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Home / News / What do algorithms really want? ASU’s Ed Finn investigates in a new book
What do algorithms really want? ASU’s Ed Finn investigates in a new book
From finding a movie to watch on Netflix, navigating traffic with Waze or Google Maps, fine-tuning your household budget with apps like Mint, or finding a date on Tinder, we find ourselves relying on algorithms more and more every day. But do we really understand them? What exactly are we buying into when we offload our data analysis, decision-making, and memory into these mysterious systems? And how is the proliferation of algorithms shaping the world around us, from high finance to pop culture?
Enter "What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing," a new book by Ed Finn, director of ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. The book delves deeply into the history of algorithms, investigating the foundations of computing in early mathematics and rarefied philosophical discourse. Finn, who is also an assistant professor in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and Department of English, argues that algorithms are mediators between our idealized dreams about perfect knowledge of the universe (and ourselves), on one hand, and the messy realities of people and organizations in the real world, on the other.
Finn’s journey into the elusive hearts and minds of algorithms creates unexpected bedfellows: economist and philosopher Adam Smith and the Facebook game "FarmVille," or Apple’s Siri and Denis Diderot, one of the creators of the world’s first encyclopedia. We caught up with him to discuss the history of algorithms, common misconceptions about how they work, the kind of future we’re building with and through them, and how we can get to know them better. (This conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.)
Question: How did you get interested in writing about algorithms, as someone with a background in literature?
Answer: I’ve always been interested in how computers are changing way we read and write. Something as simple as spell check has changed the way we spell by normalizing on a single spelling of words like “judgment” and, infamously, auto-correcting “cooperation” to “Cupertino” in many public reports and papers. Sometimes spell check feels like it’s encouraged generations of students to stop trying to spell things at all! Today when we think about what it means to be human, which is the fundamental question of the humanities, we have to consider our complicated relationships with algorithms.
Q: The jumping-off point for the book is that people tend to think of code and algorithms as purely objective and rational. Where does that idea come from? What are its historical roots?
A: Scientists and philosophers have talked about a universal mathematical language for the universe for centuries. One example I discuss in the book is Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, who imagined a mathesis universalis: a language that would perfectly describe the scientific laws of the universe. Computers emerge out of mathematics, and so we want to believe that they carry the perfection of that ideal world with them. But the more we bring computation into the world, the messier things get, because reality is not an ideal space; we can only pretend to understand what’s going on most of the time.
Ed Finn
Q: Are algorithms tools to expand and intensify the power of the people and groups who create them? Or do they exercise their own unique force in the world, beyond the interests of their creators?
A: It depends on what algorithm you’re talking about. Algorithms are ways for us to extend and magnify our thinking, our ideas, our intelligence, and that can be transformative in good and in bad ways. We’ve all seen instances where algorithms enable groups of people to act in ways that weren’t possible before, like Facebook and Twitter’s roles the Arab Spring. On the other hand, the pyramid of wealth erupting out of Silicon Valley only seems to be getting pointier, and we need to ask ourselves how we can use computation to truly make the world a better place, and not just a more efficient profit center.
Q: Are we in danger of being swamped by algorithms? After all, they’ve already wiped out video stores, undermined print newspapers and magazines, and they’re moving in on taxi companies and loan officers.
A: I do think the sea change of computation is just beginning, from automation in the workplace to algorithms that are fundamentally changing dating, finance, music production, and many other spheres of activity. These are arenas in which the pace of social and technological change is so fast that it sometimes feels like we don’t even have the words to describe what is happening. That said, humans are incredibly adaptable, so I think the question is not whether algorithms are going to take over so much as, how are we going to change as we do more of our thinking and our work in collaboration with algorithms.
Q: One of your major conclusions in the book is that we need to understand algorithms better. But we’re using algorithms more and more all of the time, for an ever-expanding range of tasks. So how can we have this gap in literacy that you talk about? What are we missing about algorithms, as expert users of them?
A: One of the great seductions of algorithms in culture is their capacity to simplify our choices. If you and I both rate a movie four stars out of five on Netflix, we might mean completely different things, but those distinctions can quickly get lost in the numbers. One basic form of literacy is to reflect on all of the choices that are not on the elegant menus and interfaces presented to us. In the book I talk about the word abstraction, a very important idea in computer science. Every abstraction also involves leaving out some context – some of the messiness of life – and so we need to become more astute about the abstractions we buy into.
Q: What can people do if they want to increase their algorithmic literacy?
A: There are a few easy places to start. One is to get a primer on how symbolic logic works. By and large, code is built on a fairly simple set of logical operators, that, when you come right down it, are all about switching gates between on and off positions. The fact that from the bottom up, algorithms are defined by true or false – and not “maybe” – is one basic thing to understand. Another thing I’ve found really helpful is to learn something about the hardware, not just at the level of an individual computer, but the networks, huge server farms, and physical infrastructure that makes the internet possible. People think the internet is everywhere, like some kind of spiritual presence, but it is very real physical infrastructure, and there are places like these centralized data centers that you can go to see it.
Q: Some of the most memorable analyses in the book focus on popular culture, from "House of Cards" and the movie "Her" to poetry and science fiction. How are algorithms changing the actual content and aesthetics of popular culture? It’s obvious that Netflix and Spotify revolutionize the delivery of content, but are they also changing what we actually see, hear, and read?
A: One idea I’m noodling on is what happens when every art form has its auto-tune. If you think about the art of digital photography, from high-end professional cameras to the lenses we all carry around in our pockets now, you see not only an explosion in the quantity of photographs, but also, I suspect, a rising level of quality. Most new smartphones automatically correct and improve images as soon as you take them, and that raises interesting questions about what it means to be a photographer or an artist.
Q: What algorithm do you rely on most in your own life?
A: Google. It’s not even a contest. For me, as I suspect for many other people, almost every knowledge-based question I have starts with a Google search or a delve into the terrifying array of archives Google has of my life: notes, emails, photos. Google seems committed to empowering and extending the minds of its users in very concrete ways, and I think it behooves everyone involved in so-called “knowledge work” to think about how much our thinking and even the horizons of our possible thoughts are shaped by platforms like Google.
Joey Eschrich
Center for Science and the Imagination
jpe@asu.edu
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A Test of Wills
#ATestofWills
Heidi Hahn, William Hahn
addiction | auditory hallucination | confusion | crazy | defense mechanism | depression | driving crazy | ego | egomaniac | freak out | idiot | lunatic | Mental Retardation | mood | moron | narcissism | nervous | obsession | passive-aggressiveness | pedophiliac | Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder | psychiatric hospital | psycho | psychology | relationship triangle | Sexual Abuse of Child | Sexual Deviation | suicide | writer's block
His co worker Freddie tells construction worker Will, "Just in a good mood."
Will: "What'd you start smoking crystal meth over the weekend?"
Freddie: "That's what I'm in a good mood about."
"A wonder I didn't end up in the nut house with that kind of shit going on all those years."
Will: "Dude, that's crazy." (0:03)
His wife Andy tells Will, "Okay, psycho, I'm sorry you got all that from my tone."
Will: "... completely retarded."
"I... like an idiot, clicked on it, and it accidentally downloaded."
"That's just really depressing."
"Yeah, if you can't find me, I'll be down in the basement hanging from an extension cord." (0:10)
Will cannot seem to start writing. He hears a woman's voice: "I'm a narcissistic egomaniac with an addiction to victimhood... and I hear voices in my head." (0:17)
Will tells Freddie, "You're going to keep up with this line of conversation I'm gonna be walking into traffic in about five seconds."
Freddie: "Like, uh, West Side Story...?"
"What, are you hearing things?"
Referring to his dancer friend Cherry: "She's got a pair of funbags that'll drive you insane, man."
Will: "Are you out of your mind?"
Freddie tells the waitress, referring to Will, "He's retarded. I pick him up at the state hospital once a month..."
Will: "... what makes you think Cherry is so obsessed with yours?"
Freddie: "You're nuts."
"... maybe her uncle molested her..."
Will: "It's very depressing." (0:20)
In his play Will's character Tori tells her husband Adam, "You ugly, dark hearted, degenerate freak... I had no idea what kind of a perverted little monster you really are."
Will tells Tori, "I'm walking around my own house like a convicted pedophile."
Will tells Adam, "Man, you are a moron." (0:37)
Will tells Tori, "Clam up, psycho."
"It's like you're this psychological archer..."
"... and take Rain Man here with you." (0:44)
Andy asks Will, "So what's with the freak out?"
Will: "Well, It's a little passive-aggressive..."
"I'm just crazy." (0:49)
Will tells Lori, "... if something like that turns you on, you're on the road to pedophilia."
Lori: "I'm attacking the male ego and its obsession with the penis as an emblem..."
Will: "It's simply a defense mechanism because you're an egomaniac..."
Lori: "You morons really don't realize that this shit is just mind control?" (0:53)
Will asks his imaginary 'porn girl,' "Am I going crazy?" (0:58)
Andy tells Will, "Now you just sound completely confused on top of being crazy." (1:03)
Freddie tells Will, referring to Freddie's girlfriend, "It's like she's got PSM seven days a week."
Will: "PMS."
"It's PMS."
"It would stand for Pre Syndrome Menstrual and therefore be... idiotic."
Freddie: "I explain to her that she's just a little nervous, right?... just making her a little nuts."
"It's because you're easily confused."
Will: "She didn't kill herself?"
"You're like some... mental defective kid." (1:08)
Lori tells Adam, "You're a lunatic. You need pills." (1:15)
Porno Girl tells Will, referring to Adam, "If I have to listen to one more... minute of that mealy mouth sexless crybaby shit, I'm gonna shoot myself with a gun in the mouth."
She mimics doing so. (1:22)
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Tag Archives: Xerox PARC
Who Were the Titans of Telecommunication and Information Technology?
Posted on August 31, 2012 by bigpictureone
Multimedia Essay By: David Johanson Vasquez © All Rights – Second Addition – Series: 1 & 2
. — Inventions are rarely the result of one individual’s work, but are created from collective efforts over time, from several individual’s observations, theories and experiments. Benjamin Franklin’s role in demystifying electricity, Michael Faraday’s discovery of “induced” current, Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi’s wireless radio communication… are just a few of the technology pioneers responsible for developing modern telecommunications. I regret not having the resources for this program’s inclusion of all men and women, whose discoveries made telecommunication and information technology possible.
Definition of technology — “the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.” (J.K Galbraith) “the application of scientific and other organized knowledge to practical tasks by… ordered systems that involve people and machines.” (John Naughton) For an alternative graphic format on this essay: www.ScienceTechTablet.wordpress.com Telecommunications took its first infant steps as the industrial revolution was rapidly compressing concepts of time and space. The first half of the 19THThe century witnessed modern society’s reliance on new innovations — steam locomotive trains for mass transit and electronic communication through telegraph technology. Steamships shrunk the world by delivering capital goods, raw resources and people to remote locations within fractions of the time it took before. With the industrial revolution nearing its peak at the close of the century, a new communication, innovation was developed, which helped transform the modern age into a postmodern era.
Inventor, Alexander Graham Bell’s Washington D.C. company, which developed the telephone, eventually evolved into a prime research laboratory. Bell’s vision for a R & D lab, created a foundation for the digital technologies of today. In the following century, another key, R & D technology titan— Xerox PARC enters the stage, which helps to set in motion personal computing and expands the information technology revolution.
The steamship S.S. Empress of India near Vancouver B.C.
From the private collection of: David A. Johanson ©
. Scottish born Alexander Graham Bell From the collection of: Library of Congress
The French Technology Connection
A French, visionary government in 1880, recognized the importance of Alexander Bell’s invention, and awarded him the Volta Prize. A sum of 50,000 francs or roughly, $ 250,000 in today’s currency came with the honor. The funds were reinvested into Bell’s laboratory for use in analysis, recording and transmission of sound. Growing proceeds from the lab were used for additional research and in education to enable knowledge on deafness.
The telegraph and telephone were the first forms of electrical, point-to-point telecommunications and qualify as early versions of social-media platforms. Over time, phone service, convenience and quality have steadily improved. In my youth during the early 1960s, I spent summers visiting relatives with farms in Wisconsin who had phones connected on “party lines” (several phone subscribers on one circuit). When picking up a phone connected with a party line, your neighbor might be having a conversation in progress. If a conversation was taking place you could politely interrupt and request to use the phone for urgent business. Today, phone service has become so advanced that it is taken for granted as a form of personal utility. In 1925, Bell Telephone Laboratories were created from a merger with the engineering department of American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) and Western Electric Research Laboratories. Ownership of the lab was shared evenly between the two companies; in return, Bell Laboratories provided design and technical support for Western Electric’s telephone infrastructure used by the Bell System. Bell Labs completed the symbiotic relationship for the phone companies by writing and maintaining a full-spectrum of technical manuals known as Bell System Practices (BSP).
An Invisible Bridge From Point A To Point B
Bell Laboratories instantly began developing and demonstrating for the first time, telecommunication technology, which we now depend on for economic growth and to hold our social fabric together. Bell accomplished the first transmitting of a long-distance, 128-line television images from New York to Washington, D.C. in 1927. This remarkable event ushered in television broadcast, creating a new form of mass-multimedia. Now people could gather together in the comfort of their homes and witness… live news reports, hours of entertainment and product advertisements, which helped to stimulate consumer spending in a growing economy. Radio astronomy’s powerful space exploratory telescope, was developed through research conducted by Karl Jansky in 1931. During this decade, Bell lab’s George Paget Thomson was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of electron diffraction, which was a key factor for solid-state.
The Forecasting Power of Numerical Data
An important component of renewable energy is the photovoltaic cell, which was developed in the lab during the 1940s by Russell Ohl. A majority of the United States’ statistician superstars, such as W. Edwards Deming, Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Paul Olmstead and Mary N.Torrey all came from Bell Labs Quality Assurance Department. W. Edwards Deming’s genius would later go on to help revitalize Japan’s industry and be used in Ford Motors’ successful, quality control initiatives in the 1980s.
The U.S. government used Bell Labs for a series of consulting projects relating to highly technical initiatives and for the Apollo program. Several Nobel Prizes have been awarded to researchers at the laboratory, adding to its fame and growing prestige. In the 1940s many of the Bell Labs were moved from New York City to nearby areas of New Jersey. …………………………………. Replica of the first transistor.
Smaller Is Better In The World Of Electronics
Inventors of the transistor, l. to r. Dr. William Shockley, Dr. John Bardeen, Dr. Walter Brattain, ca. 1956 Courtesy Bell Laboratories Perhaps Bell Laboratories most marvelous invention was the transistor invented on December 16, 1947. Transistors are at the heart of just about all electrical devices you’ll use today. These crucial artifacts transformed the electronics industry, by miniaturizing multiple electronic components used in an ever-expanding array of products and technical applications. Transistor efficiencies also greatly reduced the amount of heat in electronic devices, while improving overall reliability and efficiency compared to fragile vacuum tube components. Once more, the lab’s select team of scientist was rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Physics, for essential components of telecommunications.
The mobile-phone was also created in 1947, with the lab’s commercial launch of Mobile Telephone Service (MTS) for use in automobiles. Some 20 years later, cell phone technology was developed at Bell Labs and went on to become the ubiquitous form of communication it is today. In 1954 the lab began to harness the sun’s potential, by creating the world’s first modern solar cell. The laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) was dated in a Bell Lab, 1958 publication. The laser’s growing spectrum of applications includes — communications, medical and consumer electronics.
A Perpetual Revolution In The Sky Unites The World
In 1962, Bell Labs pioneered satellite communications with the launch of Telstar 1, the first orbiting communication satellite. Telstar enabled virtually instant telephone calls to be bounced from coast to coast and throughout the world. This development unified global communications and provided instant 24-hour news coverage.
Bell Labs introduced the replacement of rotary dialing with touch-tone in 1963, this improvement vastly expanded telephone services with— 911 emergency response, voice mail and call service capabilities.
Image used in Byte Magazine for an article on VM2 assembly language. Photo-illustration by: David A. Johanson © All Rights
A New Distinct Language For Harnessing Machines
It’s been greatly underreported that Unix operating system, C and C++ programing languages, essential for use in Information Technology (IT), were all created in Bell Labs. These crucial computer developments were established between 1969 and 1972, while C++ came later in the early 1980s. C programing was a breakthrough as a streamlined and flexible form of computer coding, making it one of the most widely used in today’s programing languages. Unix enabled comprehensive networking of diverse computing systems, providing for the internet’s dynamic foundation. Increasingly, Bell Laboratories inventions for the next two decades expanded micro-computing frontiers, which helped to establish personal computing.
In 1980, Bell Labs tested the first single-chip 32-bit microprocessor, enabling personal computers to handle complex multimedia applications.
A major corporate restructure of AT&T, the parent company of Bell Laboratories, was ordered by the U.S. Federal government in 1985, to split-up its subsidiaries as part of a divestiture agreement. This event proved to be an example of overregulation, which severed important links for funding technology R&D projects. Although AT&T previously had an economic advantage with a monopoly in the telephone industry, it allowed for necessary funding of Bell R&D labs. Indirectly, U.S. taxpayers made one of the best investments by subsidizing the foundation for our current telecommunication and information technology infrastructure. AT&T Bell Laboratories became AT&T Labs official new name in 1996, when it became part of Lucent Technologies. Since 1996, AT&T Labs has been awarded over 2000 patens and has introduced hundreds of new products. In 2007, Lucent Bell and Alcatel Research merged into one organization under the name Bell Laboratories. Currently, the Labs’ purpose is directed away from science discovery and focussed on enhancing existing technology, which will yield higher financial returns.
Pause & Reflect: Questions for continuous learning part 1.
1.) What were the first forms of electrical, point-to-point telecommunications? 2.) What revolution was taking place when early forms of telecommunications were invented and name at least two technology innovations? 3.) Define the word technology? 5.) Who founded Bell Research and Development Labs? 7.) Name at least two developments which Bell Labs were awarded Nobel Prizes in? 6.) Pick one Bell Lab invention, which you believe was most important for helping develop modern telecommunications or personal computing.
Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Will Appear As Magic.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Advance Technology Takes Root In The West
In the first half of the 20TH Century, Bell Labs’ dazzling R&D creations aligned seamlessly to establish a solid foundation in telecommunications. Most of the Labs’ bold research had been conducted in the industrialized, Eastern portion of the United States. By the 1950s, new evolving industries on the West Coast were benefiting from Bell’s technological developments. Palo Alto’s, Stanford University research facilities, south of San Francisco, attracted corporate transplants— most notably IBM, General Electric and Eastman Kodak. In 1970, XEROX Corporation of Rochester, New York established a research center known as—Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated). PARC’s impact in R&D would soon be felt, acting as a stimulating catalyst for personal computing and information technology development.
Creative Sanctuary For Nurturing Daring Ideas
Jack Goldman, Chief Scientist at Xerox enlisted physicist Dr. George Pake, a specialist in nuclear magnetic resonance to help establish a new Xerox research center. Selecting the Palo Alto location gave the scientist greater freedom than was possible near its Rochester headquarters. The location also provided huge resource opportunities to select talent pools of engineers and scientist from the numerous research centers located in the Bay Area. Once the West-Coast lab had a foothold, it became a sanctuary for the company’s creative misfits— passionate science engineers who were determined to create boldly. One of the few downsides for the new facility’s location was—less opportunities for lobbying and promoting critical breakthrough developments to top management located a continent away. XEROX PARC had an inspiring creative influence, along with universal appeal, which attracted international visitors. A collaborative, open atmosphere helps to define the creative legacy of PARC. The cross-pollination of ideas and published research between the R&D facility and Stanford’s computer science community, pushed digital innovation towards new thresholds.
A Premier Of Personal Computing Tools Is Unveiled
XEROX PARC, discovered a target rich environment of ideas from Douglas Engelbart, who worked at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park. Engelbart gave the Mother of all personal computing presentations in December of 1968, — astonishing the computer science audience with a remarkable debut of: the computer mouse, hypertext, email, video conferencing and much more. Bitmap graphic, graphical user interface (GUI), which provides window features and icons— are just a few of the revolutionary concepts developed by PARC for personal computing. The list of PC innovations and developments continues with laser printers, WYSIWYG text editor, InterPress (prototype of Postscript) and Ethernet as a local-area computer network—inspiring PARC Universal Packet architecture, which resembles today’s internet. Optical disc technologies and LCD, were developed by PARC material scientist adding yet more to its diverse technology portfolio.
Xerox PARC’s R&D, efficiently blended these vital new technologies and leveraged it all into a personal computer, workstation, called “Alto.” The futuristic Alto, was light-years ahead of its 1973 debut—bundled with a dynamic utility including: a mouse, graphical user interface and the connectivity of Ethernet. Interest in this revolutionary PC wonder kept expanding as countless demonstrations were given to the legions of intrigued individuals. The increasing demand for witnessing the power of PC computing was telegraphing the need for a new consumer market. For the first time, a “desktop sized computer”could match the capabilities of a full-service print shop. Advance technology always comes with a hefty price tag, and the Alto was no exception, making it beyond reach of most consumers. Despite a high price-point — excitement, fame and glory of Alto grew — as did admiration for the bold new world of Apple Computers and of its superstar founder — Steve Jobs.
Xerox Alto -1973 Was this the apple of Steve Job’s eye? It certainly was the first personal computer, which included most of the graphic interface features we recognize today.
Torch Of The Titans Lights New Horizons
By 1979, Apple was beginning to advance its own flavor of user-friendly interfaces with the development of the Lisa and Macintosh personal computers. Both products featured screens with multiple fonts, using bitmap screens for blending graphics and text. From early on, there were Apple graphic engineers associated with Xerox PARC — either through former employment or in connection with Stanford University. Apple engineers aware of advances made in graphic interfaces with PARC’s ALTO, prompted Steve Jobs to have a parlay with PARC. In late 1979, Steve Jobs with his Apple engineering entourage arrived to view an AlTO demonstration at Xerox facilities. The meeting’s outcome proved Jobs’ was a master of showmanship and marketing JudeJitsu by not disclosing a previously negotiated, sizable investment from Xerox’s venture capital group.
Gravitational forces began shifting in favor of Steve Jobs and Apple Computer to capitalize on the market potential for personal computing. PARC computer engineers and scientist clearly understood the economic potential of an information business they help to build… but top Xerox executives certainly did not. Xerox had a history of dominating the lucrative copy machine market — this was the business model Xerox corporate decision makers were comfortable with and they would not risk venturing very far from.
Most of PARC’s personal computing developments experienced the same frustrating fate of being cherry picked by others — allowing for lucrative opportunities to go for bargain rates to new companies like Apple Computers. Apple’s alchemy of — perfect timing, creative talent and visionary insight quickly aligned towards harnessing information technology products for an emerging market convergence. The creative inspiration and marketing savvy, which Steve Jobs’ applied towards personal computing—created seismic ripple effects, which we’re still experiencing today.
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Recently, there’s been a handful of media and tech industry critics, siting undeserved shortcomings of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. Too often, corporate R&D labs are faulted for not fully marketing their technology developments or capitalizing on scientific inventions. Rarely mentioned in these over-simplistic reviews, is an understanding an R&D’s purpose or mission of innovation, which is directed by the parent company’s strategic goals. Failing to understand the reality of this relationship, detracts from the technological importance and diminishes the accomplishments of these remarkable engineers and scientists. Lost in the critics hindsight is an under-reporting of the titanic obstacles facing the marketing, manufacturing and distribution of innovative products.
Thrilling technical breakthroughs are what grab headlines — rarely are the successful efforts of corporate marketing or brilliant production logistics recognized or mentioned. It’s a disconnect to judge a R&D’ lab’s success completely on the financial returns of its inventions.
The laser printer in particular, removes the myth that Xerox PARC mismanaged all of its developments. Gary Starkweather, a brilliant optical engineer for Xerox PARC, developed the laser printer. Starkweather had pitched battles with Xerox management over promoting the laser printer, but eventually he triumphed and the laser printer went on to earn billions of dollars — enough to repay the investment cost of Xerox PARC several times over. Eventually Starkweather moved on to greater opportunities when Steve Jobs offered him a job in Cupertino.
Brilliant R&D technology, requires an equally creative or open-minded group of executives for converting technology innovation into a marketable product. These decision makers must maintain iron-wills and courage to shepherd the technology product through its entire volatile development process.
IBM’s iconic 305 RAMAC, the first commercial ‘super computer,’ is a classic example of a product development challenge. Introduced in 1956, the RAMAC featured a hard disk drive (HDD) and stored a — whopping five megabytes of data. Apparently, the HDD storage capacity could’ve been expanded well beyond the 5MB, but was not attempted because — IBM’s marketing department didn’t believe they could sell a computer with more storage.
IBM 305 RAMAC — first commercial computer to use a hard disk drive in 1956.
R&D Labs take creative risk in developing new ideas, most of these developments won’t make it to market, but that’s the price of creativity. Using intuition for taking risks and knowing some failure is necessary to pave the road toward successful discoveries — builds confidence in trusting one’s creative resources. So often, the creative-process is misunderstood and undervalued in our society’s perceived need for instant control and results. In the past, I’ve personally witnessed this attitude reflected in our educational system, however the viewpoint is progressively shifting to realize the value of the creative-process. Steve Jobs and Apple Computers are a good illustration of a company, which traditionally emphasized and embraced the creative spirit. Creative employees are considered the most valued resource at Apple as they are encouraged to nurture their creative uniqueness. Shortsighted emphasis on quarterly results, which has affected most of American business culture, is refreshingly absent from Apple’s overall mindset, allowing for more sustained and successful business initiatives.
Where Have All The R&D Labs Gone — Innovation Versus Invention
The era of industrial, ‘closed inventive’ research & development labs — have faded into the background of yesterday’s business culture. Internal silos, once the proprietary norm, have been day-lighted to allow fresh ideas and collaborative efforts to circulate.
For the past 10 years, corporations have steadily reversed their long-term, pure scientific research in favor of efforts towards quicker commercial returns. In 2011, Intel Corporation, dropped its ’boutique’ research ‘lablets‘ in Seattle, Berkeley and Pittsburgh — opting for academic research to be conducted at university facilities. Intel continues to maintain its more profit oriented Intel Labs. This industry strategy, repeatedly cloned itself within the corporate research world, as it is far easier to realize a profit from innovation than pure invention.
Perhaps the golden-age of great research & development labs have run their course — but not before replacing the analogue, industrial era technology with a digital one. A century ago, using creative, innovative and bold scientific vision, Bell Labs set the standard for future R & D Labs. Xerox PARC, helped to extend Bell Labs’ marvelous inventions and innovations with a solid platform of creative research for developing mass markets in the postmodern telecommunications and personal computing of today. ~
Pause & Reflect: Questions for continuous learning – part 2. 1.) Name the parent company (based in New York) featured in the essay and its research and development lab, which moved into California’s Bay Area? 2.) What was the profitable product (used for duplicating documents), that this company had originally been built on? 3.) Give at least two reasons why this R&D lab was so inventive? 4.) What stopped the lab’s parent company from realizing more profits from its inventions? 5.) What was the name of both the young, iconic tech entrepreneur and his company (named after a red fruit), who was able to creatively package and market early Silicone Valley PC innovations? 6.) What’s the difference between invention and innovation? 7.) In your opinion, who were the top 10 inventors of all time and how did they make your top 10?
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WSJ mangles history to argue government didn’t launch the Internet | Ars Technica
A History of Silicon Valley
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Improving Men’s Urinal Aim
Richard H. Thaler is an American economist. He is perhaps best known as a theorist in behavioral finance, and for his collaboration with Daniel Kahneman and others in further defining that field.
He currently teaches at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and is an associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has organized a series of behavioral finance seminars along with Robert Shiller, another behavioral finance expert at the Yale School of Management. Previously he taught at Cornell University and the MIT Sloan School of Management
Thaler has written a number of books intended for a lay reader on the subject of behavioral finance, including "Quasi-rational Economics" and "The Winner's Curse," the latter of which contains many of his Anomalies columns revised and adapted for a popular audience.
Most recently Thaler is coauthor, with Cass R. Sunstein, of "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness" (Yale University Press, 2008).
Question: What is a “nudge”?
Richard Thaler: Let me give you an illustration of a nudge. It’s funny, it’s one paragraph in our book, but it’s by far the most famous example from the book. It turns out some genius who, an economist in fact, allegedly at least, an economist who works for the Amsterdam International Airport Schipol, got the brilliant idea to etch the image of a housefly in the urinals in the men’s bathrooms at the airport. This image of a housefly, it looks extremely realistic. You can see a picture of it on our website nudges.org. It’s located just near the drain. It turns out, that men, when they’re taking care of their business, they’re not fully attending to the task at hand, but, I’m sure there’s an evolutionary explanation for this, if you give them a target, they will aim. According to the people who run the airport, spillage has been reduced by 80%. That housefly has become my favorite illustration of a nudge.
So, what’s a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.
Question: What is the difference between a nudge and a push?
Richard Thaler: It comes down to values. When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it’s a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves, we need laws. Fraud is against the law, murder is against the law, drunk-driving is against the law. We don’t need just nudges.
On the other hand, sometimes we can combine the two. So for example, in some states if you’ve been convicted of DWI, Driving While Intoxicated, after you serve your sentence and you get your license back, you also have to equip your car with some device that requires you to pass some sobriety test before you turn the car on. I think that’s probably a good rule. So we can push the two but. Where we’re going to go on various public policy issues will be a political decision, where of course, people will differ.
Recorded on: June 19, 2009.
The behavioral finance theorist, Richard Thaler, explores an example from his book "Nudge": how images of flies on airport urinals reduce male spillage.
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University of Scranton Announces Wall of Fame Class of 2016
The University of Scranton will induct the four newest members into its athletics department Wall of Fame on Saturday, Feb. 18, in a ceremony held between games of the men's and women's basketball doubleheader against Goucher in the John Long Center.
This year's class includes Erin (Michalisin) Beirne '03 (women's tennis), Marta (DeLong) Cookson '05 (women's volleyball), Kelly Herlihy '06 (women's lacrosse) and Phil Johnson '78 (men's basketball).
The Wall of Fame was founded in 1970 to honor student-athletes, administrators and those in the community who have been instrumental in the overall development of the University's athletics program. This year's class brings the Wall's membership to 248.
The ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 18, will take place at approximately 2:35 p.m. The women's basketball game begins at 1 p.m., and the ceremony will begin approximately five minutes following the conclusion of the game.
Erin (Michalisin) Beirne – Women's Tennis, 1999-2002
(Michalisin) Beirne had a standout career for The University of Scranton women's tennis team, earning all-Freedom Conference honors three times (2000, 2001, 2002) and taking home the Freedom Conference Player of the Year honor in 2001. And in her freshman season, she teamed with Danielle Schneider as the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) doubles champions (1999).
In four seasons, she posted 40 career singles victories and 34 career doubles wins, all while playing at the top of the lineup in both. Her 40 career singles wins are currently sixth in school history and her 34 doubles wins are tied for fourth in Royals history.
Her play at the top of the lineup helped Scranton win the MAC Freedom League and overall MAC championships in 1999. The Royals were also Freedom Conference tri-champions in 2002. Over her four seasons, the Royals finished with an overall record of 36-11 (.766), including an impressive 20-4 (.833) in conference play.
Marta (DeLong) Cookson – Women's Volleyball, 2001-04
(DeLong) Cookson is one of the most decorated women's volleyball players in Scranton history, earning all-conference honors four times. She was the Freedom Conference Rookie of the Year in 2001 and Player of the Year in 2004. In addition to earning first-team honors in both of those seasons, she was a second-team choice in 2002 and 2003.
Her name dots the Royals' record book, ranking in the top 10 in five career statistical categories – third in kills (1,510), fourth in service aces (204), seventh in attack percentage (.266) and digs (1,336) and eighth in total blocks (278).
The Royals won the 2001 and 2003 Freedom Conference championships with her in the lineup, advancing to the NCAA Tournament in each of those years. They won at least 20 matches in each of her four seasons and finished with an overall record of 88-51 (.633).
Fittingly, she capped her career by being named the 2005 Carlesimo Award recipient for academic and athletic excellence.
Kelly Herlihy – Women's Lacrosse, 2003-06
Herlihy is one of the most prolific scorers in University of Scranton women's lacrosse history, ranking third on the Royals' all-time career lists in four categories – points (278), goals (193), assists (85) and shot attempts (412). She is also ranked ninth in ground balls (160), 11th in caused turnovers (58) and 24th in draw controls (46).
A two-time first-team all-Middle Atlantic Conference selection (2004, 2005), she was also an all-Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference first-team choice in 2005 and second-team in 2004. She helped the Royals claim the Middle Atlantic Conference title and advance to the NCAA Tournament in 2003 and 2004, and reach the postseason in 2005 and 2006. In her four seasons, Scranton was 50-20 (.714) overall and 33-7 (.825) against conference foes.
She is one of only three players in Scranton women's lacrosse history to finish a single season with 80 or more points, doing it twice (99 in 2005, 91 in 2004). Her 70 goals in 2005 are the third-most in a single season in school history, and her nine goals against Moravian on April 20, 2005 are the second-most in a single season in program history.
It was no surprise when she was named the recipient of the O'Hara Award in 2006 as the outstanding female athlete in the senior class.
Phil Johnson – Men's Basketball, 1974-78
A standout on some of the best teams in Scranton men's basketball history, Johnson was a starter on the 1976 team that captured the first NCAA Division III championship in school history. He helped the Royals finished third in the nation the following season as well as win Middle Atlantic Conference titles in 1975, 1976 and 1978.
Johnson ranks second in Royals history in games played (120), tied for fourth in career assists (429), fifth in career field goal attempts (1,515), 10th in career field goals made (613) and 18th in career points (1,398). Remarkably, the player just ahead of him in career assists is Paul Miernicki (Wall of Fame Class of 1990), whom Johnson shared the backcourt with for his entire career.
A Middle Atlantic Conference Northern Division second-team selection in 1978, Johnson was also a Middle Eastern College Athletic Association second-team choice in 1975 and 1976. He was the John "Les" Dickman Award co-recipient in 1978 as the team's co-MVP. In his four seasons, the Royals were an impressive 93-29 (.762), including 39-7 (.848) against MAC Northern Division opponents.
June 16, 2017 Carlesimo Golf Tournament & Award Dinner Online Silent Auction Now Open
May 18, 2017 Scranton Finishes Second In Final Landmark Conference Presidents' Trophy Standings
May 18, 2017 University of Scranton Wall of Fame Nominations Now Being Accepted
May 17, 2017 The University of Scranton Places Six On Landmark Conference Spring All-Sportsmanship Team
May 17, 2017 Sixty-One Scranton Student-Athletes Earn Landmark Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll Accolades
May 15, 2017 The University of Scranton Honors Senior Student-Athletes At Annual Luncheon
May 15, 2017 University Names Athletics Campus in Honor of President Kevin P. Quinn, S.J.
May 8, 2017 Royal Review: May 1-7
May 1, 2017 Royal Review: April 24-30
April 25, 2017 Final Round Of Voting For The Top Spring Sports Moments In Landmark Conference History Continues Until Friday
April 24, 2017 Royal Review: April 16-23
April 10, 2017 Royal Review: April 3-9
April 4, 2017 Students Turn Out To Celebrate D3 Week At The University of Scranton
April 3, 2017 Royal Review: March 27-April 2
April 3, 2017 University of Scranton Student-Athletes Spend Time Giving Back
March 31, 2017 University of Scranton Athletics To Celebrate NCAA Division III Week
March 27, 2017 Royal Review: March 20-26
March 17, 2017 Four Scranton Student-Athletes Named To Landmark Conference All-Sportsmanship Team
March 16, 2017 Thirty-Nine Scranton Student-Athletes Named To Landmark Conference Winter Academic Honor Roll
March 13, 2017 The University of Scranton To Add Track & Field In 2017-18
March 13, 2017 Royal Review: March 6-12
March 10, 2017 Scranton Moves Into First Place In Landmark Conference Presidents' Trophy Standings
March 6, 2017 Royal Review: February 26-March 5
March 2, 2017 University Breaks Ground At South Side Athletics Campus
February 27, 2017 Watch The Men's And Women's Basketball NCAA Tournament Selection Shows Today
February 27, 2017 Royal Review: February 20-26
February 16, 2017 Wall of Fame Class of 2016 To Be Inducted Saturday
February 13, 2017 Royal Review: February 6-12
February 7, 2017 Men's Basketball, Men's Swimming & Diving In The Running For Top Landmark Moments
February 6, 2017 Royal Review: January 30-February 5
January 31, 2017 Vote For The Top Moments In Landmark Conference Winter Sports History
January 30, 2017 Royal Review: January 23-29
January 17, 2017 Royal Review: January 9-15
January 9, 2017 Royal Review: January 2-8
January 3, 2017 Royal Review: December 17-January 1
December 6, 2016 University of Scranton Announces Wall of Fame Class of 2016
December 5, 2016 Royal Review: November 28 - December 4
December 2, 2016 Scranton In Second Place In Presidents' Trophy Standings After Fall Sports Season
November 28, 2016 Royal Review: November 21-27
November 21, 2016 Klingman To Be Honored During Tuesday's Basketball Doubleheader
November 15, 2016 Fifty-Four Scranton Student-Athletes Named To Landmark Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll
November 14, 2016 Royal Review: November 7-13
November 14, 2016 Six Royals Named To Landmark Conference All-Sportsmanship Team
November 7, 2016 Royal Review: October 31 to November 6
October 31, 2016 Royal Review: Oct. 24-30
October 24, 2016 Royal Review: October 17-23
October 13, 2016 Travel Alert: Central Scranton Expressway To Close This Weekend
October 12, 2016 Final Call: Help Select The Landmark Conference's Top Fall Sports Moments
October 11, 2016 Royal Review: October 3-9
October 4, 2016 The University of Scranton Announces $14 Million Renovation of South Scranton Athletic Fields
October 3, 2016 Royal Review: Sept. 26-Oct. 2
September 26, 2016 Royal Review: Sept. 19-25
September 16, 2016 University of Scranton and Landmark Conference Continue Focus On Sportsmanship in 2016
September 12, 2016 Royal Review: Sept. 5-11
September 6, 2016 Royal Review: Aug. 29-Sept. 4
August 8, 2016 The University of Scranton To Add Women's Golf In 2016-17
July 21, 2016 Nominations For University of Scranton Athletics Wall of Fame Now Being Accepted
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Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 7th May, 2018.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.
General Comment
A huge week – read on!
https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/640655/vic-government-spend-124-million-digital-patient-records/
Vic government to spend $124 million on digital patient records
EMR system to cover four health services
Rohan Pearce (Computerworld) 01 May, 2018 12:32
Victoria’s 2018-19 budget will earmark $124 million for the rollout of electronic medical records at three health services, the state government revealed today.
The Victorian government said that the EMR rollout at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne Health and Royal Women’s Hospital will see the records linked to the currently operating EMR system at the Royal Children’s Hospital.
The rollout will reduce avoidable errors and duplications as well as help patients receive faster care, the government said. Once implemented, the measure is estimated to save $34.1 million a year.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/vic-govt-commits-124m-to-e-health-records-489966
Vic govt commits $124m to e-health records
By Justin Hendry on May 1, 2018 10:12AM
Three hospitals receive budget windfall.
The Victorian government has set aside $124 million to bring digital health records to three major Melbourne hospitals.
Minister for Health Jill Hennessy and Special Minister of State Gavin Jennings announced the funding ahead of today’s state budget.
The funding will deliver electronic medical records (EMR) to three health services in Melbourne's Parkville Precinct: the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne Health and the Royal Women’s Hospital.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/australia-to-get-national-data-commissioner-489988
Australia to get national data commissioner
By Ry Crozier on May 1, 2018 11:59AM
New custodian part of $65m package.
Australia is set to get its first national data commissioner, in part to build public trust in the government as the custodian of significant data assets.
The creation of the commissioner role is one of a series of measures unveiled by the government today that will collectively cost $65 million over the next four years.
They form the government’s official response [pdf] to a Productivity Commission report into data availability and use that was released a year ago.
Other major initiatives that the government has committed to include:
New legislative and governance arrangements to enable better use of data across the economy “while ensuring appropriate safeguards are in place to protect sensitive information”; and
The introduction of a consumer data right, which the government formally committed to at the end of last year
https://www.themandarin.com.au/91944-governments-65m-plan-to-establish-a-national-data-commissioner/
Government’s $65m plan to establish a ‘National Data Commissioner’
By Stephen Easton • 01/05/2018
A new National Data Commissioner will independently manage the delicate balance between releasing open data from federal agencies for public benefit and risks to individual privacy, taking a lot of curly risk management decisions away from individual agencies.
Today’s announcement is the centrepiece of the Turnbull government’s long-awaited response to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into Data Availability and Use.
Along with new consumer rights, allowing people to obtain some of their data from private companies, the government response also explains proposed legislation aimed at facilitating more data releases, sharing, integration and analysis.
https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/640647/open-data-government-establish-national-data-commissioner/
Open data: Government to establish a ‘National Data Commissioner’
Unveils $65 million push to make more government data available
A new position of the ‘National Data Commissioner’ will be established as part of a $65 million, four-year open data push by the federal government.
The creation of the new position is part of the government’s response to the Productivity Commission inquiry into the availability and use of public and private data by individuals and organisations.
The government in November revealed that it would legislate a new Consumer Data Right as part of its response to the PC’s recommendations. The government said that this will allow individuals to access data relating to their banking, energy, phone and Internet usage, potentially making it easier to compare and switch between service providers.
https://www.themandarin.com.au/92071-tom-burton-data-rights-brave-world/
Tom Burton: Canberra creates a brave new data world
By Tom Burton • 03/05/2018
It is hard to overstate the importance of the federal government’s decision to create a consumer right over the data created about them.
Spurred by various inquiries calling for measures to enable consumers to more easily shop around for their financial and utility providers, federal cabinet has created a right designed to give citizens control over the data that is collected about them. The right will enable consumers to send their usage data to a competitor, to get a better deal based on their actual spending, usage and saving patterns.
The new right is predicated on the view there are enormous economic and societal benefits to better understanding the modern world through shared data. Better competition has been called out, but the benefits in collating and integrating administrative and personal data across virtually every sector in the community, are now obvious to everyone.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nsw-health-system-could-be-fully-digital-in-next-decade-490240
NSW health system could be fully digital in next decade
CIO plots road ahead.
eHealth NSW's chief information officer Zoran Bolevich has predicted a “fully digitally-enabled and integrated” healthcare system in the state within as little as eight years.
Speaking at Oracle's CloudWorld event in Sydney this week, Bolevic expressed a desire to make the state's "world class" health system "even betterm smarter and more patient centric in the future".
“We’ve set ourselves an aim that in eight to ten years we will become a fully digitally-enabled and integrated healthcare system that places patients, carers, families at the centre, and consistently delivers great patient experiences and great patient outcomes," he said.
https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/640709/digital-health-decade-say-nsw-ehealth-chief/
Digital health in a decade, say NSW eHealth chief
NSW eHealth CEO and CIO outlines his vision digital transformation of NSW’s health system
Stuart Corner (Computerworld) 02 May, 2018 14:15
The CEO and CIO of NSW eHealth, Dr Zoran Bolevich, has outline the goal of the state having a fully integrated digital health service within a decade.
Bolevich is charged with the complete digital transformation of NSW Health. He heads a health IT agency with a team of about 1000 people responsible for planning, implementing and supporting the largest digital health program in Australia.
In a Q&A session with Oracle SVP and CIO Mark Sunday at Oracle Cloudworld in Sydney, Bolevich said NSW had set a goal that, within the next eight to 10 years “we will become a fully digitally enabled and integrated healthcare system that places patients and their carers and families at the centre.”
https://www.medicalobserver.com.au/professional-news/a-big-bank-has-a-message-for-us-gps-should-we-listen
A Big Bank has a message for us GPs — should we listen?
Dr Justin Coleman
We might not embrace the thought of dedicating more of our time and resources to digital technology, but at some point, we will have to.
A GP goes to a financial planner at a big bank and asks “How do I go about getting a small business?”
“Easy,” comes the advice. “Borrow enough money to buy a big one and wait.”
This month seems like a dubious time for a bank to be dishing out business advice, but the Commonwealth Bank was perhaps too distracted by the Royal Commission to amend the release date of their report GP Insight: understanding the future of general practice.
This report on patient satisfaction with their GP found a few things wanting. The executive summary describes “a clear divide between patient demands and the services currently offered by practices”.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/adha-tries-to-forge-greater-e-health-participation-490124
ADHA tries to forge greater e-health participation
By Justin Hendry on May 2, 2018 5:29PM
Using a series of digital test beds.
The Australian Digital Health Agency is set to test new models of healthcare that are enabled or enhanced by the forthcoming personal e-health record.
The operator of the record system said it is looking to fund a series of test bed projects in partnership with industry and academia to feed into the creation of digitally-enabled services and new models of healthcare.
It will use the projects both to test digital technologies and to “produce evidence of the positive impact" new services or models of care might provide.
https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.atm.show&ATMUUID=08370059-B569-9095-42C15D64E446175E
ATM ID: DH1011
Agency: Australian Digital Health Agency
Category: 80141500 - Market research
Close Date & Time: 6-Jun-2018 2:00 pm (ACT Local Time)
Tasked with improving health outcomes for Australians through the delivery of digital healthcare systems and the National Digital health Strategy (Strategy) for Australia. The Australian Digital Health Agency is responsible for national digital health services and systems, with a focus on engagement, innovation and clinical quality and safety including coordinating and providing input into the Strategy. Our focus is on putting data and technology safely to work for patients, consumers and the healthcare professionals who look after them.
This is REI process is intended to enable the Agency to establish test bed projects that will produce evidence of the positive impact of new digitally-enabled services and models of care, and demonstrate that they are sustainable and scalable.
The Agency’s overarching business objectives are to:
1. promote innovation and create new digitally-enabled services and models of care that focus on priority health areas;
2. accelerate realisation of benefits attributable to digital health;
3. generate evidence to secure ongoing investment in digital health;
4. instigate sustainable and viable partnerships with industry and other organisations; and
5. inform the development of test bed framework for the enhanced models of care pillar in the National Digital Health Strategy.
The Agency is seeking Submissions to engage Respondents to provide services to establish geographical or health sector-based test beds. These test beds require a collaborative model of delivery and are intended to be partnerships between industry, government and other organisations. The Agency is seeking proposals by Respondents that use new approaches and demonstrate outcomes (e.g. by creating a new digitally-enabled model of care, or by generating robust evidence of the impact of an existing digitally-enabled service) that can be scaled nationally, and provide further business opportunities for partners.
https://thesydney.news/2018/05/01/digital-health-leaders-meet-in-united-states-to-forge-global-plans/
Digital health leaders meet in United States to forge global plans
Digital health leaders from 16 countries, Hong Kong SAR and the World Health Organization (WHO) are participating in the Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP), which has held its second Summit hosted in Washington DC on April 24-25.
Participants discussed approaches to global collaboration in a range of topics related to the delivery of digital health services and associated policy priorities.
The GDHP is a collaborative of governments, territories, government agencies, and the World Health Organisation to support effective implementation of digital health services. It was initiated in February 2018 in Canberra, Australia.
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Republic of Belarus, Canada, Hong Kong SAR, India, Republic of Indonesia, Italy, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, the Ukraine, the United Kingdom, United States, and the World Health Organization (WHO) are participating in the GDHP.
The GDHP is a platform for international healthcare leaders to share best practice in the use of data and technology to advance health and care, said Tim Kelsey, CEO of the Australian Digital Health Agency, which hosts the GDHP secretariat.
https://ajp.com.au/news/what-was-the-governments-response-to-the-king-review/
What was the government’s response to the King Review?
Sheshtyn Paola — 03/05/2018
Health Minister confirms the government has rejected proposals of generic medicines tendering and machine dispensing, but has not ruled out keeping the $1 discount or abolishing HMR caps as yet
In a highly anticipated move, Health Minister Greg Hunt today announced the Federal Government has released its response to the Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation.
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia welcomed the response, saying pharmacists “appreciated the positive tone of the Minister’s approach to the Review and to the future of pharmacy”.
http://radioadelaide.org.au/2018/05/04/my-health-record-storing-health-information-online/
My Health Record storing health information online
Posted on: Fri 4 May 2018
My Health Record is a means for people to have a summary of their health information stored online, for easy personal access.
Individuals control what goes into and who can access the record, including doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers.
Wills Logue, Regional Communications Coordinator for My Health Record, speaks to Small Change’s Lisa Burns.
https://www.australiandoctor.com.au/news/experts-call-gps-be-more-educated-about-data-sharing
Experts call for GPs to be more educated about data sharing
Call for more initiatives to educate GPs on tech literacy and avoid accidental data sharing
Geir O'Rourke
Medical Director says it's being as “open as possible” about its plan to share GPs' de-identified patient data, after some doctors complained they had signed up without realising.
The company, which provides practice software to 45% of Australia's GPs, is asking for permission to extract information — including prescriptions and immunisation records of all their patients — as part of its latest program update.
Dubbed MD Heart, the scheme will allow GPs who agree to the handover to compare their activity with other doctors.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/uks-nhs-in-breast-cancer-bungle-that-could-cost-270-women-their-lives/news-story/59629af852372a567b6bdc0658d6072f
UK’s NHS in breast cancer bungle that could cost 270 women their lives
Up to 270 women may have died after a NHS computer error failed to invite around 450,000 of them to breast screenings
Britain’s Health Secretary has apologised for what he called a “serious failure” that resulted in the mistake, which he said appeared to be the result of a “computer algorithm failure” dating back to 2009.
Jeremy Hunt said about 450,000 women aged between 68 and 71 weren’t given a chance to have a mammogram. Of those women, he said experts estimated up to 270 might have died prematurely.
http://medicalrepublic.com.au/couldnt-afford-emr-bought-robot-instead
I couldn’t afford an EMR, so I bought a robot instead
Posted by Jeremy Knibbs
Something is definitely rotten in the state of Denmark (Australia) when a manager running a major Australian hospital’s information systems looks at buying a hospital-wide electronic medical records (EMR) system then decides instead to buy a surgical robot for one of their busy theatres.
The most obvious “wrong” here is that the robot is winning in the return on investment stakes against an EMR.
You might question the competence of such a manager given the supposedly vital role EMRs promise in terms of both both safety and hospital efficiency.
But you’d have to think again.
http://www.naccho.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Expansion-of-My-Health-Record-in-2018.pdf
Be prepared for the expansion of My Health Record in 2018
What is My Health Record?
My Health Record is a secure online summary of an individuals key health information such as medical history, medicines, allergies and adverse reactions, immunisations, discharge summaries, and test and scan results.
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities, it means their important health information is kept together in one place that is accessible anytime by the ir authorised healthcare providers, including in a medical emergency.
Who gets a record?
Currently, more than 1 in 5 Australians have a My Health Record. Later this year, the program will be expanded to an ‘opt -out’ model, whereby every Australian will have a My Health Record created for them unless they choose not to have one.
https://www.racgp.org.au/newsGP/Professional/Wanting-more-for-less-You-can%E2%80%99t-have-your-cake-an
Wanting more for less: You can’t have your cake and eat it too
Dr Edwin Kruys 30/04/2018 3:19:56 PM
The Practice Incentive Program is shrinking, but the Government expects new quality improvement systems and GPs’ data, Dr Edwin Kruys writes for newsGP.
Dr Kruys believes the Federal Government is seemingly making ‘policy on the run’ in addressing changes to the Practice Incentive Program.
Most GPs were underwhelmed, to say the least, when they heard about the changes (read: cuts) to the Practice Incentive Program (PIP). Cutting the funding for nursing home visits is a hard sell for the Department of Health and the Federal Health Minister.
This is the wrong message at a time when there are more elderly people with complex chronic health problems in need of appropriate medical care, preferably in the community.
https://www.itwire.com/home-it/82642-g-medical-s-new-e-store-lets-consumers-buy-prizma-medical-smartphone-case-direct.html
G Medical's new e-store lets consumers buy Prizma medical smartphone case direct
Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Want to turn your smartphone into a 21st century medical monitor, akin to an early form of Star Trek medical Tricorder? Now you can.
Back on 26 October 2017, I conducted a video interview with Dr Yacov Geva, chief executive of G Medical Innovations, a man with decades of experience in business, life, success and the medical realm.
His company, G Medical Innovations, is based in Israel, but has since listed on the ASX, and was one of the reasons why Dr Geva was in town last year.
https://www.medicalobserver.com.au/professional-news/when-it-comes-to-drug-compliance-apps-are-no-quick-fix
When it comes to drug compliance, apps are no quick fix
Antony Scholefield
There’s a mountain of medical apps out there. But are they really any good? Can they prove their clinical worth in rigorous trials?
Researchers from the US took it upon themselves to find out by investigating the medication adherence app most highly rated for usability. That app is Medisafe, which promises to improve drug compliance by sending smartphone alerts if a patient doesn’t take their medicine on time.
In addition to alerts, it provides weekly adherence reports and allows users to set up a ‘Medifriend’, who receives alerts on their own smartphone if their friend doesn’t take their medicine, presumably so they can berate them about it. Sounds like a perfect combination of prompts to boost drug adherence in, say, people with poorly controlled hypertension.
https://www.australiandoctor.com.au/news/acrrm-secures-gp-remuneration-review-compact-government
ACRRM secures GP remuneration review in 'compact' with government
The deal echoes those agreed in secret by the RACGP and AMA last May
The Federal Government is promising to review the pay and incentives of rural doctors as part of a 'compact' signed with ACRRM ahead of next week’s federal budget.
It has also pledged to urgently finalise all outstanding legislative amendments required to grant the college full recognition as a certifier of specialist GPs.
The compact, made public on Wednesday, echoes those agreed in secret by the RACGP and AMA last May.
https://www.itwire.com/government-tech-policy/82587-government-denies-asd-plan-to-spy-on-australians.html
Government denies ASD has plans to spy on Australians
Written by Sam Varghese
The Australian Government has been quick to deny a story that the Australian Signals Directorate is trying to extend its spying powers to Australian citizens.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters in Cairns: "The current laws safeguard the privacy of Australians but also provide us with an opportunity to keep Australians safe."
The story ran in Sunday editions of News Corp newspapers and cited correspondence between the head of the Department of Home Affairs, Mike Pezzullo, and Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty.
https://www.itwire.com/government-tech-policy/82590-privacy-foundation-expresses-alarm-over-asd-report.html
Privacy Foundation expresses alarm over ASD report
The Australian Privacy Foundation says it is "seriously alarmed" about the weekend's report that the Australian Signals Directorate is trying to extend its powers to spy on Australian citizens.
The story ran in some News Corporation newspapers on Sunday and both the government and the secretaries of the two departments concerned, Home Affairs and Defence, were quick to deny that any such plans existed.
Adam Molnar, the co-chair of the APF's Surveillance Committee, said the move was "a dangerous precedent that would remove an already inadequate oversight mechanism that our nation’s top foreign intelligence agency has in relation to the rule of law and democratic accountability".
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/opinion/facebook-a-canary-in-the-data-goldmine/news-story/3ab29bf5005b512d4ad5cbfd3d1c6d88
Facebook: a canary in the data goldmine
Yohan Ramasundara
12:00AM April 24, 2018
Seeing Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg face the Senate hearing in the US last week showcased something that we don’t get to see that often: a company, and its CEO, held accountable.
The furore over the revelations that Cambridge Analytica harvested data on 87 million users — including some 300,000 Australians — via an app that tied into Facebook and slurped up data without permission isn’t all that surprising: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and others have built their business on user-generated data.
Cambridge Analytica caused such a backlash because it harvested this data without permission, and not only of Facebook users but also of people who have never used Facebook, thanks in part to “shadow profiles” gleaned from personal data.
https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/640739/no-need-fret-cba-says-mammoth-data-breach/
No need to fret, CBA says of mammoth data breach
Confirms data relating to 19.8 million customer accounts may have been misplaced
The Commonwealth Bank says there is “no evidence of customer information being compromised or suspicious activity” as a result of copies of financial data relating to some 19.8 million customer accounts being misplaced in 2016.
The bank confirmed a May 2016 incident when it was unable to confirm the scheduled destruction of two magnetic tapes with customer statements. The tapes included customer names, addresses, account numbers and transaction details from 2000 to early 2016, CBA said.
BuzzFeed News’ Paul Farrell broke the story, revealing that the incident took place when Fuji Xerox was decommissioning a CBA data centre.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/be-alert-but-not-alarmed-about-mammoth-cba-breach-say-experts-20180503-p4zd7e.html
Be alert but not alarmed about mammoth CBA breach, say experts
By Ben Grubb
3 May 2018 — 5:10pm
Commonwealth Bank customers should be “alert but not alarmed” about a mammoth data breach in 2016, which the bank chose to keep private, Australia’s former privacy commissioner, Malcolm Crompton, says.
As the scandal-plagued bank faces the fallout from this latest incident — which has prompted the privacy regulator to re-look at how the bank handled it — privacy experts said even if a similar breach happened again, the bank might not be required to disclose it under new notification laws.
Yet another scandal plagues Australia's largest bank, with the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull labeling it an "extraordinary blunder".
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=0a05e85a-0980-4539-81cd-68ad0928fdd5
Health data governance enforceable undertaking for reidentification of MBS/PBS data
PwC Australia - Simon Lewis and Stephen Baker-Smith
Australia, USA May 3 2018
The Australian Information Commissioner has concluded an investigation into the re-identification of Medicare service provider data within the de-identified Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule data published by the Commonwealth Department of Health on data.gov.au in 2016. Background and further information about the data published can be found in a LegalTalk Alert which was distributed on 11 May 2017. In the investigation, the Commissioner found that the Department of Health failed to take reasonable steps to protect personal information and to implement practices, procedures and systems to ensure compliance with Australian privacy laws.
The Department of Health provided the Commissioner with an undertaking, which included a requirement to establish an external review and audit into departmental policies and procedures for the release of data based on personal information.
The incident in 2016 has provided a valuable learning experience for Government agencies as they explore how to best realise the value of public data sets. Importantly, the Commissioner observed that the risk of re-identification may require limiting the sharing of some types of data to trusted recipients, and/or using secured environments to share information, rather than simply relying on de-identification techniques.
https://hinz.site-ym.com/news/398790/New-Zealand-spends-only-half-global-average-on-health-IT.htm
New Zealand underinvesting in health IT
Wednesday, 2 May 2018 (0 Comments)
eHealthNews editor Rebecca McBeth
An investigation by eHealthNews has uncovered a low level of spending by DHBs on information technology, putting existing systems at risk and inhibiting the transformational change needed.
New Zealand’s district health boards are spending around 2.3 per cent of their annual budgets on information technology, which is half the global average.
Experts spoken to by eHealthNews say 2.3 per cent is barely enough to keep the legacy systems running and does not allow for investment in the transformational change that the health system requires.
https://www.hisa.org.au/blog/answer-telehealth-so-what-was-the-question/
Answer: Telehealth. So what was the question?
Apr 30, 2018 | Australian Health News, Telehealth
…How can we transform healthcare?
Report by HISA’s Nigel Chartres and Dr Josie Di Donato
Genuine intent and achievement to transform care virtually, in a connected and codesigned way amplified the theme of the 2018 Australian Telehealth Conference in Sydney.
From Start-Up to Scale-Up
Opportunities for using technology that enables virtual, connected care were more and more apparent at this year’s Australian Telehealth Conference (ATC). Telehealth is no longer videoconferencing alone. It is no longer on the periphery and exclusive technology for the supported care of people living in the remotest parts of the world. Telehealth has stood the test of time and broadened the frame for healthcare delivery no matter where you live and no matter how far the nearest healthcare provider is located.
Telehealth has emerged beyond the veil of pilot and demonstration projects, as a key tool for achieving virtualised and connected care.
http://www.healthcareit.com.au/article/outgoing-head-garvan-talks-about-rapid-inevitable-transformation-%E2%80%9Clast-great-cottage
Outgoing head of the Garvan talks about the rapid, inevitable transformation of the “last of the great cottage industries”
Lynne Minion | 02 May 2018
Within two years it will be unacceptable for cancers to go unsequenced and genomics analysis will be the standard of care for rare and undiagnosed severe disability, according to the outgoing head of Australia’s prestigious Garvan Institute, as healthcare transforms from the “last of the great cottage industries”.
A pioneer, soothsayer and pied piper: meeting Professor John Mattick it’s easy to see why he is described as a man on the vanguard of transforming clinical care through genomics.
A precision medicine evangelist, he is preoccupied with placing its diagnostic and curative powers – once the stuff of science fiction and the high-tech province of medical research – into doctors’ hands.
https://www.itwire.com/telecoms-and-nbn/82625-labor-reiterates-commitment-to-fibre-in-nbn-rollout.html
Labor reiterates commitment to fibre in NBN rollout
The Australian Labor Party says it is committed to fast, reliable and affordable Internet for the country, and that means more fibre in whatever remains of the NBN rollout after the next election which it expects to win.
The party's acting shadow minister for communications, Stephen Jones, told iTWire in response to a query that work was continuing on the party's broadband policy for the next election.
In its draft policy for the next election, the word "fibre" has been left out, raising questions in some quarters that the party was planning to follow the current rollout policy for the national broadband network.
https://www.itwire.com/telecoms-and-nbn/82618-are-unlimited-4g-and-future-5g-plans-the-death-knell-for-the-nbn.html
Are unlimited 4G and future 5G plans the death knell for the NBN?
Unlimited 4G data plans for mobile phones have arrived in Australia at long last, and truth be told, unlimited 4G was actually launched long ago by VividWireless, but is this the end for the NBN?
COMMENT: Has the NBN been turned into the EndBN? Is it all over for Kevin Rudd and Stephen Conroy's dream of a national broadband network, since destroyed, as ordered by former prime minister Tony Abbott, and carried out by current Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's spectacularly inept handling of the NBN fiasco?
Given the fact that a robust, wired, nationwide fibre network is required for robust handling of the massive traffic volumes that today's 4G network and tomorrow's 5G networks require, it's easy to see that the answer is no.
https://www.itwire.com/open-sauce/82592-morrow-says-copper-is-slower-than-fibre-and-in-other-news,-the-sun-rose-in-the-east.html
Morrow says copper is slower than fibre. And in other news, the sun rose in the east...
NBN chief executive Bill Morrow has given the clearest indication yet that he plans to continue working in Australia after he leaves the company at the end of the year, issuing a six-page "white paper" last week in which he acknowledged that the multi-technology mix NBN has suffered in speed terms due to the abundance of copper.
This acknowledgement has been interpreted in varied ways by people, with some saying he was criticising the federal government, others saying he was being frank about the problems posed by copper, and yet others saying he had finally seen the light.
But what Morrow did is common among people who are perceived by the public as having screwed up in style and want to make amends so that they continue in some other public role without looking too much like dunderheads.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-chief-gets-frank-about-coppers-problems-489788
NBN Co chief gets frank about copper's problems
By Ry Crozier on Apr 27, 2018 1:24PM
Helped quicken the rollout but caused ongoing issues.
NBN Co’s outgoing CEO Bill Morrow has issued a frank assessment of how increased use of copper in the network has caused both the company and its customers problems.
Morrow stopped short of criticising the technology switch from majority fibre to a mix of access technologies - which happened under a change of government.
He still believed that reusing the copper and HFC networks was required to meet the expected pace of the rollout.
http://www.afr.com/technology/web/nbn/needless-bill-morrow-nbn-essay-an-effort-in-legacy-building-and-blame-dodging-20180427-h0zd7a
Apr 30 2018 at 2:21 PM
Needless Bill Morrow NBN essay an effort in legacy building and blame dodging
by Paul Smith
In what has become a ridiculously regular occurrence, the construction of the National Broadband Network was again plunged into furious political debate at the end of last week, when departing chief executive Bill Morrow published a "position paper," laying out a range of historic and existing issues with the project.
The essay covered a perspective on the original need for improved broadband, a potted history of the countless funds it has had to give to Telstra for its existing infrastructure and a factual breakdown of why the copper used in the fibre to the node heavy rollout, mandated by Malcolm Turnbull, was slower and more prone to problems than the fibre to the premise (FTTP) model used by the previous Labor government.
He then concluded that, despite all of these problems, the government's approach was essentially correct in the context of building the NBN faster and cheaper than Labor's model, and providing a service that is good enough for now.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/turnbull-sabotaged-nbn-shorten/news-story/8dbf2e578d4b8eb97e86953b3f81cd8b
Turnbull sabotaged NBN: Shorten
3:09PM April 27, 2018
Supratim Adhikari
Opposition leader Bill Shorten says Malcolm Turnbull has sabotaged the NBN, following The Australian’s report that the head of NBN Co, Bill Morrow, had highlighted the Coalition’s multi-technology approach as source of customer confusion.
“Malcolm Turnbull has absolutely given Australia a second-rate NBN and even his outgoing CEO has confirmed that fact,” Mr Shorten said at a Melbourne press conference.
“Turnbull has stuffed up the NBN because he backed in a cheaper technology which is now going to deliver sub optimal outcomes.
Posted by Dr David G More MB PhD at Monday, May 07, 2018
Have I read this market research tender correctly?
"This is REI process is intended to enable the Agency to establish test bed projects that will produce evidence of the positive impact of new digitally-enabled services and models of care, and demonstrate that they are sustainable and scalable. "
They want the test beds to produce "... evidence of the positive impact of new digitally-enabled services and models of care"
Does that mean they are not interested in negative evidence? That they will ignore negative evidence? That they will only use evidence that supports their preconceived notions and objectives?
Do these people know how proper science and research works?
Unless clarity is not a measure these days I think you are correct Bernard. I also found this in the ATM in AusTender.
It would appear to support you assumption
As someone made mention last week - Evidence is in the eye of the beholder.
How much more embarrassing can the ADHA get?
Perhaps what they meant to say was ‘ evidence of where new models of care might have a positive impact?’ However now the consequences ( and mounting disbenefits) Rolf the disruption out of control information technology is having on peoples lives, productivity and privacy might be a more worthy undertaking. Better to improve the broken. I get a sense ADHA is going down the path of ‘if it works let’s break it for the sake of it’
I am pretty sure the ADHA meant to state what it stated. The goal will be a library of referencable publications and other assorted things. Citations make for impressive documents and it disarms questioning of the currency and relevance. As they say it is about securing money through the tick box ATM.
Federal Government is seemingly making ‘policy on the run (and its Agencies) sums things up rather well I think.
This new Data Commissioner looks interesting and worth keeping an eye on. With the MHR secondary Use to be announced I can only ask that the ADHA not be selected to operate the secondary use, nor any form of data analytics. I am sure they would mean well but it is clear they have a tendency to bend facts or ignore data that does not support their agenda. Secondly it is clear they cannot operate even simply IT infrastructure. I can only imagine what sort of predicament we would end up in as they outsource to some third party like Microsoft or more likely Oracle. Good vendors, however could they be held accountable? could they be controlled? or trusted to not reuse data for there own purposes?
IANAL but, the current enabling legislation states:
"15 Functions of the System Operator [i.e. ADHA]
(ma) to prepare and provide de-identified data for research or public health purposes;"
My reading of the above is the ADHA can de-identify (whatever that means, it isn't specified) myhr data and hand it over to the ABS as part of the MADIP program as well as to other unspecified bodies.
"70 Disclosure for law enforcement purposes, etc.
(1) The System Operator is authorised to use or disclose health information included in a healthcare recipient’s My Health Record if the System Operator reasonably believes that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary for one or more of the following things done by, or on behalf of, an enforcement body:
(c) the protection of the public revenue;"
This seems to mean that an enforcement body (e.g. one of the agencies charged with investigating fraud or suspected fraud) can ask for and get myhr data.
Neither of these require patient consent or notification.
Going opt-out seems to have trashed the requirement to get patient consent to either register them for a record or obtain their approval to upload to or access data in their record.
The default will be: everybody is registered for a myhr, all data is accessible by approved health care professionals and a few, select others, the government has the legal power to access all data (historical, deleted, access controlled) for research and in "the protection of the public revenue".
WCGW?
The government has already been accused of releasing the PFAS (RAAF Base toxic chemical) report in budget week to take attention away from it. “You’d almost think the intention would be that it slip under the radar.” MP Cathy O’Toole said.
If the secondary use report comes out this week, it may well look the same.
I'm still puzzled by the Request For Expressions Of Interest For Digital Health Test Beds (not market research, my bad)
The REI tender document says:
The first tranche of test beds should include use of the My Health Record system and how it can be utilised to create new, digitally-enabled services and models of care, particularly where these can be rapidly implemented or are already underway. This is with a view to leveraging the significant efforts underway in 2018 to raise awareness of the My Health Record and expand participation, and to use this national infrastructure as a platform for innovation. The program will also inform the development of the test bed framework for the enhanced models of care priority set out in the Strategy.
It is not clear if ADHA wants a test bed to identify the benefits of "new, digitally-enabled services and models of care" or they want someone to come up with "new, digitally-enabled services and models of care" that can be tested.
If it is the former, does that mean the government has created something it doesn't know what to use it for? If it is the latter, why are they doing in now, during the opt-out period while people are expected to decide if they want to opt-out.
Whatever the answer is, it would appear that in the 6 odd years since PCeHR went live, nothing has been tested in terms of health outcomes.
And I was wondering if the description on austender was not a faithful representation of the tender itself, but having looked at the REI itself, ADHA is definitely only interested in identifying benefits. There is no requirement to identify or report on negative consequences or increased costs.
I wonder what ADHA's opinion of articles like this is:
It Ain’t Necessarily So: The Electronic Health Record And The Unlikely Prospect Of Reducing Health Care Costs
Much of the literature on EHRs fails to support the primary rationales for using them.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.25.4.1079
And that was published in 2006, so NEHTA/ADHA between them have had a while to address these issues.
Recognising that myhr isn't even an Electronic Health Record\
Something doesn't make sense.
Bernard, you might find NHS test beds and NHS new models of care more informative, everything from think like a patient, act like a tax payer to bonfire of the fax is a poor ripe off from the UK. Which is perfect as the NHS is what DoHA want
Are you suggesting the ADHA is like some cheap cover band?
ADHA could do a tribute to ABBA with 'Money Money Money'
These test beds, I find them a little constrained, there is no requirement to provide evidence of scalability or even sustainability. If we are to have digital health become part of medicine then is it unreasonable to ask that digital health technologies follow a similar evalauation pathway as any other technology in health, such as medicines? We don’t just present a power point on the benefits of a new treatment and then test it in the population without due diligence based of scientific methods.
The government health record has not even been audited by the Australian computer scociety. There is enough evidence from members of the community that suggests the MyHR is perhaps less than fit-for-purpose
It's not the test beds or even new models of care based upon myhr that concern me it's the strong impression the tender gives that they are only interested in identifying benefits. Increased costs (such as making GPs manage two eHRs) and risks (such as old data, inaccurate data, incomplete data, privacy risks) do not seem to be in scope.
Has anyone seen any mention at all of ADHA, Digital Health, the womb to the tomb surveillance of all Australians, sorry, the Baby Book, in last night's budget?
@7:25 that renewed attempt (there have been a few now) to create an child record is probably a COAG initiative. The federal budget would not call it out the figures would be to small.
The ADHA is now just an administrative entity overseeing the GovHR. Overtime it’s budgets will be reduced to operating costs and whatever mammoth licensing, hosting and operating cost the GovHR system will cost.
I predict COAG will establish a new entity to tackle eHealth proper. Maybe something similar to what AHHA proposed in their blueprint.
I feel for many at ADHA who signed up to make a difference and have been used to justify the central PDF repository which seems less and less to do with healthcare
A digital baby book.
https://www.themandarin.com.au/92441-federal-budget-2018-digital-government/
'Not all new aspects of Australia’s immediate “digital future” that are funded in this year’s budget are labelled as such, however.
One that seems likely to ring the privacy alarm bells is a new “national digital baby book” costing $5m over two years. One glossy budget brochure explains this will “ensure all newborn Australians have access to a lifelong electronic health record” instead of the old hardcopy versions, while the budget entry for the Healthy Active Beginnings program, to which it belongs, states the digital baby book will “enable Australians to use technology to support the vital first 2,000 days of a child’s life”.'
It doesn't seem to be mentioed in the ADHA budget papers:
http://www.msac.gov.au/internet/budget/publishing.nsf/Content/2016-2017_Health_PBS_sup3/$File/2016-17_Health_PBS_4.03_Digital_Health.pdf
An app is mentioned in the ADHA strategy "Child Health mobile app replaces paper book", although it does also say:
"The children’s health test bed will examine how every child in Australia can have access to a comprehensive digital health record, readily accessible by parents and healthcare providers, to track key childhood healthcare interventions (e.g. immunisations) and ensure that healthcare providers are able to offer safe, high-quality care. A number of sectors will need to collaborate to investigate how to harmonise state and territory systems into a national child health record that can be easily adopted."
Talking about a mobile app, here's one launched 5 years ago:
"Australia Launches Child's eHealth Record App
https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/news-and-events/news/australia-launches-childs-ehealth-record-app
Created on Monday, 3 June 2013
On Sunday 2 June
The Minister for Health, Tanya Plibersek launched the new child eHealth mobile app that allows parents to keep their children's important health, growth and development information at their fingertips."
It's all very confusing, and there's nothing I can find in the major print media.
Re “provide newborn Australians with a lifelong electronic health record” - the News limited papers seem to have covered it somewhat.
HealthcareIT has by far the best coverage:
http://www.healthcareit.com.au/article/budget-boost-health-tech-windfall-federal-budget-critics-say-immediate-patient-needs-are
"An additional $5 million over two years will go towards the development of the previously announced national digital baby book, a project led by the National Children’s Digital Health Collaborative and designed to provide newborn Australians with a lifelong electronic health record."
So what's the relationship with myhr/ADHA?
"Meanwhile, the AMA claimed the national digital baby book is a digital health infrastructure investment that will improve patient care for kids."
How anyone can call an application "infrastructure" I don't know.
"'[In] terms of the safety advantages that electronic health records bring, we have a fragmented health system and the idea that someone at the start of their life might have every single health intervention, whether it be a vaccination, an x-ray, or as we age, things like protheses, et cetera, allergies, serious allergies like anaphylaxis, all recorded in a document which can be visualised wherever you're being looked after, in a public hospital, in a private hospital, that's good news,' AMA President Dr Michael Gannon said on SKY News today.
'This is being done in other parts of the world; this is another way of adding to the electronic health record, which is the future for the Australian healthcare system.'"
but wait, there's more...
"But digital health advances – including the Federal Government’s My Health Record – are an increasing burden for radiologists, with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists voicing disappointment that changes to rebates for radiology and radiation oncology were overlooked when they currently don’t cover the costs of treatment.
'Another budget has now gone past with no change to radiology rebates. After 20 years of frozen rebates it is no surprise to see patients paying higher out of pocket costs than ever before,' RANZCR President Dr Lance Lawler said.
'We have also raised with the Government increasing costs for radiology practices that will arise in the increased use of digital health technologies such as the My Health Record. The high rates of bulk billing quoted by the Health Minister recently are hiding a dark secret – it is becoming more difficult to access imaging, a core element of diagnosis and treatment.' "
So will opt-out help them? It isn't clear, but it is unlikely to reduce their workload - add that to GP's increased workload.
More confusion.
With the states busy implementing or enhancing their own eHR systems any what appears to be different government departments building their own systems, the AMA's observation that "we have a fragmented health system" looks as though it's just going to get worse.
Last week's poll was "Is It Possible To Create A Digital Health System That Is Optimally Useful And Functional For Both Clinicians And Patients?". David's comment was:
"Looks like a little over half agree that you can’t serve two masters optimally."
Not only that, but a single system is unlikely to serve hospitals, specialists, dentists, pharmacists and GPs. There is no way myhr can meet everybody's needs so all that is happening is that the myhr and potentially other systems such as the National Children’s Digital Health Collaborative's cute little digital baby book is going to make it worse.
I supposed all will be made clear at the NPC on 24 May.
Further to the relationship between ADHA and the digital Baby Book:
It is an initiative of the Australian Digital Health Agency.
https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/news-and-events/news/media-release-a-new-national-digital-collaborative-to-improve-child-health
It is not clear if the digital baby book is part of My Health Record or if it is a separate system that interfaces with it. The article says that "New South Wales and Victoria are leading this work." And it is not known how it relates to ADHA's "Child Health mobile app".
If the data does end up in My Health Record it means that the government will be able to track every Australian who has one, their health problems from birth, how much the government has paid for their health care, who has treated them, how well they have treated them, where they have ever lived, their contact information and their relatives.
Of course I may be over sceptical, but I’m sure ADHA will contact me and let me know where I’ve got it wrong.
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10 of the Best Video Games Based on Movies
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In the past ten years, video games based on movies have changed drastically. Once upon a time, it was normal for publishers to rush games through production to meet a specific release date, looking to cash-in on a movie’s popularity – developers worked to tight deadlines, and, more often than not, created an average (or worse) experience only true fans of the material could enjoy.
Now, though, games based on movies tend to be released on smartphones and tablets, rather than consoles: touchscreen-controlled titles like RoboCop (pictured below), The Dark Knight Rises, and Man of Steel were released for the mobile market exclusively, with decent results. While the movies these games were based on were big-budget blockbusters, choosing to release smaller, more concise versions reduces costs and gives developers a tighter focus.
This means the console-focused market has less sub-par tie-ins taking up shelf-space, and has allowed developers to produce work of a higher quality from movie licences.
However, not all games based on movies are bad – there are some great ones out there!
Let’s check out ten of our favourites!
Die Hard Trilogy (1996)
Die Hard Trilogy is still one of the most innovative, most exciting, most awesome tie-in games ever made. Developers Probe Entertainment took the unusual approach of making three games in one – each of the three movies (back when Die Hards 4, 5, and the recently-announced 6 were all just a gleam in Bruce Willis’s eye) had its own adventure.
Adding even more value to the package, Probe Entertainment made each one a totally different genre: Die Hard is a 3D third-person run-and-gun game following John McClane as he blasts his way through Nakatomi Plaza, killing terrorists and saving hostages; Die Hard 2: Die Harder (no, really!) is an on-rails shooter, controlled by a gamepad, mouse, or even light-gun depending on the console players had, in the vein of Virtua Cop; Die Hard with a Vengeance was a chaotic driving game, with players racing across New York, defusing bombs and taking down enemies – all from behind the wheel.
Die Hard Trilogy is still great fun today, and no other game based on the series since has come close.
GoldenEye (1997)
Of course GoldenEye is in our top ten!
Anyone who was old enough to own a Nintendo 64, or know someone who did, would have played GoldenEye at one time or another. This is still a favourite of many gamers today, and the recent remake couldn’t even hope to overshadow the original: GoldenEye sold more than eight million copies around the world, and redefined first-person shooters.
Not only did developers Rare manage to build action-packed, exciting levels that emulated and expanded on the film’s story, they blended fast-paced shooting, stealth, and even driving (remember the tank?) into one amazing package. The single-player was fun, addictive, and endlessly replayable, but most of us remember GoldenEye for its unbeatable multiplayer mode.
There were all kinds of ways to beat your friends: using the golden gun for one-shot kills; covering a wall with remote bombs and then detonating them with a click of your watch; blasting them from afar with a sniper rifle … the game swallowed hours and hours and hours of our time – and we don’t regret a minute of it.
Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005)
As our recent article on Star Wars: Battlefront II proves, we have a real soft spot for this amazing game. Based on all six (so far) movies in the saga, Battlefront II adapted the material brilliantly, building on the hugely-successful original: players could now fight in space, take part in a stronger story-based campaign, and play as various heroes & villains from the franchise.
Released to coincide with the DVD release of Revenge of the Sith, Battlefront II is easily the best of the games in the series (this may change with the reboot heading our way), and really makes the player feel as if they’re taking part in epic battles across such iconic worlds as Hoth, Endor, Kashyyyk, Naboo, and even in Jabba the Hutt’s Palace. Gorgeous stuff.
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor earned widespread acclaim last year, but The Return of the King is still one of the best games based on Peter Jackson’s cinematic adaptations of Tolkien’s masterpiece.
Just like The Two Towers before it, The Return of the King is a fast-paced action-adventure, incorporating some subtle RPG character-progression elements. While hardcore hack-and-slash combat is still the focus, players can now interact with environments (throwing spears, launching catapults, setting fire to orcs), and choose from more characters: Gandalf, Sam, Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn are all up for grabs to start with, while Frodo, Merry, Pippin, and Faramir can all be unlocked later on.
With stunning graphics, music from the movie’s score, and even the stars providing the voice-work, The Return of the King captures all the excitement of the film’s battles.
The game based on the first Spider-Man movie was average, with linear levels and no street-based shenanigans. With Spider-Man 2, though, developers Treyarch gave players a whole new experience for their PS2, Xbox, and Game Cube adaptation of the sequel: for the first time, players could take control of Spidey in an open Manhattan – finally swinging from the streets to rooftops, and even catching a ride to the Statue of Liberty via a well-timed web-swing from a passing helicopter.
There’s way too much to this game to cover here, but it’s still one of the best to feature Spidey: with plenty of action, story-based missions, challenges, random crimes, and even pizza-delivery jobs, players have oodles of stuff to keep them occupied.
Blade Runner is a unique movie: love it or hate it, Ridley Scott created a distinctive world in his film – and the belated tie-in game did an amazing job of recreating it.
Released a long time after the movie, 1997’s Blade Runner game was set during the same timeframe. However, instead of playing as Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard, players took on the role of a new Blade Runner, tasked with tracking down a second team of replicants.
The game featured many of the movie’s locations, and captured the rainy, polluted, neon-soaked Los Angeles perfectly. The game was lapped-up by fans, and scooped multiple awards; while there have been many requests for a re-release, the original source code for the game is apparently lost – so we’re sadly unlikely to see this resurface.
As one of the most beloved movies of the 1980s (and maybe of all time), Ghostbusters is still massively popular today. While the reboot is heading to the big screen next year, the third movie many fans want to see is unlikely to ever happen – along with the awesome comic-book series published by IDW, 2009’s video game is fans’ only chance to keep up with Venkman, Spengler, Stantz, and Zeddemore.
Still, if it’s basically the third movie, then Ghostbusters: The Video Game will do just fine!
This is a brilliant continuation of the first two movies, featuring amazing graphics, that irresistible theme music, and the actors’ likenesses & voice-work. Rather than playing as one of the original four, players step into the shoes of a rookie ghostbuster, assigned to work with the team and try out new experimental technology.
Terminal Reality did a brilliant job of capturing the humour, the atmosphere, and the ghost-busting itself: firing off a proton stream, using traps, and sliding down the firehouse’s pole all feels exactly like it should.
Alien: Isolation (2014)
There have been plenty of games based on the Aliens movies, but how many have actually been worth playing? Alien Trilogy on the PS1/Saturn was decent, and the Aliens VS Predator games have generally been excellent – but there have been a few duds, too.
