make the Prasa project the country’s biggest BEE transaction yet.
Prasa will, however, appoint its own BEE partner because it is determined to ensure that broad-based empowerment flows from the project.
Montana has declared that he will personally ensure BEE candidates who have already benefited in other areas will not be included in the Prasa project.
These comments have led to a serious clash with the Black Business Council, its chairperson Sandile Zungu in particular.
There are major doubts that Montana will be able to withstand the political pressure that the council and its members can bring to bear because of their connections with the ANC.
Alstom already has two projects in North Africa – in Algeria and Morocco – and says it is determined to win this tender.
It divides its operations into four departments – manufacturing, engineering, project management and supply chain management.
“It is an extremely complicated project for us because it involves creating a whole commuter-rail manufacturing industry in South Africa,” said Henri Poupart-Lafarge, the chief executive of Alstom’s transport division.
This group – which already has a workforce of 350 in South Africa, with about 3 000 employees working for its subcontractors in the country – considers the Prasa tender, as well as the Transnet tenders, decisive for its future representation on the continent.
“If we fail to win, it will be difficult to make a return to the region,” Poupart-Lafarge told a group of journalists that Alstom brought to Germany.
He emphasised how complicated the South African projects will be, not just for the successful bidder, but for the country’s transport authorities.
He said: “A structure for the country’s future rail industry must be decided on.
“We are used to complicated projects, but this one combines several challenges. That is why we invested so much time in the preparation of our bid. A challenge of this sort is not easy, but we have already done it successfully, including in India and Russia.
“It is easy to make a train and ship it anywhere in the world, but it’s another matter entirely to set up a new industry.”
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2 United pilots arrested in Glasgow, suspected of being drunk
LONDON (AP) — Two United Airlines pilots who have been arrested for suspected intoxication before they were to fly 141 passengers from Scotland to the United States will appear in a Scottish court Monday, police said.
The Police Service of Scotland said it arrested both pilots Saturday at Glasgow Airport and both men, aged 45 and 35, would be arraigned at a court in Paisley, a Glasgow suburb, to face charges connected to Britain's transport safety laws.
United Airlines said Saturday's flight from Glasgow to the U.S. city of Newark, New Jersey, was delayed for 10 hours while the airline sought replacement pilots.
"The two pilots have been removed from service and their flying duties," United spokeswoman Erin Benson said. "We are cooperating with the authorities and will conduct our own investigation as well. The safety of our customers and crew is our highest priority."
Saturday's arrests come barely a month after two Canadian pilots of an Air Transat plane were arrested at Glasgow Airport and charged with trying to fly while intoxicated.
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As the shootings unfolded, a horror for 1 mother via text
Joe Burbank
<p>Florida Gov. Rick Scott talks to the media, with Orlando police Chief John Mina, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer. second left, and State Attorney Jeff Ashton, near the nightclub where a mass shooting took place, in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub early Sunday, before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. It was the worst mass shooting in American history. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)</p>
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Mina Justice was sound asleep when she received the first text from her son, Eddie Justice, who was in the gay nightclub when a gunman opened fire in an attack that left 49 patrons dead and more than 50 wounded.
This is the conversation she had over text message with her 30-year-old son:
"Mommy I love you," the first message said. It was 2:06 a.m.
"In club they shooting."
Mina Justice tried calling her 30-year-old son. No answer.
Alarmed and half awake, she tapped out a response.
"U ok"
At 2:07 a.m., he wrote: "Trapp in bathroom."
Justice asked what club, and he responded: "Pulse. Downtown. Call police."
Then at 2:08: "I'm gonna die."
Now wide awake, Justice dialed 911.
She sent a flurry of texts over the next several minutes.
"I'm calling them now.
U still in there
Answer our damn phone
Call them
Call me."
The 911 dispatcher wanted her to stay on the line. She wondered what kind of danger her son was in. He was normally a homebody who liked to eat and work out. He liked to make everyone laugh. He worked as an accountant and lived in a condo in downtown Orlando.
"Lives in a sky house, like the Jeffersons," she would say. "He lives rich."
She knew he was gay and at a club — and all the complications that might entail. Fear surged through her as she waited for his next message.
At 2:39 a.m., he responded:
"Call them mommy
Now."
He wrote that he was in the bathroom.
"He's coming
I'm gonna die."
Justice asked her son if anyone was hurt and which bathroom he was in.
"Lots. Yes," he responded at 2:42 a.m.
When he didn't text back, she sent several more messages. Was he with police?
"Text me please," she wrote.
"No," he wrote four minutes later. "Still here in bathroom. He has us. They need to come get us."
At 2:49 a.m., she told him the police were there and to let her know when he saw them.
"Hurry," he wrote. "He's in the bathroom with us."
She asked, "Is the man in the bathroom wit u?"
At 2:50 a.m.: "He's a terror."
Then, a final text from her son a minute later: "Yes."
More than 15 hours after that text, Justice still hasn't heard from her son. She and a dozen family and friends are at a hotel that has become a staging area for relatives awaiting news. Any news.
"His name has not come up yet and that's scary. It's just ..." she paused and patted her heart. "It's just, I got this feeling. I got a bad feeling."
On Monday, her fears were realized as another name was added to the list of victims: Eddie Jamoldroy Justice.
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Could Venus watch for Earth-bound asteroids?
Space 9 March 2007
A telescope placed near Venus would help find asteroids otherwise hidden by the Sun’s glare – impacts from these rocks could devastate regions of Earth (Illustration: Don Davis/NASA)
By David L Chandler
A dedicated space-based telescope is needed to achieve a congressionally mandated goal of discovering 90% of all near-Earth asteroids down to a size of 140 metres by the year 2020, says a report NASA sent to the US Congress on Thursday. Asteroids of that size are large enough to destroy a major city or region if they strike the planet – but NASA says it does not have the money to pay for the project.
The study says Venus is the best place for the telescope. That is because space rocks within Earth’s orbit – where Venus lies – are most likely to be lost in the Sun’s glare, potentially catching astronomers off guard. The telescope could be placed either behind or ahead of Venus in its orbit by about 60° – the stable Lagrange points, known as L4 or L5, where the gravity of the Sun and Venus are in balance.
“There are quite a few [objects] that are interior to Earth’s orbit,” NASA’s Lindley Johnson told New Scientist. “Those are really hard to detect [from Earth]; the opportunities to see them are very limited.”
From the orbit of Venus, however, “you’re always looking away from the Sun, always looking out”, he says. “And, of course, you can observe 24 hours a day – you don’t have to worry about night and day.” Even from Earth orbit, a telescope’s view of any given part of the sky is blocked about half the time by the Earth itself.
In addition, because Venus orbits the Sun in about two-thirds the time the Earth does, a telescope in that orbit would catch up with any near-Earth asteroids in their orbits more frequently than Earth does, offering more opportunities for discovery. “You’re able to sample that population more rapidly in the same amount of time,” Johnson says.
Missed deadline
An infrared telescope would be more effective than one that studies visible light, because asteroids reflect sunlight more strongly at infrared wavelengths. The background sky is also much less bright in the infrared, providing better contrast for discovering even small, faint asteroids.
With the Venus-orbit IR telescope, NASA could exceed its goal by three years, finding 90% of the most dangerous space rocks by 2017. But the space telescope is estimated to cost $1.1 billion for 15 years of operation, and NASA says there is currently no money in its budget to pursue any of the search proposals it studied.
That means it would take until at least 2026 to achieve its goal – and that is assuming a large telescope in Chile called the LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) is completed. But the LSST, which would be funded through the National Science Foundation, itself has not had final approval (see Unique wide-field telescope will make ‘sky movies’). Without the LSST, the goal would slip beyond 2030.
Former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart says NASA’s analysis was a good examination of the options, and showed that “the space option … is most effective” in dealing with the danger of an unexpected impact.