While games usually throw hundreds of xenomorphs at the player, and feature plenty of heavy-duty gunfire, Alien: Isolation stripped all of this away. Set around fifteen years after Ridley Scott’s original movie, the game puts players in control of Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Sigourney Weaver’s butt-kicking heroine. She heads out to find her missing mother, and encounters a single alien – from which point, the aim is to stay alive by running, hiding, and being smart.
Alien: Isolation uses the same old-school designs as the original movie, and captures the creepy atmosphere perfectly.
John Captenter’s The Thing is a movie about fear, and the belated game tie-in did a fantastic job of incorporating this into the experience: not only did it recreate the sense of isolation and the hideous aliens, but it also uses a ‘fear/trust’ system.
Depending on how scared NPCs are, they may or may not follow the orders the player gives them: characters can use blood-test kits to prove they’re human, but trust will deplete if the player accidentally shoots them or takes their ammo.
Players never quite know when a teammate will transform into an alien, and the limited ammo makes beating the game a real challenge. While it might not have been the most obvious choice for a game adaptation, The Thing is one of the most impressive movie-based titles – even if it was ridiculously hard!
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004)
Vin Diesel’s Richard B. Riddick is not just a badass – he’s a badass with in-built night-vision. How scary is that?!
While The Chronicles of Riddick might not exactly have been the best movie ever made, this tie-in game drew high praise from players and critics back in 2004. Set in Riddick’s slightly younger years, Escape from Butcher Bay follows his attempts to break out of the notorious Butcher Bay maximum-security prison, using stealth, cunning, and plenty of weapons (from knuckle-dusters to assault rifles).
The game was re-released in 2009 (with a few enhancements), alongside an expansion: Assault on Dark Athena.
So, you’ve seen ten of our favourite games based on movies – which are yours? Are there any we’ve missed? Let us know!
Thanks for reading – we’ll catch you next time!
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“Han and Greta”
I’m doing something a little different today – posting a full story right here on the blog. It’s my entry for a short story contest at the blog Things I’d Rather Be Doing, which calls for writers to update an old fairy tale as a piece of modern crime fiction. I kind of walked into this one late, and it’s maybe not as polished as I’d like, but I think it’s fun and worth a shot. So, without further mumbling from me, here it is!
“Han and Greta” by Blu Gilliand
The house was brick, which was a surprise considering a carpenter lived there. It seemed to Grimm that it would be in the union by-laws: Woodworkers must live in wood houses. Support the brotherhood and all that. Putting bread on a bricklayer’s table? Hell, it almost came off as lazy.
He knocked on the door, which opened before his knuckles had time to make contact twice. A woman stood there, a nice looking woman with distress seeping from her eyes. Her hair, blonde, flew away from her head in places, like she’d been running her fingers through it instead of using a brush.
“Detective Grimm?”
He flashed his I.D., nodded. She squinted at the big, shiny badge.
“Please come in. My husband called you. He’s in the kitchen.”
She pointed at a room to the right of the foyer. Her hand was full of a drinking glass; the glass was half-full of something amber eating away at a couple of ice cubes. Scotch, Grimm guessed. And here it was, not even lunchtime yet.
“Do you think you can find them?”
“That’s the plan,” he said. She nodded, took a long pull off the glass.
“Drink?”
He shook his head and walked into the kitchen. The carpenter sat at a table, his hands clasped around a steaming coffee cup like he was trying to choke information out of it. The table was a rough slab of hard oak. Probably he’d built it himself.
About time he did some work around here, Grimm thought.
The man looked up. “You Peter Grimm?”
Grimm flashed his I.D. again. The carpenter motioned to the chair across from him. “Have a seat,” he said. “I’ll get her to get you some coffee.”
“She’s already offered Scotch,” Grimm said.
“It’s not even lunch, she’s boozing,” the carpenter moaned. “What’s that gonna help?”
“Not passing judgement,” Grimm said. “Just letting you know she offered.”
The carpenter sighed, took a sip of coffee, and looked up at Grimm. His eyes were the red-rimmed, exhausted eyes of a man who’s gone three rounds in a staring contest with Hell.
“My children,” he said. “Someone took my children.”
Grimm asked her to join them at the table, as she was the one who’d last seen the kids. She brought pictures of them to the table. They were twins, cuter than their names, lucky for them. They were his, not hers. She was the second wife.
“Tell me what happened.”
“We went for a walk,” she said. “In the woods yesterday. They love to explore. He was working, and they were bored, so I took them out. We followed a trail, one we always follow. It goes down to the river. They kept running ahead, going around bends where I couldn’t see them. I’d holler for them to stop, to wait. They did, but they kept getting further and further ahead. They got so far ahead I couldn’t see them or hear them. I kept yelling, but they were gone.”
“Did you see anyone else around?”
“No. I followed the trail all the way down to the river. They weren’t there. I came back up the trail, yelling the whole time. It was dark when I got home. I could barely talk.”
“Did you check the woods around the trail?”
“Some,” she said. “I was afraid to go in too far and get lost. There’s not a lot around here. I keep telling him we should move, this is no place to raise kids, but he wouldn’t listen. We should be in the city.”
“The city,” he said. “With the gangs and the guns. My kids were safe here.”
“Really?” she said. “You still say that?”
“You always say they’re going to get lost. They know these woods like their own hands. Only you make them stick to the trail. Before you, they are all over the place. They still know the woods. I know they’re not lost. That’s why I know someone took them.”
“Has there been any contact from anyone? Ransom notes or demands?”
“Nothing,” he said.
He thought for a moment. Looked at the photograph. They were ten, with bright, quizzical eyes. He didn’t think they were lost, either. He turned to her.
“Take me to where you last saw them.”
What he really thought was that they were hiding from her. He guessed this because of the way the two parents approached the situation. She was annoyed, angry, a little embarrassed. He was distraught, angry, a little desperate. It seemed to him that the kids were trying to prove a point, and she knew it, and didn’t like it one bit.
She walked ahead of him, refreshed glass of Scotch in manicured hand, leading the way. The carpenter wanted to come, too, but Grimm told him to stay. In case the kids showed up. Really, though, he just wanted to get her alone, see what else he could get out of her.
“Right here,” she said. They had just come out of a bend in the trail. Here the trail ran straight down a steep slope and curved out of sight about fifty yards away. They’d gotten ahead of her, running down a hill she couldn’t navigate in heels. Gone around the corner and stayed gone.
“How far from here to the river?”
“I don’t know,” she said around another gulp of Scotch. “Half a mile? A mile? A long way.” She wiped sweat from her forehead at the thought of it.
“You went all the way to the end?”
“Yes. As I told you. Went to the river, came back, hollering for those little brats. They always do this kind of stuff.” She lowered her voice, sharing a secret between the two of them. “I don’t think anyone got them. I think they’re hiding. I think if we wait until dark, they’ll come back.”
“Well, they’ve already spent one night in the woods, right? So that’s no guarantee.”
Another long pull off the short glass. “Yeah. I guess so.”
“Why don’t you go on back and wait with him? I can follow it from here. See what I can see. Maybe they’ll be back.”
“Maybe,” she said. She finished off the drink, slivers of ice sticking to the sides of the expensive glass.
“Might want to lay off the drinking,” he said. “Could be a long few days ahead.”
“Well, thanks for the advice,” she said. She tipped the glass again, tongued the ice chips into her mouth as if to say, I’ll drink what I want, when I want.
He shrugged and began walking down the hill.
Where they were, it was dark, and warm, and smelled of sugar, and they were terrified.
Greta had called the thing they were in a big birdcage. Han said it looked like a stripper cage. He’d seen them in a video, this rock band wailing away while girls danced in a couple of cages like this hanging above the stage. They sat in it, side-by-side, backs pressed against the cold steel bars, every movement causing the thing to pendulum slowly back and forth.
“Stop moving it,” she hissed. “It’s gonna fall.”
“Maybe it would break,” he said. “We could get out.”
“She would hear it and come in here,” Greta said. “Come and get us.”
“She’s not going to do anything,” Han said.
“She’s going to eat us,” Greta said.
Han wanted to say “No, she’s not,” but he couldn’t. Because that’s what the lady had told them she was going to do.
Your mommy doesn’t know it, but I’m going to fatten you up and eat you up.
She’s not our mommy! Greta had cried, but the woman had turned from them and gone into the other room, where the sounds and smells were coming from. Pots and pans rattling. A squeaky oven door opening and closing, opening and closing. Pounding and scraping and the whirr of a blender, all of it underscored with the lady’s flat, toneless singing:
Patty cake, patty cake, Greta and Han
Put ‘em in a cake as fast as I can
He hugged his sister closer. “Don’t worry. I’ll save us.” But he was only ten, and he didn’t know how.
In the other room, someone knocked on the door. The other sounds stopped. They heard the woman plunk something down on the counter. She opened the door and poked her head inside, a shaft of light slicing through the darkness to illuminate her doughy face, mismatched eyes and horrible crooked nose.
“Not a word, my pretties,” she said. “Be so still and so quiet now.” She held a finger, impossibly long and many-jointed, to her lips and smiled, showing blackened teeth as pointed as shark fins. She slid out of the light and pulled the door tight.
Greta began to cry.
“It’s someone,” Han said. “Someone come to help us.”
But it wasn’t.
“Surprised to see you here,” the old crone said.
“I’m surprised to be here,” the carpenter’s second wife said. “But I had to be sure.”
“Sure of what?”
“That they’re gone. My husband called someone. A detective. He’s out there now, snooping around in the woods.”
“He didn’t follow you, now did he?”
“No, I sent him the other way. Down the path to the river.”
“Good, good. Well, there’s nothing to see here, anyway.”
“You finished the- you finished it?”
“Told you I would,” the old woman said. “They’re sleeping now, in the arms of Mother Earth.”
“Dead,” the old woman said flatly. “Dead and buried and gone, gone, gone.”
“You don’t need to know. And you don’t need to be here. Scoot on back to your house, now. Enjoy your husband, without the troublesome noise and interference of the children. Enjoy his money and his attention.”
“What are you doing in here?”
“Baking,” the old woman said. “I have a sweet tooth.”
“Don’t you like anything but gingerbread?”
“Oh yes,” the old woman crooned. “Yes, yes, yes.”
“Got a drink?” The carpenter’s second wife held up her empty glass.
“Milk,” the old woman said. The carpenter’s second wife rolled her eyes. “Sorry, but it’s all I drink. Goes good with the sweets.” She bent and opened the oven. The door screeched. She brought out a baking sheet covered with gingerbread.
“How about a bathroom, then? I’ve had three of these – “ Again, she shook the glass. “- and I need to go.”
“No bathroom,” the old woman said. “Go use your own. Get back, before that detective you so stupidly led into the woods gets back and wonders where you are.”
“You are a fool,” the old woman said. “And you are keeping me from my sweets. Now get out.”
“I paid you good money.”
“Yes,” the old woman said. “You paid me good money to kill your husband’s children. And that I’ve done. I owe you nothing more, not a drink of milk or a pot to piss in. Now go!”
“Don’t yell at me, you crazy old hag!”
“What’s that now, dearie?” Her voice had gone flat again, and cold as a stream in winter.
“N-nothing,” the second wife said. “It’s been…a long day. I’m sorry. I’m going now.” She moved to the door, but the old woman moved faster, slamming the door with the disjointed, wiggling fingers of her free hand. The other hand had been filled with the thick wooden handle of a long, gleaming knife.
“You don’t want to be yelling,” the old woman said. “This is my happy place. My gingerbread house. You don’t want to come in here and spoil it.”
“I have your money. I’ve done the job. I want to be left alone.”
“Yes. You will. I will.”
“Will you, now?” The mismatched eyes narrowed. “I don’t know. You bring a detective into the woods. You come back here to make sure I’ve done the job. How many times will you come back? How many chances to be followed? To bring others here, and ruin my gingerbread house?”
“None. I promise. I won’t ever come back.”
The old woman held the knife up. The sharp point twinkled in the light. “I don’t believe you,” she said. She took in a great, gasping breath and tensed, ready to bring the blade down. But the door burst open, and the air filled with a popping sound, and the woman looked down to see two bright blooms spreading on her chest.
“Drop it,” Peter Grimm said.
She hissed, a horrible, sandpaper rasp of pain and anger, and took a quick step toward him. He fired again, putting one through her throat. She fell, landing on the open oven door, which tore loose from its hinges and crashed to the floor. Her head and shoulders flopped into the oven. Hair and fabric began to blacken, then burn.
“Oh thank you, thank you!” the carpenter’s second wife cried.
“You’re under arrest,” Peter Grimm told her. He pointed at the open window. “She was right. You are a fool. You talk too much. Maybe because you drink too much.” He took out a pair of handcuffs, tightened one around her wrist and latched the other to the refrigerator door. “You’re also way too easy to follow.”
He grabbed the old woman’s ankle and yanked. Her head hit the floor with a thud. The smell of burning hair made the detective and the carpenter’s second wife cough. He grabbed a bowl from the counter, ran some water into it, and dumped it over the old woman’s smoldering head.
“You can’t prove anything,” the carpenter’s second wife said.
“Here, here, in here!” Two voices, small, frightened, urgent, coming through a closed bedroom door. Grimm walked over, raised his gun, kicked the door in. Saw the cage, suspended by rusty chains from an exposed beam. Saw the two kids from the picture. The boy looked over him, into the kitchen at the woman cuffed to the refrigerator.
“You,” the boy said. “You do talk too much.”
They all went back to the carpenter’s house, Peter Grimm and the carpenter’s second wife and Han and Greta. The carpenter wept when his children walked through the door. He seemed neither surprised nor sad to see his second wife in custody.
“She never liked them,” he said. “I was going to leave her. I never should have been with her.”
“It’s okay, Poppa,” Greta said.
“Yeah, Dad,” Han said. “Don’t sweat it.”
Grimm left them to their reunion. Got on his cell phone and called for someone to come and take the carpenter’s second wife to jail. Told them to send the coroner to collect the dead old cannibal woman from her gingerbread house.
When he went back into the house, he found the carpenter’s bar and poured himself a Scotch.
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9 Responses to “Han and Greta”
One week left on Fairy Tale Crime Fiction challenge | Things I'd Rather Be Doing says:
[…] by Nigel Bird Henry, Gina and the Gingerbread House by Kaye George Mary by Eric Gumeny Han and Greta by Blu Gilliand These are strong entries, but that shouldn’t dissuade anyone else from […]
How strange that so many of us chose this one. I guess it really lends itself to darkess. And this one is a dandy.
blugilliand says:
Crime fiction fairy tale contest draws 16 entries | Things I'd Rather Be Doing says:
[…] Gina and the Gingerbread House“by Kaye George “Mary” by Eric Gumeny “Han and Greta” by Blu Gilliand “The Flying Trunk” by Jack Bates “Divided We Stand” by […]
Evan Lewis says:
Excellent! I’d like to see Detective Grimm bring more fairy tale criminals to justice.
Thanks, Evan. I’ve been thinking about the possibility of Grimm as a recurring character. I appreciate the response.
BKjelstrom says:
Cool retelling of H&G. I liked the use of the detective. You turn a phrase nicely- “something amber eating away at a couple of ice cubes” I did H&G too!
Thanks for the kind words! I think a lot of us in this contest went with H&G – it’s such a dark story already, it was a natural for crime fiction.
Sean Patrick Reardon says:
Enjoyed this. Lot’s of H&G entries, but all done well, and all unique. Like was mentioned by others, I thought the detective angle worked out very nicely.
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363 Sale Order Approving Sale of Electric Company’s Assets Generates Some “Electricity” of Its Own
Contributed by Kelly E. McDonald
This is the first in a series of blog posts discussing the highly contentious decision in In re Boston Generating, LLC, in which the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved a sale of substantially all of the debtors’ assets over the objections of the debtors’ second lien lenders and the unsecured creditors’ committee. This post addresses the bankruptcy court’s determination that the debtors properly exercised their fiduciary duties in pursuing the sale transaction and that approval of the sale was appropriate under the Second Circuit’s standard. The court’s holding with respect to the debtors’ ability to satisfy section 363(f) of the Bankruptcy Code, the intercreditor issues raised by the debtors’ first and second lien lenders, and whether an “entire fairness” standard (instead of a “business judgment” standard) was applicable to the sale transaction will be explored more fully in subsequent posts.
Following a six-day evidentiary hearing, the court in In re Boston Generating, LLC, No. 10-14419 (SCC) (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. Dec. 3, 2010) issued a memorandum opinion approving, pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, a sale of substantially all of the debtors’ assets to Constellation Holdings, Inc. The net proceeds of the sale transaction, coupled with cash on hand, would be sufficient to pay approximately 98.5% of the first lien debt, but would leave no recovery for second lien debt or the debtors’ unsecured creditors.
Consistent with the terms of the asset purchase agreement, which was executed prepetition, immediately following the petition date, the debtors filed their sale motion seeking approval of, among other things, bidding procedures and the sale of substantially all of their assets. The bankruptcy court approved the debtor’s bid and established a bid deadline and sale hearing date. Although the debtors had obtained the requisite approval and support from their first lien lenders to pursue the asset sale, the debtors’ second lien lenders, predictably, did not approve of the sale. To counter the proposed sale to Constellation, one of the debtor’s second lien lenders, MatlinPatterson Global Advisers LLC, submitted the only other “bid” the debtors received. Matlin proposed a term sheet for a plan of reorganization, but the debtors determined that Matlin’s bid was neither a “qualified bid” under the bid procedures nor a confirmable plan and proceeded to seek approval of the sale to Constellation.
Disheartened by the debtors’ decision to more forward with their proposed sale transaction, Matlin, the second lien administrative agent and collateral agent (Wilmington Trust FSB), the unsecured creditors’ committee, and certain others objected to the sale.
Matlin and the Second Lien Agent argued that the debtors did not properly exercise fiduciary duties in pursuing the sale transaction and did not satisfy the relevant Second Circuit standard. In determining whether to approve the proposed sale, the bankruptcy court looked to the standards enunciated by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Committee of Equity Security Holders v. Lionel Corp. (In re Lionel), 722 F.2d 1063 (2d Cir. 1983) and its progeny. It considered, among other things, the value of the assets sought to be sold relative to the debtors estate as a whole, whether a plan would be proposed and confirmed in the near future, the effect of the proposed sale on future plans, and whether the assets were increasing or decreasing in value.
The court found that the debtors satisfied Lionel by showing, among other things, that there was no basis on which the court could find that a plan would be proposed and could be confirmed in the near future, let alone by the date the debtors projected that they would run out of cash—April 30, 2011. The court also found that the alternative plan proposed by Matlin was not confirmable because no other lender or other constituency supported it. The court also agreed with the independent financial adviser for a special committee of the Board of Directors who testified that it would have been “commercially reckless” to abandon the Constellation bid and embark on a freefall bankruptcy so as to pursue the alternative plan proposed by Matlin. Ultimately, the court concluded that the proposed sale was the best determination of the value of the debtors and that the sale process was both well-executed and robust.
Supplementing its examination of the Lionel factors, the court also evaluated the proposed sale to Constellation under the factors set forth in In re General Motors Corp., 407 B.R. 463, 490 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2009) (Gerber, J.). In doing so, it considered whether the estate had liquidity to survive until confirmation of a plan, whether the sale opportunity would exist later on, whether an alternative sale opportunity would be available, and whether there was a risk that by deferring the sale, the “patient would die on the operating table.”
The court found that the sale satisfied the GM factors because the debtors did not have sufficient liquidity to survive until confirmation of a plan, given the costs and time associated with confirming a contested plan; the sale transaction probably would not exist at the time of a plan confirmation; no other potential bidder submitted a qualified bid to the debtors by the bid deadline, therefore it was unlikely that there would be a satisfactory alternative sale opportunity or a stand-alone plan that was equally desirable or better for creditors; and there was material risk that the debtors’ condition could significantly deteriorate by deferring the sale.
The court also found that proper notice was given to all creditors and interested parties, the proposed sale was fair and reasonable, and the purchaser proceeded in good faith. The court further concluded that the sale did not constitute a prohibited sub rosa plan of reorganization because the debtors’ assets were being sold and the first lien lenders would receive most of the proceeds in accordance with the priority scheme provided in the Bankruptcy Code. Therefore, the court approved the section 363 sale motion in its entirety.
The Boston Generating decision has generated multiple appeals and appears to have spawned additional litigation. Matlin and the Second Lien Agent appealed the sale order, sought a stay of the sale order pending appeal, and sought direct certification of their appeals to the Second Circuit. The bankruptcy court granted their motion for direct certification to the Second Circuit, but denied the requests for a stay of the sale order pending the appeals. The Second Circuit, similarly, denied the request for a stay pending appeal. The sale closed on January 3, 2011.
Separately, the unsecured creditors’ committee has filed a motion seeking standing to bring a fraudulent conveyance action against the first and second lien lenders arising out of their prior loan transactions with the debtors and has filed an adversary proceeding objecting to the claims of the first and second lien lenders. The hearing on the motion for standing is pending before the bankruptcy court.
The court’s ruling in In re Boston Generating appeared to be predicated, in part, on its finding that the debtors effectively had no alternative to the sale transaction because they were running out of liquidity and the plan proposed by Matlin had not garnered any support. Perhaps if the court had found that Matlin’s plan could be confirmed or that the debtors had ample liquidity, it might have denied the debtors’ proposed sale. For now, the Boston Generating decision will continue to generate some “electricity” of its own as the bankruptcy court’s decision is reviewed on appeal.
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You are here:Home-Business, BW-Money, BW-News, Featured, Featured - SHHP-Reforms simplify taxes for some, but also create new rules that tax preparers have to learn
Reforms simplify taxes for some, but also create new rules that tax preparers have to learn
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in December 2017 lowered tax rates, increased the standard deduction and implemented other major reforms to the tax code.
In some ways, those changes made filing taxes this year simpler for many residents of Williamson County, especially those taking the larger standard deduction. However, the reforms also created a new set of rules that tax preparers had to learn.
The Internal Revenue Service estimated it needed to create or revise more than 400 forms and publications for the 2019 tax filing season. That’s more than double the number of changes the agency has to make in a typical year.
Im Cashen, the manager of free tax preparation services through United Way in Williamson County, said it has taken some time to get used to the new forms.
“We like to review the tax return with the client after we’re done. Before, we were familiar with the 1040. We knew exactly this line means this and this line means that,” she said. “The familiarity of the forms has been more difficult to explain to people.”
Craig Ballentine, a Certified Public Account at Patterson, Hardee and Ballentine in Franklin, agreed that it has taken a lot of work to learn about the changes.
“In typical fashion a lot of the rules and regulations with the law didn’t get finalized until January in some cases,” he said. “We … did a lot of continuing education, workshops to get ready for it. That continued through January and February of this year
One of the biggest changes in the new law is the increase in the standard deduction. It almost almost doubled from $6,350 in 2017 to $12,000 in 2018. That alone makes itemized deductions unnecessary for many people.
Cashen said most people filing taxes through United Way chose the standard deduction, which can make the process of filing taxes much simpler.
“It is easier because the standard deduction basically doubled, which means most people are taking the standard deduction instead of itemizing,” she said. “That does speed up the tax process.”
The United Way provides free tax preparation services at several locations throughout the county for households that made less than $66,000 in 2018.
Cashen said the organization served more than 12,000 people in Middle Tennessee last year. She expects that number to increase by about 30 percent this year because the organization has more sites and more volunteers.
Ballentine usually works with clients who have higher incomes. For his clients, the reforms didn’t make their taxes simpler because they’re less likely to use the standard deduction.
“For them, there were changes in the code, but to say it’s simpler is just silly. There’s a lot of that rhetoric that just doesn’t translate to folks that are involved in business or real estate,” he said. “This is not a simplification of the code by any stretch of the imagination.”
Taxpayers have until April 15 to file their taxes.
The United Way provides free tax preparation for households that made less than $66,000 in 2018. There are several locations throughout the county and tax payers can make an appointment through the organization’s website.
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Bach Ousts Seasonal Schmaltz
Posted by Edward McCue in Bach's Life, Bach's Successors, Bach's Works, Other Artists, World View
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The Choir of London
Christmas can be a bad time for music lovers. As the mercury soars, the standard takes a nosedive, leaving us festering in a gloop of dreary choral bonanzas, nauseous noels and hideously schmaltzy American toons. It’s enough to make you want to stuff your figgy pudding where the sun doesn’t shine.
Thankfully there is a cure for all this aural agony in the form of J. S. Bach. Here is a man who knew how to keep the season sacred, at least musically speaking. Yet he remains the Yuletide’s best-kept secret: you will never hear his mighty Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) blaring out in Myers on a continuous loop sandwiched between Wham and the artery-slicing vocals of Noddy Holder, or be subjected to random street-corner choral assaults.
Actually, in Australia you are unlikely to hear this exquisite Baroque masterpiece anywhere at all. Handel’s Messiah is the usual bill of fare for all things classical at this time of year (even though it was actually written for Lent). But that’s about to change.
This season, the Australian Chamber Orchestra has risen to the challenge of presenting the little-known oratorio – a monumental work made up of six cantatas so exquisite it’s enough to turn your eyes to the heavens even if you are a devout atheist like the ACO’s director, Richard Tognetti, who will be performing it for the first time on 19 December 2013 at Hamer Hall in Melbourne. ”Playing Bach is the closest thing I get to having a religious epiphany,” he says. ”You can bathe in the beauty of Bach and forever be flabbergasted at the man’s creative and technical genius.”
Bach was an unswervingly religious man. His devotion to God and the Lutheran church was what kept him sane through the repetitive onslaught of grief that saw him orphaned at ten, widowed at thirty-five and forced to bury ten of his children. It is impossible, says Tognetti, for his experiences not to have leached into his music, instilling it with a purity of emotion wrenched from the kernel of his soul so that we, too, feel the rawness of his pain and the joy and ecstasy of his religious fervor, whether we share his beliefs or not. Much has been made of Bach’s formidable intellectual and musical prowess, but it is his humanity that shakes us to the core.
In many ways he shares much in common with today’s modern man; he was protective and ambitious for his remaining offspring and worked hard to provide a roof and an income. He was cantankerous, often in disputes with his employers, exploited, undervalued and disgruntled. A pedantic letter writer, he was, says Tognetti, the type who, if he were alive today, would annoy editors with endless missives on all sorts of topics, signed ”Concerned, of Leipzig.”
As always, it is impossible to separate the man from the music, and the Christmas Oratorio bears many of the silver hallmarks of Bach’s legendary genius; perfectly mingling intense organizational structures with great lyrical beauty. Although it was originally written for the festive season of 1734, the work incorporates recycled earlier secular pieces. Like Messiah – which followed ten years later – it tells the story of the Nativity from birth right through to the Adoration of the Magi. But unlike Handel’s masterpiece, the narration is in German, which may account for its lack of popularity over here – the audience can’t sing along.
Not that the language really matters; Bach could well have been writing about the joys of fly fishing and the numinous effect may well be the same. Says Tognetti: ”I ask the question: if we found out that Bach was actually a secularist and just went along because he didn’t want to upset the church, would we enjoy the music any less? Absolutely not.” More ad hoc than St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244b), more exuberant than the Mass in B minor (BWV 232), the Christmas Oratorio is, he insists, by no means a lesser work. Still, how hard is it for the ACO to venture into new territory without offending our festive hunger for familiarity?
Traditionally, the six cantatas were meant to be played on each of the major feast days over the Christmas period; Tognetti’s crew will be packing them into one four-hour concert (including a dinner break). That’s quite an intense dollop of concentration required.
”Great. Let’s expect people to make that commitment,” says Tognetti, crisply. ”We have all got such short attention spans; we are all multi-tasking and wasting time. So to sit there and bask in the glory of Bach – and the religious people can bask in the glory of the Lord through the portal of Bach’s music – and yes it’s three hours, but it’s a great night’s entertainment.”
He points out we do it for sporting events without even blinking. ”I went to the football the other night. It took me two hours to get there, we watched two forty-minute halves that was boring as bat shit and then spent an hour getting out of the car park. That was commitment with very little return.”
Another reason why the Oratorio is not often performed here is the sheer effort required in staging it. The ACO will be joined by a coterie of woodwind and brass players and the Choir of London, an ensemble made up of professional singers and soloists who have been instrumental in building bridges through music in the Middle East, not least by establishing an annual Bach festival in Palestine. (Originally the Monteverdi Choir led by John Eliot Gardiner was booked, but he had to pull out due to ill health.)
The London Choir is a fitting replacement, because Bach’s music transcends the limitations of man-made religions. Soli Deo Gloria – only for the glory of God – he wrote on his compositions. But it was Martin Luther’s declaration that ”only music deserves being extolled as the mistress and governess of the human heart” that was really the mantra that he lived by.
Kathy Evans – The Sydney Morning Herald
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By Joann Muller | Forbes.com
The Ford Focus isn’t the best-selling car in America; it’s not even in the Top 10. But around the world, especially in fast-growing markets in Asia, the sporty compact is growing in popularity, so much so that it is about to knock off the venerable Toyota Corolla as the world’s most popular car.
The Corolla’s no slouch, either. LMC forecasts sales of approximately 966,000 Corollas in 2012, one reason Toyota Motor is poised to recapture the title of world’s biggest automaker this year after ceding leadership to General Motors in 2011. GM is now vying with Volkswagen for second place.
It’s been a record year for the auto industry, with global sales expected to top 80 million cars and trucks. Although European sales have been weak and China has slowed a bit, sales in the U.S. market have been robust, fed by pent-up demand. Analysts are forecasting U.S. sales of about 14.5 million units.
When it comes to crowning the best-selling cars, though, China, now the world’s largest automotive market, has the most clout. And in 2012, Ford and Toyota saw very different outcomes there. Ford has been investing heavily in China, and the Focus is one of 15 new models being introduced there over the next few years. Meanwhile, a long-simmering territorial dispute between Japan and China sparked a boycott of Japanese cars by Chinese consumers in the latter half of the year. As a result, Toyota’s sales in China fell about 25 percent below expectations.
All but one of the 10 most popular cars in the world are small, fuel-efficient compacts, which are popular in Europe, Asia and developing countries where affordability is an issue.
Ford has built its global strategy around a handful of cars that sell in large numbers around the world. The Focus compact is the best example. LMC Automotive says Ford will sell an estimated one million of them worldwide in 2012, including about 250,000 in the U.S. It’s enough to unseat the Toyota Corolla as the best-selling car in the world.
The Corolla has been the most popular car on the planet, but in 2012, a long-simmering territorial dispute between Japan and China sparked protests in China, the world’s largest automotive market, and led to a boycott of Japanese products, including cars. Toyota’s sales in China fell about 25 percent below expectations. Thanks to strong sales elsewhere, however, the Corolla still ranked second globally, with estimated sales of 966,000
The Jetta (sold as the Vento or the Bora in certain markets) is Volkswagen’s best-selling model worldwide, thanks to its acceptance in the U.S. and in China, two markets that are crucial to the German carmaker’s plan to dominate the global industry by 2018. Through November, VW sold about 8.3 million vehicles worldwide. Jetta sales for the year are expected to hit 822,000.
Hyundai of Korea has been growing by leaps and bounds around the world and gaining respect along the way. Its compact Elantra (sold in Korea as the Avante) is now the fourth most-popular car in the world. LMC Automotive forecasts sales of 777,000 for 2012.
The subcompact Ford Fiesta isn’t a huge seller in the U.S. — about 55,000 units a year — but it’s very popular in Europe and is growing in China, where Ford is making a big market push. That’s why it ranks as the fifth most popular car in the world. LMC Automotive projects 2012 sales of 728,000.
The popular Golf hatchback is another reason Volkswagen sales have been climbing globally. Though less popular in the U.S. than the Jetta or the mid-sized Passat, the Golf, including the TDI diesel, is one of Volkswagen’s best-selling vehicles. LMC Automotive projects sales of about 726,000 for 2012.
The Camry is the only mid-sized car in the global Top 10, which is a testament to its comfortable ride and reliable performance. It is the best-selling car in America, and has been for years, selling about 400,000 a year. Worldwide, LMC Automotive projects Camry sales of about 705,000.
The Polo is a super-mini car that isn’t available in the U.S. But it’s immensely popular in Europe and other markets, where fuel is expensive and streets are crowded and narrow, which is why it’s in the global Top 10. LMC Automotive projects Polo sales of 704,000.
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Snapdeal to add slew of new features to improve user experience
The e-commerce portal rolled out its redesigned website 10 days ago
Priyanka Sangani
After redesigning the website 10 days ago, Snapdeal is adding new features aimed at improving the user experience further. These include product selfies, enhanced order-tracking and a new ‘my order’ page.
“The product has been redesigned to improve the overall information architecture,” said Anand Chandrasekaran, chief product officer. The ‘product selfie‘ allows users to post a picture of themselves with the product. “We have had a phenomenal response to it so far as customers get to see actual people using the product,” he said adding that it may influence more purchases.
This is among measures taken by SoftBank-backed company to enhance the consumer and seller experience over the last six-seven months. It has used technology extensively to improve efficiency. For instance, the company claims that delivery times have been brought down by 70-75% in the past year on account of investments in logistics company GoJavas. It has also introduced refunds based on the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS).
“Since September 2015, 93% of refunds are being done within 30 minutes. It has been integrated with the wallet on the back-end to make the whole experience seamless for the customer,” Chandrasekharan said. Snapdeal is also in the process of rolling out its multi-lingual interface, having done so for eight out of 12 languages.
“Though it’s not a major part of sales yet, we are seeing people switching from English to regional languages where the option exists,” he said.
In addition to this, there have been smaller launches like SnapLite, which enables users with slow network connections to access a lighter version of the website that launches in a quarter of the time. Snapsearch allows users to upload pictures and find similar products on the website.
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Government agencies use ‘incompetent’ counsellors to assess recidivist drink drivers
rogerbrooking Drink Driving February 3, 2014 May 2, 2014 4 Minutes
More than half the alcohol and drug counsellors used by the Ministry of Health and the New Zealand Transport Authority are not registered as competent with their professional body.
For instance, Steven Brady, is an alcohol and drug counsellor in Christchurch, and has been authorised by the Ministry of Health to conduct alcohol and drug assessments on behalf of the New Zealand Transport Authority (NZTA) for the last 13 years. The NZTA requires these assessments under section 100 of the Land Transport Act which allows repeat drink drivers who have been disqualified indefinitely to regain their driver’s licence – provided the assessment shows they have their drinking problem under control. If still drinking excessively, the offender may be required to attend treatment before the counsellor will recommend their licence should be reinstated.
This process goes a step further than what is normally expected of alcohol and drug agencies. As well as diagnosis and treatment, it involves an assessment of the drink driver’s potential risk of relapse; if the risk is low, this will lead to a recommendation to NZTA that the offender’s drinking problem is now ‘cured’ and therefore he should be allowed to drive again.
Assessing the risk posed by recidivist drink drivers is not easy. It takes skill and years of experience – and is akin to the parole board deciding that a prisoner no longer poses an ‘undue risk’ to the community. Because of the added responsibility involved, only a select number of experienced AOD counsellors are authorised to conduct these assessments; and those who do them are supposed to be vetted by the Ministry of Health (on behalf of the NZTA).
The Ministry has a set of guidelines which establishes the minimum qualifications and requirements to be approved as an assessor for the NZTA. The guidelines were updated in 2007 at which time all assessors had to be registered as ‘competent practitioners’ with their professional body, the Drug & Alcohol Practitioners Association (DAPAANZ). Registration lasts for 12 months and counsellors have to meet certain performance standards to be reconfirmed as competent each year.
Unregistered assessors
Back to Mr Brady. It turns out that when the guidelines were updated, he never applied to be registered as a competent practitioner. Theoretically, from that point on, he was no longer eligible to conduct these assessments. But he continued doing so because the Ministry of Health never bothered to check whether he had been approved by DAPAANZ or had the necessary qualifications.
Steven Brady is not the only AOD counsellor doing these assessments who is not competent. In resonse to an OIA, the MOH sent me a list of all alcohol and drug counsellors who are currently authorised to do these assessments. It contained 90 names. More than half of those on the list are not registered with DAPAANZ as competent practitioners. (DAPAANZ has a list of all alcohol and drug counsellors who are currently registered as competent on its website.) As a result of my inquiries, the Ministry is now reviewing the guidelines and conducting an audit of all 90 counsellors.
Millions wasted
I also wrote to the NZTA asking how long Mr Brady had been conducting these assessments and how many he had done since he began. In their reply, NZTA said he “was approved by the Ministry of Health as an alcohol and drug assessor in 2000” and that he had been paid for doing 755 assessments since 15 December 2000.
The NZTA pays alcohol and drug counsellors $726 per assessment. If Mr Brady received this for all 755 assessments he conducted, he would have received $548,130 in the last 13 years. That’s a lot of taxpayer funding for someone who does not have the necessary qualifications and is not ‘competent’. NZTA also advised that Mr Brady was not only conducting assessments in Christchurch where he lived, he was also doing them in Auckland, Nelson, Blenheim, Greymouth, Dunedin and Invercargill. He seems to have been travelling around the country making a full time living out of this.
Mr Brady probably did more than anyone else but if the other 50 unregistered/incompetent counsellors did 500 assessments each during this 13 years, that’s more than $18 million which has been wasted – all because the MOH failed to vet their skills and qualifications.
This has potentially serious consequences. Drink drivers who are disqualified indefinitely are repeat high-risk offenders – the ones with the worst drinking problems and the most likely to end up killing someone. If alcohol and drug assessments were being done by experienced and suitably qualified professionals, these offenders should re-offend at a much lower rate than those who do not need to be assessed. (Not all drink drivers are disqualified indefinitely. The vast majority are disqualified for a finite period, usually six months to a year and get their licence back at the end of the disqualification with no questions asked.)
In fact those who have an assessment (and treatment) re-offend at a higher rate than those who do not. Gerald Waters had a friend killed by Warren John Jenkins (right), a recidivist drink driver with 17 previous convictions. Mr Water’s research shows that within four years, 32% of assessed/treated drink drivers re-offend while only 28% of unassessed drink drivers re-offend.
What this means is that assessments by unregistered incompetent alcohol and drug counsellors are enabling recidivist drink drivers back on the road to re-offend at a greater rate than drink drivers who receive no assessment or treatment. By failing to audit the counsellors doing these assessments, the Ministry of Health and the NZTA have wasted millions on a process that fails to keep recidivist offenders off the road and fails to protect the public. Who’s the bloody idiot now?
Published February 3, 2014 May 2, 2014
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9 thoughts on “Government agencies use ‘incompetent’ counsellors to assess recidivist drink drivers”
Bridgitte Thornley says:
I cannot see how you can blame the assessor for an increase in reoffending. It could be that those who are ordered by the courts to have an assessment are more likely to reoffend to begin with and that is why they have a tougher sentence.
rogerbrooking says:
I am not blaming the assessor. I am blaming the Ministry of Health and the NZTA for allowing unregistered incompetent counsellors to conduct these assessments and for failing to check on their qualifications.
Yes, but you are not comparing apples with apples, when you claim that: “If alcohol and drug assessments were being done by experienced and suitably qualified professionals, these offenders should re-offend at a much lower rate than those who do not need to be assessed.”
Roger’s response:
Drink drivers who are assessed are being compared with drink drivers who are not assessed. They’re all drink drivers (or apples). What is being discussed is the impact of assessment (and treatment) on subsequent re-offending rates. If assessment/treatment is done well, perhaps it would turn rotten apples into carrots.
Seán Manning says:
Dear Roger,
I appreciate the value of your presence on the AoD scene, especially since meeting you in Dunedin. We need independent commentaries to help keep things honest. I hesitate therefore to criticize, but I wish you would provide more evidence for some of your conclusions.
The fact that a counsellor fails to renew his registration with DAPAANZ does not itself mean he is incompetent. I do not know the counsellor you mention, but naming him in this fashion without more detail seems brutal. There does not seem to be any evidence in your blog actually tying him to getting drunk drivers back on the road, and your follow-up comment that you do not blame the counsellors seems to contradict the earlier piece, where you name and blame an individual.
Secondly the the statistic quoted later in your piece – that assessed drivers re-offend more that unassessed drivers – is predictable, since the former group are likely to have more serious offense histories. That 68% of this group do not re-offend is actually a very positive statistic.
Yours respectfully,
Seān Manning
Registered AoD Counsellor
Sean, you assume that these AOD counsellors simply failed to renew their registration. That’s not correct. Most of them never applied to DAPAANZ in the first place – when the regulations were changed five years ago. My conclusion is that more than half of counsellors doing assessments for Land Transport are not qualified to be doing them. I can send you the list of names of 50 unregistered counsellors if you like…
Whether these counsellors are incompetent is a moot point. But they not competent as far as DAPAANZ is concerned. ‘Not competent’ and ‘incompetent’ are two ways of saying the same thing. But this article is not about the counsellors – its about the Ministry of Health failing to do its job.
In regard to your second point I disagree that it is predictable that assessed drivers will reoffend at a greater rate. That implies assessment and treatment is a waste of time – and/or that the assessors are incompetent.
Linda Hay says:
I am not so much interested in apples and apples, as the main issue, being unskilled AOD counsellors, let loose on unsuspecting clients, who may believe they’re in competent hands.
My concern is not only for the vulnerable motorists but also, whatever happened to the fundamental taught to all practioners from day one- “Do No Harm”
Roger is assuming quite reasonably that a competent assessor would not allow those drivers back on the road – the fact that the assesors are allowing them back pretty much proves they are incompetent!
Rosemary Casey says:
Surely it makes sense for the Ministry of Health to enforce their own guidelines? It is important that assessors are competent, belong to an organisation with a code of ethics and are accountable for their practice. If they’re not, it makes it an uneven playing field for those who do ensure they belong to a professional body, have paid their annual subscription and diligently earned the required one hundred points.
Would you consult any other health care practitioner that was unregistered? Thanks for bringing this to my attention Roger, as I had no idea that this was happening, why would I? I had a letter from the MOH towards the end of the year, reminding me of my annual requirement to furnish proof of my ongoing registration and updated details of my business.
lynn fisken says:
Thank you Roger regardless of anyone’s view you have once again alerted us to the lack of accountability in regard to the use of our taxes. I for one think it is abhorrent that counsellors who do not meet criteria or do not have the relevant qualifications have been paid for conducting these assessments. This must be addressed.
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HomeCONCERT REVIEWSCorrosion of Conformity and Eyehategod tear up Showbox
Corrosion of Conformity and Eyehategod tear up Showbox
February 23, 2018 Eric Pefley - Owner / Lead Photojournalist CONCERT REVIEWS 0
I have always been a fan of Corrosion of Conformity, but have never seen them live. I would finally get that opportunity at The Showbox Sodo on Monday night. Also on the bill was Eyehategod. I had never heard of them, but listened to a bit online and thought they would make a good opener. The headliner was Black Label Society, but I was not allowed to stay for their set.
As I entered the venue it amazed me how packed it was. I asked one of the security guards and he said the show was sold out. As I prepared my photography equipment, I was amazed at how many people were at the show early. No late arriving crowd tonight. There was also a noticeable buzz in the crowd as well. As the lights went down Eyehategod came on stage. They are from Louisiana and I have found them listed as sludge metal. I was told this is a combination of doom metal and hard-core punk. I would say that is a fair analogy. They were a very solid band. Mike Williams (vocals) and Jimmy Bower (guitar) have been in the band since the late 80s. Their last album was the self-titled “Eyehategod” released in 2014. Mike’s vocal style makes it hard to understand the lyrics, but man he was belting out the vocals. It fit the music perfectly and made for a good show. The guitar is quite heavy in places and Jimmy was killing it. Some of the lyrics I did pick up on were pretty harsh, but hey, it’s sludge metal so what would you expect? All in all, I enjoyed their set. I wish I could provide some more details, but I would definitely check them out again if they came to Seattle.
Next up was what I had been waiting for. Corrosion of Conformity hit the stage like a ton of bricks. Three of the four member are from the original start of the band and vocalist Pepper Keenan joined a couple of years after the band formed. All of these guys are in their 50s, but man you could not tell that when they were on stage. They were rocking with the best of them. They have a new album out called “No Cross No Crown”, which I highly recommend you pick up. The crowd roared as they hit the stage and you could tell they had not been forgotten over the years.
Their first full song was “The Luddite” off their new album. It was a solid opener as this song has a great groove to it and some really awesome guitar work in the middle. Woody Weatherman is a great lead guitarist and Pepper does a nice job on guitar as well. At this point, I was so impressed by how good they sounded and it was just so in your face metal. What followed is what would be a lot of their greatest hits. “Seven Days” and “Vote With a Bullet” followed and both were perfect. “Vote With a Bullet” is the first COC song I remember ever hearing. I was very excited to hear it live with its chunky riffs, another great guitar solo and it is just an all around great song.
The ten song set ended with two of their biggest hits, “Albatross” and “Clean My Wounds“. This took me back twenty plus years in time. Both songs again sounded fantastic. I really like the vocals of Pepper in “Albatross“. The song is a bit cleaner, and you can hear the excellent groove and power he has in his voice. I believe this was their highest charting song and it’s easy to see why. “Clean My Wounds” came across a lot harder in concert, but that was a good thing. I would say the whole set really came across harder than the albums. The show felt like a boxer that just kept coming and coming. The whole show was so enjoyable in every way. I have to give it up to these guys for getting back together and doing such a great job live. I had read more than a few people who were very skeptical that COC would still be worth seeing. Well I can tell you there is no reason to be skeptical at all. They are awesome live, and if you get a chance to see them, make sure you do.
Review by Eric Pefley.
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Dean, Honors College
Salary: Depends on Qualifications
Job_Type: Full Time
Job_Number: 01923
Location: Main Campus
Division: AAP
General Summary
Eastern Michigan University (Eastern) invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the Honors College. Eastern currently serves more than 19,000 students pursuing undergraduate, graduate, specialist, doctoral and certificate degrees in the arts, sciences and professions. More than 300 majors, minors and concentrations are delivered through the University's Colleges of Arts and Sciences; Business; Education; Health and Human Services; Technology, and its graduate school.
The Honors College provides the intimacy of a small, liberal arts education within the context of a large, comprehensive university. The Honors College offers a wide range of experiences that aid in the development of 1,400 undergraduate students with an appreciation for creativity, the arts, sciences, critical issues facing contemporary society, and diversity among people. Eastern houses one of the oldest Undergraduate Research Symposiums in the United States and the Honors College is integrally linked to this vision.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Reporting to the Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs, the Dean is the Honors College's chief academic and fiscal officer and a member of the University's academic leadership team. The Dean will guide the academic and business planning of the Honors College, advocate for its interests within and outside the University, engage and serve the local and regional educational community, and work to increase the Honors College's national visibility and to secure the resources necessary to fulfill its ambitions. They will also support Eastern's mission focused on inclusivity, global perspective and applied learning experiences.
A Doctoral degree or the terminal degree in the candidate's academic discipline is required.
Demonstrated proficiency in curriculum development and honors programming, typically acquired through education and experience.
Faculty appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor is necessary.
Seven years of teaching experience in a university is required: evidence of effective teaching experience with honors students is desirable.
Some combination of knowledge and experience with the following: budget management, development and implementation policies and procedures, public relations and/or grant writing is necessary.
Four years of administrative experience with evidence of progressive responsibility in a university is required.
A broad understanding of higher-education issues, particularly those affecting an Honors curriculum.
Proven ability to collaborate and interact effectively with a variety of internal and external constituencies.
A full description of the duties and responsibilities for this position may be found at:
http://it.emich.edu/service/classspecs/index.cfm?fuseaction=view&code=01402
The successful candidate will serve a twelve-month appointment. A competitive salary will be based on qualifications and prior experience with a tenure track appointment at the Associate or Full professor rank. Applicants should submit a cover letter describing how the candidate's experiences fit the qualifications listed, a curriculum vitae, and the names and complete contact information for three professional references.
Review of applications will begin on March 25, 2019 and the position will remain open until filled. References will not be contacted without the explicit permission of the candidate. Confidential conversations about this opportunity may be arranged by contacting Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs David Woike at [email protected]
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Multicultural experience is desired. Women and members of under-represented groups are encouraged to apply. Eastern is an equal opportunity employer.
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The Caribe Palm Community Development District (the “District”) is a local unit of special-purpose government of the State of Florida established in accordance with the Uniform Community Development District Act of 1980, Chapter 190, Florida Statutes, as amended and by Ordinance No. 04-146 of the Board of County Commissioners of Miami Dade County, Florida (the “County”), effective August 6, 2004. The District lands consist of approximately 39 gross acres located entirely within the unincorporated area of the County and were developed as a residential community which contains 140 single family residential units and 156 townhome units. The District is governed by a five-member Board of Supervisors (qualified electors) elected during the general election process by qualified electors of the District. The District issued Special Assessment Bonds, Series 2004 (the “Bonds”) and has imposed taxes and/or assessments on all assessable property to pay off the Bonds issued for the installation and construction of public infrastructure (capital) improvements. All property owners within the District are subject to annual special assessments which are broken down into two (2) components:
The operation and management of the improvements.
Bond debt service (annual principal and interest) on the Bonds.
The District uses the Miami-Dade County Tax Collector to collect the assessments each year. The special assessments appear under the non-ad valorem tax section of the real estate property tax bill. The District’s fiscal year runs from October 1 thru September 30 of each respective year.
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How We Can Ensure Education Doesn’t Become a Casualty of War
Justin Doubleday
16th Sep '14
The kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by terrorist group Boko Haram in April cast a spotlight on the dangers that children in conflict areas face in simply going to school. Nearly five months after their capture, the majority of the girls remain prisoners of Boko Haram.
Last year, the United Nations reported that half of the 57 million out-of-school children in the world live in conflict areas like northern Nigeria. Schools in these areas are attacked for a range of ideological, religious, and political reasons.
Parents are less likely to send their children to school in unstable situations, and the quality of education can deteriorate as qualified teachers and teacher training become less available. Conflict often displaces children, making it even harder for them to access education. In Syria, the civil war has put more than 2.8 million children out of school, according to UNICEF.
Sarah Dryden-Peterson, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, studies the relationship between community development and education. In an interview with YPFP, she said persistent attacks on schools can create a cycle of conflict in some regions.
“Conflict has an effect on education,” she said, “but education also has effects on conflict.”
Prolonged conflict can create an education void, in which students don’t go to school and new teachers aren’t trained. That creates a situation rife for more instability and violence. Dryden-Peterson pointed to Somalia as a prime example of a country where a lack of education has fomented greater instability. Two decades of armed conflict has fractured the school systems and created a lost generation of uneducated young people. Between 2000 and 2007, less than a quarter of all children in Somalia had access to primary school.
The country’s instability has allowed terrorist group al-Shabab to thrive. It controlled much of southern Somalia until 2011, using schools as recruitment center for boys while segregating girls and forcing them to be fully covered. Al-Shabab continues to carry out attacks in Somalia and neighboring Kenya.
“Conflict has an effect on education, but education also has effects on conflict.”
Dryden-Peterson focuses her research on “multiply-marginalized” students in conflict regions. These children face discrimination based on multiple factors such as gender, ethnicity, religion, and socioeconomic class. During a Congressional staff briefing about the Nigeria kidnapping, Dryden-Peterson said the abducted Nigerian girls are a prime example of multiply-marginalized children because they are poor, from rural areas, and women.
Dryden-Peterson argues for a two-pronged approach to supporting education in conflict areas. First, support and enforce the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statutes, international humanitarian laws aimed at protecting civilian during armed conflicts. Second, invest more in organizations like the Global Partnership for Education, which promotes quality education for all children, including those in poor and conflict-ridden areas.
Dryden-Peterson said that it’s key for countries like the United States to invest in education – teachers, teacher training, and infrastructure – without tying the issue to national security. When education funding is tied to security, it ensures that any deterioration of the security situation will result in education’s demise as well. Instead, education’s role should be elevated to a right, regardless of the level of conflict at hand.
“The moment that it becomes tied to a security agenda, it becomes tied to something that is embedded within a conflict,” Dryden-Peterson said. “And that can exacerbate the issues.”
Justin Doubleday is a contributing editor for Charged Affairs.
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Betrayal thru Dec. 17 at Raven Theatre (6157 N. Clark St., Chicago, 773-338-2177) Pinter’s modern classic drama concerns the nine-year affair between a London writer and the wife of his publisher and best friend. A thoughtful, rich play about a common theme of human existence, the difficulty in maintaining honest relationships with those close to us, “Betrayal” tells the story backward, ending as the affair is about to begin Details: www.raventheatre.com
The Bodyguard from Jan. 31-Feb. 12 at Ford Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph St., Chicago, 800-745-3000) In this award-winning musical, based on the hit film, starring Grammy Award-nominee Deborah Cox, former Secret Service agent Frank Farmer is hired to protect superstar Rachel Marron from an unknown stalker. Each expects to be in charge; what they don’t expect is to fall in love. A romantic thriller, “The Bodyguard” features a host of irresistible classics including “Queen of the Night,” “So Emotional,” “One Moment in Time,” “Saving All My Love,” “Run to You,” “I Have Nothing,” “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” and, one of the biggest selling songs of all time, “I Will Always Love You.”
Chick Flick the Musical thru Jan. 29 at Royal George Theatre (1641 N. Halsted St., Chicago, 312-988-9000) This musical delivers an evening of heartfelt female friendship and empowerment wrapped in the iconic conventions of chick flicks. This original, ninety-minute, no-intermission musical has a cast of four and a live band. “Chick Flick the Musical” shows us characters and friendships that are both inspirational and aspirational. Details:
www.theroyalgeorgetheatre.com
A Christmas Carol thru Dec. 31 at Goodman Theatre (170 N. Dearborn St., Chicago, 312-443-3800) Now a beloved Chicago tradition, each year The Goodman Theatre ushers in the holiday season with its adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic story “A Christmas Carol.” Audiences look forward to the “bah humbugs,” the electrifying arrival of the ghosts, the jubilant musical numbers and dancing, and Scrooge’s joyful re-discovery of life, love, and the Christmas spirit. Goodman’s Carol has been produced for more than thirty-five years. Details: www.goodmantheatre.org
Crazy for You thru Jan. 8 at Drury Lane-Oakbrook (100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, 630-530-0111) Winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the romantic Gershwin musical “Crazy for You” follows Bobby Child, a New York banker with a craving for show business, who is sent to foreclose on a theatre in a small mining town. After falling in love with a local girl, Polly, he vows to put on a show to save the failing theatre. “Crazy For You” brings new life to memorable Gershwin tunes like “I Can’t Be Bothered Now,” “I Got Rhythm,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” and “Someone to Watch Over Me.” Details:
www.drurylanetheatre.com
The Curious incident of the Dog in the Night-Time thru Dec. 24 at Ford Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph St., Chicago, 800-745-3000) This is a Tony Award-winning new play by Simon Stephens, adapted from Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel and directed by Tony-winner Marianne Elliott. Fifteen-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain; he is exceptionally intelligent but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When he falls under suspicion for killing his neighbor’s dog, he sets out to identify the true culprit, which leads to an earth-shattering discovery and a journey that will change his life forever.
Disney’s The Little Mermaid thru Jan. 15 at Paramount Theatre (23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora, 630-896-6666) Ariel lives twenty thousand leagues under the sea with her royal family and father, King Triton. Despite the beauty of her aqua surroundings, the young mermaid only dreams of what lies above. During one of her top-side expeditions with her loyal companions, Sebastian the crab and Scuttle the seagull, the turbulent waters cause Prince Eric to be tossed into sea. Ariel swims to his rescue and gets the prince to safety. Determined to risk it all for her chance at true happiness, Ariel makes a deal with Ursula, the sea witch, who uses her black magic to transform the princess into a human. But Ariel has only three days to get her true love to kiss her. As part of the deal, while on land, Ariel will not have the ability to make a sound. If she fails at her quest, her soul, and her beautiful voice become the property of Ursula. Details:
www.paramountaurora.com
East Texas Hot Links thru Jan. 22 at Writers Theatre (325 Tudor Court, Glencoe, 847-242-6000) In the woods of East Texas, the Top ‘o the Hill Cafe offers comfort, solace, and companionship for the regulars who come in each night; however, it is the summer of 1955, and times are changing. In the face of oppressive Jim Crow laws, seven strong-willed locals join forces to protect one of their own—until the unthinkable catches them by surprise, changing life at Top ‘o the Hill forever. Details:
www.writerstheatre.org
The Fundamentals thru Dec. 23 at Steppenwolf Theatre (1650 N. Halsted St., Chicago, 312-335-1650) Millie is a smart, resourceful young mother who works as a housekeeper in one of New York’s premier luxury hotels. When an opportunity to move into management gives her the chance to leave behind her blue-collar life, Millie must decide how much and who she’s willing to sacrifice to secure her family’s future. “The Fundamentals” examines the compromises we make in order to fulfill our dreams. Details: www.steppenwolf.org
Hamilton thru March 19 at The PrivateBank Theatre (formerly Bank of America Theatre; 18 W. Monroe St., Chicago, 312-977-1700) A new musical about the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America: Alexander Hamilton. From bastard orphan to Washington’s right-hand man, rebel to war hero, “Hamilton” is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelong Hamilton friend and foe Aaron Burr all attend this revolutionary tale of America’s fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we’ve become. Details: www.broadwayinchicago.com
The Hunter and the Bear hru Jan. 22 at Writers Theatre (325 Tudor Court, Glencoe, 847-242-6000) The critically acclaimed PigPen Theatre Co., creators of WT’s 2013 hit production of “The Old Man and The Old Moon,” brings its considerable talents to this original tale. “The Hunter and The Bear” tells the haunting story of an imaginative young boy and his father, the pragmatic hunter tasked with protecting their isolated town. When his son disappears in the woods, the search to recover him will lead the hunter, and eventually the entire community, through a landscape teeming with dark secrets and supernatural threats. Details: www.writerstheatre.org
It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago! thru Dec. 31 from American Blues Theater at The Greenhouse Theater Center (2257 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, 773-404-7336) For fifteen years, the American Blues Ensemble has treated Chicago audiences to a live nineteen-forties radio broadcast. The cast recreates the entire town of Bedford Falls with Foley sound effects, an original score, and holiday carols. After each performance, milk and cookies are served by the cast. Details: www.greenhousetheater.org
The Nutcracker Dec. 10-30 from The Joffrey Ballet at Auditorium Theatre (50 E. Congress Parkway, Chicago, 312-341-2300) Discover the magic of Chicago’s mysterious 1893 World’s Fair through the eyes of a child in the Joffrey’s “Nutcracker,” reimagined by Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. Be part of dance history to celebrate our beloved city and unlock a world of wonder for the twenty-first century. Details: www.auditoriumtheatre.org
Phantom of the Opera Dec. 14-Jan. 8 at Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St., Chicago, 312-977-1700) Based on the classic novel “Le Fantôme de L’Opera,” by Gaston Leroux, “Phantom” tells the story of a masked figure who lurks beneath the catacombs of the Paris Opera House, exercising a reign of terror over all who inhabit it. He falls madly in love with an innocent young soprano, Christine, and devotes himself to creating a new star by nurturing her talents and by employing all of the devious methods. Details: www.palacetheatrechicago.com
Singin’ in the Rain thru Dec. 31 at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire (10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire, 847-634-0200) All the unforgettable songs and dances, including the show-stopping title number, have been adapted for the stage by Broadway legends Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The show’s set in the days just after the success of the first talkies, when studio execs find themselves scrambling to salvage the career of Lina Lamont, a silent picture star with an iron-clad contract—and a voice like a screech monkey. They decide to hire an aspiring actress to overdub Lina’s voice, but when the leading man falls in love with the voice-over girl, and the audience clamors for Lina to sing live, hilarity ensues. Details: www.marriotttheatre.com
Stomp thru Jan. 1 at Broadway Playhouse (175 E. Chestnut St., Chicago, 800-745-3000) An explosive, inventive, provocative, witty, and utterly unique experience for audiences of all ages. The international percussion sensation has garnered armfuls of awards and rave reviews and has appeared on numerous national television shows. The eight-member troupe uses everything—matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps—but conventional percussion instruments to fill the stage with rhythm. Year after year, audiences worldwide keep returning.
Yippee Ki-Yay, Merry Christmas thru Jan. 14 at MCL Chicago (3110 N. Sheffield, Chicago, 773-248-5900) It’s Christmas Eve at Nakatomi Plaza in L.A. New York cop Bruce McClane is there to re-kindle love with his wife. Everyone is headed toward a merry Christmas until Hans Solo and terrorists take everyone hostage—except McClane. Details: www.mclchicago.com
Diary of a Worm, a Spider and a Fly thru Jan. 7, from Emerald City Theatre Company at Apollo Theater (2540 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, 773-935-6100) Enter the whimsical world of insects with a cast of crawly characters and laugh away the trials of being a young bug in school. Through all musical genres, this choral comedy humanizes the life cycles of insects to celebrate and accept the passions and differences in every child. Details:
www.apollochicago.com
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Travelling can present its challenges, but toss in a food allergy or dietary restriction and it can be downright daunting. However, my own gluten intolerance hasn’t prevented me from travelling—in fact, it has been a key component in fuelling my desire to travel. I wanted to defy the misconception that I would be limited as a gluten-intolerant traveller, and since my diagnosis three years ago I have travelled to more exotic and foreign places than I ever had before. I didn’t know that the travel bug would bite me so hard, but it did, and I am always looking ahead to my next adventure (and next international cuisine to take on, gluten-free style). Thankfully I am now well-versed and always equipped with the essentials (and more) to successfully travel gluten-free. Here are my tips for travelling gluten-free (or GF). Try them out, share with a friend, or modify to make…
What You Should Do About the Zika Virus
What is the Zika virus? Zika is an arbovirus that is spread by the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti of mosquito. The greatest risk is to fetuses, particularly when expectant mothers are infected during the first trimester. Zika has been linked to microcephaly (abnormally small head) in newborn children. Thousands of such cases have been reported to date, especially in Brazil, which is thought to be the epicentre of the current breakout. There is no vaccine or medicine for Zika. Up to 80 per cent of Zika virus infections are free of symptoms and go undetected. According to the Public Health Agency Canada (PHAC), these symptoms can include fever, headache, conjunctivitis (pink eye) and skin rash, along with joint and muscle pain. The illness is typically mild and lasts only a few days. Zika has also been linked to incidence of Guillain-Barre syndrome—a serious disorder of the body’s immune…
Why Travel is My Drug of Choice
I’m Jane, and I’m a travel addict. Lucky for me, supply is not a problem. In fact, with competitive airfares, alternate types of accommodation, and a proliferation of money-saving tips, it’s never been easier to travel almost anywhere on almost any budget. (I’ve even become a travel blogger myself, so I can legitimately get high on my own supply.) And I’m not alone—I just have to go on the web and search for anything with the word “travel” in it, a country name, or a specific attraction, and I’ll get pages and pages of results that connect me with other wanderers waiting to get their next real-world fix. Call it my support group. So it always surprises me when I encounter people who have little or no desire to travel, a fact that is incomprehensible to someone with my disease. And yet there are more of these UnTravellers than you…
Safety Precautions for Canadian Travellers to Turkey
The recent coup attempt in Turkey, and the government’s massive retaliation, must be taken seriously by any Canadians planning to visit family or friends in that country.(According to the 2011 census, there were then almost 55,500 Canadian residents who claimed full or partial Turkish descent, and certainly a lot more today.) In the wake of the botched uprising, the Government of Canada has warned its citizens to “Avoid Non-Essential Travel” to Turkey as a whole, or to “Avoid All Travel” to its border region with Syria—specifically within 10 km of said border. These warnings are not just formalities. They can have serious consequences for you if you ignore them and then run into any problems or even misunderstandings while in that country. Following is what the advisories mean: Avoid non-essential travel There are specific safety and security concerns that could put you at risk. You should reconsider your need…
Brexit Impacts on Canadian Travellers
Britain’s break-up with the European Union (EU) continues to make headlines around the globe, and will likely do so for the foreseeable future. The initial shock waves destabilized markets and foreign currencies, even causing some travellers to question their future vacation plans. The United Kingdom is the second-most-favoured international destination for Canadians, so many are wondering what the short- and long-term effects will be on trips to Britain and the rest of the EU. Here are a few different ways Brexit might affect your next trip across the Atlantic… Unsteady foreign currencies After the referendum, the British pound took quite a tumble, reaching its lowest level in thirty years. Compared to the Canadian dollar, the pound lost 6.5% of its value, and the euro dropped over 3%. This sharp decline makes the United Kingdom much cheaper for Canadian travellers. As foreign currencies continue to react to the news, it…
France Struck Yet Again
The month-long UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament held throughout France was labelled as a major event with a high threat level. Increased security presence was felt at the venues, and the public was kept safe for the most part, with the exception of some incidents with so-called hooligans. Tragically, though, just days after the tournament ended, an attack was carried out during the heart of French National Day celebrations. Bastille Day, or La Fête nationale, is a holiday that commemorates the storming of the Bastille in 1789. Bastille Day marks the beginning of republican democracy in France, and carries with it great significance and symbolism to the French culture that has now been tragically tainted. The Bastille Day attack is the worst attack since the November 2015 attacks in Paris. Around 30,000 people were gathered in Nice, France’s second-most-popular tourist destination, to celebrate and watch the fireworks over the Mediterranean…
Rio Olympics and Zika: Stay or Go?
The Rio Olympics are almost upon us, and with mounting numbers of high-profile athletes announcing their withdrawal from the games for health prevention reasons, it’s time to decide—should you stay or should you go? The answer to that remains a personal one, based on individual circumstances. As of July 7, 2016, 143 cases of travel-related Zika virus, and one locally acquired case through sexual transmission, had been recorded in Canada. This figure includes at least seven pregnant women, but to date no cases of microcephaly (abnormally small head size in newborns) have occurred. However, public health officials are confident the actual numbers of pregnant women (the highest risk group) are higher, since reporting mechanisms don’t always capture information about pregnancy status. In the continental U.S., over 1,100 cases of Zika virus infection have been recorded up to the beginning of July, with the first case of newborn microcephaly being reported…
Canadians Need Not Fear Travel in Post-Brexit Europe
If you plan to visit Britain or continental Europe in the near future, there’s no reason to make any significant changes to your itinerary due to Brexit concerns. Aside from the political noise coming out of Europe after Britain announced it had decided to leave the European Union, there should be no immediate impact on you—except that you’ll be getting more for bang of your buck thanks to a sharp drop in the value of the British pound. Some airlines have already reduced fares, hotels may follow, and other tourism-related entities can’t ignore the demand for competitively priced locations and activities. These are all good things for you. However, although Britain has been a member of the EU since 1973, she was never fully invested in that community just 20 miles from her shore. She held on to her own sterling currency, and though her citizens travelled with a health…
Solo Journey Express
Family Growing up, I was fortunate enough to go on multiple family vacations. My mother was in charge of logistics: food and entertainment for flights, booking hotels, and planning excursions and my father was in charge of financials and documents: money, currency, and passports, whereas my siblings and I were in charge of taking pictures and having fun worry-free! I didn’t need to fret about forgetting something important, or figure out where I had to be, or what time I had to be there because everything was always planned out for me. And the best part was the quality time I got to spend with my parents and siblings. Beginning As I got older, I was given the opportunity to start travelling on my own. I spent summers on student teen tours, took 40 person bus trips through the west coast of Canada and the United States and eventually…
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Staying Safe at Rio 2016
The 2016 Summer Olympics are being held from August 5 to 21, and the Paralympic Games from September 7 to 18. The games are based out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, although some soccer events are taking place around the country, including in Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, and the Amazon city of Manaus. There are 37 venues in total and 306 events, with the country expecting over 600,000 fans to travel from all over the globe to attend. If you are travelling to Brazil this summer for the Olympics, there are a variety of health, safety, and security tips to consider to ensure a successful trip. Trip preparation Seek travel health advice at least four to six weeks in advance. Brazil has a variety of tropical diseases in different areas in country, including malaria, dengue fever, chikungunya, yellow fever, and, most recently, Zika. The Zika outbreak has been…
It’s Hurricane Season
The 2016 hurricane season (June 1 through November 1) is here, and professional weather forecasters foresee (a) an above-average season, (b) a below-average season, or (c) a near-normal season for states bordering the Atlantic and/or the Gulf of Mexico. Sound wishy-washy? Indeed it does, but the major sources of weather information all agree on one thing: there are simply too many variables in the environment right now (including the expiration of El Niño, and the emergence of La Niña) to allow for a more reliable outlook. El Niño vs. La Niña El Niño is a pattern of unusually warm ocean currents in the tropical eastern Pacific that shifts upper level winds and reduces the likelihood of storm formation in the Atlantic. La Niña is the opposite, and is thought to produce below-average sea surface temperatures in the eastern Central Pacific. Weather specialists are pretty uniform in their belief that…
Europe Travel Alert: World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland
The United States has issued a Europe Travel Alert lasting until August 31, 2016, warning travellers of the large number of tourists visiting Europe this summer and associated risks. Specifically, the surge in visitors presents a greater concern for potential terrorist attacks due to the number of large events. And although the alert covers Americans, Canadians are urged to heed the same advice and follow travel advisories if they are heading to Europe this summer. One major event the travel alert mentions is the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day, which is taking place in Krakow, Poland, from July 26 to July 31. The event is expected to draw upwards of 2.5 million visitors between the ages of 16 and 35 to the Polish city. The Polish Prime Minister’s Office has said there are no signs of increased terrorist activity in the country and reassured travellers that security will be stringent.…
Using ATMs Abroad: 12 Things You Need to Know
Using ATMs (cash machines) while you’re abroad is not as simple as it is at home. I know travellers with horror stories about being strapped and unable to get cash due to various ATM blunders. That’s why it’s best to be informed about overseas banking before you depart! Here are 12 tips for using ATMs abroad and effectively managing your travel cash. 1. Get Online First and foremost, register for online banking before travelling. This allows you to manage your accounts and bills easily, and if there’s a problem with your ATM card or one of your accounts, you can fix it from wherever you are. 2. Foreign ATMs Offer Limited Services At home, you can use ATMs to change your PIN, see account information, transfer money between accounts, and more. Abroad, you generally can only view your balance and withdraw cash. For the rest, you’ll need to…
6 Adventures That May Just Change Your Life
“Here!” yelled the muscular man from his outrigger canoe. We couldn’t see it, but this was what we came for. We all jumped blindly into the water and began swimming toward him. Suddenly, I found myself within reaching distance of a 12-foot-long whale shark. It was scary and humbling and exhilarating. It feels cheesy to say that it was life-changing, but experiences like that really do change people. First-hand encounters with the grand creations of nature are a reminder that there is an enormous world of splendour beyond the human-built environments where we spend so much of our lives. From scrambling up a pre-installed via ferrata route in one of America’s most historic outlaw canyons to paddling alongside whales in the Canadian Arctic, here are six summer adventures suitable for people of all abilities that will help you remember that we live in a wild world of beautiful creatures and magical landscapes. Paddle…
Less is More: Travel in the World of Social Media
A Daily Routine My daily routine consists of waking up and going straight for my phone to check if I have any missed texts, emails, or phone calls. I then proceed to update myself on both Instagram and Snapchat to see what I missed during in the 8 hours I was asleep. Once I feel like I have caught up in the world of my 100 closest friends, I read my horoscope (I am very superstitious), and then get on with my morning. Social media plays a major part in my life… And it has changed drastically from what it used to be. From a travelling perspective, the biggest concerns faced are: what is a clever caption for my Instagram picture? What is the prime time to post my picture in order to maximize my number of likes? Who has seen my snapchat story? What geo filters are popular right…
UEFA Euro 2016: Europe Travel Alert
The United States has issued a Europe Travel Alert over the risk of potential terrorist attacks throughout Europe targeting tourist sites, major events, transportation, restaurants, and commercial centres. The alert focuses on the Euro 2016 soccer championship being held in France from June 10 to July 10 as a major event with a high threat level. France has issued a state of emergency until July 26, as the matches are expected to draw several million fans from across the continent and the globe. In the wake of the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks that shook Europe, French security has taken major steps to mitigate any risk of further terrorist attacks during the third-largest sporting event in the world. Stade de France The Stade de France was one of the targets in the Paris terrorist attacks last November, where three suicide bombers attempted to reach the interior of the stadium…
How to Respond to Active Shooter Situations While Travelling
The attack on Pulse nightclub in Orlando has been characterized as the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States. Not surprisingly, this event has again brought active shooter situations to the forefront of public issues. While the likelihood of encountering an active shooter is extremely rare, we have provided a guide on how to prepare for and respond to these situations. How to prepare Active shooter situations can be unpredictable and random, which increases societal levels of fear. In many cases, active shooters try to inflict as much damage as possible in the short amount of time before authorities arrive on scene. You should understand the level of risk in the areas where you live, work, and visit. Know whether you may be a target, or whether any specific sites that you visit may be potential targets. Make sure you know where to go in the…
Lessons from Orlando: Stay Vigilant
The massacre of 49 Americans in Orlando should awaken us all to the reality that terrorism, and its avoidance, is now part of our lives—even within the shadow of Disney World. The tragedy we witnessed over live television and through social media this weekend brought home with brutal clarity that terrorism, whatever its source, is more than a European phenomenon. What happened in Paris and Brussels in late 2015 and early 2016 has happened here, in America’s heartland. We might have expected Times Square—but Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando? We must learn from this horrific event. Vigilance is everybody’s business, no matter where or when. Shortly after the Bataclan massacre in Paris in November 2015, American theme parks warned of longer lineups as they tightened up their screening measures. So did sports arenas and entertainment venues. Airports, already horribly overcrowded, just kept adding to your pain. What does Orlando, June 12,…
16,000 Kilometres, 805 Days, 10 Countries, 3 Horses, 1 Crazy Adventure
At the age of 25, I undertook one of the longest horseback rides in history. Inspired by Aime Tschiffely’s 1925 long ride from Argentina to the United States, I rode from the Calgary Stampede to the rodeo capital of Latin America, Barretos, Brazil. With my three horses—Frenchie, Bruiser, and Dude—I trekked 16,000 kilometres through ten countries over 805 days. I know what you’re thinking: “This guy is crazy.” I have heard this at least a thousand times, from the point I said I would do it until now, so no hard feelings. But to me, crazy is spending your time on this earth in a cubicle staring at a computer screen. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Everyone’s happiness comes from a different place. And mine happens to lie in the wide-open spaces. During my long ride from Canada to Brazil, I saw the sun rise and set almost…
Zika Update for Summer Vacationers 2016
Summer vacation time is here. Worried about Zika south of the border? Should you stay? Should you go? Our short answer? Go. But read on to make sure you stay safe and have a healthy return. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), up to the end of May 2016, 591 cases of Zika virus infection had been reported in the continental U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii. All infections were acquired abroad through bites of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, except for 11 that were transmitted by sexual contact in the U.S. And of the 591, there have been 168 confirmed laboratory reports of pregnant women with Zika infection. So far, two babies born to these infected mothers have shown signs of microcephaly (abnormally small head size)—the malformation that ignited the worldwide Zika alert. Note that the Zika virus infection, in the great majority of cases, goes undetected.…
Summer Travel Warnings for Europe
The U.S. State Department has issued a new warning alerting its citizens to the risk of potential terrorist attacks throughout Europe this summer, and to be especially cautious if attending European soccer championship matches throughout France from June 10 to July 10, or the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland, between July 26 and July 31. The advisory, which was issued on May 31 and extends through August 31, 2016, urges U.S. citizens to be especially cautious when attending major events, tourist sites, restaurants, and commercial and transportation hubs. Canada has not, to date, issued any similar warnings about European travel generally, but it provides up-to-date, country-by-country alert levels at https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/advisories that Canadian travellers should check out daily if travelling anywhere in European this summer. Remember that entering any country or region within a country that is designated “Avoid non-essential Travel,” or “Avoid all travel” can limit or…
5 Ways to Get the Most Out of Hotel Stays with Young Kids
For many children, staying in a hotel is the highlight of any vacation. Even little things like riding in the elevator, swimming in the pool, or partaking in the continental breakfast can be thrilling to a kid. For parents, however, hotel stays come with an extra set of considerations. Luckily, there are some simple hotel hacks to make a parent’s job much easier. You’ve just got to know what to look for… 1. Request a corner room If you’re travelling with a small child who tends to cry at night, let the hotel staff know when you book your room. Oftentimes, they’ll be able to place your family in a room that shares only one wall, reducing disruption for the surrounding guests and easing your own anxiety when the baby wails at 3 a.m. When you check in, remind the front desk about your request. If the hotel isn’t…
Cultural Cordiality in Ecuador
There is a tendency in travel literature, particularly in pieces written by white males from Western nations (the dubious cohort to which I belong), to exoticize foreigners, to lump them all together beneath a banner of benign pleasantness, and to emphasize “simple living,” a mode of being that seems straightforward and joyful compared to the bustling, money-driven culture in which many of us live. But while I’d like to avoid such blatant othering, such generalizations can hold a small grain of truth. Overall, the people I encountered in Ecuador were happier and much friendlier than the average Torontonian. I landed in Ecuador on January 5, 2016, having never been south of Savannah, Georgia. I was there to teach English, but quickly found the classroom dynamic to be universal: the teacher teaches, the students listen and ask questions. So I pursued my own curriculum after class by walking the streets of…
Do you dream in technicolour, or monochrome?
We like the best of both worlds. Last summer, the sisu crew made its way to Toronto Island via Hanlan’s point to shoot the Toronto skyline in stop motion format. Wine, cheese, and laughs ensued on that sunny Saturday. The sisu crew needed the time, since the film was shot over 10 hours. Note to self: Don’t forget the fully charged backup batteries. The condensed version of the film can be seen here. See more from the sisu crew at sisuproduction.com
How to Survive (and Enjoy) Long Plane Trips with Kids
The thought of lengthy plane trips with kids is unpleasant to most. For many parents, the simple prospect of being trapped in an impossibly small seat while a squirmy baby or hyperactive toddler screams from ear pain is enough to cause us to break out in a sweat. And although we can’t completely prevent onboard meltdowns, there are some tricks help make flying with kids less, ahem, turbulent… Remember: Flying is fun For most of us, flying has become a necessary evil endured solely to carry us from point A to point B. But to a child, flying holds a world of wonders. Make flying fun for your child by allowing them to pack their own carry-on bag and roll it through the airport. Book a window seat and let them watch as the plane ascends through the clouds, then point out the tiny trees and houses below. …
Financial Travel Tips: Will That Be Credit or Debit?
This article is the first of the Financial Travel Tips series by Nora Dunn (The Professional Hobo), a former financial planner who has been travelling the world full time since 2006. We trust you’ll enjoy her experience-based tips and tricks for managing finances and travelling the world smartly! How many credit/debit cards to carry when you travel A number of factors may weigh into this decision, including the following: Your destination (credit cards aren’t widely used or accepted in some places) The length of your trip (a weekend getaway won’t require as much forethought on this topic as a long-term trip will) Payment method for the trip (if you’ve already paid for an all-inclusive vacation, your credit/debit cards will be almost redundant on the road) Other things to consider include reducing risk (against theft or card problems), minimizing fees, and keeping your finances running smoothly. Travelling with credit…
How I Stay Fit While Constantly Travelling
Staying in shape is hard under even the most ideal circumstances. Life always seems to be getting in the way of eating healthy and making time to exercise. And travel makes staying in shape even harder. I’m an adventure travel blogger, and I find it incredibly hard to stay fit on the road. It’s not easy to maintain a healthy diet when you’re constantly eating in restaurants—often in countries where you’re not even sure what food is available. And when you’re constantly moving from one country and time zone to the next, where you don’t know where to find the closest gym or running track, sticking to an exercise routine is next to impossible. Despite these obstacles, over the years I’ve developed a pretty good system. There are four main barriers to keeping fit on the road: Eating healthy Exercising consistently Dealing with smelly workout clothes Keeping your exercise gear…
Travel Insurance for HIV Applicants Becomes More Accessible
For people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, travel health insurance has usually been difficult, if not impossible, to obtain. Insurers’ eligibility requirements disqualified them even before they completed a medical application. Applicants were lumped into the same category as people with terminal illnesses or metastasized cancer or under physicians’ orders not to travel. However, given the miraculous advances in the management of HIV since the worldwide AIDS epidemic that erupted in the early 1980s, the total ban on persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus that has not progressed to AIDS has been clinically unwarranted. HIV, as has always been the case, is not as contagious as is Ebola, SARS, certain stages of pneumonia, or the common cold. HIV is transmitted through sexual contact or contaminated blood passed on via needles or illicit drug paraphernalia. It is not transmitted by coughs, sneezes, handshakes, toilet seats, or unsanitized drinking glasses. Consequently, its total…
The Time I Was Rescued by a Navy Ship in Thailand
“We only have scrambled eggs left,” the owner of the corner cafe told me. My days on Koh Tao were over. While I was travelling the world in 2010 and 2011, I spent a few months in Thailand to learn the language of martial arts (read the story here) and to be an underwater videographer (find out more). In the middle of training for my first fight in Thailand, the country was hit with torrential rain and flooding; power outages, property damage, and food shortages ensued. I was unable to train properly, and anyone who has trained for a competition can understand my frustration. Don’t get me wrong—I like eggs, and they are great source of protein for training—but I wanted to get back to the gym! At the time I was living right next to a Muay Thai gym. A friend came by my bungalow and shouted that a…
Are Canadian Doctors Really Pillaging Health Care Coffers?
The current tension between the Government of Ontario and its doctors over what is or isn’t a fair “wage” is yet another chapter in a long saga documenting the political truth that when government is the paymaster, it has the right to call the tune. But the melody is wearing thin. To refresh myself on this long narrative, I revisited my own files to stories I wrote in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, for the Canadian Medical Association Journal and The Medical Post on the protracted fee schedule negotiation between not only the Ontario Ministry of Health and the Ontario Medical Association but also similar combatants in most other provinces. And the story line then, as it is now, was that the more money the province (that’s you) paid doctors, the less it had to pay for other key health care services—new hospitals, more beds, newer technology, more technicians, and…
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Welcome to Edmonton: How our entrance signs came to be
Mack Male Uncategorized April 11, 2015 5 Minutes
Until the late 1980s, Edmonton’s city limits were marked with simple blue and white signs that said “Welcome to the City of Edmonton”, not unlike the signs you’ll find near entrances to dozens of other towns around Alberta. The marker “City of Champions” was added following a streak of wins by the Eskimos and Oilers, though many also attribute that slogan to the way the city came together during the tornado of 1987. Not long after, City Council decided the existing signs were tacky and commissioned a study on the wording and design of new signs. That study decided that the word “welcome” was no longer necessary, but the “City of Champions” moniker was to remain.
The sign welcoming visitors entering Edmonton via the Sherwood Park Freeway
And so, Edmonton’s concrete entrance signs, made of sandblasted concrete shaped into a stylized silhouette of the city skyline, were erected from 1989 to 1991. A total of nine signs were put up, the last of which was located so close to St. Albert that aldermen there complained and threatened to redraw the southern boundary so that the sign would be on their land.
Others also disliked the signs. In April of 1989, Calgary mayor Don Hartman said Edmonton should tear the signs down. “Calgary has replaced Edmonton as the City of Champions,” he said. A cartoon in the paper next day also made fun of the signs by depicting new signs on the north edge of Calgary that read “City of Champs, 1 KM” on the southbound side and “City of Losers, 290 KM” on the northbound side.
But Edmontonians liked the signs. In late 1991, the Journal ran a reader poll about whether or not to keep the new signs. “Overall, 70 per cent of survey respondents say the signs are fine,” the paper reported. They found that residents in Sherwood Park, elsewhere in Alberta, and even outside Alberta all liked the signs.
Some locals grew to dislike aspects of the signs, however. Alderman Ron Hayter complained that the signs did not extend a welcome to visitors and were thus unfriendly. It took a while, but in the fall of 1996 the words “welcome to” were added. The total cost for adding that box to all nine signs? Just $8,837.93 ($982.00 each).
Photo courtesy of CBC
In late 1999, City Council began considering updated Highway 2 Corridor Design Guidelines. They also proposed spending $65,000 to “place signage of a complimentary, but smaller nature, to that of the major entrances” at thirteen other entrances to Edmonton. While discussing the report in June 2000, City Council passed the following motion:
“That the designation “Alberta’s Capital City” or other similar phrase be added to signage on Edmonton’s nine major entrance highways and included on any future entrance signage. Further that a report, including both the feasibility of this proposal and the cost involved, come back to the August 23, 2000 Executive Committee meeting.”
In the fall the report came back and said that adding the words “Alberta’s Capital” to the nine existing major entrance signs would cost an estimated $28,500. Council decided that was a bit too expensive, but a subsequent plan to spread the cost over three years was approved in December 2000. As you can see in the first photo above, the signs have fallen into disrepair and this addition isn’t even present on every sign anymore!
In December 2005, Council approved $625,000 for new entrance signs on the Stony Plain Road and Yellowhead East entrance corridors (they had already approved another $275,000 in December 2004). Manasc Isaac Architects provided an initial concept for the Stony Plain Road entrance sign:
The design concept for the Yellowhead East entrance came from Gibbs and Brown Landscape Consultants:
In March 2006, Council decided that a design competition would be held for the two new signs and that the newly formed Edmonton Design Committee would manage it. The competition drew eighteen submissions from across the country, and in May 2007 two finalists were selected: a pyramid-based design from local architect Gene Dub and a ribbon of steel design by Montreal architect Sylvie Perrault. Both received a $50,000 honoraria to take their designs to the next stage which included preliminary plans, a model, engineering assessments, and cost estimates.
Throughout 2007 there was a lot of debate about the new entrance signs (frequently called “entrance markers” at the time for some reason). “At some point, the old signs do need to be replaced,” said Councillor Karen Leibovici as the discussion grew more heated. Her Council colleagues seemed on board with the idea of replacing the entrance signs, but they may have been the only ones.
The most common complaint from the public was related to the cost. The City estimated the cost of the original signs to be around $400,000 each and replacing just two with new ones would cost between $600,000 and $1.4 million. But cost wasn’t the only concern. Soon after the two final designs were unveiled, citizens registered their dislike for both. Of 268 phone calls made to the City, only 2 were favorable.
Some people defended the design competition and the spending though. Then Journal columnist Todd Babiak wrote in May 2007, “the public reaction to the city’s design competition is emerging as my new least-favourite thing about Edmonton.” He argued that “to frame this project in terms of spending priorities in incoherent.” While he agreed that Edmonton was being “starved to death” by the other levels of government, he argued in favor of spending on the signs as public art:
“In 10 years, we won’t remember the potholes of 2007. But giant pyramids on each end of the city could be there, still inspiring debate.”
“If we continue to configure our priorities, as a community, around a reflexive, mean- spirited and frankly stupid hostility to cultural spending, the filled potholes will allow a lot of very smooth one-way trips out of this cold, efficient province.”
In February 2008, the jury selected Gene Dub’s proposal. A letter from the Edmonton Design Committee said the decision was unanimous and that “the winning entry is an edgy, glowing glass and steel crystal.” They called the design “surprising, even startling” and said it would “function both as a beacon and a gateway welcoming visitors with a symbol of a city that is poised, confident and energetic.”
But wasn’t meant to be. By the time City Council was getting ready to make a final decision, the estimated cost had ballooned from $900,000 to more than $2.5 million. Council voted 6-5 against the proposal in July 2008, bringing the debate to a close (at least temporarily). Writing about the decision in the Journal, then-columnist Scott McKeen called Council “hypocritical” and said a majority of them “caved badly under the weight of public pressure.”
There has always been some minor discussion about the signs, but in the last two years, the debate has once again become interesting. In October 2013, vandals made their mark on the signs, replacing the “City of Champions” section with their own humorous slogans like “City of Speed Traps”, “Suck it Calgary”, and “City of Champignons”.
Last fall, Councillor Michael Oshry officially reopened debate about the signs, saying “we need branding that demonstrates what we are about now and where we’re going and not about where we were 30 years ago.” He has since suggested an acceptable initial step would be to simply remove “City of Champions” from the signs. He is expected to make a motion to that effect at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
According to the latest City report, just seven of the major entrance signs remain (the two welcoming visitors from St. Albert and along Highway 28 no longer exist). An option to fund new signs with corporate advertising was quickly dismissed by Mayor Iveson. “Not on my watch,” he said. A new design competition could be an option though, as could a public search for a new slogan. That’s not necessary though, according to Mayor Iveson. “We’re in the post-tagline era,” he said.
For better or for worse, debate about Edmonton’s entrance signs has always been conflated with debate about our brand and image. I’ll examine that in more detail in an upcoming post.
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lincolnho says:
Great history. I loved the Gene Dub designs, but now I’m second guessing my past self. I really don’t understand why it’s such a big deal that we need to remove them and replace them. If they do get removed, I just hope whatever replaces them aren’t sensational so that people can focus on the road and drive without the necessity to snap a pic while driving.
LED Pros says:
Why not just spend a few dollars on some pretty LED strip lighting? It would definitely give the signs a “face-lift” so to speak. LED strip lighting does not cost millions! 🙂
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Posted by Susan Eymann, MS on Jul 8, 2019
Historically, there have been significant differences in the choice of a vascular access between Europe, Canada, and the United States. The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) studied international practice patterns which revealed large variations in vascular access practice among different countries.
Between 2005 and 2007, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, the UK, Australia and New Zealand used a native arteriovenous fistula (AVF) in 67 - 91% of patients undergoing dialysis. Belgium, Sweden and Canada used a fistula in between 50 - 59% of patients. In contrast, fistula use in the United States was only 34.1 % at the end of 2003. However, that changed dramatically with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Fistula First Breakthrough Initiative that brought the use of arteriovenous fistulas to over 60 percent in the United States by 2012.
While AVF use was increasing in the United States, it was declining in Italy, Germany and Spain. The DOPPS study found that patients were consistently less likely to use an AVF versus other types of vascular accesses if they were female, elderly, obese, had diabetes and/or peripheral vascular disease. In addition, countries with a greater prevalence of diabetics undergoing hemodialysis had fewer patients using an AVF. Catheter use rose 1.5 - 3 fold among prevalent patients in many countries from 1996 to 2007, even among non-diabetic patients in the 18 - 70 age range.
Furthermore, 58 - 73% of patients had a CVC for the initiation of dialysis in five countries despite 60 - 79% of patients having been seen by a nephrologist more than four months prior to ESRD. A patient’s preference for a CVC also varied across countries, ranging from 1% of hemodialysis patients in Japan and 18% in the United States, to 42% - 44% in Belgium and Canada. The median time from referral for vascular access creation varied from 5 - 6 days in Italy, Japan and Germany to 40 - 43 days in the UK and Canada.
The 2016 European Guidelines strongly recommend early referral of ESRD patients to the nephrologist to minimize the use of catheters and reduce catheter related morbidity and the need for hospitalization.] When hemodialysis is the choice, time from referral to surgery for vascular access creation should be as short as possible. Early referral to the nephrologist is also recommended for interventions to delay renal damage and to ameliorate hypertension, anemia and the metabolic effects of renal failure.
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Aerosmith Will Kick off Blue Army Tour in June
April 13, 2015 | Published in Aerosmith, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
Aerosmith will return to the road this June for their 15-date Blue Army Tour, kicking off June 13th in Glendale, AZ.
“The name Blue Army came from the fact that ‘everyone’ in our audience from the 70’s were wearing blue denim and it looked like a sea of blue,” explained Joe Perry in a statement.
During the tour, Aerosmith will perform a set that includes career-defining hits, man y of which are also highlighted on the band’s upcoming concert DVD, Aerosmith Rocks Donington 2014.
Immediately following the tour, the band will perform at the Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, OH for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s first-ever Concert for Legends.
Aerosmith are a living piece of American music history, having sold over 150 million albums worldwide and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They are the recipients of countless awards including four GRAMMYs, eight American Music Awards, six Billboard Awards and 12 MTV Video Music Awards, among many other honors. Their latest honors include the 2013 ASCAP Founders Award and induction, also in 2013, into the Songwriter Hall of Fame at the 44th annual SHOF ceremony.
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION!, the band’s latest album, was released in late 2012.
AEROSMITH’s 2015 summer tour dates are as follows:
June 13 – Glendale, AZ – Gila River Arena
June 24 – Evansville, IN – The Ford Center
June 27 – Durant, OK – Choctaw Casino Event Center
June 30 – Hidalgo, TX – State Farm Arena
July 3 – Stateline, NV – Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at HarveysJuly 7 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
July 10 – Salinas, CA – Salinas Sports Complex
July 13 – Kelowna, BC – Prospera Place
July 16 – Victoria, BC – Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
July 19 – Fort McMurray, AB – Shell Place at MacDonald Park
July 22 – Cheyenne, WY – Cheyenne Frontier Days
July 25 – Minot, ND – North Dakaota State Fair
July 28 – Ridgefield, WA – Amphitheater Northwest
Aug 1 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena
Aug 4 – Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena
Aug 7 – Canton, OH – Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium
In this article: Aerosmith, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
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Shakespeare (Not) On Stage
Roderick Cardwell as Richard Burbage
in "The Great Globe Itself" (2015)
Photo by Ryan Labay
Several years ago I wrote a play about the Globe Theatre, one which described three different buildings which have used that name, from three different eras in two different cities, each which was built to feature the works of William Shakespeare. My play was titled The Great Globe Itself, and toured northeast Ohio, in libraries and schools and theaters.
Shakespeare does not appear.
Over twenty years ago, my wife and I saw The Herbal Bed by Peter Whelan, a fiction inspired by the once long-forgotten-to-history accusation of “lechery” against Susanna (Shakespeare) Hall, eldest daughter of Stratford merchant and landowner William Shakespeare. The case was found in favor of the defendant, and the play begins as a bodice-ripper which soon evolves into the Puritanic courtroom drama not unlike The Crucible in its torturous circumlocutions.
This summer I read Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will, a fanciful imagining of the hands the collected, collated, edited and published the First Folio. inarguably the most significant publication in English literature. (see my blog post on The Book of William)
Burbage dies (almost three years after Shakespeare of Stratford) and it suddenly occurs to their surviving contemporaries that so much of what gave the work its power was locked inside the heads of those who spoke his lines. If not written down, they would be lost to history. The scramble to create a proper volume of the complete works -- in fact, determining what a complete works should consist of -- is as delightful to read as I am sure it is astonishing to witness.
Shakespeare, who as aforementioned was already dead, does not appear.
Finally, my brother sent me a play script from England for my birthday; I Am Shakespeare. Written by Mark Rylance, Oscar and Tony Award-winning actor and former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, Rylance is also a notable Shakespeare-denier, an Anti-Stratfordian, one who does not believe the “Man From Stratford” (as they like to call him) wrote the works attributed to him.
And yet, Shakespeare does appear in I Am Shakespeare.
At least, a version of him does. Rylance’s play falls into that category of “debate” plays that Shaw was so fond of creating (see my blog post, Shakespeare On Stage) though is Shaw’s case the argument was on the works’ merit, not its authorship. Shaw was openly scornful of those who proposed or defended such theories.
In Rylance’s play, William Shakespeare, as a character, arrives in the present day at the garage of Frank Charlton, a man obsessed with the “Authorship Question” and who hosts an online chat program that would appear to have a small, devoted following. The program has also ruined his marriage.
(Rylance uses Charlton as his stand-in, and wrote the role for himself to perform. He acknowledges, it would seem, that many who share his unorthodox views are not successful and lauded actors and directors of stage and screen, but more likely to be tin-foil hat wearing losers.)
Shakespeare, the character, has arrived from the past or elsewhere to debate the legitimacy of his achievement. He is soon followed by Francis Bacon, Edward de Vere, and Mary Sidney, all to make the same claim. Attention is also given to Marlowe, who is obviously too cool to make an appearance.
It’s all a fun exercise, and very witty, though much of the humor stems from a wide knowledge of and deep appreciation for the works of Shakespeare. You already have to be in on the joke.
When writing The Great Globe Itself I had several agendas. The play was meant to illuminate the significance of the Globe Theatre (three Globes, as I said) as a unique acting space, one specifically suited to (most of) the works of Shakespeare.
I also wanted to tell the story of the theater Shakespeare’s made legendary in such a way that anyone without any knowledge of his life or work, could appreciate and enjoy it.
Ultimately, and here’s the kicker, I wanted to see if I could get away with writing a play about Shakespeare that also suggests the "Man From Stratford" didn’t write his own works -- but that no one would notice.
You didn't notice, did you? It was probably the impenetrable accents. My mistake.
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The Day We Found the Universe
Marcia Bartusiak / Published April 7, 2009
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Pantheon, 2009
The riveting and mesmerizing story behind a watershed period in human history, the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe.
On New Years Day in 1925, a young Edwin Hubble released his finding that our Universe was far bigger, eventually measured as a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed. Hubble’s proclamation sent shock waves through the scientific community. Six years later, in a series of meetings at Mount Wilson Observatory, Hubble and others convinced Albert Einstein that the Universe was not static but in fact expanding. Here Marcia Bartusiak reveals the key players, battles of will, clever insights, incredible technology, ground-breaking research, and wrong turns made by the early investigators of the heavens as they raced to uncover what many consider one of most significant discoveries in scientific history.
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CHRO Moves – week ending June 21, 2019
Posted on June 24, 2019 Written by Samuel Dergel Leave a Comment
Geron Corporation rue21 Deluxe Corporation
The Mosaic Company Maze Therapeutics Farmers & Merchants State Bank
Varsity Brands GlobalLogic Inc. Joerns Healthcare
Geron Corporation [MENLO PARK, Calif.] (NASDAQ: GERN) announced the appointment of Shannon Odam as Vice President, Human Resources. Prior to Geron, Ms. Odam was Vice President, Human Resources at BioElectron Technology. Prior to that, Ms. Odam was Market Diversity Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), Silicon Valley.
rue21 [WARRENDALE, Pa.] announced that Brian Rogers has joined rue21 as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Rogers comes to rue21 from Ascena Retail Group, Inc. where he was for nearly seven years, serving most recently as Senior Vice President Human Resources Corporate. He also held leadership positions as Senior Vice President, Talent Acquisition and Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of the Justice Tween Brands division. Prior to Ascena, Mr. Rogers was with L Brands where he served as Vice President, International Human Resources for four years and Vice President, Human Resources for nearly four years. He began his career as a Human Resources Director at Nike and Human Resources Manager as Deutsche Post AG.
Deluxe Corporation [SHOREVIEW, Minn.] announced the hiring of Jane Elliott as Chief Human Resources Officer. Most recently, she served as an Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer at Global Payments. She has more than 20 years of experience in payment technology including nine years at First Data. Elliott started at Deluxe in April and will be based in both Atlanta and the company’s headquarters in Shoreview, Minnesota.
The Mosaic Company [PLYMOUTH, Minn.] (NYSE: MOS) announced that it has named Christopher A. Lewis Senior Vice President – Human Resources. Lewis will relocate to Mosaic’s new headquarters in Tampa, Florida. Lewis most recently was Vice President, Project Execution for Spectra Energy Corporation’s merger into Calgary, Alberta, Canada-based Enbridge, Inc. Previously, Mr. Lewis worked for 10 years at DCP Midstream, LLC, a natural gas company based in Denver, where he started as the head of Human Resources while the company was formed as a spinoff from Duke Energy in 2007. From 2010 to 2016, he was DCP’s Chief Corporate Officer, a multi-functional role that included leadership of the human resources function. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lewis held regional and global senior human resources positions at Thomson Multimedia (formerly RCA, GE consumer electronics) and DHL, Inc.
Maze Therapeutics [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Matt Krause as senior vice president of human resources. Krause joins Maze from Global Blood Therapeutics where he served as vice president of human resources. Prior to Global Blood, Mr. Krause held a number of senior director and representative roles in human resources, including at Audience, Inc., Amyris Biotechnology, CV Therapeutics, CopperCom, Gilead Sciences, Bio-Rad Laboratories and DNA Plant Technology.
Farmers & Merchants State Bank [ARCHBOLD, Ohio] announced the appointment of Benét Rupp as the Chief People Officer. Benét most recently served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources at ProMedica. Prior to this role, her career included a variety of progressive human resources leadership roles at The Andersons Inc., Therma-Tru Doors, MSC Walbridge Coatings and National City Bank.
Varsity Brands [DALLAS] announced that Martha May has joined the Company as Chief Human Resources Officer. May joins Varsity Brands from The Freeman Company, where she served as Chief People Officer & Executive Vice President, People and Inclusion. Prior to Freeman, she was the Chief Human Resources Officer at Rockwell Collins. Early in her career, May spent more than 15 years working for American Airlines, moving from employee and labor relations to customer service and, eventually, to organizational effectiveness. In 2006, she joined Bell Helicopter and led all human resources functions.
GlobalLogic Inc. [SAN JOSE, Calif.] announced that Amy Hanlon-Rodemich, has joined the company as Chief People Officer (CPO). She replaces Bonnie Helton, who is set to retire this year. Prior to GlobalLogic, she was Vice President of Human Resources at Synopsys. Before Synopsys, Amy worked at Yahoo, where she was responsible for key HR functions including technical and leadership training, organizational development, and all global employee services. In her early career, she was employee 11 at Inktomi during its start-up phase, where she ultimately helped the company expand to more than one thousand employees. After Inktomi, Amy went on to VMware, where she was in charge of HR Shared Services and Global Talent Development Operations.
Joerns Healthcare [CHARLOTTE, N.C.] announced the appointment of Julie Wilson as the Vice President of Human Resources. Wilson previously served as the Director for Human Resources at Octapharma Plasma, Inc. Prior to that, she was the Human Resources Manager for Circle K.
Filed Under: Chief Human Resources Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Talent Officer, CHRO, CHRO Search Report, Fired, Hired, HR, Human Resources, NASDAQ, NYSE, Private Equity, Replaced, Resigned, Terminated, Venture Capital, Vice President Human Resources Tagged With: Amy Hanlon-Rodemich, ARCHBOLD, Benét Rupp, Bonnie Helton, Brian Rogers, California, CHARLOTTE, Christopher A. Lewis, DALLAS, Deluxe Corporation, Farmers & Merchants State Bank, Geron Corporation, GlobalLogic, Jane Elliott, Joerns Healthcare, Julie Wilson, Martha May, Matt Krause, Maze Therapeutics, Menlo Park, Minnesota, North Carolina, OHIO, Pennsylvania, PLYMOUTH, rue21, SAN FRANCISCO, SAN JOSE, Shannon Odam, SHOREVIEW, Texas, The Mosaic Company, Varsity Brands, WARRENDALE
CHRO Moves – week ending May 17, 2019
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Globality IFG Companies Buck
Aphria Inc. Diversified Maintenance MITRE
CBRE | FacilitySource Northern Swan Holdings, Inc. STV
Beam Therapeutics PRGX Global, Inc. CR architecture + design
e-TeleQuote Insurance, Inc. TridentUSA Health Services OnDeck
Mohawk Global Logistics
Sonia Mathai
Globality [MENLO PARK, Calif.] announced that it has appointed Sonia Mathai to lead the company’s people and talent strategy as Chief Human Resources Officer. Mathai brings a 19-year track record working for technology providers such as Synack and Upwork. She is an advisor and contributor to the Forbes Human Resources Council.
IFG Companies [HARTFORD, Conn.] announced the addition of Stephanie W. Yocum as Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer. Just prior to joining IFG Companies, Ms. Yocum was the Chief Human Resource Officer for Numotion in Nashville, Tennessee. Stephanie also held key leadership positions in human resources at such companies as ISO New England, M/I Homes, Inc., The Scotts-Miracle-Gro Company and Polyone Corporation. She started her career at Accenture.
Buck [NEW YORK] announced that Michael Davidson was appointed Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Davidson is a proven leader in HR, bringing more than 25 years in financial services, telecoms, and manufacturing before joining Buck in 2002.
Diversified Maintenance [TAMPA, FLA.] announced the appointment of Lindsay Raduka as the Company’s new Vice President of Human Resources. Prior to joining Diversified, Raduka’s has held multiple HR leadership positions in a wide range of B2B and B2C industries including technology, telecommunications, consumer durable goods, and diversified industrial manufacturing.
Aphria Inc. [LEAMINGTON, ON] (TSX: APHA, NYSE: APHA) announced the appointment of Maureen Berry as Vice President, Corporate Human Resources. Prior to joining Aphria Inc., Ms. Berry spent 15 years as the Corporate Human Resources Executive at Canada Health Infoway. She’s also held the roles of Vice-President, Human Resources for Certicom Corp., Vice-President of Human Resources for NRX Global Corp. and Vice-President Human Resources Consulting for Mainstream Access Corp.
Gus Bentivegna
MITRE [MCLEAN, Va., & BEDFORD, Mass.] announced Gus Bentivegna as the new vice president of human resources and talent enablement. Bentivegna joined MITRE in April to enhance the talent experience and total rewards compensation and benefits programs. Bentivegna previously served as a client relationship director, senior consultant and led the Talent Line of Business for the New England region at Willis Towers Watson. Prior to his 18 years at Willis Towers Watson, he was responsible for a variety of human resources, change management, and communication roles at Verizon, Citibank, and Nielsen.
CBRE | FacilitySource [PHOENIX] announced the appointment of Lisa Barnhart as Vice President of Human Resources. Barnhart brings over 15 years of strategic human resource experience to her new position. Throughout her career, Barnhart held leadership roles in a variety of industries including financial services, software, retail, and electric utility.
Northern Swan Holdings, Inc. [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Marcelo Fumasoni as Chief People Officer. Fumasoni most recently served as Vice President Human Resources and Marketing Capabilities Lead at Novartis U.S., where he previously served as the Head of Human Resources for Latin America and Canada. Prior to Novartis, Mr. Fumasoni served as the Human Resources Regional Director at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals.
Sonja Glatzhofer
STV [NEW YORK] announced that Sonja Glatzhofer has joined as vice president and chief human resources officer. Before joining STV, Glatzhofer was with a large multi-national engineering and construction firm, as the Vice President of Human Resources for its construction services division. Prior to that, she was with a leading construction and project management firm. Additionally, Glatzhofer has held a variety of management roles in finance and insurance, executing both human resources start-up functions and full redesigns of the human resources functions.
Beam Therapeutics [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced the appointment of Susan O’Connor as chief human resources officer. Prior to Beam, O’Connor launched O’Connor & Associates in 2008. She has partnered with several venture capital firms, including Third Rock Ventures, acting as the chief human resources executive for a number of biotech companies, including Celsius Therapeutics, Relay Therapeutics, Blueprint Medicines, Voyager Therapeutics and Fulcrum Therapeutics, among others. Prior to launching O’Connor & Associates, Ms. O’Connor was vice president, human resources at Johnson & Johnson, where she also served as a board member for several operating companies within the medical devices sector of the company.
PRGX Global, Inc. [ATLANTA] (NASDAQ: PRGX) announced that Lynn Howard has been named Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to joining the Company, she served as Chief Human Resource Officer for Ciox Health. Previously, she held executive leadership positions with ABILITY Network, Surgical Care Affiliates, and MedAssets.
Meghan Hollan
CR architecture + design [CINCINNATI] announced that Meghan Hollan has joined the firm as Vice President of Human Resources. Hollan has led human resources at several local companies in a variety of industries, focusing on talent acquisition and leadership and organizational development.
e-TeleQuote Insurance, Inc. [CLEARWATER, FLA.] announced Shannon Gougis has been named its Chief People Officer (CPO). Gougis’ previous roles include HR leadership positions at ARDX, Divurgent, PRA Group and others.
TridentUSA Health Services [SPARKS, Md.] announced the appointment of Traci Bowen to the position of Chief Human Resources Officer. Ms. Bowen joined TridentUSA Health Services in November 2018. Bowen most recently served as Chief Human Resources Officer for the OB Hospitalist Group in Greenville, SC. Previously, Ms. Bowen was Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Adeptus Health in Lewisville, TX.
Deb Stroff
OnDeck [NEW YORK] (NYSE: ONDK) announced the appointment of Deb Stroff as the company’s Chief People Officer. Stroff joins OnDeck from Hogarth Worldwide, where she served as Chief Human Resources Officer. She has more than two decades of experience as a leader spanning various industry sectors — including Marketing Production (Hogarth), Consumer Products (Coty), Media & Entertainment (Time Inc.), Professional Services (EY), and Hospitality (The Ritz-Carlton.)
Mohawk Global Logistics [SYRACUSE, N.Y.] announced the appointment of Alicia Kirkby to the position of Chief People Officer (CPO). Kirkby comes to Mohawk from Mower (formerly Eric Mower + Associates), where she was Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to that, she held senior human resource positions at top architectural/engineering companies, as Director of Human Resources for the C&S Companies and Human Resources Manager for Clough, Harbour & Associates, LLP.
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CHRO Moves – week ending December 7, 2018
Nuance Communications, Inc. La-Z-Boy Incorporated Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc.
Heidrick & Struggles BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. ConsultNet
CareerBuilder RK Logistics Group TapClicks
Beth Conway
Nuance Communications, Inc. [BURLINGTON, MA] (NASDAQ: NUAN) appointed Beth Conway as executive vice president and Chief Human Resources Officer. Before joining Nuance, Conway held numerous leadership roles at CA Technologies, most recently serving as senior vice president of People.
La-Z-Boy Incorporated [MONROE, Mich.] (NYSE: LZB) announced the appointment of Katie Vanderjagt as Chief Human Resources Officer. Vanderjagt joined La-Z-Boy in 2015 as Director of Talent Management, was made Director of Corporate HR and Talent in 2017, and has been serving in the lead Human Resources position since August. Prior to joining La-Z-Boy, Vanderjagt was with Borgwarner as Director, Human Resources and Global Talent. Before that, she spent seven years at Owens-Illinois in various Human Resources positions of increasing responsibility before becoming Director, Global Talent Management and HR Strategy. She began her career at Target Corporation as a Human Resources Manager.
Sarah Payne
Heidrick & Struggles [CHICAGO] (NASDAQ: HSII) announced Sarah Payne has been appointed Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), and Rick Greene, Heidrick & Struggle’s current CHRO, will move into the Heidrick Consulting business as a Partner. Both leadership changes will become effective January 1, 2019. Payne was most recently Vice President, Human Resources, Global Executive Search. Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, she was Director of Global Executive Compensation at Bunge. Earlier she was Global Director of Compensation and Benefits at PanAmSat.
Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. [MENLO PARK, Calif.] (NASDAQ: ADVM) announced the appointment of Mike Fitzgerald as vice president, human resources. Fitzgerald was the Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources for ZELTIQ Aesthetics (now Allergan). Prior to ZELTIQ, he served as the Executive Vice President, Global Human Resources for Cepheid. Before joining Cepheid, he served as the Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources at Verigy, Ltd (now a part of Advantest Corp.). Prior to Verigy, Mr. Fitzgerald was Vice President of Human Resources at Varian, Inc. (acquired by Agilent Technologies), and prior to that, he held various HR roles culminating in becoming the Global Director of HR Strategy and Planning for Vodafone Group, plc.
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. [SAN RAFAEL, Calif.] (NASDAQ: BMRN) announced the promotion of Amy Wireman to Group Vice President, Human Resources, effective January 1, 2019. Ms. Wireman joined BioMarin in 2013 and has held roles of increasing responsibilities, starting with head of compensation and benefits, followed by responsibilities for HR operations, and most recently talent acquisition. Ms. Wireman will be replacing Rich Ranieri, Head of Human Resources, who announced in June that he will be retiring from the company at the end of the year. Ms. Wireman previously held managerial HR positions at Wind River, Xyratex and Micromuse as well as senior consulting roles with Watson Wyatt and Mercer.
ConsultNet [SOUTH JORDAN, Utah] welcomed Amy Esser as the organization’s new vice president of Human Resources. Before joining ConsultNet, Esser worked at the McCann World group as a SVP, Regional Director of Human Resources.
Michelle Armer
CareerBuilder [CHICAGO] announced the promotion of Michelle Armer to Chief People Officer. Joining as an HR Coordinator, Armer quickly stepped into a managerial role and was instrumental in supporting CareerBuilder.
RK Logistics Group [FREMONT, CALIF.] announced that Kimberly Meccariello has joined the company as corporate director of human resources. Meccariello progressed through increasingly responsible human resource management positions with Bio-Rad Laboratories, Rite Aid Corporation and Lockheed-Martin Corporation. A 23-year U.S. Air Force veteran, she previously served as a personnel officer stationed at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif. Upon retirement from active military duty she continued in service to the country as a member of the USAF Reserves.
TapClicks [SAN JOSE, Calif.] announced that it hired Tonya J. Long who is joining the company as Vice President of People and Operations. Long most recently held senior product operations roles at Akamai Technologies and Avaya and has more than 20 years of senior leadership in high-tech enterprise companies.
Brian Testa
ETQ [Burlington, MA] announced the appointment of Brian Testa as VP of People Operations. Before ETQ, Testa was Vice President, Global People Operations at KBACE Technologies. Testa has been a part of the Boston start-up technology landscape for the past 20 years.
Filed Under: Chief Human Resources Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Talent Officer, CHRO, CHRO Search Report, Fired, Hired, HR, Human Resources, NASDAQ, NYSE, Private Equity, Replaced, Resigned, Terminated, Venture Capital, Vice President Human Resources Tagged With: Adverum Biotechnologies, Amy Esser, Amy Wireman, Beth Conway, BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Brian Testa, BURLINGTON, California, CareerBuilder, CHICAGO, ConsultNet, ETQ, FREMONT, Heidrick & Struggles, Illinois, Katie Vanderjagt, Kimberly Meccariello, La-Z-Boy Incorporated, Massachusetts, Menlo Park, Michelle Armer, MICHIGAN, Mike Fitzgerald, MONROE, Nuance Communications, Rich Ranieri, Rick Greene, RK Logistics Group, SAN JOSE, SAN RAFAEL, Sarah Payne, SOUTH JORDAN, TapClicks, Tonya J. Long, Utah
CHRO Moves – week ending March 2, 2018
General Motors Quest Diagnostics Munich Reinsurance America, Inc.
Sprinklr Oak Hill Capital Partners IV Western Digital Corp.
US Foods Holding Corp. H&R Block, Inc. Couchbase
Cecilia McKenney
General Motors announced that Jose Tomas, senior vice president of global human resources, has left the role. Tomas was appointed in July 2017.
Quest Diagnostics [Secaucus, NJ] (NYSE: DGX) announced the appointment of Cecilia McKenney as Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer. Ms. McKenney spent more than a decade at Frontier Communications, where she led the telecommunications company’s human resources function, as well as held senior leadership roles leading the Consumer Division and sales, marketing, business operations and customer service. Before Frontier, she served in various HR leadership roles at PepsiCo over a period of 16 years. McKenny is replacing Jeff Shuman who is retiring.
Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. [PRINCETON, N.J.] (Munich Re America) appointed Cheryl Jones to the Head of Human Resources; she will also join the Munich Re America Executive Leadership Team. Cheryl joined the company in 2014 as a Human Resources (HR) Business Partner after more than a decade in financial services HR roles. In 2015, she was appointed to Head of HR Business Partners with responsibility for leading the talent strategy for Munich Re America and as a member of the US Regional HR Leadership Team.
Sprinklr [New York] announced the appointment of Diane Adams as Chief Culture & Talent Officer. Adams spent 14-years at Cisco, following which Adams joined Allscripts. Adams went on to serve as Chief People Officer at Qlik, and was, most recently, Chief Culture and Talent Officer for McGraw-Hill Education.
Oak Hill Capital Partners IV [New York, NY and Menlo Park, CA] announced that it has named Ken DiPietro Chief Talent Officer and Senior Advisor. Ken was most recently at Biogen, and previously at Lenovo Group and Microsoft. Ken also held a senior HR leadership position at Dell. Ken began his career at PepsiCo, where he spent 17 years in a range of positions.
Lori Sundberg
Western Digital Corp. [SAN JOSE, Calif.] (NASDAQ: WDC) announced that Lori Sundberg has joined the company as chief human resources officer. Sundberg succeeds Jackie DeMaria, who is retiring after a 13-year tenure with Western Digital. Sundberg most recently served as senior vice president, Global Human Resources at Jacobs. Earlier in her career, Sundberg advanced through a series of HR leadership roles at American Express and served as senior vice president, Human Resources and Ethics at Arizona Public Services Company.
US Foods Holding Corp. [ROSEMONT, Ill.] (NYSE: USFD) announced that David Works has joined the company as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Works joins US Foods from Hackensack Meridian Health, where he served as chief human resources officer. Previously, Works led the HR organizations at Windstream and Sears Holdings. He also served as the president of the Enterprise Business Unit at Windstream.
Tiffany Scalzitti Monroe
H&R Block, Inc. [KANSAS CITY, Mo.] (NYSE: HRB) named Tiffany Scalzitti Monroe as its new chief people officer. Monroe most recently served at U.S. Foods as the chief human resources officer. Prior to her position at U.S. Foods, Monroe served at Target Corporation for 15 years where she held a variety of leadership positions. Her most recent role was as the senior vice president for human resources at Target Canada.
Couchbase [MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.] announced the hiring of Jessica Yuen as Chief People Officer. Jessica Yuen comes to Couchbase from Gusto, where she served as Head of People. Prior to Gusto, she was with Khan Academy. Previous to Khan Academy, Jessica held a variety of leadership roles across HR, recruiting, strategy, business development, operations, and product management at Yahoo! and McKinsey.
Interstate Hotels & Resorts [ARLINGTON, Va.] announced the appointment of Carrie David as chief human resources officer. Most recently she served as senior vice president of operational excellence and general manager support for Caribou Coffee and Einstein Noah Restaurant Group. Carrie was at Delaware North where she served as Head of HR for Australia and New Zealand.
Filed Under: Chief Human Resources Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Talent Officer, CHRO, CHRO Search Report, Fired, Hired, HR, Human Resources, NASDAQ, NYSE, Private Equity, Replaced, Resigned, Terminated, Venture Capital, Vice President Human Resources Tagged With: ARLINGTON, California, Carrie David, Cecilia McKenney, Cheryl Jones, Couchbase, David Works, Diane Adams, General Motors, H&R Block, Illinois, Interstate Hotels & Resorts, Jackie DeMaria, Jeff Shuman, Jessica Yuen, Jose Tomas, KANSAS CITY, Ken DiPietro, Lori Sundberg, Menlo Park, MISSOURI, Mountain View, Munich Reinsurance America, New Jersey, NEW YORK, Oak Hill Capital Partners IV, PRINCETON, Quest Diagnostics, ROSEMONT, SAN JOSE, Secaucus, Sprinklr, Tiffany Scalzitti Monroe, US Foods, Virginia, Western Digital
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He Was About To Pick Up His Newborn Son After Surgery When He Was Arrested By ICE
Lauren von Bernuth June 4, 2017
ICE SWAT TEAM. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39595
The case of Oscar Millan shows ICE’s renewed focus on strict immigration enforcement. Under the Obama administration, agents had discretion in cases of immigrants with gravely sick children.
(ProPublica, by Marcelo Rochabrun)
Early last Monday morning, Oscar Millan’s longtime partner called him from a Boston hospital, weepy with relief.
Their son, Oscar Matias, had been born two weeks earlier with a serious condition that prevented food from traveling from his stomach to his small intestine. But that morning, he’d undergone a successful surgery to repair it, and a second was scheduled for early June. Millan told his partner, Evanice Escudero, that he’d be by to pick them up in a couple of hours, after checking in on a landscaping job he had to do that day.
But Millan, a 37-year-old undocumented Mexican immigrant, never made it to the hospital.
As he drove to the job site, he was picked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who were looking for him near his home in Framingham, Massachusetts, about 20 miles outside of Boston. In 2008, an immigration judge had ordered Millan deported after a failed asylum claim, but Millan had stayed in the country with his family until he recently pleaded guilty to driving under the influence. An ICE spokesman said Millan’s arrest was prompted by both the deportation order and the conviction.
At the hospital, Escudero began to panic. “I was calling him over and over again but he wasn’t picking up and I didn’t know why,” Escudero said in an interview in Spanish. “I didn’t know what was going on until Oscar’s mother came to pick me up at around 11 or noon.”
After the arrest, ICE agents had gone to Millan and Escudero’s house and explained to his mother what had happened.
The move to detain Millan is a sign that the Trump administration is delivering on its promise to strictly follow longstanding immigration laws to maximize its ability to deport people living unlawfully in the United States.
After years of aggressive enforcement, the Obama administration had instructed immigration officials in 2014 to exercise more discretion in who they targeted. ICE agents were told to consider the length of time immigrants had lived in the country, their family or community ties and whether they had a young child or a seriously ill relative before seeking their deportation. The Trump administration explicitly rescinded those guidelines in February. Instead, it told immigration officers to enforce the law “to the greatest extent practicable.”
“He has to be with his family right now,” said Matthew Cameron, a Boston lawyer who’s representing Millan. “But you need to understand that there is no legal path, there never has been a legal path for that. It’s a fairly typical story now in Trump’s deportation system.”
An ICE spokesman said Millan would “remain in ICE custody pending his removal from the United States.”
It’s hard to say whether Millan’s case is a direct result of Trump’s aggressive immigration policies. Even without the DUI, a February memo from the Department of Homeland Security said immigration agents should prioritize the deportation of those who had outstanding orders to be removed.
During the first 100 days of the administration, ICE officers arrested 38 percent more immigrants than during the same period in 2016, about 410 individuals a day. The administration touted the numbers as a victory, but the narrow comparison obscures the evolution of the Obama administration on immigration enforcement. In fact, during the majority of his administration, Obama deported far more people each day than Trump has so far.
In the press release announcing the increase in arrests, ICE’s acting director Thomas Homan said the agency would no longer sit on deportation orders — like the one Millan had for years — before enforcing them.
“We are a nation of laws, and ignoring orders issued by federal judges undermines our constitutional government,” Homan said.
Millan was arrested in January 2016 by a Framingham police officer for driving under the influence. At the time, a breathalyzer test said he had a blood-alcohol concentration almost twice the Massachusetts legal limit. The police report made no mention of his immigration status, other than mentioning that Millan had no valid driver’s license, and had instead showed a Mexican one.
“After his conviction, he would have gone up the pecking order even under Obama,” said Dan Kesselbrenner, executive director of the National Immigration Project, an advocacy organization based in Boston. “And there is no real pecking order under the Trump administration. Everyone is a priority.”
Steven Carl, who led the Framingham Police Department until 2013, said that during his time there the presence of ICE agents was rare, perhaps one or two days every six months. The town is 13 percent Hispanic, according to the 2010 census, and has a particularly large Brazilian population.
“It seems odd just because he has a DUI that they would pick him up,” Carl said. “I’d think ICE would have higher priorities than that.”
The Framingham Police Department, which has a policy of not actively cooperating with ICE, did not respond to requests for comment.
After his arrest on May 22, Millan was held in a Boston detention center but was recently sent to a larger facility in Louisiana. Cameron, his lawyer, has filed an emergency request to stay his deportation — a last recourse — asking ICE to “allow him to remain with his family during this critical time in his newborn son’s life.” He said he has yet to receive a response, but the requirements of the administrative appeal are notoriously hard to decipher.
Millan’s case echoes that of Andres Magana Ortiz, 43, a Mexican immigrant who lived in the U.S. for 28 years and was recently denied an emergency stay by ICE. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit said on Tuesday that it had no authority to prevent his deportation.
Only a tiny percentage of detained immigrants have attorneys, leaving even those with solid cases to stay in the United States to fend for themselves. Read the story.
ICE had granted Magana Ortiz multiple emergency stays over the years but denied his latest two petitions, filed in March and April of this year. During the time he was allowed to stay in the country, Magana Ortiz had begun the process to become a U.S. citizen after marrying an American in 2015. He is also the father of three American children and while he had two old DUI convictions, they had not prevented him from receiving the emergency stays in the past.
Two 9th Circuit judges said on Tuesday that they had no authority to grant Magana Ortiz an emergency stay. But one, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, a liberal appointee, used his concurring opinion to chastise the Trump administration.
“The government forces us to participate in ripping apart a family,” Reinhardt wrote. “The government’s decision to remove Magana Ortiz shows that even the ‘good hombres’ are not safe.”
Since arriving in Louisiana this week, Escudero said she had spoken with Millan once.
“He’s desperate,” Escudero said. “Since he arrived, they’ve already sent one group to Honduras. They are sending people back so quickly.”
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Gossard's older/ vintage Les Pauls
jlmarky Posts: 1
October 2018 in Musicians and Gearheads
Anybody know here Gossard's vintage Les Paul's went? Seems to be like he stopped playing them in public sometime shortly after No Code. Notable to me were one or two burst customs, one of which had a rat silhouette sticker, and perhaps another one (or same guitar?) that had a "3" sticker on it. There was also a gold top custom with mini buckers which if I recall correctly he played in the Hunger Strike video. There may be a few more rare 'pauls that I do not recall, but these 70's era customs, while fine instruments, are not particularly precious due to pancake bodies and volute necks. So, anybody know? He seems to be playing modern Les Paul's with bigsby's these days. I read something once that one of his Les Paul's got smashed: anybody know the details?
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There's an interview somewhere I recall Stone saying he's perfectly happy to play reissues on the road. He's didn't want to bring his fancy guitars on the road like Mike.
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He played a gold LP in Lets Play Two, was wondering if its the same one he had back in the 90s
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Target Has Doubled Down; Continues to Support the Destructive Homosexual Movement
By Andrew Bieszad
Target is a major American retailer that beginning in 2015 generated nationwide controversy for its support of LGBT and other related causes. Even while many people became angry with the store chain’s leadership and have since refused to do business with them and the store chain has suffered declining sales, it has further entrenched itself with its latest campaign, saying that not only does it only support the LGBT as per corporate policy, but now it is going to donate 50% off the sales of select items to LGBT causes as part of a month-long campaign ‘honoring gay pride’:
Target stores are promoting a gay pride line of products dubbed “Take Pride” despite facing huge losses from a boycott against the company’s transgender bathroom policy.
The retailer is merchandising the gay agenda for the second year in a row, with rainbow-adorned shirts, pants, shorts, swim trunks, iPhone cases, and other items honoring Gay “Pride Month” in June.
The gay-affirming merchandise is accompanied by a promotional flyer with the promise: “For each PRIDE item sold, Target will donate 50 percent of the purchase price to GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network).”
When Target began its “Take Pride” line of merchandise, the company issued a statement:
“We’re making our message loud and clear: Target proudly stands with the LGBT community … through all that we do,” Laysha Ward, Target’s executive vice president and chief corporate responsibility officer, boasted. She cited gay demonstration “volunteer efforts” and “partnerships” with homosexual groups such as the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network “to the very products we carry in our stores and online.”
Target’s “Take Pride” promotional campaign follows a controversial transgender bathroom policy allowing men to use women’s restrooms, changing rooms, intimate facilities, and vice versa. The corporate giant also eliminated all gender references in its toy and bedding departments, taking down “boys” and “girls” signs to support gender fluidity.
In 2015, Target signed a “friend of the court” supporting homosexual “marriage.” Their commercial for a “Made to Matter” line of products featured two gay men painting with a child.
The homosexual-affirming policies resulted in a massive boycott (#BoycottTarget, #FlushTarget) of the retailer by an estimated 1.5 million customers and declining Target stock value.
The transgender bathroom policy also resulted in complaints of sex offenses in Target changing rooms and bathrooms in California, Idaho, New Hampshire, Oregon, Texas, Washington state, and Ontario.
The American Family Association (AFA) noted that dramatically declining sales and stock value forced Target to cancel expansion plans, fire five top executives, and cut CEO Brian Cornell’s salary by one-third. (source)
You might read the title of this article and say that it is exaggeration to say that Target is promoting the spread of disease, self-mutilation, and pedophilia, and it is true they did not EXPLICITLY, WORD FOR WORD use those terms. However, to approach this story with a fixation on literal words is to miss the entire point.
We at Shoebat.com have the proud distinction of being nominated as one of the most decidedly anti-homosexuality websites on the Internet (source). We hold this label with pride because our views on homosexuality are not our own- we did not create them, but we simply regurgitate- often times word for word- the Catholic teachings on homosexuality that have been echoed throughout the ages but are simply not spoken of today for fear of social repercussions from the aptly named “gay mafia.”
God makes very clear that homosexuality is a grave sin because He has divinely revealed it and shown through His created that it is a disordered act against the nature of creation. In fact, the sin is so serious that it is only one of four sins explicitly defined by the Catholic Church as sins which “cry out to Heaven for vengeance” (the other three being willful murder, the oppression of the poor and the widow, and the deprivation of a laborer of his justly earned wages). Both the Old Testament and the New Testament speak of homosexuality as a sin that is worthy of death and that as a result of the horrible thing it is will precipitate a flood of other and progressively more heinous sins to follow including not just Islam but also cannibalism, human sacrifice, and occultism. As we wrote last year:
In the war between good and evil, homosexuality is the central aspect of the side of the diabolical. Its not “just another sin,” it is an innate part of the nature of evil and despotism. When you look at how ISIS, for example, kills people, by slicing off their necks, burning them alive in cages, strapping onto people and then blowing them up to pieces, it is most conspicuous that they are a deviant people through and through. They kill just like the many sodomite serial killers have done. There is no doubt that if the sodomites in America had the power, they would not hesitate to conduct a genocide of Christians. The pagan Roman Empire was dominated by homosexuality, and it tried to exterminate all Christians; the Persian Zoroastrian empire was filled with sodomites and it too tried to destroy Christianity; the Ottoman Empire was extremely homosexual and it too committed genocide against Christians. In a letter written by the Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus to Robert, count of Flanders, the Emperor describes how the Muslims savagely and ceaselessly raped Christian women, and that after some time, grew tired of women and turned on Christian men, sodomizing them by force. (source)
Stefano Brizzi, a homosexual who committed murder and after doing the act ate his victim. There are many stories like this we have reported on. Unfortunately, they are not uncommon.
The unspoken fact about homosexuality is that while homosexuals claim they are “discriminated” against, there is a disproportionate about of heinously violent crime that comes out of their disproportionately small community in any population, such as the uncomfortable fact among many other that almost 70% of all serial murderers are homosexuals:
In the case of the LGBTQ community, the 800-pound gorilla in the room is the correlation between sexual orientation and violence.
According to the Serial Killer Database maintained by Radford University, 52% of U.S. serial killers are white, and 92% are male.
However, in a dated study conducted in 2003, 69% of serial killers were either self-described homosexuals or engaged in homosexual behavior “immediately, prior to, during or after committing their murders.”
In verifying and updating this number, a random sampling of 59 U.S. serial killers after 1960 was collected and studied. Of those 59 convicted murderers, 39 were found to be gay, 66%.
Given that arguably 3.8% of the population of the United States self-identifies as gay, the statistical outlier of 60%+ of convicted serial killers being homosexual should be cause for concern within the LGBTQ community.
While some would argue the numbers are too small for scientific analysis, laws have been enacted on far less evidence, such as with the reaction to Matthew Shepard’s murder.
Rather than address this issue with a significant study, the LGBTQ community instead continues to push hate crime statistics of crimes against gays, lesbians and transgenders.
But a solution to minimize those assaults may be right under their nose as a recent report by a gay British group showed that 30% of hate crimes on gays were between victims and aggressors who were “previously acquainted.”
While the U.S. government tracks hate crime statistics along with their general crime database, they fail to gather and release data that could verify and lead to resolution of what appears to be a significant cultural issue within the LGBTQ community. (source)
When people speak about the Catholic Church and “pedophile priests,” the term is actually in accurate, because as it came out in the John Jay study, 81% of all the person molested by priests – who are all male- were boys and teenagers:
The largest group of alleged victims (50.9%) was between the ages of 11 and 14, 27.3% wer e 15-17, 16% were 8-10 and nearly 6% were under age 7. Overall, 81% of victims wer e male and 19% female. Male victims tended to be older than female victims. Over 40% of all victims wer e males between the ages of 11 and 14. (source)
There are pedophile priests, but there are pedophiles in all groups. What the data from the John Jay Study clearly demonstrates is that there isn’t a “pedophile problem” in the Catholic Church, but rather a homosexual problem.
It’s not just Catholic priests. It’s the homosexuality.
But it is not just the Catholic Church. It is the entire world, for wherever homosexuality goes pedophilia follows:
“Overwhelming evidence supports the belief that homosexuality is a sexual deviancy often accompanied by disorders that have dire consequences for our culture,” wrote Steve Baldwin in, “Child Molestation and the Homosexual Movement,” soon to be published by the Regent University Law Review.
Baldwin is the executive director of the Council for National Policy in Washington, D.C.
“It is difficult to convey the dark side of the homosexual culture without appearing harsh,” wrote Baldwin. “However, it is time to acknowledge that homosexual behavior threatens the foundation of Western civilization – the nuclear family.” (source)
Kaposi’s Sarcoma on the mouth, a sign of HIV/AIDS
Disease is another scourge that is not discussed at all among the homosexuals. Just looking at the data for HIV/AIDS alone, the CDC states that homosexuals have disproportinately high rates of the disease as well as being vectors of that disease than any other group in the population. In fact, the problem is so widespread that white have a 10% change, Hispanics a 25% change, and Blacks as 50% chance of contracting the disease:
Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men made up an estimated 2% of the population but 55% of people living with HIV in the United States in 2013. If current diagnosis rates continue, 1 in 6 gay and bisexual men will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime, including 1 in 2 black/African American gay and bisexual men, 1 in 4 Hispanic/Latino gay and bisexual men, and 1 in 11 white gay and bisexual men. (source)
Again, this is JUST for HIV/AIDS, not the many other STDs that are regularly transmitted. Nor am I even getting into the numerous psychological disorders that plague homosexuals in this country and worldwide.
Then there is the aspect of self-mutilation. Again, as we have noted and basic science says, gender is genetic. It cannot be separated from the biology which constitutes every cell in a man’s body because every chromosome will reflect either an XX or XY. All that a man can do is to mutilate himself and pretend that he is something he is not because he cannot remake his biology. It is like a man dressing up and pretending he is a cat- you can act like one but your own biology testifies against you.
Cutting your penis off, attaching a fake vagina and getting breast implants does not make you a woman. It makes you a man with no penis and surgically implanted breasts and fake vagina.
So no, they are not literally saying ‘we support murderers, pedophiles, disease, and self mutilation,’ but the fact is that homosexuality is an unnatural act whose consistent fruits are murder, pedophilia, disease, and self mutilation. By the support they are giving to this cause they are enabling the following acts to happen. It is no different than with a person who says that he is “against terrorism” but then proceeds to support the construction of mega mosques in small communities- yes, he is not saying “I support terrorism” but his actions are facilitating terrorism to take place.
Now in any society it is not possible to absolutely avoid all businesses and products connected to sinful activity. Indeed, businesses are not “moral” in the sense of Christian morality, and in a society that is accepting paganism one cannot expect much. In a situation like this, instead of focusing on particulars, it is easier to focus on major targets promoting flamboyant, egregious sinful behavior, and to avoid them. Indeed, they cannot exist without your dollars.
Via http://shoebat.com/2017/05/15/major-american-retailer-launches-nationwide-campaign-in-support-of-murderers-disease-self-mutilation-and-pedophiles/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+shoebat+%28Walid+Shoebat%29
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Amtrak 6 Months Late Getting Bicycle Racks Installed on Board the Capitol Limited
Want to take your bike aboard Amtrak? No problem says the nation’s rail passenger carrier. Bike racks will be ready by the end of the year.
Uh, that was the end of last year. Despite announcing June 2014 that baggage cars “equipped with built-in luggage racks that will be able to secure unboxed bicycles” would be available by year’s end.
But six months after that deadline passed, Amtrak is still working to install the bike racks.
Among the trains that were slated to get them were the Chicago-Washington Capitol Limited.
Although it won’t commit to a new deadline, Amtrak says that is aiming to get the racks installed and ready to use by the end of summer.
“That’s a process we’ve been working on for quite some time,” said Craig Schultz, an Amtrak spokesman. “We’re very eager to get it off the ground.”
Schultz said that finding the right racks and figuring out how they can fit in a baggage car while also keeping a train on schedule has taken longer than expected.
He said Amtrak wants to ensure that loading and unloading bikes doesn’t add time to boarding or de-boarding and that the baggage cars fit with varying platform heights at en route stations.
The bike racks were to be tested on the Capitol Limited and the Vermonter between New York and St. Albans, Vermont.
Amtrak will solicit feedback from riders who use the service, Schultz said.
Nos. 29 and 39 are expected to have racks to fit eight bikes, something that some bicycle advocates say won’t be enough.
Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak Capitol Limited, Bikes aboard Amtrak, Capitol Limited
Special Boarding Platform Testing in Ann Arbor
A first-of-its-kind boarding platform designed to serve rail passengers with disabilities is undergoing a trial in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The platform is designed to help passengers more easily board trains at stations that have low-level platforms that are well below the floor level of most single-level passenger cars.
Otherwise, passengers must be carried aboard up the stairs or raised to floor level by a lift device.
The new platform is located at the west end of the existing low-level platform at the Ann Arbor Amtrak station.
It has a ramp that leads to a concrete platform that stands 38 inches above the top of the rails. That is the same height as the floor of the Amfleet and Horizon cars commonly used on Wolverine Service trains that serve Ann Arbor.
A wall facing the tracks sits 9 feet back from the center line of the track, thus allowing ample clearance space for passing freight trains.
A 20-foot motorized concrete platform, or shuttle, deploys to the 5-foot, 7-inch distance from the center line to facilitate level boarding at two adjacent doors.
A conductor or station agent can use a cell phone app to activate the shuttle, which takes just over 10 seconds to move into position.
There remains a gap of several inches between the movable section and a passenger car, so a bridge plate is necessary for wheelchair travelers. That plate has guardrails and is made of lightweight carbon fiber. It is 18 inches longer and 30 pounds lighter than the 87-pound aluminum ramps used at most Amtrak stations.
Superliner equipment has a lower boarding level floor and the fiber ramp can be adapted those cars.
Amtrak’s Superliners as well as the bi-level Midwest and California fleet now being built by Nippon Sharyo, have doors that are slightly over 15 inches above top-of-rail.
The Ann Arbor special platform cost about $1.9 million with the funds coming from the Accessible Boarding Technologies portion of the $50 million designated by Congress in the current Amtrak appropriation to make stations accessible to passengers with disabilities.
A similar platform is being planned for the Amtrak station in East Lansing, Michigan, on the Blue Water line. Another may be built at an undisclosed location on the Wolverine Service line.
Although designed to help those with disabilities, the special platform is available for use by any passengers, including seniors, young families with strollers and those traveling with big rolling suitcases.
Amtrak collaborated with a Michigan engineering firm, RLE International, to design the prototype platform.
It was unveiled at a ceremony on July 23, the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak in Ann Arbor, Amtrak stations, Amtrak Wolverine Service, Ann Arbor Amtrak station
Amtrak Touts Station Accessibility Projects
The Amtrak station in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is among several that will be renovated this year to make them more accessible to those with disabilities.
Also slated to be renovated this year are stations in Prince, West Virginia; Devils Lake, Rugby, Stanley, and Williston in North Dakota; Detroit Lakes, Red Wing, St. Cloud and Winona in Minnesota; and Glasgow and Havre in Montana.
“Passengers with disabilities represent a large and growing share of Amtrak ridership and we are proud of our role as an important means of transportation,” said Amtrak President and CEO Joe Boardman in a news release. “We are confident we can build on the progress made to date and advance a robust program of station accessibility improvements in the years to come.”
Amtrak said that over the past 25 years it has improved accessibility at many stations, including repairs and upgrades to platforms, ramps and sidewalks, and renovating entrances and restrooms. All Amtrak trains have accessible seating and restrooms, and long-distance trains have accessible bedrooms.
During the past five fiscal years ridership by passengers with disabilities has increased 50 percent.
Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak stations
Troy Station Stop Suspended for 1 Train
Due to track work, Wolverine Service No. 350 Will Not Stop in Troy, Michigan, Monday through Saturdays through Sept. 30.
In a service advisory, Amtrak said the action is result of track improvements being made in in Indiana and Michigan.
Amtrak is directing passengers using train 350 to instead board or disembark at Dearborn, Detroit, Royal Oaks or Pontiac. No. 350 is scheduled to arrive in Troy at 2:36 p.m. from Chicago and other intermediate stops.
All other Wolverine Service trains will continue to offer daily service to Troy.
Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak in Troy MI, Amtrak stations, Amtrak Wolverine Service, Amtrak's Wolverines, Troy Multi-Modal Transit Center, Wolverine Service
Buffalo Eyes Replacing Exchange Street Station
Exchange Street station in Buffalo, New York, may be replaced by an underground facility, city officials say.
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. say they want to place the station below an undeveloped tract of land north of the canal.
“Instead of getting off at a site that leads you to believe nothing is happening around you, you would now get off at a site where you’re entering what is planned to be a very vibrant area of the City of Buffalo,” said Brendan R. Mehaffy, executive director of the city’s Office of Strategic Planning.
The current station is a small brick structure located beneath an interstate highway interchange in downtown Buffalo.
It is served by Amtrak’s Empire Service trains and the New York-Toronto Maple Leaf.
In 2014, the station served 41,220 passengers, which was a 7.4 percent increase over 2013 patronage and more than double what it served in 2004.
Mayor Brown has been calling for a train station at Canalside for years.
“Erie Canal Harbor and the Mayor’s Office are on the same page about exploring the feasibility of putting the train station at the northern end of the site before any other projects are finalized,” Mehaffy said. “If we can get it done, it’s worth the investment in the area.”
Waterfront agency board member Sam Hoyt said the board has been discussing placing an Amtrak station on what is described as the northern Aud block.
“We are in the process of considering the next steps there, and a train station will absolutely be a part of that discussion,” he said.
Ten years ago, Hoyt called for having Amtrak use a proposed transportation that would have been placed at the site of the since demolished Memorial Auditorium.
A study conducted at the time found that a station at Canalside was feasible.
“We did thorough research when I was an assemblyman, and the answer is that the short tunnel under which the track goes underground could accommodate a station. It’s definitely doable,” Hoyt said.
Hoyt rode Amtrak between Buffalo and Albany when he served in the state assembly and said that a new station is long overdue.
“You want visitors welcomed by a good first impression,” he said. “As we have done with Buffalo Niagara International Airport, you are greeted by a beautiful state-of-the-art, well-designed airport. You come by Amtrak, and the message is certainly not that this is a city on the move, a city that is growing, prospering and has turned itself around.”
A new Amtrak station would require federal, state and city funds to build, but Hoyt said that hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in Canalside in recent years.
The site has also been listed as possible location for a new stadium for the NFL Buffalo Bills.
“Including a high-quality, intermodal station in the future development of the Aud site makes enormous sense,” Hoyt said. “The Mayor’s Office and Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. agree that if we’re going to do a station in Buffalo, it ought to be at that site.”
Bruce B. Becker, president of the Empire State Passengers Association, agreed that the current station needs to be replaced.
“We feel Exchange Street is barely adequate, given the increasing ridership out of the station,” Becker said. “Our organization feels adamantly that with the development of downtown and Canalside and HarborCenter, there is a need for a much-improved Amtrak facility serving downtown.”
Amtrak serve Buffalo through two stations. The Empire corridor trains, Maple Leaf and the Chicago-New York Lake Shore Limited all stop at a station in suburban Depew.
Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak stations, Amtrak's Maple Leaf, Buffalo, Buffalo Exchange Street Station, Empire Service
Cleveland, Elyria Amtrak Stations Ripped
The Amtrak station in Cleveland has earned the dubious distinction of joining a list of what CityLab.com described as the worst stations in the country.
CityLab, which covers urban issue for the Atlantic magazine, grouped the station with its “fail station” category.
The ranking attracted some local media attention. Crain’s Cleveland Business cited it on its blog and WKSU wrote a story about it that was posted to the NPR station’s website.
The latter story, though, did have one glaring inaccuracy. It said that Amtrak moved its Cleveland operations to the current Lakefront station after Greater Cleveland RTA moved its operations into Tower City. Actually, what RTA did or didn’t do had nothing to do with it.
Amtrak began using its current location in October 1975 when it launched the Lake Shore Limited between Chicago and New York/Boston.
If CityLab thinks the current station, which opened in 1977, is bad, it should have seen the modular station – read, trailer – that Amtrak initially used in Cleveland.
Actually, the City Lab writer did see it. That trailer was later moved to Elyria, which also made the CityLab list of failing stations.
Noting that fire destroyed the Elyria trailer station in 2013, CityLab described the site as “not-even-a-station-station.”
That might be true, yet the debris from the fire has been removed and a bus shelter-type station constructed in Elyria.
The KSU article did note that Amtrak officials said they have plans to begin using the nearby former New York Central station, which is a hub for Lorain County transit buses.
However, the idea of using the NYC depot for Amtrak has been in the works for years but there is new hope that the idea will finally come to fruition in the short-term future.
In the meantime, the Elyria station is no worse than dozens of other similar type stations across America, including one in Alliance.
Back to Cleveland, though. Amtrak did briefly use Cleveland Union Terminal, now known as Tower City. That was during seven months in 1971 when the first edition of the Lake Shore ran.
But the states on the route reneged on their promise to help fund that train and Amtrak discontinued it in early January 1972.
By then it was stopping at a crossing in the Flats because if Amtrak had used CUT for even one day in 1972, it would have been on the hook for paying a year’s worth of rent.
As for RTA, well it was running rapid transit trains through CUT long before Amtrak began. So it is not clear what it meant by when RTA moved its operations there.
The WKSU story said that Amtrak officials call the Cleveland station “functional” but that they are working with city and county officials to use an intermodal terminal that has been talked about along the lakefront east of the current Amtrak station.
That station would be used by RTA, regional and intercity buses. But it hasn’t been built yet and officials are still looking for a suitable site.
The CityLab article used some colorful descriptions about some Amtrak stations.
For example, it described the Amtrak station in Savannah, Georgia, as having the look of an adult video store that has gone out of business.
The Detroit Amtrak station was described as having the appearance of an unused Sizzler restaurant.
Also making the list were Amtrak stations in Buffalo, New York, and South Bend, Indiana.
The Exchange Street station in Buffalo, which is used by Empire Service trains and the Maple Leaf, but not the Lake Shore Limited, sits beneath a massive interstate highway interchange.
As for South Bend, “What makes the South Bend terminal so truly egregious is the fact that Union Station, a mighty Beaux-Arts building, still stands across town—but it no longer services trains,” wrote CityLab author Kriston Capps.
He had one thing right in his article. “Some of the nation’s train stations don’t make a great impression. That won’t change until Congress truly funds passenger rail,” Capps wrote.
“These are the other train stations—the ones that make you wish you’d left the house a little later so you’d have to spend that much less time waiting at the station.”
Maybe so, but, hey, at least the Cleveland Amtrak station does have heat, air conditioning and indoor plumbing. Try finding those at many stations served by Amtrak.
Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak stations, train stations
2 Named to Amtrak Board of Directors
President Barack Obama will nominate Derek Kan and re-nominate Anthony Coscia to serve on the board of directors of Amtrak.
Kan is director of strategy at Genapsys who previously he served as a management consultant at Bain & Co. and as an adviser at Elliott Management.
He was a policy adviser to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell from Kentucky, the chief economist for the Senate Republican Policy Committee and presidential management fellow at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Coscia has sat on the Amtrak board since June 2010. He is a partner at Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP and between 2003 and 2011 was chairman of the board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak board of directors
UP Derailment Strands Illinois Amtrak Passengers
A freight train derailment combined with an incident with a truck on Monday night turned into a 14-hour ordeal for some Lincoln Service passengers bound for St. Louis.
And most of the passengers didn’t make it by rail to their destinations. Instead, they wound up going back to Chicago.
Train No. 307 departed Chicago on Monday at 7 p.m. with 150 passengers.
The first major delay occurred near Joliet due to a truck accident. Amtrak Spokesman Marc Magliari said No. 307 was stopped there for four hours.
The train then had to halt near Dwight after a Union Pacific grain train train derailed about five miles north of Pontiac at Cayuga.
Nine covered hoppers of the UP train left the tracks as the train was departing a siding that serves a Bunge Corp. grain elevator at Cayuga.
The Livingston County sheriff said nine rail cars carrying corn derailed at the Prairie Central Co-op elevator located near Route 66 and 2000 North Road.
The derailment also reported demolished a Railcrew Xpress van. Two employees of that company, contracted by UP to ferry rail crews, jumped from the van when they saw the train derailing and escaped injury.
The train was moving at about 5 mph at the time of the derailment. The sheriff’s Department said a mechanical error with the rails caused the UP train to derail.
As it was, Amtrak’s Lincoln Service had been canceled on Tuesday due to scheduled track work. Passengers were to be bused.
The Chicago-San Antonio Texas Eagle was to detour over another Union Pacific route through the eastern part of the state.
The southbound Lincoln Service train that was halted on Monday by the UP derailment was instead sent back to Chicago, arriving there early Tuesday morning.
Once in Chicago, passengers were put on buses to get to their destinations.
Amtrak said in a statement that it would offer compensation to the passengers for their inconvenience.
“They told us it was going to be a two hour delay and it kept getting longer and longer,” said Autumn Brooks, an Amtrak passenger.
Michelle Owens said she was unable take her daily medication. “I got a kidney transplant nine years ago. I couldn’t take it because they weren’t offering food except for a little bag of crackers or cookies and that was it,” Owens said.
“They wanted to sell their food to us, basically profiting from the fact that we were stuck on their train,” said Jake Dorris, another Amtrak passenger.
The train arrived back in Union Station just before 9 a.m. on Tuesday. The already exhausted passengers had to wait another hour before boarding buses provided by Amtrak to take them to their destinations.
“We’re going to deal with these passengers individually. We will talk to every one of them to assess what went well and what didn’t. We apologize profusely. There was nothing we could do to make the train go further because the tracks were closed,” Magliari said.
The last bus carrying passengers from Train 307 pulled out of Union Station just before 11 a.m., about 16 hours after their original journey began.
Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak's Lincoln Service, Chicago-St. Louis Corridor
Illinois Amtrak Trains Continue to Operate Despite Lack of Budget Agreement for FY 2016
Illinois still doesn’t have a budget for the fiscal year that began July 1 and the governor has threatened to cut Amtrak funding by 40 percent.
But for now Amtrak’s state-funded trains in Illinois continue to run as before. Amtrak officials have indicated that that will be the case for at least several weeks.
Gov. Bruce Rauner announced in mid-June plans to slash funding for Amtrak service in Illinois from $42 million to $26 million.
The governor took the action after he vetoed a budget approved by the Illinois General Assembly that Rauner said was out of balance.
Amtrak has seen these type of budget fights before. Rauner is a Republican in his first term in office while the legislature is controlled by Democrats.
“It’s not unusual for us to begin a fiscal year without a contract or a budget in place, in this state and others,” said Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari. “There’s a continuation clause in the current contract so it continues on. We’ll continue to provide service while we await a conclusion.”
Magliari said that the continuation clause says that “the contract continues in force for several months. I don’t expect this will take several months.”
Nonetheless, Magliari said Amtrak is “discussing with (the Illinois Department of Transportation) what the service will look like going forward.”
Should Amtrak service on Illinois state-funded routes need to be reduced, Magliari said there will be several weeks notice of those cuts.
Rauner spokeswoman Catherine Kelly confirmed that IDOT is talking with Amtrak about future service.
“IDOT is proceeding as quickly as possible to make decisions about the frequency and level of service that the state can afford. Despite weeks of conversations, Amtrak has not yet provided IDOT with the complete financial information necessary to reduce service,” Kelly said.
Illinois funds two roundtrips daily between Chicago and Carbondale, and between Chicago and Quincy. It also funds four roundtrips between Chicago and St. Louis and helps underwrite service between Chicago and Milwaukee. The latter service is also funded by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
The Illinois-funded trains have been particularly popular with college students.
In Carbondale, home of Southern Illinois University, students were lined up on the last day of the most recent school term, huddling under an awning as it began raining.
Most of the students were headed for Chicago, but some would be getting off at a station in central Illinois.
Although Carbondale is served by the Chicago-bound City of New Orleans in the middle of the night, the early morning state-funded Saluki is more popular.
The next train from Carbondale to Chicago is the late afternoon Illini.
“I probably wouldn’t take the train because I can’t get up at 3:30 in the morning because I’m a sleeper,” said Justin Edelheit of Buffalo Grove as he waited to board the Saluki. “Well, I don’t really have a car down here so I have to take the train to get home and that’s the only way I have to see my family. ”
Pareth Patel can understand Justin’s reliance on Amtrak. “I don’t actually have a car here so it’s easier for me to take the train because I take the train from here to Chicago and then I take the [Metra] train from Union Station to Naperville which is closer to my house.”
Joe Tumminaro likes the train ride home to the suburbs. “I actually take the train a lot. I got rid of my car his year to take the train because it’s just easier,” he said.
John O’Shea said he rides the train every couple of months. “I live right by [Chicago] Union Station so this takes me right to there and I live two blocks away from here so it’s just easy; it’s just a hassle driving 6 hours to and from.”
O’Shea said he often rides the City of New Orleans, but on this day he needed another option, so he rode the Saluki.
“That’s usually the one I take, but that’s just because it’s more convenient for me, I’m taking this because I have to be here somewhere tonight.”
Keelia Hamdan connects in Chicago with a train for Detroit. Losing options could lead to headaches getting home, especially after exams.
“It would be much more difficult to get around and as you can see a ton of people come like the end of the semester so it would effect a lot of people,” she said.
Tags:Amtrak, Amtrak funding, Amtrak Illinois service, Amtrak in Illinois, Bruce Rauner, Illinois Amtrak routes, Illinois Amtrak trains, Illinois Department of Transportation
Agreement Reached to Resolve PTC impasse in Kansas City that Threatened Amtrak Service
Amtrak said it has reached an “an agreement in principle” regarding installation of positive train control on the Kansas City Terminal Railway.
If implemented, it will end the threat that Amtrak would discontinue its Missouri River Runner service as well as the Chicago-Los Angeles Southwest Chief.
Those trains use a portion of the KCTR, which is Class III carrier jointly owned by Union Pacific and BNSF.
“We are hopeful we will soon finalize details of an equitable solution that achieves the installation and ongoing maintenance of PTC in the Kansas City Terminal area,” Amtrak said in a statement.
Amtrak had earlier estimated that it would cost $32 million to install PTC on the KCTR.
Although railroads such as KCTR and the Terminal Railway Association of St. Louis handle hazardous materials on run-through trains from their Class I connections, the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 doesn’t require the Class III roads to install PTC unless they host passenger trains.
KCTR refused to pay to install PTC and the Missouri Department of Transportation also declined to pick up the bill. Amtrak said it doesn’t have the money to pay for it either.
There has been a move in Congress to delay the deadline to implement PTC, but that movement stalled after the derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia resulted in multiple fatalities. The deadline to install PTC is Dec. 31, 2015.
Eric Curtit, the Missouri Department of Transportation’s Administrator of Railroads and Multimodal Operations, said terms of the KCTR agreement are confidential.
He said that the KCTR agreement is likely to establish a framework to resolve the same issue regarding TRRA tracks in St. Louis used by the Missouri River Runner trains, the Chicago-St. Louis Lincoln Service trains and the Chicago-San Antonio Texas Eagle.
Tags:Amtrak's Missouri River Runner, Amtrak's Southwest Chief, Amtrak's Texas Eagle, Kansas City Terminal, Missouri River Runner, St. Louis-Kansas City Corridor, Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
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Brown solos, Rivera sprints: New US road champions crowned in Knoxville
Photography by Wil Matthews
In hot, humid conditions, two new national road champions were crowned Sunday in Knoxville, Tennessee, having earned their stars-and-stripes jerseys in very different fashion.
In the women’s nine-lap, 114km race, pre-race favorite Coryn Rivera (Sunweb) out-sprinted three-time national champion Megan Guarnier (Boels-Dolmans) to take her first elite road title from a small group of contenders. Guarnier’s late attack was marked by Rivera’s teammate Ruth Winder, forcing a sprint from the select group.
Emma White (Rally Cycling) rounded out the podium while earning the U23 national title, just as she did Thursday in the time trial championship, where she finished third and took the U23 TT title.
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Though Rivera, 25, has racked up more than 70 junior, U23, and collegiate national titles across road, track, cyclocross, and mountain, this was her first as a road pro following three years of second-place finishes,
“All championship events are about attrition,” Rivera said. “It’s so awesome to have a teammate [Winder] here. She made the difference. I’ve been second so many years in a row, it’s been a long time coming and I’m really happy to take the win now.”
White, who finished fourth in the national criterium championship on Friday, earning her that U23 title as well, could only be satisfied with sweeping the U23 TT, criterium, and road championships over a four-day stretch.
“I’m really, really happy with three top-fives, and two podiums,” White said. “I don’t think I can ask for more. Of course, we always head into these big races looking for a win, but the competition was so, so strong here. To be up against WorldTour riders, I feel so fortunate.”
Youngest US road champion in history
In the men’s 15-lap, 191km race, 21-year-old Jonny Brown (Hagens Berman-Axeon) rode into a late-race breakaway of four riders with around 70km remaining before going it alone 20km from the line to become the youngest elite road champion in U.S. history.
Of the other three from the breakaway, Robin Carpenter (Rally Cycling) finished second, 45 seconds off the winning time, and 32 seconds ahead of Jacob Rathe (Jelly Belly), who rounded out the podium, meaning there were no WorldTour riders on the podium of the U.S. national road championship. Gavin Mannion (UnitedHealthcare), who had initiated the decisive breakaway, finished fourth, four seconds behind Rathe.
The top WorldTour finisher on the day was 2010 national champion Ben King (Dimension Data), who finished fifth, 2:41 back. The last time the U.S. champion’s jersey was seen at the Tour de France? Back in 2009, on the shoulders of George Hincapie.
Jonny Brown became the youngest US road champion in history, winning in his home state of Tennessee. Photo: Wil Matthews.
The decisive four-man break of the day escaped with nine laps to go. They gained more than four minutes over a chasing group of pre-race favorites, including defending champion Larry Warbasse (Aqua Blue Sport), Brent Bookwalter (BMC Racing Team), Brandon McNulty (Rally Cycling), Kiel Reijnen (Trek-Segafredo), Thomas Revard (Hagens Berman Axeon), and King. The chase group shuffled and re-shuffled, but was not able to close the gap to the four leaders, who would go on to battle for the victory.
It was an emotional hometown victory for Brown, the younger brother of Nathan Brown (EF Education First-Drapac), who was born outside of Nashville. The Brown brothers grew up in Memphis, and both moved to Austin, Texas, however Jonny moved to Knoxville just one month prior to the national championships.
The win was also the second elite road title in three years for the Hagens Berman-Axeon team, following Gregory Daniel’s win in 2016. The older Brown brother rode for the same program from 2010-2013, winning the Tour de Beauce on the development team before signing with Slipstream Sports, where he’s been since.
Also noteworthy — Brown won aboard an aluminum frame, a Specialized Allez.
“This is just unbelievable,” Brown said. “I moved here a month ago, so it makes it even more special. I’m just so excited. All year, I’ve been training for this. I’ve had a rough last two years, this is just unbelievable. We’ve been working for this for a long, long time and it feels amazing.
“It was giving me goosebumps every time I made a lap, to hear my name. Then going into the last lap I said ‘I can do this.'”
Carpenter said finishing second was bittersweet. “It’s my first time on the podium for nationals. It feels pretty good. But, it’s definitely a disappointment, considering how the race went,” he said. “We had a little more of a gap to make up than we wanted. We lost some time and eventually on the hill [Sherrod Road], Jonny still had 50 seconds and I knew it was time to go. I rode the last half lap as fast as I could, but didn’t have enough to catch him in the end.”
Reflecting the difficulty of the day, only 63 of 119 starters finished the race. In the bunch was 46-year-old Chris Horner, winner of the 2013 Vuelta a España, riding for Team Illuminate; Horner did not finish the race.
Tags: 2018 US road national championships, Coryn Rivera, Features, Guarnier, Jonny Brown
Live stream: 2018 US national road championships, Sunday, June 24
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Travis McCabe: The most successful American not racing on the WorldTour
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News Update: 60,000 Hidden Mayan Ruins Discovered in Guatemala –“Technology Used is Equivalent to the Hubble Space Telescope” (WATCH Video)
Posted on Feb 4, 2018 in Uncategorized
"Lidar is revolutionising archaeology the way the Hubble Space Telescope revolutionised astronomy," Francisco Estrada-Belli, a Tulane University archaeologist, told National Geographic. "We'll need 100 years to go through all [the data] and really understand what we're seeing."
Laser technology was used to survey digitally beneath the forest canopy, revealing houses, palaces, elevated highways, and defensive fortifications. The landscape, near already-known Maya cities, is thought to have been home to millions more people than other research had previously suggested.The researchers mapped over 810 square miles (2,100 sq km) in northern Peten.
Archaeologists believe the cutting-edge technology will change the way the world will see the Maya civilization, reports the BBC. "I think this is one of the greatest advances in over 150 years of Maya archaeology," said Stephen Houston, Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology at Brown University.
Mr Houston told the BBC that after decades of work in the archaeological field, he found the magnitude of the recent survey "breathtaking". He added, "I know it sounds hyperbolic but when I saw the [Lidar] imagery, it did bring tears to my eyes."
A Lidar image showing hundreds of previously unseen structures. Most structures are believed to be stone platforms for pole-and-thatch homes.
Results from the research using Lidar technology, which is short for "light detection and ranging", suggest that Central America supported an advanced civilization more akin to sophisticated cultures like ancient Greece or China.
"Everything is turned on its head," Ithaca College archaeologist Thomas Garrison told the BBC. He believes the scale and population density has been "grossly underestimated and could in fact be three or four times greater than previously thought".
Described as "magic" by some archaeologists, Lidar unveils archaeological finds almost invisible to the naked eye, especially in the tropics.
It is a sophisticated remote sensing technology that uses laser light to densely sample the surface of the earth. Millions of laser pulses every four seconds are beamed at the ground from a plane or helicopter. The wavelengths are measured as they bounce back, which is not unlike how bats use sonar to hunt. The highly accurate measurements are then used to produce a detailed three-dimensional image of the ground surface topography.
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In 2017, Medina, WA had a population of 3.22k people with a median age of 46.7 and a median household income of $186,484. Between 2016 and 2017 the population of Medina, WA grew from 3,169 to 3,217, a 1.51% increase and its median household income grew from $182,604 to $186,484, a 2.12% increase.
The population of Medina, WA is 70.1% White Alone, 19.7% Asian Alone, and 5.97% Two or More Races. 19.5% of the people in Medina, WA speak a non-English language, and 93% are U.S. citizens.
The median property value in Medina, WA is $1.69M, and the homeownership rate is 88.9%. Most people in Medina, WA commute by Drove Alone, and the average commute time is 20.7 minutes. The average car ownership in Medina, WA is 2 cars per household.
About the photo: Pioneer Square in Seattle with a view of the Seattle Great Wheel
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The economy of Medina, WA employs 1.23k people. The largest industries in Medina, WA are Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services (294 people), Health Care & Social Assistance (124 people), and Retail Trade (120 people), and the highest paying industries are Wholesale Trade ($250,001), Real Estate & Rental & Leasing ($250,001), and Information ($186,681).
Median household income in Medina, WA is $186,484. Males in Medina, WA have an average income that is 1.36 times higher than the average income of females, which is $53,882. The income inequality in Medina, WA (measured using the Gini index) is 0.467, which is lower than than the national average.
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Households in Medina, WA have a median annual income of $186,484, which is more than the median annual income of $60,336 across the entire United States. This is in comparison to a median income of $182,604 in 2016, which represents a 2.12% annual growth.
Look at the chart to see how the median household income in Medina, WA compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The PUMS dataset is not available at the Place level, so we are showing data for Washington.
In 2017, full-time male employees in Medina, WA made 1.36 times more than female employees.
This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in Medina, WA by number of full-time employees.
In 2017 the highest paid race/ethnicity of Medina, WA workers was Asian. These workers were paid 1.15 times more than White workers, who made the second highest salary of any race/ethnicity.
This chart shows the race- and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in Medina, WA by number of full-time employees.
The closest comparable wage GINI for Medina, WA is from Washington.
In 2017, the income inequality in Washington was 0.467 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 0.104% growth from 2016 to 2017, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat less even.
The 2017 the GINI for Washington was lower than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Washington in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in Washington across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
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In 2017, the place with the highest Median Household Income (Total) in Medina, WA was Census Tract 242 with a value of $175,625, followed by N/A and N/A, with respective values of N/A and N/A.
The following map shows all of the places in Medina, WA colored by their Median Household Income (Total).
4.45% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Medina, WA (143 out of 3.21k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is lower than the national average of 13.4%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 45 - 54, followed by Females 55 - 64 and then Males 45 - 54.
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The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Medina, WA is Asian, followed by White and Black.
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From 2016 to 2017, employment in Medina, WA grew at a rate of 4.34%, from 1.18k employees to 1.23k employees.
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Medina, WA, are Management Occupations (398 people), Sales & Related Occupations (143 people), and Business & Financial Operations Occupations (133 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Medina, WA.
The most common jobs held by residents of Medina, WA, by number of employees, are Management Occupations (398 people), Sales & Related Occupations (143 people), and Business & Financial Operations Occupations (133 people).
Compared to other places, Medina, WA has an unusually high number of residents working as Management Occupations (3.19 times higher than expected), Computer & Mathematical Occupations (2.83 times), and Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, & Media Occupations (2.36 times).