But Schweickart says NASA failed to deliver on an additional analysis that Congress had asked for, which included an examination of the relative merits of different proposals for deflecting an asteroid found to be on a collision course with Earth. “[NASA] did nothing, they declined to respond. That’s pretty disappointing,” Schweickart told New Scientist.
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Ohio School Closed After Enriched Uranium Discovered Inside: 'We Aren't Prepared for Something Like This'
By David Brennan On 5/14/19 at 5:30 AM EDT
U.S. School Uranium Radiation Cancer
An Ohio school has been forced to close for the remainder of the academic year after enriched uranium was discovered inside. Neptunium 237—a byproduct of nuclear reaction and plutonium production—was also detected inside Zahn's Corner Middle School in the town of Piketon, about 80 miles east of Cincinnati, WLWT reported.
Both substances are radioactive, and extended exposure to them can cause cancer.
The middle school serves about 320 students, and officials have been working to determine the source of the contamination and establish its extent. They have not ruled out a longer school closure.
Scioto Valley Local School District Superintendent Todd Burkitt made the decision to close the school on Monday. "Even the last couple of hours have been very hectic. There's just not a playbook in how we deal with this. We're kind of writing the script as we go. We're not going to take any chances on someone's child. We just won't do that," Burkitt told WLWT.
The state department of education said that the affected students had already fulfilled their necessary classroom hours for the year, so would not need to make up the missed days once the uranium issue had been addressed.
The source of the enriched uranium remains unclear. According to WLWT, some local residents suggested that the nearby Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant—located 2 miles from the school—might be responsible. The facility previously produced enriched uranium, including weapons-grade uranium, for the United States Atomic Energy program and for use in U.S. nuclear weapons. Uranium enrichment at the site ended in 2001.
The site is now subject to an environmental cleanup under the supervision of the Department of Energy. Department officials told WLWT, "Routine air samples in the area of DOE Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon revealed trace amounts of two radiological isotopes that were more than one thousand to ten thousand times below the established threshold of public health concern. DOE treats all detections seriously—even those that are at such low levels."
The statement said the department was "committed to the safety, health and protection of our workforce, the general public and the environment at all our sites." Officials said the Department of Energy is planning to commission an "independent third party to perform an additional analysis of the air and ground readings to properly assess the situation." The statement noted that the department was "confident that those findings will allay any cause for further concern."
Regardless, the development came as a shock to the local community. Jennifer Chandler, a councilwoman for Piketon, told WLWT: "We aren't prepared for something like this, that's for sure… We, at this point, don't know how far the contamination has reached. That will be part of the ongoing investigation." She noted that homes and bodies of water had tested positive for enriched uranium and neptunium.
This file photo shows yellow cake—an intermediate form of uranium after it has been mined—at a facility in the town of Jadugoda, India, on September 3, 2017. An Ohio middle school closed for the remainder of the year after uranium and neptunium 237 were found inside. Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images
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About MyFootballFacts
Founded on 15th of April 2009, MyFootballFacts is the leading source of football results, football tables, football facts, football stats and football trivia on the web. The site has its origins with the Webmaster and owner, Paul Yarden, who collected data about Tottenham Hotspur for decades. This data was later transferred over to excel files in 1995 and the collection expanded to include football competitions from England and around the world. MyFootballFacts covers all aspects of The Beautiful Game from the very first FA Cup matches in 1871-72 right up to today’s National and International football/soccer competitions from all over the world.You can find records on English Premier League, Champions League, UEFA completions, FIFA competitions, Football League, Southern League, FA Cup, League Cup, Non-League and World Football Leagues.
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Matter in the Floating World
Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers
Auteur:Blaine Brownell
Uitgever:Princeton Architectural Press
In Matter in the Floating World, materials guru Blaine Brownell (author of the bestselling Transmaterial series) travels to the offices of twenty leading material and design innovators in Japan, including Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, and Kazuyo Sejima, to find the connections between materiality and transience in their work.
It seems that Japan contains a higher number of internationally significant architects and designers relative to its geographic size than anywhere else in the world. Japanese designers regularly implement radical experiments in new materials and building systems that successfully address imminent energy and resource challenges. These technological achievements are combined with an acute awareness of the ephemerality of materials as well as an engagement with the "floating world" of changing cultural behaviors and shifting societal patterns. In Matter in the Floating World, materials guru Blaine Brownell (author of the bestselling Transmaterial series) travels to the offices of twenty leading material and design innovators in Japan, including Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, and Kazuyo Sejima, to find the connections between materiality and transience in their work. The dialogues in Matter in the Floating World are organized into four sections—lightness, atmosphere, flow, and emergence—that embody various approaches to materiality and evanescence in Japanese architecture and design. There is also a companion website that includes samples from the book as well as exclusive online interviews.
Blaine Brownell is an architect, author, educator, and former Fulbright scholar. He earned a B.A. in Architecture with a Certificate in East Asian Studies at Princeton University in 1992, and a Master in Architecture from Rice University in 1998. Brownell is considered one of the preeminent scholars of advanced materials for architecture and design.
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Home Editorials EDITORIALS INTERVIEWS Adam Ambruso Interview
Adam Ambruso Interview
Our exclusive interview with talented Actor, Producer and Entrepreneur Adam Ambruso who is in the human trafficking film Trafficked, alongside Ashley Judd, Sean Patrick Flanery, and Elisabeth Rohm. He is also the executive producer on the film. The film follows 3 young women across the world and the trade that happens in the shadows. Adam is the lead in the in Sony Pictures’ film Butterfly Caught, premiering at the San Diego Film Festival. He also recently wrapped historical drama, The Great Race, which stars Treat Williams and Henry Thomas.
Alongside this, Adam is currently focused on creating and writing a superhero action film set within the DC Comics Universe.
You can follow Adam at Instagram & Facebook
Who is Adam Ambruso, and what is most noteworthy about him?
I am an actor and producer that is committed to doing great work. What is most noteworthy about me is my role as an actor and a producer on the soon to be released film titled “Trafficked” that stars Ashley Judd, Sean Patrick Flanery, Elizabeth Röhm, and Ann Archer.
Tell us about growing up in Houston, Texas.
I’m very proud of my Texas roots and especially of growing up in Houston. Although it was rough growing up without the influence of a father and being reared by a young overwhelmed single mother, Houston was an amazing place to grow up with its lush landscape, rich tradition, and southern hospitality.
What did you study at the University of Texas at Austin, and why?
I majored in accounting and business and minored in drama and Spanish. I went for a business degree because I always knew that I would be a business myself as an artist and would own other businesses as well. I chose accounting because it was the most comprehensive business degree that they offered and was the number one program in the nation when I graduated. I studied drama knowing that that was my true passion and that it was to what I planned on dedicating my life. I love languages and plan on knowing several by the time I leave this planet. Spanish made the most sense, since it is the second most used language in the world.
Can you believe the amount of growth Austin has encountered over the past decade?
It is amazing but not surprising to me that Austin has grown as much as it has over the past decade. UT was a top 10 party, academic, and athletic university. It had the best of all worlds. When I was in college my friends and I all knew that we were some place very special and that it was even possibly the best place in the world in which to live. It always struck me as kind of crazy that the rest of the country wasn’t aware of it yet. I get the secrets out.
Do you get back to visit often?
I rarely get back to visit because I work so much, and my family moved Arizona, so that is my new adopted home where I spend most of my holidays. However, I plan on changing that. All work and no play is bad for my work and creativity and is just plane no fun.
Speaking of your schedule, tell me about what attracted you to your latest film? What attracted you to Trafficked?
That’s an interesting question. I’ve been asked that many times because of the subject matter. Honestly, when looking for projects my main objective is to find a great story, but I also have a strong desire to leave a positive imprint on this world and send impactful messages through my work. However, I believe the script finds you. That was definitely the case with “Trafficked”. My producing partner and mentor Will Wallace dropped it on my desk and asked me to give it a look and see if it moved me. Well, it definitely did that and more. I was saddened and enraged that such a terrible and disgusting human rights violation could be happening right underneath our noses. I felt that I didn’t really have a choice whether to make the film or not. This film had to be made, and I was going to see to it that it did.