The highest paid jobs held by residents of Medina, WA, by median earnings, are Legal Occupations ($250,001), Sales & Related Occupations ($217,708), and Health Diagnosing & Treating Practitioners & Other Technical Occupations ($213,542).
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Medina, WA, are Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services (294 people), Health Care & Social Assistance (124 people), and Retail Trade (120 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Medina, WA, though some of these residents may live in Medina, WA and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
The most common industries in Medina, WA, by number of employees, are Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services (294 people), Health Care & Social Assistance (124 people), and Retail Trade (120 people).
Compared to other places, Medina, WA has an unusually high number of Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services (3.42 times higher than expected), Information (2.94 times), and Wholesale Trade (2.4 times) industries.
The highest paying industries in Medina, WA, by median earnings, are Wholesale Trade ($250,001), Real Estate & Rental & Leasing ($250,001), and Information ($186,681).
Domestic production and consumption consists of products and services shipped from Washington to other states, or from other states to Washington.
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In 2015, the top outbound Washington product (by dollars) was Transport equip. with $38.6B, followed by Mixed freight with $37.2B and Gasoline and $28.3B.
The following chart shows the share of these products in relation to all outbound Washington products.
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In 2015, total outbound Washington trade was $296B. This is expected to increase 50.1% to $444B by 2045.
The following chart shows how the domestic outbound Washington trade is projected to change in comparison to its neighboring states.
Interstate trade consists of products and services shipped from Washington to other states, or from other states to Washington.
In 2015, the top outbound Washington domestic partner for goods and services (by dollars) was Oregon with $26.3B, followed by California with $14.2B and Tennessee and $9.45B.
The following map shows the amount of trade that Washington shares with each state (excluding itself).
97.1% of the population of Medina, WA has health coverage, with 56.8% on employee plans, 2.11% on Medicaid, 15.5% on Medicare, 22.7% on non-group plans, and 0% on military or VA plans.
Per capita personal health care spending in the place of Medina, WA was $7,913 in 2014. This is a 4% increase from the previous year ($7,609).
Primary care physicians in Medina, WA see 1202 patients per year on average, which represents a 0.839% increase from the previous year (1192 patients). Compare this to dentists who see 1254 patients per year, and mental health providers who see 335 patients per year.
Comparing across all counties in the state, Garfield County has the highest prevalence of diabetes (14%). Additionally, Adams County has the highest prevalence of adult obesity (36.4%)
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Primary care physicians in Washington see an average of 1,202 patients per year. This represents a 0.839% increase from the previous year (1,192 patients).
The following chart shows how the number of patients seen by primary care physicians has been changing over time in Washington in comparison to neighboring states.
Between 2013 and 2014, all personal health care spending per capita in Washington (including private, Medicare, and Medicaid) grew 4%, from $7,609 to $7,913.
Between 2016 and 2017, the percent of uninsured citizens in Medina, WA declined by 4.6% from 3% to 2.86%.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Medina, WA changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
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Garfield County has the highest prevalence of diabetes in Washington, at 14%.
The following map shows the prevalence of diabetes in Washington by county over multiple years.
Medina, WA is home to a population of 3.22k people, from which 93% are citizens. As of 2017, 21.1% of Medina, WA residents were born outside of the country.
The ethnic composition of the population of Medina, WA is composed of 2.26k White Alone residents (70.1%), 635 Asian Alone residents (19.7%), 192 Two or More Races residents (5.97%), 96 Hispanic or Latino residents (2.98%), 20 Black or African American Alone residents (0.622%), 18 Some Other Race Alone residents (0.56%), 0 Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander Alone residents (0%), and 0 American Indian & Alaska Native Alone residents (0%).
The most common foreign languages spoken in Medina, WA are Chinese (187 speakers), Korean (102 speakers), and Japanese (78 speakers).
In 2017, the median age of all people in Medina, WA was 46.7. Native-born citizens, with a median age of 45, were generally younger than than foreign-born citizens, with a median age of 49. But people in Medina, WA are getting getting older. In 2016, the average age of all Medina, WA residents was 46.
As of 2017, 21.1% of Medina, WA residents were born outside of the United States, which is higher than the national average of 13.7%. In 2016, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Medina, WA was 19.4%, meaning that the rate has been increasing.
The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Medina, WA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
In 2017, the most common birthplace for the foreign-born residents of Medina, WA was Mexico, the natal country of 237,445 Medina, WA residents, followed by Philippines with 67,799 and India with 67,429.
As of 2017, 93% of Medina, WA residents were US citizens, which is lower than the national average of 93.1%. In 2016, the percentage of US citizens in Medina, WA was 93.3%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been decreasing.
The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Medina, WA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
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In 2017, there were 3.55 times more White Alone residents (2.26k people) in Medina, WA than any other race or ethnicity. There were 635 Asian Alone and 192 Two or More Races residents, the second and third most common racial or ethnic groups.
The following bar chart shows the 8 races and ethnicities represented in Medina, WA as a share of the total population.
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19.5% of Medina, WA citizens are speakers of a non-English language, which is lower than the national average of 21.5%. In 2015, the most common non-English language spoken in Medina, WA was Chinese. 6.22% of the overall population of Medina, WA are native Chinese speakers. 3.39% speak Korean and 2.6% speak Chinese, the next two most common languages.
Medina, WA has a large population of military personnel who served in Vietnam, 1.74 times greater than any other conflict.
The median property value in Medina, WA was $1.69M in 2017, which is 7.78 times larger than the national average of $217,600. Between 2016 and 2017 the median property value increased from $1.65M to $1.69M, a 2.3% increase. The homeownership rate in Medina, WA is 88.9%, which is higher than the national average of 63.9%. People in Medina, WA have an average commute time of 20.7 minutes, and they commute by Drove Alone. Car ownership in Medina, WA is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
In 2017, the median household income of the 1.18k households in Medina, WA grew to $186,484 from the previous year's value of $182,604.
The following chart displays the households in Medina, WA distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the $200k+ range.
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In 2017, the median property value in Medina, WA grew to to $1.69M from the previous year's value of $1.65M.
The following charts display, first, the property values in Medina, WA compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies and, second, owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property value buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Medina, WA the largest share of households have a property value in the $2M+ range.
This chart shows the households in Medina, WA distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Medina, WA the largest share of households pay taxes in the $3k+ range.
In 2017, 88.9% of the housing units in Medina, WA were occupied by their owner. This percentage declined from the previous year's rate of 89.3%.
This percentage of owner-occupation is higher than the national average of 63.9%. This chart shows the ownership percentage in Medina, WA compared it's parent and neighboring geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Medina, WA distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Medina, WA have 2 cars, followed by 3 cars.
Using averages, employees in Medina, WA have a shorter commute time (20.7 minutes) than the normal US worker (25.1 minutes). Additionally, 2.66% of the workforce in Medina, WA have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Medina, WA compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
In 2017, the most common method of travel for workers in Medina, WA was Drove Alone, followed by those who Public Transit and those who Worked At Home.
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He gave us the great Alan Partridge and he looks worryingly attractive in drag. Kiss his face, it's the versatile comic actor Steve Coogan.
Steve Coogan was born in Middleton, Manchester in 1965. Coming from a family of six kids, there was always fierce competition for attention at casa Coogan. So when one brother became a TV presenter and another brother became the lead singer in The Mock Turtles, the competition heightened considerably.
Not to be outdone, Steve Coogan did an acting course at Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre and gave his first stand-up comedy performances during his time there. A chance discovery by a TV talent scout soon secured him slots on shows such as Spitting Image, First Exposure, A Word in Your Era and Paramount City. He then won the coveted Perrier Award in 1992. But the landmark moment in his career came when he created Alan Partridge for the BBC Radio Show On The Hour.
Alan Partridge, the pathetic yet hilarious TV-presenter-turned-graveyard-shift-radio-DJ, is arguably more famous than Coogan himself. But, over the years, Coogan has also been responsible for creating some of the most outrageous humans ever to grace our small screens. There's Tony Ferrino, Portuguese Eurovision-Song-Contest-winner. Paul Calf, the ladies' man extraordinaire, who employs such irresistible lines as: "Look, I want to shag you, you want to shag me... I know I'm at least half right." And then there's Paul's foul-mouthed sister Pauline - the good-time girl Coogan describes as his "strong woman" persona.
After turning out a spectacular performance as Factory Records boss Tony Wilson in 24 Hour Party People, Coogan suddenly became hot property in Hollywood. Steve Coogan as a swoon-worthy leading man? Well, judging from the women he's been playing opposite these last few years, it's not that inconceivable. His recent movie work includes A Cock and Bull Story with ex-X Filer Gillian Anderson, Happy Endings, with Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary), Lisa Kudrow (Friends) and Laura Dern (Jurassic Park) and Marie Antoinette with Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) in the director's chair and Kirsten Dunst (Wimbledon, Spiderman) in the title role. After living the Hollywood high-life as Mr Coogan, it seems that Steve no longer needs to turn to his alter-egos to command attention. Just don't mention what happened with Courtney Love at that hotel, alright?
Not just a leading Hollywood actor, Steve has written his own stuff as well, co-writing and starring in The Parole Officer, he even used quotes from his other characters, Alan Partridge and Paul Calf on the poster. He's also tried his hand at voice acting, voicing Satan in Neighbours from Hell and Phillip Masterson-Bowie and Mark Andrews in animated-series I Am Not an Animal.
He's still a lover of the BBC at heart though, staying away from Hollywood long enough to star as Tommy in the amazing series Saxondale and The Trip alongside long term pal and Cock and Bull Story co-star Rob Brydon. The pair toured Northern restaurants in a partially scripted situation comedy and the show bagged Steve a Bafta for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Role.
If all that wasn't enough, Steve even owns his own production company, Baby Cow Productions, which has overseen quality shows such as Nighty, Night, The Mighty Boosh, Marion and Geoff and Gavin & Stacey. Pretty impressive, by Alan Partridge's standards anyway.
He may have been voted into the top 20 comedians by The Comedian's Comedian but what's all this we hear about Alan Partridge: The Movie? He might not have got another series, but the light entertainment dinosaur seems to have scored his own flick. Jurassic Park! Watch this space...
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New Bond Street (Part One) – The Spy Who Loved Shopping
7th December 2018 9th December 2018 caramelsalty Central London, From London
My simple disguise is complete. Sunglasses on, I hoist a large brown bag onto my shoulder, allowing me to blend in with the hundreds of shoppers around. I pat my pocket, reassuring myself that my credit card has been safely locked away at home. For my mission today is to unearth the secrets of New Bond Street, home of some of the world’s most prestigious brands.
I Am In Disguise, But Perhaps Not As Glamorous As Louis Vuitton on New Bond Street
Start of Day: Bond Street Station, Zone 1, London
Cost of Day Out: Cheap (with no shopping)
History Content: Top Secret
Is [1] Bond Street station, the closest station to the most expensive shopping street in London, the inspiration behind the naming of secret agent 007? Apparently not, as he is actually named after an ornithologist named Bond. That’s because his author, Ian Fleming, is a keen twitcher (bird watcher). Which was probably a good thing, as the world could have been left with Moneypenny being called Marble Arch.
The Origins of James Bond’s Name is Not the Station Nor the Most Expensive Street in London
My walk starts at the top of [2] New Bond Street. Retailers on this street pay an eye watering $3000 per square foot, beaten only by New York’s Fifth Avenue and Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay. Which makes it all the more gratifying that [3] Fenwick, whose humble beginnings were in Newcastle, still survives on its large plot on this street. It’s sedateness may seem a little out-of-place on fashionable New Bond Street, but on the other hand, it’s the most affordable shop on this row.
Fenwick is Still a Family Managed Business
In stark contrast, across the street, is [4] Victoria’s Secret‘s flagship store. The secret to Victoria’s Secret is that it sells clothing that probably doesn’t leave much as a secret. But it has my vote as the most glitzy store on this street. With scantily dressed mannequins, pop music over the speakers and a shiny sliver and glass spiral staircase set against TV screens of models, it’s like shopping in a trendy night club.
Victoria’s Secret’s Dimly Lit Store Is More Dressed Up Than Most Of Its Mannequins.
Now for some window shopping. I march down expensive New Bond Street, which is lined with more haute couture than anywhere else in London. Familiar brands of fashion line this part of the street – Anna Hindmarsh, Mont Blanc, Armani, Mulberry, Bally, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Miu Miu, to name just a few.
Branded Fashion on Display on New Bond Street
Many of the stunning buildings along New Bond Street are listed. The first of these is the beautiful rococo style [5] Delvaux store at the corner of Grosvenor Street. From Grosvenor Street onwards, I continuously swap sides to admire the architecture from the opposite side. The [6] Jimmy Choo store is in a beautiful gabled building. And my favourite, [7] Brown’s Brasserie, has a gable fronted brown tiled facade. And lobster benedict on its breakfast menu !!
Brown’s Brasserie on Grosvenor Street is The Prettiest Building Around Here
340 years ago, when the Grosvenor family acquire what is now known as Mayfair, it is described as “a land of swamp, pastures and orchards”. The Grosvenors start developing Mayfair in the early 1700s. The first square they build is [8] Hanover Square. The original houses around it are inhabited by “persons of distinction” such as retired generals. Sadly, many of these noble houses have been replaced by quite ghastly post war buildings. And matters are not helped by the ongoing Cross Rail construction around the square.
Hanover Square with Statue of Pitt the Younger, Erected A Century After The Square Was Built
By the end of the 19th century, the Grosvenors are the wealthiest family in Europe. As they still own large chunks of Mayfair, they remain formidably rich. Wanting to further impress the Hanoverian King George, they also build a church near Hanover Square and name it [9] St. George’s Church. I’m glad I popped in to see the marvellous painting of the Last Supper by William Kent. A well-kept secret, no longer.
St. George’s Church and Painting of the Last Supper Which Dominates the Altar.
The world-famous and oldest (1744) auction house, [10] Sotheby’s is just by St. George’s church. Dressed in Clark’s boots and M&S fleece, I rub shoulders with the suited and booted. There is some serious art and jewellery here. And some serious buyers milling around. The public is welcome to wander around too. The last chance salon to view this mainly private art collection, before it is sold to the highest, and usually, private bidder.
The Art For Sale at Sotheby’s is Open to the Public
My nose is inches away from a £1m Rembrandt. But that’s the norm. Buyers get up close with their ultraviolet torches to inspect the paint work. Or examine pieces of jewellery on an open table. There’s plenty of information around too, from plaques, to Sotheby’s staff. This is the heart of the London art world. Fine art galleries used to cluster around Sotheby’s when they moved here in 1917. Now they are scattered all along New Bond Street.
Sotheby’s Changes From a Book Auctioneer to a Fine Art Auctioneer When It Moves to New Bond Street
Sotheby’s dual entrance forms an intensely cultured short cut from St George’s Street back to New Bond Street. Above its New Bond Street entrance is an ancient (1320 BC) Egyptian black basalt statue of the lion-goddess, Sekhmet. Sotheby hung on to it when the buyer never turned up. Speaking of turning up, I head off to Bruton Street, to unearth another secret – the birth of Queen Elizabeth the II in 1926 at No. 17, the home of her maternal grandparents.
An Egyptian Goddess Is Installed Over One of Sotheby’s Entrance
The Home Secretary has to drop everything to attend the birth, as was the custom at that time, to avoid another “Warming Pan Scandal”. The scandal refers to when James the II’s stillborn child (1688) was allegedly swapped by an imposter brought into the chamber in a warming pan. Fortunately that practice is now extinct. But what is still not extinct, and showing no signs of doing so, is the Coach and Horses (1770), said to be the first property to be built on Bruton Street.
The Old World Coach and Horses Pub on Bruton Street
And so my mission is at its half way mark, having only managed to cover just the top half of New Bond Street. But I’m not in a hurry, as I intend to wait for dusk to fall on New Bond Street. So this is a good time to engage in some Bond Street lounging, the sport of upper class men of the 18th century who lived around here. Wearing expensive wigs, they would walk abreast, parading around in a pretentious manner.
The Shop Window of Ermenegildo Zegna – Bond Street Lounging in the 21st Century?
It’s time for lunch back at Carluccio’s Cafe. In the basement of Fenwick, I write up my findings in my little note book – glitzy stores, luxury brands, art in a church, fine art at an auction house, a Queen’s birth place. A good morning’s work, all in all.
A Sedate and Reasonably Priced Lunch at Carluccio’s in the Basement of Fenwick
Other Nearby Shopping Blogs
Oxford Street – Shop Till You Drop
New Bond Street (Part Two) – License to Shop
How To Go Window Shopping On New Bond Street
Tube Map and City Mapper are free apps that provide London maps, route planner and train/ bus times from your nearest stop.
Transport for London is cashless. Only Oyster Cards, purchased at stations, or contactless cards, are acceptable.
St. George’s Church (website) – closed Saturday (opening times here). More info about the building here. Details of church events here. They play plenty of Handel, as this was his local parish church.
Sotheby’s Auction House (website) – Free. Current viewing details here. A full account of its history is here.
Carluccio’s Cafe, Fenwick (website) – open daily.
My Pretty Straightforward Route Along New Bond Street
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A Discipleship Program for Developing Community in the Amazing Grace Seventh-day Adventist Church Plant in Johannesburg
Samuel O. Misiani, Andrews UniversityFollow
Steve Willsey
Daniel L. Graham
Boubakar Sanou
Many believers hunger for a deeper experience with Christ in their spiritual life, but do not know how to go about it. This discipleship and spirituality project was an attempt to discover a model that one could use to develop an authentic community in the ministry context of the researcher. Discipleship is a loving relationship with Christ in which the one whom He calls submits to His Lordship, and makes God’s purpose and glory the sole reason for being. In essence it is about total commitment to the Lordship of Christ, and cooperation with the Holy Spirit in His work of life transformation.
The study had two basic sections that were administered in a session of one hour and 30 minutes each. The groups met for a total period of 16 weeks. The first section was called “Grace Moments.” These were selected biblical stories intended for use in the small groups. The second section was an experience-based Bible study designed to lead the participants into a deeper practical walk with God and to continue building their spiritual life habits. This study followed a relational model. That is, while content was important, the group facilitator would also be sensitive to other factors existing between the group members. Content should be lived out in a relational model. In this model, I advocated that for a small group to develop, become, and remain community, it needed to be a closed group. The group was closed after the second meeting. Rationale for a closed group was that community is built around openness and honesty.
The program has initiated a discipleship process for creating authentic community at Amazing Grace Seventh-day Adventist Church in Johannesburg. The interview responses have indicated a notable spiritual growth among the participants. The average rating of the whole experience showed that most of the participants were very happy with the discipleship process and had spiritual growth during the exercise. The participants actually felt that they had been transformed into an authentic community with a deeper and growing spiritual life than before they engaged in the discipleship journey. This expectation has been largely met, as shown by what participants scored on their expectations from the community of Grace experience (87.2% rating average), and the measurement on effectiveness of the program in developing community among the group (88% average rating).
Discipling (Christianity); Spiritual life; Amazing Grace Seventh-day Adventist Church (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Misiani, Samuel O., "A Discipleship Program for Developing Community in the Amazing Grace Seventh-day Adventist Church Plant in Johannesburg" (2014). Project Documents. 496.
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HomeWeb Accessibility Policy
In response to the need to ensure equal access to electronic and information technologies, ITG has developed a set of standards for Web page design. In recognition of those individuals with visual, physical, or developmental disabilities, ITG has adopted a policy to make web information accessible to all.It has been estimated that 54 million people or 20.6 percent of all Americans have some level of disability. Technological advances are eliminating many of the physical and informational barriers that have long existed for people with disabilities.
Public awareness of disability issues is growing and changing. America’s population is aging and disability increases with age. The number of Americans aged 65 and older is projected to increase 135% between 1995 and 2050, according to the Census Bureau.
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TIMELINE March 1916
The bulk of the Coo-ees undertook their final parade and inspection in Sydney as 15th Reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. To read further click here: Final Parade and Inspection
The State Commandant inspecting the “Coo-ees” in Sydney (Sydney Mail 15/3/1916)
About 119 Coo-ees embarked from Sydney on the HMAT A15 Star of England, and made up just over half of the 15th Reinforcements for the 13th Battalion on this troopship. These included: Harold BAXTER, Sidney BENNETT, James Gerald CAMERON, Allan COLQUHOUN, Bernard COYTE, James CRAWFORD, Harold Brooks DAVIS, Alan John Burnett EASTERBROOK, William FARTHING, Maurice Bertram FREE, Walter James GOODLET, Denis Roy GREEN, Leslie Webster GREENLEAF, Charles Alfred HAMPSON, Lightfoot Lamonby HAMPSON, Oliver James HARMON, William John Luther HOWARD, Charles Henry HUNT, Jack Henry HUNT, William Laurence HUNT, William Emerton HUNTER, Thomas JACKSON, Alan Chesher JOHNSON (Alan Cheshyre JANION), Darcy KEATING, Alfred Rupert Clyde LINGSTROM, Samuel LUKE, Laurence Leslie MAGUIRE, James MAHER, Charles Edmond MARCHANT, Ernest Charles Norman MAY, Wilfred Ernest MCDONALD, Edward Joseph MCGARRY, Andrew James MCGREGOR, Joseph Raymond McGUIRE, James MCKEOWN, Jack MORRIS, Karl Alex Frederick NIELSON, Joseph PARRISH, John QUINN, Victor QUINTON, Arthur Charles REID, William Hilton SAUNDERS, John Thomas SMITH, Ernest Stephen TAYLOUR, John William THOMPSON, Thomas THORNE, David James WAGNER, William WEBBER, and Rowland John WILSON
Photograph of HMAT A15 Star of England. Part of the Australian War Memorial collection. H17104.
Joe BILLING and three other Coo-ees embarked from Sydney on the HMAT A67 Orsova.
Tuesday 21st March 1916
Charles Arthur FINN and Percy Walter HOLPEN and Clement Patrick KANE and Henry MOSS and John Herbert WATTS and another Coo-ee embarked from Sydney on the HMAT A26 Armadale.
Wednesday, 22nd March 1916
The Coo-ees on the HMAT A70 Ballarat arrived in Egypt.
Leslie SULLIVAN and four other Coo-ees (all Light Horse) embarked from Sydney on the HMAT A4 Pera.
Friday, 31st March 1916
William Henry GRIFFITHS and two other Coo-ees embarked from Sydney on the HMAT A16 Star of Victoria.
Posted in WWI Timeline
Tagged HMAT A15 Star of England, HMAT A16 Star of Victoria, HMAT A26 Armadale, HMAT A4 Pera, HMAT Ballarat A70
William Henry GRIFFITHS
Per his military service record (regimental no. 5089), William Henry Griffiths was born at Waterloo Flat, Victoria. He gave his age as 33 years and 2 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as engine driver. His description on his medical was height 5 feet 7 inches tall, weight 9 stone 10 lbs., with a fair complexion, hazel eyes, and auburn (dark) hair. His religious denomination was Roman Catholic. He claimed that he had no previous military service.
William Griffiths was named in an article titled ‘Blayney recruits’ in the Leader as one of six men who have joined ‘as a result of the visit of the Coo-ees to Blayney’.[1] The Coo-ees had held a recruiting meeting and stayed overnight at Blayney on 26th October 1915.
He completed his medical examination at Orange on 1st November 1915, and was attested at at Orange on the same day.
After the Coo-ee March he went to Liverpool Camp as reinforcement for the 13th Battalion.
On 18th February 1916 he was charged with being absent without leave for two days, and he was fined ten shillings. On 21st February 1916 he was charged with being absent from parade, and he was fined five shillings.
On his embarkation roll his address at time of enrolment was 2 Hambleton Street, Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria, and his next of kin was listed as his father, E. R. Griffiths, at the same address.
An initial Regimental No. 4784 is crossed out on his Attestation Paper, and replaced with 5089. Private Griffiths departed Sydney on the HMAT A16 Star of Victoria A16 on 31st March 1916 with two other Coo-ees, as 16th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. He arrived in Egypt on the 8th May 1916.
On 7th June 1916 Private Griffiths left Alexandria aboard a transport ship bound for France, and he arrived at Marseilles on 14th June 1916.
He was sent to the 4th Division Base Depot at Etaples, France. He marched in and was taken on strength of the 13th Battalion on 21st July 1916, when it was training at Naours, France.
On 21st August 1916 Private Griffiths was sent to the 3rd Canadian General Hospital at Boulogne, France, suffering Nephrites.
On 25th August 1916 he was evacuated to England aboard the Hospital Ship Brighton. Later that day he was admitted to the Guildford War Hospital at Guildford, England.
On 20th November 1916 he was transferred to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield, England. On 2nd December 1916 he was discharged from Hospital, and sent to the Number 2 Command Depot at Weymouth, England.
On 2nd January 1917 Private Griffiths was sent to the Infantry Drafting Depot at Pernham Downs, England. On 22nd July 1917 he departed Southampton, bound for France. He arrived at the 4th Australian Division Base Depot on 24th July 1917. He departed the 4th Australian Division Base Depot on the 9th of August 1917, and rejoined the 13th Battalion on 11th August 1917, when it was conducting working parties in the vicinity of Neuve Eglise, Belgium.
On 25th September 1917 the 13th Battalion was manning the front line trenches in the vicinity of Westhoek, Belgium, when Private Griffiths was wounded in action, receiving a shrapnel wound to his chest. He was moved back to the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance. On 27th September 1917 he was moved to the 3rd Casualty Clearing Station, where he was placed aboard the 24th Ambulance Train, and moved to the 7th Canadian General Hospital at Etaples, France.
On 10th October 1917 he was placed aboard the hospital Ship Lille De Liege and evacuated to England. He was admitted to the Royal Surrey War Hospital at Guildford in England later that day.
Private Griffiths was discharged from hospital on 29th November 1917, and granted leave to report to the Number 1 Command Depot at Sutton Veny on the 13th of December 1917.
On 18th January 1918 Private Griffiths was admitted to the Sutton Veny Military Hospital, suffering Bronchitis. He was discharged and sent back to the Number 1 Command Depot on 12th February 1918.
On 16th March 1918 Private Griffiths was transferred to the Australian Motor Transport Service as a cleaner.
His service record includes a certified extract of a marriage certificate for a marriage on 21st August 1918 between William Henry Griffiths (soldier) and Kathleen Spires at Christ Church, Chelsea, England.
On 31st January 1919 Private Griffiths marched into the Number 2 Command Depot at Weymouth, England, to commence his return to Australia. On 5th February 1919 he was transferred to the Number 1 Command Depot at Sutton Veny, England.
Private Griffiths departed England on 2nd April 1919 for return to Australia with his wife, aboard the H.T. Benalla. He arrived in Australia on 5th May 1919.
He was discharged medically unfit on 15th November 1919.
[1] ‘Blayney recruits’, Leader, 29 October 1915, p. 8, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117842821
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Tagged Blayney recruits, HMAT A16 Star of Victoria, Orange recruits, William Henry Griffiths
Leslie SULLIVAN
Per his military service record (regimental no. 2230), Leslie Sullivan was born at Orange, N.S.W. He gave his age as 18 years, his marital status as single, and his occupation as general labourer. His description on his certificate of medical examination was height 5 feet 8 inches tall, weight 9 stone 13 lbs., with a fair complexion, blue eyes, and fair hair. His religious denomination was Roman Catholic. He claimed that he had no previous military service.
The Wellington Times named Leslie J. Sullivan as one of six recruits who ‘handed in their names’ after an address given at Bodangora by Private W. J. Johnson (who was also the Mayor of Auburn), who was accompanying the Coo-ees from Wellington to Orange to assist with the recruiting speeches.[1]
Leslie Sullivan completed his medical examination at Wellington on 16th October 1915 (when the Coo-ees were at Wellington). His father James Sullivan gave his signature for consent to the enlistment of his son on the Application to Enlist in the Australian Imperial Force paper which was addressed to the Recruiting Officer at Dripstone, and dated 19th October 1915. He was attested at Dripstone by Captain Nicholas on the 19th October 1915.
The Wellington Times reported that Leslie Sullivan in a note home described the Coo-ee March ‘trip as splendid, and says it is worth walking over the mountains to see the wonderful sights, and that he also ‘speaks very highly of the O.C., and says there is not a man among them who would not follow him to the hottest fighting place in the Dardanelles’.[2]
After completing the Coo-ee March he went to Liverpool Camp as reinforcement for the 6th Light Horse Regiment.
The Wellington Times reported that Leslie Sullivan was given a send-off by the people of Bodangora in the Convent School Hall on Monday 7th February 2016, with singing, dancing and recitations during the evening’s festivities, where he was presented with a wristlet watch, a pocket wallet, a safety shaving set in a silver case, and a set of military hair brushes in a leather case. He was also given a fountain pen in a silver case to give to Trooper Jimmy [James] Taylor at Liverpool Camp, who had left with him from Bodangora to join the Coo-ees. In returning thanks, Trooper Sullivan said ‘he could not speak well, but he thanked them and would do his best’.[3]
On his embarkation roll his address at time of enrolment was Bodangora, Wellington, N.S.W., and his next of kin is listed as his mother, Mrs Alice Elizabeth Sullivan, at the same address.
On 22nd March 1916 Trooper Sullivan departed Sydney on the HMAT A4 Pera, as 15th reinforcement for the 6th Light Horse Regiment.
After arriving at Suez in Egypt, on the 21st April 1916 Trooper Sullivan was admitted to the Government Hospital sick. On 22nd April 1916 Trooper Sullivan was taken on strength of the 2nd Light Horse Training Battalion, whilst in hospital.
On 25th April 1916 he was transferred to the 1st Australian Dermatological Hospital at Abbassia, Egypt. He was discharged on 2nd June 1916 and marched into the 2nd Light Horse Training Regiment at Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt on 5th June 1916.
On 6th July 1916 Trooper Sullivan was transferred to the 2nd Double Squadron at Serapeum, Egypt.
On 2nd November 1916 he was transferred to the 4th Australian Camel Regiment at Abbassia, Egypt.
On 13th January 1917 Trooper Sullivan was charged with being absent without leave from 1800 till 2030 on 11th January 1917. He was awarded 7 days confined to barracks.
On 24th January 1917 Trooper Sullivan was charged with being absent without leave from 1700 till 2120 on the 23rd January 1917. He was awarded 14 days confined to barracks.
On 7th February 1917 Trooper Sullivan was transferred to the 17th Company of the Imperial Camel Corps.
On 10th March 1918 Trooper Sullivan was sent to the Port Said Rest Camp. He rejoined his unit on 8th April 1918.
On 28th May 1918 Trooper Sullivan was promoted to Lance Corporal.
On 29th June 1918 Lance Corporal Sullivan was admitted to the Isolation Camp sick. On 10th July 1918 he was transferred to the 26th Stationary Hospital at Ismailia, Egypt. On 1st August 1918 he was sent to the Port Said Rest Camp. He was discharged on 15th August 1918.
On 23rd August 1918 Lance Corporal Sullivan was transferred to the 14th Light Horse Regiment at Ismailia, Egypt.
On 25th October 1918 Lance Corporal Sullivan was sent to hospital sick. On 5th November 1918 he was transferred to the 31st General Hospital at Ismailia, Egypt, suffering from Influenza. He was discharged on 16th November 1918. On 20th November 1918 he was sent to the Port Said Rest Camp.
He rejoined his unit on 12th December 1918.
On 5th February 1919 Lance Corporal Sullivan was admitted to hospital suffering from Malaria. He was transferred to a Convalescent Depot on 6th March 1919.
He rejoined his unit at Moascar on 13th March 1919.
On 14th June 1919 he was charged with being absent without leave from 0630 till 0915 on 8th June 1919, and was deprived of one day’s pay.
Lance Corporal Sullivan commenced his return to Australia on H.T. Dongola from Kantara in Egypt on 24th July 1919. He disembarked at Sydney on 28th August 1919.
He was discharged on 21st October 1919.
[1] ‘District news. Bodangora’, Wellington Times, 21 October 1915, p. 5, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143396661
[2] ‘District news. Bodangora’, Wellington Times, 11 November 1915 , p. 5, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143396376
[3] ‘Send off to Trooper Leslie Sullivan’, Wellington Times, 10 February 1916 , p. 7, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143392079
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Coo-ee March Roll of Honour
Stephen and I have found through our research on the 263 men who were recruited on the 1915 Gilgandra to Sydney Coo-ee March, that 41 of them died while on active service overseas during WWI.
Stephen and I visited the graves of the fallen Coo-ees in France, Belgium and England in 2012, 2014, and 2016. During our 2016 visit we took a travelling wreath to rest on each of their graves. The Coo-ee March 2015 Inc. (Gilgandra Sub-Committee) provided the purple Coo-ee “badge” ribbon that we placed on our wreath, which had been created to be worn by the marchers during the 2015 Coo-ee March Re-enactment in memory of the purple “badges” worn by the original Coo-ees during the 1915 Coo-ee March. We left an Australian flag and a commemorative information card on each of their graves.
4730 Private Harold BAXTER
45th Infantry Battalion A.I.F.
Harold Baxter’s headstone, at Bancourt British Cemetery, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 9/9/2016)
Harold Baxter was born at Illford, Essex, England. He gave his age as 22 years and 4 months (though he was actually only 18 years and 4 months at the time), his marital status as single, and his occupation as a farm labourer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Gilgandra. He was attested at Gilgandra on 9th October 1915, and completed his medical examination on the 10th October 1915 at Gilgandra.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916, with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. He was transferred to the 45th Battalion in Egypt on 19th April 1916.
Private Baxter was killed in action on 22nd November 1916, near Guedecourt, France. His age at death is listed at 20 years on his headstone, but he was only 19 year and 6 months of age when de died.
He was buried at the Bancourt British Cemetery, at Bancourt, France.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/2014/05/01/harold-baxter/
4460 Private Charles William Gordon CONROY
“CONROY C. W.” name on V. C. Corner Cemetery and Memorial (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 10/9/2016)
Charles William Gordon Conroy was born at Thames, New Zealand. He gave his age as 41 years and 6 months, his marital status as married, and his occupation as chemist, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Orange. He was attested, and completed his medical examination, at Orange on 25th October 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A70 Ballarat on 16th February 1916, with the 14th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. He was transferred to the 54th Australian Infantry Battalion in Egypt on 1st April 1916.
Private Conroy was killed in action on 19th/20th July 1916, during the Battle of Fromelles, aged 42 years.
He has no known grave. His name is remembered on Panel 10 at the V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial at Fromelles, France.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/2015/04/07/charles-william-gordon-conroy/
4757 Private Bernard COYTE
Bernard Coyte’s headstone at Jeancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 9/9/2016)
Bernard Coyte was born at Borenore, N.S.W. He gave his age as 21 years and 1 month, his marital status as single, and his occupation as farmer & labourer when he enlisted. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Orange on 14th October 1915. He joined the Coo-ee March when the Coo-ees arrived at Orange on 23rd October 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916, with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion.
Private Coyte was killed in action on 18th September 1918, in the vicinity of Le Verguier, France, aged 24 years.
He was buried at the Jeancourt Communal Cemetery Extension at Jeancourt, France.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/2015/03/31/bernard-coyte/
4753 Private James CRAWFORD
James Crawford’s headstone, Contay British Cemetery, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 8/9/2016)
James Crawford was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He gave his age as 38 years, his marital status as single, and his occupation as farmer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Gilgandra. He completed his medical on 8th October 1915 at Gilgandra, and was attested on 9th October 1915 at Gilgandra.
Private Crawford was wounded in action near Mouquet Farm, France, on 31st August 1916. He died of his wounds at the 49th Casualty Clearing Station on 3rd September 1916, aged 46 years.
He was buried at the Contay British Cemetery at Contay, France.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/2014/05/30/james-crawford/
Lieutenant Harry DAVENPORT
4th Infantry Battalion A.I.F.
Swendson H. (served as Davenport H.) name in Lieutenant section on 4th Bn. Australian Infantry Battalion panel at the Menin Gate Memorial, Ieper (Ypres), Belgium (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 11/9/2012)
Harry Davenport (aka Harry Swendson) stated on his Attestation Paper that he was born in Toronto, Canada ( but he was actually born at Hawthorn, Atchison County, Kansas). He gave his age as 41 years (though he appears to have been several years younger), his marital status as widower, and his occupation as billiard table proprietor, when he enlisted. He was on of the men who stepped forward and gave his name when the Coo-ees recruited in Wongarbon on 14th October 1915. He joined the Coo-ee March at Orange. He completed his medical examination, and was attested at Orange on 24th October 1915.
After attending the A.I.F. Officer Training School at Duntroon, Second Lieutenant Davenport embarked for active service from Sydney on SS Port Nicholson on 8th November 1916, as part of the 22nd reinforcement for the 4th Infantry Battalion. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 16th July 1917.
Lieutenant Davenport was wounded in action on 4th October 1917, at Broodseinde Ridge, Belgium. He died of his wounds that same day, aged 35 years. He was buried at Broodenside Ridge, however his grave marker was destroyed in further fighting.
He has no known grave. His name is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ieper (Ypres), Belgium.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/2014/12/21/harry-davenport-aka-harry-swendson/
4759 Private Harold Brooks DAVIS
Harold Brooks Davis’s headstone at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 11/9/2016)
Harold Brooks Davis was born at Parramatta, N.S.W. He gave his age as 18 years (although he was actually only 14 years and 8 months old at this time), his marital status as single, and his occupation as plumber, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March in the Blue Mountains on 8th November 1915. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Ashfield on 11th November 1915. He was the youngest of the Coo-ees to enlist.
Private Davis was wounded in action on 21st February 1917 in the vicinity of Guedecourt, France. He was evacuated to the 6th General Hospital, at Rouen, France. He died of his wounds on 28th February 1917, the day before his 16th birthday. His age is recorded as 16 years on his headstone.
He was buried at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/2015/05/04/harold-brooks-davis/
3017B Private Allan James DENMEAD
A.J. Denmead’s name on the Villers-Brettoneux Memorial, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 7/9/2014)
Allan James Denmead was born at Goulburn, N.S.W. He gave his age as 27 years and 8 months, his marital status as married, and his occupation as labourer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Bathurst. He was attested at Bathurst on 28th October 1915. He did not complete a medical examination on the Coo-ee March.
He was initially discharged as medically unfit with varicous veins on 13th December 1916, but he successfully re-enlisted at Bathurst on 28th June 1916.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A 11 Ascanius on 26th October 1916 with the 7th reinforcements for the 53rd Battalion. He was transferred to the 19th Battalion after he arrived in England in early 1917.
Private Denmead was killed in action on 3rd May 1917 during an attack on the Hindenburg Line at Bullecourt, France, aged 29 years.
He has no known grave. His name is remembered on the Villers Bretonneaux Memorial, France.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/tag/allan-james-denmead/
6251 Private Francis Charles FINLAYSON
F. C. Finlayson’s name on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 7/9/2014)
Francis Charles Finlayson was born at Redfern, N.S.W. He gave his age as 28 years, his marital status as married, and his occupation as book keeper, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Parramatta. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Parramatta on 11th November 1915.
Acting Corporal Finlayson embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A14 Euripides on 9th September 1916, with the 20th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. He reverted to the rand of Private on arrival in France on 17th January 1917.
Private Finlayson was killed in action on 4th February 1917 in an attack on the German trenches in the vicinity of Guedecourt, France, aged 29 years.
He has no known grave. His name is remembered on the on Villers Bretonneaux Memorial, France.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/tag/francis-charles-finlayson/
6289 Sapper Charles Arthur FINN
13th Field Company, Australian Engineers, A.I.F.
Charles Arthur Finn’s headstone at H.A.C. Cemetery, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 9/9/2016)
Charles Arthur Finn was born at Mt McDonald, N.S.W. He gave his age as 27 years and 3 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as blacksmith, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Gilgandra. He completed his medical on 7th October 1915 at Gilgandra and was attested on 9th October 1915 at Gilgandra.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A26 Armadale on the 21st of March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 1st Field Company Engineers. Sapper Finn was transferred to the 13th Field Company Engineers on 27th August 1916.
Sapper Finn was killed in action on 7th April 1917 in the vicinity of Bapaume, France, aged 29 years.
He was buried at the H.A.C. British Cemetery, Ecoust-St. Mein, France.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/2014/05/30/charles-arthur-finn/
4789 Gunner Charles Alfred HAMPSON
10th Field Artillery Brigade A.I.F.
Charles Alfred Hampson’s headstone at H.A.C. Cemetery, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 9/9/2016)
Charles Alfred Hampson was born at Petersham, N.S.W. He gave his age as 17 years and 8 months (although he was actually only 16 years and 8 months at this time), his marital status as single, and his occupation as machinist, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Lithgow. He completed his medical on 31st October 1915 at Lithgow, and was attested at Lithgow on the 1st November 1915.
On 16th April 1915 Gunner Hampson was transferred to the 4th Division Artillery at Tel-el-Kebir (along with his father Lightfoot).
Gunner Hampson was killed in action on 28th April 1917 during the Battle of Bullecourt, France. Although his age is listed as 19 years on his headstone, he was only 18 years and 2 months old when he died.
He was buried at the H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust-St. Mein, Arras, Nord Pas de Calais, France.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/2015/04/12/charles-alfred-hampson/
4791 Private Oliver James HARMON
4th Pioneer Battalion A.I.F.
O. J. Harmon’s name on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 7/9/2014)
Oliver James Harmon was born at Redfern, N.S.W. He gave his age as 31 years and 11 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as boiler makers’ assistant, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Parramatta. He completed his medical examination on 10th November 1915 at Parramatta, and was attested at Ashfield on 11th November 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion on 8th March 1916. On 16th April 1916 Private Harmon was transferred to the 4th Pioneer Battalion at Tel-El-Kebir, Egypt.
Private Harmon was killed in action in the Battle of Pozieres on 6th August 1916, aged 32 years.
He has no known grave. His name is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneaux Memorial, France.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/?s=oliver+harmon
1677 Corporal William Thomas HITCHEN
Bill Hitchen’s headstone, Harefield (St. Mary) Churchyard (Photograph: S & H Thompson 26/8/2016)
William “Bill” Thomas Hitchen was born at Mudgee, N.S.W. He gave his age as 44 years and 2 months (although he was 51 years old at the time), his marital status as married, and his occupation as plumber, when he enlisted. “Captain” Bill Hitchen was the leader of the Coo-ee March. His official enlistment date is 10th October 1915, the date the Coo-ee March commenced in Gilgandra. However, he did not complete his medical examination and attestation until the 24th February 1916 at Bathurst, after he assisted in organising the Kookaburra March from Tooraweenah to Bathurst in early 1916. He was allocated to the 2nd reinforcements to the 45th Battalion as Corporal.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A40 Ceramic on the 14th of April 1916. After further training in Egypt, he embarked from Alexandria on the 6th of June 1916. Soon after arriving at Plymouth, England, he was admitted to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield Park on 21st June 1916 with Melanotic Sarcoma, where he died of this illness on 3rd September 1916. His age was recorded as 44 years on his headstone.
He was buried at the Harefield (St. Mary’s) Churchyard at Harefield, England.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/2014/08/19/william-thomas-hitchen/
2196 Private Percy Walter HOLPEN
Percy Walter Holpen’s headstone, Le Baraques Military Cemetery, France (Photograph:S. & H. Thompson 29/8/2016)
Percy Walter Holpen was born at Brisbane, Queensland. He gave his age as 21 years and 11 months (athough he was actually only 17 years and 9 months at this time), his marital status as single, and his occupation as carter, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Wellington. He did a preliminary medical examination at Wellington on 16th October 1915, and was provisionally accepted for enlistment at Dripstone on the 19th October 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A26 Armadale on 21st March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 1st Light Horse Regiment. He was transferred to the 46th Battalion in France on 10th July 1916.
Private Holpen died of illness (Influenza) on 26th November 1918 at the 30th General Hospital, Calais, France, aged 20 years.
He was buried at Les Baraques Military Cemetery at Calais, France.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/2015/01/01/percy-walter-holpen/
1887 Private Frank HUMPHREY
Frank Humphrey’s headstone at Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 11/9/2016)
Frank Humphrey was born at Hull, Yorkshire, England. He gave his age as 33 years and 3 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as bricklayer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Gilgandra. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Gilgandra on 9th October 1915.
He was discharged with his services no longer required at Liverpool Camp on 4th January 1916. However he re-enlisted at Wangaratta in Victoria on 11th February 1916.
He embarked for active service from Melbourne on HMAT A17 Port Lincoln on 1st May 1916 with the 3rd reinforcements for the 60th Battalion.
Soon after his arrival in France, Private Humphrey died of illness (Bacillary Dysentery) on 23rd August 1916 at the 7th Canadian Stationary Hospital at Le Harve, France, aged 34 years.
He was buried at Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Harvre, France.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/2014/12/27/frank-humphrey/
4807 Private William Emerton HUNTER
W. E. Hunter’s name on the Villers-Brettoneux Memorial (Photograph: S. Thompson 7/9/2014)
William Emerton Hunter was born at Sydney, N.S.W. He gave his age as 21 years and 1 month, his marital status as single, and his occupation as wheat lumper, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Geurie. He completed his medical examination on 16th October 1915 at Wellington, and was attested at Dripstone on 19th October 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. On 19th April 1916 Private Hunter was transferred to the 45th Battalion at Tel-el-Kebir.
Private Hunter was killed in action on 7th August 1916, in the vicinity of Pozieres, France, aged 21 years.
Click here to read his full story: https://cooeemarch1915.com/2015/02/01/william-emerton-hunter/
4816 Private Thomas JACKSON
T. Jackson’s name on the Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 11/9/2012)
Thomas Jackson was born at Longford, Derby, Derbyshire, England. He gave his age as 32 years and 2 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as labourer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Geurie. He completed his medical examination on 16th October 1915 at Wellington, and was attested at Dripstone on 19th October 1915
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion.
Private Jackson was killed in action on 16th June 1917, in the vicinity of Messines, Belgium, aged 33 years.
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4817 Private Alan Chesher JOHNSON
A. C. Janion served as A. C. Johnson on 45th Battalion panel at the Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 11/9/2012)
Alan Chesher [Chester] Johnson (aka Alan Cheshyre Janion) was born at Liverpool, England. He gave his age as 33 years (though this may not have been correct), his marital status as single, and his occupation as labourer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Wellington. He completed his medical examination on 16th October 1915 at Wellington, and was attested at Dripstone on the 19th October 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. On 19th April 1916 he transferred to the 45th Battalion in Egypt.
Private Johnson was killed in action on 7th June 1917 in the vicinity of Messines, Belgium. His age at time of death was listed as 31 years on his AWM Roll of Honour Circular.
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384 Lance Corporal Darcy KEATING
D. Keating’s name on on 4th Battalion panel [in Lance Corporal section] at the Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 11/9/2012)
Darcy Keating was born at Warren, N.S.W. He gave his age as 21 years and 6 months (though it appears that he was younger), his marital status as single, and his occupation as labourer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Wellington. He completed his medical on16th October 1915 at Wellington, and was attested at Mumbil on 19th October 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A46 Clan McGillivray on 3rd May 1916 with the 2nd reinforcements for the 1st Anzac Cyclist Battalion.
Private Keating on 7th September 1916 was transferred to the 1st Training Battalion at Perham Downs, England. He joined the 4th Australian Infantry Battalion in France on 5th November 1916.
He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 15th July 1917.
Lance Corporal Keating was killed in action on 4th October 1917 in the vicinity of Broodseinde Ridge, Belgium. His age was recorded as 20 years at time of death on his AWM Roll of Honour Circular.
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5489 Private Lewis LEOVILLE
Lewis Leoville’s headstone at Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 8/9/2016)
Lewis (Louis) Leoville was born at Marseilles, France. He gave his age as 41 years, his marital status as married, and his occupation as barber. He joined the Coo-ee March at Lithgow. He completed his medical on 3rdNovember 1915 at Lithgow, and was attested at Lithgow on the same day.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A71 Nestor on 9th April 1916, with the 17th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. He was transferred to the 45th Battalion on 20th May 1916 in Egypt.
Private Leoville was wounded in action in the vicinity of Pozieres, France, on 8th August 1916. He died of his wounds later that day, aged 42 years.
He was buried at Warloy-Baillon Communal Extension Cemetery, at Warloy-Baillon, France.
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4832 Private Spencer John LETCHER
Spencer John Letcher’s headstone at AIF Burial Ground, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 8/9/2016)
Spencer John Letcher was born at Cowra, N.S.W. He gave his age as 18 years and 1 month (although he was actually only 16 years and 7 months at that time), his marital status as single, and his occupation as painter, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Bathurst. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Bathurst on 28th October 1915.
Private Letcher was killed in action on 6th August 1916 in vicinity of Pozieres, France. Although his age was recorded as 18 years on his headstone, he was actually only 17 years and 4 months at the time of his death.
He was buried at the A.I.F. Burial Ground, at Flers, France.
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4830 Private Samuel LUKE
Samuel Luke’s headstone at Vaulx Hill Cemetery, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 9/9/2016)
Samuel Luke was born at St. Marys, N.S.W. He gave his age as 38 years and 11 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as labourer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at St. Marys. . He completed his medical examination and was attested at Ashfield on 11th November 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. On 25th April 1916 he transferred to the 4th Pioneer Battalion at Serapeum, Egypt.
Private Luke was killed in action on 21st April 1917 during the 1st Battle of Bullecourt in the vicinity of Vaulx-Vraucourt, France, aged 40 years.
He was buried at the Vaulx Hill Cemetery, at Vaulx-Vraucourt, France.
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4840 Lance Corporal Laurence Leslie MAGUIRE
L. L. Maguire’s name on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 7/9/2014)
Laurence Leslie Maguire was born at Gilgandra, N.S.W. He gave his age as 25 years and 11 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as labourer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Gilgandra. He completed his medical examination at Gilgandra on 8th October 1915, and was attested at Gilgandra on 9th October 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. On 20th May 1916 he transferred to the 45th Battalion in Egypt.
He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 1st November 1917.
Lance Corporal Maguire was killed in action on 2nd April 1918, in the vicinity of Dernacourt, France. He was buried near Albert, but after the war his grave could not be located.
His age at time of death was recorded as 28 years on his AWM Roll of Honour Circular.
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4541 Corporal John MARTIN
John Martin’s headstone at Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 9/9/2016)
John Martin was born at Melbourne, Victoria. He gave his age as 34 years 10 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as labourer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Molong. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Molong on 22nd October 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A70 Ballarat on 16th February 1916 with the 14th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. On 1st April 1916 he was transferred to the 54th Battalion at Ferry Post, Egypt.
He was promoted to Corporal on 27th May 1917.
Corporal Martin was killed in action on 1st September 1918 at Peronne, France, aged 38 years.
He was buried at the Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, at Peronne, France.
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4858 Gunner Wilfred Ernest MCDONALD
4th Division Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Battery Field Artillery A.I.F.
W. E. McDonald’s name on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 7/9/2014)
Wilfred Ernest McDonald was born at Dubbo, N.S.W. He gave his age as 21 years and 1 month, his marital status as single, and his occupation as labourer. He completed his medical on the 8th October at Gilgandra before the beginning of the Coo-ee March. He presented to join the Coo-ee March at his home town of Wongarbon on 14th October 1915. He was attested at Stuart Town on 19th October 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. On the 16th of April 1916 he transferred to the 4th Division Artillery at Telelkebir. On the 27th May 1916 he was taken on strength of the 4th Division Ammunition Column. On the 25th June 1916 Gunner McDonald was transferred to the V4 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery.
Gunner McDonald was killed in action on 3rd May 1917 between Ecoust and Bullecourt in France, aged 22 years.
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4920 Private Edward Joseph MCGARRY
Edward Joseph McGarry’s headstone at Heilly Station Cemetery, France. His name is on the bottom of the headstone (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 12/9/2016)
Edward Joseph McGarry was born at Kelso, N.S.W. He gave his age as 35 years and 8 months, his marital status as married, and his occupation as fuelman, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Bathurst. He was attested at Bathurst on 28th October 1915, but did not complete his medical until 13th November October 1915 at Liverpool.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. On 16th April 1916 he transferred to the 4th Pioneer Battalion in Egypt.
Private McGarry was wounded in action on 12th December 1916 in the vicinity of Longueval, France. He died of his wounds the next day on 13th December 1916 at the 38th Casualty Clearing Station at Heilly, France, aged 35 years (per his headstone and AWM Roll of Honour Circular).
He was buried at Heilly Station Cemetery, at Mericourt-L’Abbe, France.
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4857 Private Joseph Raymond MCGUIRE
Joseph Raymond McGuire’s headstone at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 29/8/2016)
Joseph Raymond McGuire was born at Redfern, N.S.W. He gave his age as 33 years and 10 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as tinworker labourer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March on 11th November 1915, the day the Coo-ees marched from Parramatta to Ashfield. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Ashfield on 11th November 1915.
Private McGuire was wounded in action on 29th September 1917 in the vicinity of Westhoek Ridge, Belgium. He was evacuated to the 10th Casualty Clearing Station, but died of his wounds later the same day, aged 36 years.
He was buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, at Lijssentoek, Belgium.
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2708 Private Archibald MCINTYRE
Archibald McIntyre’s headstone at Puchevillers British Cemetery, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 8/9/2016)
Archibald McIntyre was born at Glasgow, Scotland. He gave his age as 31 years and 6 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as labourer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Blayney. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Blayney on 26th October 1915.
He was discharged at Liverpool Camp on 29th November 1915 for defective vision. He successfully re-enlisted on 19th May 1916 at Sydney, passing his medical examination on 19th May 1916, and was attested at the Royal Agricultural Showground at Sydney on 20th May 1916.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A40 Ceramic on 7th October 1916 with the 6th reinforcements for the 56th Battalion.
Private McIntyre was with the 56th Battalion in France when he was evacuated to hospital sick on 22nd March 1917. He died of illness (Cerebro Spinal Meningitis) on 26th March 1917 at the South Midland Casualty Clearing Station Puchevillers, France, aged 32 years.
He was buried at Puchevillers British Cemetery, at Puchevillers, France.
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4849 Private Jack MORRIS
J. Morris’ name on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 7/9/2014)
Charles James “Jack” Morris was born at Pennant Hills, N.S.W. He gave his age as 18 years and 1 month, his marital status as single, and his occupation as rivetter, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Parramatta. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Parramatta on 11th November 1915.
Private Morris was killed in action on the night of 5th/6th August 1916, in the vicinity of Pozieres, France, aged 18 years.
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2369 Trooper William Henry NICHOLLS
7th Light Horse Regiment A.I.F.
W. H. Nicholls’ name on the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour (Photograph: S. &. H. Thompson 5/1/2015)
William Henry Nicholls was born at Camperdown, Sydney, N.S.W. He gave his age as 27 years and 6 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as contractor, when he enlisted. He completed his medical examination at Coonamble on 2nd October 1915, and was attested at Dubbo on 21st October 1915, before joining the Coo-ee March at Molong.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT Palermo on 18th April 1916 with the 16th reinforcements for the 7th Light Horse Regiment.
Trooper Nicholls was killed in action on 7th May 1918 when enemy aeroplanes bombed the camp of the 7th Light Horse Regiment at Jericho, Palestine. He was aged 30 years.
He was buried at the Jerusalem War Cemetery at Jerusalem, Israel.
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4865 Private Karl ALEX FREDERICK NIELSEN
K. A. F. Nielson’s name on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 7/9/2014)
Karl Alex Frederick Nielson (aka Karl Frederik Nielsen) was born at Sjelland, Denmark. He gave his age as 24 years and 11 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as bushman, when he enlisted. Although he was not attested and did not complete his medical examination until 13th November 1915 at Liverpool, his date of joining on the nominal roll was recorded as the 8th November 1915, when the Coo-ees were on their way from Lawson to Springwood. Per The Blue Mountains Echo he was one of three recruits to join the Coo-ees from Hazelbrook.
Private Nielsen was killed in action on 6th August 1916 in the vicinity of Pozieres, France, aged 25 years.
He has no known grave. His name is remembered on Villers-Bretonneaux Memorial, France.
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7048 Private Patrick Joseph O’LOUGHLIN
3rd Infantry Battalion A.I.F.
P. J. O’Loughen’s name on 3rd Battalion Australian Infantry panel [third row in centre on right] at the Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 11/9/2012)
Patrick Joseph O’Loughlin (O’Loughlen) was born at Ballyvaugan, County Clare, Ireland. He gave his age as 27 years and 8 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as labourer, when he enlisted. He was one of the four recruits sent by the Parkes Recruiting Association to join the Coo-ees at Molong. He completed his medical examination at Molong on 22nd October 1915, and was attested at Molong (8 miles east) on 22nd October 1915.
He was discharged medically unfit (varicose veins) on 29th November 1915. However he successfully re-enlisted at Dubbo Army Camp on 27th October 1916.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A24 Benalla on 9th November 1916 with the 23rd reinforcements for the 3rd Battalion.
Private O’Loughlin was killed in action on 18th September 1917 in the vicinity of Dickebusch, near Ypres, in Belgium, aged 29 years.
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6199 Private James O’NEILL
James O’Neill’s headstone at the Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Belgium (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 30/8/2016)
James O’Neill was born at Hay, N.S.W. He gave his age as 35 years, his marital status as single, and his occupation as labourer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Wellington. completed his medical examination on 17th October 1915 at Wellington, and was attested on 19th October 1915 at Stuart Town.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A11 Ascanius on 25th October 1916 with the 17th reinforcements for the 18th Battalion.
Private O’Neill was wounded in action on 19th September 1917 at Bellewaarde Ridge, Belgium. He was evacuated to the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, where he died of his wounds later that day, aged 37 years.
He was buried at Menin Road South Military Cemetery, at Iepers, Belgium.
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4866 Private Joseph PARRISH
4th Machine Gun Battalion A.I.F.
Joseph Parrish’s headstone at Terlincthun British Cemetery, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 11/9/2016)
Joseph Parrish was born at Monmouthshire, Wales. He gave his age as 18 years and 5 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as miner, when he enlisted. He presented to join the Coo-ees at Wellington. He completed his medical examination on 16th October 1915 at Wellington, then joined the Coo-ees at Orange, where he was attested at Orange on the 24th October 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. On the 16th April 1916 Private Parrish was transferred to the 4th Pioneer Battalion at Tel-el-Kebir.
On the 12th May 1918 Private Parrish was transferred to the 4th Machine Gun Battalion.
Private Parrish was wounded in action on 10th June 1918 in the vicinity of Villers-Bretonneux, France. He died of his wounds on 27th June 1918 at the 53rd General Hospital at Abbeville, France, aged 21 years.
He was buried at Terlincthun British Cemetery, at Wimille, France.
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4886 Private Arthur Charles REID
4th Division Medium Trench Mortar Battery A.I.F.
Arthur Charles Reid’s headstone at La Clytte Military Cemetery, Belgium (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 31/8/2016)
Arthur Charles Reid (Read) was born at Forbes, N.S.W. He gave his age as 25 years, his marital status as single, and his occupation as shearing machine expert, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March by the time the Coo-ees reached Katoomba. He was attested on 5th November at Katoomba, and completed his medical examination on 6th November 1915 at Lawson.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. On 16th April 1916 Private Reid transferred to the 4th Division Artillery and his rank designation changed to Gunner. On the 25th June 1916 he was taken on strength of the 4th Division Medium Trench Mortar Battery in France.
Gunner Reid was wounded in action on 8th September 1916 in the vicinity of Vierssraat, Belgium. He was evacuated to the 11th Canadian Field Ambulance, where he died of his wounds the next day on 9th September 1916, aged 25 years.
He was buried at La Clytte Military Cemetery, De Klitje, Flanders, Belgium.
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4891 Private John Thomas SMITH
John Thomas Smith’s headstone at Melcombe Regis Cemetery, Weymouth, England (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 14/9/2016)
John Thomas Smith was born at Wigan, Lancashire, England. He gave his age as 30 years, his marital status as single, and his occupation as miner, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Wellington. He completed his medical examination on 16th October 1915 at Wellington, and was attested on 19th October 1915 at Stuart Town.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. On 25th April 1916 he transferred to the 4th Pioneer Battalion at Tel-el Kebir.
Private Smith was wounded in action on 5th April 1918 near Henencourt Wood, France. He was evacuated to England, and died of his wounds on 23rd April 1918 at the Dorset County Hospital, England, aged 33 years.
He was buried at Melcombe Regis Cemetery, at Dorset, England.
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6320 Private Stanley Everard STEPHENS
S. E. Stephens’s name on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 7/9/2014)
Stanley Everard Stephens was born at Melbourne, Victoria. He gave his age as 24 years and 11 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as journalist, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Gilgandra. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Gilgandra on 9th October 1915. On the march he was given the rank of Acting Sergeant, and was appointed Secretary of the travelling committee of control appointed for the Coo-ee March at Stuart Town. .
Acting Sergeant Stephens embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A14 Euripides on 9th September 1916 as 20th reinforcement for the 13th Battalion.
On 22nd December 1916 he arrived at the 4th Australian Division Base Depot at Etaples, France, where he reverted to the rank of Private.
Acting Sergeant Stephens departed Sydney on the HMAT A14 Euripides on 9th September 1916 as 20th reinforcement for the 13th Battalion.
His rank reverted to Private when he arrived in France on 22nd December 1916.
Private Stephens was killed in action on 11th April 1917 during an attack on the Hindenburg Line near Bullecourt, France, aged 26 years.
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4605 Private John TARLINGTON
J. Tarlington’s name on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 7/9/2014)
John Tarlington was born at Glen Innes, N.S.W. He gave his age as 38 years and 7 months, his marital status as married, and his occupation as laborer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Blayney. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Blayney on 26th October 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A70 Ballarat on 16th February 1916 with the 14th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. On 1st April 1916 he was transferred to the 54th Battalion at Ferry Post, Egypt. On 23rd May 1916 Private Tarlington was transferred to the 4th Pioneer Battalion in Egypt.
Private Tarlington was killed in action on 6th August 1916 in the vicinity of Pozieres, France, aged 39 years.
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4903 Sergeant Thomas THORNE
Thomas Thorne’s headstone at Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery, England (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 13/9/2016)
Thomas Thorne was born at Hay, N.S.W. He gave his age as 22 years and 2 months, his marital status as married, and his occupation as motor driver, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Lawson, and was attested at Lawson on the 7th November 1915. He completed his medical examination at Liverpool on 13th November 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A15 Star of England on 8th March 1916 with the 15th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. He arrived in Egypt on 11th April 1916, and he was admitted to the 31st General Hospital at Port Said, Egypt, on the same day. He was discharged for duty on 21st May 1916.
Acting Sergeant Thorne was admitted to Devonport Military Hospital on his arrival in England, and he died of Pneumonia two days later on 18th June 1916, aged 23 years. He was the first of the Coo-ees to die on active service.
He was buried at Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery, at Plymouth, England.
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4617 Private Joseph Patrick WALLIS
Joseph Patrick Wallis’s headstone at Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery, France (Photograph S. & H. Thompson 10/9/2016)
Joseph Patrick Wallis (aka Joseph Patrick Wailes) was born at Darlinghurst, N.S.W. He gave his age as 18 years and 4 months (although he was actually 17 years and 1 month old at that time), his marital status as single, and his occupation as seaman, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Dubbo. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Dubbo on 13th October 1915.
He embarked for active service from Sydney on HMAT A70 Ballarat on 16th February 1916 with the 14th reinforcements for the 13th Battalion. On 1st April 1916 he was transferred to the 54th Battalion I Egypt.
Private Wallis was killed in action on 20th July 1916 during Battle of Fromelles, France.
He was buried at Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery, Fromelles, France. Although his headstone records his age as 19 years, he was actually only 17 years and 10 months when he died.
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4917 Private William WEBBER
W. Webber’s name on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 7/9/2014)
William Webber was born at Granville, N.S.W. He gave his age as 23 years and 5 months, his marital status as single, and his occupation as fitter, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March on 11th November 1915, the day the Coo-ees marched from Parramatta to Ashfield. He completed his medical examination and was attested at Ashfield on 11th November 1915.
Private Webber was killed in action on 6th April 1918 in the vicinity of Dernacourt, France, aged 26 years.
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4910 Private Rowland John WILSON
R. J. Wilson’s name on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson 7/9/2014)
Rowland John Wilson was born at Tallawang, N.S.W. He gave his age as 24 years, his marital status as single, and his occupation as labourer, when he enlisted. He joined the Coo-ee March at Lawson. He was attested at Lawson on 7th November 1915. He completed his medical examination at Liverpool on 15th November 1915.
Private Wilson was killed in action on the night of the 7th/8th August 1916 in the Battle of Pozieres between Pozieres and Martinpuich, aged 24 years.
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Tagged Alan Chesher Johnson (Janion), Allan James Denmead, Archibald McIntyre, Arthur Charles Reid, Bernard Coyte, Charles Alfred Hampson, Charles Arthur Finn, Charles William Gordon Conroy, Darcy Keating, Edward Joseph McGarry, Francis Charles Finlayson, Frank Humphrey, Harold Baxter, Harold Brooks Davis, Harry Davenport, Jack Morris, James Crawford, James O'Neill, John Martin, John Tarlington, John Thomas Smith, Joseph Parrish, Joseph Patrick Wallis, Karl Alex Frederick Nielson, Laurence Leslie Maguire, Louis Leoville, Oliver James Harmon, Patrick O'Loughlin, Percy Walter Holpen, Rowland John WIlson, Samuel Luke, Spencer John Letcher, Stanley E. Stephens, Thomas Jackson, Thomas Thorne, Wilfred Ernest McDonald, William (Bill) Thomas Hitchen, William Emerton Hunter, William Henry Nicholls, William Webber
The Coo-ees part in the fray anniversary of the start
The Coo-ees. Part in the fray, anniversary of the start
Transcript of an article from The Bathurst Times, 10 October, 1916, p. 4.
”THE COO-EES.’
PART IN THE FRAY, ANNIVERSARY OF THE START.
It’s twelve months all but two days since the Coo-ees started their long march from Gilgandra to Berlin, and though they’re not there yet, most of them are still on the way. One is well beyond the borders of Germany — he is a prisoner of war, and is reported to be in a prison camp in Westphalia — several have been wounded, and two, including their famous leader, “Captain Bill” Hitchen, are dead.
The Coo-ees started on the first stage of their march, the 330 miles trip from Gilgandra to Sydney, on Tuesday, Oct. 10. There were 25 of them then; but before they had covered half the distance the home town had sent another ten hotfoot to join them. These 35 Gilgandra men were good recruiting agents, for before they reached Sydney they had gathered in seven more men for every one of the original troop. They arrived just about 270 strong. Their example was followed all over the country, and recruiting marches were conducted from several points. None of them, however, caused such interest as that of the Coo-ees, and although public memory is always short it is probable that Captain Bill Hitchen and his men will always be remembered when Australia’s part in the war is talked of, certainly they will never be forgotten in Gilgandra and the other country towns which they passed through.
SACRIFICES THEY MADE.
Every town and township on the line turned out to meet them as they approached, and they were feted out and fed until their leaders began to fear that they would he killed by the kindness. The enthusiasm of the volunteers, too, was infectious. All along the road men dropped their work and joined the ranks. From Gilgandra alone there were three men with families. There was Captain Hitchen (officially he was only a Corporal; but he will always be remembered as Captain Bill), who had a family of three sons and two daughters; there was Signaller A. J. McGregor, who left behind him a wife and five young children; and there was Corporal J. McKeown, who left wife and four small McKeowns.
Wee McGregor, as he was known all along the march, sold out a flourishing bakery business in Gilgandra to join the Coo-ees. He had three brothers at the front, and he wanted to follow them. On the way to Sydney another brother jumped into the ranks— five from one family. McKeown had also fought in the South African war, and had the soldiering blood in him. At Coonamble two young brothers named Hunt joined the ranks. Their father saw them start; but the thought of the parting was too much for him. A few days later he hurried after the boys, and at Bathurst he, too, joined the march.
MEN OF ALL AGES.
The Coo-ees were men of all ages. Captain Bill himself was 52, and though the rest all said they were under 45, the authorities in many cases had suspicions about them. On the other hand, there were three lads under the age of 18.
When they reached Sydney on March 8 [sic] a number of them were rejected as medically unfit; but 200 eventually set sail for Europe. They didn’t all go together. Some were taken into the Light Horse, and others into the Engineers and Artillery; but about 180 went away as the 15th Reinforcements of the 13th. Battalion. In Egypt they were again split up; but the majority went into the 45th. Battalion. Those who stayed in Egypt were under fire three weeks after their landing, and the men who went to France were in the trenches in June. It used to be a military axiom that it took three years to train a soldier. In the case of the Coo-ees, the time spent in training was a little over three months.
The people of Gilgandra are keeping up the anniversary of the start of the march on Tuesday by a social. They originally intended to devote the proceeds to purchasing Christmas hampers for the men; but the State War Council refused permission for this, and the money will now be devoted to the Repariation Fund. Numbers of private parcels are being made up, however, in the way of Christmas gifts, for the men. So far there have been but nine casualties among the Coo-ees.
COO-EES WHO HAVE FALLEN.
Corporal Hitchen died of diabetes in Harefield Hospital, in England, a few weeks ago. He was ill when he arrived in England, and went straight into hospital. He died two months later. When news of his death was received in Gilgandra, all the business houses closed their doors for two hours. Private Sid Houston, wounded, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Houston, of Wellington. He joined the Coo-ees there when he was only 17 years and three months of age. Private Dave Wagner, wounded, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wagner, of Valley Heights. He was only 16 years and 10 months old when he enlisted. Private D. S. Stewart was at first reported missing, but has since been traced to a prison camp in Westphalia, where he is a prisoner of war. He is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Stewart, of Parkes-street, East Wellington, and was only 16 years and 9 months old when he enlisted. He was the youngest recruit with the Coo-ees. Another brother, who enlisted at 18, is in the trenches. Private Letcher, who has been killed in action, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Letcher of Bathurst, and was only 17 years old when he joined the Coo-ees at Bathurst.
Private G. Seaman, who also joined the Coo-ees at Bathurst, has been reported wounded.
Private W. E. Hunter, Redfern, enlisted at Geurie, and when the Coo-ees were in Orange he received a letter from his mother stating that his two brothers had been killed at the Dardanelles. He is reported wounded.
Corporal W. Smith, who enlisted with the Coo-ees at Geurie, where he was employed as Shire Clerk, was taken to England from France to undergo an operation. From advices received by the last mail he was improving fast. He was a widower with a number of young children, whom he placed in a boarding-school before going to the front.’
Click here to view the article on Trove: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109934579
Posted in Other articles, Remembering the Coo-ees
Tagged Andrew J. MacGregor, Charles Henry Hunt, David James Wagner, Donald S. Stewart, George Seaman, James McKeown, Sidney Heuston, Spencer John Letcher, William (Bill) Thomas Hitchen, William Emerton Hunter, William Smith
Re-visiting the graves of the fallen Coo-ees in August-September 2016
Posted on September 6, 2016 | 1 comment
When Stephen and I visited the graves of the fallen Coo-ees in France, Belgium and England in 2012 and 2014, we felt that it would have been a good idea to have left an Australian flag and a commemorative information card on each of their graves.
After our participation in the 2015 Coo-ee March Re-enactment, we spoke at a Coo-ee March 2015 Inc. (Gilgandra Sub-Committee) meeting about our plan to revisit the graves of the Coo-ees during the Centenary of Anzac period, and idea to also have a travelling wreath to rest on the grave of each Coo-ee.
The Committee provided one of the purple Coo-ee “badge” ribbons to go on our wreath, which had been created to be worn by the marchers during the Re-enactment in memory of the purple “badges” worn by the original Coo-ees during the 1915 Coo-ee March.
Wreath on Bill Hitchen’s grave 26/8/2016 (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson)
After collecting our hire car at Heathrow Airport in London on 21st August 2016, we drove for 30 minutes to visit Bill Hitchen’s grave at Harefield (St. Mary) Churchyard. We laid the wreath against his headstone, and left an Australian flag and commemorative information card with a red poppy on his grave.
Commemorative card on Bill Hitchen’s grave 26/8/2016 (Photograph: S. & H. Thompson)
Australian flag and commemorative card on Bill Hitchen’s grave 26/8/2016 (Photograph S. & H. Thompson)
Over the next few weeks we will be visiting the graves of all the fallen Coo-ees who are buried in France, Belgium and England, and also the Menin Gate, V.C. Corner Australian Memorial, and Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, where the names of those Coo-ees who have no known grave are remembered. (Unfortunately we are not able to visit the grave of the Coo-ee buried in the Jerusalem War Cemetery, at least at this time).
On our return to Australia we will create an Honor Roll in memory of the fallen Coo-ees on this website.
Posted in Remembering the Coo-ees
Tagged Graves, Harefield (St. Marys) Churchyard, Purple ribbons, William (Bill) Thomas Hitchen, Wreath
Remembering the Coo-ees : Gilgandra Coo-ee Festival October Long Weekend 2014
The annual Gilgandra Coo-ee Festival was held on the long weekend in October to commemorate the 1915 Coo-ee March, which started 99 years ago on Sunday, 10th October, 1915. The events held included a street parade on Saturday 4th October 2014 lead by re-enactment Coo-ee marchers, and included the South Pacific Concert Band from Sydney, and a variety of vehicles and floats. Crowds lined both sides of the main street. The street parade started off at 11.30 am in Bridge Street near the Royal Hotel where the original march started in 1915.
Re-enactor Coo-ee Marchers leading the Street Parade (Photograph: H. Thompson, 4/10/2014)
The street parade ended with a memorial wreath-laying and flag raising ceremony at the memorial gates to Cooee March Memorial Park.
Memorial wreath-laying and flag raising ceremony at Cooee March Memorial Park (Photograph: H. Thompson 4/10/2014)
Later in the afternoon outside Hitchen House I met an 88 year old son of Gilgandra Coo-ee William Howard, and a grand niece of Gilgandra Coo-ee Charles Finn.
On Sunday morning 5th October 2014 a Coo-ee Commemoration church service was held at St Ambrose Church in Gilgandra. Coo-ee re-enactment marchers, and the South Pacific Concert Band with local musicians, attended the service. The names of the 35 1915 Coo-ees from Gilgandra were read out as part of the service. Having recently visited the graves of those Coo-ees in our recent holiday to England, France and Belgium who did not return from the First World War, including Coo-ees Charles Finn and Harold Baxter from Gilgandra, made this experience particularly moving for me.
Re-enactor Coo-ee marchers leaving the church service (Photograph: H. Thompson 5/10/2014)
The Coo-ee re-enactment marchers, and the band, then marched to the marker and plaque in Bridge Street, which was placed in 1965 in a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary after the march, and a short service was held there. A bugler played the last post.
Service at the marker and plaque where the Coo-ee March commenced in 1915 (Photograph: H. Thompson 5/10/2014)
The Coo-ee renenactor marchers and the band then marched round the corner into Miller Street and fell out in front of Hitchen House. The re-enactment Coo-ee marchers, wearing replicas of the distinctive white hats and blue jackets issued as the uniform of the Coo-ees on the original 1915 march, were lead by Brian Bywater, who is President of Coo-ee March 2015 Inc., which is organising a centenary 2015 Coo-ee March Re-enactment. Brian also owns the Hitchen House Military Museum, which was formerly owned by Bill Hitchen.
Re-enactor Coo-ee Marchers in front of Hitchen House (Photograph: H. Thompson 5/10/2014)
It was on this verandah 99 years ago where Bill Hitchen, a local plumber and Captain of the local rifle club, and his brother Dick, the local butcher, one evening over a pipe and a discussion about the casualty rates and falling recruiting numbers, and the call for more men to fight at the Dardanelles on the Gallipoli Peninsular, conceived the idea of the route march from Gilgandra to Sydney, stopping in the towns and villages along to way, as a means to raise recruits for the war effort during the First World War.
Posted in Remembering the Coo-ees, Towns
Tagged Charles Arthur Finn, Gilgandra Coo-ee Festival, William (Bill) Thomas Hitchen, William John Luther Howard
Harefield (St. Mary) Churchyard
After our arrival in London on Sunday 17th August 2014 we picked up our hire car, and drove the short distance to Harefield (St. Mary) Churchyard, at Harefield, Middlesex, England, where Bill Hitchen from Gilgandra is buried.
An Australian flag marks Bill Hitchen’s grave 2nd from the left in the second row in the photograph below.
An Australian flag marks Bill Hitchen’s grave at Harefield (St. Mary) Churchyard. (Photograph: S & H Thompson 17/8/2014)
The photograph below of the Commonwealth War Graves section at Harefield (St. Mary) Churchyard from the Australian War Memorial website http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P02293.001 showing the same scene was taken about 1917 (based on the latest date of death that can be seen on the headstones).
The Anzac Cemetery Harefield, Lawrence, photo [ca. 1917] (Photograph public domain from the AWM website: http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P02293.001)
Bill Hitchen’s grave at the time this photograph was taken did not have a headstone, only a wooden cross. Note the position of the headstones on these graves. The headstones have been reversed at a later date, and part of the wall removed, following the expansion of the cemetery.
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website http://www.cwgc.org/ Harefield (St. Mary) Churchyard contains 120 graves from the First World War and 6 graves from the Second World War. The First World War graves are mostly of Australian soldiers who died at Harefield Park in No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital. Bill Hitchen is the only Coo-ee buried in this churchyard.
A photograph of the headstone on Bill Hitchen’s grave will be added to his individual blog entry, and form part of a Roll of Honour for the fallen Coo-ees on this blog, after our return to Australia.
Posted in Cemeteries and Memorials
Tagged William (Bill) Thomas Hitchen
William Thomas HITCHEN
William “Bill” Thomas HITCHEN
Bill Hitchen (Photograph courtesy of Gilgandra Shire Library)
Per his military service record (regimental no. 1677), William “Bill” Thomas Hitchen was born at Mudgee, N.S.W. Lowering his actual age of 51 years by several years, he gave his age as 44 years and 2 months, and his address as Bridge Street, Gilgandra, N.S.W. He gave his occupation as plumber. His description on his medical was height 5 feet 7 ½ inches tall, weight 180 lbs., with a medium complexion, light brown eyes, and fair hair. His religious denomination was Roman Catholic. He claimed to have no previous military experience.
He was known as Captain Bill Hitchen on the Coo-ee March as he was the Captain of the Gilgandra Rifle Club before enlisting.
Bill Hitchen was one of the main organisers of the Coo-ee March (along with his brother Richard G. Hitchen), and he joined the Coo-ees at Gilgandra at the beginning of the march. His official enlistment date is the 10th October 1915. However, per his service record he did not complete his medical and attestation until the 24th February 1916 at Bathurst, after he assisted in organising the Kookaburra March from Tooraweenah to Bathurst in early 1916.
After the Kookaburra March he was allocated to the 2nd reinforcements to the 45th Battalion as a Corporal.
Corporal Hitchen departed Sydney on the HMAT A40 Ceramic on the 14th April 1916. He embarked from Alexandria on 6th June 1916, and disembarked at Plymouth, England, on the 16th June 1916.
He was admitted to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield Park on 21st June 1916 sick with Melanotic Sarcoma. He also had Diabetes.
Corporal Hitchen died of his illness on the 3rd September 1916, and was buried at the nearby Saint Mary’s Churchyard at Harefield, England.
Bill Hitchen’s headstone, Harefield (St. Mary) Churchyard (Photograph: S & H Thompson, 17/8/2014)
His name is also listed on the Gilgandra War Memorial, Cooee March Memorial Park Gateway (Gilgandra), and the Gulargambone War Memorial.
Posted in Recruits, Roll of honour
Tagged Cooee March Memorial Park Gateway (Gilgandra), Gilgandra recruits, Gilgandra War Memorial, Gulargambone War Memorial, William (Bill) Thomas Hitchen
Anniversary of their start
Transcript of an article from The Sunday Times, October 8, 1916, p. 9.
‘THE COO-EES
EN ROUTE FOR BERLIN
It’s 12 months all but two days since the Coo-ees started on their long march from Gilgandra to Berlin, and thought they’re not there yet, most of them are still on the way. One is well beyond the borders of Germany – he is a prisoner of war, and is reported to be in a prison camp in Westphalia – several have been wounded, and two, including their famous leader, “Captain Bill” Hitchen, are dead.
The Coo-ees started on the first stage of their march, the 330 miles trip from Gilgandra to Sydney, on Tuesday, Oct 10. There were 25 of them then ; but before they had covered half the distance the home town had sent another ten hotfoot to join them. These 35 Gilgandra men were good recruiting agents, for before they reached Sydney they had gathered in seven more men for every one of the original troop. They arrived just about 270 strong. Their example was followed all over the country, and recruiting marches were conducted from several points. None of them, however, captured such interest as that of the Coo-ees , and although public memory is always short, it is probable that Captain Bill Hitchen and his men will always be remembered when Australia’s part in the war is talked of. Certainly they will never be forgotten in Gilgandra and the other country towns they passed through.
SACRIFICES THEY MADE
Every town and township on the line turned out to meet them as they approached, and they were feted and fed until their leaders began to fear they would be killed by kindness. The enthusiasm of the volunteers, too, was infectious. All along the road men dropped their work and joined the ranks. From Gilgandra alone there were three men with families. There was Captain Hitchen (officially he was only a Corporal ; but he will always be remembered as Captain Bill), who had a family of three sons and two daughters ; there was Signaller A. J. McGregor, who left behind him a wife and five young children ; and there was Corporal J. McKeown, who left a wife and four small McKeowns. Wee McGregor, as he was known all along the march, sold out a flourishing bakery business in Gilgandra to join the Coo-ees. He had three brothers at the front, and he wanted to follow them. On the way to Sydney another brother jumped into the ranks – five from one family. McKeown had fought in the South African war, and had soldiering in his blood. At Coonamble two young brothers named Hunt joined the ranks. Their father saw them start ; but the thought of the parting was too much for him. A few days later he hurried after the boys, and at Bathurst he, too, joint the march.
MEN OF ALL AGES
The Coo-ees were men of all ages. Captain Bill himself was 52, and though the rest all said they were under 45 the authorities in many cases had their suspicions about them. On the other hand there were three lads under the age of 18.
When they reached Sydney on March 8 [sic] a number of them were rejected as medically unfit ; but 220 eventually sailed for Europe. They didn’t all go together. Some were taken into the Light Horse and others into the Engineers and Artillery ; but about 180 went away as the 15th Reinforcements of the 13th Battalion. In Egypt they were again split up ; but the majority went into the 45th Battalion. Those who stayed in Egypt were under fire three weeks after their landing, and the men who went to France were in the trenches in June. It used to be a military axiom that it took three years to train a soldier. In the case of the Coo-ees, the time spent in training was a little over three months.
A record of their doings is being kept by Mr. A. H. Miller, of Gilgandra, who took part a leading part in organising the march. He is still collecting details, keeping a list of those who have fallen, and the experiences the men have met with. He also communicates with their relatives, whenever news of any of the men arrives.
The people of Gilgandra are keeping up the anniversary of the start of the march on Tuesday by a social. They originally intended to devote the proceeds to purchasing Christmas hampers for the men ; but the State War Council refused permission for this, and the money will now be devoted to the Repatriation Fund. Numbers of private parcels are being made up, however, for Christmas gifts, for the men. So far there have been but nine casualties among the Coo-ees.
COO-EES WHO HAVE FALLEN
Corporal Hitchen died of diabetes in Harefield Hospital, in England, a few weeks ago. He was ill when he arrived in England and went straight into hospital. He died two months later. When news of his death was received in Gilgandra, all the business houses closed their doors for two hours.
Private Victor Quinton, of Gilgandra, is wounded, though he was at first reported missing. He is a son of Mrs. A. Lumsey, of Gilgandra.
Private Sid Heuston, wounded, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Heuston, of Wellington. He joined the Coo-ees there when he was only 17 years and three months of age.
Private Dave Wagner, wounded, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wagner, of Valley Heights. He was only 16 years and 10 months old when he enlisted.
Private J. Wiggins, wounded, is a son of Mr. E. Wiggins, of Springwood. He and his mate, Dave Wagner, both enlisted from Springwood, the only recruits in the march from the township.
Private C. Crease, wounded, joined the Coo-ees in the mountains. He is a brother of Mrs. P. Letham, of Simmons-street, Enmore.
Sgt. T. Thorne, who died of illness in England, was 23 years of age. He was the only son of Mrs. and the late Mr. G. Thorne, of Thorneycroft, Lawson. His father died suddenly from heart failure a month after the boy left for the front.
Private D. S. Stewart was at first reported missing, but has since been traced to a prison camp in Westphalia, where he is a prisoner of war. He is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. A Stewart, of Parkes-street, East Wellington, and was only 16 years and 9 months old when he enlisted. He was the youngest recruit with the Coo-ees. Another brother, who enlisted at 18, is in the trenches.
Private Oliver James Harmon, of Granville, killed in action, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Harmon, of Alfred-street, Granville. He joined the Coo-ees, many of whom he had known out West, at Parramatta. His younger brother, Percy, is on H.M.S. Phantom, and another is in camp at Liverpool.
Private C. Marchant, accidentally wounded in Egypt and invalided home, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Marchant, of Gilgandra, at which township he joined the Coo-ees. He was prominent in boxing circles in the West, and also a member of the Gilgandra Waratah Football Club and the League of Wheelmen.
Private Albert Nelson, wounded (second occasion), is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Nelson, of Gilgandra. He joined the Coo-ees at Liverpool Camp, and sailed for the front with them on March 8. When he was wounded on the first occasion he remained on duty. This time he was wounded in three places – knee, back and foot.
Private Borton, Lawson (wounded).
Private R. Uhr (invalided home).
Private J. Morris, Parramatta (killed in action).
Private G. Seaman, Bathurst (wounded).
Private W. E. Hunter, Redfern (wounded), enlisted at Geurie, and when the Coo-ees were in Orange he received a letter from his mother stating that his two brothers had been killed at the Dardanelles.
Cpl. W. Smith, who enlisted with the Coo-ees at Geurie, where he was employed as Shire Clerk, was taken from France to England to undergo an operation. From advices received by the last mail he was improving fast. He was a widower with a number of young children, whom he placed in boarding-school before going to the front.’
Posted in Other articles, Recruits, Remembering the Coo-ees
Tagged Albert Nelson, Andrew J. MacGregor, Arthur Ernest McGregor, Charles Crease, Charles E. Marchant, Charles Henry Hunt, David James Wagner, Donald S. Stewart, George Seaman, Harold R. D. Uhr, Jack Hunt, Jack Morris, Jack Wiggins, James McKeown, Oliver James Harmon, Pte Borton, Sidney Heuston, Thomas Thorne, Victor Quinton, William (Bill) Thomas Hitchen, William Emerton Hunter, William L. Hunt, William Smith
Day 1, Sunday, 10th October, 1915, Gilgandra to Balladoran
The start at Gilgandra (Daily Telegraph 12/10/1915)
Transcribed from The Farmer and Settler, 12 October, 1915, p. 3.
‘THE ROUTE MARCH. Gilgandra to the Coast TRIUMPHANT SEND-OFF BY THE PEOPLE.
Gilgandra’s greatest of all events, the start of the route march, became a fact of history on Sunday last, when the contingent after a simple religious ceremony stepped out on its long march to the coast.
On Saturday, when the ‘Farmer and Settler’ special reporter, who will march to Sydney, arrived at Gilgandra, he found Captain Nicholas and Drs. Burkitt and Cooper, of Dubbo, on the ground. Captain Nicholas has been appointed to take charge of the contingent, and be will be their leader and instructor all the way through to Sydney.
On Saturday afternoon twenty-five recruits were sworn in. Two failed to pass the doctor, but they will march through to the coast nevertheless. The number of recruits would have been double if the recruiting association had not been compelled to wait so long for the permission of the military authorities, the result being that many men grew tired of waiting, and went into camp. The doctor said that the Gilgandra men were as fine a body of recruits as he had seen, with good feet and sound constitutions. On Saturday night a torchlight procession paraded the town, headed by the band. The recruits were followed by the rifle club and the boy scouts. In the interval of a picture show, Major Winn, of Sydney, and Private Lee, the ex-clergyman recruit, made special appeals to the young men to volunteer.
There were fully three thousand persons, almost the whole population of the district, at the open-air consecration service on Sunday morning, when the Rev. W. Jenkins commended the men to their Creator.
The shire president, Mr. Barden, said he was sure that the twenty-five starting out would be five hundred at the end of the long march. Almost the whole of the people, the largest gathering ever seen at Gilgandra, accompanied the march to Boberah, where a general programme of hand-shaking took place. A guard of honor of young horsewomen rode at the head of the procession, and the local recruiting association and shire councillors took part. Captain Nicholas formed up his little force — grown already to thirty-one men; and Mr. W. T. Hitchens had the honor of giving the first words of command–‘Quick march.’ Amid resounding cheers the route march had begun, and it was followed for several miles of its long journey, by a great cavalcade of horses and vehicles. Then there was a halt, with more good-byes, more cheers, and the rifle club fired a parting volley.
The heat was intense, and the dust hung over the troops like a pillar of cloud — a fiery cloud, so that when the first stop, Marthaguy, was reached, all were grateful for the lunch spread by the residents, and not less for the facilities provided for a wash and a freshen up. At Marthaguy one new recruit fell in. Many of the Gilgandra folk still followed the column. The young daughter of a prominent citizen left her car and marched alongside the men for some distance; she announced her intention of being present in Martin Place at the finish, and declared that if she had been a boy she would have marched all the way, and gone to the front with the contingent. It is a pity that some of the boys have not the spirit of the girls.
‘Patriotic sons of the West. A 320 mile march’ – Coo-ees on the road to Balladoran (Sydney Mail 20/10/1915)
At Balladoran the townspeople met the column a mile out of town and escorted them to their camp with banners, and gave them a hearty welcome. The camp was reached at five o’clock, and here another recruit joined the column.
Following are the names of the first twenty-five to enlist:–
John Quinn, John Macnamara, Stanley E. Stephens, Jack Hunt, William L. Hunt, Albert W. Pearce, Leslie W. Greenleaf, Arthur C. Finn, Francis N. White, Alfred Wardroffe, Victor Quinton, William Alston, Sidney Bennett, John R. Lee, Harold Baxter, Charles R. Wheeler, E. T. Hitchen, James McKeown, James Crowford, Charles E. Marchant, Andrew J. MacGregor, Lawrence L. McGuire, Robert C. Campbell, Peter Wilson, and Frank Humphrey.’
Posted in Description of the route, Recruits, Towns
Tagged Albert W. Pearce, Alfred Wardroffe, Andrew J. MacGregor, Balladoran, C. A. Finn, Charles E. Marchant, Charles R. Wheeler, DAY 1, Francis N. White, Frank Humphrey, Gilgandra, Harold Baxter, Jack Hunt, James Crawford, James McKeown, John McNamara, John Quinn, John R. Lee, Lawrence L. McGuire, Leslie W. Greenleaf, Marthaguy, Peter Wilson, Robert C. Campbell, Sidney Bennett, Stanley E. Stephens, Victor Quinton, William (Bill) Thomas Hitchen, William Alston, William L. Hunt
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Language as a Peculiarity of Human Geography within the Globalization
Free Essays admin December 16, 2018 December 13, 2018
Human geography regularly referred as the cultural geography encompasses all the human aspects of why certain things happen in certain places. These human aspects may involve demographics, farming, health, culture and industry. Human geography shows the interaction of human beings with their habitats and resources and the outcome of their lifestyles due to this interactions and relationships.
The process of globalization as an aspect of human geography influences all elements of the social relationships such as policies in trade, counties’ development, attitude to the climate change and the use of resources (Agnew 1996, p.26). The present essay analyses the language as a peculiarity of human geography. Obviously, the process of globalization influences the current position of the languages, when the weak one can be lost due to the high level of English language’s integration.
Globalization is one of the major aspects of human geography. In globalization, one can discuss economy, finance, culture, consumption, emerging communication trends and religion. However, this process has its benefits and its effects. On one hand, globalization is the central issue in the world today.
This can be illustrated by the emerging business trends globally, for example, the use of the internet to advertise and make sale of goods and services. On the other hand, globalization has affected the economies of various countries, whereby, some countries brain wash others so as to exploit their resources and benefit themselves and their citizens financially. Moreover, globalization has brought heated debates on whether it is more beneficial or hazardous (Aitken 2006, p.10).
In case of language, globalization also has its good and bad sides. As the ethnographic setting, language is closely related to the social processes within its nation or country. Therefore, the survival of language is depended on the other human sources (“Language and Globalization”).
Today, we can be a witness of the competition between the instruments with the same characteristics and functions. All languages serve for the population of speakers. Naturally, English has more benefits of globalization than other world languages. It is the result of the current world economical and political development. English affects all relevant parts of the modern society (“Language and Globalization”).
The increasing use of this language in the business and education demonstrates a confident progress. However, we should not forget about the other widely distributed languages. Thus, the continental European languages still show its vitality and functionality. The official meetings of the European Union do not use one official language. It is wrong to suppose that English can be considered as the possible official language within the European Union.
Although the current world political and social situation demonstrates the tendency of linguistic unification, an example of multilingual Switzerland can be explored from the position of the linguistic cooperation and integration within a domestic area. In this country, the major and minor languages’ speakers have the same rights and responses.
Country has four official languages such as German, French, Italian, and Romansh. Moreover, the last one is a language of the absolute minority of the citizens. However, it is defended by government as well as the most popular German. Therefore, Switzerland solved the problem of language’s separation and provided the same rights to its population.
It is the most systematic solution that allows save the territorial integrity. The Swiss example can be used by all other countries. Thus, Canada has a bilingual model that includes English and French as the official languages. However, the current situation demonstrates the dominant position of English. Only the local government of Quebec provided the strict laws that indicate the official status of French language.
It is obvious that globalization is a cause of weak and powerful languages to be in contact. Weak languages today are in a high risk due to the possibility of its lost. The governments have to provide an adequate policy that can help protecting the national language and developing it. However, as it was mentioned before, globalization is very strong process that involves many parts of social organization.
Even if the national counties provide some defensive strategies, it is very difficult to get the positive effects. There are other three major socio-cultural manifestations of globalization, namely: information services, news operations and social civilization (Fellmann 1997, p.19). In the past two decades, the use of computers has spread globally in conjunction with the use of electronic mails and social networks through the internet.
This has helped people from different regions of the world to share and communicate their opinions on diverse issues that affect their lives. However, this form of technology is only beneficiary to the illiterate and to people who can afford it (Becker 1993, p.23). Spreading of Internet only intensify the process of cultural unification.
In conclusion, globalization trends rise as communities revolutionize. However, its supersonic rise can be beneficial or hazardous to a society. The process of globalization leads to the irreversible process and, as the result, some weak languages can be lost, while English becomes an official international language.
Agnew, John A, David N. Livingstone, and Alisdair Rogers. Human Geography: An Essential Anthology. Oxford, OX, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. Print.
Aitken, Stuart C. Approaches to Human Geography. London: SAGE, 2006. Print.
Becker, A. Steele, and Harm J. Blij. Study Guide to Accompany Human Geography, Culture, Society, and Space. 4th ed. New York: Wiley, 1993. Print.
Fellmann, Jerome Donald, and Arthur Getis. Human Geography: landscapes of Human Activities. 5th ed. Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark Publishers, 1997. Print.
“Language and Globalization”. humanities.uchicago.edu. humanities.uchicago, n.d. Web. 26 Jan. 2012.
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iPhones, iPads, Macs And More: Everything Apple Could Announce
By Justin Jaffe
(CNET) – Apple season kicks off this week — and this year’s bounty could be plentiful.
On Wednesday, we expect to see three new iPhones, including a new iPhone X, a supersized version called the iPhone XS Max and a less expensive variant possibly called the iPhone XR. That iPhone trio will take center stage in an event that’s also expected to show off a new, bigger Apple Watch Series 4. New iPad Pros, new Macs and Apple’s AirPower wireless charging accessory — originally announced a year ago and never shipped — are also possibilities.
On Monday, a report from Bloomberg adds new specifics to some well-established iPhone rumors already in circulation. According to Mark Gurman, who has a good track record on these things, the next generation flagship will be called the iPhone XS and will feature an upgraded processor and cameras, and come in gold, gray and silver. A plus-sized version, the iPhone XS Max, will have a 6.5-inch display — by far the largest screen Apple has used for a phone to date. And the company will introduce a (relatively) less expensive third version, which may be called the “iPhone XR,” with a 6.1-inch LCD screen.
That lines up with previous rumors, but Gurman notes that the “entry-level” 6.1-inch phone could have a starting price as high as $849. While that makes sense as a $50 premium over the 5.5-inch iPhone 8 Plus — and it’s less than the current $999 5.8-inch iPhone X — it may well disappoint shoppers looking for an alternative to the $699 iPhone 8. Furthermore, Gurman notes that the 6.1-inch phone may be available in limited quantities to start.
These new details come with just two days to go until Apple’s Sept. 12 event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California. Bloomberg has previously reported that Apple will also use the event to introduce a redesigned Apple Watch and new iPad Pros as well as a refresh of the Mac line — though it’s unclear if new products like a rumored MacBook Air replacement will also be announced on Wednesday or at a separate event later this year.
With so many new Apple products on deck, we’ve collected all of the reports and rumors herein. Just note that nothing here has been explicitly confirmed unless otherwise indicated — Apple almost never comments on forthcoming product announcements. With that caveat in place, read on for the lowdown on what we’re hearing about new Apple products in the pipeline and when we might see them.
Three new iPhones
Apple has faithfully announced new iPhones every September since 2012, when it debuted the iPhone 5. And the company has offered two new models — the “standard” 4.7-inch size and “Plus” 5.5-inch version with a better camera — since 2014. Last year, it outdid itself with three new models, the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, and a few weeks later the radically redesigned iPhone X. This year, Apple is widely expected to repeat that feat with a trio of totally new models based on the X design: No home button, nearly all screen, equipped with Face ID.
Here’s what we expect to see:
The sequel (iPhone XS): The follow-up to last year’s flagship, rumored to be called the iPhone XS, will likely get a bump in performance, better dual cameras and longer battery life, while retaining the same (or similar) 5.8-inch OLED screen. Pricing could start at $899.
The big one (iPhone XS Max): Apple is said to have developed a larger, 6.5-inch version of the iPhone X — possibly called the iPhone XS Max — that could have three rear cameras and start somewhere between $999 and $1,100 or more. It’s possible that Apple Pencil support could be added, too, to compete with Samsung’s pro-focused Galaxy Note phones.
The less expensive one (iPhone XR): A 6.1-inch variation may feature an LCD display, a single rear camera and an aluminum design. And it could be relatively less expensive, starting somewhere between $699 and $849. Both larger phones may also get support for dual SIM cards in some countries, according to that Aug. 27 Bloomberg story. But the 6.1-inch phone may not ship until October.
Plus, maybe a fourth sort of new iPhone
Bloomberg’s most recent report does not mention the iPhone SE — the most affordable option in Apple’s phone lineup since its 2016 debut — but we’ve heard persistent murmurs about a possible refresh this year. The Frankenstein’s monster of Apple’s lineup, the SE takes all of the components of an iPhone 6S, minus 3D Touch, and stuffs them into the smaller body of an iPhone 5. Apple gave it a modest refresh in 2017, but a major update is way overdue.
According to the rumors, Apple may deliver yet one more minor makeover in 2018, giving the iPhone SE 2 the same A10 processor used in 2016’s iPhone 7. Will that refreshed SE retain its miniature 4-inch screen along with the $349 (£349, AU$549) starting price? We’ll find out soon enough.
An image of what’s purported to be the Apple Watch 4 published by 9to5Mac.
9to5MacWith Google and Samsung ratcheting up the smartwatch competition, Apple has a real incentive to shake things up with a dramatic new Watch announcement in 2018. Bloomberg reports that the new model will have “the most significant changes” since it launched in 2014 — which could include a bigger display with a higher resolution and more real estateand click-free buttons. At the very least, we know Apple will debut WatchOS 5 (previewed at this year’s WWDC developer conference), featuring fitness improvements, an instant watch-to-watch walkie-talkie mode, support for podcasts and an ability to play audio from third-party apps on the go.
New iPad Pro
When Apple debuted the latest iPad in March, adding Pencil support and a faster processor, it narrowed the gap between the entry-level tablet and its much more expensive Pro siblings. Now, rumors suggest that the company will look to justify the Pro’s premium pricing with a major redesign inspired by the iPhone X’s design — shrinking the bezels, dropping the home button and adding Face ID. Bloomberg reports that we’ll see two new models — an 11-inch and 12.9-inch version.
Sources report that Apple is developing a pair of higher-end AirPods, with noise-cancellation, water resistance and wireless charging. Larger, over-ear headphones — Apple-branded, not Beats — could also be on deck. At the very least, though, expect software improvements and wireless charging accessories to to be added to the AirPods; both have been previously announced by Apple.
With the public beta having launched in June, we expect Apple to follow its normal schedule and release the full version of its next mobile operating system alongside the new iPhones in mid-September. (It usually happens the week after Apple’s big media event.) In addition to enhancing Siri, giving FaceTime a faceliftand introducing Memojis, Apple is said to be focusing on improving basic performance on older models with this next release. And while group FaceTime has already been delayed, Apple often reveals a handful of new features in its mobile operating system that will be exclusive to the new iPhones — so some surprises may yet be on deck.
MacOS Mojave is available now as a public beta and will be officially released as a free update this fall. It’ll introduce a number of new features, from a dark mode and desktop Stacks to a new Finder view and a few familiar faces from iOS. You’ll also find four familiar iOS apps on your Mac after updating to Mojave, along with some added privacy features to protect you from Facebook and other advertisers.
Apple’s streaming service and new TV shows
Apple has nabbed big-name deals with Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, M. Night Shyamalan and Steven Spielberg, among many others. It’s also hired two top television executives to spearhead the effort. And the company has been deploying a $1 billion budget in the last year to recruit projects from those high-profile film and television stars. The thing is — we know almost nothing about how and where these shows will be made available. Might Apple create one bundle to rule them all?
Everything else we may see from Apple
AirPower: Announced roughly one year ago, Apple hasn’t mentioned its Apple’s wireless charging pad since. We might finally see this product in September.
HomePod: Apple is said to be mulling a smaller, less expensive HomePod — but it’s not expected until 2019.
Apple TV: As a product that rarely gets a major annual update, the rollout of TVOS 12, featuring Dolby Atmos support, is likely to be the biggest change coming to Apple TV 4K in the near-term. Read Apple TV wishlist: 5 things we’d like to see on Sept. 12 for our best case scenario for new Apple TV announcements.
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Latest images of Christmas Eve asteroid
Posted by Eddie Irizarry in Science Wire | Space | December 24, 2015
Near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 will pass safely, at more than 28 times the moon’s distance, on Christmas Eve. Will it cause earthquakes? Of course not.
Scientists using NASA’s 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California captured this image of asteroid 2003 SD220 on December 17, when it was about 7.3 million miles (12 million km) from Earth. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR
This month, astronomers have been observing a large asteroid approaching the Earth-moon system. Near-Earth asteroid 163899 – also known as 2003 SD220 – will come closest to Earth on Christmas Eve (December 24, 2015). At that time, it’ll be about 28 times the distance to Earth’s moon; in other words, it’s not coming particularly close. Don’t believe any media suggesting that this space rock may cause earthquakes. Those assertions are misleading and incorrect. Even if 2003 SD220 were passing closer, it’s doubtful earthquakes would result. There’s no scientific evidence that an asteroid’s flyby can cause seismic activity, unless the asteroid collides with Earth. In this case, that clearly will not happen.
Asteroid 2003 SD220 closest pass on December 24 will occur at around 8:08 am ET (13:08 UTC). Translate to your time zone here.
This asteroid isn’t a newly discovered object. Its name – 2003 SD220 – indicates its discovery year. The Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search (LONEOS) program in Flagstaff, Arizona discovered the asteroid on September 29, 2003.
Scientists have been watching this asteroid this month because they knew about its Christmas Eve closest approach well in advance. Thus the asteroid was included in observing schedules for various observatories. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Goldstone Solar System Radar and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Green Bank Telescope and Very Long Baseline Array conducted observations of 2003 SD220, as did the NASA-funded planetary radar system at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
A notable feature of this asteroid is its elongated shape and large size. Astronomer Edgar Rivera-Valentin from Arecibo Observatory – the largest and most sensitive single dish radio telescope in the world – told EarthSky:
We were able to observe this asteroid (with radar) for more days from Arecibo and we still estimate SD220 is about 1.25 miles (2 km) long.
Radar images obtained from Arecibo show some details including small craters on the irregularly shaped space rock.
The asteroid is now also known to rotate very slowly, taking more than 11 days to complete one full rotation.
Radar image of asteroid 2003 SD220 acquired December 15, 2015. Via Arecibo Observatory/NASA/NSF.
Asteroid 2003 SD220 on various dates, via Arecibo Observatory.
Patrick Taylor, Group Lead for USRA for Planetary Radar at Arecibo Observatory, said:
Because it comes close to Earth, it is of interest to NASA as a possible future robotic or human mission target.
Data from all of the various observations are used to determine the asteroid’s shape, rotation, and surface properties as well as allow for refinement of the asteroid’s orbit, which can be used to better assess its future impact hazard. A December 23 statement from Arecibo pointed out:
This year’s close approach is the first of five predicted encounters between Earth and 2003 SD220 in the next 12 years. High-precision measurements now will help better prepare for future passes.
The path of asteroid 2003 SD220 through our solar system. Image via NASA
At the 2015 pass – at its closest – asteroid 2003 SD220 will be some 6,787,600 miles (11 million km) from our planet’s surface. That’s more than 28 times the Earth-moon distance. It’s so far away that only professional and advanced amateur astronomers are likely to capture optical images of this space rock.
That is unlike some other asteroids such as 2015 TB145 (the Halloween asteroid) and 2004 BL86 (January, 2015). Those asteroids were visible using 8″ telescopes.
The Christmas Eve asteroid will be much more difficult to see because of its distance.
View larger. | Illustration showing location of asteroid 2003 SD220 on the sky, 30 to 45 minutes before sunrise on December 25, 2015. Chart is looking in the general direction of sunrise, before dawn. No, the asteroid will not be visible to the unaided eye or though small telescopes. However, advanced amateurs using 12″ and bigger telescopes may capture optical images of the asteroid. Illustration by Eddie Irizarry, using Stellarium.
This space rock – whose shape can be compared to a chicken tender – will make its approach to Earth on December 24, 2015 but will return again next in 2018.
NASA has verified that the space rock will not pass at any dangerous distance during the next two centuries.
By the way, asteroid 2003 SD220 is not the only big asteroid passing by Earth on this month. Asteroid 2008 CM, a space rock with a diameter of 1.5 km, will safely pass our planet on December 29 at more than 22 times the Earth-moon distance.
December 4, 2015 image via Arecibo Observatory/NASA/NSF
Bottom line: Asteroid 163899 – aka 2003 SD220 – will pass safely, at more than 28 times the Earth-moon distance, on December 24, 2015. This Christmas Eve asteroid will pass too far away to be visible in small amateur telescopes. Media reports suggesting that this space rock may cause earthquakes are misleading and incorrect.
Eddie Irizarry
Eddie Irizarry of the Sociedad de Astronomía del Caribe (Astronomical Society of the Caribbean) has been a NASA Solar System Ambassador since 2004. He loves public outreach and has published multiple astronomy articles for EarthSky, as well as for newspapers in Puerto Rico. He has also offered dozens of conferences related to asteroids and comets at the Arecibo Observatory.
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Jupiter’s moon Ganymede has powerful chorus waves
Posted by Paul Scott Anderson in Space | August 12, 2018
Chorus waves can be converted to sound. The ones around Earth sound like singing or chirping birds. Jupiter has stronger chorus waves, and now its large moon – Ganymede – has been found to have chorus waves a million times stronger than Jupiter’s.
Ganymede as seen by the Galileo spacecraft. Scientists have now found that the largest moon of Jupiter has chorus waves like Earth, but vastly more powerful. Image via NASA.
Chorus waves are electromagnetic waves that can be converted to sound. When that’s done, and we “hear” the chorus waves around Earth, they sound like singing or chirping birds. Chorus waves can also produce beautiful auroras at the poles of a planet. In addition to Earth, they can be found around Jupiter’s moons Europa and Ganymede, as well as Saturn. On August 7, 2018 – as reported in a new peer-reviewed paper in Nature Communications – astronomers expressed surprise at the finding that the chorus waves around Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, are a million times more intense than around Jupiter itself.
As Yuri Shprits of GFZ/University of Potsdam, lead author of the new study explained in ScienceDaily:
It’s a really surprising and puzzling observation showing that a moon with a magnetic field can create such a tremendous intensification in the power of waves.
Illustration of chorus waves, and other types of plasma waves, within Earth’s magnetosphere. Image via Goddard Space Flight Center/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith.
From the new paper:
Understanding of wave environments is critical for the understanding of how particles are accelerated and lost in space. This study shows that in the vicinity of Europa and Ganymede, that respectively have induced and internal magnetic fields, chorus wave power is significantly increased. The observed enhancements are persistent and exceed median values of wave activity by up to six orders of magnitude for Ganymede. Produced waves may have a pronounced effect on the acceleration and loss of particles in the Jovian magnetosphere and other astrophysical objects. The generated waves are capable of significantly modifying the energetic particle environment, accelerating particles to very high energies, or producing depletions in phase space density. Observations of Jupiter’s magnetosphere provide a unique opportunity to observe how objects with an internal magnetic field can interact with particles trapped in magnetic fields of larger scale objects.
While the chorus waves, also known as whistler-mode chorus waves, are similar to those around Earth, they are much more powerful – one million times, or six orders of magnitude, more intense than the average level around Jupiter. According to Professor Richard Horne of the British Antarctic Survey, a co-author on the study:
Chorus waves have been detected in space around the Earth but they are nowhere near as strong as the waves at Jupiter.
The magnetosphere of Ganymede, which also contains chorus waves much more intense than those around Earth. Image via NASA/ESA/A. Feild (STScI).
The study also found that the chorus waves are about 100 times more intense near Europa – that’s a lot less than Ganymede, but still significant. These new results are based on data from the old Galileo mission to Jupiter (1995-2003).
Chorus waves, a type of plasma wave, occur at very low frequencies; they can cause auroras (northern lights) on Earth and can damage satellites by emitting high-energy “killer” electrons. But why are the ones near Ganymede so much more powerful? Scientists think it has to do with the fact that Ganymede and Europa both orbit inside the strong magnetic field of Jupiter, which could amplify the waves. Jupiter’s magnetic field is 20,000 times more intense than Earth’s. According to Horne:
Chorus waves have been detected in space around the Earth but they are nowhere near as strong as the waves at Jupiter. Even if a small portion of these waves escapes the immediate vicinity of Ganymede, they will be capable of accelerating particles to very high energies and ultimately producing very fast electrons inside Jupiter’s magnetic field.
Ganymede also has its own magnetic field, and strong plasma waves were first observed near Ganymede by Don Gurnett and his team at the University of Iowa.
The northern lights, produced by chorus waves, over Canada as seen from the International Space Station. Image via NASA.
The new findings about Ganymede’s chorus waves may also be applicable to planets and moons outside of our solar system, and could help astronomers detect magnetic fields around exoplanets. From the paper:
Statistical observations of waves presented in this study indicated that the processes of wave generation observed for the Jovian moons embedded in the magnetosphere of Jupiter are universal and should occur for other astrophysical objects, e.g., that are stellar magnetic fields embedded in the interplanetary medium, magnetospheres of the exoplanets and magnetospheres of the moons of exoplanets. The increase in chorus wave power in the magnetospheres of exoplanets may provide free energy for the acceleration of electrons to ultra-relativistic energies. The intense synchrotron radiation from such electrons may aid in the detection of the magnetospheres of such objects.
Bottom line: Chorus waves, already well-known on Earth, have been found on Jupiter’s largest moon Ganymede, and they are much more intense than any seen elsewhere before. They may also help astronomers find magnetospheres and magnetic fields on distant exoplanets.
Source: Strong whistler mode waves observed in the vicinity of Jupiter’s moons
Via Nature Communications
Paul Scott Anderson
Paul Scott Anderson has had a passion for space exploration that began when he was a child when he watched Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. While in school he was known for his passion for space exploration and astronomy. He started his blog The Meridiani Journal in 2005, which was a chronicle of planetary exploration. In 2015, the blog was renamed as Planetaria. While interested in all aspects of space exploration, his primary passion is planetary science. In 2011, he started writing about space on a freelance basis, and now currently writes for AmericaSpace and Futurism (part of Vocal). He has also written for Universe Today and SpaceFlight Insider, and has also been published in The Mars Quarterly and has done supplementary writing for the well-known iOS app Exoplanet for iPhone and iPad.
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Robert F. Behler was sworn in as Director of Operational Test and Evaluation on December 11, 2017. A Presidential appointee confirmed by the United States Senate, he serves as the senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense on operational and live fire test and evaluation of Department of Defense weapon systems.
Prior to his appointment, he was the Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Director of the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a Federally Funded Research and Development Center. SEI is a global leader in advancing software development and cybersecurity to solve the nation's toughest problems through focused research, development, and transition to the broader software engineering community.
Before joining the SEI, Mr. Behler was the President and CEO of SRC, Inc. (formerly the Syracuse Research Corporation). SRC is a not-for-profit research and development corporation with a for-profit manufacturing subsidiary that focuses on radar, electronic warfare and cybersecurity technologies. Prior to working at SRC, Mr. Behler was the General Manager and Senior Vice President of the MITRE Corp where he provided leadership to more than 2,500 technical staff in 65 worldwide locations. He joined MITRE from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where he was a General Manager for more than 350 scientists and engineers as they made significant contributions to critical Department of Defense (DOD) precision engagement challenges.
General Behler served 31 years in the United States Air Force, retiring as a Major General in 2003. During his military career, he was the Principal Adviser for Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C2ISR) to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force (USAF). International assignments as a general officer included the Deputy Commander for NATO's Joint Headquarters North in Stavanger, Norway. He was the Director of the Senate Liaison Office for the USAF during the 104th congress. Mr. Behler also served as the assistant for strategic systems to the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. As an experimental test pilot, he flew more than 65 aircraft types. Operationally he flew worldwide reconnaissance missions in the fastest aircraft in the world, the SR-71 Blackbird.
Mr. Behler is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma where he received a B.S. and M.S. in aerospace engineering, has a MBA from Marymount University and was a National Security Fellow at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University.
Mr. Behler has recently been on several National Research Council studies for the National Academy of Sciences including: "Critical Code," "Software Producibility, Achieving Effective Acquisition of Information Technology in the Department of Defense" and "Development Planning: A Strategic Approach to Future Air Force Capabilities."
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When M wakes up in an abandoned hotel he has no memory of how he got there. In the bedside draw he finds a list with three names and a gun with three bullets, but what he does with this information is up to you. Embark on a violence-soaked post-apocalyptic adventure where the answers to your questions come at a price. How far will you go to discover the truth?
Release Date: 8th of August 2017 (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux/Steam OS)
ESRB: T for Teen
M1 features:
An engaging narrative with deep moral choices
A labyrinth of branching pathways that culminate in one of five distinct endings
Two and a half thousand lines of dialogue told across fifteen locations
A full playthrough takes approximately 3–4 hours depending on reading speed
The first game by Dracula’s Cave – developed on-and-off over a period of 6 years, M1 is finally here
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Review - The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams III
Short review: Dream is abruptly called away to a distant part of the cosmos to deal with a problem he caused. In his quest he is accompanied by himself as a cat and a girl named Hope.
Error of mercy
Unavoidable summons
To quench the stars' ire
Full review: Serving as both the finale to, and prequel for the Sandman series, Sandman: Overture is a perfect send-off for the series. Set prior to the events of the first book, but dependent upon the lore that Gaiman has built up over the previous ten graphic novels and short fiction collection, Overture is something of a love note from the author to fans that includes nods in the direction of previous volumes while also carving out a new story mostly unrelated to the old. With beautiful artwork provided by J.H. Williams III, and a story that is at turns gloomy, depressing, and tense, this book is a colorful and somber finale to Dream's story that explains much and yet still allows enough room for a few tantalizing enigmas.
At the outset, one must be clear that despite being a prequel, and thus the telling of the very first portion of the "story" of Dream, this is probably not a particularly good entry point into the series. Overture is littered with references to people and events that appeared previously in the series. In most cases, these cameos are just that, providing small Easter eggs as a nod in the direction of fans of the series and supplying some additional depth to the story for knowledgeable readers. In several other points, the plot of this book depends in part upon understanding who these characters are, or how a particular piece of established lore works, which is fine for people who have read previous books about Dream and the world he lives in, but potentially confusing for anyone unfamiliar with the Sandman series. The very nature of who Dream is, who the Endless are, and how they operate is simply taken as a given in this volume, and without explanation, these elements are likely to make much of the story opaque at best to a reader who is not already familiar with these elements.
Overture is one of the most straightforward of the stories featuring Dream, and at the same time, one of the most alien. After a brief introduction, Dream is pulled away from Earth by an irresistible summons that compels him to journey to a distant part of the universe. Once there, he meets with a myriad of other versions of himself, and learns that the very fabric of existence is threatened by an ill-advised act of mercy he had performed in the past. From there, Dream sets out on an expedition accompanied by a giant cat that is allegedly himself in cat form. Along the way he finds Hope, an ordinary girl whose family was killed by vandals. Dream's quest takes him to the city of the stars, his father's home, his mother's domain, and eventually, to his brother Destiny and a ship that shouldn't exist. Eventually, Dream manages to set things right (this being a prequel, the entire existence of the remaining stories pretty much depend on this being the case), but almost fittingly for the series, does so in such a way that no one - not even Dream - remembers the crisis or the sacrifices made to avert catastrophe.
All of the Sandman stories have a dreamlike and almost surreal quality to them, and Overture is no exception. In fact, Overture takes these qualities and elevates them to new heights - driven largely by J.H. Williams' brilliantly evocative artwork, Dave Stewart's vivid colors, and Todd Klein's inventive lettering. Every element of this book builds on the others, yielding an end result that is at times merely as vaguely unsettling as an actual dream, and at others reminiscent of a nightmarish hallucination. The choices made in illustrating and presenting this book are bold - ranging from the brilliant light of the city of the stars to the entirely black page representing the inside of a black hole. Each piece of the book is chosen to create the maximum effect. Art styles shift between locations with, for example, Father Time's domain drawn in a simplified, cartoonish style that contrasts it with much of the rest of the book. Even the fonts selected for certain characters and way the various panels are framed and presented are used to further immerse the reader into the story.
The book does have some flaws: Because the bulk of the story takes place in an entirely alien environment, it lacks the humanizing element that made so many of the previous stories in the series so visceral and emotionally compelling. The background explaining how Dream came to make the error of mercy that set this plot in motion is handled in a fairly perfunctory manner, a decision that results in scant attention being given to what probably should have been given a more prominent position in the story. The epilogue following the resolution of the crisis is handled in an almost offhand manner, with the reconstruction of the entire universe, including presumably Father Time and Mother Night, as well as all of the Endless, and associated commentary upon these events, taking up a mere handful of pages. For the most part, these issue are the result of trying to fit so much story into a single volume's worth of pages - after all the story is cosmic in scale, and universe-spanning in scope.
In the end, these flaws are minor, and stem from having too ambitious of a story, which, in my opinion, is generally the direction err when creating speculative fiction. This is, despite being named Overture, a fitting coda to the Sandman series - in a way, this book feels like a well-loved defunct rock band getting back together for one last farewell concert, with Dream, Death, Destiny, Delirium, and even Desire taking the stage for a final bow. In the case of Overture, this is a reunion concert that is well-worth attending.
Previous book in the series: The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake
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fredamans August 8, 2016 at 7:25 PM
I need to read this just being a huge Gaiman fan.
Aaron Pound August 13, 2016 at 11:25 AM
@fredamans: If you liked the earlier parts of the Sandman series, you will almost certainly like this volume.
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Duke Dissertations
An Exploration of Social Relationships over the Life Course among African American Women Aging with HIV.
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Moore, Elizabeth
Humphreys, Janice
Introduction: In the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, African American women continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV across all age ranges in the U.S. African American women make up only 13% of the female population in the U.S. yet account for 64% of HIV infections among women (Aitcheson et al., 2014). African American women face multiple challenges that intersect to influence how they effectively age into older adulthood and manage their health. Due to the increased challenges experienced by older African American women across the life course, it is imperative to identify factors that may mitigate the challenges of aging with the disease. Scant research exists focusing specifically on older African American women with HIV and thus our understanding of their experiences is still quite limited. Examining the personal strengths and social resources utilized to curb the deleterious effects of aging is necessary to improve health and well-being in this population.
Purpose and Methods: The purpose of this dissertation was to advance our understanding of the experiences of African American women with HIV aging across the life course with particular attention paid to the influence of the role of social relationships on health and well-being. The purpose was achieved through exploring the challenges of aging with HIV as an African American woman and the importance of utilizing the life course perspective (Elder & Giele, 2009) to explore their experiences over time; examining the literature on the relationship between social relationships and health; and presenting two papers from the findings of a qualitative descriptive study conducted with older African American women that explored their experiences over the life course. Eighteen African American women over the age of 50 participated in this qualitative study that utilized in-depth life history interviews and timelines as the primary means of data elicitation. In the first paper, we analyzed the data for experiences with social relationships across the life course. In the second paper, we analyzed trajectories and turning points across the life course.
Results: Findings from the first paper highlight that developing and maintaining relationships over time was influenced by a variety of life course themes at the personal, relational, and structural level presented over three developmental time periods (childhood/adolescence, young/middle adulthood, and older adulthood). Women described tremendous barriers to relationship development and maintenance in both childhood/adolescence and young/middle adulthood including child sexual abuse, crack cocaine addiction, intimate partner violence, and HIV-related stigma. Women also reported having large social networks in younger years but not many important relationships. In contrast, older adulthood was described as a time with more positive social relationships, especially for those who were addicted to crack cocaine in their youth. As women aged, they built supportive networks with people they valued.
Findings from the trajectories and turning points paper show that while trajectories across participants were diverse, they were categorized into three main patterns: anchored; early struggling and upward progression; and continuously struggling. Life experiences were most dissimilar between women who experienced crack cocaine addiction compared to women who never used to drugs. The syndemic impact of substance abuse, violence, and HIV (Singer, 2009) was also important as was the cyclical nature of these co-occurring epidemics over time. Our study provides evidence that a traumatic event in early life may be the first step in the syndemic cycle.
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Moore, Elizabeth (2017). An Exploration of Social Relationships over the Life Course among African American Women Aging with HIV. Dissertation, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/16320.
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MVD Entertainment Group's My Way Arrives On DVD On Friday The Fourth Of November
Truth can sometimes be stranger than fiction. In the world of creative filmmaking you can just make stuff up and the narrative can be pretty much anything you desire. Flights of fancy to Mars, zombie hordes and the adventures of an all-female rock band seeking fame and fortune on the road can be made into compelling films … a little something to please most everyone.
But in the case of The Rebekah Starr Band, filmmakers Dominique Mollee and Vinny Sisson set out the road with them before anyone had really “discovered” them and made a film that might have been the stuff of fiction, but was actually a cinéma vérité film documentation of their journey to stardom.
This process could have ended with a bunch of unedited film clips sitting in someone’s garage. We got to Hollywood, we failed and then we went back home … THE END. But it didn’t turn out that way!
That is what you have with My Way, a road trip; an adventure that wrote itself … and that story will be making its DVD debut on Friday, the fourth of November courtesy of MVD Entertainment Group.
Rebekah Starr (aka: Rebekah Rahnavardi nee Snyder) got her MBA and was married, but didn’t see much of a future in living in a small town in Pennsylvania, so she hit the road with her friend and bandmate, Annika Alliksoo … and she had the very good sense to chronicle that journey.
With a self-produced album under her belt (Rockstar Girl!), a repertoire of songs to work with, The Rebekah Starr Band landed a gig at The Cat Club (among others) and met some pretty interesting people along the way, including Bret Michaels, Ron Jeremy, Rikki Rockett and Steven Adler. They even got a hit single, “Pretty Playthings,” out of it … so come along and enjoy this self-fulfilling road trip.
Bonus nuggets included with the DVD release of My Way are a trio of video sessions with Poison’s Rikki Rockett, Guns n’ Roses’ Steven Adler and Enuff Z’Nuff’s Chip Z’Nuff, plus two music videos — “Irrational Boy” (featuring Ron Jeremy) and “My Way.”
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Princess Diana’s Former Bodyguard Says Prince Harry Should Have Protected Thomas Markle From The Press
By Martin Holmes. 17 Aug 2018 9:07 AM
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are set to visit Ireland next month
A former bodyguard of the late Princess Diana has hit out at Prince Harry over his handling of the situation involving Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle.
In an interview with Yahoo UK’s “The Royal Box”, Ken Wharfe, 69, said that Harry, who married Meghan earlier this year, should have foreseen the media attention that would surround her father and made sure that aides were on hand to help him cope.
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“[Harry’s] not an unintelligent guy. He’s been through the mill himself, he knows what press intrusion is like,” Wharfe explained. “He has a drawbridge and a portcullis to hide behind when they pursue him. Thomas Markle doesn’t.
“Nobody’s looking after [Thomas]. They’re going to bend his arm, there’ll be the offers of money, there’ll be the pursuing paparazzi, the invasion and the negative reporting that we’ve seen.”
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Thomas caused a stir earlier this year when he appeared on “Good Morning Britain” and spoke candidly about the royal couple and their personal lives. The interview was not approved by the royal palace and was seen as a slight on the family. He was also accused of colluding with the paparazzi to stage photos.
“Harry could have done something about that,” Wharfe continued. “He may have advised palace officials, maybe he did, but he could have insisted on that. He could well have done, but for some reason it hasn’t happened.”
A source previously told ET that Meghan had not spoken to her father in more than 10 weeks since her wedding and is still hurt by his actions. Thomas, meanwhile, continues to give paid interviews.
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Wharfe, who was a bodyguard for Harry’s mother from 1987 until 1993, said he has sympathy for Thomas. “I don’t think we should dismiss her father as someone who’s made mistakes here, as an ogre,” he said. “His behaviour is as a result of poor advice or no advice.”
He also brought up Harry’s own past troubles with the media, including the infamous “Nazi” photo, in which the prince wore a Nazi uniform at a fancy dress party in 2005.
“[Harry] came to public notice through his untimely wearing of a swastika on the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust,” Wharfe explained. “It was one of his own friends who released that picture to the newspaper.”
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Wharfe also referenced a photo leaked to the press in 2012, which showed Harry playing naked billiards in a Las Vegas hotel room. Again, he blamed the prince for inviting friends into the room with mobile phones.
It’s because of these examples that Wharfe believes Harry should have taken better care of Thomas so that he wouldn’t make similar mistakes.
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Bottum performing with Imperial Teen in 2007
Roswell Christopher Bottum III
(1963-07-01) July 1, 1963 (age 56)
Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Alternative rock, indie rock, avant garde, alternative metal
Musician, keyboardist
Vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, guitar, bass guitar, sampler
Slash, London, Reprise, Mordam, Merge
Faith No More, Imperial Teen
Roswell Christopher "Roddy" Bottum III[1] (born July 1, 1963) is an American musician, best known as the keyboardist for the San Francisco alternative metal band Faith No More. He is also guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the pop group Imperial Teen, best known for their 1999 single "Yoo Hoo" used in the movie Jawbreaker. In addition to popular musical career, Bottum also scored three Hollywood movies and composed an opera entitled Sasquatch: The Opera, which premiered in New York on April 2, 2015.[2]
1 Career
2 Scoring
Career[edit]
Joining his schoolfriends Billy Gould and Mike Bordin in Faith No More in 1981 (replacing Wade Worthington), Bottum remained in the band until its demise in 1998.
However, after 1992's Angel Dust and its ensuing tour, Bottum's input into Faith No More was reduced significantly. His keyboards, previously prominent in the band, were almost absent on King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime (1995). Bottum later explained that he suffered a nervous breakdown in this era and "all of that [time] is a real blur for me." He was addicted to heroin and also experienced the death of his father and saw the aftermath of Kurt Cobain's suicide on Courtney Love (Cobain's wife and Bottum's close friend, and also an early singer for Faith No More).[3]
In 1994 and 1995, Bottum formed Imperial Teen with Lynn Perko, another Bay Area music veteran. The band's mainstream pop sound was a stark contrast to the aggressive metal of Faith No More, and is perhaps best known for their single "Yoo Hoo", used in the 1999 film Jawbreaker.
In 2009, Bottum returned to Faith No More for a reunion tour and in 2015 the band released their seventh studio album Sol Invictus.[4]
In 2013, Bottum moved to New York City and produced an opera called Sasquatch: The Opera. He wrote the music and libretto for the piece about the elusive beast of the forest, describing it as a dark and gothic fairy tale about a backwoods family and the relationship between a caged woman and Sasquatch. The opera premiered in Brooklyn in 2015 and went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the summer of 2016 for a month of shows. Bottum also wrote a short form opera called The Ride about the AIDS LifeCycle Ride, a charity bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, a ride Bottum participated in twice. The piece was staged with two stationary bicycles onstage.
In 2016 Bottum joined the art music collective Nastie Band. The group features an 85 year old singer Chris Kachulis and Bottum's long time friend visual artist, Frank Haines.
In 2018 Bottum made his acting debut in Sebastian Silva's feature film Tyrel about racial tension in America. The ensemble cast features Jason Mitchell, Chris Abbott, Michael Cera, and Caleb Landry Jones. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival and had a theatrical release through Magnolia Pictures in 2019. Also in 2019, Bottum formed the band Crickets with JD Samson and Michael O'Neil. They cite minimalist and political influences in a stripped-down sound that defies masculine toxicity.
Scoring[edit]
Bottum composed the music for Craig Chester's gay romantic comedy film Adam & Steve (2005) [5] and scored What Goes Up (2009). He also composed the music for the 2007 film Kabluey starring Lisa Kudrow and Scott Prendergrast. Bottum scored Gigantic, a film by Matt Aselton, starring Zooey Deschanel and Paul Dano in 2007. In 2010, he scored the documentary Hit So Hard about drummer Patty Schemel. In 2010 Bottum also scored Fred: The Movie for Nickelodeon. He has gone on to score the sequel to that film and the first season of Fred: The Show for the same network.
Bottum revealed his homosexuality in a 1993 interview with Lance Loud for The Advocate.[6] In a 2001 interview in The Advocate, Bottum stated that "I would never have thought as a gay teen I'd be in a band that would be considered heavy metal or hard rock."[7]
One of his contributions to Faith No More was "Be Aggressive," a song about oral sex.[8] Bottum has said in interviews that he wrote the song largely as a joke at Mike Patton's expense, enjoying the potential embarrassment the heterosexual Patton might experience singing the song onstage. A fan favorite, "Be Aggressive" became the second most-played song at Faith No More concerts. Bottum would also describe gerbil stuffing in graphic detail to shocked interviewers.
A 1999 article in The Advocate said of Imperial Teen, "With lyrical allusions to wearing lipstick and male pronouns used to address love objects, Imperial Teen serves up a gay sensibility that ordinarily surfaces only from straight bands like Pulp or Pizzicato Five."[6] Bottum noted "I think there's a resistance from gay artists to go that route just because it's so predictable. But it is annoying to see bands play it as safe as they do these days. That's why something that visually screams as loud as Marilyn Manson is such a breath of fresh air."[6]
Before he came out as gay, Bottum was actually involved in a brief heterosexual relationship with Courtney Love in the early 80s, concurrent with the time she sang for Faith No More. The two remain friends decades later.[9]
Main articles: Faith No More discography and Imperial Teen § Discography
^ Lance Loud (June 15, 1993). "Heavy Metal Homo". The Advocate. Archived from the original on July 11, 2012. Retrieved June 22, 2008.
^ "Story Binge". Experiments In Opera.
^ "Metal Hammer: Blog Archive: Story Behind the Album – Faith No More". Metal Hammer. March 13, 2009. Archived from the original on December 10, 2010. Retrieved April 9, 2011.
^ "Faith No More News". Faithnomore.ipower.com. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
^ "Roddy Bottum teams with Courtney Love on Adam & Steve soundtrack " - The Advocate Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine March 18, 2005
^ a b c Publishing, Here (February 16, 1999). The Advocate. Here Publishing.
^ Publishing, Here (August 14, 2001). The Advocate. Here Publishing.
^ "Faith No More Is Working on New Music, Roddy Bottum Says". Guitar.com. November 30, 2018.
^ "Gay singer Roddy Bottum on tours, Courtney Love - Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News Archive - Windy City Times". Windy City Times. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
Soundtrack.net interview July 22, 2001
Roddy Bottum on IMDb
Mike Bordin
Billy Gould
Mike Patton
Jon Hudson
Mike Morris
Wade Worthington
Chuck Mosley
Trey Spruance
Dean Menta
We Care a Lot
King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
Live at the Brixton Academy
Who Cares a Lot?
This Is It: The Best of
Epic and Other Hits
The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits Collection
"Quiet in Heaven"/"Song of Liberty" (as Faith No Man)
"We Care a Lot"
"Anne's Song"
"From Out of Nowhere"
"Epic"
"Falling to Pieces"
"Midlife Crisis"
"A Small Victory"
"Everything's Ruined"
"(I'm) Easy"
"Another Body Murdered"
"Digging the Grave"
"Ricochet"
"Evidence"
"Last Cup of Sorrow"
"Stripsearch"
"I Started a Joke"
"Motherfucker"
"New Improved Song"
"The World Is Yours"
You Fat Bastards: Live at the Brixton Academy
Video Croissant
Who Cares a Lot?: The Greatest Videos
You Fat Bastards/Who Cares a Lot? (DVD)
Related bands
General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners
Primitive Race
Songs recorded
Tribute of the Year: A Tribute to Faith No More
The Second Coming Tour
Will Schwartz
Jone Stebbins
Lynn Truell
Seasick
What Is Not to Love
The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band
Feel the Sound
Live at Maxwell's
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Alternative rock keyboardists
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Jewish Resistance - Animated Map/Map
Media Essay
In the face of Nazi terror, many Jews resisted the Germans and their collaborators. Underground resistance movements developed in over 100 ghettos in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe. Further, under the most adverse conditions, Jewish prisoners succeeded in initiating uprisings in some of the Nazi camps. Jewish partisan units operated in France, Belgium, the Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, and Poland. Jews also fought in general French, Italian, Yugoslav, Greek, and Soviet resistance organizations. While organized armed resistance was the most direct form of opposition to the Nazis, resistance also included escape, hiding, cultural activity, and other acts of spiritual preservation.
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Jewish armed resistance in ghettos and camps, 1941-1944
Between 1941 and 1943, underground resistance movements developed in about 100 Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe. Their main goals were to organize uprisings, break out of the ghettos, and join partisan units in the fight against the Germans. The Jews knew that uprisings would not stop the Germans and that only a handful of fighters would succeed in escaping to join with partisans. Still, Jews made the decision to resist. Further, under the most adverse conditions, Jewish prisoners succeeded in initiating resistance and uprisings in some Nazi concentration camps, and even in the killing centers of Treblinka, Sobibor, and Auschwitz. Other camp uprisings took place in camps such as Kruszyna (1942), Minsk Mazowiecki (1943), and Janowska (1943). In several dozen camps, prisoners organized escapes to join partisan units.
Jewish partisan activity in eastern Europe, 1942-1944
Despite enormous obstacles, many Jews throughout German-occupied Europe attempted armed resistance against the Germans. Individual Jews or groups of Jews engaged in planned or spontaneous opposition to the Germans and their allies. Jewish partisans were especially active in the east, where they fought the Germans from bases established behind the front lines in forests and ghettos. Because antisemitism was widespread there, they found little support among the surrounding population. Even so, as many as 20,000 Jews fought the Germans in the forests of eastern Europe.
Jewish partisan activity in western Europe, 1942-1944
Jewish parachutists from Palestine, 1943-1945
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On Monday the 17th of June France, Germany and Spain signed a legal-frame document to develop the FCAS – Future Air Combat System – for Horizon 2040. This ambitious project aims at developing a ‘system of systems’ to ensure connectedness between drones, satellites and fighters, in order to overcome adversaries on the battlefield. The project embraces a multi-domain concept perspective, and it will mainly revolve around the New Generation Fighter (NFG) a 6th generation fighter jet.
FCAS System (Photo via Airbus)
In the future, the NFG should replace the French Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon, and potentially the Spanish F/A-18 Hornet fleet and other similar fighters of the Spanish fleet. So far, Germany and France have discarded acquiring the F-35, and they will work on other solutions to maintain air force readiness while awaiting the NFG. From a Spanish perspective, this is more difficult, and despite being engaged in the FCAS programme, may still acquire the F-35. This is specifically true for the Spanish Navy which needs to replace their old harriers for its multi-purpose amphibious assault ship Juan Carlos I, and other fighters which are nearing their ‘end-life’ in 2035. Moreover, the NFG development would not include a V/STOVL chapter, at least for now, and the only option left would be the F-35B. However, despite these different matters, the FCAS project could pave the way towards an increasing European strategic autonomy in the decades to come. Despite EU-led projects and bilateral ventures, Europeans have never engaged in such an ambitious industrial venture. The success or failure of this project could determine how the political level, as well as how European defence industries, will cooperate thereafter. If the programme were to be successful, it could prompt European Politicians and industries to engage in even more ambitious ventures in the decades to come.
Defence ministers of Germany, France and Spain signing the FCAS legal framework document at Le Bourget Paris Air Show (Photo via Ministère des Armées)
The SCAF competitiveness evolves around interconnectedness, based on an innovative combat cloud using high technological captors and information systems based on artificial intelligence. SCAF would for example allow for easily detecting stealthy rival’s assets via infrared systems, as well as saturating and jamming anti-air defence systems by using swarming drones. According to different French experts, the drones would likely be used like the American gremlin drones’ prototype. On the other hand, the NFG could either be manned or unmanned, and it could remotely be piloted while operating with other assets thanks to an innovative combat cloud. In that regard, the French Air Force Chief of Staff has stressed the SCAF project will have to develop connectiveness protocols in order to ensure interoperability between European as well as NATO allies. Between 2019 and 2021 Spanish, French and German industries will work on the first phase of the project, to develop the respective technologies (NGF, Remote Carriers (Drones), Air Combat Cloud) for a possible flight trial by 2026 according to OPEX360 defence news website.
Gremlin Drones Prototypes (photo via Darpa)
So far, only three countries are taking part in the FCAS project. In the future, new countries may join the project, this is not only important to decrease costs, but also to strengthen ties in Europe. On the other hand, it remains to be seen what will happen with the British Tempest stealth fighter project. Will the FCAS and Tempest continue a part from one another, or will they at some point joint forces to avoid unnecessary costs and budget constraints? Finally, France and Germany will have to define a clear framework in regard to exportation, and more specifically embargo situations concerning the sale of the FCAS to third countries.
Written by Victor Mahieu, European Researcher at Finabel – European Army Interoperability Centre.
Boost for Border Control: Tackling Unlawful Immigration
20 years of ESDP/CSDP, new challenges and unclear scenarios
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Samanee Mahbub ‘19: PEIR & serial problem solver
by Abi Rubin | Oct 26, 2018 | Student Experience
Have you met Samanee Mahbub ’19? She’s one of nine Nelson Center Peer Entrepreneurs In Residence. PEIRs are young, experienced mentors who are available to support their fellow founders. (If you’d like to chat with them about your venture, kick around a nascent idea, or talk startup life in general—drop them a line. You can email them or sign up for their office hours here.) When she’s not studying history, you can usually find Samanee working on her own company, a fem-care start-up, or helping other students explore careers in start-ups or entrepreneurship. During her time at Brown, she has had the unique opportunity to work at eight different companies — having roles across product management, sales, and marketing — as well as starting a social venture that employs single moms in Providence to knit hats, a subletting marketplace, and a freelance photography business. She can speak to many experiences, including what it’s like working on product marketing at Slack, one of the fastest growing tech companies or founding a company with six co-founders.
If you’re considering working at a startup but don’t know where to start, attend her talk on Oct 31). If you want to learn how to turn your idea into a sustainable business, sign-up for Samanee’s office hours. Thursday’s 3:00 – 5:00 PM.
Samanee is happy to help with bottom-up research, marketing, and sales strategy, pitching (she pitched at the Brown Venture Prize!), applying for Nelson Center explore and expand grants, or to talk about what it’s like to work in tech as a non-technical person and POC woman.
Annabel Strauss ‘20 announced as a Rough Draft Venture Fellow
by Abi Rubin | Oct 17, 2018 | News from Nelson, Student Experience
Each year at Rough Draft Ventures, General Catalyst’s student founder focused program, meets hundreds of students who are shaping entrepreneurial communities across campuses in Boston — hackathon organizers, entrepreneurship club leaders, code club organizers, and more. Of those students, they select ten to join the program as Venture Fellows.
Venture Fellows are ambassadors for RDV and fellow entrepreneurs on campus, helping to identify and support student founders. They work closely with student groups and collaborate on events and programs to bolster the student entrepreneurship community. Every other week, Venture Fellows hear pitches from top student founders and make recommendations for backing highest potential companies.
Annabel Strauss ‘19 was a selected student from Brown, and she studies Computer Science and Economics. She has spent her summers in tech as a software engineer intern at Facebook, OkCupid, and Instagram. Annabel is passionate about women’s empowerment, particularly in tech. In high school, she was a club head for Girls Who Code and founded a conference for NYC young women in tech called Bit by Bit: Breaking the Barrier for Girls in Tech. At Brown, Annabel leads the Community Team of the Brown Entrepreneurship Program. She enjoys getting to know all the student founders on campus and talking to them about their ventures. Read more about the other Boston Venture Fellows, here.
10K Research Grant Awarded to Study “Future of Work and Aging: New Challenges and Opportunities.”
by Abi Rubin | Oct 4, 2018 | News from Nelson
CEIBS Research Fund: “Aged to Perfection: Benefits from An Inactive Population” in Honour of Dr. Gerard Van Schaik, Co-Chairman of CEIBS Board of Directors Future of Work and Aging: New Challenges and Opportunities
Primary Investigator: Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Ph.D., Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty, The Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship, Brown University; Associate Professor of Management, College of Management, University of Massachusetts
Co-Primary Investigator: Jennifer Nazareno, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and The Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship, Brown University
Their study is titled: Future of Work and Aging: New Challenges and Opportunities
In recent years, increased attention has been focused on the Future of Work or those new conditions of work that will arise due to the rise and use of technological advances, such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual and mixed reality, blockchain and others. The concerns and opportunities arising out of these advances are the replacement of human workers with automation or robots with advantages such as lower costs, less errors and increased productivity. At the same time, humans are now living longer, requiring more resources in later life, and relying on inadequate medical, social and economic systems and structures to take care of their health and well-being. Such workers, who were indispensable to the growth of economies, are now findings themselves out of the workforce, becoming replaced by younger generations as well as non-human workers. The convergence of these two important trends warrants further attention and research to understand the challenges and opportunities arising out of the growth of technological advances in the context of rapidly aging populations of societies that need long term care. What does the Future of Work hold for an aging workforce as rapid technological and social changes impact how work gets done and how societies respond? Already, research has demonstrated that there could be growing inequalities as automation and AI are being used to make decisions impacting the livelihood of communities, such as how welfare is distributed and how people become labeled as potential future criminals. There is also concern about a future that is ‘jobless’ for humans as production becomes fully automated in certain sectors. These concerns become amplified for aging populations in industrialized and wealthy nations who require increased resources, such as long term care and health services, from caregivers that often have migrant backgrounds. Research in this area has shown that often caregivers do not have enough savings to retire and continue to take care of clients who are, in fact, sometimes younger themselves. This project combines the expertise of the principle investigators in the areas of technology and healthcare and aims to understand the implications and consequences of rapid technological and social changes as they relate to an aging workforce in the context of Future of Work. The PI, Prof. Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, has expertise in studying technology and examining the role of technology in creating barriers and opportunities for different segments of the population. The co-PI, Prof. Jennifer Nazareno, has carried out research examining the conditions, opportunities and challenges of aging populations and their health and long-term care needs.
The aims of this project are to 1) understand the ongoing trends at the intersection of Future of Work and aging population, 2) identify opportunities for engaging the aging population as changes in the nature of work take shape via technological advances, and 3) identify challenges for an aging population with respect to their ability to contribute to the workforce.
Data collection will take place via a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches and will be predominantly in the U.S. Interviews will take place with technology CEOs and entrepreneurs, Mayors of various size cities in the U.S., and healthcare providers and workers. The PI has previously worked technologists and Mayors and will utilize her networks to gain access to at least 25 individuals to understand their points of view, experiences and practices or policies. She is also part of a Future of Work council in the city of Boston and will conduct focus groups with members who represent different sectors of work. The co-PI has carried out extensive research on long-term care and will access healthcare providers and workers to conduct interviews with at least 25 of them. Both investigators will also conduct interviews with 20-25 individuals over the age of 65 to gain an understanding of their experiences. Quantitative approaches will be utilized to illustrate trends and changes in the workforce with regard to technological advances and social changes. These trends will be identified using data from the American Community Survey as well as other databases. Given that both investigators have carried out research in relation to technological changes and long-term care, preliminary findings from previous work indicates that technological and social changes will most likely push out older workers from the tech sector while also increasing demands on the labor and services of low-wage long-term care givers. This project will provide in-depth research into the convergence of these two trends and highlight potential opportunities as well as challenges that will face societies and organizations. Any publication resulting from the project will acknowledge the financial support of the CEIBS research fund on “Aged to Perfection: Benefits from An Inactive Population” in Honour of Dr. Gerard Van Schaik, Co-Chairman of CEIBS Board of Directors.
Students create ARMS to fight mental health stigma through art
by Liz Malone | Oct 4, 2018 | Student Experience
This past spring, Mirabella Roberts ‘20 and Nicole Spring ‘20.5 met for coffee to talk about a class assignment. As the two got to chatting, they discovered a shared passion for using art as a means to talk about their own narratives of mental illness. They realized that despite the need for constructive conversations on mental health –like the one they had that morning in the Blue Room– an organization that fought to end the stigma through art did not exist.
That same day, they immediately began the process of establishing Art to Reduce Mental Health Stigma (ARMS). After hosting a successful test event in an Interactive Art Gallery, the two incorporated ARMS as a 501(c)(3) Domestic Nonprofit Corporation in Rhode Island. Since then, the two, with help from student leaders Bria Metzger, Melissa Sierra, Jordyn Goldstein, Marian Chudnovsky and Gabby Ortiz, the group hosted Express Your Psych Open Mic to kick off the 2018-2019 school year.
The event was incredibly successful, with 100% of attendees reporting they would return for future ARMS events and a majority of the attendees reporting that they left with a newfound ability to hold productive conversations regarding the stigma surrounding mental health. ARMS is planning on hosting a slew of events from fashion design workshops to dance performances. They are looking to recruit volunteers, if you are interested please email arms.at.brown@gmail.com. You can also get learn more by visiting https://www.gofundme.com/arms-startup.
Nelson Center welcomes the Brown Biotech Investment Group
by Abi Rubin | Oct 1, 2018 | Announcements, News from Nelson
The Brown Biotech Investment Group (BBIG) is a group of students interested in the intersection between healthcare and entrepreneurship. Through Nelson Center’s advisory support, the group will educate and engage its members on biotechnology and investments while also providing a tangible benefit to the University. BBIG members come from diverse academic backgrounds and focus on interdisciplinary collaboration to help members advance their learning and career goals. Check them out on Facebook.
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A new manuscript
October 24, 2017 / Exeterlibrary
Exeter’s latest addition to the special collections is a letter dated 1822 from Alexander Dyce ( 1798-1869) to C.E. Walker, then a student at Exeter College.
The letter takes the form of a humorous poem in eight verses and refers nostalgically to term time habits and acquaintances:
In your lone chamber in the Quad of Hell,
Whose single window scarce can banish gloom,
The ceaseless ringing of the Chapel-bell
Once more you hear (- at least so I presume)
Once more do strict collegiate laws compel
Your tardy steps to Forshall’s lecture-room;
Once more you share the Supper-party’s din-
And next day’s headache from excess in gin.
Alexander Dyce studied at Exeter College from 1816 to 1819, graduating with a third in Classics. The Forshall he refers to is Josiah Forshall (1795-1863) administrator at the British Museum, who was elected a Fellow of Exeter in 1819 soon after his graduation and tutored there from 1822 to 1824 prior to his appointment as the assistant librarian in the Department of Manuscripts of the British Museum.
After graduating, at his father’s insistence, Dyce was ordained as an Anglican priest and served in curacies at Lanteglos near Fowey in Cornwall from 1822 to 1824. The letter shows that he had mixed feelings about his position at Lanteglos and longing for the literary life in London which he was to take up in earnest in the summer of 1826.
Charles Edward Walker was at Exeter College from 1820 to 1824. He was the author of several plays, including Sigesmar the Switzer (1818), Wallace, a historical tragedy (1820) and The Fall of Algiers a comic opera (1823).
Joanna Bowring, College Librarian
Alexander Dyce, Exeter College Oxford, Hell Quad, Victorian Oxford
← Exeter College in the 1920s
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Posts Tagged ‘john berger
Tags: books, john berger, picasso, Vintage International
The Success and Failure of Picasso by John Berger
In an eloquent and insightful book-length essay, John Berger lays out his theories and critiques of Picasso, an artist almost everyone knows of but perhaps few seem to understand as deeply as Berger.
Essentially, Berger lays out how there were a couple periods where Picasso’s art was truly extraordinary and redefined the rules of painting. Conversely, he also explains the times when Picasso’s art was stale and lacking in inspiration. He does so through a deep analysis which ties together everything from Rousseau to anarchist theory to examinations of Picasso against peers like Van Gogh or Velazquez.
Of course, it’s far more than just that. When Berger’s insights are at their deepest, he’s examining the social differences of pre-Franco Spain and western Europe, the way art has been turned into a commodity by the bourgeois and the failings of Soviet artistic theory. But the most penetrating insight is Berger’s examination of success: what it does to people, how it changes them.
For Picasso, Berger explains success wasn’t something he aimed for, but something which profoundly shaped the arc of his work. It came early to the artist, who was so talented as a teenager that his father – also an artist – gave up painting entirely. As a Spaniard living in France, Picasso was an outsider (a “vertical invader,” as Berger writes) who belonged to no school. True, he was part of the Cubists. But they, as a general rule, lasted a short while and after the end of the first world war, their approach to painting was overshadowed by new schools like Dadist, Surrealism and others which reflected the horrors of the trenches.
As Berger writes, success didn’t ruin Picasso, but it kept his art from developing. In isolation, Picasso couldn’t advance as an artist and his best works came only when he had a direct, emotional response to what he painted. Berger lays out a compelling case for Picasso’s paintings of Marie-Therese, of Guernica and – most interestingly – a late series of sketches from late 1953.
Perhaps the observation which stands out the most is when Berger notes how Picasso can own things by drawing the, His fame was such that if he needed something, he could draw and turn the painting into whatever he desired: a house, a car, etc, etc. “There is the implication that his passions, his will, can control things – even against their wishes, and that by means of painting a thing, he possesses it,” writes Berger.
All in all, an engrossing and insightful work of criticism. It’s not a biography and it’s not concerned even a little with the private life of Picasso. There are few new things here to be learned about his life and if you’re seeking a list of events and influences, you’d look elsewhere. But if you want an understanding, a look at what makes a painter succeed or fail and how one person can shape the rules of painting, there’s probably few books as interesting. Recommended for art fans.
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A new award category for this year, New Product of the Year recognises a Fairtrade certified product launched to market during the qualifying period for the 2016 awards. The winner quickly became a favourite in the freezers of people across the country – The Tonight Dough by Ben & Jerry’s.
Here are more details about this tasty treat and why our independent judges selected it as New Product of the Year:
Inspired by Jimmy Fallon’s one year anniversary as host of The Tonight Show, this new ice cream is a bigger, bolder, signature Ben & Jerry’s flavour. The extra-chunky concoction combines chocolate and caramel ice creams with chocolate chip cookie dough, peanut butter cookie dough and a crunchy chocolate cookie swirl.
Ben & Jerry’s is a strong supporter of Fairtrade, with the FAIRTRADE Mark clearly displayed on all packaging as well as in their scoop shops. There is a lot of information about Fairtrade on their website, and when they participate in events Fairtrade is always a significant part of their messaging.
Fallon’s proceeds from the sales of The Tonight Dough are donated to the non-profit organization SeriousFun Children’s Network. So while you’re enjoying The Tonight Dough, know that it gives back by helping children with serious illnesses, and their families.
“We are so proud to have won the New Product of the Year award for The Tonight Dough flavour! At Ben & Jerry's, we take fairness seriously. Whether it's how we treat our employees, give back to our community or dream up new flavours for our customers, fairness factors in all that we do. That's why we want to make sure that our farmers get a fair deal too. Because truthfully, it’s the right thing to do! The partnership we have developed with Fairtrade International has become a pivotal element of our brand and one of the reasons why our fans love us so much.”
For more information please visit our page about the Canadian Fairtrade Awards.
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“Darling Nikki” by Prince & The Revolution (1984)
So much to say about “Darling Nikki”. And, in one of those cool weird coincidences, this song’s number comes up about 12 hours before I’m headed into Williamsburg to see Purple Rain on a big screen for the first time ever!
I didn’t realize until recently that “Darling Nikki” and “Little Red Corvette” run along similar lyrical paths. Prince is a doe-eyed babe in the woods, runs into a woman far more experienced than he, gets turned the fuck out. Here’s where the songs diverge: in “Corvette”, Prince and “Corvette” are almost equally confident. Nikki is way out of Prince’s league experientially, and she leaves him a mess.
“Darling Nikki” got plenty of radio play during Purple Rain’s heyday. I heard it plenty on the radio during the fall of ‘84, at which point I was living in a Detroit suburb. Black radio in Detroit was playing Prince almost as much as they were hometown acts at this point. WJLB (which was the station my mom and stepdad listened to) omitted the “masturbating with a magazine” line, which I don’t think I was even aware of until I saw the Purple Rain movie the following summer.
Not that it would’ve made any difference. I was 8 years old and blissfully unaware of anything even vaguely related to sex. That would change within months, more due to the discovery of my aunt’s medical journals than “Darling Nikki” or Apollonia’s titties or anything related to Purple Rain. I apparently wasn’t the only kid directly or indirectly becoming aware of all that was going on in Prince’s naughty world. “Darling Nikki” famously ignited Tipper Gore’s ire after she overheard her pre-pubescent daughter jamming out to Purple Rain. This led to the creation of the PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center), which aimed to police the lyrical content of popular music, and ultimately is the reason albums (for those of you who still buy them) with “naughty” or “vulgar” content have those lovely “Parental Advisory-Explicit Lyrics” stickers on them. I have a pair of socks with that logo on them-they’re awesome.
Anything to keep parents from discussing sex with their children, I guess. Not that parents having honest and early conversations with their children would be productive and helpful in terms of developing good sexual habits, teaching people not to be ashamed of their bodies or anything like that. Not that kids weren’t already having these discussions at the age of 8 or 9 back in 1984 (I can’t imagine how early these discussions are taking place in the 21st century). Of course not.
“Darling Nikki” definitely contains one of the all time greatest Prince screams ever. Actually, the Purple Rain album is chock full of Hall of Fame Prince screams. “When Doves Cry” has one about 2/3 of the way through the album version (shortly after the single version fades out). “Baby I’m A Star” has one after the bridge. There’s Prince’s tortured shouts towards the conclusion of “The Beautiful Ones”, too. The “Nikki” screams communicate many things; confusion, loss (Nikki has vanished and left nothing but a phone number and a note to give her a call next time Prince wants to grind). It fits perfectly within the framework of the song.
Someone needs to make “Darling Nikki” into a movie. Or a graphic novel. Maybe then we’ll figure out why Nikki was chilling in a hotel lobby when she had her own castle.
August 11, 2018 October 27, 2018 blerdwords1980's Songs, Motown, Pop, Prince, Rock1984, Prince, purple rain, sex, stream of consciousness
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The NFL Should Expand To London. But First: Canada, Mexico And LA.
Nov. 11, 2014 , at 11:08 AM
Filed under Football
Football fans enjoy the game Sunday between the Dallas Cowboys and the Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium in London.
Matt Dunham / AP
A spectator at the NFL football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday.
It might seem like a matter of time before the NFL and London stop flirting and start going steady. Six NFL teams have flown across the Atlantic to play a football game this year — most recently, the Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars, who squared off on Sunday in the third and final London game of the season. (Just as if they were playing on home soil, the Jaguars lost badly.) The league would have to inconvenience only two additional teams1 to host a franchise in London full-time.
Most commentary on the possibility of a London NFL team has been skeptical. Bill Barnwell, of Grantland, worried last year about travel and timing logistics and the potential disadvantages a London franchise would face in recruiting free agents.
My view is more optimistic, at least when it comes to whether a London team could find a sufficient fan base. I’m not sure a franchise in London would be a smashing success. But even given conservative assumptions, London’s huge population and revenue base are probably enough to outweigh the relatively low level of NFL interest there. Perhaps more important, in contrast to some U.S.-based candidates for expansion or relocation, a London team would not cannibalize much of the fan bases of existing NFL franchises.
Still, if London got first dibs on a team, the NFL would be overlooking a couple of more obvious candidates much closer to home.
Last year, I looked at the National Hockey League’s allocation of franchises, estimating the size of each market’s NHL fan base using the population of its metropolitan area and the number of Google searches for the term “NHL.” (The analysis concluded that the NHL is overextended into smaller U.S. markets while underserving Canadian fans.) Here, I’ll perform the same analysis for the NFL, comparing cities that already have a team to potential new markets in North America and Europe.
As with the hockey analysis, I’ll assume the popularity of the NFL in a given market is proportional to the number of Google searches for NFL-related topics,2 as according to Google Trends. Google searches might not be a perfect measure of popularity but they correlate reasonably well with other measures of franchise success3 and allow us to compare domestic and international markets by the same standard. The only ad-hoc adjustment I’ve made is to lump Green Bay together with Milwaukee for purposes of calculating the Packers’ fan base.
Otherwise, this is pretty simple: We’re just multiplying a metro area’s population4 by the volume of Google searches it conducts on NFL-related topics. The estimated number of fans in each market is calibrated to the U.S. national average of 28 percent of Americans who say they are “very interested” in the NFL. Our estimates of the number of NFL fans in the 30 existing NFL markets5 — and about two dozen plausible expansion destinations — follow6:
In contrast to the NHL (or college football), the level of interest in the NFL is fairly consistent from place to place in the United States. There’s also relatively little difference between those markets that have an NFL franchise and those that don’t.
In some ways, these are signs of the league’s success: The NFL has conquered Sunday afternoons in just about every nook and cranny of the United States. And it’s principally a television sport. In the NFL, it’s not quite as important where the franchises are located — so long as you can transmit a TV signal from there.
But partly because of the NFL’s pervasiveness, it has run out of highly attractive American markets other than Los Angeles. (Other than that, Mr. Goodell, how was the play?) Even Los Angeles provides some evidence of the league’s saturation: NFL interest there is only mildly lower than the national average despite the city not having hosted a team since 1994. Let’s say, however, that the NFL comes to its senses and places a team in Los Angeles soon. Where else is there to go in the U.S.?
Las Vegas has high levels of NFL avidity and ranks as the next-largest untapped U.S. market by the number of NFL fans. But given the NFL’s longstanding paranoia about associations with gambling, putting a team there would be as much of an adventure for the league as going to a foreign market.
After this are a series of markets — Orlando, Florida; Sacramento, California; Virginia Beach, Virginia; San Antonio; Austin, Texas; and Columbus, Ohio — where a team would play in the shadow of a more established franchise: The San Francisco 49ers in the case of Sacramento, for instance, or the Dallas Cowboys in the case of San Antonio. We’ll seek to measure the effect of this in more detail later on. It’s not that these markets are necessarily any less NFL-worthy than, say, Nashville or Jacksonville. But they’d reshuffle existing fans around more than they’d allow the league to expand its footprint.
The foreign markets are more intriguing. Let’s start with London.
I estimate from the Google data that only about 4 percent of Londoners are NFL fans now. However, the city’s metro area has about 10 million people. That means it has about 400,000 NFL fans. That isn’t great, but it’s comparable to a few existing NFL markets (Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Kansas City) and slightly larger than a few others (Buffalo, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Nashville). A London franchise might be the equivalent of a “small-market” team — but it would hardly be a huge outlier.
There are a number of reasons to think this underestimates London’s potential. London is wealthy, with a GDP per capita of somewhere around £37,000 ($60,000 at current exchange rates). That means higher ticket prices and more billionaires to buy the team when it goes up for sale. London is also among the most-visited cities by tourists in the world with about 15 million international visitors a year.7
More important, our estimate that 4 percent of Londoners are NFL fans is based on the volume of Google searches since 2004. Those searches have increased recently, and there’s reason to expect a further increase in fan interest if a team is located in the city permanently. As measured by Google searches, interest in the NHL increased by about 80 percent in the province of Manitoba, Canada, after the league relocated a franchise to Winnipeg in 2011. The NBA experienced a similar increase in Oklahoma City when it moved a team there.8 Because the NFL is already so saturated in the United States, I wouldn’t expect an 80 percent increase in NFL interest if you placed a team in Orlando or Austin. But London, and other foreign markets, have a much lower baseline and more room to grow.
A London-based team could also have some appeal across the rest of England and the United Kingdom. One precedent comes from the Toronto Blue Jays and Toronto Raptors, the only Canadian teams in Major League Baseball and the NBA, respectively. Each one generates about 20 percent to 25 percent as much search traffic in other Canadian provinces as it does in its native Ontario. That doesn’t sound great, but it’s higher than most U.S.-based franchises, many of which generate only about 5 percent as much search traffic outside their home states. With no other franchise to compete against geographically, a London team could be regional in the way the Denver Broncos, Dallas Cowboys and Boston Red Sox are, covering a larger footprint than you’d infer from its metro area alone.
You might think these are pie-in-the-sky assumptions; I think they’re pretty reasonable. The only issue is that there are two other international destinations that rank better still.
They’re not among the more exotic choices. Paris, Dusseldorf9 and Madrid almost certainly would not have the fan bases to support an NFL team at the present time. A second U.K.-based team, in a place such as Manchester, would not do much better. Nor in all likelihood would San Juan, Puerto Rico, which is a baseball town.
But the Toronto metro area is highly populous and NFL interest is already reasonably high there. I estimate T Dot has about 1 million NFL fans — more than the majority of U.S. markets to host an NFL team. As with the Raptors and Blue Jays in their sports, there could also some residual gains in NFL interest across the rest of Canada.
Mexico City ranks even higher. Although only about 7.5 percent of people there are NFL fans, 7 percent of 20 million residents is still 1.5 million NFL fans.
Could those Mexico City fans afford tickets and licensed replica jerseys and the products sponsors might want them to buy? Mexico gets pigeonholed as a developing country and that’s true for much of the nation, but Mexico City itself has developed into a thriving, bustling city with many of the creature comforts available in the other great metropolises of North America. Mexico City’s metro-area GDP is about $30,000 per capita and GDP per capita is nearing $50,000 in the city proper, comparable to that in U.S. cities. Levels of NFL interest in Mexico City, while not extraordinarily high, are higher than in London: An NFL game there in 2005 drew more than 100,000 spectators.
The international markets also offer the advantage of being unconquered territory rather than existing in the shadow of any current NFL team. To measure this, I ran another series of Google Trends searches on topics related to individual NFL teams (e.g. searches for topics related to the Seattle Seahawks) to see how they compared to interest in the NFL as a whole.
In existing NFL markets, Google search traffic for the local team is generally about 65 percent to 70 percent as high as that for the league as a whole. See here for the Detroit Lions, for example. Of the Detroit area’s roughly 840,000 NFL fans, Google search volume would suggest we’d allocate about 480,000 of them to the Lions. Another 200,000 or so would go to the next-most popular NFL teams there, the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears. That leaves relatively few “free agent” fans.
In the foreign markets, however, including in Canada, fans are largely not committed to any one NFL franchise. In the table below, I’ve estimated the number of fans for the three most popular teams in each market and calculated how many fans remain after allocating fans to those teams.10
In Mexico City, for instance, the Cowboys, Pittsburgh Steelers and Broncos are probably the most popular teams. But searches for those three teams combined represent only 20 percent to 25 percent of searches for NFL-related topics as a whole. Contrast that with Columbus, where searches for the Cleveland Browns, Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals represent about 90 percent of searches for the NFL as a whole. That’s not to say a Columbus-based team wouldn’t pick up some fans of its own, but they might come largely at the expense of the Browns, Bengals and Steelers rather than acquainting new fans with the league.
Toronto, like Mexico City, has only about 20 percent of NFL fans allocated to one of the three most popular NFL teams there. The Buffalo Bills have sometimes protestested that Toronto is part of their market, but NFL fans in Toronto take only a modest interest in the Bills according to search data and other metrics like merchandise sales.
I estimate there are about 50,000 Bills fans in greater Toronto. That isn’t nothing when there are only about 300,000 NFL fans in metro Buffalo itself. But that’s Buffalo’s problem, not Toronto’s. If the NFL wants to have a franchise in Buffalo, it should have one in Buffalo. It should also have one in Toronto. The league would come out ahead if it had to slightly subsidize the Bills with the extra revenues it gained from a Toronto team.