You share dual duties on the film, as both an executive producer and playing the role of a Texas Ranger. Was this challenging?
In the case of this film, producing and acting simultaneously was not an issue. By the time I was filming, the lion’s share of my producing duties had been fulfilled.
What is the role of an executive producer?
The different types of producer titles are a little misleading and can be downright confusing. What they are supposed be and what they end up being are all too often quite different. In this case, I enlisted the help of Truth Entertainment, which produced “The Dallas Buyers Club”, which happened to be friends of mine. I also helped with the organizing of the team and with the Screen Actors Guild. I secured the majority of the locations for the film as well as helped with much smaller tasks that were necessary throughout the making of the film.
When you accepted the acting role as a Texas Ranger, did you consider the role too complicated?
We tossed around my playing several different roles in the film. The role of the Texas Ranger was a controversial one, which appealed to my rebellious and contrarian side. I understood who he was and what motivated him right away. He was a tad complicated by I got him right away, which made his complexity a lot simpler to embody.
What did you see as your greatest challenge in bringing this character to life?
The greatest challenge was to play him simply and embody the evil rather than show it. He just is who he is. Showing that dark strength without being overt was the greatest challenge of this character.
What movies really get it right about the serious issue of human trafficking?
I’m not sure if I can really answer this question because at this moment, I haven’t really watched many other movies dealing with this subject matter, aside from “Taken”, which was more about kicking butt rather than human trafficking.
You’ve been focused recently on writing. Tell us about this experience.
I have written two other treatments in the past for films I still plan on making. The script I am currently writing is a story that has been on my mind for the last five years. It will require a big budget to make, but I felt that it was finally time to put pen to paper and finish it. It is a story I could no longer wait to write. I have a strong desire to play the lead character.
The turn in your career – were you seeking a transition?
About five years ago, I was very unhappy with where I was in my life in many areas, and where I was as an artist and an actor was a major area of discontent. It was no longer okay that I wasn’t doing the kind of work and roles that I desired. I decided at that time to take matters into my own hands and started creating my own projects. Its shocking how fast the universe will supply you what you need once you make a decision and draw a line in the sand. Things changed almost immediately.
What is it about the Los Angeles, California area do you enjoy?
I have grown to love Los Angeles for many reasons. Firstly, it is a city where dreams can actually come true and do every day. It is exciting to be amongst a group of people who have not forgotten how to dream and experience what that energy feels like. I also love that fact that it is a global city and a true melting pot of all of the various cultures and belief systems. Its exciting to be in a city with this much development that is growing and changing so rapidly every day. I truly believe that is one of the greatest cities on earth.
What about restaurants? Any places you frequent?
The restaurants here are some of the best in the world and tend to be on the healthier side, which is perfect for what I like. There is tremendous diversity. You can find anything you want. The sushi and Thai food here are unsurpassed, and the vegetarian options are incredible and delicious. I frequent Sugarfish for sushi and Gratitude Café for vegan food.
What / who proves to be your greatest inspiration, and why?
My greatest inspiration are those who do not fear to jump into the arena and risk life and limb to fight for what they believe in and play the game of life with every ounce of energy in their soul. Examples of this are Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Arnold Scharzeneggar, Daniel Day Lewis, Steve Jobs, Ghandi, and most importantly Jesus, but there are so many more. I am inspired to leave an indelible mark on this world that somehow changes it for the better, but I am most inspired by how this world can change me and draw out my greatest potential.
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Why caddies shouldn't expect everlasting gratitude
by NCG staff on September 29, 2017
This summer Phil Mickelson caused a major surprise when he elected to sack his caddie Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay.
Most tour players regularly switch caddies but what made this split so newsworthy was that the pair had been together for 25 years.
The next player to make the same move was Rory McIlroy, who during the Open praised JP Fitzgerald for his contribution to his team’s cause but then the following week abruptly ended an association that had yielded four majors and 26 tour titles.
Arguably the biggest surprise of the lot came during the recent FedEx Series on the PGA Tour when out of the blue Jason Day announced he was breaking up with Colin Swatton.
The Australian had frequently cited Swatton as a father figure who had helped him overcome his troubles as a youth but even that was not enough to save him from the sack.
In all three instances the players concerned intimated they took the decision to preserve their friendships with their colleagues but clearly there was much more to it than that.
The fact that all three were struggling with their games was surely a factor.
Day was the only one to go into any great detail about his decision.
“I’m not breaking up with him,” the former World No. 1 insisted. “He’s still my coach and always will be. We’re still close, and we’ll always be close, but when you’re playing poorly, that’s when a true test of a relationship happens between a player and a caddie.
“Col has taken me from a 12-year-old kid to where I am today but slowly, over time, we’ve lost a bit of the chemistry between us.”
In typically self-deprecating fashion the late Dave Musgrove used to say that all a caddie had to do was to “turn up, keep up and shut up” but that is clearly not the case, not if you are to carve out a successful career working for the likes of Seve Ballesteros, Sandy Lyle and Lee Janzen.
A successful tour caddie must be capable of much more than simply carrying a 40lb bag over rough terrain.
He – or she – also has to be a mathematician, a wing gauge, a nursemaid, a friend, a psychiatrist, a valet and sometimes even a punchbag because few players ever admit to being wrong when it comes to club selection or the choice of a shot.
Day’s use of the word chemistry in his explanation why he felt he needed a change is interesting and probably gets to the nub of the matter in all three cases.
There is a very fine line between success and failure at the top of the professional game and if a player feels his relationship with his caddie is not working quite as well as it once did there can only be one outcome. The player is always the boss after all.
Chemistry between a player and a caddie is a difficult concept to describe but it was also much in evidence during the final round of the recent Open at Royal Birkdale when Jordan Spieth and his caddie Michael Greller found themselves in uncharted territory to the right of the 13th hole.
Even Mackay was impressed as he watched the pair calmly assess their options and then work out the yardage they had once they had taken a free drop on the practice ground.
“Jordan was off the grid there,” Mackay told his viewers while working as an on-course commentator for NBC. “You could make the argument that it was the most critical yardage ever given to a player in the history of golf.”
A couple of hours later Spieth himself also praised Greller, both for his input at that hole and also earlier when he helped him regain his composure after a dreadful start.
Greller showed that day just how much a top caddie can help a player. However, he knows better than to expect everlasting gratitude because that’s not the way it works.
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The Complete Johanna Gadski, Vol. 1 CDR (NO PRINTED MATERIALS)
The Victor Recordings – 1903-1909
Note: Original CD set is Sold Out; you will receive a CDR Version
Note From Ward Marston
The versatile Wagnerian soprano shines brightly in her amazing 1903 recording of Brünnhilde's battle cry and on many selections never before heard on LP or CD. This 2-CD set marks the first volume of her complete recordings.