How about Montreal or Vancouver instead? If you could combine the virtues of the two — Montreal’s larger population with Vancouver’s greater NFL interest — you’d have an NFL-worthy city. As it stands, however, both are decidedly inferior to Toronto. Montreal comes out slightly better than Vancouver in our reckoning because, while each has about the same number of NFL fans, a fair number of those in Vancouver are committed to the Seattle Seahawks.
Among U.S. cities, Los Angeles remains No. 1 with a bullet after allocating fans to existing teams. Las Vegas’s numbers also hold up well. So, to a lesser extent, do Orlando’s, a surprising result given that there are three other NFL teams in Florida. But Orlando, like other cities in the state, has a lot of expats from the north who root for teams like the New England Patriots and New York Giants and who might or might not be intrigued by an expansion team. The state of Florida has produced its fair share of disappointments in cultivating loyalty toward new franchises. Most of the other American candidates could wind up like Jacksonville — at best just barely big enough to support a team on its own and with that team having barely any footprint beyond the city’s borders.
A final question is about the NFL’s endgame. If the NFL merely needs a couple of credible candidates for relocation — whether as leverage against existing teams or as genuine alternatives — Los Angeles and London should more than suffice. But if the league is thinking about expansion, it might have to do it in a big way. Thirty-two teams is a convenient number, readily divisible into two conferences and eight divisions of four teams each. A 33-, 34- or 35-team league would be awkward, however. The next equilibrium would be 36 teams instead, which could be divided into six divisions of six teams each.
In that case, the NFL ought to return to cultivating the Mexico City market and treat Toronto as more than a token alternative for the Bills. An expansion to those cities along with London and Los Angeles would be the boldest thing the league has done in years — and possibly the smartest.
CORRECTION (2:15 p.m.): An earlier version of a chart in this article misstated the number of unallocated NFL fans for Mexico City. That number is 1.15 million, not 1.49 million.
A 16-game regular season would require eight visiting teams to travel to London.
The distinction between Google search topics and search strings is explained here. Topics are more comprehensive — for instance, Google searches for both “NFL” and “National Football League” will be grouped under the same topic. However, I default the search string for the term “NFL” in countries where topic-level estimates are not available, adjusting them upward to account for the less comprehensive search coverage.
In the NHL, for instance, our Google-based estimates of each team’s fan base correlated strongly with its profitability.
Market sizes are drawn from the estimates of metro-area populations put together by Demographia earlier this year. In the past, I’ve preferred to use estimates based on TV market sizes, which are slightly more inclusive of outlying areas that have a cultural affinity with a particular metroplex. But these aren’t widely available outside the U.S. and Canada.
There are 32 NFL teams, but the New York and San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose metro areas have two teams each.
Google Trends data is less detailed in some other countries than it is in the U.S. For cities in Canada, Germany, Spain and Mexico, I use data taken from the state or province level rather than the metro area. For London, I use data from the city level rather than the metropolitan area.
Assuming that the average tourist visit lasts three to four days, that means there are about 150,000 international tourists in London at any given time. That’s small compared to London’s baseline of 10 million permanent residents, but it’s a nice little bonus. And it doesn’t account for travel there from within the United Kingdom, which is also significant.
It also helps that the Oklahoma City Thunder have been much better than their predecessors, the Seattle Sonics.
Essen-Dusseldorf, which also includes several other mid-size cities, is the most populous metropolitan area in Germany.
The calculation is a bit rough for some of the less promising markets. Interest in the NFL is low enough in Dusseldorf that we don’t have a great idea of who the most popular teams are there. Also, in England, the most popular team according to Google topics is nominally the Cleveland Browns. But this appears to be a false positive, with Google having picked up on other contexts in which the word “Browns” is used. Searches for the text string “Cleveland Browns” as opposed to the topic “Cleveland Browns” are quite low in England.
NFL (568 posts) Football (220) Google (8) London (6) Los Angeles (6) Expansion (2) National Football League (2) NFL London (2) Toronto (2) Mexico City (1) NFL Expansion (1)
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Douglas Braaten receives 10 year prison sentence for sexual abuse, attempted kidnapping in East Multnomah County - 04/10/19
Douglas Braaten receives 10 year prison sentence for sexual abuse, attempted kidnapping in East Multnomah County
Today, Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill announced that 62-year-old Douglas Braaten received a 10 year prison sentence after he sexually abused a person and attempted to hold that person against their will.
On March 22, 2019, Braaten pleaded guilty to one count of attempted kidnapping in the first degree and one count of sexual abuse in the first degree.
This investigation started on March 6, 2018 around 7:30 p.m., when the victim was eating some food in the parking lot of a convenience store near the intersection of Northeast 82nd Avenue and Northeast Sandy Boulevard. Braaten used his horn to get the victim’s attention. The victim went over to Braaten’s vehicle where they had a discussion. Ultimately, the victim asked for a ride to a location in Portland, Oregon. Instead of taking the victim to the agreed upon location, Braaten drove past the victim’s exit and continued to travel eastbound on Interstate 84 into the Columbia River Gorge.
The victim became frightened and texted 9-1-1 and alerted them to the attempted kidnapping.
Braaten drove the victim to the Bridal Veil exit and pulled into a gravel parking lot where he started making threatening statements. While being sexually abused, the victim saw red and blue emergency lights in the vicinity and was able to honk the vehicle’s horn.
The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office quickly located Braaten’s vehicle, opened the door and located the victim crying and saw that the victim’s pants were pulled down below the knee.
This case was litigated by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office Human Sex Trafficking Team, which includes two attorneys, an investigator and a victim advocate. Additionally, an attorney assigned to the MCDA gang unit is available to help prosecute cases and support the team as trafficking routinely intersects with gang violence.
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office Human Trafficking Team works to protect victims utilizing a three-prong approach: (1) aggressively prosecuting those who traffic victims to sex buyers; (2) reducing demand for exploitation in all forms to include a dedicated focus on a reduction of sex buyers; and (3) ensuring adequate protection and support for victims of human trafficking.
If you are involved in sex trafficking, please call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 or 9-1-1.
If you would like to speak with someone about safety planning or other resources please contact the Victim Assistance Program for the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office at 503.988.3222.
This case was prosecuted by Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Mike Botthof.
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Contact: Brent Weisberg, Communications Director
Email: Brent.Weisberg@mcda.us
Attached Media Files: PR-19-66-Douglas_Braaten.pdf
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Scientist terminated for proving dinosaurs and humans walked the earth together
By Mac Slavo | July 26, 2014
Traditional history suggests that dinosaurs and humans never crossed paths because their existence on earth was separated by tens of millions of years
But a new discovery by scientist Mark Armitage of the California State University may well turn the history of human civilization upside down.
Armitage was recently on a dig in Montana when he came across the largest triceratops horn ever unearthed. Upon further examination of the unique specimen with a high-powered microscope Armitage discovered something that no scientist had ever seen on a dinosaur sample before – soft tissue.
When he published his findings his colleagues were stunned, because the existence of soft tissue, which should degrade and disappear over millions of years, suggests that dinosaurs didn’t go extinct 60 million years ago, but rather, were alive and well in North America just several thousand years ago.
One would think that such a notable discovery would lead to more research into the possibility that humans and dinosaurs may have co-existed at one point in time. But that’s far from what happened.
Armitrage’s funding was pulled, his research was silenced and his job at CSU was terminated.
Apparently, the researcher’s findings were so significant that the board of trustees at the university feared it would too closely mesh science with religion.
One university official even made it a point to let Armitrage know why he was let go. ”We are not going to tolerate your religion in this department,” he was quoted as saying.
The official’s statement stems from the notion that the history of the Christian Bible is roughly 6,000 to 10,000 years old, a point that some scientists often use to laugh off any possibility that there is truth to it. Scientists argue that since the bones of dinosaurs are over 60 million years old, the Bible couldn’t possibly hold a shred of truth because the creation story told in the first book of Genesis is, at most, just ten thousand years.
But the new discovery may shed light on the mysterious creatures mentioned in the Bible’s Old Testament. The earlier books of the bible may not have mentioned Triceratops or other dinosaurs by name, but they do make reference to tanniyn and behemoth, interpreted by some scholars as a large serpent, reptile, dragon, or even sea-monster.
These creatures did, indeed, cross paths with humans accordingly to the historical record detailed in the Christian Bible.
Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.
Yet, up until now, no hard scientific research confirmed that such large animals with reptile-like skin existed.
Armitrage’s discovery of soft tissue adds physical evidence to biblical record. And apparently, that threatened an upheaval in the scientific community, subsequently leading to Armitrage’s termination.
A press release from the Pacific Justice Institute argues that Armitrage was terminated on the basis of religion for sharing a controversial theory and providing evidence for such:
“Terminating an employee because of their religious views is completely inappropriate and illegal,” commented Brad Dacus, President of PJI. “But doing so in an attempt to silence scientific speech at a public university is even more alarming. This should be a wakeup call and warning to the entire world of academia,” he continued.
While at a dig at Hell Creek formation in Montana, the scientist, Mark Armitage, came upon the largest triceratops horn ever unearthed at the site. When examining the horn under a high-powered microscope back at CSUN, Armitage was fascinated to see the soft tissue. The discovery stunned members of the scientific community because it indicates that dinosaurs roamed the earth only thousands of years in the past rather than going extinct 60 million years ago.
According to court documents, shortly after the original soft tissue discovery, a university official challenged the motives of Armitage, by shouting at him, “We are not going to tolerate your religion in this department!”
Armitage, a published scientist of over 30 years, was subsequently let go after CSUN abruptly claimed his appointment at the university of 38 months had been temporary, and claimed a lack of funding for his position. This was news to him, and contradicted prior statements and documents from the university.
Michael Peffer, staff attorney with PJI’s southern California office said, “It has become apparent that ‘diversity’ and ‘intellectual curiosity,’ so often touted as hallmarks of a university education, do not apply to those with a religious point of view. This suit was filed, in part, to vindicate those ideals.”
Scientists often claim that no evidence or data prove the stories in the bible ever actually happened. Now, a veteran researcher with over three decades of experience has confirmed that dinosaurs were likely alive during the age of humans. Yet, because it doesn’t follow the traditional narrative and threatens scores of other theories, the physical evidence is shunned, thrown aside, and dismissed as religious extremism.
Apparently, a scientist can no longer be a scientists if he subscribes to the stories shared in the bible or if he believes in God
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West
November 3, 2018 - February 10, 2019
John Mix Stanley, Scouts in the Tetons, ca. 1855, detail, oil on canvas, GM 0126.1143
Gilcrease Museum and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, have partnered to present the groundbreaking exhibition Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West. Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) is best known as one of America’s premier western landscape artists. But he was also a renowned history painter, a rarely discussed element of his legacy. This exhibition will address Bierstadt’s depictions of Native cultures of the Great Plains and American bison, which he approached as key subjects for his art.
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Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West features 75 artworks from more than 30 private and institutional lenders. Both Gilcrease and the Center of the West are contributing masterworks from their collections. In addition to signature paintings by Bierstadt, the exhibition includes works by artists of Bierstadt’s time (and before) depicting both Native Americans and bison during a period of dramatic change in the West. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
Bierstadt endeavored to convey moral messages with his paintings, and his works demonstrate the ways he approached conservation issues of his day. He attempted to honor the dignity of Native peoples in the West like the Sioux and Shoshone, and to inspire empathy for the remnant herds of bison in Yellowstone National Park as the species neared extinction.
Today, amid ongoing concerns around Native American sovereignty and environmental conservation, this timely exhibition addresses how these subjects have historically been treated by artists, the American people and government.
“By producing and curating this exhibition through a museum partnership, Gilcrease and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West combined forces to research Bierstadt’s work and secure significant loans of his major paintings,” said Laura Fry, senior curator at Gilcrease Museum and co-curator of the exhibition. “Witness to a Changing West is the first Bierstadt exhibition of this scale in more than 25 years and will be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see these artworks together.”
Before traveling to Gilcrease, the exhibition is on view at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, from June 8 – September 30, 2018.
Albert Bierstadt: Environmentalist?
Hear more from Senior Curator and Curator of Art Laura Fry on why this is a must-see exhibition:
Gilcrease Museum’s 2019 exhibition season is sponsored by William S. Smith.
Generous support is also provided by C.W. Titus Foundation, The Helmerich Trust, Robin F. Ballenger, Arts Alliance Tulsa and the Gilcrease Council.
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95% of blasphemy cases in Pakistan are false: and the innocent still suffer
If you have never heard of blasphemy laws in Muslim countries, they are written to defend the Quran, Mohammed, and the basic beliefs of Islam. Should someone deface or destroy a Quran, that is blasphemy. To make jokes about the Prophet, or write something that traditional Muslims would not like, or to draw cartoons of the Prophet – all those are blasphemy.
The blasphemy laws, however, only exist in Muslim countries which have non-Muslim populations. And so, they are invoked quickly and easily by Muslims who want a non-believer’s land, or water, or daughter, or job, or position. If an imam preaches that a Christian from a certain neighborhood blasphemed, then the mobs rise up and sweep down on the unarmed people. The mob sets houses and stores on fire, loots buildings, beats the men and rapes the women, and all this happens in our enlightened 21st century. And the police and soldiers usually stand by doing nothing.
The most famous blasphemy case now is that of Asia Bibi, a Catholic Pakistani woman who was falsely accused and lives in isolation in a jail under constant threat of death. Now a Pakistani lawyer reports to Aid to the Church in Need that 95% of the blasphemy cases are false. Yet the laws remain on the books, and the provisions of the law are routinely ignored by the police and the courts. Oh, and the penalty if you say something derogatory about the Prophet? Death. What a great ally we have. PS Check out Saudi Arabia’s treatment of non-Muslims sometime, another great ally.
Read more at
http://www.churchinneed.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6869&news_iv_ctrl=1001
And go here http://www.ucanews.com/2011/12/12/attacked-buildings-still-unfinished-say-christians/ to read about how the Pakistani government has failed to rebuild an entire town that was set on fire because of one such false charge. How these ordinary Christians get up in the morning and head out the door into such a hostile and uncaring society is beyond me – they must be fortified by the Holy Spirit!
Consider supporting Aid to the Church in Need. Founded to support the German Catholics expelled out of Eastern Europe in 1945-1948, and then to support the Church in the newly communist states, today ACN works for the relief of persecuted Catholics or endangered Catholics anywhere in the world, and the reconstruction of church life in formerly communist states. And unfortunately, they have a lot of work to do.
Here is their international link up page: http://www.acn-intl.org/pg/help.html?p=EN,,,1.22,,,
Here is the English-language news page put out by the Australian office: http://members4.boardhost.com/acnaus/
They do a super job of reporting!
The family of Asia Bibi: Ashiq Masih, father, with their two daughters and a stepson. The woman police officer assigned to protect Asia in prison has instead been beating her, the family found out. The other officers assigned to protect her have done nothing.
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Posted: December 4, 2011 | Author: swirlgirlz | Filed under: Teenage Dream by Katy Perry | Tags: CD, Music, Pop Music | Leave a comment
Bibliographic Information: Perry, K. (2010). Teenage Dream (music album). Los Angeles, CA: Capitol Records. ASIN: B003L77TZI. Length: 1:04:55.
Plot/Content Summary & Critical Evaluation: Pop music Diva Katy Perry’s third Album Teenage Dream is the quintessential pop album. With its upbeat music and girlie vocals, Perry has continued the evolution of her brand of pop, which could be called “candy pop.” She evokes youth and innocence with her pink bubble gum hair and her candy colored wardrobe, while maintaining one foot in the sexy and mysterious category. Her unique persona is a hit with teenage fans who flock to her concerts and to buy her music. Teenage Dream debuted and peaked at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 192,000 copies in its first week. It was later certified two times platinum by the RIAA, selling more than 2 million copies in the United States. The album has spawned five worldwide hit songs: “California Gurls” featuring American rapper Snoop Dogg, the title track, “Firework“, “E.T.“, which included a version featuring Kanye West, and “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)“. All have topped the charts in the United States and attained top-ten positions in more than twenty countries. All five singles also topped the Digital and Airplay charts, making her the first artist ever to have five number-one singles in the Airplay chart.” (Teenage Dream (Katy Perry album) from Wikipedia, data from Billboard Magazine).
Information about the Author/Performer: Born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson in Santa Barbara, CA, in 1984, Perry grew up singing in churches. Both of her parents are pastors. Her career has included acting, in addition to music. (Katy Perry, 2011)
Genre/Format: Pop, Music CD
Reading Level/Interest Age: 13 and up
Why is this CD included? Hugely popular with teens, Teenage Dream was nominated for four Grammy Awards in 2011: Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, “Teenage Dream” (the song) for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and “California Gurls” (the song with Snoop Dogg) for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.
Katy Perry. (2011). Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Perry#cite_note-GraffBold-11
Teenage Dream (Katy Perry album). (2011). Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Dream_%28Katy_Perry_album%29
Glee: The Music, Volume 4 by Glee Cast
Posted: December 1, 2011 | Author: swirlgirlz | Filed under: Glee The Music - Volume 4 by Glee Cast | Tags: Ages 13 and up, Album, CD, Music | Leave a comment
Bibliographic Information: Glee Cast. (2010). Glee: The Music, Volume 4 (music album). New York, NY: Columbia Records. ASIN: B004BH5U3A. Length: 1:04:55.
Plot/Content Summary: Fans of the wildly popular television program Glee will swoon over the cast’s fourth volume, which contains music from a diversity of decades and musical styles. Teens will likely recognize Cee Lo Green’s smash hit “Forget You” sun by Glee guest star Gwyneth Paltrow and the cast. Highlights include Glee versions of: Ike & Tina Turners’ “River Deep, Mountain High,” Bob Marley’s hit “One Love,” Dirty Dancing’s “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,” Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream,” and Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind.”
Critical Evaluation: The Glee Cast wins again with Glee: The Music, Volume 4, perfectly combining strong energy and exuberance with spectacular vocals and music. The amazing range of the vocals parallels the exciting mix of songs from many genres and time periods. Current chart toppers are interspersed with favorites from decades past to create an eclectic mix that is brought together by the one thing they have in common: the Glee Cast members and their drive for the highest quality of performances. There is something for everyone and the emotional ride ranges from sad to in love to angry to celebratory, and lots in between. Fans of Glee will delight in getting to hear their favorites in the car or on the go, and will keep coming back for more. This album is just plain fun.
Information about the Author/Performers: The Glee Cast who perform in this album are the actors and vocalists who star in the hit TV show of the same name. The main contributors to the album are the actors who play members of the fictional McKinley High School Glee Club: Kevin McHale, Heather Morris, Cory Monteith, Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Mark Salling, Dianna Agron, Lea Michele, Naya Rivera, Jenna Ushkowitz, Harry Shum, Jr., and Ashley Fink.
Genre/Format: Eclectic Genre Mix, Music CD
Reading/Listening Level & Interest Age: 13 and up
Challenge Issues: The song “Forget You” was originally recorded by Cee Lo Green as “F*** You,” and included other profanity as well. In response: Green recorded a cleaned-up version, “Forget You,” which is the one the Glee Cast recorded.
Why is this CD included? The album is lively, fun, and very entertaining, and the Glee series is extremely popular among teens. The music from the program is also wildly popular, songs from Volume Four, “Teenage Dream” and “Loser Like Me”, “charted in the top ten in the US and Canada; the former is also the only single from the second season to have been certified gold in the US.” The album itself “charted in the top ten in Canada and the US” and is one of “the only two albums to have been certified platinum from the season” (Wikipedia, Glee Cast discography)
Glee Cast discography. (2011). Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glee_Cast_discography
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Con-Lib coalition pledge a "low carbon and eco-friendly economy"
The Con-Lib coalition has agreed on the following environmental priorities for government:
The establishment of a smart grid and the roll-out of smart meters.
The creation of a green investment bank.
The provision of home energy improvement paid for by the savings from lower energy bills.
Retention of energy performance certificates while scrapping HIPs.
Measures to encourage marine energy.
The establishment of an emissions performance standard that will prevent coal-fired power stations being built unless they are equipped with sufficient CCS to meet the emissions performance standard.
The establishment of a high-speed rail network.
The cancellation of the third runway at Heathrow.
The refusal of additional runways at Gatwick and Stansted.
The replacement of the Air Passenger Duty with a per flight duty.
The provision of a floor price for carbon, as well as efforts to persuade the EU to move towards full auctioning of ETS permits.
Measures to make the import or possession of illegal timber a criminal offence.
Measures to promote green spaces and wildlife corridors in order to halt the loss of habitats and restore biodiversity.
Mandating a national recharging network for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Continuation of the present Government’s proposals for public sector investment in CCS technology for four coal-fired power stations; and a specific commitment to reduce central government carbon emissions by 10 per cent within 12 months.
An agreement to seek to increase the target for energy from renewable sources, subject to the advice of the Climate Change Committee.
Finally, the agreement also lays out a compromise on new nuclear power plants. The Conservatives will allow new plants to be built with the introduction of a planning policy statement, however, no public money will subsidise any nuclear works. The Lib Dems will in turn be able to abstain on any Commons vote on this issue.
Source: better generation
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I Need Lunch
The Dead Boys
So I know some of you have already heard it, but here's my other Chrissie Hynde story … I think I've mentioned before that the Cleveland Agora was the club in Cleveland for seeing rock n' roll shows when I was a teenager. It had a low ceiling and a low stage that you could stand right up against without any barricade between audience and band. There was a wooden dance floor in front of the stage and behind that, a maze of tables and chairs. Behind those tables—towards the back of the room and up a few steps—were tall circular tables with tall chairs. There really wasn't a bad spot in the whole club.
Meanwhile, the club itself was one of the country's hottest live venues. Everyone who was anyone played there when passing through Cleveland, and from 1976 to 1982, I saw most of them. One memorable show featured a reunion performance by Cleveland's very own original punk band, The Dead Boys. From the size of the crowd that night, you never would have known that the city had originally turned its back on Stiv Bators, Cheetah Chrome, Jeff Magnum, Johnny Blitz, and Jimmy Zero; forcing them to move to NYC and take up a semi-permanent musical residence at CBGB's. The club was packed, the amps were set to 11, and electricity was in the air.
Dead Boys
The show was a snarling, clawing, musical frenzy and at the center of it all was a short, spikey haired, whiskey guzzling, leather-clad punk named Stiv Bators spitting venom into the microphone. A runaway train looking for a wreck, who somehow managed to dance, sing, drink, and spit in one continuous motion. An unforgettable performance to be sure.
Halfway through the band's set I sensed
a commotion behind me. I turned around to see a tall, slinky, dark haired woman dancing precariously atop one of the tall round bar tables. Two security guards waved their arms frantically and mouthed the words: “get the hell down.” The woman gestured back profanely; weaving a double-barreled middle finger salute into her gyrations without missing a beat. Finally I realized that the dancer was none other than Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders — in town to personally pay tribute to some fellow Cleveland punk rock legends. She was moving like a deranged go-go dancer and it took three beefy security guards to finally end her fun and pull her down from her personal dance floor which had begun to wobble like a gyroscope when it loses its momentum. She shook herself free and then strode off in the direction of the bar, hissing invectives you didn’t need to be a lip reader to make out in the clamor of the dark club. The song Chrissie was dancing to? The Happy Medium Song of the Day: “I Need Lunch” by The Dead Boys.
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Fulbright Opportunities at UMD
Fulbright Pai Fellow Donna Howard, UMD School of Public Health, in India, 2008-2009.
What is the Fulbright Program?
The Fulbright Program is a collection of U.S.-government funded international educational exchange programs, the brainchildren of James William Fulbright. At the close of WWII, and at the start of his 30-year career as a U.S. senator for Arkansas, Fulbright convinced his congressional colleagues to use the proceeds from the sale of surplus U.S. war material to fund a series of bi-lateral student and scholar exchanges with countries around the world. Fulbright’s name subsequently became attached to an array of U.S. government sponsored international educational exchanges. Learn more about the Fulbright program.
Which Fulbright Program is the right one for me?
The term “Fulbright” has now become a brand name used on a variety of international exchange programs cosponsored by the U.S. government and partner countries around the globe. Where, how, and when you apply depends on which of these Fulbright programs is right for you.
Explore your Fulbright options:
U.S. faculty, professional staff, and pending Ph.D.
How far ahead do I have to apply?
The Fulbright application process begins 18 months in advance of the first grants in an award cycle. Application information is generally available in early February of each year for awards beginning in September of the following year (e.g., the Core competition for academic year 2020-2021 will open in February 2019). With the exception of the seminar offerings, the deadline for all applications for awards is 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time on SEPTEMBER 16TH.
Not available for 2020-2021 opportunities? You can still explore Fulbright opportunities for 2021 and beyond.
Visit the the Fulbright Facebook page for daily updates on how you can benefit from Fulbright.
Become a contact to a Fulbright administrator for the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
Watch the Exploring Fulbright channel.
And, visit the Fulbright website for information throughout the year.
Is there any on-campus help available to help me with my Fulbright application?
All UMD undergraduate and graduate students who want to apply must first contact the UMD campus representative for Fulbright programs for students, who handles advising in conjunction with the UMD National Scholarships Office. The scholarships office submits all student applications to Fulbright.
UMD faculty and staff who are U.S. citizens can contact Joe Scholten, UMD campus representative for Fulbright Programs for faculty/administrators. Workshops for individual UMD units can be arranged upon request.
Prospective applicants may also contact Joe Scholten to connect with members of the UMD Fulbright Alumni network or feedback on their specific proposal.
Each spring term, OIA teams up with the UMD Division of Research to offer a campus workshop for faculty and professional staff who are interested in applying for a Fulbright.
Those preparing to apply can also find a variety of other resources, including a webinar series where a Fulbright program staff member will address an issue relevant to either the application process or their world region.
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Akua Naru is Fresh, Bold and So Def
Hailing from New Haven, Connecticut, Akua Naru’s journey to global poet began in an early upbringing in the Pentecostal church. Her powerful poetic lyricism, talent for storytelling and ability to integrate historical narratives into her music with unmatched eloquence have drawn the attention of scholars and activists around the globe. Naru admits to writing “to fulfill the void she needs filled since access to female voice has been so limited in hip-hop”. Due to a legacy of slavery and silence in which being black and women has meant exploitation, marginalization, and damaging stereotyping lasting right up to today, Naru defiantly declares her intention to “provide a body of knowledge” by centralizing black women’s experiences in her work. Akua Naru’s latest release “The Miner’s Canary” has been met with overwhelmingly positive reviews. The album, recorded live over a two year period, boasts an amazing cast of talented and accomplished features which assist in freeing its musical landscape from the single genre of hip-hop to settle between soul, blues, and jazz. She has lectured with Bakari Kitwana, Dr. Tricia Rose, and Public Enemy Pioneer Chuck D. Her new album “The Blackest Joy” will focus on maternity and African heritage.
With classic boom-bap hip-hop sounds, socially conscious rhymes, jazz-soul elements, Naru has garnered attention and accumulated rave reviews. Being associated with artist movements such as the 90’s hip-hop era and acts such as Lauryn Hill & The Roots, Naru’s musical and poetic gifts have been appreciated among hip-hop circles and are amplified within live performance. Representing strongly when performing with The DIGFLO Band, a six-piece ensemble including drums, keys, saxophone/flute, bass, guitar, and turntables, Akua Naru and her band have a reputation for captivating audiences, hyping crowds, and inspiring many. Clearly, her music and performances are a testament to the legacy of soul music and the powerful trailblazing female artist tradition on which it builds.
Akua Naru is the 2018-2019 Nasir Jones Fellow at the Hutchins Center – Harvard University.
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Home Research > Members > 1660-1690 > BRODREPP (BRADREPP), Richard (c.1639-1707)
BRODREPP (BRADREPP), Richard (c.1639-1707), of Mapperton, Dorset.
b. c.1639, 1st s. of Christopher Brodrepp of Mapperton by Catherine, da. and coh. of John Davy of Harnham, Wilts. educ. Dorchester g.s.; Christ’s, Camb. matric. 29 Dec. 1656, aged 17; L. Inn 1657. m. 13 Jan. 1663, Catherine (bur. 29 May 1679), da. of Robert Hunt of Compton Pauncefote, Som., 4s. suc. fa. 1658.1
Commr. for assessment, Dorset 1679-80, 1689-90, j.p. 1680-7, June 1688-d., dep. lt. May 1688-?d.2
Brodrepp was a second cousin of John Trenchard. His grandfather, a scion of a minor Somerset family, partitioned the Mapperton estate with Sir Thomas Trenchard in 1617. A committeeman during the Civil War, he was of a markedly eirenical disposition, and does not seem to have attracted the odium which was lavished on his colleagues.3
Brodrepp inherited 1,200 acres in Dorset, Somerset and Worcestershire, besides his mother’s property in Holderness. His wife came from a royalist family, and it may be significant that he took no part in public affairs till after her death. Even then he seems to have been regarded as a court supporter during the exclusion crisis. But he stood for Bridport in the Whig interest with John Michell II in 1685. Their petition against the successful Tory candidates was never heard. No doubt this was the cause of Brodrepp’s dismissal from the commission of the peace in 1687, and probably Hugh Hodges was the instigator. But in 1688 Hodges himself was dismissed, and Brodrepp was proposed by the regulators as justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant. He was not, however, named as a court candidate for Bridport, unlike Michell.4
Returned at the general election of 1689, Brodrepp made two applications for leave in the first session of the Convention and was probably absent for most of it, including the vote on the vacancy of the throne. He was a little more active after the recess, serving on four committees. He must have felt strongly about the manufacture of cane-bottomed chairs to get himself added to the committee to prevent it on 8 Jan. 1690; but the only committee of political importance to which he was named was the one for reversing the judgments of scandalum magnatum obtained by the Duke of Beaufort ( Henry Somerset) against Sir Trevor Williams, John Arnold and John Dutton Colt. He did not support the disabling clause in the bill to restore corporations, nor is he known to have stood again. He was buried at Mapperton on 4 Feb. 1707, the only member of his family to sit in Parliament.5
Author: John. P. Ferris
1. Som. and Dorset N. and Q., xxviii. 203; N. and Q. (ser. 11), vi. 178, Northumberland (Alnwick) mss 552, f. 31.
2. Dorset RO, KG 1147, 1148, 1496.
3. Hutchins, Dorset, ii. 159; PCC 86 Wootton.
4. Dorset RO, 9691; CJ, ix. 717; PC2/71/365.
5. Hutchins, ii. 159.
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relatedness matters
arabized world, biology 101, biology and behavior, biology matters, different peoples is different (duh!), father's brother's daughter marriage, further research is required, immigrant groups, immigrants, inbreeding, iran, iranian jews, iranians, jews, kissin' cousins, mating patterns matter, mizrahi jews, mother's sister's daughter marriage, muslims, pakistanis, pakistanis in europe, pakistanis in the u.k., parallel cousin marriage, relatedness matters, what's this hbd business all about anyway?
(note: i’ll post the punch line to the do you think like a westerner? post tomorrow…or maybe tuesday. (^_^) )
further to my notion that various jewish populations have tended to imitate the mating patterns (eg. cousin marriage or not) of the broader societies in which they have been situated — at least over the last millennium or so (dunno about the ancient hebrews) — here are some numbers on the types of cousin marriage found in the iranian jewish population. remember that consanguineous marriage is quite high among iranian jews — something on the order of 25%. from Outcaste: Jewish Life in Southern Iran [pg. 112]:
notice that nearly one third (3.06%) of all the first cousin marriages (9.88%) are to the father’s brother’s daughter (fbd or FaBrDa in the table). another 1.41% of the marriages are to other patrilateral parallel cousins, probably paternal second cousins. (that’d be father’s father’s brother’s son’s daughter marriage, if you must know. =P or ffbsd marriage! never mind. don’t think about it too hard.)
so ca. 4.5% of iranian jewish marriages are to a patrilateral parallel cousin to some sort. remember that patrilateral parallel cousin marriage (fbd marriage…or ffbsd marriage!) is very unusual. most of humanity avoids it. the vast majority of populations that practice cousin marriage practice maternal cousin marriage — usually cross-cousin maternal marriage or mbd marriage. it’s only the arabized world which favors parallel paternal cousin marriage (and the tswana). it’d be too much of coincidence, i think, for iranian jews to have invented fbd marriage all on their own — i’m betting they picked it up from other iranian peoples after the arabs introduced it to the region.
uuunnnnleeesssss…the jews (also?) introduced it to the region, as they are thought to have done in arabia. hmmmm…?
interestingly, persian jews seem to have put their own twist onto parallel cousin marriage and that is that they also marry maternal parallel cousins (mother’s sister’s daughter or msd marriage or MoSiDa in the table). that form of parallel cousin marriage is even more unusual than fbd marriage. i don’t know of any population that does it. nearly everyone on the planet avoids it. it might, however, have seemed natural to this group of jews — natural, that is, if you’re thinking of adopting parallel cousin marriage at all — since jews have had a very long tradition of allowing/practicing maternal uncle-niece marriage. there are more than two times the number of maternal uncle-niece marriage (SiDa) than paternal uncle-niece marriage (BrDa) in this persian group, for instance. (all of this harkens back to the idea that you know who an individual’s mother is, but you can never be sure who the father is.) i think this is another indicator that persian jews picked up the idea of parallel cousin marriage from the surrounding population (although perhaps it was back in the levant?), and then they adapted it to their own practices. could be wrong. Further Research is RequiredTM.
if (IF) i’m right — going by this persian evidence and the medieval german jewish evidence — that jews have generally adopted the mating patterns of their host populations, then an interesting question is, do other subgroups do this, too? will, for instance, muslim immigrants to the west adopt outbreeding? dunno. mixed signals here. in britain, where most pakistanis are from the kashmir and punjab regions, the total cousin marriage rate in the 1980s (that’s first and second cousins) was 67% [pg. 10]. the rate for all-punjab back in pakistan was 50.3% [pg. 16]. that certainly looks like an increase in cousin marriage in the immigrant population. however, meanwhile in norway, two studies found that pakistani-born pakistanis had higher rates of cousin marriage than norwegian-born pakistanis (37.5% & 34.7% versus 30.1% & 27.1% – pg. 11 – don’t know where pakistanis in norway are from). that looks like a decrease. all things considered, it’s probably too early to tell what the trend(s) might turn out to be.
korotayev and other russian anthropologists have argued — convincingly, imho — that father’s brother’s daughter’s (fbd) marriage was spread by the arabs, since its maximum range today (looking away from the outlier tswana in southern africa) corresponds to the eighth-century caliphate. they further argue that, as part of a more general “arabization” process, the conquered populations emulated their conquerors in all sorts of ways, both in order to succeed in this newly constructed society and, quite possibly, since they viewed the arabs’ culture as somehow superior to their own. the arabs were the conquerors, after all. they must’ve been doing something right! the arabs may even have impressed upon their new subjects that their culture was, indeed, the better one. if they’re right, it seems much less likely to me that immigrant groups to the west will copy our mating patterns if we don’t impress on them that we think they’re important and the right way to go.
previously: historic mating patterns of ashkenazi jews and jewish inbreeding and father’s brother’s daughter’s marriage
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“do other subgroups do this, too? will, for instance, muslim immigrants to the west adopt outbreeding?”
I think the general tendency would be to adopt the majority or dominant pattern over time unless separation is very rigidly enforced – hence attempts at very strict enforcement from parents and religious elders.
However this changes when they become the majority in a particular area and the peer pressure goes into reverse – and literally into reverse i.e. the later generations have a higher percentage of fundamentalist views than the first generation (a lot of whom moved to get away from it).
So the difference in Norway may be the stage they are i.e. which direction the peer pressure is going – in the UK the integration momentum has definitely reversed into dis-integration but Norway may not be at that point yet.
It can also be complicated by money as a lot of inter-continental arranged marriages are effectively the overseas family paying for a passport. There can be a lot of money involved in this (10k sort of level) as a lot of the people concerned were imported to do low paid, unskilled jobs.
There was a law against this for a time in the UK (primary purpose rule) so maybe Norway has something similar?
JK 03/04/2015 at 11:46 AM
For the files
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/mbae-sif022715.php
Bolko 08/31/2016 at 5:39 AM
You can infer mating patterns of ancient Hebrews by reading their sacred texts. Cousins wheren’t in the list of forbidden relations and marriage with them was just normal. There were many cases,, Jakob and Rachel being the most well-known. So it is more possible that in islamic countries Jews just kept their older traditions, but changed in the West.
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ACTION FOR PEACE IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL
Church groups on four continents are raising their voices together for peace in Palestine and Israel, March 12-19, 2006. “International Church Action for Peace in Palestine and Israel” is an advocacy initiative with broad ecumenical participation …
Church groups on four continents are raising their voices together for peace in Palestine and Israel, March 12-19, 2006. “International Church Action for Peace in Palestine and Israel” is an advocacy initiative with broad ecumenical participation convened by the World Council of Churches.
At various times and in different countries, policy-makers and public audiences will hear during the week that, despite decades of patient advocacy, a just resolution of the conflict remains distant and so churches are uniting behind the urgent need for peace.
From Oslo to Cape Town, Toronto to Jerusalem, church groups will meet with parliamentarians and government ministers, hold public meetings, make media appearances, keep vigils and plant olive trees. Pax Christi International and its worldwide network of member organisations are taking part. The international action has the support of H.B. Michel Sabbah, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem. He is also the President of Pax Christi International.
The goal is to promote a just peace together, guided by long-standing WCC and other Christian organisations positions on an equitable, negotiated solution to the conflict. These policies reflect the broad international and legal consensus around a two-state solution based on relevant UN resolutions and a settlement that secures the legitimate rights and future of both peoples.
Pax Christi International http://www.paxchristi.net
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In post-Soviet Russia, Lenin’s body still a powerful symbol
Written by Thomas Levy
Berkeley, California - For 90 years, the embalmed corpse of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin has been on public display in a mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square, looking remarkably supple considering he died in 1924 at age 53. But ever since the Soviet Union collapsed a quarter-century ago, a debate has raged in Russia over whether to move the founder of the Soviet state to a more private location, leave him as is or bury his body once and for all.
UC Berkeley social anthropologist Alexei Yurchak, who for years has studied the science and politics surrounding the unprecedented preservation of Lenin’s corpse, believes it’s unlikely the body will be moved in the near future.
“You cannot replace Lenin,” says Yurchak, who is writing a book about how extraordinary body-preservation methods developed by Russian scientists helped the Soviet government transform Lenin’s body into a national icon. “Lenin’s body served as a kind of a material anchor in which the sovereignty of the Soviet communist project was grounded. But since the Soviet state’s collapse, while no longer the center of sovereignty, Lenin’s body remains important for other symbolic reasons.”
A native of Russia with a graduate degree in physics and a Ph.D. in anthropology, Yurchak is the author of many publications, including the award-winning 2005 book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation.
While researching that book, Yurchak became intrigued by what he learned about Lenin’s symbolic importance to the Soviet Union. He has begun a second book, expected to hit shelves in 2017, that delves into the nearly century-old alliance between Russian politicians and scientists that keeps Lenin’s body looking so pristine.
Akin to the Declaration of Independence?
Yurchak likens the role that Lenin’s body played during the Soviet era to that of the Declaration of Independence, founding document of the United States. As initiator of the Soviet state and its big-bang revolution, in many ways Lenin and his physical body held the same symbolic power for Soviet citizens, whether communists or not, that the original paper document of the Declaration of Independence does for Americans.
In looking at how early measures taken by Soviet scientists to maintain Lenin’s body metamorphosed into a systematic preservation protocol, Yurchak marvels at their ability to combine advanced embalming techniques with the use of synthetic materials to replace body parts.
“They fix his body so it’s kind of authentic, but kind of not,” Yurchak says.
Lenin was born in Simbirsk to well-educated parents. As a young man he became a Marxist and later a firebrand who eventually led the revolution that birthed the Soviet state in 1917. The next year he was severely wounded in an assassination attempt, and a few years later, after strokes that left him mute and bedridden, he died.
In the 90 years since his death, more than 10 million people have visited his glass tomb, viewing a body that appears as fresh as the day he died.
To keep Lenin’s body looking normal, artificial eyelashes were added early on to make his face look more natural. To maintain the original look of Lenin’s skin, Yurchak says the Mausoleum Lab applied special dyes and lit him with micro-lamps covered by colored filters. And to replace liquefying fat deposits that normally give shape to the body’s face, limbs and torso, the lab formulated an easily shaped and injectable mixture of paraffin, glycerin and carotene.
Over the years, a myriad of microphotographs of the surface of Lenin’s body have helped the lab keep track of changes that might need correction. It takes ceaseless work to maintain the flexibility of joints and body parts, even those the public cannot see. Yurchak says that every 18 months Lenin’s body is subjected to “big procedures” lasting two months, when it is thoroughly examined, tested and completely re-embalmed.
The same Russian scientists who have preserved Lenin’s body have also used their skills to preserve the bodies of other communist leaders, including Gyorgi Dimitriov of Bulgaria and North Korea’s Kim Jong-il. Yurchak says the work for North Korea was performed to raise money to run the lab after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and government support dried up.
What hasn’t dried up since the death of Soviet communism and the sometimes violent Russian identity crisis that’s followed is the fiery discussion over what to do with Lenin’s body. Yurchak says it is part of an ongoing Russian national conversation that tends to heat up every April around the date of Lenin’s birth.
“Every year around his birthday there is an explosion of debate about Lenin’s body,” says Yurchak. “Shall we cremate it, shall we move the body or the tomb, or just leave it as it is? The unspoken answer of the current government is to leave it as it is.”
Meanwhile, Russian president Vladimir Putin insists that Lenin’s body ought to remain on public view as an irreplaceable symbol of the nation’s history. He suggests that Soviet history deserves as much respect as any other part of Russian history or the history of other countries. In 2000, soon after becoming Russia’s president, Putin resurrected the Soviet national anthem, albeit without mention of Joseph Stalin, whose actions are seemingly irredeemable.
“‘George Washington had slaves, but Americans don’t demonize him for that,’ is how some Russians put it, a view regularly voiced in Russia by pro-government intellectuals and circulated by pro-government media.” says Yurchak. “In the case of Lenin, Putin and others say, ‘It’s too soon to evaluate Lenin’s place in history. Let’s not succumb to foreign comments. Let’s deal with Lenin ourselves.’”
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Indigenous charities get a boost
IT giant pledges funding to Australian not-for-profits.
By Raveena Grover on Sep 06 2017 04:49 PM
Twelve Australian not-for-profit organisations have been pledged over $1 million in tech support from IT giant, Tata Consulting Services.
Among the recipients are four Indigenous organisations: Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM), First Australians Capital, Indigenous Marathon Foundation and the Kaiela Institute, Shepparton.
These 12 charities, all in the healthcare, environment and education sectors, will receive free tech expertise for services such as IT consulting, website development and technology optimisation, as part of Tata Consulting Services’ (TCS) annual Community Innovation Program.
Tata’s Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for Australia and New Zealand Karen Iles said assisting the not-for-profit sector with IT services allowed them to scale up, improve their productivity and have a bigger impact on the community.
“One of the biggest things holding back charities and social enterprises in Australia from addressing health, social and environmental challenges is a lack of IT capability and capacity,” she said.
Iles said this was amplified for Indigenous organisations.
“The disparity in health and education among Indigenous people is so stark in Australia, and these organisations are achieving great outcomes.
“We hope they will be enhanced with some better tech,” she said.
As a recipient of this year’s funding, First Australians Capital Director and CEO Jocelyn King expressed how the technical support will help change the face of the Australian economy by bringing Indigenous innovation to the forefront.
“The support of TCS will enable us to develop a national digital platform to support Indigenous entrepreneurs to bring over 60,000 years of Indigenous innovation to the modern marketplace, connecting Indigenous entrepreneurs with capital, support, education and practical business tools that will drive a new economy for all Australians,” she said.
Iles said the opportunity to partner with First Australians Capital and the other three Indigenous organisations was incredibly exciting.
“The ability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-owned businesses to transform lives in their own communities is tremendous,” she said.
Now in its second year, the program’s impetus was the company’s philanthropic work in India, where its headquarters are located.
In 2016, six organisations benefited from this pro bono initiative, including the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre.
The other not-for-profits which have been pledged the collective $1 million in tech support are: Avner Pancreatic Cancer Foundation, Camp Quality, Heart of Foundation of Victoria, Hello Sunday Morning, Motor Neurone Disease Australia, National Children's and Youth Law Centre, The Smith Family and the State Library of NSW Foundation.
Iles said the company was looking for organisations making the biggest difference to charity, no matter their size.
“We wanted to choose partnerships that felt had impact – for us this year there were 12 that really stood us for us as obvious choices and alignment with our skillset,” she said.
Not-for-profits interested in applying for 2018 can do so here.
Raveena Grover
Raveena Grover is a journalist at Information Age. She has worked in radio and is a former editor of the University of Technology's student publication, Vertigo. Her work has been published on 2SER, Hijacked City Hub Magazine and the Medical Observer. She is passionate about science, technology and the social environment.
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Florida beach festival seeks to shatter misconceptions about people with disabilities
IAP 2019-E2: Interview with a business leader, motivational speaker, blogger, entrepreneur and TED Resident – who also happens to be blind
By Mark Miller on May 17, 2019
Mark has a lively discourse with Susan C. Robinson about her inspiring Ted Talk (How I fail at being disabled), the mindset of viewing a “disability” as an opportunity to develop unique and innovative skills, and her utter disregard for the term “disabled.” She discusses how her original childhood dream of being an orthopedic surgeon was shattered at 16 when she started to experience symptoms of macular degeneration and how she was able to overcome obstacles during her early years as she came to terms with to her failing vision. They discuss rejecting the idea of a person with a disability as being anything “less” than a full person, and embrace looking at the full sum of people’s abilities, regardless of physical or mental ability.
Listen to IAP 2019-E2: Interview with business leader Susan C Robinson
Susan C. Robinson's site
Susan's Ted Speaker Bio
Susan's Ted Talk
Speaker 1: Welcome to the IAP, the Interactive Accessibility Podcast, bringing you the people, technology and ideas, helping to make your world accessible to everyone
Mark Miller: Hey, welcome to the IEP. I am your host, Mark Miller, thanking you for doing your part to make our world accessible. The IEP is brought to you by the Paciello group and its affiliate, Interactive Accessibility, who work together to make the web accessible for everyone. Do us a favor. If you're enjoying the IEP, share it, tell someone about it. Hey, even link to it from your accessible website
Mark Miller: So, welcome today, guys. I'm really excited to talk to this guest we have in today. A very special person that we've already started chatting with and probably are having too much fun with. Her name is Susan Robinson and I have down here, Susan, for you, that you're a consultant but you're so much more than that
Mark Miller: I've done a little exploration on you. I found your TED talks. You're so much fun and you really have an amazing and interesting outlook on, I don't even want to call it a disability or anything like that, because you certainly don't
Mark Miller: So, tell us a little bit about yourself, about what led you into consulting because I understand it wasn't your first choice. And I'd love to get into a little bit of your philosophies that showed up in this TED talk, which I'm sure you've thought about. Well, we'll link to that TED talk to the show notes so everybody can see that too
Susan Robinson: Cool. Cool. Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me today. I am delighted to be part of the IAP podcast and it's super fun to talk to. You already alluded that we had a little chat leading up to the official start and it's really been fun, so thank you so much for having me be a part of this
Susan Robinson: I'll sort of take you way back when. I was born in a small town in Pennsylvania and grew up just like any other kid and wore glasses since the age of eight because I was nearsighted, just like anybody else who is nearsighted
Susan Robinson: We saw I had 20/20 vision at the age of 16 and had a driver's license. But by 17 just sort of weird things would start to happen. They were sort of inexplicable in a lot of ways. I'd be getting out of my front row seat, because I was that kid in school to get closer to the chalkboard to see. So my friends and classmates were like, "You need new glasses.
Susan Robinson: When I went to college, it was the same thing. I had intended on being an orthopedic surgeon. I was taking biology and chemistry and physics and all those things you need to take in order to be a physician. I couldn't get all the notes from, that the professors were giving and I couldn't finish tests. So I kept saying to my mom, "I need new glasses or I need my contacts changed.
Susan Robinson: Ultimately, I'll sort of save you the long version, but ultimately, I was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease, which is the adolescent onset of macular degeneration
Mark Miller: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Susan Robinson: So after a couple of years of this just sort of weird thing, I couldn't recognize people and reading was becoming a little bit more difficult. Seeing things at a distance was more difficult. I just said, "Oh, I'm not relieved to have a vision impairment, but I'm relieved to have an explanation about why my world isn't functioning the way that I know it to function before.
Susan Robinson: My retina specialist who diagnosed me said, "You know, you're going to have to think about a career because not every career is available to you now." He said, "You're not going to be able to be a fighter pilot." And I'm sitting in his office sort of thinking, "Right. I wasn't really interested in being a fighter pilot. So like, nope, no real big loss there.
Susan Robinson: I forget what he gave as a second option, but he said it a third time that, "You can't be," and he was sort of thinking about what could fill in third blank. I slipped in orthopedic surgeon and he said, "No, no, no, you can't be an orthopedic surgeon." He sort of missed the connectedness of what that meant for me
Mark Miller: As if that's what you were headed for, yeah
Susan Robinson: Yeah
Mark Miller: Right
Susan Robinson: I just sort of sat back and I was like, "All right," as any smart-alecky 19 year old would say
Susan Robinson: Said, "Well, if I can't operate in a hospital, I'll just operate the entire hospital." So I changed my major from biology to health policy and administration with a couple of minors, because, again, I always was that student
Susan Robinson: I started a career just like anybody else would. I worked in the healthcare sector and a number of different kinds of not-for-profits and in the corporate sector, still in healthcare. But in all of that work and building a career and growing professionally up the food chain, is the terminology I usually say, I became involved in interesting kinds of projects, like disaster response and organizational turnarounds
Susan Robinson: I noticed that my colleagues and peers and folks higher levels than me and lower levels from me, down from me on the organizational chart would be seeking out my opinion on things. Or how I would approach something or what I thought process would be on something
Susan Robinson: So ultimately, I have been in executive and senior leadership positions in the not-for-profit and the corporate sectors and at a certain point I just said, "You know what, this might be the time to start a consulting and advisory practice," which I did and I do that now
Susan Robinson: I also have a public speaking component as well as doing corporate keynotes and commencement addresses and other sorts of public speaking things which really infuse my experience as a vision-impaired person, my experience as a professional and how those two things can often work together to be tremendous benefit to my clients and in some of the projects that we work on
Susan Robinson: But also it helps to reshape mindset when we talk about diversity and inclusion, and even more so to shift culture and mindset in thinking about what the totality and potential is for a person and what success means for a person, a system, an organization, a company. And since I am at that intersection of all those things, it allows me to have a really fun day-to-day experience at work and at play
Mark Miller: Well, I think in the Ted talk that I looked at, you mentioned something very similar, but in the way that you kind of express or think about your challenges or challenges in general, there's definitely a component where, I think you just said it, like you look at the total person. So you're not looking at yourself as being necessarily or not looking at anybody with a disability as necessarily being disabled or being less than the person next to them. But you're actually looking at that person as a total sum of their abilities. Right
Mark Miller: For some reason, the way that you put it, it really made me stop and think, and it was like an Aha moment for me because I'm like, "I get it." I have my own challenges. I'm ADD. I'm a terrible speller. I have a hard time proofing any of my own work. Details can allude me. There's certain things that when I start working with an employer, they just have to understand that I'm not going to be a rock star when it comes to that
Mark Miller: And to use the language, I sort of need to be accommodated. I need somebody to read what I do. And people don't even get it. They don't even get like, I cannot see the error, unless you give me a day to review what I've done. You know what I mean
Susan Robinson: Yeah, yeah, yeah
Mark Miller: But somebody like you, you go, "Oh geez, what are we going to have to do for her? You know, she can't see, she's really low vision. Everything is wow." And nobody thinks that about the guy that's a crappy speller. But it's really kind of the same thing and you're just
Susan Robinson: Well, it should be told. It depends on what you're crappily spelling
Mark Miller: That's true
Susan Robinson: Right. That can really get you into trouble. I sent out a mass email once and forgot the M. That was a real problem
Mark Miller: Yeah
Mark Miller: Yeah. No, yeah. Man, I could fill this podcast with stories
Mark Miller: And it really made me kind of go, "Aha, low vision in your case is just a tick in the not-so-great columns.
Susan Robinson: Oh, I love that language. "Just a tick." Can I borrow that moving forward
Mark Miller: You can steal whatever you want to steal
Susan Robinson: It's so true because ... and sort of my Aha moment for this was there was a confluence of a few things, but at one point in my career I started to supervise people and then I became a department head and a team lead and an organizational leader
Susan Robinson: And when you do that and you're responsible for professional development of your team, hiring, and in my case, unfortunately, having to fire people
Susan Robinson: Hiring people that do the same job, maybe just in different parts of the country. What I realized is that no person has it all. So when I had a team of folks that they all had the same job title, they just did it in different places in the country, they all did a phenomenal job, but they all brought different strengths to that job and everyone learned from each other
Susan Robinson: It was total steel-sharpening steel kind of thing, but nobody did the job exactly in the same way. Every person that has ever worked on one of my teams, we've always invested in coaching and professional development to grow them over time
Susan Robinson: And everyone was growing for different reasons. Everyone brought their own strengths and had things that really needed improvement. Or in some cases it wasn't even worth tackling. You know
Susan Robinson: So I sat back at one point and I said, "If nobody has it all and everybody's got some sort of deficit, let's call it, why is my not 20/20-sighted vision such a problem
Mark Miller: Exactly
Susan Robinson: It's because it's labeled a disability
Susan Robinson: So the so-called normal ... Let me sort of break up the two groups and just to quickly address my critics. All of the accessibility policy that I benefit from, I acknowledge it. It's wonderful
Susan Robinson: It's the language that I start to really get a little wound up on, because disabled is a word that's used to describe a car that's broken down at the side of the highway and can't function for what it's been designed to do. It's also a word that's used to describe something that works, that specifically and intentionally has been made not to work, such as a disabled alarm
Susan Robinson: It's also used to describe, for example, a major league baseball player who has sprained his middle finger and can't play, so he's on the disabled list
Susan Robinson: And as a New Yorker I always want to acknowledge the critical communication tool that is the middle finger, but does it actually make us disabled
Susan Robinson: See, this word, it's used to mean different things. And when it covers this cohort of people, it covers folks who need 24-hour care in order to accomplish activities of daily living, like eating and getting dressed and bathing, to individuals who are legally covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act because they have migraines
Susan Robinson: I'm not discounting the pain and suffering of migraines, but you can understand how those two groups of people are very, very different
Susan Robinson: So the so-called normal are, I don't want to say programmed, because that's not the right word, but sort of having lived in that world, when you're coached as a student going into your interviews, it's when you're asked, "What is one of your weaknesses," you're coached to identify something and then turn it into a strength
Susan Robinson: But when you're disabled and someone has their unrecognized unconscious bias, they're saying, "What's wrong? What can't she do? What's not possible?" And it's difficult to turn that around
Mark Miller: Hmm
Susan Robinson: So I just so happened over the years to sort of figure out a way to say to fully-sighted people like, "Everything's not worth seeing." And unfortunately there are things that you have seen that you really don't want to ever see again in regret having seen in the first place
Susan Robinson: I am living blissfully unaware
Mark Miller: That is me
Susan Robinson: So who is really disabled? And so when you can take a little bit of logic to approach some of these situations, to reshape someone's thinking, that's where I think the change really comes from in that shift in mindset and culture that we talked about a little bit
Susan Robinson: Because when you have the two groups, disabled, so-called normal, you're really applying to different things. And when you're applying disabled, you're leading with what you can't do first. And when you're so-called normal, you're leading with what you can do first and you're trying to turn what isn't so great about your performance into something that's really good anyway
Mark Miller: Right? Yeah. You know, you had in your TED talk, one of the things that you put in there was this really cool superpower analogy, right
Mark Miller: Yeah. You like your superpower analogy
Mark Miller: I was thinking about that as well, and it's like if you really flip this on its head. And you know, talking to a person like you with such a vibrant personality, obviously a boatload of intellect, that's very good from a business standpoint. Very good from a personal standpoint. I really can, your super power's right out front for us all to really experience. Right
Susan Robinson: Oh, well, thank you for those kinds words
Mark Miller: You're welcome. But Superman has his kryptonite
Mark Miller: And it's almost like without ... You could look at it in reverse. Like if it wasn't for that kryptonite, Superman wouldn't have his superpowers
Susan Robinson: It's true
Mark Miller: You know
Susan Robinson: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Mark Miller: So when I think about a person with a disability, for lack of a better term ..
Susan Robinson: Sure
Mark Miller: ... and I think about a person like you, oftentimes what I wonder is what did not having the benefit of being fully-sighted like we did, how did that change this person for the better? What challenges have you gone through? What have you to overcome
Mark Miller: Obviously, in order to navigate the world, you have to do it in a different way than I do
Susan Robinson: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yep
Mark Miller: And by doing it in a different way, you develop different skills and those skills will be better than my skills in that area because you work on them everyday to get through things. Just like I would develop a skill related to sight to accomplish it
Mark Miller: So it really does become this, like a balance issue. You know what I mean
Susan Robinson: Absolutely
Mark Miller: Where one thing goes down, it pushes another thing up. And then I think as an employer, as anybody, then you start to ask yourself, "Well, what is that? What superpower does that kryptonite create and how is that valuable to our organization?
Mark Miller: [crosstalk 00:15:42
Susan Robinson: I wish every employer asked that kind of question
Susan Robinson: Because they would start to see people, regardless of who came through the door, but in particular, those who have this label of disabled, which is sort of a negative terminology, they would start to view applicants with an asset-based perspective as opposed to a deficit-based perspective
Mark Miller: Which is what the crazy thing is, is what they do
Mark Miller: If somebody walks through the door, they go, "Oh, let's look at your resume. What are you good at? What are you gonna? What are you good at? What are you good at?" Then they have that one final clever question: "Tell me about a time when you didn't do such a good job and you had to overcome it.
Mark Miller: And it's like, how would Susan answer that? I mean, you would be like: bullet point, great; bullet point, great; bullet point, great; bullet point, great. And then, "Oh boy, do I have a story for you
Susan Robinson: Yeah. I was told by ... Exactly
Mark Miller: When I was 18 years old, I was told I couldn't be a fighter pilot. You know
Susan Robinson: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And I would say for someone like me, I'm told that I don't look vision-impaired, so that falls under the category of the, quote/unquote, hidden disability
Susan Robinson: But if you're a person who walks into that job interview in a wheelchair or using crutches, not for injury but for permanent use ..
Susan Robinson: ... you sometimes can't get past the unconscious bias of the person who has assessed you and has stepped back going, "Uh oh, we have to make accommodations and what does that mean and how do we ...
Susan Robinson: It starts to cause all of these questions that are fair questions. They're not bad questions, but when they prevent or interrupt the objective evaluation of the qualifications of the individual coming to the door for the job, that's when it becomes a problem
Mark Miller: Yeah. Yeah. It really is. That whole dynamic becomes very interesting because it starts, potentially, and I don't want to throw everybody in this category because I think there's some people that do what we're talking about in an amazing way
Susan Robinson: Oh, yeah
Mark Miller: Right. But you're absolutely right. It does throw that potential for some kind of different behavior on the part of the person observing the person with the disability
Mark Miller: They're like
Susan Robinson: And we're all human. So to your point, it's not about throwing anybody under the bus. We're all human and we all have our sort of built-in biases that we're, well, I'm gonna say it, pun intended, that we're blind to
Susan Robinson: So it's one of those things where an increased of self-awareness but also a really supportive environment to say we're going to really take a look at what we're looking for, a very clear look at what we're trying to achieve with the team that we're trying to build and we're going to look for the talent, regardless of the packaging
Mark Miller: Yeah. Your point is right on too. Like, I can sit here and act like I'm a big deal because I understand people with disabilities and I don't know, but whatever you want to say
Susan Robinson: Your're a total big deal, Mike
Mark Miller: Nah, that's not really true. But the bottom line is I have an unfair advantage. I mean, I work in an organization that's filled with people with disabilities. So by nature of observing and being in this environment over and over again and seeing people like you, and this is what I always tell people, because people in my not-work life don't have this kind of exposure to all sorts of people with disabilities
Mark Miller: And they're kind of like ... I'll get a "What's it like? Oh, really," you know, "Your general managers blind?" And I always go, "Look, this is the most humbling and inspiring environment I've ever worked in, because I have people who don't have the benefit of one of their five senses, right? They're completely blind and they're more successful than me. If you want inspiration, you've got it right there. This person is doing more than I am and they can't see.
Mark Miller: Like, come on. You know? It makes you not only realize the value of that person and that that person has multiple values that have nothing to do with their disability, but also that if they can push and be that successful, they're just an inspiration to you
Susan Robinson: Yeah. That is so well said. That's really well said
Mark Miller: Well, I met an individual through this, who's totally blind. He went blind, I think, later in life. Gentleman named Bruce that works for the, I forget what it's called. It's in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it's the Carroll Center for the Blind
Mark Miller: Unbelievable. You'd love this guy. He's unbelievable personality. Great, great dude. Just warm personality. And he completely lost sight at one point. He's on a blind sailing team. He and his buddies get together and they sail
Susan Robinson: [crosstalk 00:20:31] it
Mark Miller: They have one sighted person on the boat and they sail. So when I'm listening to stories like that, it's easy for me to be like, "Oh yeah. I don't care if you're blind.
Mark Miller: "Let's look at your resume." But it's much, much more difficult, I think, for the average person who isn't exposed all the time, that don't have the benefit of having friends and colleagues and coworkers that have all sorts of different abilities and disabilities
Susan Robinson: Agreed. And there's this assumption that the so-called normal has the totality of what they need to be successful and comparatively no one else, therefore, can be as successful as the so-called normal
Susan Robinson: But in the work environment, there have been times where I've pulled out a job description or pulled out a project plan that sort of defined all of the specific resources and talents that were needed to accomplish what we were setting forth as goals. And I asked people where on this list is 20/20 vision
Susan Robinson: We're talking about it now as if it is so important and that's fine, but if it was really that important, it already would've made this list. And then it helps. It's got that thinking, that in-the-moment recognition that we're bringing something to the table that in some ways doesn't even really have logic
Mark Miller: Yeah. Yeah, that's really well said. There's probably a handful of things that you can put on the list of Requires 20/20 Vision, and those would be very specific outlier things
Susan Robinson: Right. I'm not going to be, let's say, an Indy 500 race car driver. That makes sense
Susan Robinson: But I do have friends that have put bets on me that I would be a better New York city cab driver than most and that's a fair hypothesis that we will never test out
Susan Robinson: But considering the circumstances, so I'm not going to really drive, like that's just not going to happen. And there are things, like I will mistake in an Asian man for my mom, so facial recognition is never going to be one of my best strengths
Susan Robinson: But it's really difficult to lie to me, for an example. And I hear things really well
Mark Miller: Why is that
Susan Robinson: [crosstalk 00:22:49] far away and sort of have this forensic hearing process, which is sort of weird to explain to people, but it works for me pretty well
Mark Miller: Can you elucidate that whole lying thing? Because that's really interesting. Why is it hard for you to be lied to
Susan Robinson: Okay, so to break down my vision impairment, just so you understand or the listeners understand how my eye works, I have, as I noted, adolescent onset macular degeneration. So the back of my eye, the retina, it's the thing where when the light goes in, the picture's upside down and then it bounces back out and that's how your brain recognizes it
Susan Robinson: The retina part has two components. The outside part, which is the peripheral, which most fully-sighted people refer to it as, "Oh, I saw something out of the corner of my eye," kind of thing
Mark Miller: Yep
Susan Robinson: And then there's the center vision, which is called the macula, hence macular degeneration. For a 20/20-sighted person or a fully-sighted person, those two parts work together so that you see both movement and static. Because the peripheral catches movements, hence, "I saw something out of the corner of my eye," and macula sees a static, like a street sign for example
Susan Robinson: I don't have the static part, I don't have the macula, so I see everything through my peripheral. It's designed to see movement. It's not designed to see static
Susan Robinson: So it sort of gets a double workout, per se, every day. So if I want to see something that's static, I need to stop moving. I need to sort of put my peripheral vision onto what I'm trying to look at and then try to figure it out. Very cumbersome process
Susan Robinson: So for someone, let's say you're sitting across the table and you ask them a question and they're giving you a false answer. Typically, the average person is very mindful of their facial reactions. So if someone's lying to you, they know how to control their facial reaction so that those muscles and all of the communication to you, close and static, matches what they're saying
Mark Miller: Ah. So everything by perceiving through that macular view, they're in control of
Susan Robinson: Right
Mark Miller: Got it
Susan Robinson: However, people who are lying, there's also body language that goes with lying and that movement, for me, I pick up in the peripheral, so I have no idea what your face is doing. But I can see that you're ticking a little bit to the left, so I know that that tick and the words that you say don't align. And so what I've done, what I've sort of learned to do, is to ask a probing question, for example
Susan Robinson: And then when you start to uncover, like if you have one lie, you ask a probing question, you're either going to blow it up or it's like the person's going to keep going
Susan Robinson: And at a certain point, you ask enough probing questions that are just like, "Well, this isn't making sense to me, but you said this and now you're saying that," you can uncover it in that kind of way. But really it's tipped off through the body language
Mark Miller: That's really, wow. So on the list of things that you'd be really good at, poker
Susan Robinson: I would be really good at poker with the exception of I'm not going to be able to see the cards
Mark Miller: Come on. We could braille those for you. That's not a problem. That's an easy accommodation
Susan Robinson: Yeah, the poker face thing, you're absolutely right. That's amazing. But I would have difficulty with the cards and, quite frankly, I don't necessarily have a good poker face when I'm doing stuff like that. So I would probably lose anyway, but not because I couldn't read somebody else's poker face
Mark Miller: Gotcha
Susan Robinson: Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah
Mark Miller: That's super-interesting. Now, I'm going to be looking at people, trying to observe their
Susan Robinson: You have the gift of 20/20-sighted vision, so you sort of got to go with your strengths, you know
Mark Miller: Well, it creates a bias, right? I mean in that ... This is a really interesting example, right? Because I mean that goes back all the way to the kryptonite stuff. The fact that I have 20/20 vision and that macular part of my vision is very strong, creates a biased, that makes it more difficult for me to see what you can see when somebody lies
Susan Robinson: Yes, exactly. And that's where fully-sighted people have, it's not often anymore because I've gotten much better at finding the words that are best heard by somebody else when I explained my vision impairment ..
Susan Robinson: ... but I have been accused of faking it because I see things that fully-sighted people don't. For example, again, I see movements because I have the peripheral and you see both
Susan Robinson: And my peripheral gets double workout compared to yours because you have the center
Susan Robinson: You have the macula. So if there's something rolling on the ground, a quarter, a bottle cap, a roach, whatever, I will see it before you will. And I will jump because I don't know what it is
Susan Robinson: You will always know what it is way faster than I ever will, unless I get close to the ground to see it. But it's just sort of rolling at a particular pace where a roach scurries and a bottle cap is rolling, I can't tell the difference. But I'll see it on the ground moving before you will
Mark Miller: Yeah. Well, it's interesting
Susan Robinson: And so fully-sighted people are like, "You said, you couldn't see.
Susan Robinson: And I have taken to saying backwards, "You said you could,
Susan Robinson: And that sort of ends the conversation
Mark Miller: That's really interesting because I had the same experience with a friend of mine who is deaf. Years ago, the muffler in my car was going bad and so it changes the tone of the mufflers, you know, right
Susan Robinson: Yep
Mark Miller: And the car was on or whatever. The car was turned on, she could hear it. And she's like, "Oh, what's wrong with your car? Is Your muffler going bad?
Mark Miller: And I'm like, it was that moment of like, "Wait a minute. Have you been fooling me all these years? Like that's a ..
Mark Miller: Not only are you identifying what the sound is, but you're detecting this subtle change in the sound? Well, of course, the muffler sound opens up and it gives more of a base and she can feel that vibration very distinctly. It was a situation where I knew my muffler was going bad, but the average person wasn't going like, "Hey, your muffler's bad," because that total change wasn't significant
Mark Miller: And I think that your brain, you know, it's true with the peripheral vision too, your brain filters pretty effectively, right
Susan Robinson: So that is
Mark Miller: So that is probably a lot of stuff that we're filtering to maintain focus on that macular part of our vision and that you're not filtering because macular part's not there. So you have this like a heightened heightened sense in those areas
Mark Miller: And it was the same for her, her sense of how something felt was all she had, so she had it really tuned and figured out
Mark Miller: And for the same reason, she was a fantastic dancer because she would get on a desk and she would just feel the beat pounding through the air and through the floor and wasn't distracted by all the rest of the music that can throw other people's rhythm off. And so she just naturally
Susan Robinson: I mean it's a really good point because the parts of the brain that are designed to interpret or manage information through all of the different pathways, full vision, full hearing, whatever the case may be, those parts of the brain don't die if the source of the information isn't working. Those parts of the brain are just re-appropriated to do other things in order to help the person do whatever they do
Mark Miller: This leads to an really interesting field of study. I think about another friend of mine who's blind that I've met through conferences and stuff like that. She's a, I think, a grad student. Her name's Lindsey. I couldn't come up with her last name real easily though. And she studies neuroplasticity. [crosstalk 00:30:40]
Susan Robinson: That's a cool field
Mark Miller: Yeah. And it's a very cool field when it comes to vision loss because vision loss really points out a lot of neuroplasticity, because you literally your brain takes over that visual cortex to perform other functions
Mark Miller: And a lot of those other functions are the things that you're doing to make up for the fact that you don't have a visual cortex. So your spatial acuity, figuring out the space around you and all that kind of stuff
Mark Miller: And I'm nobody, so I could be totally butchering this, but it's ... and I think everything we're talking about, really, has a lot to do with the plasticity of that brain, where your brain is changing what it does and how it uses itself based on what's available
Susan Robinson: Mm-hmm (affirmative). I'm no neuroscientist either, but I'm with you on this. I have some friends who are. And the sort of archaic thinking is that your brain develops to a certain point and then that's it. Game over
Susan Robinson: And that's actually not true. The brain can continue to develop. Yeah
Mark Miller: Yeah. It can change. Just as your visual cortex, if you're not using it, it's just dormant
Susan Robinson: Right. That's not true
Mark Miller: Which is wrong, which I found out was wrong
Mark Miller: Yeah. So it's really interesting
Mark Miller: We're actually over time, right? I couldn't stop us because this was too much fun
Susan Robinson: This is really fun. It was fun
Mark Miller: Talk to you. So I just want to say I really appreciate the discussion and I think we could probably run off in about a thousand tangents, so you may be hearing back from us to come on again
Susan Robinson: Well, I would love to run off on a tangent. This was really such a great conversation and thanks again for having me be a part of the podcast
Mark Miller: Yeah, you bet. Really appreciate it. And we'll talk about maybe having you come back at some point, it sounds, about some more stuff
Susan Robinson: Sounds cool
Mark Miller: Before we go though, I really want to emphasize that your TED talk, Five Tips to Fail at Being Disabled, which is an amazing title, it's a whole lot of fun to listen to. First and foremost. It's just, your're funny. It's entertaining. It's very insightful and enlightening. It's quick to consume
Mark Miller: So if you have a second, we'll put that in the show notes, jump in and listen to that TED talk, because it's just fun and you'll learn something. You'll learn something about yourself and you'll learn something about all that we've talked about today
Mark Miller: So thanks for sharing that. And I hope people look at that and I wanted to get into that deeper. Maybe next time. But
Susan Robinson: Yeah, we'll do it next time
Mark Miller: Yeah. So, check it out. Thank you so much, Susan. This is Mark
Susan Robinson: You're welcome
Mark Miller: This is Mark, thanking Susan and thanking you all for listening and doing your part to make our world accessible
Speaker 1: The IAP, Interactive Accessibility Podcast is brought to you by Interactive Accessibility, the accessibility experts. You can find their Access Matters Blog at interactiveaccessibility.com/blog.
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The Baka Peoples don’t want to be sacrificed for conservation
“If you close off the forest, it’s the end of world for the Baka”
The Baka are being forced live in roadside camps on a permanent basis © Survival International
Gabriella Rutherford, Survival International
The dense Messok Dja rainforest has been home to the Baka Peoples since time immemorial. But now the forest is being closed off to them to make way for a new national park. Although the park hasn’t been formally established, the Baka are being driven from their homes and deprived of their vital lifeline of forest resources—with devastating results.
For nearly a decade, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has been working with the Congolese government to set up the Messok Dja National Park with the help of funding bodies like the European Commission (EC), the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and other agencies like and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
During this time, WWF-funded park rangers have actively patrolled the area. The Baka, who are vehemently opposed to the national park, have denounced the rangers, whom they accuse of violence, discrimination and torture.
One Baka woman described how “The wildlife guards just want to kill us. Once, I had just gone to do some dam-fishing. I was coming back with some fish to grill in packages made of leaves, to eat with my husband and children. I’m coming back with the pot of fish, I put it down. Just like that, the ecoguards grab me: Bam, bam, bam. For no reason. I hadn’t provoked them, I didn’t owe them anything. They just beat me and I don’t even know what for.”
Another man reported, “We just suffer these terrible beatings here for nothing. If they see us, they just beat us with machetes. Bam, bam, bam [on your body].”
In 2011, park rangers operating in the area were involved in a string of events that led to the death of 10-year old Christine Mayi.
In the face of such persecution, many Baka have retreated from the forests to live in road-side camps. Already they are being forced to abandon their age-old tradition of “molongo” – going deep into the forest for extended periods to hunt and gather. This is now impossible as one Baka woman explained:
“How can I go into the forest?…I just go round in circles here. At this time of year I gather wild mangos, [but] now I just stay close to the road. I just gather the mangoes that are near here.. that’s their forest – they’ve taken it.”
Confronted with an alien way of life outside of the forest, the Baka face the very real possibility of food scarcity. “We live from the Lipolo forest: wild mangoes, fish, meat, wild honey and yams, everything… but it’s now blocked off and we’re left to suffer. We don’t know how we can live.”
Conservation-related malnutrition among tribal peoples in the Congo is already a well-documented problem. In 2017, a Congolese organization raised concerns that conservation had contributed to the deaths of several dozen Bayaka children during an epidemic in 2016. The deaths were attributed by a medical expert to malaria, pneumonia and dysentery, aggravated by severe malnutrition.
“We’re suffering here. We don’t know how we’re going to survive. There is nowhere for us to live. It’s as though any value we have is gone.”
And of course, when the Baka now fall ill, they are unable to collect the medicinal plants they need from the forest.
To make matters worse, the Baka communities have never given their consent for the national park, with one local Baka chief explaining, “We can’t agree to it. Everything is there: food, life, health all come from that forest. If we were to give up the forest, we’d be sacrificing our children’s lives, our parents’ lives, our own lives. It would be as if someone were committing suicide.”
The Baka remain resolute in their opposition to the project. The forest is not only key to their survival, it lies at the heart of their sense of community and identity. Life outside it is simply inconceivable to them.
“We Baka, we’re not the type of people who just stay in the village. We’re forest people… Our life, our future is out in the forest. For us and for our children. I know the forest from A-Z. Every root, every tree.”
Many Baka communities have written signed letters of complaint which they asked Survival International to forward to the funders of the proposed park. One letter reads, “If the park is established in our forest, it will be very serious. Instead of working with us, the park rangers have made us suffer so much: they beat us, they whip us with their belts. If that carries on, how will our children live? We are told that according to international law, before starting a project in our forest they need to ask our consent. So we ask you to come here, listen to us and see our suffering, and make sure the law is respected.”
The Baka’s understanding of their legal rights is sound: international law indeed dictates that the free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) of local communities must be obtained for major projects undertaken on their land. Without their consent, Messok Dja National Park is illegal.
In spite of this, WWF is pushing ahead with its plans for Messok Dja and the project continues to enjoy the support of the EC and USFWS as major donors. Neither of these funding bodies or the conservation giant show any signs of pulling the millions of dollars they have committed to the project.
The Baka–who are excellent conservationists in their own right–are adamant that this must change, and reproach those funding the project for their lack of financial responsibility: “[We] want those funding the park to take action. We’ve never seen a white person come to see where their money is going.”
Despite the considerable body of evidence of terrible human rights violations committed against the Baka, WWF has thus far denied any allegations of wrongdoing. A recent tweet read: “As if WWF would allow local communities to be systematically abused, that really is too crazy for words!”
“[We] want those funding the park to take action. We’ve never seen a white person come to see where their money is going.”
In an article written last year, a WWF coordinator described how its ranger team in northern Congo was “fully supported by WWF, and therefore well supervised and equipped.” He went on to praise the team for their efforts to stabilize elephant numbers in the region.
The conservation organization insists that it “takes the allegations seriously.” However it has not replied to any of the community complaints submitted via their whistle-blowing mechanism in July last year regarding the Messok Dja project.
The organization says it aims to respond to complaints made within two weeks.
The European Commission has defended its involvement in the conservation initiative, stressing that Messok Dja “ought to contribute to the improvement of the living conditions of the communities around the park as well as upholding conservation objectives.”
The USFWS was made aware of the situation facing the Baka in Messok Dja in November last year. Survival International has no record of any reply.
The case of Messok Dja National Park and the fate of the Baka tribe is far from an isolated case. Survival International has already reported extensively on the conservation-related human rights abuses in the context of the Congo Basin, Africa and India; it is truly a global problem.
The tribal peoples’ rights organization says that up to 14 million people worldwide have been evicted from their lands in the name of conservation. One study even calculated that the number could be as high 136 million people. In India alone, a recent ruling by the Supreme Court means that some 8 million tribal and other forest-dwelling people could be evicted from their forests due to pressure from conservation groups.
It is clear that neither the scope nor the serious nature of conservation-related problems faced by indigenous and tribal peoples worldwide can be overlooked. Survival International says that the Baka now face “existential threat as a hunter-gatherer tribe” as a result of the Messok Dja conservation initiative.
There are reasons for optimism however.
Survival’s conservation campaign continues to gain momentum and with a damning indictment of WWF’s human rights record published this week by the news platform Buzzfeed, the pressure is now very much on the WWF, and the conservation industry at large, to dramatically change the way it operates and respect tribal peoples’ rights.
Learn more about Survival International’s campaign to prevent the illegal eviction of the Baka from their forests here.
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Powers of Attorney for Personal Care: What Happens When the Attorneys Disagree?
Posted on September 25, 2014 by Irvin Schein
The recent Superior Court decision in McNutt v. Draycott illustrates what can happen when an elderly person nominates a number of his adult children as his attorneys for personal care, and a disagreement arises among them as to what is in their father’s best interests.
In this case, Peter Draycott was a 94 year old man living in his own home with two of his children, Geoffrey and Yolis. His other two children, Daphne and Anthea, did not live with him. They were unhappy with the quality of care that he was receiving from Geoffrey and Yolis. They wanted Peter to be placed in a long term care facility. Geoffrey and Yolis disagreed.
All four adult children were named as attorneys in Peter’s power of attorney for personal care.
Daphne applied to the court for an order appointing her as Peter’s guardian, thereby terminating the power of attorney and giving her the right to move her father to a care home.
In her application, Daphne alleged that Peter was suffering from neglect and abuse while under the care of Geoffrey and Yolis. Daphne alleged that Geoffrey had no assets and was not working, and was taking advantage of Peter by living in his house rent-free. She and Anthea insisted that he would be better off in a long-term care facility.
In response, Geoffrey swore that he and Yolis had adequately cared for Peter in his own home and that Peter preferred to be in his own home rather than in an institution. The allegations of neglect and abuse were denied.
The material before the court included a capacity assessment of Peter which indicated that he was incapable of his personal care.
A report prepared by the Mississauga Halton Community Care Access Centre was filed indicating that while there was obvious family discord, the evidence as to Peter’s condition was inconclusive. He appeared to be fit and agile for his age, usually well dressed and clean. However, occasionally he appeared unkempt and the clothing and other items in his room were found to be in disarray.
At one point Daphne called the police to attend at the house, which they did. The policeman’s notes indicated that while Peter was obviously not mentally capable, he appeared to be happy with the arrangements. The policeman indicated that he had no concerns.
As a result, the court was faced with conflicting evidence.
As she was the applicant, the onus was on Daphne to satisfy the court not only that Peter was incapable of making his own decisions, but also that there was no appropriate alternative course of action other than a guardianship. A power of attorney for personal care is considered to be an appropriate alternative course of action provided, of course, that there was no reason for the court to prefer a guardianship arrangement. A court would do so, for example, if the court was satisfied that the named attorney or attorneys were not doing their job properly.
In this case, the court had little problem finding that Peter was incapable of personal care. However, the court was not satisfied that the existing power of attorney was not adequate to provide for that care. As far as the court was concerned, based on the conflicting evidence, Daphne had not met the onus upon her to satisfy the court that Peter’s needs were not being addressed adequately under the current arrangements. The court felt that while he was not being cared for to a standard of perfection, such a standard was not required. What was required was that Peter be reasonably cared for and the court felt that this was taking place.
The court pointed out that it was Peter’s wish that his children be responsible for his care. His wishes should be observed unless it was clear that his interests were being harmed. Since there is evidence that he was doing reasonably well in his own home, it was not shown to the court’s satisfaction that his interests were being harmed. Furthermore, the court observed that there were advantages to Peter being able to live in his own home and in comfortable surroundings with his children.
The court did make reference to the existence of a conflict between the children. The court felt that the conflict by itself was not adversely affecting his interests because on a practical level, day to day decisions were made by Geoffrey and Yolis and there was no satisfactory evidence that those decisions were causing harm to Peter.
This is one of those sad cases of a dysfunctional family going to war over a parent who probably would have been appalled by these events, if he had been capable of appreciating them. To parents, this is a valuable lesson as to the care that has to be taken in deciding to whom to grant a power of attorney. To lawyers, this is an important lesson in the quality of evidence that needs to be brought forward in order to displace a parent’s wishes as expressed in a power of attorney.
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The Man Behind the Curtain of Royal Ambarrukmo Yogyakarta
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by Leighton Cosseboom May 9, 2017 September 13, 2017 0352
The Central Bureau of Statistics shows Yogyakarta as the country’s top travel destination in recent years. The number of tourist arrivals to the province grew by more than 130 percent in 2016. Here’s how Ian Cameron, General Manager of Royal Ambarrukmo Yogyakarta, found himself ahead of the curve.
According to Global Business Guide Indonesia, despite a cooling economy in Indonesia and around the world, Southeast Asia’s biggest country continues to pull in a growing number of tourists from around the world. Simultaneously, locals themselves are travelling in the archipelago like never before.