1. TANNHÄUSER: Dich, teure Halle (Wagner) 3:40
11 November 1903; (C-692-1) 85013
2. DIE WALKÜRE: Ho-jo-to-ho (Wagner) 2:11
11 November 1903; (B-693-1) 81018
3. AÏDA: O patria mia (Verdi) 3:07
4. Du bist die Ruh’ (Schubert) 3:52
5 March 1904; (C-694-2) 85012
6. LOHENGRIN: Einsam in trüben Tagen (Wagner) 4:03
5 March 1904; (C-1075-1) 85029
7. Der Nußbaum (Schumann) 2:47
5 March 1904; (B-1076-1) 81024
8. Aus meinen grossen Schmerzen (Franz) 2:20
9. Liebchen ist da! (Franz) 0:45
24 April 1904; (C-1258-1) 85032
10. Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod) 2:30
24 April 1904; (B-1077-2) 81045
11. LOHENGRIN: Einsam in trüben Tagen (Wagner) 3:55
26 November 1906; (C-4061-1) 88038
12. DIE WALKÜRE: Ho-jo-to-ho (Wagner) 2:06
26 November 1906; (B-4062-1) 87002
14. Erlkönig (Schubert) 3:36
with Frank La Forge, piano
15. Verborgene Wunden (La Forge) 1:25
with La Forge, piano
16. Like the Rose Bud (La Forge) 1:15
17. AÏDA: O patria mia (Verdi) 3:12
8 December 1906; (C-4128-1) 88042
18. TANNHÄUSER: Allmächt’ge Jungfrau, hör’ mein Flehen (Wagner) 3:40
8 December 1906; (C-4129-2) IRCC-186 (unpublished on Victor)
19. TANNHÄUSER: Dich, teure Halle (Wagner) 3:34
17 March 1907; (C-4127-2) 88057
20. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: Mild und leise, wie er lächelt (Wagner) 4:11
21. STABAT MATER: Inflammatus et accensus (Rossini) 3:48
1. Widmung (Schumann) 2:10
14 January 1908; (B-5016-1) 87019
2. Ständchen (R. Strauss) 2:27
3. How much I love you (La Forge) 1:01
4. The Year’s at the Spring (Beach) 0:52
5. Ständchen {number 4 from Schwanengesang} (Schubert) 4:13
14 January 1908; (C-5019-1) 88112
6. Gretchen am Spinnrade (Schubert) 3:18
7. AÏDA: Ritorna Vincitor (Verdi) 4:06
25 February 1908; (C-5012) 88137
8. DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER: Traft ihr das Schiff (Wagner) 4:33
26 February 1908; (C-5013-2) 88116
9. MEISTERSINGER: Selig, wie die Sonne (Wagner) 3:42
with Marie Mattfied, mezzo-soprano; Ellison Van Hoose, tenor; Marcel Journet, bass and Albert Reiss, tenor
29 January 1908; (C-5043-1) 9201
10. MEISTERSINGER: Selig, wie die Sonne (Wagner) 3:44
29 January 1908; (C-5043-2) unpublished
11. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Voi lo sapete (Mascagni) 2:53
12. Irish Folk Song (Foote) 4:00
13. DIE VERKAUFTE BRAUT: Ich weiss Euch einen lieben Schatz (Smetana) 3:50
with Albert Reiss, tenor; piano accompaniment
30 April 1909; (C-7025-1) IRCC 140 (unpublished on Victor)
14. DIE WALKÜRE: War es so schmählich? (Wagner) 3:36
15. DIE WALKÜRE: Fort denn eile (Wagner) 2:12
30 April 1909; (B-7027-1) unpublished
16. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: Dein Werk (Wagner) 3:25
17. SALOME: Jochanaan, ich bin verliebt (Strauss) 1:34
18. GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG: Fliegt heim, ihr Raben (Wagner) 2:45
1 May 1909; (C-7030-1) 88185
19. SIEGFRIED: Ewig war ich (Wagner) 3:32
20. AÏDA: Fu la sorte ... Alla pompa (Verdi) 6:42
with Louise Homer, contralto
21. AÏDA: La fatal pietra ... O terra addio (Verdi) 8:22
with Enrico Caruso, tenor
7 November 1909; (C-8353-1) 89028
CD 1: All recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company
Tracks 1-10 with piano accompaniment
Tracks 11-21 accompanied by the Victor Orchestra unless otherwise noted
Languages: German [1-2, 4, 6-9, 11-12, 14-15, 18-20]; Italian [3, 5, 17];
Latin [10, 13, 21] and English [16]
Accompanied by the Victor Orchestra unless otherwise noted
Languages: German [1-2, 5-6, 8-10, 13-19]; English [3-4, 12] and Italian [7, 11, 20-23]
Where have they gone...those dramatic sopranos with brilliant flexible voices, cushioned with velvet, who could sing anything from Wagner to Mozart? With voices that flowed like syrup and power to spare, their singing filled the world's great opera houses at the turn of the century.
To set the stage, the legendary Lilli Lehmann made her last appearance at the Metropolitan Opera in April 1899. In 1900, Lillian Nordica was a dominant presence at the Met, and the remarkable Emma Eames had begun to assume more dramatic roles. The astonishing versatility of these singers is shown by the fact that in the 1900-01 season Nordica sang everything from the three Brünnhildes and Isolde to Violetta and Donna Anna. Eames opened the season as Juliette, but soon was singing Sieglinde in Die Walküre and Elsa in Lohengrin in addition to her first performances as Aïda and Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. But even in such company, the newcomer Johanna Gadski more than held her own.
Johanna Gadski was born in Anklam, Prussia in 1872, and studied singing with Mme. Schröder-Chaloupha in Stettin. In 1889, at the age of 17, she made her debut at the Kroll Theatre in Berlin as Agathe in Der Freischütz. She gained valuable experience singing in provincial German opera houses, returning to the Kroll in 1892. In 1895 she began to expand her career internationally, touring Holland and the United States. She sang with the Damrosch Opera Company in 1895-96, creating the role of Hester Prynne in Walter Damrosch's opera, The Scarlet Letter. Further appearances with Damrosch took place in 1898-99. She made her debut at Covent Garden in 1899 as Elizabeth in Tannhäuser, and later that year sang Eva in Der Meistersinger at Bayreuth.
The 27 year-old Johanna Gadski made her Metropolitan Opera debut in a Philadelphia performance of Tannhäuser, on 28 December 1899, substituting for Milka Ternina as Elizabeth. Within two weeks, Gadski made her official Met debut in New York on 6 January 1900 as Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer, soon adding the roles of Sieglinde and Eva. During the next two years at the Met, Gadski added roles from the Italian repertory singing Aïda, Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana), Valentine (Les Huguenots) and Amelia (Ballo in Maschera) demonstrating versatility equaling that of Nordica and Eames.
In 1904 Gadski left the Met for two seasons, giving extensive concert tours in the United States during 1905 and 1906. It was during this period that she studied the role of Isolde with Lilli Lehmann. She performed at the Salzburg Festival as Donna Elvira in 1906 (and later in 1910) with Lilli Lehmann as Donna Anna. She also sang Pamina in 1910, Lehmann performing as the First Lady. Upon her return to the Metropolitan Opera, she sang her first Isolde on 15 February 1907. In addition to the standard repertoire, Gadski sang in premieres of Dame Ethel Smyth's Der Wald in 1903 (the first opera by a woman to be performed at the Met), Ludwig's Thuille's Lobetanz in 1911 and Leo Blech's Versiegelt in 1912. Gadski's career at the Met lasted until 1917, but ended in a great deal of controversy.
Her husband, Captain Hans Tauscher, a former German Army officer, was the North American representative for Krupp, the munitions manufacturer. He had been charged with treason in 1916 by Canada, but was acquitted. When America entered the war, rumors were circulated about Gadski and other German singers at the Met, and they soon returned to Europe. From 13 April 1917, the date of Gadski's last performance at the Met (as Isolde) to 28 November 1921, no performances there were sung in German. The few Wagnerian operas performed, beginning in 1920, were sung in English.
Johanna Gadski returned to the United States in 1926, under the auspices of Sol Hurok, for a series of Wagnerian concerts. Her success led Hurok to organize a German Opera Company to support Gadski in performances of Wagner's Ring cycle. They toured ten cities, including Philadelphia and Chicago. In 1928, Hurok once again formed a company starring Gadski, and expanded the repertory. The tours took place from 1928 to 1930. Gadski formed her own company and appeared in 1930-31. She planned to return to the United States for yet another tour in 1932, but died early that year in an automobile accident.
Even a cursory glance reveals that Johanna Gadski was a major operatic figure. Her career was international in scope, but was focused in the United States during the first quarter of the century. She was neither a flamboyant personality nor a great beauty. At the Met this was in contrast to the charismatic Olive Fremstad and Emmy Destinn, who followed Nordica and Eames, not to mention the glamorous Geraldine Farrar. But Johanna Gadski was held in great esteem in an era that is revered today, and little of the awe that surrounds other singers of that period has extended to Gadski. She was overshadowed in her own time and is now lost in history. But when planning his upcoming season at the Metropolitan in 1907, Gustav Mahler wrote of his need of Gadski for productions of Mozart and Wagner. Listening to Gadski's recordings today, we can readily understand why Mahler needed her.
Johanna Gadski made almost 100 records for the Victor Talking Machine Company during her years with the Metropolitan Opera beginning in November 1903. Her first group reflected her versatility as she sang arias from Die Walküre, Aïda, and Tannhäuser, as well as a group of lieder. The same pattern was followed throughout her recording career. Her selections were often highly original; excerpts from rarely recorded operas, oratorios and songs alternated with scenes from Wagner. She seldom attempted to please popular taste, but unlikely as it seems, she did record "Irish Folk Song," "Annie Laurie," and "Kathleen Mavourneen." But Gadski rarely wandered far from the "heroic."
The first set of Victors included a lyrical performance of "O patria mia" from Aïda. The 2nd take reveals Gadski using her voice with great skill to produce a smooth legato, a brilliant high C, as well as several haunting pianissimos at the end. Notwithstanding the piano accompaniment and a substantial cut in the middle, this is an exceptional early performance of the aria. She recorded the aria again in 1906 with orchestra. This time Gadski's legato is not as smooth as the performance falls short of the magical 1904 version. Gadski's ability to float sustained notes in her upper register is unusual in such a huge instrument and gives her singing a dimension that few other dramatic sopranos have possessed. This ability helped her make the transition from Wagner to Verdi or Mozart. For sheer vocal excitement the 1906 "Inflammatus et accensus" from Rossini's Stabat Mater should be noted. Gadski competes with the trumpets as she sings brilliantly, concluding with several sustained high Cs.
Johanna Gadski's 1907 recording of "Senta's ballad" from Der Fliegende Holländer is remarkable. She had the ability to shift moods, first communicating the movement of the sea with full-voiced agitation, and then in dreamy contemplation, her beautiful voice shimmers as she softly narrates the Dutchman's story. Declaring herself his savior, she again bursts out with Brünnhilde-like force at the aria's conclusion. Her 1906 recording of "Einsam in trüben Tagen" [Elizabeth's prayer] from Lohengrin is also on a sublime level. Gadski's ability to sustain the long drawn-out phrases without a loss of intensity points both to her deep understanding of Wagner's heroine and to her technical ability as a singer. Using both marcato to stress the importance of certain words and portamento to smooth the legato, she gives the prayer a rare significance.
Johanna Gadski is superb in her 1909 recording of "Dein Werk? O tör'ge Magd" from Tristan und Isolde. Sometimes a scene such as this, rather than a familiar aria, gives a better sense of an artist's interpretive skills. Isolde's anxiety is sharply delineated as she impatiently waits for Tristan. Her urgency is expressed in every passionate phrase as Gadski pours out her great resonant tones. This is a model of Wagnerian declamation. Even without a full orchestra Gadski brings the drama vividly to life. One must remember that she was trained for this role by Lilli Lehmann, who grew up with Wagner as a family friend and sang at the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876.
Johanna Gadski concertized throughout the world and made numerous recordings of German lieder. Her voice often sounds heavy in these songs, unable to breathe life into them. The 1903 "Du bist di Ruh' " drags and Gadski seems to wander off pitch at the peak of the ascending line. She was more successful in 1908 when she recorded Schubert's "Gretchen am Spinnrade;" remaining intensely focused throughout the song, building up tension and then shifting the dynamics and gently concluding. I especially like Gadski's recording of Mrs. H. H. A. Beach's setting of Robert Browning's famous poem, "The Year's at the Spring" [Pippa's Song]. It is wonderful to hear a song that might be thought of as slight, treated so monumentally.
Perhaps that is the key to Gadski. She was a monumental singer, always choosing the "grand manner." Her education had evolved at a time when Wagnerian opera was thought of as "the music of the future." Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904) had written in 1879 that "The last remnant of beautiful singing in Germany will be destroyed by Wagner's Ring." For a singer trained in Germany during that period, Gadski was remarkably Italianate. Her voice was smoothly produced with a velvety timbre. She had a brilliant upper register, full and ringing, unlike many heroic sopranos who tend to squeeze or become shrill. Her interpretations, especially of Wagner, are often inspired. When she returned to New York in 1926, W. J. Henderson (1855-1937) wrote that she had become "almost a legend". Like an endangered species, recordings of singers like Johanna Gadski should be closely studied and finally, treasured.
© Harold Bruder, 1997
The year was 1903 and the fledgling Victor Talking Machine Company, which had hitherto only dabbled in recording serious music, inaugurated its now famous Red Seal celebrity series. The initial release comprised recordings by such notable singers as Emma Calvé, Maurice Renaud, Pol Plançon, and the young tenor Enrico Caruso, all imported from the Gramophone and Typewriter Company, Ltd. Soon after, Victor released its own recordings by Ada Crossley, Zélie de Lussan, Giuseppe Campanari, Louise Homer, Pol Plançon, Antonio Scotti, and Johanna Gadski.
Gadski's 1903 Red Seal discs, all recorded with piano accompaniment, possess a remarkable sonic presence. The sound on these discs is forward and vibrant, with the acoustics of the room clearly audible. Considering the immensity of Gadski's voice and the primitive recording equipment of the day, these discs are nothing short of miraculous. When played with the heavy tone arms of the period however, these very loud recordings tended to deteriorate rapidly, and few pristine, unworn copies ever surface today. I am most fortunate to have at my disposal marvelous examples of Gadski's early discs except her first recording of "O patria mia" from Aïda. Recorded in November 1903, this disc was withdrawn from circulation within several months and immediately replaced by a new recording of the same aria cut in March of the following year. This may have been due to the fact that the first take was recorded at such a high level that it could withstand only a few playings before wearing out. Other records from 1903 by Louise Homer and Pol Plançon were similarly withdrawn. There is also a possible musical explanation for the sudden demise of Gadski's first take of the Aïda solo. During the introduction, the pianist makes two rather jolting mistakes, and toward the end of the aria, Gadski seems unsure of the words following her climactic high C. Perhaps, Gadski herself may have requested that the recording be withdrawn. In any case, this is certainly her rarest record, and this collector has only ever seen the one copy remastered here. The disc is somewhat worn, and it is impossible to eliminate the blasting that occurs during Gadski's loudest notes, but every effort has been made to make this disc listenable.
Over the next five years, the Victor company reduced the sound level of its recordings in order to prevent their discs from wearing too quickly. Notice, for example, how faint Gadski's 1908 lieder recordings are, compared with the group from 1903/04. The reduction of the sound level was at the expense of sonic splendor; for never again, during the acoustic recording era, did Victor produce anything to compare with the brilliance of the 1903-04 Red Seal discs.
Finally, there is a fascinating point to be made concerning the two takes of the quintet from Die Meistersinger presented here. Three takes were recorded on 29 January 1908, but only takes one and two were saved. Neither take is a musical triumph for Johanna Gadski but she is certainly satisfactory. The first take actually becomes a musical disaster however, due to the careless mis-counting of bass Marcel Journet. The music is in 6/8 meter and counting Gadski's solo entrance as bar one, the problem begins during bar twenty-seven (CD2, Track 9, 2:12). Journet is supposed to sing three beats of E-flat, then three beats of E-double flat, followed by three beats of C-flat, beginning bar twenty-eight. Instead, he sings two beats of E-flat, one beat of E-double flat, followed by three beats of C-flat, which places him three beats ahead of the rest of the ensemble. He makes no attempt to find his place during subsequent bars, and remains ahead of the rest until, near the end of the performance, they all somehow find each other. To me, it is amazing that this take didn't just come to a grinding halt. What is even more amazing is that this take was chosen for publication over take two, which is perfectly adequate. Perhaps we will never know who made the decision and why, but at least we should feel fortunate to have both takes for comparison.