As a result, the demand for hotel accommodations is poised to increase significantly in the coming years as more leisure travellers and business folks come to the country. Increased trade integration in ASEAN and more affordable airfares are a bonus for hotels and hospitality businesses in Indonesia. This should help the sector overcome challenges of oversupply in some areas, such as Bali.
But after tourists and business travellers have done what they need to in Jakarta and Bali, the next place they will inevitably focus on is Yogyakarta in Central Java. This is a bet that Ian Cameron, the General Manager at Royal Ambarrukmo Yogyakarta, is willing to make.
Royal Ambarrukmo is one of the few five-star hotels in the city, and Cameron has been overseeing the operation for nearly a year and a half. Prior to serving as the general manager for the premium venue in Yogyakarta, the Scotland native spent most of his life travelling the world in the hospitality business.
“I first came to Indonesia to work some 27 years ago. I spent three years in Bali then at a hotel in Legian. This was a time when Bali was very different from now. I have worked in Thailand, Egypt, Singapore, South Korea, last in the Philippines before returning to Bali for four years and then moving to Yogyakarta just over a year ago,” the expat recalled.
Having worked in hotels and served as general manager at a range of top-notch resorts in Bali such as Swiss-Belhotel International in Pecatu, Ramada Resort and Grand Aston in Nusa Dua and Centra Taum in Seminyak, it seems evident that Cameron is a bona fide lifer in Indonesia’s resort hierarchy. He recalls his first encounter with the hospitality business:
“When I was 12 years-old I took my first holiday job in a hotel, close to where I lived in Scotland, in the kitchen doing the washing up and then as a waiter. I enjoyed the dynamic of working with others at the hotel and also being a part of creating the magic that guests feel, or certainly should
I enjoyed the dynamic of working with others at the hotel and also being a part of creating the magic that guests feel, or certainly should feel, when they experience a hotel or restaurant.”
Having taken to the industry from a young age like a duck to water, Cameron attended hotel school in Edinburgh for four years and eventually set his sights on Asia.
“Even then I knew I wanted to work in the Far East, I didn’t know why particularly, other than the fact that better service was possible in hotels here,” explained Cameron. “I started then to write letters to hotels in Asia applying for positions. Email wasn’t around then so it was old fashioned mail by post, and it was nice to get back the responses – even though they were rejections due to lack of any overseas experience – on good quality hotel letterhead from places such as Hong Kong, Singapore and others, then considered very exotic places to travel to.”
According to the general manager, Yogyakarta’s hotel industry outlook is an encouraging one. He highlighted the city’s soon-to-open international airport, adding that it will potentially increase the market in new and exciting ways.
In April, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo expressed his belief that Yogyakarta’s tourism sector holds great potential. The national strategy and Yogyakarta’s economic program aim to focus on developing tourism and the province’s creative industry. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, Yogyakarta was the country’s top travel destination in 2016. The number of tourist arrivals to the province spiked by more than 130 percent during a one-year period.
In January of 2017, the tourism ministry predicted that by 2020, Indonesia’s tourism sector will become the biggest revenue contributor for the country at large.
With more than 47,000 local and foreign tourists arriving at the Gunung Kidul District in the Special Region of Yogyakarta (just one of the province’s several tourist attractions) for Easter weekend in April, the ministry’s prediction doesn’t seem too far-fetched.
The accelerated growth of tourism and business travel in Yogyakarta is plain to see in 2017, as a variety of starred hotels have recently cropped up to compete with Royal Ambarrukmo, including names like Meliá, Adonara Group and the 150-room Royal Kraton. However, as an early mover in the province’s budding tourism space, Cameron finds himself at the centre of a unique business intersection, one that is brimming with opportunity.
The general manager humbly added, “Indonesia is such a vast country with all sorts of different destinations and I do believe that Yogyakarta is a fantastic holiday destination in its own right.”
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David Harrison.
CEO, DG Murray Trust
David Harrison is the CEO of the DG Murray Trust. After completing his medical internship in 1990, David joined the Child Health Unit of the University of Cape Town, working on policy issues related to child health, nutrition and early childhood development. He completed an MSc(Med) related to the planning of child health services in Khayelitsha.
In 1991, he founded the Health Systems Trust (HST), a non-government organization supporting health policy and services development in South Africa. In this capacity, he established the South African Health Review – an annual assessment of health and health care, and the Initiative for Sub-District Support, working with the Department of Health to improve the quality of health care in clinics throughout South Africa.
In 2000, he completed a Masters in Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, before returning to South Africa to head up loveLife, a national HIV prevention programme for young people. In 2010, he joined the DG Murray Trust, which is committed to growing South Africa’s potential.
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Fighting FASD.
New product or service
This digital game uses playful learning techniques to help children with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) form new neural pathways, helping them overcome some of their learning challenges.
FASD is the umbrella term for the lifelong physical and/or developmental impairments that can result from prenatal alcohol exposure. Children born with FASD suffer from growth deficits, birth defects, and neurological damage. At school, they often struggle with attention, memory, and executive functioning; often falling far behind their peers.
South Africa has the highest reported prevalence of FASD in the world, which is more than 14 times the global average. While nothing can undo the damage caused in the womb, the plasticity of the developing brain means there is hope. Games using playful learning techniques, are an impactful way of helping these vulnerable children.
Fighting FASD is an open-source computer game designed for children with FASD. It engages them in fun-filled activities that stimulate the brain’s ability to form new neural pathways.
Children in rural areas are hardest hit by FASD, and Fighting FASD was developed with these children in mind. Using a range of image matching activities, the game exercises the cognitive functions of attention and working memory.
Initial piloting of the game, funded by Innovation Edge, was done on a sample of 11 children in Mfuleni, Western Cape in March 2016. Based on the pilot’s outcomes, The Foundation for Alcohol Related Research (FARR) leveraged more than R1 million in funding from AWARE and the Partnership for Alcohol and AIDS Intervention Research to continue testing the prototype. A new and improved version of the game has since been released.
The idea for using a computer game as a form of remediation is not unique to this initiative. It has shown success internationally, in the form of Carribean Quest – a computer game also aimed at improving cognitive function in children with FASD. We supported the vision of the investee to build on what exists to create a product that is relevant and accessible in the South African context. Fighting FASD is low-cost, widely accessible and does not need a professional to administer it.
The Foundation for Alcohol Related Research (FARR) is the leading source of research and information on Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Foetal Alcohol Syndrome in South Africa.
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“In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful”
Islam is not a new religion, but the same truth that God revealed through all His prophets to every people. For a fifth of the world’s population, Islam is both a religion and a complete way of life. The Arabic word “Islam” simply means submission and is derived from the word meaning peace. In a religious context, it means complete submission to the will of God. Muhammadanism is thus a misnomer because it suggest that Muslims worship Muhammad, rather than God. “Allah” is the Arabic name for God which is used by Arab Muslims and Christians alike.
The Qur’an is the record of the exact words revealed by God through the angel Gabriel to prophet Muhammad (pbuh). It was then dictated to his companions and written down by scribes, who cross-checked it during his lifetime. Not one word of it’s 114 chapters (surah) has been changed over the centuries. The Qur’an is in every detail the unique and miraculous text which was revealed to prophet Muhammad (pbuh) 14 centuries ago! It is the prime source of every Muslim’s faith and practice. It covers all the subjects which concern us as human beings: wisdom, doctrine, worship and law, but it’s basic theme is the relationship between God and His creation. It also provides guidelines for a just society, proper human conduct, and an equitable economic system.
WHAT ARE THE FIVE
Any action done with the awareness that it fulfills the Will of God is considered worship. But it is the specific acts of worship termed as the Pillars of Islam which provide the framework for Muslim spiritual life. These are: Declaration of Faith, Five Daily Prayers, Fasting in the Month of Ramadhan, Charity, Pilgrimage to Makkah. Please read more about these pillars below →
WHAT DO MUSLIMS
Muslims believe in One, Unique, Incomparable God; The Angels created by Him; In the Divine Books; The Prophets through who his revelations were brought to mankind; The Day of Judgement and individual accountability for actions; God’s complete authority of human Destiny; In life After Death. Muslims believe in a chain of prophets starting from Adam and including Idris (Enoch), Nuh (Noah), Hud (Eber), Saleh (Salah), Ibrahim (Abraham), Lut (Lot), Ismail (Ishmael), Ishaq (Isaac), Yaqub (Jacob), Yusuf (Joseph), Ayub (Job), Shoaib (Jethro), Musa (Moses), Harun (Aaron), Dhul-Kifl (Ezekiel), Dawud (David), Sulayman (Solomon), Ilyas (Elijah), Al-Yasa (Elisha), Yunus (Jonah), Zakariya (Zechariah), Yahya (John the Baptist), Isa (Jesus), and ending with Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon them). God’s final message to mankind, a confirmation of the eternal message and summing-up of all that has been sent before was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) through the Angel Gabriel and preserved as The Holy Qur’an.
HOW DO MUSLIMS VIEW
Muslims believe that the present life is only a trial and preparation for the next, eternal, life. Basic article of faith include the Day of Judgement, Resurrection, Heaven and Hell. On the Day of Judgement, the entire Human race will be resurrected; everyone will appear before the Almighty God and face the consequences of their deeds in this life. Belief in accountability to God and an everlasting life to come gives a sense and meaning to the worldly life. It makes hardship easy, gives hope, and differentiates human beings from animals and inanimate objects. It is also a reminder against crime, corruption, immorality, and injustice.
Peace be upon him, Muhammad was the last of messengers of God, sent to complete the religion of Abraham. He was born in Makkah in the 570. As he grew up, he became known for his truthfulness, generosity, and sincerity. At the age of 40, he received his first revelation from God, through the angel Gabriel. As soon as he began to preach the message revealed to him, he and his small group of followers suffered bitter persecutions. This grew so fierce that in the year 622, God gave the command to emigrate from Makkah to Medinah. After several years, prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and the Muslims returned to Makkah and established Islam definitively. Before the Prophet (pbuh) died at the age of 63, the greater part of modern day Saudi Arabia was Muslim. Within a 100 years of his passing, Islam had spread as far as Spain in the west and China in the East.
MARY & JESUS
Peace be upon them, Muslims respect and revere both Jesus and Mary. Muslims consider Jesus to be one of the greatest of God’s messengers to mankind and await his second coming. The Qur’an confirms his miraculously birth through the same power which had brought Adam into being without a father. There is a chapter in the Qur’an titled “Mary” and she considered the purest women in all creation and is an example for believers.
HOW DOES ONE
BECOME MUSLIM
Simply by reciting the declaration of faith, “There is no god apart from God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God.”
With this declaration, the believer announces his or her faith in all God’s messengers and the scriptures they brought. Anyone can accept the truth and become Muslim.
THE PILLARS OF ISLAM
The most important Muslim practices are the Five Pillars of Islam. These are the five obligations that every Muslim must satisfy in order to live a good and responsible life according to Islam.
“There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger.”
This is the basic declaration of Islamic faith. A Muslim is expected to recite this statement out loud, with total sincerity, fully understanding what it means.
Salah is the obligatory Muslim prayers, performed five times each day at set times: Fajr (dawn, before sunrise), Zuhr (afternoon) Asr, (late afternoon) Maghrib (after sunset) and Isha (nightfall). This prayer ritual, which is over 1400 years old, is repeated five times a day by hundreds of millions of people and carrying it out is not only highly spiritual, but connects each Muslim to all others around the world.
Prayer for a Muslim involves uniting mind, soul, and body in worship; so a Muslim carrying out these prayers will perform a whole series of set movements that go with the words of the prayer. Muslims do not pray for the benefit of God. Islam teaches that God has no needs at all. They pray to follow the command of God and believe they obtain great benefit in doing so. A Muslim prays as if standing in the presence of God and in direct contact with God. There is no priest as an intermediary (while there is typically a prayer leader in the mosque – the Imam – they are not serving as a priest, simply someone who is knowledgeable about Islam).
Muslims can pray anywhere on a clean surface, but it is especially beneficial to pray with others in a mosque. Also, one must be clean before they pray. They make sure of this by performing ritual washing, called wudhu. Mosques typically provide washing facilities.
Sawm is fasting. Muslims are required to fast during the holy month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.
During the 29/30 days of Ramadan all adult Muslims must give up the following things during the hours of daylight: food, drink of any sort and sexual activity. Muslims who are physically or mentally unwell may be excused, as may those who are under the age of puberty, the very old, those who are pregnant, breast-feeding, menstruating, or travelling. If an adult does not fast for the reasons above they should try to make up the fast at a later date, or make a donation to the poor instead. Muslims do not only abstain from physical things during Ramadan. They are also expected to do their best to avoid evil thoughts and deeds as well.
There are many good reasons for this fast, including: obeying God, learning self-discipline, spiritual strength, appreciating God’s blessings, sharing the sufferings of the poor and developing sympathy for them, realizing the value of charity and generosity, giving thanks for the holy Qur’an, which was first revealed in the month of Ramadan, and sharing fellowship with other Muslims.
During Ramadan many Muslims will try to eat a large meal called suhur just before dawn. When daylight is over, most Muslims will break or open the fast with dates or water, following the example of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), before having a proper meal later. The evening meals during Ramadan are occasions for family and community get-together.
The month of Ramadan ends with the thanksgiving festival of Eid ul-Fitr. This is marked by dressing up and visiting the mosque for prayer, and with visits to family and friends for celebratory meals and gift exchanges. Because Islam uses a lunar calendar, the month of Ramadan comes around 11 days earlier each successive year, so there is no Western season associated with Ramadan.
Zakat is the compulsory giving of a set proportion of one’s wealth to charity. It is regarded as a type of worship and of self-purification.It does not refer to charitable gifts given out of kindness or generosity, but to the systematic giving of 2.5% of one’s wealth each year to benefit the poor.
The benefits of Zakat, apart from helping the poor, are as follows: obeying God, helping a person acknowledge that everything comes from God on loan and that we do not really own anything ourselves, we cannot take anything with us when we die we need not cling to it, acknowledging that whether we are rich or poor is God’s choice, so we should help those he has chosen to make poor, learning self-discipline, freeing oneself from the love of possessions and greed, freeing oneself from the love of money, freeing oneself from love of oneself, and behaving honestly.
Once a year, Muslims of every ethnic group, colour, social status, and culture gather together in Mecca at the Kaaba (first Mosque built by Abraham) praising God together. It is a ritual that is designed to promote the bonds of Islamic brotherhood and sisterhood by showing that everyone is equal in the eyes of Allah. The Hajj makes Muslims feel real importance of life here on earth, and the afterlife, by stripping away all markers of social status, wealth, and pride. In the Hajj all are truly equal. All Hajjis or pilgrims wear simple white clothes called Ihram. During the Hajj the Pilgrims perform acts of worship and they renew their sense of purpose in the world.
Mecca is a place that is holy to all Muslims. It is so holy that no non-Muslim is allowed to enter. Hajj occurs in the month of Dhul Hijjah, which is the twelfth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. It is the journey that every sane adult Muslim must undertake at least once in their lives if they can afford it and are physically able.
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Former KFYO News Anchor and Talkshow Host Rex Andrew Has Died
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Editor's Note 11 p.m., May 15, 2018: Slight corrections to details have been made to this article concerning Rex's military service and the political office he held in Taylor County, Texas. Details concerning funeral services have been added to the end of the article.
Former KFYO News Anchor and Talkshow Host Rex Andrew has passed away at the age of 61. Andrew died in Lubbock on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. He battled cancer and Alzheimer's disease during his adult life.
Andrew worked for News/Talk 95.1 & 790, KFYO from February 2006-October 2012. He was one of the original hosts of Lubbock's First News, taking over the show from Rob Snyder in late May 2006. Andrew was a part of the expansion of the show from a two-hour to a three-hour timeslot in 2007, and was later joined by Chad Hasty in 2008, co-hosting the show through September 2012.
"Hosting Lubbock's First News on KFYO along side of Rex Andrew was a great honor of mine," said KFYO Midday Host Chad Hasty. "We always had a great time discussing the issues of the day and sometimes getting into a debate about those issues. Rex was passionate about many things including protecting the life of the unborn and his son, Jonathan. Nothing made Rex smile more than when he was bragging about his son. Rex always had a great sense of humor and being a veteran news man, knew when a story or something a politician said didn't sound right. I am glad to have known Rex Andrew, call him co-worker, and a friend."
Andrew was also an important part of the KFYO News staff, anchoring various morning and midday shifts and also reporting on political stories for the station. In addition, he was also the first host for our weekly public affairs program, This Week in Lubbock.
"I enjoyed working with Rex Andrew when he was at KFYO," said KFYO News & Operations Manager Rob Snyder. "He was a consummate professional, able to draw upon his experiences in the military and as an elected official to provide a unique perspective for his news stories."
Before joining KFYO, Andrew was a former police officer, U.S. Naval Reserve veteran, former Taylor County Justice of the Peace in the 1990s, and a former television news reporter and weatherman in multiple markets, including Abilene at KTAB-TV/KRBC-TV. He also ran unsuccessfully for Lubbock County Justice of the Peace, Pct. 1, in the 2010 Republican Primary.
Rex Andrew is survived by his son Jonathan and various relatives.
Funeral arrangements are pending, and this KFYO.com story will be updated when those details are announced.
Late Tuesday, Sanders Funeral Home announced that services for Rex Andrew will be held Friday, May 18, 2018 at 10 a.m. at Christ The King Cathedral in Lubbock.
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Anderson Cooper.
We took Joe to see Toots today. Toots is the one and only hair stylist in town. Joe can’t even remember my name after working here for more than six months, but if I tell him that he looks like he’s about due for a haircut he grins and says, “Guess we’d better go see Toots.”
Toots is kind of a big deal around here.
As it goes with any barber shop in a small town, the gossip began before Joe even took his coat off. I helped Joe sit in the barber’s chair, and then I found a seat and happily began reading “People Magazine” while I listened to Dot and Toots share their local gossip. Joe just sat in his chair as quiet as could be and admired himself in the mirror.
Toots told Joe that he’s got a nice head of hair while she snipped away and he just grinned.
Toots said, “You’re lucky, Joe. Most men your age would give their left arm to have your head of hair.”
Joe giggled and said, “If they gave up their arm…Well that just wouldn’t do them any good at all! How would they comb their hair?”
Toots swatted him playfully and said, “It’s just a figure of speech.”
Dot: “You know who wears a hair-piece…? That Anderson Cooper.”
Toots: “No, I don’t believe it!”
Dot: “It’s true…I read that somewhere. Just the front part of his head, and you can’t even tell because it looks so natural.” Dorothy thought for a moment and said, “I wonder if that Anderson Cooper is married…?”
Toots: “Anderson Cooper? I’m pretty sure he’s gay, Dot.”
Dot: (sharp intake of breath) “Oh no, no no…he’s definitely not gay.”
Toots: “I’d have to Google it to be sure, but I’m almost positive that he’s gay. All the good looking ones are, you know…?”
Joe piped in then and said, “Well that can’t be…”
Dorothy: “Oh Joe, you don’t even know who we’re talking about…”
Joe: “I do too. Toots just said ‘all of the good looking men are gay’ and I said ‘that can’t be…”
Toots: “Oh no?”
Joe giggled and said, “Nope…cuz I’m not gay.”
Toots: “I stand corrected, Joe.”
Joe settled back into his chair, entirely pleased with himself while the rest of us laughed at his joke.
Dot: “Well I just don’t see how Anderson Cooper could be gay…he’s on a news channel! CNN I think…”
Toots: “Believe it or not, Dot, gay people CAN report the news…”
Dot rolled her eyes and shook her head in disgust.
Joe just giggled and teased Dot: “Does that make it ‘gay news’?” Dot, what are you doing watching gay news!”
Dot: “Oh Joe, SHUSH!”
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2 thoughts on “Anderson Cooper.”
Andrew on June 13, 2012 at 1:55 am said:
Anderson Cooper can’t wear a hair piece! Noooo!!!
buttonw on June 13, 2012 at 2:04 am said:
Oh yes. The Silver Fox is a sly one…
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Chapter 2 – The World Championships in Athletics
The World Championships in Athletics
Jonathan Fischer was planning his summer holidays and went to a travel agency located in the shopping area Stuttgarter Königsbau (Kings building). He got hold of information about Tanzania and Kenya, to study the catalogues at home. The ambitious athlete wanted to climb the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro. In the main centre of the Stuttgarter Schlossplatz (Palace square), he met a group of singing Christians whose songs he liked to listen to. A not unattractive girl approached him and gave an invitation to an open evening of the YMCA. As a Catholic, Jonathan avoided all contact with Protestant worship services, because he never could imagine to change the faith camp, as his Aunt Gertrude Elisabetha did. One way ore the other, this Martin Luther gave him an unpleasant feeling, every time he was calling upon saints, like in the “Hail Mary” prayer. The official invitation was offering a multivision show about the beauty of the landscape of Kenya, followed by a mission report of the Lutheran pastor George Müller. Jonathan was speechless with amazement. The eagerly interested Africa sightseer intended to attend the event on the same evening, but to leave before the second religious part. The beauty of the images that were projected on a big screen was indescribable and exceeded his manifold impressions from television by far. In his fantasy, he saw himself climbing in the morning twilight on Mount Kenya, to observe from the top, the breathtaking view of the sensational Kenyan landscape. Later he would go into one of the many fishing boats on Lake Victoria, to document with his camera the flamingo swarms which were shimmering orange in the water. While he was dreaming he forgot completely that the time had arrived to take flight. The sympathetic voice which carried into effect the magnificent slide show started to witness about many miracles that happened on the mission field with the tribal group of the Maasai. Due to other reports, Jonathan guessed it is better to leave the proud and nomadic herdsmen with their own belief in nature, but through the positive events he was readily convinced of the contrary.
What followed then changed Jonathan’s life completely. Pastor Müller began to preach about Golgotha, asking the audience, who would be ready to consecrate his life to Jesus. Jonathan never heard a man speak in the way of George Müller about the death on the cross. He sensed, as if every word of the speech was deeply ingrained in the interior of his heart, and even years later he could remember details of the discourse. Jonathan felt very uncomfortable. His narrow upper body shuddered, when the priest walked straight to him at the end of the talk and asked if he could pray for him. They went into an adjoining room of the building, owned by the Protestant Church, and took seat on two chairs. George, the pastor, put his arm around Jonathan’s shoulder, requesting tenderly what would be his biggest heart’s desire. Jonathan talked about his plans with the Kenya trip and how much the show had impressed him. Müller appraised the smart idea. He was interested to know if he was married or wanted to take a friendly companion with him. That hit the nail on the head. In spite of numerous friends, Jonathan felt very lonely and was about to take the journey as a single backpacker. Yes, his greatest desire was to find a wife. Spiritual director Müller reassured that God has provided just the right partner for Jonathan, and he should trust him to meet her at exactly the right time. It would be very important to ask for God’s will and plans in everything that he is doing, and always to seek the Kingdom of God first. The new Jesus-disciple wanted to follow this advice unconditionally. Jonathan was thrilled to receive a New Testament, which was presented with the dismissal. Every evening he read several chapters of the paperback, reaching the end after one month with the Book of Revelation. Much in the book of books appeared to him strange. Then Jonathan also got an inexplicable sudden unrest over the already booked travel. This feeling left him only, when he cancelled the flight to Kenya with financial disadvantages. Now, he looked crestfallen, with a two weeks vacation that he had registered at his bank, which he would soon spend at home.
By the time the next monthly open evening was held, George Müller had hired a Kenyan Olympic champion as speaker. In his African way the lanky endurance runner temperamentally started to talk about the supernatural intervention of God in his life. Apparently, the miracle runner Fixson Rudolph had polio at a young age and could not walk at all. In addition to his sporting achievements, Rudolph started a fund raising campaign for the orphan children in the Agape Academy in Kosele and Agape School in Awendo. The personal history of Fixson was hard to believe for Jonathan. All the more he got impressed and touched about a film of aids orphans, who were clapping in their hands and singing full of joy, so that the German hat to empty his wallet. In his opinion this meeting was as overwhelming as the last. The newcomer loved it to sing the worship songs thrown onto a screen. There he remembered that as child he always had nice feelings, when in the church “Great God, we praise you” was chanted.
At the end of the event, a driver for the upcoming World Championships in Athletics was searched for. The period coincided with Jonathan’s vacation and an indescribable feeling of joy spread through him. There was no other person who was willing to help apart from him. A private minibus, offered by a doctor of the church, was made available for him, to chauffeur a team from the USA called “Athletes for Jesus”.
The first trip took him to a former military barracks in Scharnhauser Park, which was converted into the athletes village. As a participant of international chess tournaments, Jonathan spoke English well, so he followed every word that was spoken in the minibus. The passengers were discussing a television event where famous athletes should report about their faith. The reason for the visit was, to invite as many as possible other athletes, for the event taking place at the convention centre. They formed two by two groups with the aim to distribute invitation letters at the strictly guarded athletes village. At first it was hard for Fischer to participate in this distribution campaign, for a strong feeling of anxiety overcame him. Hera Torch, the fellow American at his side, noticed this immediately and said he should only carry a heavy bag with brochures and make himself available as interpreter. Small in stature the female messenger of the gods was like a fiery torch which seemed to ignite their surroundings in no time. After three hours five hundred invitations to athletes and coaches of the various nations were distributed. Jonathan got really excited when Heike, the German series champion in long jump, willingly took his last invitation. As a reward for his courage, he received a pomegranate from Hera. In the meantime other team members met in the provisory chapel with athletes from various countries who were professing Christians. They prepared a visit to a hospital. The next day Jonathan helped to install a mixer with speakers in the auditorium of the Paracelsus Hospital in Ostfildern-Ruit. The newly formed band of the international athletes had only a short time to sample, but at the concert demonstrated such great joy, which soon spread throughout the hospital. In like manner, the colourful looking athletes swarmed out at the end of the gospel songs into the rooms of the four-winged building. They told from which countries they came from, and what sport they practised, sharing with many grateful patients company.
At one of the following evenings the American team met with Pastor Müller and members of YMCA in a park in central Stuttgart. They sang English songs of praise and worship accompanied with the guitar. After that the Protestant clergy interpreted the head of the oversea mission work who was called Samuel Lay and his best friend. The matter was again that people should give their life to Jesus. Another member of the American team was translated into German by Jonathan. Suddenly, about two hundred people came to listen. The speaker, Richy Hammer, was a kind of Arnold Schwarzenegger, for his muscle mass hardly fitted in an available T-shirt. He was the former U.S. national champion in discus throwing who gave an incredible confession. After his sports career he apparently had smuggled drugs and landed on a death row in Thailand. At the end of this very exciting story twenty people wanted to give their lives in God’s hands. It was getting dark and the meeting broke up. Jonathan’s last job was to give the bodybuilder and fitness trainer Hammer a ride to his host family. He was walking with his passenger through the park to the car and told him, they were passing through a dangerous area, wherein recently a drug dealer was shot. Richy looked straight in the eye of his new friend and argued that he was not afraid of his former colleagues, for where great darkness is, Christians would shine even brighter. Jonathan got a queasy feeling again, which developed many times stronger, when Hammer after a short announcement, sat down at a park bench, beside a depressed looking man, to share with him the love of God. The German translator was even more dismayed, when he noticed that the sinister looking figure had been abusing uproariously the open air meeting and once more started to curse. Suddenly the events were overturning. The furious counterpart pulled out a gun and said he would blow out the brains of Richy’s head, if he would still speak one sound about Jesus or even see him again preaching to a crowd. Richy Hammer began to pray in English: “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.” Jonathan had long ceased to translate, since he was scared to death. But his bold friend wanted exactly the opposite spoken out in German, in particular that they both have no fear of death. For they would immediately go to heaven, and that would be just the place where the terrorizing gun owner belongs in eternity as well. All at once, the threatener began to weep bitterly, asking if God takes even murderers with him. The atmosphere had changed completely. The three men were holding hands and prayed for forgiveness. Home in bed, Jonathan confessed to God that he will not travel to chess tournaments in future holidays, if and when life as a Christian is always as exciting. A few days later at breakfast he could not believe his eyes, when he saw an image of the oppressor from the park bench in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten (newspaper). It was the park-murderer who had voluntarily delivered himself up to the police.
The point in time of the major television programme had come, when the famous athletes wanted to tell about their faith. The convention hall was packed with World Championships participants and spectators. Jonathan agreed without hesitation to participate as a steward. Before the event, there was a huge buffet with delicious food for the guests of honour and the Athletes for Jesus team. Jonathan was fascinated how many famous people his new friend Richy knew, whom he accompanied. They both wore a red shirt with the imprint of the Sports Mission Organisation and started a small talk with different guests. Little could Jonathan have known, that precisely the most successful U.S. athlete and main attraction of the evening was a close friend of the discus champion Richy Hammer. Many admirers wondered secretly what tasty morsel the international star named Carl would take at the opening of the buffet. Carl was holding a banana in his hands, when he was asked by Richey, if he could take a photo together with Jonathan. He agreed, but first of all wanted to finish eating the tropical fruit. At the very instant an appeal was made over the loudspeakers all stewards should take up their positions. Jonathan was torn between, wondering what to do. He decided to go to his immediate service and was called to help in the parking garage. Based on the thunderous applause, he recognized that the TV show was fully a success. One consolation for him was, that he recorded the programme in his parent’s home on video tape.
Jonathan was an outstanding hifi-freak. Instead of asking for a moped, like his brother, he wished from his parents a stereo system with towering loudspeakers to the sixteenth birthday. Alfred Fischer supported him as a lover of classical music, because he benefited from the high fidelity reproduction of music in the living room himself. Other blind people benefited as well from Jonathan’s passion for technology, when he wired and programmed their audio equipment for a small tip.
The desire of Jonathan, to experience the production and broadcast of a radio show inside a station, was fulfilled in the morning after the athletes television event. First of all, Jonathan was invited from Vera Fischer to breakfast together with her visitor Samuel Lay, the approximately sixty-year-old Sports Minister. They prayed for their brunch and also, that the radio interview will be a blessing. Two hours later, Jonathan was situated in a studio of the Southwest German Radio (SWR) and got all his questions apparently answered about broadcasting. The station wanted to record an interview with Samuel. The interviewer Elmar was about the same age as Samuel and had the warmest voice you could imagine. They discussed the issues. Jonathan started to translate for his English was better than that of the famous radio host. Another amazing life testimony was spread. Lay spoke about the success and the excellent status he had at work, before God’s call directed him and his wife Anni to Kenya. There he made a new start, distributing bibles on a bicycle and preaching initially for one year in a tent in front of a crowd of nine listeners. When he left after twenty years the Nyanca Province, located at the Lake Victoria, towards his native land, together with his wife and seven children, he served as a bishop of one hundred churches. In this moment Jonathan became aware of the fact that the pastors George Müller and Samuel Lay came to know each other in Africa. The growth of the athlete’s missionary work took place in the same way. Starting as a small prayer group in the living room, followed invitations to sports festivals at schools, appearances at athletics meetings of universities, services at U.S. Championships, and recently regular television programmes in Olympic Games and World Championships.
A new day at the World Championships in Athletics arrived with the decision in the two hundred metres race. Jonathan would have liked to see the race on television, but his job on that day was to chauffeur Samuel Lay and Richy Hammer in a luxury hotel. Based on their conversations in the car, he learned that they wanted to pray there for two native sprinters who had reached the final. Samuel had a special authorization pass along with a unique charisma, which even the hostel’s staff could not resist. So it happened that the old-fashioned bus got a parking space directly at the entrance of the Inter Continental Hotel, between various luxury limousines from Untertürkheim (headquarters of Mercedes-Benz). Jonathan took place in the hotel lobby and began to read in his pocket bible the Sermon on the Mount. The English-speaking fellow Americans would need no translator in the meeting room prepared for them. After Samuel had announced his arrival on the reception, he mustered out the Bible study baby, who was far away to complete a master of theology, as he did. Unhoped-for he took the young sports fan into the illustrious circle with two world record holders in sprint. As a result of unfamiliar medical terminology Jonathan could not understand everything. Initially the prayer started for the recovery from illness of family members. Jonathan was embarrassed and totally stunned when the world-famous Leroy questioned, if he is married and has a concern for his family. Jonathan would have pronounced each of his sports comrades crazy, predicting before the World Championships in Athletics, that an American Olympic champion will come to Stuttgart and pray in a friendly intercession for a wonderful soon-to-be wife for him. A loving, humorous Father in Heaven would still answer this prayer. Now, the real concern, in particular the upcoming two hundred metres final was brought before God. Jonathan was wondering that the sprinters Leroy and Carl, who were showered with medals, not selfishly begged for the top spot, but rather wanted to be spared from injuries. Richy, who was present all the time, was reminded of the offer to take a picture. Jonathan came in the middle and was embraced by Leroy and Carl, the world record holder in the 100 metres, for the oversize photo that would be developed later. The athletes and trainers then gathered in the hotel lobby. Samuel welcomed in addition the current four hundred meters champion Butch and hugged him warmly. The graduate theologian began openly to bless Butch in the hotel hall and the other one freely retaliated in the same way. The staff observed the two with amazement as they were shouting an Amen and inquired of Jonathan which faith the priest belongs to. Then Jonathan could shortly lay witness for Christ.
Ongoing the convoy moved in direction of the huge stadium which was filled up to the last place. Jonathan was overwhelmed, getting through his friends the permission to take place in the forefront at the press area, without having a ticket. He was cheering on the well-loved actors and noticed how they won the second and third place. The winner from another English-speaking country, posed with his abnormal large biceps before the world press and for all plainly audible shouted out, that his God is greater than the Christian God of his competitors. Boiling with rage, Jonathan had to be corrected by Samuel and Richey, for he loudly called out a faecal word. They explained that God is always in control and a follower of Jesus Christ should behave better. Jonathan was quite amazed, when some time later the blasphemous loudmouth was convicted of doping, so that his career was finished.
The last day of the World Cup came, a Sunday. Jonathan was delegated to pick up the Kenyan Rudolph Fixson, who was healed of polio, from the athletes village, to bring him in a Protestant worship service. This time, the translation for Fixson had to be done simultaneously from German to English, and Jonathan soon got in trouble. His much beloved Minister Müller preached at a pace and with the energy of a steam locomotive in drive, so that the passionate Fixson often trumpeted “Hallelujah” and applauded with clashing hands. The other visitors, many of them dark-skinned athletes, were starting to do the same. The atmosphere of the meeting increasingly heated up and was more similar to the movie “Sister Act” than a Holy Mass. At the end the service spun completely out of control, due to the fact that most of the visitors couldn’t end their tipsy laughter. As soon as the collective laughter calmed down, one of the three pastor’s children bend down to the floor and started to giggle, lest the whole thing started again. Jonathan not only became acquainted with the two daughters Melanie and Jessica plus son Joshua from George Müller, but also his wife Christa, who fondly prepared the lunch. The two weeks full of work off from work came to an end. Never before did Jonathan spend his holidays in such a beautiful way. He enjoyed it to play football with the two Müller-daughters in the domestic garden, while the little boy sat seesawing on the lap of Rudolph. Fixson would soon fly home to Nairobi and be accompanied by the Müller family. The Müller family had still a second house without electricity and running water, but with a unique view to the natural spectacle of the Kenyan heartland. Jonathan could sap in his memories again and again from this supper invitation and this special holiday events. He didn’t suspect, that in future this would be severally necessary.
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Safe and Sustainable: Resnick Program Launches Food Law and Policy Clinic
UCLA School of Law's Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy has launched a Food Law and Policy Clinic to improve the health, safety and sustainability of the food production and distribution system. Through the clinic, UCLA Law students will provide legal services to organizations and develop policy proposals in areas including food insecurity, public health, workers' rights, urban agriculture, land use, animal welfare, and social entrepreneurship.
The clinic is the first of its kind in California.
Two projects form the core of the pilot program, which began in January and runs through the Spring 2017 semester.
In a partnership with the advocacy group Compassion Over Killing, students are identifying ways in which purveyors of meat-alternative and plant-based products can be competitive when they bid for contracts to operate school meals programs. Students are also collaborating with Southern California-based Food Forward to expand efforts to rescue, harvest and distribute produce that would otherwise go to waste. Resnick Program Clinical Director Allison Korn (pictured above) supervises their work.
"Given its diverse food cultures and consumers, and its steadfast commitment to social justice, I can't think of a more exciting or dynamic setting than Los Angeles for students to take on the role of food policy advocate," Korn said. "They not only contribute meaningfully to local communities in need but also gain real understanding of the role of lawyers in influencing law and public policy."
Eight students are selected to enroll in the clinic each term. Each week they participate in two hours of in-class seminars and eight to 10 hours of field work in which they develop practical skills such as interviewing, counseling, social science research analysis, legislative drafting, administrative rulemaking, and oral advocacy.
The Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy was established in 2013 and focuses on developing legal and policy strategies, timely research, and practical tools to foster a food system that benefits both consumers and the environment.
"Law students in California are increasingly interested in working as activists, organizers and change agents in the food law and social justice realms, but they have never before had a chance to participate in an initiative like this," said Resnick Program Executive Director Michael T. Roberts. "We are thrilled to add this valuable opportunity to UCLA Law's leading clinical education program."
A pioneer in clinical legal education, UCLA School of Law offers more than 60 experiential courses and clinical opportunities that provide students with the practical skills necessary to forge successful careers as advocates, policymakers and leaders in areas across the legal spectrum.
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Princess Diana Had Talks With Kevin Costner About Starring in ‘The Bodyguard 2’
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Could Princess Diana’s post-royal marriage life have included a big screen turn as an actress? According to Kevin Costner, the late Princess Di had actually been in discussions to join him in a sequel to the popular ‘90s film, The Bodyguard.
Costner had spoken about the meeting in years past, but the subject came up again during a recent appearance on People TV’s Couch Surfing, where he went into more detail about the meeting. The actor-writer-director reveals that their meeting was set up by Sarah Ferguson. He recalls of the meeting with Diana:
I said, look I’m going to write this part with you in mind, is this something you’d like to do? She said, ‘Yes, I do.’ I just remember her being incredibly sweet on the phone, and she asked the question, she goes, ‘Are we going to have like a kissing scene?’ She said it in a very respectful way. She was nervous because her life was very governed. And I said, ‘Yeah, there’s going to be a little bit of that, but we can make that OK too.’
Unfortunately things were unable to move forward, as Costner confirmed that the script for the sequel came through in August 1997, the same month that Diana died in a tragic car accident. Costner added that the studio was intrigued by the idea of Diana in a film, stating, “The studio liked the idea of doing The Bodyguard 2, [with Princess Diana] in the same kind of capacity as Whitney [Houston]. Nobody really knew that for about a year.”
Ultimately, a sequel for The Bodyguard never got off the ground, and it’s not known if Princess Diana would have accepted the role after seeing the script. It’s another intriguing Hollywood “what If” story surrounding casting.
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Source: Princess Diana Had Talks With Kevin Costner About Starring in ‘The Bodyguard 2’
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Rizal Radzi
“Before this, those who became prime ministers were all from the elitist Malay families, they were the Tunku and Datuk. I was a nobody but I managed. Now the mould has been broken and any commoner who has the ability can become the prime minister. “
Posted on September 8, 2007 by rizalradzi
3 Sept 2007: Merdeka Special: ‘Let the rakyat be my judge’
Article from The Edge, Merdeka Special, 3 Sept.
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was an Umno outcast when Tunku Abdul Rahman was nearing the end of his premiership. He was expelled from the party in 1969 for his criticisms against the party leadership. Today, in what seems like a similar situation, Mahathir considers himself persona non grata in Umno. Between 1981 and 2003, he was the prime minister, the longest serving in our 50 years of nationhood.
As a leader, he was a supremely confident man, doing things his way and often enough, the contrarian way. He is adamant that Proton is a viable national venture and remains upset that the double-tracking rail electrification project from Johor Baru to Padang Besar was scrapped by the present administration two weeks after he stepped down. At the same time, he is worried about the future of the nation if corruption is not tackled — a problem which his detractors say was not only prevalent during his time but also reached an unprecedented scale.
Love him or loath him, Mahathir, in his 22 years as prime minister, led the nation’s industrialisation process, diversified its economic base and built the Multimedia Super Corridor, turning Malaysia into a nation envied by many developing countries. To secure its economic future, he believes the country should invest heavily in R&D and carve a niche in high-tech industry. In an interview with group executive editor Azam Aris and associate editor Leela Barrock, Mahathir insists that he cannot lay claim to too much of the country’s success since Merdeka as a lot of things happened because of other people. If there is any need for an assessment of his premiership, he is leaving it to the rakyat to be the judge.
The Edge: As the elder statesman, can we have your views on the years before Merdeka?
Tun Dr Mahathir: Malaysians, notably the Malays, believed that they had no capacity to do anything, certainly not to rule the country by themselves. They believed this country would forever be ruled by others. In fact, in many agreements entered [into] by the Malay Rulers with the British, it was stipulated that these agreements would remain valid as long as there is the “moon, the sun and the stars”, which is permanent. Apparently, they never thought at any time they would become independent.Why so? Didn’t they show any ability to self rule the country?
We were unlike the Indonesians or the Indians. The Malays here have a certain culture… a culture of being loyal to the Rulers. When the Rulers did anything, they did not seek the support or the agreement of the people. The rakyat on their part never expected to be part of the political process. It was understood that politics was not for the people.
That was why when the Rulers gave away chunks of the country, there was no protest (from the rakyat) and when the Rulers entered into agreements that were actually submission to foreign powers, there was again no protest. So the mentality of the Malays for about 450 years (since the downfall of the Malacca Sultanate to the Portuguese in 1511) was that they never made any real attempt to free themselves from foreign rule. When the Portuguese were here, the Sultan of Johor (a descendent of the Malacca Sultanate) did try to recover its land but the support of the people on the whole was quite pathetic. When they were under the Portuguese, they lived under Portuguese rule — similarly when the Dutch and British were here. No rebellion except for some opposition from individuals like Mat Kilau and Tok Janggut, which were actually not organised rebellions or a struggle for independence.What changed?
When the British proposed the Malayan Union (in 1946), by that time quite a number of Malays were better educated and they suddenly realised they were about to lose this country completely because of the proposals for citizenship for all who considered Malaya their home. Furthermore, the positions of the Rulers as the heads of the states were practically downgraded. That awakened a lot of resentment and partly too because the British had lost to the Japanese during the early part of World War II. There were views among some people that the British were not invulnerable after all and (as ruler and colonial master) they were not able to provide protection. There were many other factors that changed the minds of some Malays, notably the members of the intelligentsia of those days.
The intelligentsia was able to activate a groundswell of support for independence?
Yes. The kampung people were not much moved until we started talking about the price of padi, for example… that we would be able to inflate the price of padi if we ruled the country by ourselves. To them, it was not so much about having more say in the government. But some of the Malays began [to be] more involved in opposing the Malayan Union because it was detrimental to the interest of the community. In those days, the Chinese and the Indians were not regarded as citizens except in the colony states. In the Malay states, they were not regarded as subjects of the Rulers… the subjects of the Rulers were only the Malays and the Indonesians who came to live here.
When independence actually happened, did the feeling of Merdeka from the British permeate all the way to the ground level?
No. Merdeka to many meant that the officers in the government service were changed from British to Malayan. The administration of the country would be carried out by us. But by and large, many did not think about changes that would change our lives. This came later when the feeling of mengisi kemerdekaan (filling the aspirations of an independent nation) became a priority, notably at the time when Tun Abdul Razak started to emphasise rural development. Then only, people began to realise that they can now ask for things that they never had asked before. People in the villages, at least in Kedah, began to set up jawatankuasa desakan (action committee).
In that scenario, did you foresee at that time that we could achieve so much today in terms of mengisi kemerdekaan?
Why so?
There was no model for us. All you know about independence is that we rule by ourselves. We don’t talk about developing the country or progressing. These came later, initially as a response to unemployment. It was a big problem then. The only employment the Malays could think of at the time was to cultivate the land. The old practice was if you opened up land and showed evidence of working on the land, you were entitled to ask for a grant [for the land]. They went into the forest and cut down trees to cultivate the land but it was a costly affair and it took a long time for them to get the money. Rubber trees take a long time to grow. Many people were without income and so they started asking questions like what were their representatives [in the government] for when they could not look after them.
When did you see that this independent country could become more than just another banana republic and be developed into a modern nation?
Before I became a member of parliament even… I had travelled to Hong Kong in 1960, Japan (1961) and Europe (1962) and I saw Japan, in particular… how it rebuilt itself [after the war]. I felt that it was not only the Europeans but others could do it too. I was envious of what I saw, especially in Japan. If you stand outside Tokyo station, even in 1961, you see trains coming in and out endlessly. Obviously, we can make a try of having all these in our country. Why not? Malaysia was not a beggar country. Right from the word go, we were not dependent on foreign aid as many other developing countries were after achieving independence. We had rubber, tin and enough money to have a fairly good level of development and it’s a matter of going up. Of course, we don’t plan to be like this [today] but we do think that we should improve a little on this and that….
When you became the prime minister in 1981, did you think that the country could actually progress the way it has?
Yes. I felt we could do it… there was no reason why we couldn’t do it. What is there about having more trains and roads? Before I was the prime minister, I was already proposing the North-South highway but the cabinet at the time did not approve it. As the deputy then, I thought of many things, for example, we should occupy Pulau Layang-Layang… it is ours. We should try and be like Japan. If Japan can do it, we can too. What is so difficult about building roads?
In our progress and development as a nation, how crucial was education?
Education is very important. It is the key. I was grateful to my parents not because they gave me money but they enabled me to get a good education. It was because I was able to go to an English school [and university] that I was able to improve my earnings and better my life. If you have an education, it allows for upward mobility… doesn’t matter if you are the son of a fisherman or padi farmer.
So education is a crucial part of mengisi kemerdekaan?
Definitely, education helped in improving earnings. It happened to me so I thought other people who got the opportunity for education would benefit too… and I graduated [from medical school] before independence. Initially, [about the education system after independence] we thought that all the schools would use Malay as the teaching language but this would only be done after people were better prepared to learn using the Malay language beyond the primary schools [and eventually in universities]. During the British [era], the Malay language was practically for primary schools only. If you wanted to go to secondary schools, you had to go to an English school and the Malays, Chinese and Indians spoke English at school. For me, there was no problem of interaction and mixing with the other races and conversing in English. Again, I faced no problem when I studied medicine [in Singapore] where the Malays were a minority; there were only seven Malays out of 70 people in my class. In 1970s, the education system was changed when Bahasa Malaysia was used as the medium of interaction [for secondary schools and universities]. Of course, this is something that we aspired to but the time was not right I think, and it resulted in many of the Chinese students leaving the national schools, which are now considered Malay medium schools. They left to join the Chinese schools.
Do you think the change in education system from an English medium to Malay contributed to the problem of racial polarisation today?
Yes… but politics also played a role. There is this perception that the Malays were given better treatment, mostly propagated by the Chinese educationists. They keep on harping to this day and refuse to see that in this country that the Chinese are still far better off than the Malays. They just refuse to acknowledge this.
How can we prevent racial polarisation from getting worse then?
The problem is each side [the different races] start saying things that are much resented by the others. If you hear the things that some of the young Malay leaders are saying about the Chinese, which the Chinese can hear, of course, they don’t like it. And some of the things the Chinese say about the Malays angers them. We can tone this down and be rational. People asked me if the New Economic Policy [NEP] is a hindrance [to development and national unity]. If it is a hindrance, then how come Malaysia is the best developed of all the developing countries? Other developing countries [have] got no racial problems, maybe theirs is tribal in nature and they don’t have the NEP… now, are they better off than us? Look at this country, if you say the Chinese are not well off, I think you are just lying to yourself. The Chinese are well off, yes, there are poor Chinese but look at the towns like Puchong, Serdang and Seri Kembangan — there are townships in front of my house. Who are living there? You go to [upscale] residential places like Mont’Kiara, how many Malays are living there? Why resent the little things that we [the government] do for the Malays… in order for them to get up.
I do blame the Malays also as many did not respond to all opportunities that were given to them. We tried to get many of them into universities but some [notably the boys] prefer to end up as Mat Rempit, as they are more interested in riding motorcycles instead. Look at the public universities today… about 60% to 70% of the Malay student population are girls. Where are the boys? We can’t tell the non-Malays… look, you wait while we play and you cannot get to universities until the Malays decide to go there. You can’t do that. That was why when I was the prime minister, I removed the quota system and [made the decision that] the entry to public universities should be based on merit. But still, the entry is not based on apple to apple as the majority of Malays entered universities through matriculation courses as compared to the Higher School Certificate for the non-Malays.
We give them licences and contracts too, but many don’t bother to work. Some were successful and have done well… it is not that the Malays have low capacity, it is just that many cannot be bothered. Then there’s politics coming [into the picture] and political leaders wanting to be popular. Now we are even seeing ministers supporting the abuse of the NEP by the Malays. They give approved permits (APs) and licences, which were eventually sold off by the beneficiaries. And you expect the Chinese and other non-Malays to say it’s all right and let them have the APs? I am quite sure they resent this. Why can’t the APs be given to the Chinese or the Indians? Are the Malays just interested in getting the APs for free and selling them? This is abetted, unfortunately, by the government.
But this has been going on for many years. At what point were these abuses realised and why was something not done to curb the abuses?
We don’t just say… we stop it. For years, I have been appealing to the Malays… look at the speeches I delivered at the Umno general assembly and elsewhere. I urged them, please don’t do this, please work hard, please study. I hoped they would respond and some of them did and they have done well. But by far, the majority wanted to do things the easy way. If you get a contract, sell the contract, if you get the licence, sell the licence and if you get an AP, sell the AP.
But you were the prime minister then and you could have put a stop to it.
Yes, I was the prime minister… I could have put a stop to it but my way of doing things is that I don’t just chop things off. I try to do it gently to try and get them to realise the errors of their ways. I told myself I must be patient but I would not allow it to thrive… now it is driving backwards. During my time [as a cabinet member] APs were given by the minister [Trade and Industry] quite lavishly, mostly to Umno staff at the headquarters. Each of them was getting 10 APs a month which they were selling at RM8,000 per AP, giving them an income of RM80,000 a month. When I became the minister of trade and industry, as well as the deputy prime minister, I put a stop to it. Unless you have premises where you sell cars, you will not get the APs. The people in the Umno headquarters wanted to demonstrate against me but finally they didn’t. I cut back the APs but now apparently, the APs are given out in huge numbers, by the thousands, and some are selling them for RM60,000 each without doing any business. These people have huge houses and even helicopters. This is not the NEP, this is abuse of the NEP. The government must put a stop to this.
I would put a stop to it. I never allowed this during my time. Did you see any Korean cars on the road during my time? You may not notice it but I did not allow Korean cars to come in because we had difficulties selling our cars there. The Koreans have a closed car market, very few models are allowed in. Why should we open? We get no benefit from them.
Your solutions to the NEP abuses?
You have to be more selective. You cannot give [these NEP benefits] just because he is an Umno division head. Let’s have the names out. I showed the names of those who got the licences or contracts. This government says it wants to be transparent, let’s see how transparent it is. Let’s have the names of the people who are behind these companies. Not only the APs… everything. If you want to be transparent, then be transparent. If people ask questions, show it. I did, I showed it.
But your sons did very well in business.
Not very well before, they do well now. During that time [as prime minister] where were they? My son [Mokhzani, who is now the executive chairman of Kencana Petroleum] was trained as a petroleum engineer before he decided to go into business. He bought shares in Pantai Medical Centre and that was his business then, but I did not help him. My other son [Mirzan] was doing business in transport. He bought a shipping line and lost money. Yes, he sold the company to Petronas because there were no other Malay companies that wanted to buy it [to keep the company bumiputera owned]. There were no Malay shipping magnates then. Petronas eventually sold some of the ships at a very high price, better than what it paid my son, who was facing problems during the Asian financial crisis. He could not pay the money he borrowed, so he had to sell and even after selling, he still had to carry a lot of debt. He did not make any profits [out of selling the ships to Petronas]. You can get all the information… it’s on the Internet.
You were a leader of this country for about 30 years, including your years as the deputy prime minister. What would you consider as your successes?
There were a lot of things you can call successes. Among the things I feel happy about was that I was able to ensure relative racial harmony during my premiership. People were suspicious of me as a Malay ultra. When I became the prime minister, the Chinese were suspicious of me. They did not like me… well, they caused me to lose in the general election in 1969 but by the time I stepped down, I think the Chinese no longer hated me. I don’t know if this is true or not but that is my assessment. At least, when I walk around, they come out to me and say thank you, etc. The other thing is that I broke the mould. Before this, those who became prime ministers were all from the elitist Malay families, they were the Tunku and Datuk. I was a nobody but I managed. Now the mould has been broken and any commoner who has the ability can become the prime minister.These were your two biggest successes?
I cannot claim too much. Many of the nation’s successes were not due to me. A lot of things happened because of other people.So you do not consider the rapid development experienced by the country during your premiership as one of your biggest successes?
That is for other people to assess. If I said it, then people would say that I would be claiming as if I did everything. I am not making any claim. In fact, I don’t care about what legacy I left. People ask me what was my legacy… what legacy? In a few years’ time, I will be dead… does it matter?
Don’t you think it matters to the country and the people?
It’s up to them. If they want to appreciate it, they will appreciate it. Some of them would say “even though you were responsible for the development, you were a dictator”.
How would you answer to this?
In their assessment, I am a dictator. Of course I would say no, I am not a dictator and nobody would believe that I am one. Those who have worked with me know that they survived because I was not a dictator.
What was the most difficult thing that you had to do during your premiership?
In the beginning, I had not established any credentials and people challenged me. I had practically supported Musa Hitam to become the deputy president of the party and deputy prime minister. He resigned. In those days, it was still possible for those who didn’t agree with the prime minister to show their disagreement, so Musa resigned. But subsequently he teamed up with Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and challenged me [for the Umno presidency]. It was difficult because we allowed for challenges and they went around saying nasty things about me and my ideas of building a national car, etc… and I very nearly lost and only won by 43 votes. Later on, I became a little bit more popular. I had to also tackle a lot of economic problems, including the recession [in the mid-1980s] and later the [Asian] currency crisis [in 1997/1998]. In the party, I always had to work hard to get the support of the party and most of the time, some senior members of the party were against me; people like Shahrir Samad, Adib Adam… I have no grudge against those who fought me. Those who backed Razaleigh, the so-called Team B, when I won, I brought them back into the government — Syed Hamid, Kadir Sheikh Fadzil, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Rais Yatim. These were the people who tried to pull me down and challenge me and I have got no grudges against them. In fact, I helped them to go up and up and up into the sky.
Isn’t that regular party politics, that not everyone will agree with everybody else?
It is regular party politics but today, you cannot dissent. Not allowed to have any criticisms of the leadership. I as the ex-president of the party may not say anything against the leader of the party and I have been prevented from giving talks to various groups… not necessarily from Umno. They invited me and they were called up by the police and menteri besar and told to withdraw [the invitation]. I am persona non grata in the party… an ex-president. And those who persisted [in inviting me], they have lost their positions. These things you cannot publish in the media. You may want to ask me 22 questions and I will answer them all.
What do you consider your single biggest failure, if any?
Well, I feel very sad because I tried to change the mindset of the Malays and their value system. I tried to make them be appreciative of what is given to them, to make use of the opportunities and do it properly. I begged, I prayed and cried… I did everything possible but in the end, I think it’s now worse. For RM200, they [Umno members] are willing to sell their votes.
Why do you think you have failed… including fighting corruption?
I tried. I told them how dangerous it is if you become corrupt but “tak apalah, saya ambil sikit, bukan saya buat apa. Kalau saya tak ambil, orang lain ambil”. That is the attitude.
Did money politics actually start when you were the president of Umno?
No. I did not use money. You look at my constituency, what facilities that I gave… very little. I had the university [Universiti Utara Malaysia] built there not because it was my constituency. During the emergency, the government evacuated the town of Sintok and left it to the communists. I thought it was ridiculous — how can you evacuate the land and give it up to the communists? In order to reclaim Sintok, we put a university there and it became a growth area. That is why the university is there, why should I put it so far except to give some incentive to develop the land? The Kedah-Thai border was previously in Changloon, which is five miles from the real border with Thailand. I had to shift that from Changloon to Bukit Kayu Hitam, which is exactly at the border. That is our country. Why do you put your checkpoint [custom and immigration] five miles inside? That is not no man’s territory, that is ours.
But you must have been aware there was money politics in Umno?
Not in my constituency. There may be money politics elsewhere.
How about the rest of Umno?
I heard there was [money politics]. But it is always difficult to trace. There was a case in Perlis [party elections] where members came and showed me evidence that “this man” — who is now a very important man in the party and is today telling people not to be corrupt — gave money. [When this happens] we try to take action but there will be denial and not many will be willing to come forward and give [further] evidence. The problem with corruption is that nobody wants to come forward and provide the evidence. If you take them to court, how many corruption cases, especially the big ones, that the court has been able to convict? It takes years and years.
The only way to fight corruption is to reduce the opportunity for corruption. That was what I did. I tried to reduce the number of approvals needed and the time taken to give approvals. At City Hall, for example, I drew up work flow charts — the manual and procedures — for every officer. That was how we combatted corruption. We cannot fight corruption by hoping to get witnesses to go to the court… because everybody is scared. If you report one officer, the other officers might not be nice to you and you will find difficulty in getting approvals later.
You left office in 2003 and looking back, was there anything that you wished you had completed?
No. I told myself there is no way I can complete everything before I step down. No way. As you go along, new things come up. I told myself that I would step down in 1998 but there was the Asian financial crisis and the deputy prime minister, who was also the minister of finance, just couldn’t handle it. So, I stayed until the crisis was over and Umno got over the problem of the removal of the deputy prime minister. When everything was settled, the party and the finances of the country were in good shape and generally the nation was stable, I decided and announced I would step down. That was in 2002. Umno members appealed and I stayed on to complete two jobs — to chair the Organisation of Islamic Conference and the Non-Aligned Movement summits. Then, I stepped down but there were several projects in the pipeline and I told my successor to please carry on. But almost immediately, he reversed my decisions.
You were taken by surprise?
Two weeks after I stepped down, the decision to build the double-tracking from Johor Baru to Padang Besar was reversed because it seems there was no money. It will cost us about RM14 billion over six years, which means over RM2 billion a year. We had the money. I know when I left the country was not bankrupt. We can build the double-tracking to electrify the rail from Johor Baru right up to Padang Besar with the extension to Singapore, which would be dealt with separately. Now the government realises that without the double-tracking line, it would be losing a lot of business coming from southern Thailand. Double-tracking would reduce the waiting time. The roads and highways are getting congested. You have trucks pulling containers causing traffic jams. A train could carry more than 50 containers each time. That is why double-tracking and electrification of the rail is necessary. But to build it now will cost more money.
The project would not be profitable but would you say that this was an infrastructure project that the government should spend money on?
When you build infrastructure initially, it will never be profitable. Sometimes, it takes many years before it becomes profitable. If you want to wait and study if the project is profitable, then you will find it will be costly. Let’s look at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport [KLIA]. It is designed for 100 years, there is one satellite [terminal building there], which can accommodate 25 million passengers, but [the] design can take in four satellites there. If you don’t design for 100 years, in 10 or 15 years, there will be no more space… where do you want to go? It is not easy to get 25,000 acres of land. Tunku Abdul Rahman moved the international airport from Sungai Besi to Subang despite protests but he thought at that time we would be handling 400,000 passengers a year. By the time we moved away from Subang, the airport was handling 14 million passengers a year on a single runway. You can’t expand there because there is no land and houses are built around the area. So if you want to build another one, build a really big one and prepare for the future. Don’t build for today. When the light rail transit [LRT] was built, there were hardly any passengers but today, there is standing room only. Now you have to expand. If there were no LRT and monorail today, what is the traffic like on Kuala Lumpur’s roads? You have to think and do it for the future. And if you wait, it will be more costly and at the same time, you don’t have the facilities.
Who do you think is the best finance minister in the country?
With some reservations, I think Daim Zainuddin did a good job. He understands money. But of course a lot of people think he is corrupt. I get harassed by people who are against him. A lot of people say he is corrupt but I can’t find evidence. As I said, finding evidence of corruption is very difficult. I give people the benefit of the doubt. You can’t just…. on the basis of people telling you with no evidence, mind you, and not willing to go to court to give evidence. They tell me so and so is corrupt, that is not good enough.
Was Tun Tan Siew Sin a good finance minister?
He was a very good finance minister except that he was so stingy that we lost some money. A huge piece of land in the middle of Tokyo, 20 acres, was offered to us very cheaply and he rejected it. Another piece of land in Jeddah, which our ambassador then said we should buy, he rejected. Today, all these pieces of land… imagine 20 acres of land in the middle of Tokyo, how much money you can make. Fortunately, Tunku decided to buy a piece of land to build our embassy there and that land appreciated so much that we could sell the land and buy for ourselves a very big property… that’s how we got our present embassy in Tokyo. The problem with Siew Sin is he did not want to spend money at all. That is also bad.
What are the nation’s future economic challenges?
We have to understand that we have to compete. When we started getting foreign direct investment (FDI), many of the other developing countries resented FDI. They did not want foreigners to come into their countries. We went the other way and invited foreigners here to invest to create jobs for the locals. But now, other countries have learnt and they are more attractive as their cost of labour is lower. We have to think of a higher grade of FDI. Japan, for instance, cannot compete with China on the same basis. Japan has to go very high-tech and find niche markets and it is doing that. We cannot be like Japan but we should build on the same strategy… find a niche. Go up to the high-tech level and train your people. It is not difficult and all people can learn. Then, we would have an opportunity. Yes, agriculture is good but we don’t have that much land. Whatever land we have, we have planted with rubber, oil palm, cocoa and padi. If you have a piece of land, you are not going to plant fruits because it takes at least three years before you can earn anything. Your earnings are uncertain. Agriculture has got some potential because of new technologies but it is limited.
The thing that can save us is to go into high technology. That is why we created Cyberjaya and the Multimedia Super Corridor. We started training people. Biotechnology offers potential too but not much money is spent. The attitude towards research is still very primitive. They think if you put in RM100 today, you can get RM10 tomorrow or 10% returns. Research costs money. If you hit on something good, you get a very big return. We are lagging behind others now because we are not willing to spend money on R&D. Now we are killing the automotive industry. I don’t know what is the policy. Do we want to be a consumer country buying everything that we need or do we want to be a producer country, inventing a new product and selling it to the world? If you go for R&D and high technology and don’t consider yourself a consumer and want to produce things that other people will consume, then I think this country will develop further.
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The Book of George
“The Book of George” is a project made by the people from HardComics. They contacted a few Romanian artists and asked them to collaborate in making a book for which each of them would draw a single chapter. The only information we got was that the main character, whose story we were telling, was 33 and living in Bucharest.
The ones who accepted received the title of the chapter they had to illustrate in 6 to 8 pages. The bit I was assigned was called “George falls in love”. Sergiu helped me in writing the story and then, after a full week’s work the comic was ready. It was very fun doing it, but, at the same time, very tiring. The book was printed and last weekend it was presented at a festival somewhere in France (Angouleme, I think). Because it was intended for that public, one of the requirements of the comic was that it had to be written in English.
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Jessie (2011–2015)
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danieldenekamp31 January 2015
Listen up people: Jessie is a great show!!
This show made my teenage years a little less stressful. It was the first show on Disney Channel I enjoyed watching since The Suite Life on Deck, and I stopped enjoying watching that in February or March of 2010. Until about eight months ago, Jessie has never been my #1 show, though I didn't hate it like I did most other Disney shows back in the year it aired (with the only exception being Austin & Ally). Even though I'm a boy, since Emma and I are in the same grade, I can understand the problems she goes through in life. The acting from the kids is really good, and I like that they have Debby Ryan as practically a mentor for this show. I'm 17 now and the show recently started its last season, so thank you Jessie for helping me through my teenage years!
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titus2274 February 2012
This Show is Horrible
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This is a terrible show. The acting is poor, plots are poor, and there isn't any consistency at all. Just take the basics - Jessie earns a living as a nanny to the three spoiled bratty kids these rich people have adopted to show how supportive they are of cultural diversity (a la Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt). However, they are left, most of the time, with Bertrum ( the butler) or completely by themselves; she rarely watches them at all.
Jessie - usually out chasing boys and treating her employers like her friends or family. Completely unprofessional, and the parents seem to be gone all the time only showing up occasionally, usually inexplicably wearing formal wear as if they were just about to go to a charity ball or something. She shirks her responsibilities constantly and teaches youth to be lazy, aloof, undependable, deceitful, disrespectful, dress in manners that compromise their personal integrity, etc.
The Indian kid is completely unbelievable as he is about 8 years old and for whatever reason, he acts like he is some sort of Junior Dhali Llama that knows all the factual and statistical information about India that is available. It's just ridiculous, the kid has obviously never been there or was removed at such an early age that he would have no recollection of the country at all. His character's tendency to 'speak beyond his years' is like a blood-thirsty woodpecker incessantly chipping loudly at my brain.
The little African American girl acts very stereo-typically African American regardless of the fact that everyone around her is white (thus she would not have learned the cultural language and body expressions). Not only is her constant 'attitude' annoying, but it perpetuates this behavior in real life by teaching our youth to behave in such a manner. All of the kids are rebellious and completely undisciplined with absolutely no moral compass to speak of whatsoever. Furthermore, her character often tries to 'act tough' towards everyone else on the show regardless of the fact that she is incredibly weak and totally dependent on those around her to perform even the simplest tasks.
The ugly kid from Mirrors- He regularly overacts on a regular basis and seems to be catering to the idea that over-the-top theatrics, yelling, running, and imitating Kramer = so, so funny. Sadly, this young and unskilled actor is so, so wrong. He often acts in a manner that supports the idea of talking a big game and then running away. Like the other characters in the show, the boy is a coward and a liar and this is just another example of the morally hollow role models Disney Channel is producing. They even have this kid and some other characters perform on the show.
The channel seems to be a huge recruitment factory in order to ensure further cheaply produced entertainment in the future. It's like a grotesque "Children's Lot".
Long story short - Stay away from this show unless you like pain. Mind-numbing pain.
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yoenis_cespedis8 January 2013
Good show for all ages!
Filled with magic and entertainment, Jessie is one of the better Disney shows currently airing. All of the actors/actresses are lovable and very talented. Debby Ryan does really well depicting a 18 year old nanny who is not only trying to figure her own life out but also teaching and influencing the Ross children. In addition, all of the characters are unique. Yes it is true that they seem to fill a stereotype. Zuri appears to be the sassy African American girl. Luke is the player boy who has bad hygiene. Emma is the ditsy blonde girl who seems only to be into fashion. Ravi is the typical Indian character with the accent. These are facts. But the way all of the character fit together makes the show great. As individuals, each are not interesting but together they create a situation that is both enchanting and enduring. The jokes are also humorous. As a person outside of the demographic I found that some of the jokes were for people of my age and other jokes were for kids. I think this is a good thing (to blend comedic elements). I have watched many Disney sitcoms and I firmly believe Jessie is one of the better ones.
Mel20910 December 2011
A huge success, especially after the Suite Life
So far I love this show! I used to like the Suite Life, but after its ending, I found this show was an even better replacement. So much better than awkward sitcoms from the past (such as Hannah Montana) and it is definitely geared for older teens since its main character is 18. Being 18 myself I find that the jokes are still G-rated, but just on the edge enough that young adults can fill in the blanks of the jokes (and they're actually funny believe it or not). I also think it is so much better than other sitcoms Disney channel is currently spewing out such as "Mr.Young" or "Kickin' It" as those shows are geared for preteens, have actors that are not very good, and they're not funny at all. If you're looking for the show that the Disney Channel should be clinging on to, it's Jessie. I hope it stays on air for a long time. Highly Recommended for pretty much all ages :)
Catherine_Grace_Zeh21 May 2014
Excellent Disney Channel show
"JESSIE," in my opinion, is an excellent Disney Channel show. I watch it with my 9-year-old nephew from time to time. I always smile and laugh whenever a mishap occurs. It's hard to say what the funniest one is. Another thing that makes this show funny is Trish's (Rani Rodriguez) comic relief. If you ask me, she always know just what to say and do to make the audience laugh. The writing is always strong, the performances are always good, and everything else about the show is good.Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that if you don't have basic cable, you should get it. Now, in conclusion, I hope this will be on Disney for many years yet.
sinaku2 March 2014
Entertaining for all the wrong reasons
On the surface, the concept of "Jessie" would be the promotion of acceptance of diversity and overcoming prejudice. The setup is that of a rich couple who has adopted children of varying ethnicities, and how they are taken care of by a small-town-girl in a big-city archetype, the titular Jessie.
However, this concept is immediately over-ridden by the show's reliance on stereotypes and the nasty attitudes of many of its characters.
Emma is white, blond, ditzy, and materialistic. Ravi is Indian, teaches Yoga, eats sandwiches made of nothing but bread and hot peppers, and is occasionally the butt of jokes regarding unpronounceable Indian words. Zuri is black, a lazy schemer, who tries to avoid schoolwork and responsibilities. Luke is the only Ross child that doesn't seem to be based on stereotypes, as he is self-confident and honestly a good dancer, and overall, one of the least offensive characters as far as his overall personality is concerned; however, he is incredibly annoying at times.
This is bad enough, and it only gets worse. Many of the jokes revolve around disgust at people's physical traits and the ongoing insults towards various stereotypes. Agatha, a bit character, is continually derided by all characters over her appearance, as she has huge warts on her face and a huge snaggletooth. She is also supposed to be British. Another character, whose name escapes me, is a stereotypical annoying, cloying nerd, and all of the characters constantly point this out when he is around.
Even Jessie, who is supposed to be the authority figure (and who is generally nice and easy on the eyes) is constantly the butt of jokes about how bad her lovelife has apparently been. And, even as the authority figure, she is just as judgmental as the rest of the characters.
Another problem is the almost complete lack of parenting on the show. While the parents do appear from time to time, and it is generally shown in a loving way, it's clear from the average episode that they have almost zero part in their children's lives. So, the obvious nature of the children as tokens racial acceptance is immediately obvious.
Luckily (?) the traditional awful writing and bad acting of Disney Channel shows keeps this show from being as poisonous and vile as it could be, but the simple fact that every episode runs against its intended message is astounding.
Unfortunately, it's also why I keep watching.
mary-roodnitsky25 July 2013
"Jessie" is a loving show that uses the same humor of "iCarly" and the same family aspect as "Goodluck Charlie". This is one that's going to be aired for a long time.
Jessie,(Debby Ryan) a small-town girl with big dreams, who moves to New York to pursue a career as an actress. There she meets the loving Ross family after being dumped on the street by a taxi-cab driver after realizing that she had no money to pay him. The Ross'es take her in as a nanny for their four kids. One biological, the other three adopted.
Emma Ross,(Peyton List) the only biological daughter of Christina and Morgan Ross, and is the oldest. She enters high-school in the series, and is faced with many teenage girl problems. She frequently shops around New York, and creates her own fashion web-cast, Kitty Coture, with her best friend Rosie, a girl who lives in the Bronx.
Luke Ross,(Cameron Boyce)was adopted from Detroit at the age of five, now 13, and is the typical "ladies man" who often flirts with Jessie. He isn't the brightest, but claims "his freckles make up for it". A similar character from a different show would have to be Zack, from the Suite Life on Deck. Luke is frequently pranking people, and is shown to have a distaste for caring for his own personal hygiene. A soft side to him is shown when he will refuse to stay overnight at a sleep-over, instead coming home to his stuffed bear, Kenny the Koala.
Ravi Ross, (Karan Brar)is the most recent addition to the family, being adopted from India at the age of 11, a month prior to the start of the show. He brings with him a monitor lizard, Mr. Kipling, his only friend from India. Ravi is a small kid, and he is very intelligent. Whenever Luke attempts to prank him, he finds a way to reverse the prank, pranking Luke back in the process. This is shown in the episode "Used Karma". Ravi is however the sweetest of the Ross children, getting in the least amount of trouble.
Zuri Ross, (Skai Jackson) is an eight year-old girl adopted from Uganda as an infant. She is often playing with imaginary friends, and has a friend named Stuart. He is often flirting with her, and even plasters her door in pictures of the two, calling themselves "Zuart". Zuri is very spunky, and is a pretty stereotypical African American girl.
Bertram Winkle, (Kevin Chamberlin) is the last protagonist of the Ross family. He has been the butler for many years, and doesn't really like any of the kids. Occasionally, he will watch cooking shows with Emma, whom he will often side with. He is also very lazy, and when asked to do something, he will dangle his hand and say, "It's too far.". However, whenever Christina or Morgan are home, he does his job very well.
Together, the characters have many adventures, and every episode we find out reasons for who they are. As a family, they all care for each other, and often do things together. Before Jessie, they had many revolving nannies, none staying for long. Jessie however is liked by all of them, and she too grows to care for all of the children.
Jessie is no doubt a Disney show that'll be on for several more seasons. They often have a moral that is implied, but never said. The kids are all great actors, and I hope Disney will keep this show on for many more adventures with the Ross kids.
taos654 May 2014
I don't agree with all the hate and nitpicking
I'll start by saying I'm an adult who enjoys a few Disney shows because they are more entertaining than pretty much anything else on TV. I came here to look up some info on the show, and see all of these negative reviews, some of which seem to forget this is Disney, know what the target audience is, or don't even have facts about the characters straight, and I feel like I need to add my voice as someone who enjoys the show for what it is, and doesn't expect it to be more than that.
"Jessie" isn't the best show on Disney, but it's far from the worst. I have some news that I think will shock some reviewers, but Disney shows don't deal in reality. "Jessie" isn't a documentary about nannies in NYC. It's also not supposed to take the place of parenting; i.e., if your complaint is what kind of role models the characters are, that's because they aren't role models, they are silly TV characters. I also watch a show about a talking dog that has a blog, it doesn't make me think my cats are losers because getting on the computer to them means laying on the keyboard.
In fact, once I get to thinking about it, the whole plot of the show is that a young Texan girl just out of high school moves to NYC to follow her dreams of being an actress, but like most aspiring actors, she has to take a non-acting job until she makes it, so she got a job as the nanny for a bunch of spoiled rich kids. That is what the show is about. If that isn't your idea of funny, don't watch it.
If you are looking for role models, Disney isn't doing them right now, they are doing silly, flawed characters. Look what happened with Hannah Montana - supposedly a role model, Miley Cyrus became inseparable from the character, and when Miley grew up and cast off her Disney persona, people wondered what happened. Disney is probably trying to avoid that ever happening again by making their characters overtly silly, also doing commercials where the actors say their real names. But, getting back to my point, the entire plot of this show is that these are spoiled rich kids. Even Jessie isn't a role model. Some of the characters don't make sense, like Zuri – again, with Disney you have to suspend disbelief. I thought people knew that about Disney?
"Jessie" is about as silly as a TV show that's not a cartoon or puppet show can get, it's not intended to be intelligent humor. It mocks the ultra-rich and this new adopt-a-menagerie of kids pursuit, and also the idea that the nanny sees the kids grow up, and knows more about them, than the parents. The target audience isn't too young, it has to be about 12-16, or thereabouts, because even Zuri acts more like an adolescent than a child. Despite being a self-absorbed rich kid raised in a very sheltered, privileged, and indulgent lifestyle, Emma is surprisingly likable. Other than the typical Disney-kid hijinks, there seems to be honest affection, not just among the kids, but with Jessie and even Bertram. In that respect, the show demonstrates cooperation and making the best of a situation you didn't create, you were just thrust into. A little bit of sibling rivalry is present as important to the plots, but as in any Disney family, it would never threaten their relationships with each other. As the series progresses, the characters seem to become more like their own little family, the usually-absent Ross parents being left out and replaced by the butler and the nanny.
Someone made a comment about the "romances" and seems to think this is new to tween or teen TV shows. It's not. When I was a little girl in the '70s, romantic relations were just as popular a topic as they are today. Crushes and adolescent dating were on our minds, we just didn't have 5 channels of TV devoted to us (we didn't have 5 channels of TV, period). If there weren't TV shows devoted to it, we had to read it in books and magazines, and many stories I read that I remember now were very similar to "Jessie."
Debby Ryan is adorable. I think she's great for this role. In fact, I think Disney's hitting it out of the park with casting their TV shows lately. I would love to see her in more work outside of Disney, especially featuring her musical talent. Cameron Boyce has great dancing talent, not just the break dancing he displays on the show but also in the PSA where he does some Broadway moves - I could see him do theater. In fact, he seems to be the most versatile actor of this ensemble other than Ryan.
I will never understand this idea of bashing a show when no one is forcing you to watch it. If you don't like "Jessie," that's your prerogative, but don't expect it to be things it's not: it's not reality, it's not preachy, it is Disney and it's just silly entertainment. Well, at least some of us like to watch the TV and laugh at silliness that makes no statement other than sit back and enjoy the crazy. I just wish there were more new episodes than one per month, that seems to be a Disney thing right now. I still watch the same episodes over and over. At least until my cats get their own Instagram accounts and Tyler teaches them to take selfies.
stealcat100018 November 2011
Funny and Great Disney Entertainment
I have to admit that I am a little older than most of the fans of this show but I have absolutely fallen in love with Jess-A (I mean Jessie) and every single one of the characters on it. The first episode I saw was episode 2, The Talented Mr. Kipling, and I do not think I stopped laughing or chuckling the entire time.
In my opinion, whatever that's worth, this is a great series for kids and all those who just want a good laugh. If you don't think it's funny then all I gotta say is...WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? Just kidding! I also think that Debby Ryan has a great future ahead of her as she is extremely talented and funny. So here's hoping for a long run to this great series as it is definitely one of the best shows on the Disney Channel especially since Wizards of Waverly Place is coming to an end. I highly recommend this entertaining and funny show!!!
srsin5426 December 2012
Jessie has a really appropriate content for kids all ages!
Jessie is much better that Good Luck Charlie, ICarly, Suite Life On Deck, Austin and Ally and Shake It Up. I can't believe some people actually dislike Jessie! Zuri is really cute and funny. But if Luke wouldn't over-react, and if Emma wouldn't rely on Leperd Beat Magazine, I would of rated this show 10. Otherwise Jessie is really good. 9 OUT 0F 10! I like Ravi because he is so enthusiastic. Bertrum makes me laugh because in one episode he said... "Here we go, dinner is served. Frog legs with a bitter taste of worms. I'm only kidding, it's chicken... Maybe!" He cracks me up! Ha! Jessie meeting Agatha really made the series much better. With Nanny Agatha in the series, it makes it funnier and more annoying. But annoying is what the watchers want... Isn't it? This is a reviewer commenting on Jessie, a new TV series on the Disney Channel!
AdrienneGrayceMusic4 January 2015
Excellent! Extremely funny show - even for adults!!
My niece left my house and the show was still on the TV.. I found myself still watching it, even though my niece was already gone. I couldn't believe how funny a kid's show was but I found myself watching a couple episodes until I gave in and looked for it on Netflix. As a 35 year old woman, I actually dig this show! Debby Ryan is so funny as Jessie. Sure, it is a bit unrealistic at times, but IT IS A KID'S SHOW for crying out loud. I doubt it will ever win an Emmy, but it is a funny, feel-good show that deserves a lot more recognition. I am so glad I discovered this show. America needs a lot more shows like this..on primetime TV instead of all the garbage thats out now. Less TEEN MOM and Honey Boo Boo and more JESSIE!
TerminalMadness24 September 2012
I'm not doing myself any favors by admitting I'm a Disney fanatic, am I? I wouldn't think so. But suffice it to say I'm a real Disney fanatic. I'll watch anything they put on the Disney Channel here in America, no matter what it is. I've sat through fun shows like "Shake it Up!" and real junk like "Pair of Kings" and I really do appreciate the programming they've been enlisting since "Hannah Montana" mercifully bowed out of the channel.
We're seeing a lot less shows about kids trying to become fame freaks and much more family oriented shows. Which I'm all for. "Good Luck Charlie" gets heavy play on the channel and that's a family show if I've ever seen one.
"Jessie" is a new addiction because, simply put, I loved "Charles in Charge." They're basically the same premise when you think about it. A college student comes to live with an upper class family filled with mischievous children and takes care of them, handling their nonsense with patience and good humor. "Jessie" has a more varied cast this time as title character Jessie takes care of a family filled with adopted children. This is a good excuse to feature a very diverse cast of characters so all the bases are covered.
"Jessie" two episodes in is fairly addictive mainly because the show is so darn cute it's hard to find flaws with it. As with most Disney shows the mom and dad are basically MIA, appearing every so often while the young cast basically comes and goes as they please. Jessie follows after making sure they don't inflict any harm on themselves and that's the basic premise.
Okay, and there's Debby Ryan who went from gawky cute in "The Suite Life on Deck," to damn good looking on "Jessie." The rest of the characters are all pretty basic archetypes. My favorite so far is Skai Jackson who plays the baby of the family Zuri. While she's there to mainly spout one liners and look adorable, she pulls it off very well quite often.
Ryan as Jessie is likable. She's basically a branch off of Bailey Picket from her previous show as a small town Southern gal who is mysteriously very street wise. I like to think of "Jessie" as a modern "Charles in Charge" with a twist of "Mary Poppins" and I appreciate the simple stories and limitless character arcs it gives the audience. There's no end to the possibilities of sub-plots with the kids.
One is an adopted Indian boy, one is an adopted African girl, one is an adopted Brooklyn kid, and the oldest is the biological daughter of the celebrity couple featured. There has yet to be a lot of talk about the adoption process and whatnot, and I hope it stays that way. Last thing we need is a PSA about the benefits of adoption on a family show.
Nevertheless I remain a tried and true Disney fanatic and I'll be watching "Jessie" with most interest. Mainly for Debby Ryan.
jagsports0119 June 2012
Bad Reviews...Think Again.
Disney Channel's show Jessie is by far one of my favorite shows. It is very funny, and has a lot f great acting. It is very clever and has a brand new amazing storyline's every new episode. Debby Ryan, Skai Jackson, Peyton List, Karan Brar, Cameron Boyce, and Kevin Chamberlin all did fantastic acting. All of these bad reviews are all full of lies. They probably haven't watched a whole episode, and watched a preview. Funny, thrilling, and more! Watch Disney Channels original show Jessie, with amazing acting, stories, and laughs! After all, the best actress/actor is Debby Ryan, and I'm not saying that because she is the main main character, but she is funny and caring to all of the people on set. Jessie everyone!
otters-111 November 2012
My kids and I love it!
This is my six-year-old daughter's favorite show ever. My son who is thirteen admits to really liking it too, so the three of us have a good time watching it together. Of all the shows of the Disney Channel, this is the best by far. It's smart, cheeky, and funny enough for parent who might be watching the show with their kids. It also gives its characters enough credit to allow them to be serious and to grow and change. This is a big step for Disney because so many of the characters in their TV programs are rather one-dimensional.