© Ward Marston, 1997
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Marvel to Launch New Animation Franchise ‘Marvel Rising’
Key voice cast includes Dove Cameron, Chloe Bennet, Tyler Posey, Kim Raver and BooBoo Stewart.
by Christine Dinh
Marvel Entertainment announced today, “Marvel Rising,” a brand-new, multi-platform animation franchise starring the next generation of Marvel heroes set to launch in 2018. The program will launch with six, four-minute digital shorts that spotlight Spider-Gwen with her new secret moniker, Ghost-Spider, and introduce audiences to the world of “Marvel Rising.” Following the shorts, a feature-length animated film, “Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors” will premiere later that year. Distribution partners for the content to be announced at a later date.
Meet the characters and all-star voice actors behind the all-new franchise “Marvel Rising” above.
The content features an all-star line-up of voice talent including Dove Cameron, Chloe Bennet, Tyler Posey, BooBoo Stewart, Kathreen Khavari, Milana Vayntrub, Cierra Ramirez, Kamil McFadden, Skai Jackson, Kim Raver, Ming-Na Wen, Steven Weber, and Dee Bradley Baker among others. Future stories and content are also being developed across Marvel’s digital and publishing platforms and will be announced at a later date.
“Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors” is a long-anticipated event, bringing together Marvel’s newest and beloved characters that have garnered major fan excitement over the last few years. Powered teens Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl, Quake, Patriot, America Chavez, and Inferno join forces as an unlikely, but formidable crew of aspiring heroes. When a threat no one could have expected bears down on the Marvel Universe, this ragtag, untrained band of teens have no choice but to rise together and prove to the world that sometimes the difference between a “hero” and “misfit” is just in the name.
“Marvel characters are so relatable because they live in our world and face the same challenges we do. So I’m very excited that our Marvel Rising team of heroes is so inclusive, reflecting characters with different backgrounds, particularly a set of strong female leads that our young audience can connect with,” said Cort Lane, Marvel’s Senior Vice President of Animation & Family Entertainment.
Sana Amanat, Marvel’s Director of Content & Character Development, added, “This project is unlike anything we’ve done before—from featuring the rising and fan-favorite stars of the Marvel Universe, to a visually distinct animation style, this is a groundbreaking animated event. It’s an action-packed adventure, full of comedy, heart and powerful messages for every kind of Marvel fan.”
Meet the characters behind “Marvel Rising”:
Gwen Stacy aka Ghost-Spider (formerly Spider Gwen) voiced by Dove Cameron (“Descendants,” “Hairspray Live”) – a free spirited teen who found her calling to be a super hero after being bitten by a radioactive spider and gaining spider-like powers. As Ghost-Spider, she aids those in need, but has to keep her alter-ego a secret from her father, Captain George Stacy, who sees Ghost-Spider as more of a menace than a hero.
Daisy Johnson aka Quake voiced by Chloe Bennet (“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Nashville”) – a leading agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. whose tendency for rule-breaking gets her into trouble now and then. Daisy befriends the young group of heroes and through them discovers how to become a better leader. She can generate powerful vibrational waves, which produce effects similar to earthquakes.
Dante Pertuz aka Inferno voiced by Tyler Posey (“Teen Wolf,” “Lincoln Heights”) – a brooding, dark loner on the run. Dante has the power of pyrokinesis, which makes him capable of generating flames – however, he is not fully in control of his fiery abilities. It’s a thin line between good guy and villain for the unpredictable Inferno.
Victor Kohl aka Exile voiced by BooBoo Stewart (“Descendants,” “The Twilight Saga”) – a charming, handsome, and troublesome young Inhuman whose quest for superiority places him into the wrong crowd. He can use Darkforce energy to create weapons and portals that allow him to teleport.
Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel voiced by Kathreen Khavari (“Marvel’s Avengers Assemble,” “Big Little Lies”) – a devoted fan of Super Heroes, especially of her mentor Captain Marvel; she is determined that she too can be a great hero! If only she’d be taken seriously. Kamala is equipped with metamorphic powers that allow her to stretch, enlarge, or shrink her overall size, parts of her body, or alter her physical appearance. She is especially fond of “embiggening” her fists.
Doreen Green aka Squirrel Girl voiced by Milana Vayntrub (“Marvel’s New Warriors,” “This Is Us”) – the uber-positive, hilarious best friend and teammate of Ms. Marvel. With advanced computer skills, enhanced strength, agility, durability, and senses of a squirrel, Doreen (along with her squirrel partner, Tippy Toe!), is primed and ready to become a successful hero.
America Chavez voiced by Cierra Ramirez (“The Fosters,” “The Secret Life of an America Teenager”) – a strong, independent young hero whose painful past drives her to reject leadership and remain a loner. America’s powers include superhuman strength, speed, and durability, plus the ability to fly.
Rayshaun Lucas aka Patriot voiced by Kamil McFadden (“K.C. Undercover,” “Grown Ups 2”) – a natural born leader who is quick to leap into action to impress his colleagues at S.H.I.E.L.D. Rayshaun strives to live up to Captain America’s legacy with integrity, honesty, and order above all. His skills include heightened strength, speed, stamina, and durability.
Gloria “Glory” Grant voiced by Skai JacksFron (“Bunk’d,” “Jessie”) – Gloria, or ‘Glory,’ is Gwen Stacy’s friend and member of their garage band “The Emm-Jays.” Gloria is a smart, hard-working girl that genuinely cares for Gwen, but has felt a distance growing between them ever since their friend, Kevin, was murdered. When being casual, Gloria’s known to be funny, sarcastic and sassy.
Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel voiced by Kim Raver (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “24”) – a bold leader who doesn’t sugar-coat and is guided by a strong sense of duty and honor. She’s the ultimate inspiration for our band of misfit heroes. She is equipped with superhuman strength, can fly at high speeds, and can project intense energy blasts.
Hala voiced by Ming-Na Wen (“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Mulan”) – Hala is a Kree Accuser bent on galactic domination. She’ll go to any length or treacherous means to achieve what she, and the entire Kree race, wants: Power. Hala is cold, cryptic and nefarious, often challenging those who try to oppose her.
Captain George Stacy voiced by Steven Weber (“13 Reasons Why,” “NCIS: New Orleans”) – Chief of the NYPD and Gwen Stacy’s loving, but fiercely protective father. Captain Stacy is a very disciplined, hard-working man that will stop at nothing to obtain justice – who unfortunately sees Ghost-Spider as a menace and a threat to society.
Lockjaw and Tippy Toe are voiced by Dee Bradley Baker (“Star Wars Rebels,” “Gravity Falls”). Two lovable and heroic sidekicks: Lockjaw is Kamala’s trusty, teleporting mutt and Tippy Toe is Doreen’s partner in crime and best squirrel friend.
“Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors” is executive produced by Joe Quesada, Dan Buckley, Cort Lane, and Eric Radomski; co-executive produced by Stan Lee, Sana Amanat, and Marsha Griffin. The film and shorts were written by Mairghread Scott. Alfred Gimeno served as supervising director.
For more information, check out “Marvel Rising” at www.Facebook.com/MarvelRising, www.Twitter.com/MarvelRisingSW, and www.Instagram.com/MarvelRising
Subscribe to Marvel HQ on YouTube for full episodes and more: www.youtube.com/MarvelHQ
Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors | Official Full Trailer
‘Marvel’s Avengers: Secret Wars’ Season Finale Sneak Peek Assembles the Team
The three final episodes of the season air Sunday, March 11 from 8:00-9:30am on Disney XD!
It’s a Wild West Battle on ‘Marvel’s Avengers: Secret Wars’
Airing Sunday, March 4 on Disney XD at 8:00 – 9:00am ET/PT.
It’s Time for The Rise of Doc Ock on ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man’
Watch a sneak peek from the new episodes airing Sunday, January 21 on Disney XD.
It’s a ‘Submarine Showdown’ for Captain America and Red Skull in a New Marvel Funko Short
The two old enemies face off once more, with a Funko twist!
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Save the Date: 29th Anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Come celebrate the 29th anniversary of the signing to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on Friday, July 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Access Center for Independent Living, 907 West Fifth Street, Suite 100, Dayton, 45402. Questions? Contact Maria Matzik at (937) 341-5202 or maria.matzik@acils.com, or 711 Ohio Relay ext. 1007. Space is limited. Sign Language interpreters and materials in alternative format available upon request, contact Maria Matzik 1 week prior to event. Note: The Access Center is a fragrance-free environment. Please refrain from wearing scented products out of consideration for people with chemical sensitivities and breathing problems.
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Posts tagged "court of appeals for the federal circuit"
News from the Federal Circuit: Two Federal Circuit Decisions
By The Attorneys of Passman & Kaplan, PC of Passman & Kaplan, P.C., Attorneys at Law posted in News from the Federal Circuit on Friday, February 15, 2019.
News from the Federal Circuit: Although the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) continues without quorum, its chief reviewing court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, has continued deciding federal sector adverse action cases. Recently, the Federal Circuit issued two new decisions of interest:
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News from the Federal Circuit: New Adverse Action Decisions
By The Attorneys of Passman & Kaplan, PC of Passman & Kaplan, P.C., Attorneys at Law posted in News from the Federal Circuit on Tuesday, January 15, 2019.
News from the Federal Circuit: Although the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is currently shut down and without quorum, its chief reviewing court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, has continued deciding federal sector adverse action cases. Federal Circuit decisions of interest issued since the shutdown began include the following:
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News from the Federal Circuit: Part of DVA SES Discipline Law Struck Down
By The Attorneys of Passman & Kaplan, PC of Passman & Kaplan, P.C., Attorneys at Law posted in News from the Federal Circuit on Tuesday, May 9, 2017.
News from the Federal Circuit: On May 9, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its decision in Helman v. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, No. 2015-3086. The Court struck down part of the statute for expedited removals of Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Senior Executive Service (SES) employees as unconstitutional, but left much of the statute in place.
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News from the White House: New DVA Whistleblower Office
By The Attorneys of Passman & Kaplan, PC of Passman & Kaplan, P.C., Attorneys at Law posted in News from the Whitehouse on Monday, May 8, 2017.
News from the White House: On May 2, 2017, the President issued Executive Order 13,793. The Executive Order creates a new office at the Department of Veterans Affairs focusing on whistleblower reprisal and disciplinary issues.
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News from the Federal Circuit: Delay Leaves Settlement Unenforced
By The Attorneys of Passman & Kaplan, PC of Passman & Kaplan, P.C., Attorneys at Law posted in News from the Federal Circuit on Sunday, January 8, 2017.
News from the Federal Circuit: On December 27, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals issued its decision in Gallegos v. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Case No. 2016-2120. A divided panel refused to enforce a breached clean record settlement agreement provision because of the delay in seeking enforcement.
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Developments at the MSPB: (b)(9) Prohibited Personnel Practices
By The Attorneys of Passman & Kaplan, PC of Passman & Kaplan, P.C., Attorneys at Law posted in Developments at the MSPB on Tuesday, November 29, 2016.
Developments at the MSPB: According to a recently-issued Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, officials of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) advised GAO that "there have been fewer than 10 IRA appeals filed since the start of fiscal year 2013 in which only a section 2302(b)(9) claim is raised." To help educate federal employees on some of the protections available to them under current law, Passman & Kaplan offers the following summary on what claims (b)(9) covers.
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News from the Federal Circuit: Joint Employer USERRA Claims
By The Attorneys of Passman & Kaplan, PC of Passman & Kaplan, P.C., Attorneys at Law posted in News from the Federal Circuit on Monday, August 29, 2016.
News from the Federal Circuit: On August 25, 2016, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its decision in Estes v. Merit Systems Protection Board, No. 2016-1081. Although the court rejected Mr. Estes' appeal, it adopted the MSPB's precedent in holding that federal contractors could raise "joint employer" claims under USERRA against the federal government.
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Tags: Federal Workforce, MSPB, News from the Federal Circuit, USERRA, adverse actions, court of appeals for the federal circuit, federal workforce
News from the Federal Circuit: MSPB Appeals & Title 42 Employees
By The Attorneys of Passman & Kaplan, PC of Passman & Kaplan, P.C., Attorneys at Law posted in News from the Federal Circuit on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.
News from the Federal Circuit: On May 11, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Lal v. Merit Systems Protection Board, No. 2015-3140, holding that a category of employees at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had the right to appeal adverse actions to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).
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Tags: Federal Workforce, Firing, MSPB, Merit Systems Protection Board, News from the Federal Circuit, Removal, Removals, court of appeals for the federal circuit, federal workforce
News from the Federal Circuit: WPEA Retroactivity Decision
By The Attorneys of Passman & Kaplan, PC of Passman & Kaplan, P.C., Attorneys at Law posted in News from the Federal Circuit on Friday, March 25, 2016.
News from the Federal Circuit: On March 22, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Hicks v. Merit Systems Protection Board, No. 2016-1091. While rejecting Ms. Hicks' appeal, the Federal Circuit followed the retroactivity analysis used by the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) in its earlier decisions concerning the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), leaving the door open to some WPEA provisions retaining retroactive coverage.
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OpEdNews Op Eds 7/6/2019 at 07:00:01 H4'ed 7/6/19
How the socioeconomic gains of China's Cultural Revolution fueled their 1980s boom (6/8)
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Republised from the Saker blog
Ending Western Propaganda in Red China
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There are almost too many socioeconomic gains for me to list" and yet the idea that China's Cultural Revolution (CR) represented not gains but regression is dominant in the West.
The Chinese know better, and that's why I'm discussing Dongping Han's indispensable academic and investigative book: The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village. Han intensely examined rural Jimo County, where he grew up, interviewing hundreds of locals about the CR and poring over local historical records. Han was kind enough to write the forward to my brand-new book, I'll Ruin Everything you Are: Ending Western Propaganda in Red China. I hope you can buy a copy for yourself and your 300 closest friends.
When I ended Part 5 the Rebel Faction Red Guards (who wanted a People's dictatorship) had, over the course of three years, democratically bested the Loyalist Faction Red Guards (who wanted to maintain a Party dictatorship) a new generation of revolutionaries had been fostered and were now taking over. What did their time in power produce?
"Since the beginning of the Great Leap Forward, the Chinese Government had been talking about eliminating the three gaps: between urban and rural areas, between mental and manual labor, and between workers and farmers. " It was only during the Cultural Revolution that some students took it so seriously that they adopted it as a concrete goal of the struggle."
What's certain is that it's very hard to have a revolution in power and culture in just one generation; Iran tried to speed up their revolutionary timeline by implementing the world's second and only other Cultural Revolution just one year after ousting the Shah, whereas China waited 15 years.
The 1949 Revolution installed the collectives, which earned total Western capitalist-imperialist enmity for promising the "five guarantees (wu bao)" food, clothes, fuel, education for children and a funeral upon death. This was a revolutionary and unprecedented social security system for rural Chinese. However, the social safety net for urbanites was much, much better, which inspired justified resentment.