The plot set-up of rich kids being cared-for by the nanny ( Jessie ) and the butler ( Burtrum ) rather than their rarely-there parents is old. There really aren't too many exciting things to be done with it. It works here because you like the characters and their relationships. The kids all need fleshed-out a bit, particularly the teenage daughter Emma. All the characters need to take a few risks, and I hope they do.
gxwarr25 May 2012
A great family show!!! Very Funny!!!
I just had to post a review when I saw some of the negative reviews. I have to ask those that posted negatively, did you even watch a whole episode before making a very bad decision to make a negative review?
All I can say is that my family LOVES Jessie! My 3 yr old daughter walks around singing "Hey Jessie, Hey Jessie". My 6 yr old son, my wife and myself all love it too. I hate to admit it but when I'm channel surfing once in awhile I find myself purposefully turning the show on. Its a funny, upbeat easy watching type of show. I think some people are taking it way too serious. Remember, it is a show aimed at children. So don't judge the show from an adult perspective.
Again, my children and whole family love Jessie!
Shopaholic351 March 2014
Should have been cancelled a while ago.
Jessie is one of those Disney shows that should not have lasted as long as it has. It's extremely unrealistic and while the kids are cute they need an attitude adjustment. This is exactly the type of show where children are learning bad manners and disrespect. They never seem to have that realisation moment that what they did was wrong. And the adults (including Jessie) are just as self-indulged and irresponsible as the kids.
I also think the episodes are getting weaker as the seasons progress. It feels stale and the themes are repeated over and over again. If your looking for a Disney show to entertain you for 20 minutes then pick another one. There are many more that far surpass this bad influence.
grims4584 August 2013
Good family show with lots of laughs
I watch this show with my kids (2 and 11) and they love it! The music is catchy and the characters are pretty funny. They are always in some kind of crazy mess only rich people can get into and their means of cleaning it up are entertaining as well. The only objection I have to this show is I don't like how Zuri is portrayed as being so ghetto. Wasn't she raised by her adoptive parents? Wouldn't she sound like the rest of the family? All that neck action and "mmmm-hmmmms" upset me. My kids are biracial and I don't need any help exposing them to these stereotypes. Most African Americans don't speak and behave in such a manner and I'm sure this particular young girl wouldn't being that she isn't around anyone who speaks or acts in that fashion. Otherwise the show is cute. Just thought I would throw that out there. Disney, if you see this review, please consider revising Zuri's attitude to reflect the life she lives on the show. I mean, China doesn't even act like that on Ant Farm so I really can't see where you are going with that character... Thanks.
Williamtf1 July 2014
Fantastic TV Show
This TV show is Fantastic!
Story JESSIE centers on a small-town girl (Debby Ryan) who follows her dreams all the way to the Big Apple, where she accepts an impromptu job offer as a nanny to four kids: Emma (Peyton List), Luke (Cameron Boyce), Ravi (Karan Brar), and Zuri (Skai Jackson). What seems like a simple task results in far more complications than she anticipated as Jessie learns to balance the kids' sibling rivalry, their individual needs, and the fallout from their jet-setting parents. As if this isn't chaos enough, she's also learning the ropes of her newfound independence and attempting to carve out a career in the competitive New York atmosphere. But at the end of the day, it's the relationships with her new "family" that smooth out the rough edges of her transition.
cinephile-276909 July 2018
5 years ago I loved it.
This was my favorite show before. Now this is just alright. There are some jokes about how dumb the kids are. I'm watching "Capture the Nag" now and the elevator breaks. Emma, after Jessie says they should use the stairs, asks "what if the stairs don't work?" Some of the jokes numb the mind, so my 19 year old mind is not really into in it anymore.
bkoganbing4 November 2011
Bailey Comes To New York
When the Disney Studios decided to give Debby Ryan a lead in her own TV show after The Suite Life On Deck was canceled, why didn't they just make it official and have her continue with her character of Bailey Pickett now graduating high school at sea and coming to New York to seek fame and fortune? To all intents and purposes her title character of Jessie is just Bailey with a different name. In The Suite Life On Deck she was from a place called Kettlekorn and who wouldn't want to leave there after an around the world school?
In any event Ryan is kind of adopted by the youngest of four adopted siblings who are a family rough on nannies. And when Ryan finds out that the family are the adopted kids of an Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt show business power couple, she thinks she's got it made.
The kids are four different types and I don't mean just racial and ethnic backgrounds. That in and of itself will guarantee the writers a whole lot of different story lines for various episodes.
Young Chris Galya plays a young doorman in the building who will eventually be a love interest for Ryan. He plays him in the Matt LeBlanc tradition, drop dead gorgeous hunk who's real nice, but a bit dumb. He should be the Magic Kingdom's latest idol from out of the Jessie series.
In any event Jessie is a pleasant and innocuous enough comedy and hopefully Debby Ryan's considerable singing talents will be showcased.
mortonfamily-357-40530929 April 2012
Jessie is very funny
Jessie is a true comedy. The episode's are full of real everyday drama. Children are always getting into trouble, Jessie is a young nanny, who in many ways is learning about life herself and is trying to turn from being a teenager to a grown up adult. Left alone by star struck parents who are more interested than their careers than the children, these kids are always finding a way to get attention. The butler, the only true adult really hates his job and appears not to be fond of the kids either.
JESSIE IS AWESOME!!! IT DESERVES A 10 STAR RATING!!!
zack_wall28 November 2011
Poorly written and pull-my-hair-out boring.
Disney has had some great shows . . . and some giant flops. This is the latter. It's poorly written with many re-used jokes that have been done over and over already, the timing is off, and they just aren't funny. The acting is mediocre, and some of the more "serious" lines had me laughing at the amateur delivery. The actress who plays Jessie is just annoying, and the rest of the characters just don't mesh. It feels like they're trying too hard to act, and it's not natural by any means. Unless it's the only channel you get, and it's the only show on at the time, you're going to want to skip this one. It's a bigger waste of time than trying to watch an Adam Sandler movie.
kobebusia26 January 2013
Boring, Unfunny, and A Completely Unnecessary Show!
I have seen this show before, but I don't watch it on a regular basis, so a few days ago, I decided to sit through an entire episode, and honestly, it's not the acting that's the problem, it's some other things I'd like to mention; 1st of all, the humor isn't funny, and half the things the characters say are in all seriousness, but for some insane reason, the laugh track plays anyway. I mean, it's as if they want us to laugh at something, just to accompany the laugh track. 2nd of all, the characters of Ravi and Zuri are over-the-top, annoying, ghetto, and flat out weird, and the fact that the parents travel all the time(which is the reason for their usual absence from the show), and adopted 3 kids, after having only 1 biological child, shows that they're clearly knockoffs of Brangelina. 3rd of all, the theme song is absolutely horrible, repetitive, generic, and written on such an illiterate level, how can anyone enjoy this? It makes the Wizards of Waverly Place theme song sound like a masterpiece, and that's saying something because I absolutely hated that one. Finally, it was a poor decision on the part of Disney executives to give Debbie Ryan her own show, she's not lead star material, she was actually funny in the Suite Life on Deck, but here, it's as if she's trying too hard to be funny. That's all I really have to say about this, it's not very good, and if it were to stay on the network longer, it shouldn't go past 2 seasons. 3/10
danrchl29 October 2011
Can this even be considered a comedy? I was forced to watch this show with my little cousin. I thought maybe the Disney Channel had produced another magical show for young children to love! But boy was I wrong. Three words.... WORST SHOW EVER! Upon watching this I found myself literally falling asleep. Each joke's timing was off (If you even consider calling them jokes). Each one was awkward and I didn't once crack a smile the whole time watching this. The plots were really stupid and cliché. The characters are random and they don't work well together at all. I couldn't stand it! The acting was terrible and all over the place. Not even my 8 year old cousin liked it. She fell asleep within the first 10 minutes of the show. If this show fails to entertain the most easy to please 8 year old then who could it possibly bring joy to? I'm honestly really embarrassed for Disney. This show is putting Disney Channel to shame. I hate it. They can do 100 times better than this! I'd rather watch the paint dry on my wall. I won't be surprised if this show gets cancelled before the second season.
wwgrayii7 October 2011
If you really need to kill 30 minutes, this will do.
Fish-out-of-the-water sitcom about rural Texas teen Jessie (Debby Ryan) who moves to Manhattan to take a job as an au pair.
Another one from It's a Laugh Prodcutions, which also supplied The Disney Channel with both Zack and Cody shows. Now, "The Suite Life on Deck" was not was exactly appointment television, but it looks like an Alan Ayckbourn comedy compared to "Jessie." Ryan was perfectly fine as backup to the Sprouse twins, but lacks the charisma necessary to carry a show. The direction lacks sharpness, the writing is rote and the cast shows little comic timing. With a few episodes under its belt, "Jessie" will find its sea legs, but no matter how you slice it, this show doesn't have a lot going for it. I doubt this is ever going to be more than a mildly pleasant time waster.
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Bolton next manager after Phil Parkinson
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Who is Bolton Wanderers manager Phil Parkinson?
Phil Parkinson is Bolton Wanderers’ current manager and has been in the job since 2016. Before becoming a manager he was a player in midfield for 3 different clubs in England: Southampton, Bury and Reading. Phil Parkinson was born on December 1st 1967 in Chorley, Lancashire, England and he’s 51 years old.
Starting off in Southampton’s academy in 1985, he never made an official appearance for the first team before being sold to Bury in 1988. At Bury, he made 145 appearances over 4 years scoring only 5 goals. In 1992 he was sold to Reading for £500,000 and he became an instant fan favourite. He played for Reading for 11 years from 1992 to 2003 as he racked up 361 appearances scoring 20 goals, he won Reading’s player of the season two years in a row in 1997–98 and 1998–99 and he lead the side to a Second Division title win in 2001-02. The season afterwards he enjoyed a testimonial year playing in front of 20,000 fans in the Madjeski Stadium where they saw ex Reading players such as Shaka Hislop, Michael Gilkes and Jeff Hopkins take on an England XI which included players such as John Barnes, Chris Waddle and Paul Gascoigne. His final competitive appearance for Reading was in was a League Cup defeat to Cambridge United on September 10, 2002. A few years later Phil Parkinson was voted in the Reading all time XI side and was voted the best central midfielder as he won over 60% of the vote.
Phil Parkinson has managed teams such as Colchester United in 2003-06, Hull City, Charlton Athletic and Bradford City before joining Bolton Wanderers at the end of the 2015-16 season.
Phil Parkinson has been the Bolton Wanderers manager since the 2016-17 season, he started his managerial stint at Bolton Wanderers by being unbeaten in his first month and he gained promotion to the Championship by the end of the season. In the 2017-18 season, Bolton Wanderers finished 21st and narrowly missed out on relegation after an uninspiring season.
The season after however, Bolton Wanderers finished 23rd and therefore were relegated to the League One. The board have decided to stick with Phil Parkinson next season due to off the field problems and will have a tough season next year due to financial problems. However, the club will hope Phil Parkinson and his experience can keep the club afloat.
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110 F. 3d 60 - Robinson v. Overnite Transportation Company
110 F3d 60 Robinson v. Overnite Transportation Company
110 F.3d 60
Billy E. ROBINSON, Plaintiff-Appellant,
OVERNITE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Argued Jan. 27, 1997.
Decided April 9, 1997.
NOTICE: Fourth Circuit Local Rule 36(c) states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.
ARGUED: Edwin Lake Turnage, Travelers Rest, South Carolina, for Appellant. Jay Lloyd Grytdahl, BLAKENEY & ALEXANDER, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Dana C. Mitchell, III, MITCHELL, BOUTON, DUGGAN, YOKEL, MCCALL & CHILDS, Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellant. W.T. Cranfill, Jr., BLAKENEY & ALEXANDER, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and HAMILTON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
This dispute arises out of the termination of appellant Billy Robinson's employment with appellee Overnite Transportation Company (Overnite) on January 17, 1994. Robinson filed suit alleging claims for retaliatory discharge in violation of South Carolina Code § 41-1-80, breach of contract, breach of implied contract coupled with fraud, and violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654. The district court granted Overnite's motion for summary judgment as to Robinson's breach of contract claims and entered judgment in favor of Overnite following a bench trial on Robinson's retaliatory discharge and FMLA claims. Finding no error, we affirm.
On December 3, 1988, Robinson completed an application for employment with Overnite, a trucking company engaged in the interstate transportation of freight, at Overnite's Gaffney, South Carolina facility. Included in the employment application was a disclaimer, providing that if the applicant was employed by Overnite, either he or Overnite could terminate his employment at any time and no writings contained in the application, employee handbook, or any other communications created a contract of employment for a definite or indefinite term. As part of the application process, Robinson disclosed to C.H. Nolley (Nolley), Overnite's Service Center Manager, that he had previously filed a workers' compensation claim while with a former employer.
On December 12, 1988, Nolley hired Robinson as a truck driver for Overnite. As a new employee, Overnite issued Robinson a copy of its Safety and Operating Rules and Regulations, which contained, immediately after the table of contents, a disclaimer identical in substance to that contained in the employment application.
In January 1993, Overnite issued its employees, including Robinson, a revised edition of its Employee Handbook (Handbook). Several provisions of the Handbook are pertinent to this appeal. First, the Handbook contained a disclaimer on page three under the heading "Forward" and just after the "Welcome" section, providing explicitly that statements in the Handbook were guidelines only and that an employment-at-will relationship existed between Overnite and its employees, a relationship that was not altered by anything contained in the Handbook.
The Handbook also contained a subsection on accident rules, including procedures to be followed in the event of an accident and possible punishments. Specifically, the Handbook provided that any driver involved in three preventable accidents within a twelve-month period would be terminated and that even one accident, depending on the circumstances and severity, could result in dismissal. Also included in the Handbook was a "Driver Appeal Policy," providing that any driver terminated for violations of Overnite safety regulations may appeal his termination through a detailed appeal process.
Finally, the Handbook contained a section on employee conduct. In this section, the Handbook provided that insubordination, or failure to follow instructions, was one of several behaviors that would subject an employee to disciplinary action, including dismissal.
On August 23, 1993, following the enactment of the FMLA,1 Overnite issued a revised Family and Medical Leave Policy. Overnite posted a notice of the FMLA on its company bulletin boards and included it in the revised employee handbook distributed in June 1994, following the effective date of the FMLA. In addition, information about the FMLA was disseminated to employees in notices distributed with their paychecks, and the FMLA was discussed at employee meetings.
While he was employed with Overnite, Robinson filed two workers' compensation claims. His first workers' compensation claim arose out of an injury that occurred in 1991. As a result of this injury, Robinson missed approximately thirty-five weeks of work and was paid medical and disability benefits. According to Robinson, he was satisfied and pleased with Overnite's handling of his first workers' compensation claim.
Robinson's second workers' compensation claim stemmed from an accident that occurred on December 22, 1993. At approximately 4:00 a.m., Robinson and his co-driver, Bobby Hawkins, were returning to Gaffney from Dallas, Texas, when Robinson fell asleep at the wheel, causing an accident. After veering off the shoulder of the road, the truck turned over on its side and came to rest back in the middle of the highway. Robinson admitted his fault in causing the accident.
Hawkins was not injured in the accident, but Robinson suffered a cut on his elbow and what would later be discovered to be a fractured sternum, fractured ribs, and a fractured vertebrae. After being treated for the cut on his elbow at a local hospital and released, Robinson and Hawkins returned to South Carolina on an airplane. Upon their return, the appropriate workers' compensation forms were completed and submitted.
On December 23, 1993, the day after the accident, Robinson sought medical treatment from Dr. A.R. Moss in Gaffney, South Carolina, Overnite's company doctor. Dr. Moss treated Robinson, decided to keep him out of work until December 29, 1993, and scheduled a follow-up visit for that date.
On December 29, 1993, Dr. Moss saw Robinson again and placed him on administrative light duty for up to four hours per day until January 4, 1994. Overnite complied with Dr. Moss's recommendation and assigned Robinson to administrative duties. On January 4, 1994, Robinson visited Dr. Moss for the third time and was cleared to return to driving on January 9, 1994.
During the time that Robinson was on administrative light duty, he continued to experience pain in his chest and back, which did not improve. As a result, Robinson became frustrated with the treatment he received from Dr. Moss and complained to Nolley about what he believed was inadequate care.
On January 5 or 6, 1994, Nolley met with Robinson about the impact of his accident on his employment with Overnite. Because Nolley considered Robinson's accident to be particularly serious, he had discussed Robinson's possible discharge with Overnite's home office. In light of Robinson's previous good driving record, however, Nolley determined that he would retain Robinson but place him on probation. When he met with Robinson, Nolley informed him of his decision and explained to Robinson that any further violation of the company's safety rules and regulations within a twelve-month period would lead to his termination. Robinson did not voice any objections about this probation period, and these restrictions were memorialized in a Corrective Action Report (CAR) according to Overnite's policy.
On January 10, 1994, Robinson saw Dr. Moss for the last time while employed at Overnite. Dr. Moss completed another evaluation form, sending Robinson for a second opinion with an orthopedic surgeon because of his continuing back pain. In addition, Dr. Moss imposed a 25-pound lifting restriction, noted Robinson's continued complaints of back pain, and prohibited Robinson from operating heavy equipment. Finally, Dr. Moss noted on the evaluation form that Robinson had bronchitis which was aggravating his chest wall pain.
When Robinson returned to Overnite, he gave the evaluation form to Mark Patterson, the Line Haul Manager, who subsequently called Dr. Moss and confirmed that Robinson was cleared to return to driving. Robinson was then placed back on the driving schedule beginning Monday, January 17, 1994.
After learning that he had been placed back on the driving schedule, Robinson complained to Patterson that he would not be able to drive a truck beginning the following week because of chest pain. Relying on the notation in Dr. Moss's report that Robinson had bronchitis, Patterson told Robinson that workers' compensation would not cover bronchitis and recommended to Robinson that he file a casual sick pay application, according to Overnite's casual sick pay policy covering minor illnesses. Robinson then completed a casual sick pay application and took two days off work. In his sick pay application, Robinson stated that he was requesting time off for bronchitis and a cough and that the condition was not the result of an accident.
On January 14, 1994, Robinson came to Overnite to pick up a blank evaluation form for his appointment that day with Dr. Richard Gardner, the orthopedic surgeon to whom he had been referred by Dr. Moss. At that time, Patterson presented Robinson with the CAR and told Robinson that he needed to read and sign it. Robinson stated that he did not want to sign the CAR until his wife had reviewed it, and Patterson agreed. After Robinson had left for his appointment with Dr. Gardner, Patterson spoke with the personnel office at Overnite and was reminded that employees were required to sign a CAR on the same day they received one as an acknowledgment that they had notice of its terms.
Later that afternoon, Robinson returned to Overnite following his appointment with Dr. Gardner. Upon his return, Robinson met with Patterson and handed him an evaluation form completed by Dr. Gardner, in which Dr. Gardner restricted Robinson from driving and advised that Robinson was not at "maximum medical improvement."2 (J.A. 611). When Robinson gave Patterson the form, Patterson told Robinson that he needed to sign the CAR that day. Robinson refused to sign the CAR and was immediately suspended. On the following Monday, January 17, 1994, Nolley called Robinson and fired him over the telephone for insubordination.
On January 3, 1995, Robinson filed a complaint in state court alleging claims for retaliatory discharge in violation of South Carolina Code § 41-1-80, breach of contract, and breach of an implied contract coupled with fraud. Following the removal of the complaint, based on diversity of citizenship, to the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina on February 2, 1995, Robinson amended his complaint to add several violations of the FMLA.
On June 30, 1995, Overnite moved for summary judgment on all of Robinson's claims. On July 21, 1995, the district court held a hearing on Overnite's motion for summary judgment, and on August 14, 1995, the district court entered an order denying Overnite's motion for summary judgment on all counts.
On August 23, 1995, the morning of trial, the district court sua sponte reconsidered its earlier denial of Overnite's motion for summary judgment as to Robinson's breach of contract and breach of an implied contract accompanied by a fraudulent act claims. After hearing brief argument from both parties, the district court granted summary judgment to Overnite on both of Robinson's contract-based claims. The district court found that the disclaimer in the Handbook, stating that an employment-at-will relationship existed between Overnite and its employees, was sufficiently conspicuous and that a reasonable person should have noticed it. The district court held, therefore, that Robinson was an at-will employee and could be terminated at will.
On August 23 and 24, 1995, the district court conducted a bench trial on remaining causes of action, the retaliatory discharge claim and the FMLA claims. On October 31, 1995, the district court ruled in favor of Overnite on each of Robinson's remaining claims. The district court found that Robinson had produced no evidence suggesting that he would not have been discharged but for his workers' compensation claim. Rather, according to the district court, all of the evidence suggested that Robinson was terminated for his refusal to sign the CAR. Since Robinson failed to produce any evidence of a causal nexus between his termination and his workers' compensation claim, the district court held that his retaliatory discharge claim under South Carolina Code § 41-1-80 must fail.
With regard to Robinson's FMLA claims, the district court held that the FMLA includes a notice requirement and that unless an employee requests FMLA leave, or otherwise puts the employer on reasonable notice of the employee's desire for FMLA leave, the employee is not entitled to such leave. The district court found that in this case, Robinson never gave Overnite reasonable notice of his desire for FMLA. Therefore, the district court held that Overnite did not violate the FMLA.
Robinson noted a timely appeal.
Whether a party was entitled to summary judgment is a matter of law which we review de novo. Higgins v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 863 F.2d 1162, 1167 (4th Cir.1988). Summary judgment is appropriate when the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with any affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. FED. R. CIV. P. 56(c).
Robinson first argues that the district court erroneously granted Overnite's motion for summary judgment as to his breach of contract and breach of an implied contract coupled with fraud claims on the ground that Robinson was an at-will employee who could be terminated at any time. See Kumpf v. United Tel. Co., 429 S.E.2d 869, 871 (S.C.Ct.App.1993) (recognizing that doctrine of termination at will is the law of South Carolina). Instead, Robinson argues that the Handbook altered his at-will status, creating an obligation on the part of Overnite to comply with its provisions.3
We need not address whether the disclaimer contained in the Handbook was conspicuous as a matter of law because even if the district court erred in so holding, the district court properly granted Overnite's motion for summary judgment as to Robinson's breach of contract claims because Robinson did not produce any evidence that Overnite breached any particular provision of the Handbook when it terminated him. Robinson argues that Overnite violated two distinct provisions of its Handbook when it terminated his employment. First, Robinson argues that Overnite violated the provision of the Handbook that provided that "[a]ny driver involved in three (3) preventable accidents within twelve (12) consecutive months, shall be terminated regardless of the amount of property damage.... Depending upon the circumstances and severity, even one (1) accident may result in dismissal." (J.A. 605). Second, Robinson alleges that Overnite violated its Driver Appeal Policy, providing for an appeal mechanism for Overnite drivers who are terminated for an alleged safety violation.
The central problem with both of Robinson's arguments is that they rest on the premise that Robinson's employment with Overnite was terminated for a safety violation. However, following the bench trial, the district court found that Robinson was terminated for his refusal to sign the CAR, not for his accident or for any other safety violation. Although Robinson argues that the district court's finding that he was fired because he refused to sign the CAR was clearly erroneous, the district court relied on specific testimony supporting its conclusion and Robinson cites no evidence to the contrary. Specifically, the district court relied on Nolley's testimony that it was Overnite's policy to terminate the employment of any employee who refused to sign a CAR and that every employee at the Gaffney facility who refused to sign a CAR had been discharged.
In arguing that the district court's finding that he was terminated for failing to sign the CAR was clearly erroneous, Robinson relies primarily on the district court's own statement in its order that "[n]o one told [Robinson] that his failure to ... sign the CAR would be considered insubordinate, nor did anyone tell him that failing to sign the form would result in his termination." (J.A. 32). However, whether anyone told Robinson that a refusal to sign the CAR would be considered insubordinate or that such conduct would result in his termination does not undermine the district court's conclusion that it was this behavior that caused Robinson's termination. In addition, preceding the statement quoted above, the district court stated that upon Robinson's return from his appointment with Dr. Gardner on January 14, 1994, "Mr. Patterson told [Robinson] that Mr. Patterson had been instructed by the main office that Mr. Robinson had to sign the CAR that day." Id. Thus, the district court found that Robinson had been instructed to sign the CAR. In light of the fact that Robinson did not sign the CAR that day, the district court made no findings inconsistent with its ultimate conclusion that Robinson was terminated for failing to sign the CAR.
Because Robinson was fired for refusing to sign the CAR, not because of his accident, the Handbook provisions relating to the number of accidents that will lead to termination or an appeal policy for drivers terminated for the violation of safety regulations are not implicated in this case. Instead, the pertinent Handbook section is the section on employee conduct, which provides that an employee may be subject to disciplinary action, including dismissal, for insubordination. Because the contract provisions allegedly breached by Overnite are not applicable and because the Handbook states explicitly that an employee may be terminated for insubordination, the reason articulated by Overnite, the district court did not err when it granted Overnite's motion for summary judgment as to Robinson's claims based on breach of contract.
On an appeal from a bench trial, we may only set aside findings of fact if they are clearly erroneous, and we must give due regard to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of the witnesses. See FED. R. CIV. P. 52(a). We review the district court's conclusions of law de novo. Resolution Trust Corp. v. Maplewood Inv., 31 F.3d 1276, 1281 n. 7 (4th Cir.1994).
Following the bench trial, the district court first held that Robinson had failed to produce sufficient evidence of a retaliatory discharge in violation of South Carolina Code § 41-1-80. Robinson argues that the district court overlooked evidence that Overnite's asserted reason for terminating Robinson was pretextual for retaliatory animus.
Section 41-1-80 provides that "[n]o employer may discharge or demote any employee because the employee has instituted or caused to be instituted, in good faith, any proceeding under the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Law (Title 42 of the 1976 Code), or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding." S.C. CODE ANN. § 41-1-80 (Law Co-op. Supp.1995). In order to prove a claim under § 41-1-80, a plaintiff must show: (1) the institution of workers' compensation proceedings; (2) a discharge or demotion; and (3) a causal connection between the institution of workers' compensation proceedings and the discharge or demotion. See Hines v. United Parcel Serv., Inc., 736 F.Supp. 675, 677 (D.S.C.1990). In order to establish a causal connection between the workers' compensation proceeding and the discharge or demotion, the employee must establish that "he would not have been discharged'but for' the filing of the claim." Wallace v. Milliken & Co., 406 S.E.2d 358, 360 (S.C.1991). If the employer articulates a legitimate, nonretaliatory reason for the termination or demotion, the proximity in time between the injury and the termination or demotion is not sufficient evidence to carry the employee's burden of proving a causal connection. See Johnson v. J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc., 417 S.E.2d 527, 529 (S.C.1992) ("In light of the conceded legitimate, nonretaliatory motives for the termination, [the] proximity in time does not meet the employee's burden of proof."); Marr v. City of Columbia, 416 S.E.2d 615, 617 (S.C.1992) (rejecting retaliatory discharge claim where only evidence suggesting retaliatory motive for discharge was temporal proximity of claim to discharge).
In arguing that he has established a claim for retaliatory discharge under § 41-1-80, Robinson relies primarily on his contention that the district court's finding that he was terminated for failing to sign the CAR is clearly erroneous. According to Robinson, the district court overlooked evidence that Overnite's articulated reason for Robinson's discharge was pretextual. However, as stated above, there was sufficient evidence to support the district court's conclusion that Robinson was discharged for failing to sign the CAR when instructed to do so. Nolley testified that at least two other employees had been discharged for the same reason and that it was Overnite's policy to discharge anyone who would not sign the CAR. Robinson has produced no evidence contradicting Nolley's testimony, nor has Robinson produced evidence of any retaliatory animus directed at either him personally or at workers' compensation claimants in general by Overnite. Instead, the only evidence Robinson produced of a causal connection between his termination and his workers' compensation claim was their temporal proximity. As noted above, however, where an employer has articulated a legitimate, nonretaliatory reason for the termination, this evidence is not sufficient to establish that the two were causally related under South Carolina law. See, e.g., Marr, 416 S.E.2d at 617; Johnson, 417 S.E.2d at 529. Because Robinson failed to produce sufficient evidence of a causal connection between his workers' compensation claim and the termination of his employment with Overnite, we affirm the district court's judgment in favor of Overnite on Robinson's claim for retaliatory discharge in violation of South Carolina Code § 41-1-80.
Finally, Robinson appeals the district court's judgment in favor of Overnite on his FMLA claims. In appealing the district court's judgment, Robinson argues, first, that the district court erred when it held that Robinson did not place Overnite on sufficient notice that he had a "serious health condition," see 29 U.S.C. § 2612(a)(1)(D) (entitling eligible employee to twelve workweeks of leave for a "serious health condition"), and, second, that the district court erred when it held that Overnite did not violate the FMLA by interfering with his right to medical leave under the FMLA, see 29 U.S.C. § 2615(a) (prohibiting employers from interfering with, restraining, or denying the exercise of any rights under the FMLA). We will first set forth the pertinent provisions of the FMLA and then address each of Robinson's arguments in turn.
Under the FMLA, an eligible employee is entitled to a total of twelve workweeks of leave during any twelve-month period "[b]ecause of a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the functions of the position of such employee." 29 U.S.C. § 2612(a)(1)(D). Under the interim regulations in effect at the time of Robinson's injury and termination,4 a "serious health condi tion" is an illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition that involves "[a]ny period of incapacity requiring absence from work, school, or other regular daily activities, of more than three calendar days, that also involves continuing treatment by (or under the supervision of) a health care provider." 29 C.F.R. § 825.114(a)(2) (1993). In addition to requiring that an employee have a "serious health condition," the interim regulations also require that "an employee should give notice to the employer of the need for FMLA leave as soon as practicable under the facts and circumstances of the particular case." Id. § 825.303(a). Although an employee must provide his employer with notice of his need for FMLA leave, he is not required to expressly mention the FMLA. See id. § 825.302(c); Manuel v. Westlake Polymers Corp., 66 F.3d 758, 763 (5th Cir.1993). Rather, it is sufficient for the employee to notify his employer that "leave is needed for an expected birth or adoption, for example." 29 C.F.R. § 825.302(c) (1993). Upon return from FMLA leave, the interim regulations provide that an employee is entitled "to be returned to the same position the employee held when leave commenced, or to an equivalent position...." Id. § 825.214(a).
In addition to granting eligible employees the right to leave for certain family and medical reasons under § 2612(a), the FMLA also explicitly prohibits employers from interfering with an employee's exercise of his rights under the FMLA: "It shall be unlawful for any employer to interfere with, restrain, or deny the exercise of or the attempt to exercise, any right provided under this subchapter." 29 U.S.C. § 2615(a)(1). With regard to what conduct constitutes "interfering with" any employee's rights in violation of § 2615(a)(1), the interim regulations provide that "[a]ny violations of the [FMLA] or of these regulations constitute interfering with, restraining, or denying the exercise of rights provided by the [FMLA]." 29 C.F.R. § 825.220(b) (1993). The regulations provide further that " '[i]nterfering with' the exercise of an employee's rights would include, for example, not only refusing to authorize FMLA leave, but discouraging an employee from using such leave." Id.
The interim regulations also contain a number of provisions pertinent to this appeal that are designed to ensure that employees are adequately informed of their rights under the FMLA. For example, 29 C.F.R. § 825.301(a) provides that "[i]f an employer has any written guidance to employees concerning employee benefits or leave rights, such as in an employee handbook, information concerning FMLA entitlements and employee obligations under the FMLA must be included...." 29 C.F.R. § 825.301(a) (1993). In addition, the regulations provide that when an employee gives notice of his need for FMLA leave, the employer must provide the employee with information detailing the specific expectations and obligations of the employee, including any consequences of a failure to meet these obligations. Id. § 825.301(c). Finally, the regulations require each employer to post a notice explaining the FMLA's provisions and providing information concerning the procedures for filing complaints of violations of the FMLA in conspicuous places where employees are located. Id. § 825.300(a).
2. Robinson first argues that the district court erroneously held that he had failed to provide Overnite with reasonable notice of his need for FMLA leave. Robinson asserts, in particular, that his complaints to both Patterson and Nolley about his back pain, Dr. Moss's report indicating acute lumbosacral strain, a chest contusion, and continued back pain, and Dr. Gardner's report recommending no driving or lifting were sufficient to put Overnite on notice of his need for leave because of a "serious health condition."
As noted above, under the regulations in effect at the time of Robinson's injury and termination, Robinson did not have to expressly assert his rights under the FMLA to be considered to have given sufficient notice of his need for FMLA leave. Manuel, 66 F.3d at 763. Instead, he simply had to give Overnite notice of his need for leave because of a qualifying reason, such as a serious health condition. See 29 C.F.R. § 825.302(c) (1993). In this case, however, the evidence is undisputed that as of January 9, 1994, Robinson had been cleared to resume driving by Dr. Moss, giving Overnite no reason to believe that Robinson needed FMLA leave for "a serious health condition that ma[de] [Robinson] unable to perform the functions of [his] position." See 29 U.S.C. § 2612(a)(1)(D). Although Dr. Gardner's report of January 14 restricted Robinson from driving, arguably placing Overnite on notice of the serious nature of Robinson's injury, Robinson testified that at approximately the same time that he handed Dr. Gardner's report to Patterson, Patterson handed him the CAR and insisted for the final time that he sign it. In addition, Patterson testified that he had not seen Dr. Gardner's report at the time that Robinson was suspended, testimony that is consistent with the conclusion that Overnite was not made aware of the serious nature of Robinson's injury at the time that it took disciplinary action against him for refusing to sign the CAR. Because the record contains sufficient evidence to support the district court's finding that Robinson failed to inform Overnite of facts that could have put Overnite on notice of his need for FMLA leave, this finding is not clearly erroneous and should not be disturbed on appeal.5
Finally, Robinson asserts that the district court erred when it held that Overnite had not "interfered with" his rights under the FMLA in violation of 29 U.S.C. § 2615(a). Specifically, Robinson argues that Overnite violated the interim regulations implementing the FMLA by: (1) failing to provide sufficient notice to its employees of their rights under the FMLA by placing such notice in the employee handbook or on conspicuous bulletin boards, see 29 C.F.R. §§ 825.301(a), 825.300(a) (1993); (2) failing to explain to Robinson his rights under the FMLA once on notice of Robinson's need for leave, see id. § 825.301(c); and (3) interfering with Robinson's right to reinstatement upon his return from FMLA leave, see id. § 825.214(a). These arguments have no merit.
Addressing Robinson's first contention that Overnite failed to provide sufficient notice to its employees of their rights under the FMLA, the trial testimony indicated that, within a few weeks of the effective date of the FMLA, Overnite had revised its family and medical leave policy and disseminated the new policy to all employees at the Gaffney facility during employee meetings held to discuss the new policy or with their paychecks. In addition, FMLA notices were posted on the permanent bulletin boards in the drivers' area, and an FMLA notice was contained in the first employee handbook to be distributed in June 1994, following the effective date of the FMLA. There was sufficient evidence, therefore, from which the district court could conclude that Overnite fully complied with its notice requirements under the interim regulations, both by providing notice of the FMLA at the time of the effective date and by including information about the FMLA in its first handbook issued after the effective date.
Addressing Robinson's second contention that Overnite failed to provide him with notice of his rights under the FMLA at the time Overnite was put on notice of his need for leave, as discussed above, the district court held that Robinson never placed Overnite on notice of his need for leave, as required under the FMLA, a conclusion supported by the record. Because Overnite was never on notice of Robinson's need for FMLA leave, Overnite's duty to explain to Robinson his rights and responsibilities under the FMLA, as provided in 29 C.F.R. § 825.301(c), was never triggered.
Finally, with regard to Robinson's assertion that Overnite interfered with his right to be reinstated into his former position in violation of 29 C.F.R. § 825.214(a), Robinson argues that the imposition of a probationary period in accordance with the CAR fundamentally changed the nature of his position at Overnite. First, Robinson cites no authority for the proposition that the imposition of a period of probation changed the nature of his position as a truck driver, such that it would not be deemed "equivalent" under § 825.214(a). In addition, Nolley testified that Robinson was being placed on probation because he had violated safety rules and caused a serious accident, not because he had taken leave as a result of injuries sustained in the accident. Because Robinson failed to produce evidence supporting a violation of any of the regulatory provisions on which he relies, the district court did not err in holding that Robinson failed to prove that Overnite "interfered with" the exercise of his rights under the FMLA.
For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the district court's grant of summary judgment as to Robinson's claims based on breach of contract and the district court's judgment following a bench trial in favor of Overnite as to Robinson's retaliatory discharge and FMLA claims.
AFFIRMED.
The FMLA became effective on August 5, 1993. See Family and Medical Leave Act, Pub.L. No. 103-3, 107 Stat. 6
Dr. Gardner did not diagnose Robinson's fractured sternum, fractured ribs, or fractured vertebrae during this visit; only subsequently did Robinson learn of the extent of his injuries
Under South Carolina law, "an employer may become contractually bound by the provisions of its employee handbook absent a conspicuous disclaimer or provision to the contrary." Hannah v. United Refrigerated Services, Inc., 430 S.E.2d 539, 541 (S.C.Ct.App.1993). Thus, if an employer wishes to issue policies, manuals, or bulletins as purely advisory statements with no intent of being bound by them, the employer must "insert[ ] a conspicuous disclaimer or provision into the written document." Small v. Springs Indus., Inc., 357 S.E.2d 452, 454-55 (S.C.1987)
The Secretary of Labor released final regulations effective February 6, 1995. See The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 60 Fed.Reg
2180 (1995). Because Overnite's decision to terminate Robinson's employment occurred prior to the release of the final regulations, however, the interim regulations govern this dispute. See Manuel v. Westlake Polymers Corp., 66 F.3d 758, 761 n. 2 (5th Cir.1995).
Robinson also argues that the district court applied the wrong legal standard to the FMLA notice requirement, requiring Robinson to invoke explicitly the FMLA when requesting leave. As support, Robinson relies on the fact that the district court stated during the trial that Overnite had knowledge of Robinson's injury as described by Dr. Gardner, yet nevertheless concluded that Robinson had not provided sufficient notice of his need for leave to invoke his rights under § 2612(a). However, the district court made the statement regarding Overnite's knowledge in the context of a ruling that any further evidence regarding Overnite's knowledge would be cumulative. The district court explicitly found that Robinson "never requested FMLA leave nor informed Overnite of facts that could have reasonably put Overnite on notice of [his] desire or need to take FMLA leave." (J.A. 33 (emphasis added)). This explicit finding demonstrates that the district court was aware that informing an employer of facts supporting the need for leave sufficiently places that employer on notice under the FMLA. See 29 C.F.R. § 825.302(c) (1993). Therefore, Robinson's argument that the district court applied the wrong notice standard must fail
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111 U.S. 701 - Hagar v.
4 S.Ct. 663
RECLAMATION DIST. NO. 108.1 (Two Cases.)
May 5, 1884.
W. C. Belcher, for appellant.
A. L. Rhodes, for appellee.
FIELD, J.
By an act of the legislature of California, passed in 1868, a general system was established for reclaiming swamp and overflowed salt marsh and tide lands in the state, of which there is a large quantity, and thus fitting them for cultivation. It will be sufficient for the purposes of this suit to state the general features of the system without going much into detail. It provides for the formation of reclamation districts where lands of the kind stated are susceptible of one mode of reclamation; such districts to be established by the board of supervisors of the county in which the lands, or the greater part of them, are situated, upon the petition of one-half or more of the holders thereof. The petition being granted, the petitioners are required to establish such by-laws as they may deem necessary for the work of reclamation, and to keep the same in repair; and to elect three of their number to act as a board of trustees to manage the same. This board is empowered to employ engineers and others to survey, plan, and estimate the cost of the work, and of land needed for right of way, including drains, canals, sluices, watergates, embankments, and material for construction; and to construct, maintain, and keep in repair all works necessary for the object in view. The trustees are required to report to the board of supervisors of the county, or, if the district be in more than one county, to the board of supervisors in each county, the plans of the work and estimates of the cost, together with estimates of the incidental expenses of superintendence and repairs. The supervisors are then to appoint three commissioners, who are jointly to view and assess upon each acre to be reclaimed or benefited a tax proportionate to the whole expense, and to the benefits which will result from the works; which tax is to be collected and paid into the county treasury or treasuries, as the case may be, and placed to the credit of the district, to be paid out for the work of reclamation, upon the order of the trustees, when approved by the board of supervisors of the county. If the district be in more than one county, the tax is to be paid into the treasury of the county in which the land assessed is situated. If the original assessment be insufficient for the complete reclamation of the lands, or if further assessments be required for the protection, maintenance, and repair of the works, the supervisors may order additional assessments upon presentation by the trustees of a statement of the work to be done, and an estimate of its cost, such assessments to be levied, and, if delinquent, collected, in the same manner as the original assessment. The commissioners are required to make a list of the amounts due from each owner of land in the district, and of the amount assessed against the unsold land, and file the same with the treasurer of the county in which the lands are situated. The lists thus prepared are to remain in the office of the treasurer for 30 days or longer, if so ordered by the trustees, during which time any person can pay to the treasurer the amount assessed against his land; but if, at the end of the 30 days, or the extended time, the tax has not been paid, the treasurer is to transmit the list to the district attorney, who is to proceed at once against the delinquents in the manner provided by law for the collection of state and county taxes. The Political Code of the state, which went into effect on the first of January, 1873, embraces substantially the provisions of the act of 1868. The changes are more in language than in substance. So far as subsequent proceedings are concerned, the Code prescribes the rule. The reclamation district No. 108, the plaintiff in the court below, was established in September, 1870, under the act of 1868. It embraces over 74,000 acres of land, situated in the counties of Yolo and Colusa, and forming a compact body susceptible of one mode of reclamation. The trustees of the district originally estimated the cost of the reclamation works, including incidental expenses, at $140,000, and the commissioners appointed assessed that sum upon the lands in the district. The amount proved to be insufficient to complete the works, and, upon the report of the trustees that the further sum of $192,000 was required for that purpose, the supervisors ordered that amount to be assessed, and the commissioners appointed by them levied the assessment upon the lands. This assessment became delinquent, and the present suits were brought to obtain a decree that the several amounts charged upon the lands of the appellant are liens upon them, and for their sale to satisfy the charges. One of the suits is to enforce the lien on the lands in Yolo county, and the other the liens on the lands in Colusa county. On his motion they were both removed to the circuit court of the United States. That court held in each case that the several sums assessed were valid liens upon the lands of the appellant on which they were levied, and ordered that the lands be sold for the payment of the amounts, with interest and costs. From these decrees the appeals are taken.
Of the several objections to the validity of the assessment urged in the court below, and pressed here, some arise under local statutes, not involving any questions of federal law, and some under the laws and constitution of the United States. The former relate to the manner in which the reclamation district was formed, it being established by the supervisors of one county, while part of the lands are situated in another county; to the fact that the appellant derived his title to his lands under a grant from the Mexican government; and to the requirement that the amounts assessed should be collected in gold and silver coin of the United States. There being no federal question touching these matters, we follow the decision of the state tribunals as to the construction and validity of the statutes. It is not open to doubt that it is in the power of the state to require local improvements to be made which are essential to the health and prosperity of any community within its borders. To this end it may provide for the construction of canals for draining marshy and malarious districts, and of levees to prevent inundations, as well as for the opening of streets in cities and of roads in the country. The system adopted in California to reclaim swamp and overflowed lands by forming districts, where the lands are susceptible of reclamation in one mode, is not essentially different from that of other states, where lands of that description are found. The fact that the lands may be situated in more than one county cannot affect the power of the state to delegate authority for the establishment of a reclamation district to the supervisors of the county containing the greater part of the lands. Such authority may be lodged in any board or tribunal which the legislature may designate.
In some states the reclamation is made by building levees on streams whose banks are subject to overflow; in other states by ditches to carry off the surplus water. Levees or embankments are necessary to protect lands on the lower Mississippi against annual inundations. The expense of such works may be charged against parties specially benefited, and be made a lien upon their property. All that is required in such cases is that the charges shall be apportioned in some just and reasonable mode, according to the benefit received. Absolute equality in imposing them may not be reached; only an approximation to it may be attainable. If no direct and invidious discrimination in favor of certain persons to the prejudice of others be made, it is not a valid objection to the mode pursued that, to some extent, inequalities may arise. It may possibly be that in some portions of the country there are o erflowed lands of so large an extent that the expense of their reclamation should properly be borne by the state. But this is a matter purely of legislative discretion. Whenever a local improvement is authorized, it is for the legislature to prescribe the way in which the means to meet its cost shall be raised, whether by general taxation, or by laying the burden upon the district specially benefited by the expenditure. County of Mobile v. Kimball, 102 U. S. 704. The rule of equality and uniformity, prescribed in cases of taxation for state and county purposes, does not require that all property, or all persons in a county or district, shall be taxed for local purposes. Such an application of the rule would often produce the very inequality it was designed to prevent. As we said in Lousiana v. Pillsbury, 105 U. S. 295, there would often be manifest injustice in subjecting the whole property of a city, and the same may be said of the whole property of any district, to taxation for an improvement of a local character. The rule, that he who reaps the benefit should bear the burden, must in such cases be applied.
The fact that the appellant's land was derived from a grant of the Mexican government in no respect affects the question. It is the character of the land and its susceptibility of being reclaimed under one system of works, and not the source of the owner's title, which authorize the action of the state. The lands granted by Mexico were not, by the treaty under which California was acquired, exempted from the control that the state exercises over all other lands. The objection made is founded upon the title of the act of 1868 and the language of some of its provisions, from which it is inferred that the system of reclamation prescribed was intended to apply only to lands acquired by the state under the Arkansas swamp act. But the supreme court of the state has passed directly upon this objection, in a controversy between the appellant and the supervisors of Yolo county with respect to this very land, and has held it untenable. 47 Cal. 222. Besides, the objection, if originally applicable, was obviated by subsequent legislation in 1872, prior to the asessment in question.
Nor is there anything in the objection that the law requires the assessment to be collected in gold and silver coin. The original act of 1868 did not prescribe the currency in which the charges were to be paid, but before the assessment was levied it was amended so as to require payment in gold and silver coin. The acts of congress making the notes of the United States a legal tender do not apply to involuntary contributions exacted by a state, but only to debts, in the strict sense of that term; that is, to obligations for the payment of money founded on contracts, express or implied. This point was decided in Lane Co. v. Oregon, 7 Wall. 71, with reference to the first legal-tender act of 1862. Subsequent acts imparting the legal-tender quality to notes did not change the general language of that act. They make such notes a legal tender 'in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States.' In the case mentioned a statute of Oregon requiring the payment of taxes for state and school purposes to be collected in gold and silver coin was sustained on two grounds: First, that it was the right of each state to collect its taxes in such material as it might deem expedient, either in kind, that is to say, by a certain proportion of products, or in bullion, or in coin, the court observing that the extent to which the power of taxation of the state should be exercised, the subjects upon which it should be exercised, and the mode in which it should be exercised, were all equally within the discretion of its legislature, except as restrained by its own constitution and that of the United States, and by the condition that the power could not be so used as to burden or embarrass the operations of the federal government; and, second, that he legaltender act had no reference to taxes imposed by state authority, but only to debts, in the ordinary sense of the word, arising out of simple contracts, or contracts of specialty, which include judgments and recognizances. Assessments upon property for local improvements are involuntary exactions, and in that respect stand on the same footing with ordinary taxes. They are, therefore, covered by this decision; the state could determine in what manner they should be discharged.
The objections urged to the validity of the assessment on federal grounds are substantially these: that the law under which the assessment was made and levied conflicts with the clause of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution declaring that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; and impairs the obligation of the contract between California and the United States, that the proceeds of the swamp and overflowed lands ceded by the Arkansas act should be expended in reclaiming them. That clause of the fourteenth amendment is found in almost identical language in the several state constitutions, and is intended as additional security against the arbitrary deprivation of life and liberty and the arbitrary spoliation of property. Neither can be taken without due process of law. What constitutes that process it may be difficult to define with precision so as to cover all cases. It is no doubt wiser, as stated by Mr. Justice MILLER in Davidson v. New Orleans, to arrive at its meaning 'by the gradual process of judicial inclusion and exclusion, as the cases presented for decision shall require, with the reasoning on which such decisions may be founded.' 96 U. S. 104. It is sufficient to observe here that by 'due process' is meant one which, following the forms of law, is appropriate to the case, and just to the parties to be affected. It must be pursued in the ordinary mode prescribed by the law; it must be adapted to the end to be attained; and wherever it is necessary for the protection of the parties, it must give them an opportunity to be heard respecting the justice of the judgment sought. The clause in question means, therefore, that there can be no proceeding against life, liberty, or property which may result in the deprivation of either, without the observance of those general rules established in our system of jurisprudence for the security of private rights. Hurtado v. California, 110 U. S. 516, 536; S. C. ante, 111.
The appellant contends that this fundamental principle was violated in the assessment of his property, inasmuch as it was made without notice to him, or without his being afforded any opportunity to be heard respecting it; the law authorizing it containing no provision for such notice or hearing. His contention is that notice and opportunity to be heard are essential to render any proceeding due process of law which may lead to the deprivation of life, liberty, or property. Undoubtedly where life and liberty are involved, due process requires that there be a regular course of judicial proceedings, which imply that the party to be affected shall have notice and an opportunity to be heard; so, also, where title or possession of property is involved. But where the taking of property is in the enforcement of a tax, the proceeding is necessarily less formal, and whether notice to him is at all necessary may depend upon the character of the tax, and the manner in which its amount is determinable. The necessity of revenue for the support of the government does not admit of the delay attendant upon proceedings in a court of justice, and they are not required for the enforcement of taxes or assessments. As stated by Mr. Justice BRADLEY, in his concurring opinion in Davidson v. New Orleans: 'In judging what is 'due process of law' respect must be had to the cause and object of the taking, whether under the taxing power, the power of eminent domain, or the power of assessment for ocal improvements, or some of these; and, if found to be suitable or admissible in the special case, it will be adjudged to be 'due process of law,' but if found to be arbitrary, oppressive, and unjust, it may be declared to be not 'due process of law." The power of taxation possessed by the state may be exercised upon any subject within its jurisdiction, and to any extent not prohibited by the constitution of the United States. As said by this court: 'It may touch property in every shape, in its natural condition, in its manufactured form, and in its various transmutations. And the amount of the taxation may be determined by the value of the property, or its use, or its capacity, or its productiveness. It may touch business in the almost infinite forms in which it is conducted, in professions, in commerce, in manufactures, and in transportation. Unless restrained by provisions of the federal constitution, the power of the state, as to the mode, form, and extent of taxation, is unlimited where the subjects to which it applies are within her jurisdiction.' State Tax on Foreign-held Bonds, 15 Wall. 319.
Of the different kinds of taxes which the state may impose, there is a vast number of which, from their nature, no notice can be given to the tax-payer, nor would notice be of any possible advantage to him, such as poll-taxes, license taxes, (not dependent upon the extent of his business,) and, generally, specific taxes on things or persons or occupations. In such cases the legislature in authorizing the tax fixes its amount, and that is the end of the matter. If the tax be not paid the property of the delinquent may be sold, and he be thus deprived of his property. Yet there can be no question that the proceeding is due process of law, as there is no inquiry into the weight of evidence, or other element of a judicial nature, and nothing could be changed by hearing the tax-payer. No right of his is therefore invaded. Thus, if the tax on animals be a fixed sum per head, or on articles a fixed sum per yard or bushel or gallon, there is nothing the owner can do which can affect the amount to be collected from him. So, if a person wishes a license to do business of a particular kind, or at a particular place, such as keeping a hotel or a restaurant, or selling liquors or cigars or clothes, he has only to pay the amount required by the law and go into the business. There is no need in such cases for notice or hearing. So, also, if taxes are imposed in the shape of licenses for privileges, such as those on foreign corporations for doing business in the state, or on domestic corporations for franchises, if the parties desire the privilege they have only to pay the amount required. In such cases there is no necessity for notice or hearing. The amount of the tax would not be changed by it. But where a tax is levied on property not specifically, but according to its value, to be ascertained by assessors appointed for that purpose, upon such evidence as they may obtain, a different principle comes in. The officers in estimating the value act judicially, and in most of the states provision is made for the correction of errors committed by them, through boards of revision or equalization, sitting at designated periods provided by law, to hear complaints respecting the justice of the assessments. The law, in prescribing the time when such complaints will be heard, gives all the notice required, and the proceeding by which the valuation is determined, though it may be followed, if the tax be not paid, by a sale of the delinquent's property, is due process of law.2
In some states, instead of a board of revision or equalization, the assessment may be revised by proceedings in the courts and be there corrected if erroneous, or set aside if invalid; or objections to the validity or amount of the assessment may be taken when the attempt is made to enforce it. In such cases all the opportunity is given to the tax-payer to be heard respecting the assessment which can be deemed essential to render the proceedings due process of law. In Davidson v. New Orleans, this court decided this precise point. In that case an assessment levied on certain real property in New Orleans for draining the swamps of that city was resisted on the ground that the proceeding deprived the owners of their property without due process of law, but the court refused to interfere, for the reason that the owners of the property had notice of the assessment and an opportunity to contest it in the courts. After stating that much misapprehension prevailed as to the meaning of the terms 'due process of law,' and that it would be difficult to give a definition that would be at once perspicuous and satisfactory, the court, speaking by Mr. Justice MILLER, said that it would lay down the following proposition as applicable to the case: 'That whenever by the laws of a state, or by state authority, a tax, assessment, servitude, or other burden is imposed upon property for the public use, whether it be for the whole state or of some more limited portion of the community, and those laws provide for a mode of confirming or contesting the charge thus imposed in the ordinary courts of justice, with such notice to the person, or such proceeding in regard to the property as is appropriate to the nature of the case, the judgment in such proceedings cannot be said to deprive the owner of his property without due process of law, however obnoxious it may be to other objections.' 96 U. S. 97.
This decision covers the cases at bar. The assessment under consideration could, by the law of California, be enforced only by legal proceedings, and in them any defense going either to its validity or amount could be pleaded. In ordinary taxation assessments, if not altered by a board of revision or of equalization, stand good, and the tax levied may be collected by a sale of the delinquent's property; but assessments in California, for the purpose of reclaiming overflowed and swamp lands, can be enforced only by suits, and, of course, to their validity it is essential that notice be given to the tax-payer, and opportunity be afforded him to be heard respecting the assessment. In them he may set forth, by way of defense, all his grievances. Reclamation Dist. No. 108 v. Evans, 61 Cal. 104. If property taken upon an assessment, which can only be enforced in this way, be not taken by due process of law, then, as said by Mr. Justice MILLER in the New Orleans Case, these words, as used in the constitution, can have no definite meaning. The numerous decisions cited by counsel, some of which are given in the note, as to the necessity of notice and of an opportunity of being heard, are all satisfied where a hearing in court is thus allowed.3
The objection that the law of California, authorizing the assessment in question, impairs the obligation of a contract created between the United States and the state by the act of congress of September 28, 1850, commonly known as the Arkansas swamp act, is founded upon a misapprehension of its provisions. 9 St. p. 519, c. 84. It is true the act granted to the state all the swamp and overflowed lands within its limits, on condition that the proceeds of the lands, 'whether from sale or by direct appropriation in kind,' should be applied, as far as necessary, in reclaiming the lands by means of levees and drains. Hence the contention of counsel is that the state is bound to carry out this condition and apply the proceeds to the reclamation, or provide for their application to that end, and that its legislation imposing an assessment upon other lands to raise the necessary funds for that purpose is in violation of this contract, and therefore void. The answer to this position is twofold. In the first place, if a contract was created by the Arkansas act, when the state accepted its benefits, it is for the United States to complain of the breach if there be any. The plaintiff is not a party to the contract, and is in no position to invoke its protection. But, in the second place, the appropriation of the proceeds rests solely in the good faith of the state. Its discretion in disposing of them is not controlled by that condition, as neither a contract nor a trust following the lands was thereby created. This was distinctly held, after elaborate consideration, in the recent case of Mills Co. v. Railroad Co. 107 U. S. 557, 566; S. C. 2 SUP. CT. REP. 654.
There are several other objections urged upon our consideration in the elaborate brief of the appellant's counsel, but we do not deem it necessary to consider them, for they raise only questions of local law and procedure which have been considered and determined in the courts of the state, from whose conclusions we should not depart.
Decrees affirmed.
Legislation of the colonies prior to the revolution, and of the states since, giving to the tax-payer an opportunity to be heard respecting the justice of the assessment of his property before it becomes final.
In Massachusetts, an act passed in 1692, for defraying the public and necessary charges arising within each county of the province, provided that 'if any person or persons think themselves overrated in any such assessment, they shall be eased by the assessors making the same to appear, or, in default thereof, by the court of quarter sessions.' Laws Mass. Bay, 19.
In Connecticut, an act passed prior to 1750 made it the duty of the listers to hear complaints of parties complaining that they were overrated. 'But if such listers will not give just relief, then upon application made by the aggrieved party to an assistant, or justice of the peace, with two of the selectmen of the town, (notifying two or more,) of the listers to show reason, if any they have, why relief should not be granted them,) they shall consider the case, and give such relief as they shall judge just and reasonable.' Acts and Laws of His Majesty's English Colony of Connecticut, 136, 262.
In South Carolina, by an act passed in 1701, for raising money for the public use and defense of the province, provision is made that the commissioners appointed by the act shall, upon complaint or appeal from any one feeling aggrieved at the rating, examine the person complaining upon his oath, touching the value of his real and personal estate, 'and upon due examination abate or defaulk proportionably the said assessments, and the same so abated shall be certified by the ommissioners aforesaid, or any two of them, to the receiver, and such assessment so certified as aforesaid shall be deemed firme and valid, and to that end the commissioners are hereby required to meet together for the determining of such complaint and appeal accordingly.' 2 St. S. C. 184. By other and subsequent statutes the tax-payer was allowed to 'swear off' so much as he should think himself overrated for his stocks or stores, and the assessors were required to give notice for that purpose, and were authorized to administer oaths and to allow the abatement. 3 St. S. C. 241, 260, 476, 506.
In Maine and Massachusetts, the tax-payer may make his complaint first to the assessor, and, if he refuse to grant the relief demanded, to the county commissioners. Me. Rev. St. 1871, p. 144; Mass. Gen. St. 1860, p. 79.
In Rhode Island he may petition the supreme court or court of common pleas, and the court must hear and determine his complaint. Gen. St. 107.
In Vermont, complaints may be heard before listers, and an appeal lies from their decision to the selectmen of the town. Gen. St. 520.
In New Hampshire, the tax-payer may apply to the selectmen of the town, and, if dissatisfied with their decision, may apply, by petition, to the supreme court, in the county, at a trial term, which shall make such order thereon as justice requires. Gen. St. 123.
In Connecticut, a board of relief, to consist of five 'judicious electors,' is annually elected in each town, for hearing and determining appeals from decisions of the assessors. Gen. St. 24, 159.
In New York, complaints may be made to the board of assessors. Rev. St. (5th Ed.) 911, 912.
In New Jersey, to the commissioners of appeal, in tax cases. Rev. St. 1142, 1148.
In Pennsylvania and Delaware, to county commissioners. Pa. Purdon's Dig. p. 937, § 23; Del. Rev. St. 1852, p. 62, § 12.
The Delaware act of 1796 (2 Laws Del. p. 1255, § 14) provided that commissioners should give notice in each hundred, and, at the time and place specified, meet and 'hear and determine the complaints of any person or persons that may be aggrieved, and shall generally arrange the said valuations, so that no person or persons may be unequally or overrated, provided always that no person or persons shall be prevented from appealing to the levy court and court of appeals of his or their respective county as heretofore.'
In Virginia and Georgia, if the tax-payer and assessor cannot agree as to valuation, each can choose an arbitrator, and they an umpire, to whom the matter of disagreement is submitted for final determination. Ga. Code 1873, § 840; Va. Code 1860, p. 201.
In Maryland, North Carolina, Florida, and Alabama, the boards of county commissioners constitute tribunals for hearing and determining complaints in regard to assessments; except in Baltimore the board of control and review constitute such tribunal. Md. Code, Supp. 1861-67, p. 279, § 175; N. C. Laws 1874-75, p. 222, § 18; Thomp. Dig. Laws Fla. 97; Ala. Code 1876.
In North Carolina, under the act of 1819, three freeholders, appointed by the court of common pleas and quarter sessions, constitute a board of appeal for adjustment of assessments. 2 Laws N. C. p. 1480, § 2.
In Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kentucky the county boards of supervisors constitute boards for the equalization of assessments. Ark. Acts Assem. 1873, p. 58; Miss. Rev. Code 1871, p. 351, § 1685; Ky. Gen. St. 1873, p. 724.
In South Carolina such a board is constituted of the county commissioner, auditor, and treasurer; in Louisiana, of the county clerk, recorder, and sheriff; in Tennessee, of the assessor and two freeholders; and in Missouri, of the presiding judge of the county court, and the county surveyor and assessor. Rev. St. S. C. 69; Voorhies, Rev. St. La. 840; 1 St. Tenn. § 581; 2 Mo. Rev. St. §§ 6719, 6720, 6726.
In West Virginia the aggrieved party may apply for relief to the county court with an appeal to the circuit court. Rev. St. 1063. In Texas he may ap ly to the county court, and its determinations are final. Paschal's Dig. p. 869. art. 5176.
Boards of equalization or review are provided for, consisting:
In Illinois, of the assessor, clerk, and supervisor. Ill. Rev. St. 1874, p. 871.
In Indiana, of the county auditor, commissioners, and appraisers. 1 Gavin & Hords, St. Ind. p. 82, §§ 54, 320.
In Michigan, Iowa, and Nevada, of the boards of supervisors. 1 Comp. Laws Mich. 366; Code Iowa, 1873, p. 140, Gen. Laws Nev. 3139.
In California, of the boards of supervisors, except where the property assessed consists of the franchise, roadway, road-bed, rails, and rolling stock of railroads operated in more than one county, in which case the state board of equalization acts as assessor, and over its decisions there is no revisory tribunal. Pol. Code Cal. §§ 3673, 3692.
In Kansas and Nebraska, of county commissioners. Kans. Comp. Laws 1879, p. 953; Neb. Gen. St. 907.
In Ohio, of the county commissioners and county auditor, except in certain cities, where the board consists of the county auditor and persons appointed by the city authorities. Rev. St. 1880, p. 731.
In Oregon, of the county judge, assessor, and clerk. Deady & Lane's Gen. Laws Or. 1874, p. 756.
In Wisconsin, the chairman of the board of supervisors, clerk, and assessors of each town, and the mayor, clerk, and assessors of each city, and the president, clerk, and assessors of each incorporated village, constitute a board of review for such town, city, or village. 1 Tay. St. 1871, p. 406, § 53.
The function of these boards of review, by whatever name called, is essentially the same.
S. C. 4 Fed. Rep. 366.
That the duties of assessors in estimating the value of property for purposes of general taxation are judicial, see Barhyte v. Shepherd, 35 N. Y. 238, 250; Hassan v. Rochester, 67 N. Y. 528, 536; Stuart v. Palmer, 74 N. Y. 183; Williams v. Weaver, 75 N. Y. 30, 33; Cooley, Tax'n, 266; Burroughs, Tax'n, § 102; Jordan v. Hyatt, 3 Barb. 275, 283; Ireland v. Rochester, 51 B rb. 416, 430, 431; State v. Jersey City, 24 N. J. Law, 662, 666; State v. Morristown, 34 N. J. Law, 445; Griffin v. Mixon, 38 Miss. 437, 438.
Overing v. Foote, 65 N. Y. 269; Stuart v. Palmer, 74 N. Y. 193; Cooley, Tax'n, 265, 266, 298; Thomas v. Gain, 35 Mich. 155, 164; Jordan v. Hyatt, 3 Barb. 275, 283; Wheeler v. Mills, 40 Barb. 646; Ireland v. Rochester, 51 Barb. 416, 430, 431; State v. Jersey City, 24 N. J. Law, 662, 666; State v. Newark, 31 N. J. Law, 363; State v. Trenton, 36 N. J. Law, 499, 504; State v. Elizabeth City, 37 N. J. Law, 357; State v. Plainfield, 38 N. J. Law, 97; State v. Newark, 1 Dutch. 399, 411, 426; Patten v. Green, 13 Cal. 325; Mulligan v. Smith, 59 Cal. 20 ; Griffin v. Mixon, 38 Miss. 438; County of San Mateo v. Southern Pac. R. Co. 8 Sawy. 238; S. C. 13 Fed. Rep. 145, 722; County of Santa Clara v. Same, 9 Sawy.—; S. C. 18 Fed. Rep. 385; Darling v. Gunn, 50 Ill. 424. See, also, Gatch v. City of Des Moines, 18 N. W. Rep. 310, 311, 313.
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Geoff Tate: ‘A New Reality’ to Be Operation: Mindcrime’s Last Album
After Geoff Tate's exit from Queensryche, the singer retained rights to the band's Operation: Mindcrime album and utilized the title to be the moniker for his new music, but what some may not have realized is that Operation: Mindcrime was not meant to be a long-term title.
Speaking with Minnesota's FM94 (as heard in the player above), Tate revealed the status of Operation: Mindcrime and it specifically being used for his album trilogy. With A New Reality being the final portion of that trilogy, Operation: Mindcrime will be coming to an end after support for the disc is complete.
"First off, it's not an actual band. Operation: Mindcrime is a group of different musicians all getting together to contribute to these three albums that I put together," explained Tate. "I believe, I can't remember exactly how many people played on the albums, but I believe it's something like 16 to 18 different musicians on these records."
He continued, "This group of musicians was put together specifically for this project. It was great working with everybody. I worked with several different writers contributing to the music and lots of different musicians, guitar players, bass players, drummers, keyboard players -- everybody that contributed did fantastic work. We recorded all the basic tracks for all three albums at the same time a couple of years ago and then, as I finished the records, the record company put them out once a year. And this is the last album of the trilogy and the last album for Operation: Mindcrime and it's coming out in December."
It remains unclear what working title Tate will take after Operation: Mindcrime, but the trilogy has given the singer a solid springboard for his post-Queensryche career.
Operation: Mindcrime's A New Reality officially arrives Dec. 1, and the group recently issued the new track "Wake Me Up" in advance of the disc. Tate and his band will hit the road in Europe in early 2018. See their dates here.
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/ Princeton professor traces the rise of “white terror” in Anne Braden Memorial Lecture
By Quintez Brown —
Princeton University professor of African-American studies Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor tied recent racially-charged events into her presentation at the 12th annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture in Middleton Auditorium.
Her Nov. 1 speech landed on the same week as high-profile mail-bomb attempts, the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting and Louisville’s race killings. She spoke about these incidents, the rise of “white terror,” the intertwining nature of capitalism and racism and the role that activist movements play in political change.
Taylor called for a moment of silence for the 13 lives that were lost to hate in the last week. She condemned President Trump on his rhetoric and policies that she said ultimately led to the recent killings.
“No he may not have pulled the trigger, but after two years of racist demonization and hate speech, generating from the highest office in this country, he certainly helped to load to gun,” Taylor said.
She said it’s not just Trump, but his administration and the Republican Party that are responsible for making white supremacy the center of government and policy-making.
Taylor said white nationalism and Trump’s rise to power came immediately after the administration of the first black president and the rebellions against police brutality in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore.
“How did we go from Black Lives Matter and a black president to the rise of a white supremacist president and the emergence and white supremacy movement?” she asked the audience.
Taylor talked about the purpose and creation of the Black Lives Matter movement, and said this movement had a special dynamic of a black political class that was absent during the civil rights movement. She also said the Democratic Party and liberal policies marginalized and ignored black people during the absence of a sustained anti-racist movement in the 90s and 2000s.
“These years were marked by the ascendency of liberal law and order, and liberal anti-welfare politics led by Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party,” Taylor said.
“The implications of these policies meant that poor and working class African-Americans were disappeared into prisons and the so-called criminal justice system were simply rendered disposable by racist and punitive welfare reform laws.”
Katrina Exposed Inequities
After torching the Democratic Party, the Clintons and black politicians for their impact on poor and working class African-Americans in the early 2000s, she said Hurricane Katrina exposed the conditions of 21st-century poor African Americans.
“The invisibility of black people and the illegibility of black struggle was violently wrenched open in the light of day when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005,” she said.
The response and outcry after the storm forced a national discussion about race, led by Barack Obama during his campaign and presidency. Taylor said Obama emphasized black behavior and culture as the root of the issues confronting black America. She said his desire to find middle ground reflected continuity instead of a change.
“His strained effort to explain black inequality as a combination of structural and self-induced behavioral limitations fit with the politics of the black political class. It also resonated with the strain of political thought in black communities that blamed black families as well as structural inequality for black hardship,” she said.
Along with Obama, Taylor said other black elected officials failed to bring change, economically and socially, to the black community during Obama’s presidency.
“Often black elected officials helped to narrate the experience of African-Americans in ways that white elected officials could never get away with, by blaming blacks through rhetoric that emphasizes culture, immorality, and irresponsibility as the source of black inequality in suppose to racism, discrimination, and economic inequality,” Taylor said.
Taylor said after the Black Lives Matter protest lost its fire, she saw those in the movement look toward moving from protests to politics.
She defended those who choose not to vote due to a cynicism caused by disappointment and the gap of wealth between representatives and their constituents.
Protests Must Accompany Politics
Taylor told the audience that there must be protest with politics in order to bring about real change.
“You cannot assume that development of a left or progressive current within the Democratic Party is in the position to deliver significant political reforms without massive political pressure in the form of a social movement being exerted,” she said.
Taylor said rich capitalists and politicians blame the economic situations of poor whites on their morality and culture. She said liberals also minimize the poor-white experience with the concept of “white privilege” that fails to capture the reality of the white working class. She said some use racism to explain the poor conditions of ordinary white people in America today.
“They want ordinary white people to believe that their declining standard of living is because of immigrants. They want them to believe that their access to healthcare is threatened by the march of refugees from Honduras seeking political asylum. They want them to believe that their insecurity they are experiencing is caused by ‘the blacks,'” Taylor said.
Taylor said it will take a massive social movement to fix the various problems that many American citizens face today.
Photo by Quintez Brown / The Louisville Cardinal
Source: Princeton professor traces the rise of “white terror” in Anne Braden Memorial Lecture (The Louisville Cardinal, Nov. 7, 2018)
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10 Times Nature Smelled Like Something Totally Unexpected
Catherine Jones March 28, 2017 0
While a human’s olfactory sense is significantly weaker than many animals’, we can still detect billions of different scents. And we expect things in nature to smell a certain way. Fruits smell sweet, flowers smell pleasant, and animals smell earthy. But some plants and animals smell nothing like we would expect, and their scent can be unexpectedly delicious or horribly foul.
10The Center Of The Galaxy Smells Like Raspberries Or Rum
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It’s well known the galaxy is made up of stars, dust, gas, black holes, and dark matter. But did you know that the galaxy has a delicious scent?
Thanks to the IRAM telescope in Spain, Max Plank Institute astronomers studying a dust cloud called Sagittarius B2 near the center of our Milky Way galaxy found the presence of the chemical ethyl formate (C3H6O2). This chemical gives raspberries their flavor and is also found in rum.
It wasn’t the only chemical found in this cloud near the center of the galaxy, though, so the scent isn’t pure. And you wouldn’t be able to enter the Milky Way to give it a sniff or a taste, unless you don’t require oxygen and have a spaceship with a few million years’ worth of time to travel from one end to the other.
9The Eastern Spadefoot Toad Smells Like Peanut Butter
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This toad has many distinguishing characteristics, from its large size (1.5–3 inches long) to its bright yellow eyes with catlike pupils. The Eastern Spadefoot Toad is tan or brown in coloring, and while it is named for the spade shape of its hind foot that it uses for digging, its most unusual feature is the fact that it smells distinctly like peanut butter.
Spadefoot toads spend most of their time underground but will materialize during heavy rains, when they hang out in wetland areas. Be careful trying to catch and sniff one of these toads, though: Some people have allergic reactions when touching them. If you mind developing symptoms like sneezing and red eyes, then get close enough to smell—but not to touch—these little guys.
8The Chocolate Flower Smells Like (You Guessed It) Chocolate
Berlandiera lyrata, also known as the chocolate flower, chocolate daisy, and green-eye lyre leaf, is a blooming perennial that grows to 1–2 feet. This daisy-like flower has yellow petals that surround a deep red center. When the petals are plucked, the delicious smell of chocolate is released.
The chocolatey aroma is also present in the leaves and branches of the plant. The chocolate flower grows in dry, rocky soil in Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and central Mexico. The sweet-smelling plant is most pungent on warm days and blooms year-round.
7The Carrion Flower Smells Like Rotting Flesh
Stapelia gigantea, also called the starfish flower or carrion flower, looks like a cactus with a large star-shaped bloom that can reach 10–12 inches in length. The flower is tan and maroon in color, and its texture is described as feeling like suede or animal skin. Sweet-smelling plants attract pollinators like bees and butterflies, but the carrion flower does things a little differently. To attract its target audience, flies, the plant emits the scent that they like most—rotting flesh.
This horribly pungent plant is a member of the milkweed family, and in addition to its flowers, which bloom in autumn, it produces pods that contain fruit and seeds. It grows quickly and easily, and if you can’t stand the rotting meat smell, just cut off the flowers; the plant itself doesn’t have the foul odor.
6The Western Conifer Seed Bug Smells Like Apple
Leptoglossus occidentalis, or the western conifer seed bug, is a brown, black, and orange creature found throughout North America and Canada but is most prevalent in New York and Pennsylvania. Adult bugs reach about 0.75 inches in length and live in conifer trees, which produce cones such as pinecones. These bugs eat and lay their eggs on cone needles and do enough damage to affect the seed crop of many different kinds of fir and pine trees.
This pesky insect loves to find its way inside homes and other buildings during the winter through small gaps in doors and windows. When crushed, these bugs release a blue gunk and, oddly, the smell of apples.
5The Western Skunk Cabbage Smells Like Skunk
The western skunk cabbage or swamp lantern (scientific name Lysichiton americanum) is commonly found in the Pacific Northwest. It grows in swamps and other wet environments in partial sunlight. In March and April, the plant blooms with yellow flowers that smell horrible enough to attract the flies needed to pollinate the plant. The leaves of the plant develop after the flower and, when crushed, also smell distinctly like a skunk.
This large, perennial plant can reach approximately 5 feet in height and is poisonous when ingested by humans and other mammals. There is also an east coast version, the eastern skunk cabbage, which has purple flowers and the same rotting meat or skunky scent.
4The Voodoo Lily Smells Like Meat
Dracunculus vulgaris, also known as voodoo lily, dragon arum, dragonwort, stink lily, or drakondia is native to Greece, Crete, Turkey, and the Balkans. It also currently grows in Spain, Italy, and North Africa, though it isn’t believed to be native to these areas. The plant requires moist soil and has light green leaves with dark purple or black flowers. The variety found in Crete can also have white blooms.
Like the other foul-smelling plants on this list, the voodoo lily attracts flies and some beetles with its rotten meat scent. Flies that land on the plant become trapped, so they pollenate and then are released the following day.
As its nicknames suggest, there is something sinister-looking about the plant. This, combined with its off-putting smell, repels most animals—which is a good thing, as it is highly poisonous.
3The Italian White Truffle Smells Like Musk
Truffles are found in France, Italy, North Africa, and the Middle East. In North America, truffles commonly grow in California and Oregon. Well-known as an expensive delicacy that can sell for anywhere from $150 (Oregon truffles) to $450 (French or Italian truffles) per pound, as well as far higher for rarer varieties, they grow underground and are harvested by female pigs or specially trained truffle dogs from September to May.
The white Alba truffle in Italy is especially known for its musky scent and strong flavor. Newly harvested truffles are eaten raw or lightly cooked to flavor other dishes. They are also commonly made into truffle oil or truffle butter.
2The Binturong Smells Like Buttered Popcorn
The binturong is a mammal native to the rain forests of Southeast Asia. Its nickname is the bearcat because it has the face of a cat and the body of a small bear, but it is related to the civet. Adults grow to 2–3 feet long and weigh 30–50 pounds. Females live approximately 15 years and males about 18.
This cute animal is normally black or dark brown with some white or silver coloring in its fur. It likes to hang out in trees eating fruit, and it gives off the pungent and unusual aroma of freshly buttered popcorn. Oil glands under its muscular tail produce the scent, which repels trespassers in its territory. So while it may smell delicious, the binturong is warning you to back off when it releases its movie theater aroma.
1Hakarl Smells Like Ammonia
Hakarl, fermented shark meat, is a disgusting-smelling food that is also a delicacy in Iceland. Made by curing poisonous Greenland shark meat underground for months until it putrefies, this rotten meat smells (and many people say tastes) horrible.
The shark, which grows to about 24 feet, is buried under the sand anywhere from a month and a half to three months, so its poisonous liquids ooze out before it is hung up to dry for several more months. The meat becomes dry and brown when it is ready to eat, though it retains its harsh ammonia smell from the poisonous uric acid found in the shark.
+The Hoatzin Smells Like Manure
With a nickname like “stink bird,” you know the hoatzin, found in the rain forests of Ecuador, must be one smelly feathered friend. Described as stinking like cow manure or hay, this odd-looking and -smelling bird exclusively eats leaves. The brown, black, and white bird has a bright blue face and a crest on its head that looks like a Mohawk. They don’t fly that well, but they can swim and climb and these birds hang out together in families of about a dozen members.
The stink bird is the only known bird to have a foregut fermentation system, where bacteria is secreted to break down the leaves it eats, similar to the way cows and sheep digest their food. Another interesting fact about this unique creature is that baby hoatzin have an additional set of claws, which grow out of their wings and disappear after three months.
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“If US can do it, Why Can’t India?”: Arun Jaitley
"I remember when US Navy Seals (commandos) went to Abbottabad to kill (Al-Qaeda chief) Osama bin Laden, then why can't India?-Arun Jaitley
As tensions escalate between India and Pakistan after the Pulwama terror attack and the subsequent air strike by India, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said India has the capability to eliminate terrorist masterminds roaming freely in the neighbouring country.
Masood Azhar, chief of terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed that claimed the suicide car bombing that killed 40 CRPF soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama over 10 days ago, is living in Pakistan, so is the 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
“I remember when US Navy Seals (commandos) went to Abbottabad to kill (Al-Qaeda chief) Osama bin Laden, then why can’t India? This used to be only an imagination, a wish, a frustration and disappointment. But it’s possible today,” said Mr Jaitley, who was defence minister before Nirmala Sitharaman was given charge of the ministry in late 2017.
The biggest training camp of the Jaish in Balakot that Indian Mirage 2000 fighter jets bombed in a pre-dawn attack on Tuesday was just 60 km from Abbottabad, where Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was found hiding in a discreet bungalow before he was shot dead by US Navy Seal commandos in 2011. The Pakistani Military Academy or PMA Kakul, which trains top officers of Pakistan’s armed forces, is also located in Abbottabad.
Indian special forces destroyed terror camps across the Line of Control in September 2016 without taking any casualty, an operation that was seen as a perfect example of how a swift and deadly surgical strike can be carried out in response to terror attacks on Indian soil.
India has several branches of special forces such as the Marcos, Para Commandos and Garuds, among others, that can be tasked to kill terrorist leaders deep inside enemy territory, military analysts say.
Despite India proving proof in the form of dossiers multiple times about terrorist masterminds taking shelter in Pakistan, successive governments in the neighbouring nation and even the current one headed by Prime Minister Imran Khan continue to deny it is a safehouse for terrorists.
In 2011, wary of alerting Osama bin Laden’s informers who could be based in Abbottabad, the US operation to kill him had to be planned in absolute secrecy. Fearing leaks, operational plans were reportedly not shared with Pakistan, long known as an ally of the US in its war on terror after the 9/11 attacks that destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.
In the operation codenamed ‘Neptune Spear’, the US used heavily modified Black Hawk helicopters to make them invisible from Pakistani air defence radars and sent in the Navy Seals from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
The killing of Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil had put the country on shaky ground, with its denial that it didn’t know the Al-Qaeda chief was hiding in Abbottabad being rubbished by several nations, including India. Pakistan faced allegations that a large network existed in the country that helped Osama bin Laden evade capture.
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Doctors Were Ready To Give Up On Her Even Before She Was Born. Now She's 10 Years Old And Has Defied All Expectations
July 11, 2018 17:44 By Mambee
Karen Santorum heard the most heartbreaking words from her doctors while she was pregnant with her daughter.
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They told the mom, who is the former Senator Rick Santorum's wife, that her unborn child was 'incompatible with life.'
After a few tests were done, the doctors told the parents-to-be that their daughter, Bella, had Trisomy 18. Even though the child was alive and safe in her mother's womb, she was not likely to survive for long once she was born.
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Karen and Rick, who are both pro-life, were advised to terminate the pregnancy. But they just couldn't do it.
This was more than ten years ago. On May 13, when Bella turned 10, her mother couldn't help but praise how far her little girl had come. The child defied the doctors' expectations and is still thriving.
Karen once described her daughter as "the happiest little girl in the world and is full of life." She was really grateful that she did not listen to the doctors and give up before Bella was given a chance to fight.
On her birthday, Bella's mom had some touching words to say about her daughter's bravery.
In a Facebook post, she expressed her joy that her daughter survived longer than the "skeptical and scientific said you would live."
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She described her daughter's life as unexplainable and miraculous. And now "all the world know that you are beautifully and wonderfully made!"
Bella really is a tough and strong girl. We imagine it would not have been easy living with her condition, but her determination to keep fighting deserves thunderous applause.
As for Karen and Rick, not giving up certainly paid off in the long run. They have proven themselves to be fighters and are great role models for little Bella.
Source: LiveAction
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BINATONE THE BRICK — back to basics
In our category is extremely long appeared interesting phones, but they wrote each magazine, but we don’t want to be in every magazine, so we will not write about all sorts of Androids, and write about a giant brick. It’s called our current phone is a Brick. Binatone is a UK company which has more than 60 years of experience in manufacturing of communication products and components on them, decided, so to speak, to go back to basics and created a phone that brings us back to the 80s.
But not only appearance remarkable with this phone. Its battery in standby mode can hold a charge for about a month! If you do that enough, the company has prepared a special extra battery, which extends the working time to… 6 months.
In addition, THE BRICK can work as two devices. The first phone, the second Bluetooth device that can connect to your tablet or phone. After connecting the «brick» will have full access to contacts and music. Why did he do it? The phone has surprisingly powerful speaker that hints at the use of it as a «Boombox». What are the advantages of the phone? Backlight, LED display and memory card, why it is needed, I’ll never know.
Would it be possible to buy a phone in Russia and how much it will cost, we don’t know, but the idea is cool.
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