However, we cannot only discuss the first pillar of socialism redistribution of wealth; the second pillar redistribution of power was almost totally absent in Chinese village life 15+ years after their revolution. This is made apparent by the fact, related by Han, that it was not until spring 1967 that a mass meeting was held in Jimo to discuss the collective local planning and goals for the farm year. "This simple act turned villagers from passive followers into active participants."
I refer back to my mathematical summary of the CR decade's gains from Part 1: "You just read about 2 times more food and 2 times more money for the average Chinese person, 14 times more horsepower (which equates to 140 times manpower), 50 times more industrial jobs, 30 times more schools and 10 times more teachers during the CR decade in rural areas. "
We can only understand these massive, unprecedented gains in rural areas when we accept that the CR was only able to create it only via local empowerment of worker/citizens. After grasping that, it becomes easier to accept Han's primary, and revolutionary, assertion: that China's post-1980s boom rested on this explosion of economic and human capital in the rural areas, which represented 80% of the country in 1980.
Revolutionary gains in education for rural areas
The idea that the CR persecuted intellectuals is totally false the CR created them, via 30 times more schools and 10 times more teachers. An "intellectual" does not only mean someone with 2 PhDs an everyday person's standards are much lower, and they were certainly much more sensibly lower in 1960s rural China. Han's research thus describes a stunning great leap forward in rural education which occurred across the entire continent of China, a total inversion of the usual Western propaganda.
Why was China so backwards in 1966 that children were not going to school? Was it because of 17 years of CCP rule? This is what the Mainstream Media would have you believe" as if in the pre-socialist era the same widespread lack of education didn't exist. No, the backwardness should be attributed to their "Century of Humiliation" as colonial victims. Beyond colonialism, why did this not happen in 1600, 1700 or 1800? The answer is the advent of socialism. The basic building materials were all available locally the communes built all the high schools collectively what was needed was to cut out the capitalist view of economics and to institute the local empowerment of socialist democracy. The resources for building schools did not come from heaven, nor foreign banks villages collectively pooled their resources and worked together, i.e. socialism.
Where did they get the teachers? There were huge advertising efforts to get educated teachers to return to their hometown i.e, socialist culture, as opposed to individualist culture. "This policy, unpopular among many government schoolteachers, turned out to be a windfall for Jimo's joint village middle schools." Something like this is anathema to the West. It is a denial of absolute freedom, I agree, but it is also the promotion of equality. Socialism insists that one MUST give back; the West says "give back" if you feel like it", and then their culture encourages them to not feel like it.
The schools also ended the absurd, elitist, anti-intellectual emphasis on passing tests this policy was only necessary when spaces were so very few. But in the CR era,"All primary school graduates from the seven villages would automatically enter the middle school without any examination." The capitalist celebration of "academic competition" exists only to cover the fact that their state refuses to create enough schools for all the applicants.
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Air Canada Increases Capacity To Atlantic Canada
Starting this winter, Air Canada will increase overall capacity to Atlantic Canada by 8%. Some routes will transfer to Air Canada Rouge, and other Air Canada Rouge and mainline services will be extended to year-round.
The service updates include:
Toronto-Saint John, NB, flights to be operated by Air Canada Rouge starting this winter
Beginning 27OCT, 2019, twice daily Saint John-Toronto flights will be operated year-round by Air Canada Rouge using an Airbus A319, replacing the Bombardier Q400s. This represents a 16% increase in available seats, while also offering an upgraded customer experience on the A319 which features Premium Rouge and Economy cabins, as well as streaming in-flight entertainment.
Halifax-Calgary year-round service on Air Canada starting 1MAR, 2020
From Halifax, Air Canada mainline will operate year-round non-stop service to Calgary on an Airbus A319 beginning 1MAR, 2020.
Toronto-Charlottetown Air Canada Rouge service now year-round
Flights operated by Air Canada Rouge in the summer will become year-round service as of 16DEC, 2019, with two daily flights operated with an Airbus A319. Air Canada offers nonstop flights from Charlottetown to Halifax, Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto.
Halifax-Gander additional daily flight during the winter season
Flights between Halifax and Gander will be operated year-round on the Bombardier Q400.
Moncton, Fredericton-Toronto flights now operated year-round by Air Canada Rouge
Air Canada Rouge service from Toronto to Moncton will be continuing year-round (three times a day) and Fredericton (twice a day), also operated by an Airbus A319, representing a 16% capacity increase through the winter season.
"Leisure travellers and business customers alike will benefit from these service enhancements which clearly demonstrate our commitment to these markets as we increase capacity on numerous routes in Atlantic Canada, which we have been serving year-round since 1942, longer than any other carrier," said Mark Galardo, VP of Network Planning at Air Canada.
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Micah Elizabeth Scott
is creating vids and tools for art engineers
Hi. I'm Micah.
I've always interacted with the world by making things, and by taking them apart to understand them. This was my reality. I had a weird childhood, and it was hard for me to connect with other people, but I could make things. It was like I could make my own tiny worlds.
It wasn't really the things themselves that I got attached to. I loved that experience of deeply understanding something, of creating something new. It felt like a kind of motherhood that anyone could experience. I wanted to share that experience with other people.
At a really young age, my dad sparked my interest in electronics and computers, but I quickly got interested in areas that he didn't have expertise in. So I turned to books, but books were expensive and they could be hard to find, and they didn't necessarily go that deep into things. So I learned to teach myself by experimenting.
Most things don't require a lifetime of experience to understand. Most things, you can look at and understand them without having to understand all the pieces because the people who built them didn't necessarily understand all the pieces. To me, this understanding really represents freedom: freedom from a world where other people control and own all the technology around you.
I got inspired by the open source software movement really early on, and I've spent most of the last 15 years making things that are often weird and complicated, but that I can give away for free. I've been lucky enough to create a few things that have been useful to others. For a while, I ran a service that helped other open source developers coordinate their work. I made Fadecandy, a board that helps people make LED art. Most of these projects don't leave any legacy beyond my experiences of creating them and all the things I learn from those experiences.
After haphazardly barely graduating university in Colorado while I was mostly working on my own projects, I moved to California and I got a job in Silicon Valley. I worked on things that were useful to a lot of people, but that internal beauty that had become so important to me was actually being intentionally hidden now. It felt very antithetical to my being to be working in this environment where you tell people not to look too closely at the software you're giving them. I really want to create things where you encourage everything to be dissected and understood. It's a compliment if someone wants to use your work to try to understand the field.
So, after 7 years of working in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, I burned out, I quit my day job, and started trying to find other things that would keep me going. Various things: art projects, software projects, contracting projects and my own things. But the thing that I've found the most enjoyment out of might be creating videos that document the process behind what I do. This takes something that would often be very obscure and hard for me to share, and it lets me communicate in a way that I think can be both educational and engaging.
My favorite things to create are things that other creators will enjoy, because I so enjoy the experience of creating things itself that I want to pass that experience on to other people. I'm often creating my own tools because I push myself to try things that aren't easy yet, then I push myself to give those tools away and make them accessible.
Video has been a really rewarding medium for me because I can really I think effectively share those tiny details that I get so excited about. It makes it easy to really zoom in on a particular part of the experience that I think people might find especially interesting, and to share that in this very carefully prepared way.
So, Patreon, this is how you can help. If you support me then I can spend more time just making things that you want to learn about, making content that really showcases the process, the details behind that part that you love and that I love, and not just making things that are going to be paved over with something else. You'll help me make more videos about electronics, more videos about art, more videos about the process that I go through to take things apart and understand them. More open source tools for making things and for taking them apart.
It's also an experiment in whether I can create tools and inspirational materials that are useful for other weirdos out there like me, who didn't really fit into the normal system and didn't learn about computers from school, but might learn about computers if they had the ability to tinker in the right ways. I think with my particular skills and knowledge I can make something out there that isn't really like anything else you can find.
So, with your help, I can keep making this stuff. I can keep trying to inspire other people who might learn the same way I learn, and most of all help people realize that it's in their power to figure things out no matter what.
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